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At the 12th Annual Grammy Awards on 11 March 1970, staged across five US cities for ABC, Blood, Sweat & Tears won Album of the Year, Crosby, Stills & Nash Best New Artist and Joe South Song of the Year, with the 5th Dimension's 'Aquarius' taking Record of the Year.

Joe, a teenage orphan in the slums of the Doya streets, meets Danpei, a homeless, alcoholic ex-boxing coach. Danpei, seeing Joe's boxing talent, decides to train him.

"Okie From Muskogee" won Song, Single Record and Album of the Year at the fifth Academy of Country & Western Music awards on 13 April 1970 at the Hollywood Palladium, where Merle Haggard was Top Male Vocalist and Tammy Wynette Top Female.

A magnitude 7.9 earthquake off the Peruvian coast shook loose part of Mount Huascaran, and the debris avalanche buried the town of Yungay. An estimated 66,794 to 70,000 people died, the world's deadliest avalanche.

Ted Codd's paper in Communications of the ACM proposes storing data as relations queried by predicate logic, independent of how it is laid out on disk. It is the founding document of the relational database and of SQL.

Egypt's Aswan High Dam, built with Soviet help across the Nile since 1960, was completed on 21 July 1970, creating Lake Nasser and ending the river's annual flood cycle.

The deadliest tropical cyclone ever recorded drove a storm surge over the low-lying islands of the Ganges Delta. At least 300,000 died, and the Pakistani government's response helped set off the Bangladesh Liberation War.

The Aristocats is a 1970 American animated musical comedy film produced by Walt Disney Productions and distributed by Buena Vista Distribution. It reached US theaters on 24 December 1970.

Heinz Reitbauer’s contemporary Austrian cooking in a light-filled Stadtpark dining room.

On 8 February 1971 the National Association of Securities Dealers launched Nasdaq, the first electronic stock market, at first a quotation system for over-the-counter securities.

The 13th Grammy Awards on 16 March 1971 at the Hollywood Palladium were the first broadcast live on television, on ABC with host Andy Williams; Simon & Garfunkel's "Bridge Over Troubled Water" won Record, Album and Song of the Year and the Carpenters Best New Artist.

Merle Haggard won the first Entertainer of the Year, and Top Male Vocalist, at the sixth Academy of Country & Western Music awards on 22 March 1971 at the Hollywood Palladium, hosted by Dick Clark, where "For the Good Times" won the three record prizes.

The Magic Kingdom and its Florida resort opened to the public near Orlando, realizing Walt Disney's vision for a second, larger theme park.

Alice Waters opened Chez Panisse in 1971 with the film producer Paul Aratow, in a house on Shattuck Avenue, and in doing so more or less founded what came to be called California cuisine: a short menu set by what the farms around the bay had that week rather than by a fixed carte. The block it stands on is now known as the Gourmet Ghetto.

VEB TAKRAF completed the first F60 lignite overburden conveyor bridge at the Welzow open-pit mine, creating what is still recognized as the largest mobile land machine ever built.

Richard Nixon spent 21 to 28 February 1972 in Beijing, Hangzhou and Shanghai, meeting Mao Zedong on the day he arrived. No sitting US president had set foot in the People's Republic, and the two governments had had no diplomatic relations for 23 years.

At the end of Nixon's visit the two governments published a joint statement setting out, separately, what each believed about Taiwan. Washington said it 'acknowledges that all Chinese on either side of the Taiwan Strait maintain that there is but one China' — the sentence US policy has rested on ever since.

Freddie Hart's "Easy Loving" won Album, Single and Song of the Year, and Hart was also Entertainer of the Year and Top Male Vocalist, at the seventh Academy of Country & Western Music awards on 13 March 1972 at Knott's Berry Farm, hosted by Dick Clark.

At the 14th Grammy Awards on 14 March 1972 at the Felt Forum in New York, Carole King won Record of the Year ("It's Too Late"), Album of the Year (Tapestry), Song of the Year ("You've Got a Friend") and Best Female Pop Vocal; Carly Simon won Best New Artist.

Hamilton Watch Company released the Pulsar P1 Time Computer on 4 April 1972, the first all-electronic digital watch, an 18-karat gold LED watch priced at US$2,100.

Audemars Piguet introduced the Gerald Genta-designed Royal Oak Ref. 5402, a 39 mm steel watch with an integrated bracelet, at the Basel watch fair in April 1972 during the quartz crisis.

Magnavox released the Odyssey in the United States in September 1972, the first commercial home video game console, designed by Ralph Baer’s team at Sanders Associates. The Age of Mass Production cites it as the start of mass-produced video game hardware.

Tumut 3 became Australia's first major pumped-storage hydroelectric plant, eventually reaching 1,800 MW of generating capacity as part of the Snowy Mountains Scheme. Three of its six units, fed by Talbingo Dam, can also pump water back uphill overnight at a combined 600 MW using cheap off-peak power.

Airbus’ first aircraft and the world’s first twin-engine wide-body airliner flew from Toulouse–Blagnac a month ahead of schedule, for one hour and 25 minutes, with Max Fischl as captain and Bernard Ziegler as first officer.

