Explore 1718 historical events from 1970–1979.
Efstratios Dimitriou, known professionally as Demetrio Stratos, was a Greek-Italian vocalist, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist and music researcher, best known as the co-founder, …
Demetrio Stratos, Egyptian-Italian singer-songwriter and pianist (born 1945)
Ahmad Zahir was an Afghan singer, songwriter and composer. Dubbed the "Elvis of Afghanistan", he is widely considered the all-time greatest singer of Afghanistan. The majority of h…
Ahmad Zahir, Afghan singer-songwriter (born 1946)
Ignatius Kutu Acheampong was a Ghanaian military officer and politician who was the military head of state of Ghana from 13 January 1972 to 5 July 1978, when he was deposed in a pa…
Ignatius Kutu Acheampong, Ghanaian general and politician, 6th Head of state of Ghana (born 1931)
Sir Hubert Ashton was an English first-class cricketer, footballer and politician.
Hubert Ashton, English cricketer and politician (born 1898)
George Edward "Duffy" Lewis was an American professional baseball left fielder who played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Boston Red Sox, the New York Yankees, and the Washi…
Duffy Lewis, American baseball player and manager (born 1888)
Paul Bowman Popenoe was an American marriage counselor, eugenicist and agricultural explorer. He was an influential advocate of the compulsory sterilization of mentally ill people …
Paul Popenoe, American explorer and scholar, founded Relationship counseling (born 1888)
Nicholas Ray was an American film director, screenwriter, and actor. Described by the Harvard Film Archive as "Hollywood's last romantic" and "one of postwar American cinema's supr…
Nicholas Ray, American actor, director, and screenwriter (born 1911)
Clement Blair Peach was a New Zealand teacher who was killed during an anti-racism demonstration in Southall, London, England. A campaigner and activist against the far right, in A…
Blair Peach, a New Zealand teacher, was fatally injured while taking part in an Anti-Nazi League demonstration against a
Margaret Hilda Thatcher, Baroness Thatcher, was a British stateswoman who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1979 to 1990 and Leader of the Conservative Party from…
Margaret Thatcher became the first female prime minister of the United Kingdom
Iranian Jews constitute one of the oldest communities of the Jewish diaspora. Dating back to the biblical era, they originate from the Jews who arrived in Iran as Babylonian captiv…
Prominent Iranian Jew Habib Elghanian was executed after having been convicted by a revolutionary tribunal of various ch
Etan Kalil Patz was a six-year-old American boy who disappeared on May 25, 1979, on his way to his school bus stop in the SoHo neighborhood of Lower Manhattan. His disappearance he…
Six-year-old Etan Patz disappeared on his way to school in New York City, and later became one of the first missing chil
Chicago O'Hare International Airport is the primary international airport serving Chicago, Illinois, United States, located on the city's Northwest Side, approximately 17 miles (27…
During takeoff from O'Hare International Airport in Chicago, an engine detached from American Airlines Flight 191, causi
Awon'go Idi Amin Dada Oumee was a Ugandan military officer and politician who seized and held power as the third president of Uganda from 1971 until his overthrow in 1979. In 1971,…
Having invaded Uganda and deposed President Idi Amin, Tanzanian forces secured Uganda's western border, ending a seven-m
Jerry John Rawlings was a Ghanaian military officer, aviator, politician, and revolutionary who led the country briefly in 1979 and then from 1981 to 2001. He led a military regime…
Jerry Rawlings came to power in Ghana as chairman of the Armed Forces Revolutionary Council
William D. Stewart was an American journalist with ABC News who was murdered by Nicaraguan government National Guard ("Guardia") forces while reporting on the Nicaraguan Revolution…
Bill Stewart, an American journalist, was executed by Nicaraguan Guardia forces
The President of Afghanistan was constitutionally the head of state and head of government of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan and Commander-in-Chief of the Afghan Armed Forces.
The President of Afghanistan, Mohammad Daoud Khan, is overthrown and assassinated in a coup led by pro-communist rebels
Naomi Uemura was a Japanese adventurer who was known particularly for his solo exploits. For example, he was the first person to reach the North Pole solo, the first person to raf…
Japan's Naomi Uemura, travelling by dog sled, becomes the first person to reach the North Pole alone
Mount Everest is the highest mountain on Earth above sea level. It lies in the Mahalangur Himal sub-range of the Himalayas and marks part of the China–Nepal border at its summit. I…
The first ascent of Mount Everest without supplemental oxygen, by Reinhold Messner and Peter Habeler
Mir Akbar Khyber was an Afghan left-wing intellectual and a leader of the Parcham faction of People's Democratic Party of Afghanistan (PDPA). His assassination by an unidentified p…
Mir Akbar Khyber is assassinated, provoking the Saur Revolution in Afghanistan
John Daniel Ehrlichman was an American political aide who served as White House Counsel and Assistant to the President for Domestic Affairs under President Richard Nixon. Ehrlichma…
John Ehrlichman, a former aide to U
The Saur Revolution, also known as the April Revolution or the April Coup, was a violent coup d'état and uprising staged on 27 and 28 April 1978 by the People's Democratic Party of…
The Saur Revolution begins in Afghanistan, ending the following morning with the murder of Afghan President Mohammed Dao
The Tupolev Tu-144 is a Soviet supersonic passenger airliner designed by Tupolev that operated commercially from 1975 to 1983, including 1977–1978 passenger service.
A Tupolev Tu-144 crashes near the Russian town of Yegoryevsk, killing two
Theodore John Kaczynski, also known as the Unabomber, was an American mathematician and domestic terrorist. A mathematics prodigy, he abandoned his academic career in 1969 to pursu…
The first of a series of bombings orchestrated by the Unabomber detonates at Northwestern University resulting in minor
The Patent Cooperation Treaty (PCT) is an international patent law treaty, concluded in 1970. It provides a unified procedure for filing patent applications to protect inventions i…
The first international applications under the Patent Cooperation Treaty are filed