Explore 6419 historical events from 1970–1979.
Harold David Miner is an American former professional basketball player and two-time champion of the National Basketball Association (NBA) Slam Dunk Contest. He attended college at…
Harold Miner, American basketball player
Christopher Aubrey Shiflett is an American musician. He is the lead guitarist for the rock band Foo Fighters, which he joined in 1999 following the release of the band's third albu…
Chris Shiflett, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
Thomas Piketty is a French economist who is a professor of economics at the School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences, associate chair at the Paris School of Economics (PS…
Thomas Piketty, French economist
All Nippon Airways (ANA) is a Japanese airline headquartered in Minato, Tokyo. ANA operates services to both domestic and international destinations and is Japan's largest airline,…
An All Nippon Airways Boeing 727 and a Japanese Air Force F-86 collide over Morioka, Iwate, Japan, killing 162.
The Apollo program, also known as Project Apollo, was the United States human spaceflight program led by NASA, which landed the first humans on the Moon in 1969. Apollo was conceiv…
Apollo program: the Apollo 15 astronauts become the first to ride in a lunar rover.
The Concert for Bangladesh was a pair of benefit concerts organised by former Beatles guitarist George Harrison and the Indian sitar player Ravi Shankar. The shows were held at 2:3…
The Concert for Bangladesh, organized by former Beatle George Harrison, is held at Madison Square Garden in New York…
The Pacific Islands Forum is an inter-governmental organisation which aims to enhance cooperation among countries and territories of Oceania, including formation of a trade bloc an…
The first Pacific Islands Forum (then known as the "South Pacific Forum") is held in Wellington, New Zealand, with the…
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: In Northern Ireland, the British authorities launch Operation Demetrius. The operation involves the mass…
Candice Night is an American singer and musician. She has been the vocalist/lyricist and multi-instrumentalist for the traditional folk rock project Blackmore's Night since its ori…
Candice Night, American singer-songwriter
Sofia Carmina Coppola is an American filmmaker and former actress. She has won an Academy Award, two Golden Globe Awards, a Golden Lion, and a Cannes Film Festival Award. She was a…
Sofia Coppola, American director, producer, and screenwriter
Martin Reim is an Estonian football manager and former professional player.
Martin Reim, Estonian footballer and manager
Karin Lušnic is a former tennis player from Slovenia.
Karin Lušnic, Slovenian tennis player
Mark Connors is an Australian rugby union footballer. He is currently the Queensland Reds third most capped player ever, playing 134 games for the side. He has played for Australia…
Mark Connors, Australian rugby player
The Society for American Baseball Research (SABR) is a membership organization dedicated to fostering the research and dissemination of the history and statistical record of baseba…
The Society for American Baseball Research is founded in Cooperstown, New York.
Bahrain, officially the Kingdom of Bahrain, is an island country in the eastern part of Arabian Peninsula in West Asia. Situated near the western shore of the Persian Gulf, the cou…
Bahrain declares independence from Britain.
Richard Milhous Nixon was the 37th president of the United States, serving from 1969 until his resignation in 1974. A member of the Republican Party, he represented California in b…
President Richard Nixon completes the break from the gold standard by ending convertibility of the United States…
Bahrain, officially the Kingdom of Bahrain, is an island country in the eastern part of Arabian Peninsula in West Asia. Situated near the western shore of the Persian Gulf, the cou…
Bahrain gains independence from the United Kingdom.
Vietnam, officially the Socialist Republic of Viet Nam (SRV), is a country at the eastern edge of Mainland Southeast Asia. With an area of about 331,000 square kilometres and a pop…
Vietnam War: Australia and New Zealand decide to withdraw their troops from Vietnam.
Shaun Hart is a former Australian rules football player, who played for the Brisbane Bears and Brisbane Lions in the Australian Football League. Hart played in Brisbane's Lions hat…
Shaun Hart, Australian footballer, coach, and sportscaster
Stella Jongmans is a retired Dutch athlete who specialised in the 800 metres. She won the gold at the 1995 Summer Universiade and silver at the 1996 European Indoor Championships. …
Stella Jongmans, Dutch athlete
Máxima is Queen of the Netherlands as the wife of King Willem-Alexander.
Queen Máxima of the Netherlands, Dutch royal
Gina Marie Raimondo is an American politician and businesswoman who served as the 40th United States secretary of commerce from 2021 to 2025. As a member of the Democratic Party, s…
Gina Raimondo, Governor of Rhode Island
John Edgar Hoover was an American law enforcement administrator who served as the fifth and final director of the Bureau of Investigation (BOI) and the first director of the Federa…
J. Edgar Hoover and John Mitchell announce the arrest of 20 of the Camden 28.
A coup d'état, or simply a coup, is typically an illegal and overt attempt by a military organization or other government elites to unseat an incumbent person or leadership. A self…
An attempted coup d'état fails in the African nation of Chad. The Government of Chad accuses Egypt of playing a role…