Explore 2970 historical events from 1970–1979.
Chevalier Peter Bertram Cypriano Castellino de Noronha was a businessman and civil servant of Kanpur, India. He was knighted by Pope Paul VI in 1965 for his work for the Christia…
Peter de Noronha, Indian businessman, philanthropist, and civil servant (born 1897)
Robert Taschereau was a lawyer who served as the 11th Chief Justice of Canada from 1963 to 1967, as a puisne justice of the Supreme Court of Canada from 1940 to 1963, and briefly a…
Robert Taschereau, Canadian lawyer and jurist, 11th Chief Justice of Canada (born 1896)
António de Oliveira Salazar was a Portuguese dictator, academic, and economist who served as President of the Council of Ministers of Portugal from 1932 to 1968. Having come to pow…
António de Oliveira Salazar, Portuguese economist and politician, 100th Prime Minister of Portugal (born 1889)
Sir John Barbirolli was a British conductor and cellist. He is remembered above all as conductor of the Hallé Orchestra in Manchester, which he helped save from dissolution in 1943…
John Barbirolli, English cellist and conductor (born 1899)
Sir Walter Logie Forbes Murdoch, was a prominent Australian academic and essayist famous for his intelligence and wit. He was a founding professor of English and former Chancellor …
Walter Murdoch, Scottish-Australian academic (born 1874)
George Szell, originally György Széll, György Endre Széll, or Georg Szell, was an Austro-Hungarian-born American conductor, composer, and pianist. Considered one of the twentieth c…
George Szell, Hungarian-American conductor and composer (born 1897)
Western Australia (WA) is the westernmost state of Australia. It is bounded by the Indian Ocean to the north and west, the Southern Ocean to the south, the Northern Territory to th…
In response to a dispute over wheat production quotas, Leonard Casley declared his 75 km2 (29 sq mi) farm in Western Aus
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 international Patent Cooperation Treaty was signed, providing a unified procedure for filing patent applications to
The World Intellectual Property Organization is one of the 15 specialized agencies of the United Nations (UN). Pursuant to the 1967 Convention Establishing the World Intellectual P…
The World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) came into being when the WIPO Convention entered into force
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: South Vietnamese forces began the Cambodian campaign, aiming to attack North Vietnamese jungle bases
The Hard Hat Riot occurred in New York City on May 8, 1970, when around 400 construction workers and around 800 office workers attacked around 1,000 demonstrators affiliated with t…
Construction workers attacked students and others who were protesting the Vietnam War in New York City
Lubbock is a city in the U.S. state of Texas and the county seat of Lubbock County. With a population of 257,141 at the 2020 census, Lubbock is the 10th-most populous city in Texas…
Lubbock, Texas, was struck by a tornado that left 26 people dead
The Jackson State killings occurred on May 15, 1970, at Jackson State College in Jackson, Mississippi. On May 14, 1970, city and state police confronted a group of students outside…
Police opened fire during a confrontation with a group of Jackson State College students, killing two students and injur
The Kola Peninsula is a peninsula in the extreme northwest of Russia, and one of the largest peninsulas of Europe. Constituting the bulk of the territory of Murmansk Oblast, it lie…
On the Kola Peninsula in Russia, drilling began on the Kola Superdeep Borehole, which eventually reached a depth of 12,2
"The Long and Winding Road" is a song by the English rock band the Beatles from their 1970 album Let It Be. A piano ballad, it was written by Paul McCartney and credited to the Len…
"The Long and Winding Road" became the Beatles' twentieth and final number-one single on the Billboard Hot 100 chart
The Belfast Banking Company was a bank in Northern Ireland. It was established in 1827 by a merger of Batt's and Tennant's. The Belfast Banking Company operated primarily in Ulster…
The Belfast Banking Company, which issued banknotes in Northern Ireland, merged with its rival Northern Bank.
Dan-Air Flight 1903 was an unscheduled international passenger service from Manchester to Barcelona, operated by Dan Air Services Limited under contract with British tour operator …
Dan-Air Flight 1903 crashed into the slopes of the Montseny Massif in Catalonia, Spain, killing all 112 people aboard.
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: The British Army began the Falls Curfew in Belfast, Northern Ireland, which resulted in greater Irish…