Explore 6419 historical events from 1970–1979.
The October Crisis was a chain of political events in Canada that started in October 1970 when members of the Front de libération du Québec (FLQ) kidnapped the provincial Labour Mi…
Canada's October Crisis escalates when Quebec Vice Premier Pierre Laporte is kidnapped by members of the Front de…
Vietnamization was a policy enacted in early 1969 by the Richard Nixon administration aimed at ending U.S. involvement in the Vietnam War by expanding, equipping, and training the …
Vietnam War: Vietnamization continues as President Richard Nixon announces that the United States will withdraw 40,000…
The West Gate Bridge is a steel, box girder, cable-stayed bridge across the Yarra River, north of its mouth into Port Phillip, and Westgate Park, located in Melbourne, Victoria, Au…
During the construction of Australia's West Gate Bridge, a span of the bridge falls and kills 35 workers. The incident…
Michael Richard Weir, is a Canadian professional golfer. He currently plays on the PGA Tour Champions. He spent over 110 weeks in the top-10 of the Official World Golf Ranking betw…
Mike Weir, Canadian golfer
Peter Filandia is a former Australian rules footballer.
Peter Filandia, Australian footballer
Ronaldus de Boer is a Dutch former professional footballer who played as a right or attacking midfielder or right winger. He played for the Netherlands national team as well as a h…
Ronald de Boer, Dutch footballer and manager
Alison Jackson is an English artist, photographer and filmmaker. Her work explores the theme of celebrity culture. She makes realistic work of celebrities doing things in private u…
Alison Jackson, English photographer, director, and screenwriter
Sir Robert Ben Lobban Wallace is a British politician and former British Army Officer who served as Secretary of State for Defence from 2019 to 2023. A member of the Conservative P…
Ben Wallace, English captain and politician
The War Measures Act was a statute of the Parliament of Canada that provided for the declaration of war, invasion, or insurrection, and the types of emergency measures that could t…
Canadian Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau invokes the War Measures Act during the October Crisis.
The October Crisis was a chain of political events in Canada that started in October 1970 when members of the Front de libération du Québec (FLQ) kidnapped the provincial Labour Mi…
FLQ terrorists murder Quebec Vice-Premier and Minister of Labour Pierre Laporte.
Regina Encarnacion Ansong Velasquez is a Filipino singer and actress. She is considered one of the most influential figures in Philippine popular culture and is known for her vocal…
Regine Velasquez, Filipino singer and actress
Jason Michael Lee is an American actor, filmmaker, photographer, and former professional skateboarder. He is known for playing Earl Hickey in the television comedy series My Name I…
Jason Lee, American skateboarder, actor, comedian and producer
Melania Knauss Trump is a Slovenian and American former model serving as the first lady of the United States since 2025, a role she previously held from 2017 to 2021 as the third w…
Melania Trump, Slovene-American model; 47th First Lady of the United States
Jordan Nathaniel Marcel Knight is an American pop singer and songwriter. He is the lead vocalist of the boy band New Kids on the Block (NKOTB), which rose to fame in the 1980s and …
Jordan Knight, American singer-songwriter and actor
Matthew James Lindland, is an American retired mixed martial artist, Olympic wrestler, speaker, actor, coach, entrepreneur, and politician. He won the Oregon Republican Party's nom…
Matt Lindland, American mixed martial artist, wrestler, and politician
Jodie Rogers is an Australian diver.
Jodie Rogers, Australian diver
René Vilbre is an Estonian film director
René Vilbre, Estonian director and screenwriter
Francisco Javier Cárdenas Pérez is a Spanish singer, television presenter, and radio presenter.
Javier Cárdenas, Spanish singer, television and radio presenter
Kristen Rogheh Ghodsee is an American ethnographer and Professor of Russian and East European Studies at the University of Pennsylvania. She is primarily known for her ethnographic…
Kristen R
Andre Kirk Agassi is an American former professional tennis player. He was ranked as the world No. 1 in men's singles by the Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP) for 101 weeks…
Andre Agassi, American tennis player
Dawn Michelle Staley is an American basketball coach and former player who is the head coach for the South Carolina Gamecocks women's basketball team. A point guard, she played col…
Dawn Staley, American basketball player
Michael Gwyl Bevan is an Australian former international cricketer. He played as a left-handed batsman and a slow left-arm wrist spin bowler. Bevan is widely considered as one of t…
Michael Bevan, Australian cricketer and coach
Dennis David Coles, better known by his stage name Ghostface Killah, is an American rapper and a member of the hip-hop group Wu-Tang Clan. After the group achieved breakthrough suc…
Ghostface Killah, American rapper and actor
Samantha Mathis is an American actress and trade union leader who served as the Vice President, Actors/Performers of SAG-AFTRA from 2015 to 2019. The daughter of actress Bibi Besch…
Samantha Mathis, American actress