Rubik's Cube invented
1974 · Event
Budapest architecture lecturer Ernő Rubik builds a twisting cube to teach spatial thinking; it escapes the Iron Curtain to become the best-selling puzzle in history.
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Around 1974
- Watergate scandal (1972)
- Apollo 11 moon landing (1969)
- Vietnam War (American phase) (1965)
- Iranian Revolution (1978)
- Yom Kippur War (1973)
- The Troubles (1968)
- Prague Spring (1968)
- Six-Day War (1967)
- Queen's Bohemian Rhapsody (1975)
- Night Fever (Bee Gees) (1978)