Explore 4009 historical events from 1970–1979.
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
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
Eastern Air Lines Flight 66 was a regularly scheduled flight from New Orleans to New York City that crashed on June 24, 1975, when a Boeing 727-225 went on approach to New York's J…
Eastern Air Lines Flight 66 encounters severe wind shear and crashes on final approach to New York's JFK Airport killing
Indira Priyadarshini Gandhi was an Indian politician who served as the prime minister of India from 1966 to 1977 and again from 1980 until her assassination in 1984. She was India'…
Prime Minister Indira Gandhi declares a state of internal emergency in India
The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) is the domestic intelligence and security service of the United States and its principal federal law enforcement agency. An agency of the …
Two FBI agents and a member of the American Indian Movement are killed in a shootout on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservatio
Pope Paul VI was head of the Catholic Church and sovereign of Vatican City from 21 June 1963 until his death on 6 August 1978. Succeeding John XXIII, he continued the Second Vatica…
Pope Paul VI ordains some 350 priests in St
Cape Verde, also referred to in English by its Portuguese name Cabo Verde, and known officially as the Republic of Cabo Verde, is an archipelagic country in the central Atlantic Oc…
Cape Verde gains its independence from Portugal.
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
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)
The Comoros, officially the Union of the Comoros, is an archipelagic country made up of three islands in Southeast Africa, located at the northern end of the Mozambique Channel in …
The Comoros declares independence from France.
São Tomé and Príncipe, officially the Democratic Republic of Sao Tome and Principe, is an island country in the Gulf of Guinea, off the western equatorial coast of Central Africa. …
São Tomé and Príncipe declare independence from Portugal.
The Space Race was a 20th-century competition between the Cold War rivals, the United States and the Soviet Union, to achieve superior spaceflight capability. It had its origins in…
Space Race: Apollo–Soyuz Test Project features the dual launch of an Apollo spacecraft and a Soyuz spacecraft on the…
Alexander Kartveli Batumi International Airport is an international airport located 2 km (1.2 mi) south of Batumi, a city on the Black Sea coast and capital of Adjara, an autonomou…
Aeroflot Flight E-15 crashes on approach to Batumi International Airport, killing 40.
Apollo–Soyuz was the first crewed international space mission, conducted jointly by the United States and the Soviet Union in July 1975. Millions watched on television as an Americ…
Apollo–Soyuz Test Project: An American Apollo and a Soviet Soyuz spacecraft dock with each other in orbit marking the…
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
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
James Riddle Hoffa was an American labor union leader who served as the General President of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters (IBT) from 1957 to 1971. He was alleged to h…
Jimmy Hoffa disappears from the parking lot of the Machus Red Fox restaurant in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, a suburb…