What happened onApril 2, 1970Thursday Week 14

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The World in 1970 the year planes got enormous

The Wright brothers' first flight in 1903 covered 120 feet. The passenger cabin of the new Boeing 747 is longer than that, so the whole of the first flight would have fit inside the plane.

Life back then

Cars ran on leaded gas and big cities sat under brown smog for much of the summer. Drink cans opened with a pull tab that came away in your hand, and people dropped them wherever they finished, which is part of why the first Earth Day drew such crowds. Milk still arrived in bottles on some doorsteps. School worksheets came off a hand cranked mimeograph in purple ink, damp and smelling of solvent. Friday nights meant the drive-in.

The year in 8 events

• ✈️Jan 22 A Pan Am Boeing 747 flies from New York to London, the first passenger service by a jumbo jet.
• 🎡Mar 15 Expo 70 opens in Osaka, the first world's fair held in Asia. About 64 million people visit before it closes.
• 🎸Apr 10 Paul McCartney announces he has left the Beatles. Britain's most famous band never records together again.
• 🚀Apr 13 An oxygen tank bursts on Apollo 13 halfway to the Moon. The crew gets home four days later.
• 🕯️May 4 National Guard troops shoot dead four students during a protest at Kent State University in Ohio.
• ⚽Jun 21 Brazil beats Italy 4 to 1 in the World Cup final in Mexico City and keeps the trophy for good.
• 🕯️Nov 12 A cyclone and storm surge hit the coast of East Pakistan. It is the deadliest tropical storm on record.
• 🕊️Dec 7 Willy Brandt, the West German leader, kneels at a memorial in Warsaw to the Jews killed in the ghetto.

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