What happened with running shoes in 1970?
Bill Bowerman first used a waffle iron to produce a waffle sole for what became a Nike sole.
Arthur Lydiard collaborated with the EB Brutting company to produce the EB Lydiard marathon shoe
The negative heel, Earth Shoe is released in the USA and becomes a symbol of the counter culture of the 70’s
The first New York City Marathon is held on September 13, 1970. It was won by Gary Muhrcke in 2:31:38. There were 127 runners at the start with 55 finishing. The only woman in the race, Nina Kuscsik withdrew at 15 miles due to illness.
What else happened in 1970?
On February 1, The American Football League and National Football League officially merged, coming under the NFL’s name.
The first Earth Day proclamation is issued on March 21 by the mayor of San Francisco, Joseph Alioto.
On April 1, USA president, Richard Nixon signs the Public Health Cigarette Smoking Act into law which bans cigarette advertisements on television.
On April 13, an oxygen tank in the Apollo 13 spacecraft explodes. The crew abort the mission and return in a dramatic and televised four days.
Bernard Katz, Ulf von Euler and Julius Axelrod are awarded the Nobel Prize in Medicine for their work on the on the release and reuptake of catecholamine neurotransmitters.
The first human case of monkeyvirus is reported.
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