Explore 6419 historical events from 1970–1979.
'Salem's Lot is a 1975 American horror novel by author Stephen King. It was his second published novel. The story involves a writer named Ben Mears who returns to the town of Jerus…
'Salem's Lot, an American vampire novel by Stephen King, is published.
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…
Venera 9, manufacturer's designation: 4V-1 No. 660, was a Soviet uncrewed space mission to Venus. It consisted of an orbiter and a lander. It was launched on June 8, 1975, at 02:38…
The Soviet uncrewed space mission Venera 9 lands on Venus.
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
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…
The Helsinki Final Act, also known as Helsinki Accords or Helsinki Declaration, was the document signed at the closing meeting of the third phase of the Conference on Security and …
The final act of the CSCE meeting is signed in Helsinki, Finland.
The Boeing 707 is an early American long-range narrow-body airliner, the first jetliner developed and produced by Boeing Commercial Airplanes. Developed from the Boeing 367-80 pro…
A privately chartered Boeing 707 strikes a mountain peak and crashes near Agadir, Morocco, killing 188.
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…
The Japanese Red Army takes more than 50 hostages at the AIA Building housing several embassies in Kuala Lumpur,…
Timor-Leste, also known as East Timor, officially the Democratic Republic of Timor-Leste, is a country in Southeast Asia. It comprises the eastern half of the island of Timor, the …
East Timor: Governor Mário Lemos Pires of Portuguese Timor abandons the capital Dili, following a coup by the Timorese…
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)
Edward Gough Whitlam was the 21st prime minister of Australia, serving from December 1972 to November 1975. To date the longest-serving federal leader of the Australian Labor Party…
Australian Prime Minister Gough Whitlam symbolically hands over land to the Gurindji people after the eight-year Wave…
The Viking program consisted of a pair of identical American space probes, Viking 1 and Viking 2 both launched in 1975, and landed on Mars in 1976. The mission effort began in 1968…
Viking program: NASA launches the Viking 1 planetary probe toward Mars.
ČSA Flight 540 was a regularly scheduled international flight from Prague, Czechoslovakia to Tehran, Iran via Damascus, Syria and Baghdad, Iraq. On 20 August 1975, the flight, oper…
ČSA Flight 540 crashes on approach to Damascus International Airport in Damascus, Syria, killing 126 people.
The Wave Hill walk-off, also known as the Gurindji strike, was a walk-off and strike by 200 Gurindji stockmen, house servants and their families, starting on 23 August 1966 and …
The start of the Wave Hill walk-off by Gurindji people in Australia, lasting eight years, a landmark event in the…