Explore 4009 historical events from 1970–1979.
Doris Fleeson was an American journalist and columnist and was the first woman in the United States to have a nationally syndicated political column.
Doris Fleeson, American journalist (born 1901)
Otto Heinrich Warburg was a German physiologist, medical doctor, and Nobel laureate. He served as an officer in the elite Uhlan during the First World War, and was awarded the Iron…
Otto Heinrich Warburg, German physician and physiologist, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1883)
Alexander Angus MacFarlane-Grieve, was a British academic, mathematician, rower, and decorated British Army officer. He served with the Highland Light Infantry during World War I. …
Angus MacFarlane-Grieve, English academic, mathematician, rower, and soldier (born 1891)
Nikos Tsiforos was a Greek humorist, screenwriter, and film director. He had more than 60 film scripts to his credit between 1948 and 1970. He further directed 17 films between 194…
Nikos Tsiforos, Greek director and screenwriter (born 1912)
Harold Joseph Haley was an American judge. He was a Superior Court judge in Marin County, California. He was taken hostage in his courtroom, along with several others, during the …
Harold Haley, American lawyer and judge (born 1904)
Jonathan Peter Jackson was an American militant activist who died of gunshot wounds sustained during an armed invasion of the Marin County Civic Center. The action was initiated to…
Jonathan P. Jackson, American bodyguard and kidnapper (born 1953)
Jimmy Steele was an Irish republican militant. He was one of the most prominent Irish Republican Army (IRA) men in Belfast after the Irish Civil War who held practically every sen…
Jimmy Steele (Irish republican), lifelong militant and editor (born 1907)
Rattana Pestonji was a Thai film director, producer, screenwriter and cinematographer and is regarded as the father of contemporary Thai film. Although his filmography was brief, h…
Rattana Pestonji, Thai director and producer (born 1908)
Paweł Jasienica was the pen name of Leon Lech Beynar, a Polish historian, journalist, essayist and soldier.
Paweł Jasienica, Polish soldier and historian (born 1909)
Vladimir Yakovlevich Propp was a Russian and Soviet folklorist and scholar who analysed the basic structural elements of Russian folk tales to identify their simplest, irreducible …
Vladimir Propp, Russian philologist and scholar (born 1895)
Tachū Naitō was a Japanese architect, engineer, and professor. He was a father of earthquake-proof design and built many broadcasting and observation towers, including the Tokyo T…
Tachū Naitō, Japanese architect and engineer, designed the Tokyo Tower (born 1886)
Western Australia (WA) is the westernmost state of Australia. It is bounded by the Indian Ocean to the north and west, the Southern Ocean to the south, the Northern Territory to th…
In response to a dispute over wheat production quotas, Leonard Casley declared his 75 km2 (29 sq mi) farm in Western Aus
The World Intellectual Property Organization is one of the 15 specialized agencies of the United Nations (UN). Pursuant to the 1967 Convention Establishing the World Intellectual P…
The World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) came into being when the WIPO Convention entered into force
The Vietnam War was an armed conflict in Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia fought between North Vietnam and South Vietnam and their allies. North Vietnam was supported by the Soviet Unio…
Vietnam War: South Vietnamese forces began the Cambodian campaign, aiming to attack North Vietnamese jungle bases
The Patent Cooperation Treaty (PCT) is an international patent law treaty, concluded in 1970. It provides a unified procedure for filing patent applications to protect inventions i…
The international Patent Cooperation Treaty was signed, providing a unified procedure for filing patent applications to
The Hard Hat Riot occurred in New York City on May 8, 1970, when around 400 construction workers and around 800 office workers attacked around 1,000 demonstrators affiliated with t…
Construction workers attacked students and others who were protesting the Vietnam War in New York City
Lubbock is a city in the U.S. state of Texas and the county seat of Lubbock County. With a population of 257,141 at the 2020 census, Lubbock is the 10th-most populous city in Texas…
Lubbock, Texas, was struck by a tornado that left 26 people dead
The Jackson State killings occurred on May 15, 1970, at Jackson State College in Jackson, Mississippi. On May 14, 1970, city and state police confronted a group of students outside…
Police opened fire during a confrontation with a group of Jackson State College students, killing two students and injur
The Kola Peninsula is a peninsula in the extreme northwest of Russia, and one of the largest peninsulas of Europe. Constituting the bulk of the territory of Murmansk Oblast, it lie…
On the Kola Peninsula in Russia, drilling began on the Kola Superdeep Borehole, which eventually reached a depth of 12,2
"The Long and Winding Road" is a song by the English rock band the Beatles from their 1970 album Let It Be. A piano ballad, it was written by Paul McCartney and credited to the Len…
"The Long and Winding Road" became the Beatles' twentieth and final number-one single on the Billboard Hot 100 chart
The Belfast Banking Company was a bank in Northern Ireland. It was established in 1827 by a merger of Batt's and Tennant's. The Belfast Banking Company operated primarily in Ulster…
The Belfast Banking Company, which issued banknotes in Northern Ireland, merged with its rival Northern Bank.
Dan-Air Flight 1903 was an unscheduled international passenger service from Manchester to Barcelona, operated by Dan Air Services Limited under contract with British tour operator …
Dan-Air Flight 1903 crashed into the slopes of the Montseny Massif in Catalonia, Spain, killing all 112 people aboard.
The Troubles were an ethno-nationalist conflict in Northern Ireland that lasted for about 30 years from the late 1960s to 1998. Also known internationally as the Northern Ireland c…
The Troubles: The British Army began the Falls Curfew in Belfast, Northern Ireland, which resulted in greater Irish…
Jonathan Peter Jackson was an American militant activist who died of gunshot wounds sustained during an armed invasion of the Marin County Civic Center. The action was initiated to…
Jonathan Jackson took hostages in a courthouse in Marin County, California, to coerce the release of the Soledad…