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- Harlem On My Mind, Metropolitan Museum, NYC. Black Emergency
Cultural Coalition established.
- Art Worker’s Coalition formed.
- Neil Armstrong walks on the moon. Approximately 720 million people
worldwide watch the event live.
- New York Mayor John Lindsay inaugurates the ‘Lindsay Plan’
to develop Manhattan’s business district.
- Whitney Museum Annual opens, only 5 per cent of artists are
women. Formation of Women Artists In Revolution.
- Easy Rider, film directed by Dennis Hopper.
- Woodstock music festival.
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- Afro American Artists: Boston & NY exhibition, Museum of
the National Center of Afro-American Artists, NYC.
- US troops sent into Cambodia.
- At Kent State University, Ohio, National Guardsmen shoot and kill
four students protesting against Cambodian invasion.
- New York Art Strike Against War, Racism, Fascism, Sexism and Repression
established following 1,500 strong meeting of artists and dealers.
- Approximately 500 people participate in artist-staged sit-ins at the
Metropolitan, Whitney and Guggenheim Museums.
- Ad Hoc Committee of the Art Worker’s Coalition is formed
followed by Women Students and Artists for Black Art Liberation.
- Thousands march to celebrate fiftieth anniversary of Ninth (Women’s
Suffrage) Amendment to US Constitution.
- Sexual Politics by Kate Millett published.
- New York State legalises abortion, subject to tight restrictions.
- Whitney Sculpture Open. Representation of women artists has
risen to 22 per cent.
- US Government establishes Environmental Protection Agency.
- Monday Night Football debuts on ABC.
- M*A*S*H film, directed by Robert Altman.
- Masters and Johnson publish Human Sexual Inadequacy.
- New York World Trade Center becomes world’s tallest building.
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- Soho district residential restrictions completely lifted.
- Contemporary Black Artists in America, Whitney Museum of American
Art, NYC.
- The Kitchen, the first dedicated film and video exhibition
space, opens.
- Popular TV sitcom All in the Family debuts.
- Walt Disney World opens in Florida.
- The US Census counts 208 million Americans.
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- Break-in at the Democratic Headquarters triggers the Watergate Scandal.
- The Godfather, film directed by Francis Ford Coppola.
- Nixon meets Brezhnev for SALT (Strategic Arms Limitation Talks).
- Ms magazine founded by Gloria Steinem.
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- Women Choose Women exhibition, The New York Cultural Center. 109 women
artist represented.
- Agreement to end Vietnam War signed in Paris.
- Senate Watergate hearings shown live on daytime television.
- Pictures of Jupiter taken from Pioneer 10 are televised.
- Thomas Pynchon’s Gravity’s Rainbow published.
- Jackson Pollock painting sold for $2 million, record for American
work.
- 99 per cent of gas stations across US close to save fuel during Arab
oil embargo.
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- Happy Days first broadcast.
- Following Watergate hearings, Nixon resigns. Vice President Gerald
Ford sworn in.
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