Explore 6419 historical events from 1970–1979.
Alaska Airlines Flight 1866 was a regularly scheduled passenger flight operated by Alaska Airlines from Anchorage, Alaska, to Seattle, Washington, with several intermediate stops i…
Alaska Airlines Flight 1866 crashes near Juneau, Alaska, killing all 111 people on board.
Paninternational Flight 112 was a BAC One-Eleven operated by German airline Paninternational that crashed in Hamburg on 6 September 1971 while attempting to land on an autobahn fol…
Paninternational Flight 112 crashes on the Bundesautobahn 7 highway near Hamburg Airport, in Hamburg, Germany, killing…
The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, commonly known as the Kennedy Center, is the national cultural center of the United States, serving as a "living memorial" to Jo…
In Washington, D.C., the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts is inaugurated, with the opening feature being…
Bradley Howard Friedel is an American professional soccer coach and former player who played as a goalkeeper.
Brad Friedel, American international soccer player, manager and sportscaster
Mark Andrew Menzies is a British politician who served as Member of Parliament (MP) for Fylde in Lancashire from 2010 to 2024. As a member of the Conservative Party, he was the par…
Mark Menzies, Scottish politician
Nobuteru 'NOB' Taniguchi is a Japanese racing driver and drifting driver who currently competes in the Super GT racing series. Taniguchi is commonly nicknamed "NOB" or "The Pimp" …
Nobuteru Taniguchi, Japanese race car driver
Philip Clarke is an English former professional rugby league footballer who played in the 1980s and 1990s. A Great Britain and England international representative back-rower or st…
Phil Clarke, English rugby league player and sportscaster
Rachel Ann Goswell is an English musician who rose to prominence as vocalist and guitarist of the shoegaze band Slowdive, which formed in 1989. When Slowdive disbanded in 1995, Gos…
Rachel Goswell, English singer-songwriter and guitarist
The Attica Prison riot took place at the Attica Correctional Facility state prison in Attica, New York. The riot started on September 9, 1971, with a violent takeover of the prison…
The four-day Attica Prison riot begins, eventually resulting in 39 dead, most killed by state troopers retaking the…
The Festival Rock y Ruedas de Avándaro was a historic Mexican rock festival held on September 11–12, 1971, on the shores of Lake Avándaro near the Avándaro Golf Club, in a hamlet c…
The Festival Rock y Ruedas de Avándaro rock festival is held in the State of Mexico. It attracted more than 100,000…
The National Guard is a military reserve organization of the United States Armed Forces. It is composed of reserve components of the United States Air Force and the United States A…
State police and National Guardsmen storm New York's Attica Prison to quell a prison revolt, which claimed 43 lives.
Mao Zedong was a Chinese communist revolutionary, political theorist and the founder of the People's Republic of China (PRC). He led China from the PRC's establishment in October 1…
Chairman Mao Zedong's second in command and successor Marshal Lin Biao flees China after the failure of an alleged…
Greenpeace is a global campaigning network, founded in Canada in 1971 by a group of environmental activists. Greenpeace states its goal is to "ensure the ability of the Earth to nu…
The first Greenpeace ship departs from Vancouver to protest against the upcoming Cannikin nuclear weapon test in Alaska.
Ross Katz is an American film producer, screenwriter and film director. He has executive produced films including In the Bedroom and Lost in Translation, and has directed the films…
Ross Katz, American director, producer, and screenwriter
Andres Salumets is an Estonian biologist, biochemist, and international infertility expert. He currently is Professor of Reproductive Medicine at the Karolinska Institute.
Andres Salumets, Estonian biologist, biochemist, and educator
Šárka Kašpárková is a Czech former track and field athlete who specialised in the triple jump.
Šárka Kašpárková, Czech triple jumper and coach
Hanne Beate Stenvaag is a Norwegian politician and member of the Storting. A member of the Red Party, she was elected to represent Troms at the 2025 parliamentary election.
Hanne Stenvaag, Norwegian politician
Hurricane Irene–Olivia was the first actively tracked tropical cyclone to move into the eastern Pacific Ocean from the Atlantic basin. It originated as a tropical depression on Sep…
Having weakened after making landfall in Nicaragua the previous day, Hurricane Irene regains enough strength to be…
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, Bhutan and Qatar join the United Nations.
The history of X-ray computed tomography (CT) traces back to Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen's discovery of X-ray radiation in 1895 and its rapid adoption in medical diagnostics. While X-ra…
The first practical CT scanner is used to diagnose a patient.
Nguyễn Văn Thiệu was a South Vietnamese military officer and politician who was the president of South Vietnam from 1967 to 1975. He was a general in the Republic of Vietnam Armed …
South Vietnamese President Nguyen Van Thieu is re-elected in a one-man election.
British European Airways Flight 706 (BE706/BEA706) was a scheduled international passenger flight from London, England to Salzburg, Austria. On 2 October 1971, whilst en route at 1…
British European Airways Flight 706 crashes near Aarsele, Belgium, killing 63.
Anthony Wayne Stewart, nicknamed "Smoke", is an American professional auto racing driver, and former NASCAR team co-owner of Stewart–Haas Racing. He competes in the NHRA Top Fuel c…
Tony Stewart, American race car driver
Shane Cloete is a teacher and ex-Zimbabwean cricketer. He was a right-handed batsman and wicket-keeper. He was born in Salisbury, Rhodesia.
Shane Cloete, Zimbabwean-British ex-cricketer and teacher