Sweden replaces its Instrument of Government making it a crowned republic
The new Instrument of Government stripped the king of even nominal political power and made Sweden a de facto crowned republic.
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The Altair 8800 sparks the microcomputer revolution
The Altair 8800 is a microcomputer designed in 1974 by MITS and based on the Intel 8080 CPU. Interest grew quickly after it was featured on the cover of the January 1975 issue of Popular Electronics.
Five feminists create the first women’s owned-and-operated record label, Olivia Records
Olivia Records was a collective founded in 1973 to record and market women’s music.
Construction begins on the Very Large Array in New Mexico
The Very Large Array is the most versatile, widely-used radio telescope in the world.
The British House of Lords votes to give The Bahamas its independence
The British House of Lords voted to give the Bahamas its independence on 22 June 1973. It joined the Commonwealth of Nations weeks later.
Motorola employee Martin Cooper makes the world’s first cell phone call
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.
Bill Bowerman invents the Waffle Trainer
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.
Sweden goes first to ban aerosol sprays
Scientific evidence had mounted that CFCs were damaging to Earth’s ozone layer. Sweden was the first to act on this evidence.
Atari releases Pong, the first commercially successful video game
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.
The Republic of Sri Lanka is officially formed
Dominion status within the British Commonwealth was retained until 22 May 1972 when the country became the Republic of Sri Lanka.