Explore 1718 historical events from 1970–1979.
Gilberto Parlotti was an Italian professional motorcycle racer competing in the FIM World Championship between 1969 and 1972. He competed for the Benelli, Derbi, Morbidelli and Tom…
Gilberto Parlotti, Italian motorcycle racer (born 1940)
Morris Berg was an American professional baseball catcher and coach in Major League Baseball who later served as a spy for the Office of Strategic Services during World War II. He …
Moe Berg, American baseball player, coach, and spy (born 1902)
Edmund Wilson Jr. was an American writer, literary critic, and journalist. He is widely regarded as one of the most important literary critics of the 20th century. Wilson began his…
Edmund Wilson, American critic, essayist, and editor (born 1895)
Dinanath Gopal Tendulkar (1909–1972) was an Indian writer and documentary film maker. He is most well known as the author of an eight-volume biography of Mahatma Gandhi, titled Mah…
Dinanath Gopal Tendulkar, Indian writer and documentary filmmaker (born 1909)
Georg von Békésy was a Hungarian-American biophysicist.
Georg von Békésy, Hungarian biophysicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1899)
Stephanie Julianne von Hohenlohe was an Austrian princess by her marriage to the diplomat Prince Friedrich Franz von Hohenlohe-Waldenburg-Schillingsfürst, a member of the noble Hoh…
Stephanie von Hohenlohe, Austrian-German spy (born 1891)
Dündar Taşer was a Turkish soldier and politician who was a leading figure in Turkish nationalism.
Dündar Taşer, Turkish soldier and politician (born 1925)
James Reid was a Scottish trade union activist, orator, politician and journalist born in Govan, Glasgow. His role as spokesman and one of the leaders in the Upper Clyde Shipbuilde…
Scottish trade unionist Jimmy Reid condemned the capitalist "rat race" in his inaugural address as Rector of the Univers
The Ryukyu Islands , also known as the Nansei Islands or the Ryukyu Arc , are a chain of Japanese islands that stretch southwest from Kyushu to Taiwan. Administratively, they are …
The Ryukyu Islands were returned to Japan by the United States, and the U
The Black September Organization was a Palestinian militant organization, which was founded in September 1970. Besides other actions, the group was responsible for the assassinatio…
Four members of Black September hijacked Sabena Flight 571 to demand the release of 315 Palestinians convicted on terror
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: A car bomb planted by Ulster loyalists exploded outside a crowded pub in Belfast, Northern Ireland, beginn
The Dominion of Ceylon, officially Ceylon, was an independent country in the Commonwealth of Nations from 1948 to 1972, that shared a monarch with other dominions of the Commonweal…
The Dominion of Ceylon changed its name to Sri Lanka, adopted a new constitution, and officially became a republic withi
The Japanese Red Army was a far-left militant organization active from 1971 to 2001. The JRA was founded by Fusako Shigenobu and Tsuyoshi Okudaira in February 1971, and was most a…
Members of the Japanese Red Army carried out the Lod Airport massacre in Tel Aviv, Israel, on behalf of PFLP External Op
The Vietnam War was an armed conflict in Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia fought between North Vietnam and South Vietnam and their allies. North Vietnam was supported by the Soviet Unio…
Vietnam War: Associated Press photographer Nick Ut took a Pulitzer Prize–winning photograph of a naked nine-year-old Pha
David Robert Jones, known as David Bowie, was an English singer, songwriter and actor. Regarded as among the most influential musicians of the 20th century, he was known for his co…
English musician David Bowie released his breakthrough album, The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from M
British European Airways Flight 548 was a scheduled passenger flight from London Heathrow to Brussels that crashed near Staines, England, United Kingdom, shortly after take-off on …
British European Airways Flight 548 crashed near Staines-upon-Thames less than three minutes after departing from Heathr
Salyut 1, also known as DOS-1, was the world's first space station. It was launched into low Earth orbit by the Soviet Union on April 19, 1971. The Salyut program subsequently achi…
Launch of Salyut 1, the first space station
The National Railroad Passenger Corporation, doing business as Amtrak, is the national passenger railroad company of the United States. It operates intercity rail service in every …
Amtrak (the National Railroad Passenger Corporation) takes over operation of U
The Provisional Government of Bangladesh, popularly known as the Mujibnagar Government and also known as the Bangladeshi government-in-exile, was the first and founding government …
The Provisional Government of Bangladesh is formed
The Mars program was a series of uncrewed spacecraft launched by the Soviet Union between 1960 and 1973. The spacecraft were intended to explore Mars, and included flyby probes, la…
Mars probe program: Mars 2 is launched by the Soviet Union
Chuknagar massacre was a massacre of Bengali Hindus committed by the Pakistan Army and local collaborators during the Bangladesh War of Independence in 1971. The massacre took plac…
In the Chuknagar massacre, Pakistani forces massacre thousands, mostly Bengali Hindus
The Grand Hotel Bucharest is a 24-story 87 m (285 ft) high-rise five-star hotel situated near University Square, Bucharest, in Sector 1. Opened in 1971 as the Inter-Continental Buc…
The Intercontinental Hotel in Bucharest opens, becoming the second-tallest building in the city
Cameron Blades is an Australian international former rugby union player who played at the loosehead prop position, but could also cover at tighthead prop and hooker. He played prof…
Cameron Blades, Australian rugby player
Sierra Leone, officially the Republic of Sierra Leone, is a country on the west coast of West Africa. It is bordered to the southeast by Liberia and by Guinea to the north. Sierra …
Sierra Leone becomes a republic, and Siaka Stevens the president