Explore 6419 historical events from 1970–1979.
Junko Tabei was a Japanese mountaineer, author and teacher. She was the first woman to reach the summit of Mount Everest and ascend the Seven Summits, climbing the highest peak on…
Japanese climber Junko Tabei (pictured) became the first woman to reach the summit of Mount Everest
Stanley Joseph Forman is an American photojournalist who won the Pulitzer Prize for Spot News Photography two years in a row while working at the Boston Herald.
Stanley Forman (pictured) took the Pulitzer Prize–winning photo Fire Escape Collapse, which spurred action to improve…
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: North Vietnam concluded its East Sea Campaign by capturing all of the Spratly Islands held by South Vietnam
Operation Frequent Wind was the final phase in the evacuation of American civilians and "at-risk" Vietnamese from Saigon, South Vietnam, before the takeover of the city by the Nort…
American forces completed a helicopter evacuation of U
The Mayaguez incident took place between Kampuchea and the United States from 12 to 15 May 1975, less than a month after the Khmer Rouge took control of the capital Phnom Penh oust…
The Cambodian navy seized the American container ship SS Mayaguez in what they claimed to be Cambodian territorial water
A bus is a motor vehicle that carries significantly more passengers than an average car or van, but fewer than the average rail transport. It is most commonly used in public transp…
The deadliest road accident in England took place when the brakes on a coach failed and it crashed in North Yorkshire, k
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…
American labor-union leader Jimmy Hoffa disappeared after last being seen outside a restaurant near Detroit.
The Timorese Democratic Union is a conservative political party in Timor-Leste. It was the first party to be established in the country on 11 May 1974, following the Carnation Revo…
The Timorese Democratic Union launched a coup in Portuguese Timor, starting the East Timorese civil war.
Bruce Frederick Joseph Springsteen is an American singer, songwriter, and musician. Nicknamed "the Boss", Springsteen has released 21 studio albums spanning six decades; most featu…
Bruce Springsteen released his commercial breakthrough album, Born to Run.
Edmund Gerald Brown Jr. is an American lawyer, author, and politician who served as the 34th and 39th governor of California from 1975 to 1983 and 2011 to 2019. A member of the Dem…
Governor Jerry Brown signed the California Agricultural Labor Relations Act, one of the first laws in the United States
The 1975 Cricket World Cup was the inaugural men's Cricket World Cup, and the first major tournament in the history of One Day International (ODI) cricket. Organised by the Interna…
The inaugural edition of the Cricket World Cup, the premier international championship of men's One Day International cr
Steven Allan Spielberg is an American filmmaker. A major figure of the New Hollywood era and pioneer of the modern blockbuster, Spielberg is widely regarded as one of the greatest …
Steven Spielberg's film Jaws was released; it became a summer blockbuster and the first film to earn $100 million in U
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: In a botched paramilitary attack, three members of the popular Miami Showband and two Ulster Volunteer…
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 (aircraft involved pictured) struck a mountain peak and crashed near Agadir, Morocco,…
Duncan "Dougal" Curdy MacSporran Haston was a Scottish mountaineer noted for his exploits in the British Isles, Alps, and the Himalayas. From 1967 he was the director of the Intern…
Dougal Haston and Doug Scott of the Southwest Face expedition became the first people to reach the summit of Mount…
The Mikoyan MiG-31 is a supersonic interceptor aircraft developed for the Soviet Air Forces by the Mikoyan design bureau as a replacement for the MiG-25 "Foxbat", on which it is ba…
The prototype of the Soviet Mikoyan MiG-31, one of the fastest combat jets in the world, made its maiden flight.
Sara Jane Moore was an American accountant and FBI informant who attempted to assassinate U.S. president Gerald Ford in 1975.
Sara Jane Moore attempted to assassinate U.S. president Gerald Ford, but failed due to unfamiliarity with her weapon.
The Rocky Horror Picture Show is a 1975 musical comedy film produced by Lou Adler and Michael White, directed by Jim Sharman, and distributed by 20th Century Fox. The film is based…
The Rocky Horror Picture Show premiered in London, the first in its record-breaking run in cinemas, which continues in…
Lynette Alice "Squeaky" Fromme is an American former member of the Manson Family, a cult led by Charles Manson. Though not involved in the Tate–LaBianca murders for which the Manso…
Squeaky Fromme (pictured), a devotee of Charles Manson, attempted to assassinate U.S. president Gerald Ford in…
ETA political-military (Spanish: ETA político-militar, Basque: ETA politiko-militarra) or ETA (pm) was the majority faction of the Basque revolutionary armed organization ETA who, …
Two members of ETA political-military and three members of the Revolutionary Antifascist Patriotic Front, sentenced to…
Knightsbridge is a residential and retail district in central London, south of Hyde Park. It is identified in the London Plan as one of two international retail centres in London, …
An attempted robbery of Spaghetti House, a restaurant in Knightsbridge, London, turned into a six-day hostage situation.
The Hughes/McDonnell Douglas/Boeing AH-64 Apache is an American twin-turboshaft attack helicopter with a tailwheel-type landing gear and a tandem cockpit for a crew of two. Nose-mo…
The Boeing AH-64 Apache (example pictured), the primary attack helicopter for a number of countries, made its first…
Muhammad Ali was an American professional boxer and activist. A global cultural icon, widely known by the nickname "the Greatest", he is often regarded as the greatest heavyweight …
In boxing, Muhammad Ali defeated Joe Frazier in a match known as the "Thrilla in Manila".
The gender pay gap or gender wage gap is the average difference between the remuneration for men and women who are employed. In most countries, women are paid less than men for the…
In protest against wage discrepancy and unfair employment practices, 90 percent of Iceland's female population went on…