Explore 1718 historical events from 1970–1979.
Heidi Alexander is a British politician who has served as Secretary of State for Transport since November 2024. A member of the Labour Party, she has been the Member of Parliament …
Heidi Alexander, English politician
Travis Matthew Roy was an American college ice hockey player, author and philanthropist.
Travis Roy, American ice hockey player (died 2020)
Jason Neil Gillespie is an Australian cricket coach and former international cricketer who played all three formats of the game. A right-arm fast bowler, he was also a competent lo…
Jason Gillespie, Australian cricketer and coach
Bobby T. Shaw II is an American former professional football player who was a wide receiver in the National Football League (NFL). He played college football for the California Gol…
Bobby Shaw, American football player
Marte Mjøs Persen is a Norwegian politician from the Labour Party. She served as minister of labour and social inclusion from 2022 to 2023, and minister of petroleum and energy fro…
Marte Mjøs Persen, Norwegian politician
During the aftermath of World War II and the Cold War, the Indochina wars were a series of wars which were waged in Indochina from 1945 to 1991, by communist forces against the opp…
Indochina Wars: Democratic Kampuchea naval forces capture the SS Mayaguez
Dejan Savić is a Serbian professional water polo coach and former player.
Dejan Savić, Yugoslavian and Serbian water polo player
Jacque Dewayne Jones is an American former Major League Baseball outfielder for the Minnesota Twins, Chicago Cubs, Detroit Tigers and Florida Marlins. He also coached for the Washi…
Jacque Jones, American baseball player and coach
Nathan Jonas "Joey" Jordison was an American musician. He was the original drummer of the heavy metal band Slipknot, in which he was designated #1, and the guitarist for the horror…
Joey Jordison, American musician and songwriter (died 2021)
Rahul Verma is a humanitarian, spiritual worker, and a devoted follower of Neem Karoli Baba. He, along with his wife Tulika, founded the Uday Foundation—a nonprofit organization na…
Rahul Verma, Indian social worker and activist
Christopher John Carpenter is an American former professional baseball pitcher. He played 15 seasons in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Toronto Blue Jays and St. Louis Cardinal…
Chris Carpenter, American baseball player
The 1975 United Kingdom European Communities membership referendum, also known variously as the Referendum on the European Community (Common Market), the Common Market referendum a…
The United Kingdom holds its first country-wide referendum on membership of the European Economic Community (EEC)
The State of Uttar Pradesh v. Raj Narain was an election case heard by the Allahabad High Court in 1975 that found the Prime Minister of India Indira Gandhi guilty of electoral mal…
State of Uttar Pradesh v
Jaws is a 1975 American thriller film directed by Steven Spielberg, based on the 1974 novel by Peter Benchley. It stars Roy Scheider as police chief Martin Brody, who, with the hel…
The film Jaws is released in the United States, becoming the highest-grossing film of that time and starting the trend o
Michael Santiago Render, known professionally as Killer Mike, is an American rapper, singer, actor, and activist. He made his recording debut on Outkast's fourth album Stankonia (2…
Killer Mike, American rapper
Pedro Julio Feliz, is a Dominican former professional baseball third baseman, who played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the San Francisco Giants, Philadelphia Phillies, Houston…
Pedro Feliz, Dominican baseball player
Kazuyoshi Funaki is a Japanese former ski jumper. He ranked among the most successful sportsmen of its discipline, particularly in the 1990s. Funaki is known for his special varia…
Kazuyoshi Funaki, Japanese ski jumper
Michael Walchhofer is a former World Cup alpine ski racer from Austria.
Michael Walchhofer, Austrian skier
April Amber Telek is a Canadian actress.
April Telek, Canadian actress
John Mark Galecki is an American actor. In television, he played Leonard Hofstadter on The Big Bang Theory (2007–2019) and David Healy in Roseanne and The Conners (2018–2019). Gale…
Johnny Galecki, American actor
Marc-Vivien Foé was a Cameroonian professional footballer, who played as a defensive midfielder.
Marc-Vivien Foé, Cameroonian footballer (died 2003)
Nina Hossain is a British journalist and presenter employed by ITN as the lead presenter of the ITV Lunchtime News.
Nina Hossain, English journalist
Garrison Starr is a Grammy-nominated American singer-songwriter/producer. Her major label debut, "18 Over Me" was released in 1997 (Geffen). Starr's shows have been described as "m…
Garrison Starr, American singer-songwriter and producer
Aleksey Gennadyevich Smertin is a Russian football official and a former player. He was a fairly versatile player and was able to play in defence as well as midfield. He works in t…
Alexey Smertin, Russian international footballer