Explore 6419 historical events from 1970–1979.
Sierra Leone, officially the Republic of Sierra Leone, is a country on the west coast of West Africa. It is bordered to the southeast by Liberia and by Guinea to the north. Sierra …
Sierra Leone becomes a republic, and Siaka Stevens the president
The Arab League, officially the League of Arab States, is a regional organisation in the Arab world. The Arab League was formed in Cairo on 22 March 1945, initially with seven memb…
Oman joins the Arab League.
Walt Disney World Resort is an entertainment and vacation resort complex located about 20 miles (32 km) southwest of Orlando, Florida, United States. Opened on October 1, 1971, the…
Walt Disney World opens near Orlando, Florida.
Aeroflot Flight 773 was a scheduled domestic Soviet Union passenger flight from Moscow to Simferopol that crashed following a bomb explosion on 10 October 1971.
Aeroflot Flight 773 is destroyed by a bomb over Moscow Oblast, killing 25.
Charles Milles Manson was an American criminal, cult leader, and musician who was the founder of the Manson Family. He gained notoriety for ordering the Tate–LaBianca murders, wher…
Charles Manson is sentenced to death (later commuted to life imprisonment) for conspiracy in the Tate–LaBianca murders
The Bangladesh Liberation War, also known as the Bangladesh War of Independence, was an armed conflict sparked by the rise of the Bengali nationalist and self-determination movemen…
Bangladesh Liberation War: The Pakistan Army and Razakars massacre approximately 3,000 Hindu emigrants in the Jathibhang
Erich Ernst Paul Honecker was a German communist politician who led the German Democratic Republic from 1971 until shortly before the fall of the Berlin Wall in November 1989. He h…
Erich Honecker becomes First Secretary of the Socialist Unity Party of Germany, remaining in power until 1989
Aviogenex Flight 130 was an international charter passenger flight from Gatwick Airport, London to Rijeka Airport, Yugoslavia. On 23 May 1971, the Tupolev Tu-134A servicing the fli…
Seventy-eight people are killed when Aviogenex Flight 130 crashes on approach to Rijeka Airport in present-day Rijeka, C
Joetha Collier was an American high school student who was shot and killed on the night of her graduation in Drew, Mississippi, United States. The killing, which was committed by a…
Joetha Collier, a recent high school graduate, was killed in a shooting in Drew, Mississippi, attracting extensive atten
The Clarkston explosion was a disaster that occurred on 21 October 1971 in a row of shops on the main street of Clarkston, East Renfrewshire, Scotland. Sources from the time state …
A gas explosion kills 22 people at a shopping centre near Glasgow, Scotland.
The Republic of the Congo or First Congolese Republic, formerly the Belgian Congo and now called the Democratic Republic of the Congo, was a state in Central Africa that gained ind…
The Democratic Republic of the Congo is renamed Zaire.
Cameron Blades is an Australian international former rugby union player who played at the loosehead prop position, but could also cover at tighthead prop and hooker. He played prof…
Cameron Blades, Australian rugby player
Selena Quintanilla-Pérez was an American singer-songwriter. Known as the "Queen of Tejano Music", she is known for her contributions to popular music and fashion, which made her on…
Selena, American singer-songwriter, actress, and fashion designer (died 1995)
The Bangladesh Liberation War, also known as the Bangladesh War of Independence, was an armed conflict sparked by the rise of the Bengali nationalist and self-determination movemen…
Bangladesh Liberation War: The Pakistan Army slaughters at least 71 Hindus in Burunga, Sylhet, Bangladesh
The Dahlerau train disaster was a railway accident that occurred on May 27, 1971, in Dahlerau, a small town in Radevormwald, West Germany, in which a freight train and a passenger …
The Dahlerau train disaster, the worst railway accident in West Germany, kills 46 people and injures 25 near Wuppertal
Bengali Hindus are adherents of Hinduism who ethnically, linguistically and genealogically identify as Bengalis. They make up the majority in the Indian states of West Bengal, Trip…
Pakistani forces massacre over 200 civilians, mostly Bengali Hindus, in the Bagbati massacre
The Mariner program was conducted by the American space agency NASA to explore other planets. Between 1962 and late 1973, NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) designed and built …
Mariner program: Mariner 9 is launched to map 70% of the surface, and to study temporal changes in the atmosphere and su
The Uniform Monday Holiday Act is an Act of Congress that permanently moved two federal holidays in the United States to a Monday, being Washington's Birthday and Memorial Day, and…
In accordance with the Uniform Monday Holiday Act passed by the U
Soyuz 11 was the only crewed mission to board the world's first space station, Salyut 1. The crew – Georgy Dobrovolsky, Vladislav Volkov, and Viktor Patsayev – arrived at the space…
Soyuz 11 is launched
Seigo Yamamoto , known as "Boss", is a Japanese drift driver.
Seigo Yamamoto, Japanese racing driver
Natalya "Natasha" Maratovna Zvereva is a former professional tennis player from Belarus. She was the first major athlete in the Soviet Union to demand publicly that she should be a…
Natasha Zvereva, Belarusian tennis player
David John Tennant is a Scottish actor. He is best known for portraying the lead character in Doctor Who as the Tenth Doctor (2005–2010) and Fourteenth Doctor (2022-2023). His othe…
David Tennant, Scottish actor
Allan Wade Houston Jr. is an American former professional basketball player who played in the National Basketball Association (NBA) from 1993 to 2005. A shooting guard, Houston pla…
Allan Houston, American basketball player
Hughes Airwest Flight 706 was a regularly scheduled flight operated by American domestic airline Hughes Airwest from Los Angeles, California, to Seattle, Washington, with several i…
Hughes Airwest Flight 706 collides with a McDonnell Douglas F-4 Phantom II of the United States Marine Corps over the Sa