Explore 2973 historical events from 1970–1979.
August William Derleth was an American writer and anthologist. He was the first book publisher of the writings of H. P. Lovecraft. He made contributions to the Cthulhu Mythos and t…
August Derleth, American anthologist and author (born 1909)
Louis Daniel Armstrong, nicknamed "Satchmo", "Satch", and "Pops", was an American jazz and blues trumpeter and vocalist. Among the most influential figures in jazz, his career span…
Louis Armstrong, American singer and trumpet player (born 1901)
Claude Gauvreau was a playwright, poet, sound poet, and polemicist. He was a member of the radical Automatist movement and a contributor to the revolutionary Refus Global Manifesto…
Claude Gauvreau, Canadian poet and playwright (born 1925)
Kurt Werner Friedrich Reidemeister was a mathematician born in Braunschweig (Brunswick), Germany.
Kurt Reidemeister, German mathematician connected to the Vienna Circle (born 1893)
Karl Ast was an Estonian writer and politician.
Karl Ast, Estonian author and politician (born 1886)
Laurent Dauthuille was a French boxer.
Laurent Dauthuille, French boxer (born 1924)
Pedro Rodríguez de la Vega was a Mexican racing driver, who competed in Formula One from 1963 to 1971. Rodríguez won two Formula One Grands Prix across nine seasons. In endurance r…
Pedro Rodríguez, Mexican racing driver (born 1940)
Yvon Robert, nicknamed "The Lion", was a Canadian professional wrestler.
Yvon Robert, Canadian wrestler (born 1914)
Emmett Evan "Van" Heflin Jr. was an American theatre, radio, and film actor. He played mostly character parts over the course of his film career, but during the 1940s had a string …
Van Heflin, American actor (born 1910)
John Wood Campbell Jr. was an American science fiction writer and editor. He was editor of Astounding Science Fiction from late 1937 until his death and was part of the Golden Age …
John W. Campbell, American journalist and author (born 1910)
Edward John Meyers was an American freestyle swimmer and water polo player for the Missouri Athletic Club who won a bronze medal for the U.S. in the 1904 Summer Olympics in St. Lou…
John Meyers, American swimmer and water polo player (born 1880)
Leroy Robertson was an American composer and music educator.
Leroy Robertson, American composer and educator (born 1896)
Diane Arbus was an American photographer. She photographed a wide range of subjects including strippers, carnival performers, nudists, people with dwarfism, children, mothers, coup…
Diane Arbus, American photographer and academic (born 1923)
Charles Patrick Tully was a Northern Irish football player and manager who played for Celtic.
Charlie Tully, Irish footballer and manager (born 1924)
Colonel Lawrence Vincent Moore Cosgrave, was a Canadian soldier, author, diplomat and trade commissioner. He was the Canadian signatory to the Japanese Instrument of Surrender at t…
Lawrence Moore Cosgrave, Canadian colonel and diplomat (born 1890)
Myril Oliver Hoag was an American professional baseball player. An outfielder, Hoag played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the New York Yankees, St. Louis Browns, Chicago White …
Myril Hoag, American baseball player (born 1908)
Charles Ernest Pont was an American artist and Baptist minister. Although his ministerial career was not particularly noteworthy, he was a prolific artist in many media including w…
Charles E. Pont, French-American minister and painter (born 1898)
Thomas Tuke Hollway was the 36th Premier of Victoria, and the first to be born in the 20th century. He held office from 1947 to 1950, and again for a short period in 1952. He was o…
Thomas Hollway, Australian politician, 36th Premier of Victoria (born 1906)
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…
Salyut 1, the first space station, was launched from the Baikonur Cosmodrome near Tyuratam in the Soviet Union
The Doors were an American rock band formed in Los Angeles in 1965, comprising vocalist Jim Morrison, keyboardist Ray Manzarek, guitarist Robby Krieger, and drummer John Densmore. …
The Doors (pictured) released L
The Rolling Stones are an English rock band formed in London in 1962. Active for over six decades, they are one of the most popular, influential, and enduring bands of the rock era…
The Rolling Stones released Sticky Fingers, the first album on their own label, Rolling Stones Records
Erich Ernst Paul Honecker was a German communist politician who led the German Democratic Republic from 1971 until shortly before the fall of the Berlin Wall in November 1989. He h…
Erich Honecker became First Secretary of the Socialist Unity Party of Germany, the governing party of East Germany
Hughes Airwest Flight 706 was a regularly scheduled flight operated by American domestic airline Hughes Airwest from Los Angeles, California, to Seattle, Washington, with several i…
Hughes Airwest Flight 706 collided with a US Marine Corps jet near Duarte, California, killing 50 people
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: Australian forces attacked a heavily fortified North Vietnamese base camp at the Battle of Long Khánh