Explore 6419 historical events from 1970–1979.
Eli Raphael Roth is an American filmmaker and actor. As a director and producer, he is most closely associated with the horror genre, namely splatter films, having directed the fil…
Eli Roth, American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter
Carmen Electra is an American actress, model, media personality and singer. Often spotlighted for her looks, she has been considered a sex symbol and pop culture icon since the lat…
Carmen Electra, American model and actress
Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni, known mononymously as Michelangelo, was an Italian sculptor, painter, architect, and poet of the High Renaissance. He was born in the Re…
Michelangelo's Pietà in St
The Sri Lankan Constitution of 1972 was a constitution of Sri Lanka, replaced by the 1978 constitution currently in force. It was Sri Lanka's first republican constitution, and its…
Ceylon adopts a new constitution, becoming a republic and changing its name to Sri Lanka
Derry, officially Londonderry, is the second-largest city in Northern Ireland. Located in County Londonderry, the city now covers both banks of the River Foyle. Cityside and the ol…
Over 400 women in Derry, Northern Ireland attack the offices of Sinn Féin following the shooting by the Irish Republican
The Cold War was a period of international geopolitical rivalry between the United States (US) and the Soviet Union (USSR) and their respective allies, the capitalist Western Bloc …
Cold War: The United States and the Soviet Union sign the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty
The Angry Brigade was a British terrorist group responsible for a series of armed actions against the establishment in England between 1970 and 1972. Using small bombs, they target…
The Angry Brigade goes on trial over a series of 25 bombings throughout the United Kingdom
Stephen Robert Nesta Marley is a Jamaican-American musician. The son of Bob Marley, Marley is an eight-time Grammy Award winner, three times as a solo artist, twice as a producer o…
Stephen Marley, Jamaican-American musician
Pierre Labrie is a Québécois poet, born at Mont-Joli, Quebec. He now lives in Trois-Rivières.
Pierre Labrie, Canadian poet and playwright
Peter Dench is a British photojournalist, photographer, writer, curator, educator and TV presenter. His work has been published in a number of books. In 2025, Dench served as Act…
Peter Dench, English photographer and journalist
Amira Medunjanin is a Bosnian singer and interpreter of sevdalinka. She holds both citizenship of Croatia and Bosnia and Herzegovina.
Amira Medunjanin, Bosnian singer
Ben Gurion International Airport, commonly known by the Hebrew-language acronym Natbag, is the main international airport of Israel. Situated on outskirts north of the city of Lod …
In Ben Gurion Airport (at the time: Lod Airport), Israel, members of the Japanese Red Army carry out the Lod Airport mas
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: Nine-year-old Phan Thị Kim Phúc is burned by napalm, an event captured by Associated Press photographer Nic
The Black Hills are an outlying subrange of the greater Rocky Mountain system rising from the Great Plains of North America in western South Dakota and eastern Wyoming, United Stat…
Severe rainfall causes a dam in the Black Hills of South Dakota to burst, creating a flood that kills 238 people and cau
Japan Air Lines Flight 471 was a Japan Air Lines international flight from Don Mueang International Airport in Bangkok, Thailand, to Palam International Airport in New Delhi, India…
Japan Air Lines Flight 471 crashes on approach to Palam International Airport (now Indira Gandhi International Airport)
Robert James Douglas, known professionally as Rab Douglas is a Scottish former professional footballer who played as a goalkeeper. He played for several clubs, including Livingston…
Rab Douglas, Scottish footballer
Jure Košir is a Slovenian former alpine skier.
Jure Košir, Slovenian skier and singer
Jason Eric Bargwanna is an Australian motor racing driver. Best known as a Supercars Championship competitor, Bargwanna raced in the series for 25 years, the pinnacle of which was …
Jason Bargwanna, Australian racing driver
Francisco Miguel Narváez Machón, known as Kiko, is a Spanish former professional footballer who played as a centre-forward, mostly for Atlético Madrid.
Kiko, Spanish footballer
Natrone Jermaine Means is an American former professional football player who was a running back in the National Football League (NFL) for the San Diego Chargers, Jacksonville Jagu…
Natrone Means, American football player and coach
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: Five White House operatives are arrested for burgling the offices of the Democratic National Committe
British European Airways Flight 548 was a scheduled passenger flight from London Heathrow to Brussels that crashed near Staines, England, United Kingdom, shortly after take-off on …
Staines air disaster: One hundred eighteen people are killed when a BEA H
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: An 18+1⁄2-minute gap appears in the tape recording of the conversations between U
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: U