1970 was an active year in the divisive anti-Vietnam War movement. However, other events remind us that we could agree on important issues. For example: several million viewed a solar eclipse visible all along the Atlantic (03/07/70); President Nixon signed a law banning cigarette advertising on TV (04/01/70); the first Earth Day was celebrated (04/22/70) and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency began operations (12/02/70). Meanwhile, across the Atlantic, on a visit to Poland, German Chancellor Willy Brandt went down on his knees before a monument to victims of the Warsaw Ghetto (12/07/70). Read more about 1970s culture in A Brain. A Heart. The Nerve. (see NOVELS ).
