Explore 6419 historical events from 1970–1979.
Sony Group Corporation, commonly referred to as Sony, is a Japanese multinational conglomerate headquartered at Sony City in Minato, Tokyo, Japan. The Sony Group encompasses variou…
Sony introduced the Walkman, a portable audio player that changed listening habits by offering users the ability to…
James Earl Carter Jr. was an American politician and humanitarian who served as the 39th president of the United States from 1977 to 1981. A member of the Democratic Party, Carter …
US president Jimmy Carter signed a presidential finding, authorizing covert operations to aid the mujahideen against…
Comiskey Park was a ballpark in Chicago, Illinois, located in the Armour Square neighborhood on the near-south side of the city. The stadium served as the home of the Chicago White…
Rowdy fans at Comiskey Park in Chicago stormed the field during a Major League Baseball promotional event at which a…
The 1979 Coyote Lake earthquake occurred at 10:05:24 local time on August 6 with a moment magnitude of 5.7 and a maximum Mercalli Intensity of VII. The shock occurred on the Calave…
An earthquake struck along the Calaveras Fault near Coyote Lake, California, injuring sixteen people.
PJSC Aeroflot – Russian Airlines, commonly known as Aeroflot, is the flag carrier and the largest airline of Russia. Aeroflot is headquartered in the Central Administrative Okrug, …
Two Aeroflot passenger jets collided in mid-air near Dniprodzerzhynsk in the Ukrainian SSR, killing all 178 people on…
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: the IRA ambushed and killed 18 British soldiers near Warrenpoint, and assassinated Lord Mountbatten on…
Nur Muhammad Taraki was an Afghan communist politician, revolutionary, journalist and writer. He was a founding member of the People's Democratic Party of Afghanistan (PDPA) who se…
Afghan president Nur Muhammad Taraki (pictured) was overthrown and later killed on the orders of Hafizullah Amin, who…
On 16 September 1979, eight people from two families escaped from East Germany by crossing the border into West Germany at night in a homemade hot air balloon. The unique feat was …
Eight people escaped from East Germany to West Germany in a home-made hot air balloon.
Vela was the name of a group of reconnaissance satellites developed as the Vela Hotel element of Project Vela by the United States to detect nuclear detonations and monitor Soviet …
An American Vela satellite detected an unidentified flash of light near the Prince Edward Islands in the Indian Ocean,…
Typhoon Tip, known in the Philippines as Super Typhoon Warling, was the largest and most intense tropical cyclone ever recorded worldwide. The forty-third tropical depression, nine…
Typhoon Tip, the largest and most intense tropical cyclone ever recorded, reached a worldwide record-low sea-level…
The first National March on Washington for Lesbian and Gay Rights was a large political rally that took place in Washington, D.C., on October 14, 1979. The first such march on Wash…
At least 75,000 people attended the National March on Washington for Lesbian and Gay Rights in Washington, D.C., to…
The President of Afghanistan was constitutionally the head of state and head of government of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan and Commander-in-Chief of the Afghan Armed Forces.
The President of Afghanistan, Mohammad Daoud Khan, is overthrown and assassinated in a coup led by pro-communist rebels
Naomi Uemura was a Japanese adventurer who was known particularly for his solo exploits. For example, he was the first person to reach the North Pole solo, the first person to raf…
Japan's Naomi Uemura, travelling by dog sled, becomes the first person to reach the North Pole alone
Mount Everest is the highest mountain on Earth above sea level. It lies in the Mahalangur Himal sub-range of the Himalayas and marks part of the China–Nepal border at its summit. I…
The first ascent of Mount Everest without supplemental oxygen, by Reinhold Messner and Peter Habeler
The Tupolev Tu-144 is a Soviet supersonic passenger airliner designed by Tupolev that operated commercially from 1975 to 1983, including 1977–1978 passenger service.
A Tupolev Tu-144 crashes near the Russian town of Yegoryevsk, killing two
Theodore John Kaczynski, also known as the Unabomber, was an American mathematician and domestic terrorist. A mathematics prodigy, he abandoned his academic career in 1969 to pursu…
The first of a series of bombings orchestrated by the Unabomber detonates at Northwestern University resulting in minor
The Patent Cooperation Treaty (PCT) is an international patent law treaty, concluded in 1970. It provides a unified procedure for filing patent applications to protect inventions i…
The first international applications under the Patent Cooperation Treaty are filed
Air Canada Flight 189 was a scheduled flight from Ottawa to Vancouver via Toronto and Winnipeg. On June 26, 1978, the McDonnell Douglas DC-9 operating the flight crashed on takeoff…
Air Canada Flight 189, flying to Toronto, overruns the runway and crashes into the Etobicoke Creek ravine
Louise Joy Brown is an English woman noted as the first human born following conception by in vitro fertilisation (IVF). Her birth, following a procedure pioneered in Britain, has …
Birth of Louise Joy Brown, the first human to have been born after conception by in vitro fertilisation, or IVF.
In Japan's Okinawa Prefecture, 730 is a reference to July 30, 1978, the day the prefecture switched back from driving on the right-hand side of the road to the left.
The 730: Okinawa Prefecture changes its traffic on the right-hand side of the road to the left-hand side.
Mir Akbar Khyber was an Afghan left-wing intellectual and a leader of the Parcham faction of People's Democratic Party of Afghanistan (PDPA). His assassination by an unidentified p…
Mir Akbar Khyber is assassinated, provoking the Saur Revolution in Afghanistan
John Daniel Ehrlichman was an American political aide who served as White House Counsel and Assistant to the President for Domestic Affairs under President Richard Nixon. Ehrlichma…
John Ehrlichman, a former aide to U
The Saur Revolution, also known as the April Revolution or the April Coup, was a violent coup d'état and uprising staged on 27 and 28 April 1978 by the People's Democratic Party of…
The Saur Revolution begins in Afghanistan, ending the following morning with the murder of Afghan President Mohammed Dao
The Willow Island disaster was the collapse of a cooling tower under construction at the Pleasants Power Station at Willow Island, West Virginia, on April 27, 1978. Fifty-one const…
Willow Island disaster: In the deadliest construction accident in United States history, 51 construction workers are kil