Explore 4009 historical events from 1970–1979.
The Wounded Knee Occupation, also known as Second Wounded Knee, began on February 27, 1973, when approximately 200 Oglala Lakota and followers of the American Indian Movement (AIM)…
A 71-day standoff between federal authorities and the American Indian Movement members occupying the Pine Ridge Reservat
The Pentagon Papers, officially titled Report of the Office of the Secretary of Defense Vietnam Task Force, is a United States Department of Defense history of the United States' p…
Citing government misconduct, Daniel Ellsberg's charges for his involvement in releasing the Pentagon Papers to The New
Roger Williamson was a British racing driver and a two time British Formula 3 champion, who died during his second Formula One race, the 1973 Dutch Grand Prix at Zandvoort Circuit …
Driver Roger Williamson is killed during the Dutch Grand Prix, after a suspected tire failure causes his car to pitch…
The Summerland disaster occurred when a fire spread through the Summerland leisure centre in Douglas on the Isle of Man on the night of 2 August 1973. Fifty people were killed and …
A flash fire kills 50 people at the Summerland amusement centre at Douglas, Isle of Man.
The Watergate scandal, or simply Watergate, was a political scandal in the United States involving the administration of President Richard Nixon. On June 17, 1972, operatives assoc…
Watergate scandal: Televised hearings begin in the United States Senate
Aeroflot Flight 109 was a scheduled domestic passenger flight from Moscow to Chita with stopovers in Chelyabinsk, Novosibirsk, and Irkutsk. On the final leg of the route on 18 May …
Aeroflot Flight 109 is hijacked mid-flight and the aircraft is subsequently destroyed when the hijacker's bomb explodes,
The Greek junta or Regime of the Colonels was a right-wing military junta that ruled Greece from 1967 to 1974. On 21 April 1967, a group of colonels overthrew a caretaker governmen…
In protest against the dictatorship in Greece, the captain and crew on Greek naval destroyer Velos mutiny and refuse to
The United States Senate is a chamber of the bicameral United States Congress; it is the upper house, and the U.S. House of Representatives is the lower house. Together, the Senate…
The United States Senate votes to cut off funding for the bombing of Khmer Rouge targets within Cambodia, hastening the
The Soviet Union, officially the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR), was a transcontinental country that spanned much of Eurasia from 1922 until its dissolution in 1991. It…
A Soviet supersonic Tupolev Tu-144 crashes near Goussainville, France, killing 14, the first crash of a supersonic passe
Secretariat, also known as Big Red, was a champion American Thoroughbred racehorse who was the ninth winner of the American Triple Crown, setting and still holding the fastest time…
In horse racing, Secretariat wins the U
Mars 6, also known as 3MP No.50P was a Soviet spacecraft launched to explore Mars. A 3MP bus spacecraft launched as part of the Mars program, it consisted of a lander, and a coast …
Mars 6 is launched from the USSR.
Kim Dae-jung was a South Korean politician, activist, and statesman who served as the eighth president of South Korea from 1998 to 2003.
Kim Dae-jung, a South Korean politician and later president of South Korea, is kidnapped.
Mars 7, also known as 3MP No.51P was a Soviet spacecraft launched in 1973 to explore Mars. A 3MP bus spacecraft which comprised the final mission of the Mars programme, it consiste…
Mars 7 is launched from the USSR.
The Philadelphia Phillies are an American professional baseball team based in Philadelphia. The Phillies compete in Major League Baseball (MLB) as a member club of the National Lea…
In a game versus the Philadelphia Phillies at Veterans Stadium, Los Angeles Dodgers teammates Steve Garvey, Davey Lopes,
A sniper is a military or paramilitary marksman who engages targets from positions of concealment or at distances exceeding the target's detection capabilities. Snipers generally h…
Snipers fire upon left-wing Peronists in Buenos Aires, Argentina, in what is known as the Ezeiza massacre
Aeroméxico Flight 229 was a McDonnell Douglas DC-9 that crashed into the side of a mountain while on approach to Licenciado Gustavo Díaz Ordaz International Airport in Puerto Valla…
Aeroméxico Flight 229 crashes on approach to Licenciado Gustavo Díaz Ordaz International Airport, killing all 27 people
Primer Congreso del Hombre Andino was an academic conference in northern Chile organized by the northern branch of the University of Chile in June 1973. Its subject was the Indigen…
The Primer Congreso del Hombre Andino is inaugurated in Arica, Chile
Miller v. California, 413 U.S. 15 (1973), is a landmark decision of the U.S. Supreme Court clarifying the legal definition of obscenity. The ruling was the origin of the three-part…
In its decision in Miller v
Kingston upon Hull, or simply shortened to Hull, is a port city and unitary authority area in the East Riding of Yorkshire, England. It lies upon the River Hull at its confluence w…
A fire at a house in Hull, England, which kills a six-year-old boy is passed off as an accident; it later emerges as the
Aliaune Damala Bouga Time Puru Nacka Lu Lu Lu Badara Akon Thiam, is a Senegalese-American singer, songwriter, record producer, businessman and philanthropist. An influential figure…
Akon, Senegalese-American singer, rapper and songwriter
Petra Charlotta Sörenstam is a retired Swedish professional golfer. As an amateur competing for the Texas Longhorns, she won the NCAA Division I Championship individual title. As a…
Charlotta Sörenstam, Swedish golfer
Teddy Cobeña Loor is a figurative expressionist sculptor with a surrealist component. He lives in Barcelona.
Teddy Cobeña, Spanish-Ecuadorian expressionist and representational sculptor
The UpStairs Lounge arson attack, sometimes called the UpStairs Lounge Fire, occurred on June 24, 1973, at a gay bar called the UpStairs Lounge located on the 2nd floor of the 3-st…
The UpStairs Lounge arson attack takes place at a gay bar located on the second floor of the three-story building at 141
The president of Uruguay, officially known as the president of the Oriental Republic of Uruguay, is the head of state and head of government of Uruguay. The president presides over…
The President of Uruguay Juan María Bordaberry dissolves Parliament and establishes a dictatorship