1970's

Assembly Park History

1970
September 6th
• Ringling Brothers Circus returns to Delavan to Celebrate the 100th year anniversary.
1971
1972
1973
1974
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• Mr. Quick opens in Delavan

1975
1976
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July 4th
• Fireworks - tear gas thrown into the crowd at the city's firework's show.
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• Wisconsin 15 (currently named Interstate 43 , name changed in 1988) is completed. Running through Delavan from Milwaukee to Beloit.

March 28th
• Gary Berghoff Day in Delavan

World Events

Presidents

• Lyndon B. Johnson. • Richard M. Nixon • Gerald R. Ford • Jimmy Carter

1970

January 22nd
• Maiden flight of the Boeing 747.
February 18th
• The Chicago Seven are found not guilty of conspiring to incite riots at the 1968 Democratic Convention.
April 11th
• Apollo 13 (Jim Lovell, Fred Haise, Jack Swigert) is launched toward the Moon.
May 4th
• The Kent State massacre in Ohio leaves four students dead and nine injured.
September 3rd
• Death of Vince Lombardi.
November 14th
• Southern Airways Flight 932 crashed in, West Virginia, killing all 75 people aboard, the Marshall University football team.

1971

• Nixon shock removes gold back-up for the US Dollar triggering export of inflation from rich to poor nations.

July 5th
• The 26th Amendment to the United States Constitution, lowers the voting age from 21 to 18.
July 6th
• Death of Louis Armstrong, American musician.

1972

February 21st-28th
• U.S. President Richard M. Nixon visits China
May 8th
• A airplane from Brussels to Lod, Tel Aviv is hijacked by the Black September Organization.
May 26th
• Richard Nixon and Leonid Brezhnev sign the SALT
September 6th
• The Munich massacre, aimed at the Israeli Olympic team, results in 17 total deaths.

1973

January 22nd
• The Supreme Court of the United States decides Roe v. Wade.
May 14th
• The first space station, Skylab, is launched.
Summer
• The Senate Watergate hearings and revelation of the Watergate tapes.
October
• 1973 oil crisis.
October 6 – 25th
• Yom Kippur War.
December 3rd
• Pioneer 10 sends back the first close-up images of Jupiter.

1974

August 8 – 9th
• Watergate scandal: Resignation of Richard Nixon

1975

April 4th
• Microsoft founded in by Bill Gates and Paul Allen
April 30th
• The Fall of Saigon ends the Vietnam War.
April 1st
• The Helsinki Accords, signed in Finland.

1976

April 1st
• Steve Wozniak and Steve Jobs start Apple Computer.

1977

May 25th
• Star Wars is released and quickly becomes the highest-grossing film of all-time.
August 16th
• Death of Elvis Presley.

1978

April 27th
• The War in Afghanistan begins.
September 17th
• The Camp David Accords are signed between Israel and Egypt.
October 16th
• John Paul II becomes pope.
November 18th
• Jim Jones's New religious movement, Mass killing and suicide of 920 people in Jonestown.

1979

• The oil crisis becomes the second one since 1973.

March 28th
• The Three Mile Island nuclear accident.
November 4th
• The Iran hostage crisis begins.
December 24th
• The Soviet–Afghan War begins.
1977

• Fire in downtown Delavan hotel

1978
1979

• 100th birthday for Delavan

• Start of construction of the Delavan Lake Sanitary District collection system around the lake and the WALCOMET wastewater treatment facility.

• The Delavan Lake Sanitary District was created in 1969.

• To operate and maintain a wastewater collection system serving properties adjacent to and surrounding Delavan Lake.

• Since 1997 the District has been responsible for the Aquatic Plant Management Program for Delavan Lake as well as various lake monitoring projects and studies in cooperation with Wisconsin DNR and USGS.

• Since 1995 DLSD has assisted the Town of Delavan in the monitoring lake levels and operation of the Delavan Lake (Borg) Dam facilities.

December
• Gail will be going to Florida and Gail will return to "look over" the sewer project. Gail retires in 1980.

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