Olivia Records was a collective founded in 1973 to record and market women’s music.
Five feminists create the first women’s owned-and-operated record label, Olivia Records Read more
The Very Large Array is the most versatile, widely-used radio telescope in the world.
Construction begins on the Very Large Array in New Mexico Read more
Using a prototype of what would become the Motorola DynaTAC 8000x, the world’s first commercial cell phone, Cooper placed a call to the headquarters of Bell Labs in New Jersey.
Motorola employee Martin Cooper makes the world’s first cell phone call Read more
The origins of the Oregon Waffle, afterwards named the Waffle Trainer, derive from Bowerman’s experiments with a simple waffle iron, the grooves of which proved to be a near perfect mold for a running shoe.
Bill Bowerman invents the Waffle Trainer Read more
Pong quickly became a success and was the first commercially successful video game, which helped to establish the video game industry along with the first home console, the Magnavox Odyssey.
Atari releases Pong, the first commercially successful video game Read more
The Rev. Dr. William R. Johnson was the first openly gay person ordained in the United States and perhaps the first worldwide in a mainline Protestant denomination. His ordination took place on June 25, 1972 at the Community UCC in San Carlos, California, authorized by the Golden Gate Association of the Northern California/Nevada Conference UCC.
By the 1980s, plastic recycling was widely practiced in many communities across the United States.
World’s first plastic recycling mill opens in Conshohocken, Pennsylvania Read more
The email was sent from one computer to another computer sitting right beside it in Cambridge, Massachusetts, but it traveled via ARPANET, a network of computers that was the precursor to the Internet.
Ray Tomlinson sends the world’s first ever email, to himself Read more
Mariner 9 was launched successfully on May 30, 1971, and became the first artificial satellite of Mars when it arrived and went into orbit.
U.S. NASA’s Mariner 9 becomes the first articial satellite of Mars Read more
Earth Day was the brainchild of U.S. Senator Gaylord Nelson of Wisconsin, a staunch environmentalist who hoped to provide unity to the grassroots environmental movement and increase ecological awareness.
The first Earth Day is celebrated Read more
