The counting game :D

[ShadyVale]

1971,

June 10th, The U.S. ends its trade embargo of China.
July 31st, Apollo 15 astronauts David Scott and James Irwin become the first to ride in a lunar rover, a day after landing on the Moon.
Aug 15th - Pres. Richard Nixon announces that the U.S. will no longer convert dollars to gold at a fixed value, effectively ending the Bretton Woods system. He also imposes a 90-day freeze on wages, prices and rents.
Oct 1st - Walt Disney World opens in Orlando, Florida.
Oct 30th - ShadyVale is turned loose on the world.
Nov 15th - Intel releases the world's first microprocessor, the Intel 4004.
? - Ray Tomlinson sends the first ARPANET e-mail between host computers.

[Neko92]

1972

1+9=10 7+2=9
10-9=1
1 is the loneliest number.
I wasn't really going anywhere with this.

[ShadyVale]

1973...
Apr 3rd - The first handheld mobile phone call is made by Martin Cooper of Motorola in New York City.
May 14th - Skylab, the United States' first space station, is launched.
May 25th - Skylab 2 (crewed by astronauts Pete Conrad, Paul Weitz, and Joseph Kerwin) is launched on a mission to repair damage to the recently launched Skylab space station.
June 24th - Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev addresses the American people on television, the first to do so.
Aug 11th - DJ Kool Herc originates the hip hop music genre in New York City.
Oct 20th - Pres. Richard Nixon orders Atty Gen. Elliot Richardson to dismiss Watergate Special Prosecutor Archibald Cox. Richardson refuses and resigns, along with Dpty Atty Gen. William Ruckelshaus. Solicitor General Robert Bork, third in line at the D.O.J., then fires Cox. The event raises calls for Nixon's impeachment.
Nov 21st - Pres. Richard Nixon's atty, J. Fred Buzhardt, reveals the existence of an 18 & 1/2 minute gap in one of the White House tape recordings related to Watergate.

[Neko92]

1974

[ShadyVale]

1975...

Jan - Altair 8800 is released, sparking the microcomputer revolution.
Feb 23rd - In response to the energy crisis, daylight saving time commences nearly 2 months early in the U.S.
Apr 4th - Bill Gates and Paul Allen found Microsoft in Albuquerque, New Mexico.
June 20th - Jaws is released and becomes an instant hit, sets the standard for Hollywood blockbusters for years to come.
July 17th - A manned Apollo spacecraft and a manned Soyuz spacecraft docks in orbit, marking the first such link-up between spacecraft from the 2 nations.
Aug 5th - U.S. Pres. Ford posthumously restores the U.S. citizenship of Gen. Robert E. Lee, military leader of the Confederate States of America.
Sep 30th - The Hughes Helicopters (later McDonnell-Douglas, now Boeing IDS) AH-64 Apache makes its first flight.
Oct 11th - NBC airs the first episode of SNL (George Carlin is the first host; Billy Preston and Janis Ian the first musical guests).
Oct 31st - The Queen single Bohemian Rhapsody is released. It later becomes one of their most popular songs.
Nov 29th - The name "Micro-soft" (for microcomputer software) is used by Bill Gates in a letter to Paul Allen for the first time (Microsoft becomes a registered trademark on Nov. 26, 1976).
? - The first monster truck, Bigfoot, is created by Bob Chandler.

[Neko92]

1976

Jan 1- Liberty bell is retired and moved behind independence hall.

(Thats all I know, from a movie no less)

It's fun learning stuff.

[ShadyVale]

