Explore 4009 historical events from 1970–1979.
Walther Gerlach was a German physicist who co-discovered, through laboratory experiment, spin quantization in a magnetic field, the Stern–Gerlach effect. The experiment was conceiv…
Walter Gerlach, German physicist and academic (born 1889)
Walter Francis O'Malley was an American sports executive who owned the Brooklyn / Los Angeles Dodgers team in Major League Baseball from 1950 to 1979. In 1958, as owner of the Dodg…
Walter O'Malley, American businessman, owner of baseball's Dodgers (born 1903)
Raymond Lee Washington was an American gangster, known as the founder of the Crips gang in Los Angeles. Washington formed the Crips as a minor street gang in the late 1960s in Sout…
Raymond Washington, American gang leader, founded the Crips (born 1953)
James Gordon Farrell was an English-born novelist of Irish descent. He gained prominence for a series of novels known as "the Empire Trilogy", which deal with the political and hum…
J. G. Farrell, English author (born 1935)
Sir Ernst Boris Chain was a German-born British biochemist. He shared the 1945 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Alexander Fleming and Howard Florey "for the discovery of…
Ernst Boris Chain, German-Irish biochemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1906)
Andrew Michael Dasburg was an American modernist painter and "one of America's leading early exponents of cubism". Born in Paris and raised in New York City, he trained at the Art …
Andrew Dasburg, American painter and sculptor (born 1887)
John George Diefenbaker was the 13th prime minister of Canada, serving from 1957 to 1963. He was the only Progressive Conservative party leader between 1935 and 1979 to lead the pa…
John Diefenbaker, Canadian lawyer and politician, 13th Prime Minister of Canada (born 1895)
John C. Allen was a roller coaster designer who was responsible for the revival of wooden roller coasters which began in the 1960s. He attended Drexel University. He started workin…
John C. Allen, American roller coaster designer (born 1907)
Vasantrao Phulsingh Naik was an Indian politician, social reformer and Pioneer of Green, White Revolution and Guarantee Employment Scheme. He served as the Chief Minister of Mahara…
Vasantrao Naik, Indian politician (born 1913)
Christian Dotremont,, was a Belgian painter and poet who was born in Tervuren, Belgium. He was a founding member of the Revolutionary Surrealist Group (1946) and he also founded CO…
Christian Dotremont, Belgian painter and poet (born 1922)
James Thomas Farrell was an American novelist, short story writer and poet.
James T. Farrell, American novelist, short-story writer, and poet (born 1904)
Hanna Reitsch was a German aviator and test pilot. Reitsch was among the very last people to meet Adolf Hitler before his suicide in the Führerbunker in April 1945. Following her c…
Hanna Reitsch, German soldier and pilot (born 1912)
Vivian Vance was an American actress best known for playing landlady Ethel Mertz on the sitcom I Love Lucy (1951–1957), for which she won the 1953 Primetime Emmy Award for Outstand…
Vivian Vance, American actress and singer (born 1909)
Giuseppe Meazza was an Italian football manager and player. Throughout his career, he played mainly for Inter Milan in the 1930s, scoring 284 goals in 408 games for the club, and w…
Giuseppe Meazza, Italian footballer and manager (born 1910)
Stanley Newcomb Kenton was an American popular music and jazz artist. As a pianist, composer, arranger and band leader, he led an innovative and influential jazz orchestra for almo…
Stan Kenton, American pianist, composer, and bandleader (born 1911)
Mika Toimi Waltari was a Finnish writer, best known for his best-selling novel The Egyptian. He was extremely productive; Besides his novels he also wrote poetry, short stories, cr…
Mika Waltari, Finnish author, translator, and academic (born 1908)
Louis Francis Albert Victor Nicholas Mountbatten, 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma, commonly known as Lord Mountbatten, was a British statesman, naval officer, and member of the Briti…
Louis Mountbatten, 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma, English admiral and politician, 44th Governor-General of India (born…
Clement Blair Peach was a New Zealand teacher who was killed during an anti-racism demonstration in Southall, London, England. A campaigner and activist against the far right, in A…
Blair Peach, a New Zealand teacher, was fatally injured while taking part in an Anti-Nazi League demonstration against a
Margaret Hilda Thatcher, Baroness Thatcher, was a British stateswoman who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1979 to 1990 and Leader of the Conservative Party from…
Margaret Thatcher became the first female prime minister of the United Kingdom
Iranian Jews constitute one of the oldest communities of the Jewish diaspora. Dating back to the biblical era, they originate from the Jews who arrived in Iran as Babylonian captiv…
Prominent Iranian Jew Habib Elghanian was executed after having been convicted by a revolutionary tribunal of various ch
Etan Kalil Patz was a six-year-old American boy who disappeared on May 25, 1979, on his way to his school bus stop in the SoHo neighborhood of Lower Manhattan. His disappearance he…
Six-year-old Etan Patz disappeared on his way to school in New York City, and later became one of the first missing chil
Chicago O'Hare International Airport is the primary international airport serving Chicago, Illinois, United States, located on the city's Northwest Side, approximately 17 miles (27…
During takeoff from O'Hare International Airport in Chicago, an engine detached from American Airlines Flight 191, causi
Awon'go Idi Amin Dada Oumee was a Ugandan military officer and politician who seized and held power as the third president of Uganda from 1971 until his overthrow in 1979. In 1971,…
Having invaded Uganda and deposed President Idi Amin, Tanzanian forces secured Uganda's western border, ending a seven-m
Jerry John Rawlings was a Ghanaian military officer, aviator, politician, and revolutionary who led the country briefly in 1979 and then from 1981 to 2001. He led a military regime…
Jerry Rawlings came to power in Ghana as chairman of the Armed Forces Revolutionary Council