• 1970
    • Four students at Kent State University in Ohio are slain by National Guardsmen at a demonstration protesting the incursion into Cambodia

    • The Beatles break up

    • "Bridge Over Troubled Water" by Simon and Garfunkel is the Song of the Year

    • George C. Scott gets the Best Actor Oscar for "Patton", but refuses the gold statuette

    • "Finian's Rainbow" is the SSTFY show
  • 1971
    • Twenty-sixth Amendment to US Constitution lowers voting age to 18

    • All in the Family debuts on CBS

    • James Taylor wins Best Pop Vocal Performance for "You've Got a Friend"

    • "The French Connection" wins Best Picture, Best Actor, Directing, and Best Screenplay

    • SSTFY stages "Brigadoon"
  • 1972
    • Eleven Israeli athletes at the Olympic Games in Munich are killed after eight members of an Arab terrorist group invade the Olympic Village

    • Time Inc. transmits HBO, the first pay cable network

    • M*A*S*H premieres on CBS.

    • Women dominate the Grammy Awards, taking all four top categories. Carole King wins Record, Album and Song of the Year, while Carly Simon takes the Best New Artist award

    • SSTFY puts on "Where's Charley?"
  • 1973
    • US bombing of Cambodia ends, marking the official halt to 12 years of combat activity in Southeast Asia

    • Nixon takes responsibility for Watergate; accepts resignations of advisers H. R. Haldeman and John D. Ehrlichman, fires John W. Dean, Archibald Cox and Deputy Attorney General William D. Ruckelshaus

    • Roberta Flack wins Record of the Year for "Killing Me Softly With His Song"

    • Mary Tyler Moore wins an Emmy for "The Mary Tyler Moore Show"

    • "Oklahoma!" is performed by SSTFY
  • 1974
    • Patricia Hearst, 19-year-old daughter of publisher Randolph Hearst, is kidnapped by the Symbionese Liberation Army

    • Richard M. Nixon resigns, Vice President Gerald R. Ford, who is sworn in as 38th President of the grants "full, free, and absolute pardon" to Nixon

    • Mikhail Baryshnikov defects and joins the American Ballet Theatre

    • Paul McCartney and Wings win a Grammy for "Band on the Run"

    • The SSTFY show is "Wonderful Town"
  • 1975
    • President Ford escapes two assassination attempts 17 days apart

    • Saturday Night Live premieres on NBC with George Carlin as its first host

    • "Love Will Keep Us Together" by the Captain and Tennille wins Record of the Year

    • "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" sweeps the top Oscars, winning Best Picture, Director, Actor, and Actress

    • "Annie Get Your Gun" is put on by SSTFY
  • 1976
    • US celebrates the Bicentennial

    • Legionnaire's disease claims 29 lives in Philadelphia

    • "Rocky" wins Best Picture

    • Stevie Wonder wins Grammies for "Songs in the Key of Life"

    • SSTFY does "Babes in Arms"

  • 1977
    • Elvis Presley dies at Graceland at the age 42

    • Fleetwood Mac gets Album of the Year for "Rumours"

    • "Star Wars" hits theaters, for the first time, and goes on to be the second highest-grossing film of all time

    • "Saturday Night Fever" sparks the disco inferno

    • SSTFY performs "The Pajama Game"
  • 1978
    • Jim Jones's followers commit mass suicide in Jonestown, Guyana

    • Sony introduces the Walkman, the first portable stereo

    • Barry Manilow wins Best Pop Vocal Performance for "Copacabana" (At the Copa)

    • "The Deer Hunter" wins Best Picture

    • SSTFY stages "Guys and Dolls"
  • 1979
    • Nuclear power plant accident at Three Mile Island, Pa., releases radiation

    • Iranian militants seize US embassy in Teheran and hold hostages

    • "Kramer vs. Kramer" wins Oscars for Dustin Hoffman and Meryl Streep

    • "What a Fool Believes," by the Doobie Brothers gets Record of the Year

    • "Bye Bye Birdie" is the SSTFY show