Explore 1718 historical events from 1970–1979.
Jens Ingvald Bjørneboe was a Norwegian writer whose work spanned a number of literary formats. He was also a painter and a Waldorf school teacher. Bjørneboe was a harsh and eloquen…
Jens Bjørneboe, Norwegian author, poet, and playwright (born 1920)
Ulrike Marie Meinhof was a German left-wing militant, journalist and founding member of the Red Army Faction (RAF) in West Germany, commonly referred to in the press as the "Baader…
Ulrike Meinhof, German militant, co-founded the Red Army Faction (born 1934)
William Keith Relf was an English musician, best known as the lead vocalist and harmonica player for rock band the Yardbirds. He then formed the band Renaissance with his sister Ja…
Keith Relf, English singer-songwriter, harmonica player, and producer (born 1943)
Sydney Harris Howe was a Canadian professional ice hockey player. Howe played 17 seasons in the National Hockey League (NHL) for the Ottawa Senators, Philadelphia Quakers, Toronto …
Syd Howe, Canadian ice hockey player (born 1911)
Zelmar Raúl Michelini Guarch was a Uruguayan reporter and politician, assassinated in Buenos Aires in 1976 as part of Operation Condor.
Zelmar Michelini, Uruguayan journalist and politician (born 1924)
Héctor Gutiérrez Ruiz was a former President of the Chamber of Deputies of Uruguay who was assassinated in Operation Condor.
Héctor Gutiérrez Ruiz, Uruguayan politician (born 1934)
Denise Pelletier, OC was a Canadian actress.
Denise Pelletier, Canadian actress (born 1923)
Martin Heidegger was a German philosopher whose work was central to the development of phenomenology, hermeneutics, and existentialism. He has had significant impact within subsequ…
Martin Heidegger, German philosopher and academic (born 1889)
Radoslav Andrea Tsanoff, Bulgarian‑American philosopher and author (born 1887)
Radoslav Andrea Tsanoff, Bulgarian‑American philosopher and author (born 1887)
Maximillian George Carnarius, also known as Max George Carey, was an American professional baseball center fielder and manager. Carey played in Major League Baseball for the Pittsb…
Max Carey, American baseball player, coach, and manager (born 1890)
Mitsuo Fuchida was a Japanese captain in the Imperial Japanese Navy Air Service and a bomber observer in the Imperial Japanese Navy before and during World War II. He is perhaps b…
Mitsuo Fuchida, Japanese captain (born 1902)
Jacques Lucien Monod was a French biochemist. He shared the 1965 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with François Jacob and André Lwoff "for their discoveries concerning genetic…
Jacques Monod, French biologist and geneticist, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1910)
Lieutenant-Colonel Kenneth Mason MC was a British soldier and explorer notable as the first statutory professor of Geography at the University of Oxford. His work surveying the Him…
Kenneth Mason, English soldier and geographer (born 1887)
Zainul Abedin, also known as Shilpacharya was a Bangladeshi painter. He became well known in 1944 through his series of paintings depicting some of the great famines in Bengal duri…
Zainul Abedin, Bangladeshi painter and sculptor (born 1914)
Juan José Torres González was a Bolivian socialist politician and military leader who served as the 50th president of Bolivia from 1970 to 1971, when he was ousted in a coup that r…
Juan José Torres, Bolivian general and politician, 61st President of Bolivia (born 1920)
Jean Paul Getty Sr. was an American petroleum industrialist who founded the Getty Oil Company in 1942 and was the patriarch of the Getty family. A native of Minneapolis, Minnesota,…
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Thorleif Schjelderup-Ebbe was a Norwegian zoologist and comparative psychologist. He was the first person to describe a pecking order of hens, a discovery that contributed to under…
Thorleif Schjelderup-Ebbe, Norwegian zoologist and psychologist (born 1894)
Adolph Zukor was a Hungarian-American film producer best known as one of the three founders of Paramount Pictures. He produced one of America's first feature-length films, The Pris…
Adolph Zukor, American film producer, co-founded Paramount Pictures (born 1873)
Casimir James Konstanty was an American professional baseball relief pitcher in Major League Baseball and National League Most Valuable Player of 1950. He played for the Cincinnati…
Jim Konstanty, American baseball player (born 1917)
Gopinath Kaviraj was an Indian Sanskrit scholar, Indologist and philosopher. First appointed in 1914 a librarian, he was the Principal of Government Sanskrit College, Varanasi from…
Gopinath Kaviraj, Indian philosopher and scholar (born 1887)
James Joseph Dykes was an American professional baseball player, coach and manager. He played in Major League Baseball as a third and second baseman from 1918 through 1939, most no…
Jimmy Dykes, American baseball player, coach, and manager (born 1896)
The 1976 Friuli earthquake, also known in Italy as Terremoto del Friuli, occurred on 6 May 1976, at 21:00:13 with a moment magnitude of 6.5 and a maximum EMS intensity of X. The sh…
An earthquake struck Northern Italy, killing 990 people and injuring up to 3,000
A wine competition is an organized event in which trained judges or consumers competitively rate different vintages, categories, and/or brands of wine. Wine competitions generally …
In a wine competition in Paris (wine bottle pictured), French judges shocked the wine industry by rating California wine
The Ramones were an American punk rock band formed in the New York City neighborhood Forest Hills, Queens in 1974. Known for helping establish the punk movement in the United State…
The American band the Ramones released their debut album, which became highly influential on the emerging punk rock move