San Francisco's Transamerica Pyramid welcomed its first tenant after overcoming years of public opposition to its unconventional tapered design.

A small Madrid dining room known for seasonal Spanish cooking and its neighborhood feel.

Donna Fargo won four major awards for "The Happiest Girl in the Whole U.S.A." and Roy Clark was named Entertainer of the Year at the eighth Academy of Country & Western Music awards on 26 February 1973 at Knott's Berry Farm.

At the 15th Annual Grammy Awards on 3 March 1973 at Nashville's Tennessee Theatre, Roberta Flack won Record of the Year and Song of the Year for 'The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face', George Harrison's Concert for Bangladesh took Album of the Year and America won Best New Artist.

Nobita Nobi is so hapless that his 22nd century descendants are still impoverished as a result of his 20th century bumbling.

Chad and Hanna Williams pair a contemporary tasting menu with a downstairs bar.

Fischer Black and Myron Scholes give a closed-form price for a European option in the Journal of Political Economy, in the same year the Chicago Board Options Exchange opens. The formula becomes the language of the derivatives market.

Queen Elizabeth II officially opened the Sydney Opera House, capping fourteen years of construction that ran a decade late and far over its original budget.

Robin Hood is a 1973 American animated musical adventure comedy film produced by Walt Disney Productions and released by Buena Vista Distribution. It reached US theaters on 8 November 1973.

The Exorcist is a 1973 American supernatural horror film directed by William Friedkin and produced by William Peter Blatty, who adapted his own 1971 novel. The film stars Ellen Burstyn, Max von Sydow, Jason Miller, and Linda Blair, and follows the demonic possession of a young girl and the attempt to rescue her through an exorcism by two Catholic priests.

Japan's National Research Institute for Earth Science and Disaster Resilience completed its hangar-sized Large-Scale Rainfall Simulator in Tsukuba, letting scientists recreate extreme storms on demand to study landslides and flooding.

On the 16th Grammy Awards telecast on 2 March 1974 the Recording Academy named the first five recordings in the new Grammy Hall of Fame, from Louis Armstrong's "West End Blues" to Bing Crosby's "White Christmas".

At the 16th Annual Grammy Awards on 2 March 1974 at the Hollywood Palladium, Roberta Flack won Record and Song of the Year for 'Killing Me Softly with His Song', Stevie Wonder's Innervisions won Album of the Year and Bette Midler won Best New Artist.

Charlie Rich won four awards for "Behind Closed Doors" and Roy Clark became the first repeat Entertainer of the Year at the ninth Academy of Country Music awards, taped on 25 March 1974 at Knott's Berry Farm and aired on ABC on 28 March, hosted by Roger Miller.

A traditional Castilian restaurant on Cava Baja, known for its huevos rotos.

Lyons Bakery's purpose-built plant in Carlton, South Yorkshire opens as the largest bakery in Europe, and starts baking what becomes the Mr Kipling cake range under later owner Manor Bakeries.

Mac Davis won Entertainer of the Year, John Denver's "Back Home Again" took Album of the Year and Cal Smith's "Country Bumpkin" Single and Song of the Year at the tenth Academy of Country Music awards on 27 February 1975 at the Aquarius Theater in Hollywood, hosted by Roger Miller and aired on ABC on 5 March.

At the 17th Annual Grammy Awards on 1 March 1975 at New York's Uris Theatre, Stevie Wonder won four awards including Album of the Year, Olivia Newton-John won Record of the Year for 'I Honestly Love You' and Marvin Hamlisch won Song of the Year and Best New Artist.

Gilbert Lau opened Flower Drum on 26 May 1975 in Melbourne's Chinatown and spent the following decades making the case that Cantonese cooking belonged at the top of Australian fine dining rather than in a separate category of it. It has been a fixture of the city's restaurant lists ever since, on Market Lane.

A fine-dining Cantonese restaurant in Melbourne’s Chinatown, known for refined food and attentive service.

President Anwar Sadat reopened the Suez Canal on 5 June 1975, eight years after the Six-Day War closed it. A mine-clearing effort by the US and Britain through 1974 had cleared the waterway.

The Mack family opened Europa-Park, a 16-hectare amusement park built around European-themed lands, in the German town of Rust. It has since grown into continental Europe's second-most-visited theme park.

Georges Köhler and César Milstein report in Nature that fusing an antibody-producing cell with a myeloma cell yields a line that secretes a single antibody indefinitely. Monoclonal antibodies become the basis of the modern biologics industry.

Typhoon Nina's record rainfall burst the Banqiao Dam on the Ru River in Henan on 8 August 1975, triggering the failure of dozens of other dams in the deadliest dam disaster in history.

Two years after the Arab oil embargo, the Energy Policy and Conservation Act set up a federal emergency oil stockpile and gave the President the power to order it sold when supply is severely interrupted. Ford called the bill imperfect but signed it anyway, to end "the long debate over national energy policy".

British Airways and Air France began scheduled Concorde flights on 21 January 1976, London-Bahrain and Paris-Rio de Janeiro via Dakar, the world's first supersonic airline service.