Explore 6419 historical events from 1970–1979.
Jayaprakash Narayan Srivastava, also known as JP and Lok Nayak, was an Indian politician, theorist and independence activist. He is mainly remembered for leading the mid-1970s oppo…
Jayaprakash Narayan, Indian politician (born 1902)
Christopher Riche Evans was a British computer scientist and author.
Christopher Evans, English psychologist, computer scientist, and author (born 1931)
Rebecca Helferich Clarke was a British classical composer and violist. Internationally renowned as a viola virtuoso, she also became one of the first female professional orchestral…
Rebecca Clarke, English viola player and composer (born 1886)
Johan Collett Müller Borgen was a Norwegian writer, journalist and critic. His best-known work is the novel Lillelord for which he was awarded the Norwegian Critics Prize for Liter…
Johan Borgen, Norwegian author and critic (born 1903)
Sidney Joseph Perelman was an American humorist and screenwriter. He is best known for his humorous short pieces written over many years for The New Yorker. He also wrote for sever…
S. J. Perelman, American humorist and screenwriter (born 1904)
Paul Marie-Adolphe Charles Paray was a French conductor, organist and composer. After winning France's top musical award, the Prix de Rome, he fought in the First World War and was…
Paul Paray, French organist, composer, and conductor (born 1886)
John Stuart was a Scottish actor, and was a very popular leading man in British silent films in the 1920s. He successfully made the transition to talking pictures in the 1930s and …
John Stuart, Scottish-English actor (born 1898)
Eugenio Mendoza Goiticoa was a Venezuelan business tycoon who made important contributions in the modernization of the country during the 20th Century.
Eugenio Mendoza, Venezuelan business tycoon (born 1909)
Juliette Nadia Boulanger was a French music teacher, conductor and composer. She taught many of the leading composers and musicians of the twentieth century, and also performed occ…
Nadia Boulanger, French composer and educator (born 1887)
Mieko Kamiya was a Japanese psychiatrist who treated leprosy patients at Nagashima Aiseien Sanatorium. She was known for translating books on philosophy. She worked as a medical d…
Mieko Kamiya, Japanese psychiatrist and author (born 1914)
Carlo Abarth, born Karl Albert Abarth, was an Italian automobile designer.
Carlo Abarth, Italian automobile designer and founded of Abarth (born 1908)
Field Marshal Sir Gerald Walter Robert Templer was a senior British Army officer. He fought in both the world wars and was involved in the British response to the 1936–1939 Arab re…
Gerald Templer, English field marshal and politician, British High Commissioner in Malaya (born 1898)
Sir Barnes Neville Wallis was an English engineer and inventor. He is best known for having invented the bouncing bomb used by the Royal Air Force in Operation Chastise to attack t…
Barnes Wallis, English scientist and engineer, inventor of the "bouncing bomb" (born 1887)
Carlos Humberto Romero Mena was a Salvadoran general and politician who served as the 34th President of El Salvador from 1 July 1977 until his overthrow on 15 October 1979. Romero …
President Carlos Humberto Romero of El Salvador was overthrown and exiled in a military coup d'état.
Park Chung Hee was a South Korean politician and army officer who seized power in the May 16 coup of 1961, and served as the third President of South Korea from 1962 until his assa…
Park Chung Hee, South Korean general and politician, 3rd President of South Korea (born 1917)
Clement Blair Peach was a New Zealand teacher who was killed during an anti-racism demonstration in Southall, London, England. A campaigner and activist against the far right, in A…
Blair Peach, a New Zealand teacher, was fatally injured while taking part in an Anti-Nazi League demonstration against a
Margaret Hilda Thatcher, Baroness Thatcher, was a British stateswoman who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1979 to 1990 and Leader of the Conservative Party from…
Margaret Thatcher became the first female prime minister of the United Kingdom
Iranian Jews constitute one of the oldest communities of the Jewish diaspora. Dating back to the biblical era, they originate from the Jews who arrived in Iran as Babylonian captiv…
Prominent Iranian Jew Habib Elghanian was executed after having been convicted by a revolutionary tribunal of various ch
Etan Kalil Patz was a six-year-old American boy who disappeared on May 25, 1979, on his way to his school bus stop in the SoHo neighborhood of Lower Manhattan. His disappearance he…
Six-year-old Etan Patz disappeared on his way to school in New York City, and later became one of the first missing chil
Chicago O'Hare International Airport is the primary international airport serving Chicago, Illinois, United States, located on the city's Northwest Side, approximately 17 miles (27…
During takeoff from O'Hare International Airport in Chicago, an engine detached from American Airlines Flight 191, causi
Awon'go Idi Amin Dada Oumee was a Ugandan military officer and politician who seized and held power as the third president of Uganda from 1971 until his overthrow in 1979. In 1971,…
Having invaded Uganda and deposed President Idi Amin, Tanzanian forces secured Uganda's western border, ending a seven-m
Jerry John Rawlings was a Ghanaian military officer, aviator, politician, and revolutionary who led the country briefly in 1979 and then from 1981 to 2001. He led a military regime…
Jerry Rawlings came to power in Ghana as chairman of the Armed Forces Revolutionary Council
William D. Stewart was an American journalist with ABC News who was murdered by Nicaraguan government National Guard ("Guardia") forces while reporting on the Nicaraguan Revolution…
Bill Stewart, an American journalist, was executed by Nicaraguan Guardia forces
The Liberal Party was one of the two major political parties in the United Kingdom, along with the Conservative Party, in the 19th and early 20th centuries. Beginning as an allianc…
Former British Liberal Party leader Jeremy Thorpe was acquitted of conspiracy to murder Norman Scott, who had accused Th