Explore 4009 historical events from 1970–1979.
Tiffany Roberts Sahaydak is an American soccer coach, former defender, and Olympic gold medalist. She was also a member of the 1999 U.S. national team that won the 1999 FIFA Women'…
Tiffany Roberts, American footballer
Mark Andrew Eaton is an American professional ice hockey coach and former defenseman who was previously the interim head coach for the Rockford IceHogs of the American Hockey Leagu…
Mark Eaton, American ice hockey player and coach
The 1977 anti-Tamil pogrom in Sri Lanka followed the 1977 general elections in Sri Lanka where the Sri Lankan Tamil nationalistic Tamil United Liberation Front won a plurality of m…
The Sri Lanka Riots: Targeting the minority Sri Lankan Tamils, begin, less than a month after the United National…
The National Front (NF) is a far-right, fascist political party in the United Kingdom. It is currently led by Tony Martin. A minor party, it has never had its representatives elect…
Members of the British National Front (NF) clash with anti-NF demonstrators in Lewisham, London, resulting in 214…
The Ohio State University Radio Observatory was a Kraus-type radio telescope located on the grounds of the Perkins Observatory at Ohio Wesleyan University in Delaware, Ohio from 19…
The Big Ear, a radio telescope operated by Ohio State University as part of the SETI project, receives a radio signal…
Bantu Stephen Biko OMSG was a South African anti-apartheid activist. Ideologically an African nationalist and African socialist, he was at the forefront of a grassroots anti-aparth…
Steve Biko is arrested at a police roadblock under Terrorism Act No. 83 of 1967 in King William's Town, South Africa.…
The Voyager program is an American scientific program that employs two interstellar probes, Voyager 1 and Voyager 2. They were launched in 1977 to take advantage of a favorable pla…
Voyager program: NASA launches the Voyager 2 spacecraft.
Chantelle Lee Newbery is an Australian former diver.
Chantelle Newbery, Australian diver
Joseph Leonard Bonamassa is an American blues rock guitarist, singer and songwriter. He started his career at age twelve, when he opened for B.B. King. Since 2000, Bonamassa has re…
Joe Bonamassa, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
Theodoros Papaloukas, commonly known as Theo Papaloukas, is a retired Greek professional basketball player. He was selected to the All-EuroLeague Team four times, was a member of t…
Theodoros Papaloukas, Greek basketball player
Marek Jankulovski is a Czech former professional footballer who played as a defender. His most notable achievements include winning the UEFA Champions League with AC Milan and bein…
Marek Jankulovski, Czech footballer
The Charter of the French Language, also known as Bill 101, is a law in the Canadian province of Quebec defining French, the language of the majority of the population, as the o…
The Charter of the French Language is adopted by the National Assembly of Quebec.
Frederik Reesen Magle is a Danish composer, concert organist, and pianist. He writes contemporary classical music as well as fusion of classical music and other genres. His composi…
Frederik Magle, Danish composer, organist, and pianist
Andruw Rudolf Jones is a Curaçaoan former professional baseball center fielder who played 17 seasons in Major League Baseball (MLB), most notably for the Atlanta Braves. He also pl…
Andruw Jones, Curaçaoan baseball player
John William Oliver is a British and American comedian, political commentator and television personality. He hosts Last Week Tonight with John Oliver on HBO and started his career …
John Oliver, English comedian, actor, producer, and screenwriter
Carlos Iván Beltrán Valdés is a Puerto Rican former outfielder in Major League Baseball (MLB) who played for seven teams from 1998 to 2017. A nine-time All-Star, he hit 20 home run…
Carlos Beltrán, Puerto Rican-American baseball player
Svein Tuft is a Canadian former road bicycle racer, who rode professionally between 2005 and 2019 for the Symmetrics, Garmin–Transitions, SpiderTech–C10, Mitchelton–Scott and Rally…
Svein Tuft, Canadian cyclist
Pablo Gabriel García Pérez is a Uruguayan professional football manager and former player who played as a defensive midfielder. He is the manager of Cypriot First Division club APO…
Pablo Gabriel García, Uruguayan footballer
Victor Matfield is a South African former professional rugby union player. He played for and captained the South Africa national team (Springboks) as well as the Blue Bulls in the …
Victor Matfield, South African rugby player, coach, and sportscaster
Robert Francis Roode Jr. is a Canadian retired professional wrestler. He is signed to WWE, where he works as a producer.
Bobby Roode, Canadian professional wrestler
Paul Frappier, better known by his stage name Bad News Brown, was a Canadian entertainer, musician, and hip hop MC of Haitian origin. He was known for pairing the sound of his chie…
Bad News Brown, Canadian rapper, harmonica player, and actor (died 2011)
Renato Ruíz Cortes, better known by his ring name Averno (Hell), is a Mexican professional wrestler, signed to Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre (CMLL). Ruíz initially worked for (CML…
Averno, Mexican wrestler
Adrian Paul Morley is an English former professional rugby league footballer who played as a prop or second-row forward. With a reputation as a tough, uncompromising competitor, Mo…
Adrian Morley, English rugby league player
Graeme Dott is a Scottish former professional snooker player from Glasgow. He turned professional in 1994, first entered the top 16 in 2001, and reached his first world final at th…
Graeme Dott, Scottish snooker player and coach