1977,
Jan - The world's first all-in-one home computer (keyboard/screen/tape storage), the Commodore PET, is demonstrated at the Consumer Electronics Show in Chicago.
Jan 3rd - Apple computer is incorporated.
Jan 21st - U.S. Pres. Jimmy Carter pardons Vietnam War draft evaders, a day after being sworn in.
Mar 18th - United States lifts ban on travel by U.S. citizens to Cambodia, Cuba, North Korea, and Vietnam.
May 17th - Chuck E. Cheese's Pizza Time Theatre first opens in San Jose, California.
May 25th - George Lucas's Star Wars opens in cinemas and becomes the highest-grossing film of its time, making sci-fi films popular.
May 27th - Space Mountain opens at Disneyland and to this day remains as one of the park's most popular attractions.
Jun 10th - The first Apple II series computers go on sale.
Jun 26th - Elvis Presley holds his last concert at Market Square Arena in Indianapolis.
July 10th - A temperature of 48.0 °C (118.4 °F), a record for continental Europe, is recorded in Greece.
Aug 3rd - The Tandy Corporation TRS-80 Model I computer is announced at a press conference.
Aug 12th - The NASA Space Shuttle, named Enterprise, makes its first test free-flight from the back of a Boeing 747 Shuttle Carrier.
Aug 15th - The Big Ear, a radio telescope operated by Ohio State University as part of the SETI project, receives a radio signal from deep space; the event is named the "Wow! signal".
Aug 16th - Elvis Presley, the "King of Rock and Roll", dies in his home in Graceland at age 42.
Aug 20th - The United States launches the Voyager 2 spacecraft.
Sep 3rd - The Commodore PET computer is first sold.
Sep 5th - Voyager 1 is launched after a brief delay.
Sep 11th - Atari, Inc. releases its Video Computer System in North America.
Nov 22nd - The TCP/IP test succeeds, connecting 3 ARPANET nodes (of 111), in what eventually becomes the Internet protocol.

Edit (thanks to neicey): May 19th - Smokey & the Bandit (filming budget $4.3 million) is released to theaters; grosses $300 million at the box office. (RIP Burt Reynolds; Feb 11th 1936 - Sep 6th 2018)

[neicey69]

1978 (I have no historical info :[)

Also Shady, you missed the opportunity to mention Smokey and the Bandit released on May 19, 1977. Would have been good timing considering Burt Reynolds' recent passing :[

[Neko92]

1979

Bandit is with the snowman now..

[ShadyVale]

1980...
Jan 4th - Pres. Jimmy Carter proclaims a grain embargo against the USSR with the support of the European Commission.
Jan 6th - Global Positioning System time epoch begins at 00:00 UTC.
Jan 29th - The Rubik's Cube makes its international debut at The British Toy and Hobby Fair, Earl's Court, London.
Mar 1st - The Voyager 1 probe confirms the existence of Janus, a moon of Saturn.
Mar 21st - Pres. Jimmy Carter announces that the United States will boycott the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow because of the Soviet invasion of Afganistan.
Mar 22nd - The Georgia Guidestones are erected in Elbert County, Georgia.
Apr 7th - The U.S. severs diplomatic relations with Iran and imposes economic sanctions, following the taking of American hostages on November 4, 1979.
May 18th - Mount St. Helens volcano erupts in Washington (state) kills 57 and causes $3 billion in damage.
May 22nd - Pac-Man, the best-selling arcade game of all time, is released in Japan.
Jun 1st - The first 24-hour news channel, Cable News Network (CNN) is launched.
Jun 23rd-Sep 6th - The 1980 U.S. heat wave claims 1,700 lives.
Jun 27th - Pres. Jimmy Carter signs Proclamation 4771, requiring 18- to 25-year-old males to register for a peacetime military draft, in response to the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan.
Jul 19th-Aug 3rd - The 1980 Summer Olympics are held in Moscow. 82 countries boycott the Games, athletes from 16 of them participate under a neutral flag.
Jul 31st - China's population hits one billion people.
Sep 30th - Digital Equipment Corporation, Intel and Xerox introduce the DIX standard for Ethernet, which is the first implementation outside of Xerox and the first to support 10 Mbit/s speeds.
Nov 4th - U.S. Presidential Election; Gov. Ronald Reagan defeats Pres. Jimmy Carter to become the 40th President-Elect of the U.S.
Nov 10th-12th - Voyager 1 makes it's closest approach to Saturn, 77,000 miles (124,000 km) and sends the first high resolution images of the world back to Earth.
Dec 8th - John Lennon (former band member of The Beatles) is shot dead outside his apartment in New York City by Mark David Chapman.
? - The World Hockey Association and NHL merge, adding teams in Connecticut, Quebec City, Alberta and Manitoba to the league. Accompanying the newly added Edmonton Oilers as the first team in Alberta, the Atlanta Flames move to Calgary.