Explore 6419 historical events from 1970–1979.
Jacyra Martins da Silveira, known by her stage name Cleo de Verberena, was a Brazilian actress and film director. She is widely considered as the first Brazilian woman to direct a …
Cléo de Verberena, Brazilian actress and film director (born c. 1909)
Ellen Miriam Hopkins was an American actress known for her versatility. She signed with Paramount Pictures in 1930.
Miriam Hopkins, American actress (born 1902)
Shiyali Ramamrita Ranganathan was an Indian librarian and mathematician. S. R. Ranganathan is widely known as the “Father of Library Science in India.” His most notable contributio…
S. R. Ranganathan, Indian mathematician, librarian, and academic (born 1892)
Kathleen Clarke was a founder member of Cumann na mBan, a women's paramilitary organisation formed in Ireland in 1914, and one of very few people privy to the plans of the Easter R…
Kathleen Clarke, Irish politician and activist (born 1878)
Louis Seymour Bazett Leakey was a Kenyan-British palaeoanthropologist and archaeologist whose work was important in demonstrating that humans evolved in Africa, particularly throug…
Louis Leakey, Kenyan-English archaeologist and paleontologist (born 1903)
Robert Le Vigan was a French actor.
Robert Le Vigan, French-Argentinian actor and politician (born 1900)
Nicholas Joseph Begich Sr. was an American politician, school counselor, and school administrator. He served in the Alaska state senate for eight years before being elected in 1970…
Nick Begich, American lawyer and politician (born 1932)
Thomas Hale Boggs Sr. was an American Democratic Party politician and a member of the U.S. House of Representatives from New Orleans, Louisiana. He was the House majority leader an…
Hale Boggs, American lawyer and politician (born 1914)
Leo Grattan Carroll was an English actor. In a career of more than 40 years, he appeared in six Hitchcock films including Spellbound, Strangers on a Train and North by Northwest an…
Leo G. Carroll, English-American actor (born 1886)
George, Crown Prince of Serbia, was the eldest son of King Peter I of Serbia and his wife, the former Princess Ljubica of Montenegro. He was the older brother of King Alexander I o…
George, Crown Prince of Serbia (born 1887)
Harlow Shapley was an American astronomer, who served as head of the Harvard College Observatory from 1921–1952, and political activist during the New Deal and Fair Deal.
Harlow Shapley, American astronomer and academic (born 1885)
Claire Windsor was an American film actress of the silent screen era.
Claire Windsor, American actress (born 1892)
Johnny Mantz was an American racecar driver.
Johnny Mantz, American race car driver (born 1918)
The Ryukyu Islands , also known as the Nansei Islands or the Ryukyu Arc , are a chain of Japanese islands that stretch southwest from Kyushu to Taiwan. Administratively, they are …
The Ryukyu Islands were returned to Japan by the United States, and the U
Walter Edward "Turk" Broda was a Canadian professional ice hockey player and coach. A goaltender, Broda played his entire career for the Toronto Maple Leafs of the National Hockey …
Turk Broda, Canadian ice hockey player and coach (born 1914)
James Keir Baxter was a New Zealand poet and playwright. He was also known as an activist for the preservation of Māori culture. He is one of New Zealand's most well-known and cont…
James K. Baxter, New Zealand poet, writer, theologian, and social commentator. (born 1926)
Jack Roosevelt Robinson was an American professional baseball player who was the first African American to play in Major League Baseball (MLB) in the modern era. Robinson broke the…
Jackie Robinson, American baseball player and sportscaster (born 1919)
Igor Ivanovich Sikorsky was a Russian-American aviation pioneer in both helicopters and fixed-wing aircraft. His first success came with the Sikorsky S-2, the second aircraft of hi…
Igor Sikorsky, Ukrainian-American engineer and academic, founded Sikorsky Aircraft (born 1889)
James Reid was a Scottish trade union activist, orator, politician and journalist born in Govan, Glasgow. His role as spokesman and one of the leaders in the Upper Clyde Shipbuilde…
Scottish trade unionist Jimmy Reid condemned the capitalist "rat race" in his inaugural address as Rector of the Univers
Awon'go Idi Amin Dada Oumee was a Ugandan military officer and dictator who served as the third president of Uganda from 1971 until his overthrow in 1979. He gained power after the…
President Idi Amin announced the expulsion of Asians from Uganda.
The Croatian National Resistance, also referred to as Otpor, was an Ustaša organization founded in 1955 in Spain. The HNO ran an armed organisation, Drina, which continued to be ac…
Three armed members of the Croatian National Resistance hijacked Scandinavian Airlines System Flight 130 in an attempt…
The Black September Organization was a Palestinian militant organization, which was founded in September 1970. Besides other actions, the group was responsible for the assassinatio…
Four members of Black September hijacked Sabena Flight 571 to demand the release of 315 Palestinians convicted on terror
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: A car bomb planted by Ulster loyalists exploded outside a crowded pub in Belfast, Northern Ireland, beginn
The Dominion of Ceylon, officially Ceylon, was an independent country in the Commonwealth of Nations from 1948 to 1972, that shared a monarch with other dominions of the Commonweal…
The Dominion of Ceylon changed its name to Sri Lanka, adopted a new constitution, and officially became a republic withi