Explore 4009 historical events from 1970–1979.
Altaf Hussain is a British Pakistani politician who is known as the founder of the Muttahida Qaumi Movement. He holds United Kingdom citizenship and has been living in exile in the…
Altaf Hussain founds the student political movement All Pakistan Muhajir Students Organisation (APMSO) in Karachi Univer
Garfield is an American comic strip and media franchise created by Jim Davis. Originally published locally as Jon in 1976, then in nationwide syndication from 1978, it chronicles t…
Garfield's first comic strip, originally published locally as Jon in 1976, goes into nationwide syndication
Sir Timothy Miles Bindon Rice is an English songwriter. He is best known for his collaborations with Andrew Lloyd Webber, with whom he wrote, among other shows, Joseph and the Amaz…
The original production of Tim Rice and Andrew Lloyd Webber's musical, Evita, based on the life of Eva Perón, opens at t
Charon, formal designation (134340) Pluto I, is the largest of the five known natural satellites of the dwarf planet Pluto. It has a mean radius of 606 km (377 mi). Charon is a pla…
Charon, the first of Pluto's satellites to be discovered, was first seen at the United States Naval Observatory by James
In Japan's Okinawa Prefecture, 730 is a reference to July 30, 1978, the day the prefecture switched back from driving on the right-hand side of the road to the left.
The 730: Okinawa Prefecture changes its traffic on the right-hand side of the road to the left-hand side.
The Ford Pinto is a subcompact car that was manufactured and marketed by Ford Motor Company in North America from 1970 until 1980. The Pinto was the first subcompact vehicle produc…
Three members of the Ulrich family are killed in an accident. This leads to the Ford Pinto litigation.
The Nicaraguan Revolution, or Sandinista Revolution was an armed conflict that took place in the Central American country of Nicaragua between 1961 and 1990.
Nicaraguan Revolution: The FSLN seizes the National Congress of Nicaragua, along with over a thousand hostages.
Ahmad bin Hussein al-Ghashmi was a Yemeni military officer who served as the fourth President of the Yemen Arab Republic from 11 October 1977 until his assassination eight months l…
Ahmad al-Ghashmi, the president of the Yemen Arab Republic, is killed when a bomb exploded in a suitcase carried by a So
The rainbow flag or pride flag is a symbol of LGBTQ pride and LGBTQ social movements, as well as a peace symbol. The colors reflect the diversity of the LGBTQ community and the spe…
The rainbow flag representing gay pride is flown for the first time during the San Francisco Gay Freedom Day Parade
The Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS) is the highest court in the federal judiciary of the United States. It has ultimate appellate jurisdiction over all U.S. federal cou…
The United States Supreme Court, in Regents of the University of California v
The Northern Territory is an Australian internal territory in the central and central-northern regions of Australia. The Northern Territory shares its borders with Western Australi…
The Northern Territory in Australia is granted self-government.
Solomon Islands, also known simply as the Solomons, is an archipelagic country consisting of six major islands and over 1,000 smaller islands in Melanesia, Oceania, to the north-ea…
The Solomon Islands becomes independent from the United Kingdom.
A conclave was held on 25 and 26 August 1978 to elect a new pope to succeed Paul VI, who had died on 6 August 1978. Of the 114 eligible cardinal electors, all but three attended. O…
Papal conclave: Albino Luciani is elected as Pope John Paul I.
Monika Bergmann-Schmuderer is a retired German alpine skier and gold medal winner at FIS Alpine World Ski Championships.
Monika Bergmann-Schmuderer, German skier
Lindsay Korman is an American actress. She first came to attention with three long-running soap opera roles: Theresa Lopez-Fitzgerald on Passions, Cara Castillo on All My Children,…
Lindsay Hartley, American actress
Daniel Hensel is a German composer, VJ, musicologist and music theorist. He is known as a composer of expressive works of all musical genres whose works can be dedicated to "a thre…
Daniel Hensel, German composer and musicologist
Moktar Ould Daddah was a Mauritanian politician who served as the country's first President after it gained its independence from France. Moktar served as the country's first Prime…
President Moktar Ould Daddah of Mauritania is ousted in a bloodless coup d'état.
The Los Alfaques disaster was caused by the explosion of a road tanker near a holiday campsite on 11 July 1978 in Alcanar, Spain. The exploding tanker, which was carrying 23 tons o…
Los Alfaques disaster: A truck carrying liquid gas crashes and explodes at a coastal campsite in Tarragona, Spain…
Puerto Rico, officially the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, is a self-governing Caribbean archipelago and island organized as an unincorporated territory of the United States under th…
Puerto Rican police shoot two nationalists in the Cerro Maravilla murders.
James Earl Carter Jr. was an American politician and humanitarian who served as the 39th president of the United States from 1977 to 1981. A member of the Democratic Party, Carter …
U.S. President Jimmy Carter declares a federal emergency at Love Canal due to toxic waste that had been disposed of…
Palestinians are an Arab national group native to the region of Palestine, descended from those who have inhabited the area over the millennia. They represent a highly homogenized …
One hundred fifty Palestinians in Beirut are killed in a terrorist attack during the second phase of the Lebanese…
Jason Phillip Randall White is a Scottish former rugby union footballer. He was a utility forward who played in the second or back row of the scrum – lock, flanker, or number eight…
Jason White, Scottish rugby player
Amanda Sage is an American painter who has studied and worked in Vienna, Austria, and Los Angeles, California. She trained and worked with Ernst and Michael Fuchs, a classical arti…
Amanda Sage, American-Austrian painter and educator
Carl Gary Greenidge is an English cricketer. He is a right-handed batsman and a right-arm medium-fast bowler. He was born in Basingstoke, Hampshire, the son of Gordon Greenidge.
Carl Greenidge, English cricketer