Explore 6419 historical events from 1970–1979.
Vernon Charles Kay is an English broadcaster and former model. He presented Channel 4's T4 (2000–2005) and has presented various television shows for ITV and BBC, including All Sta…
Vernon Kay, English radio and television host
Dominic Matteo is a Scottish former professional footballer who played as a defender and midfielder in a 17-year professional career from 1992 to 2009. He made a total of 366 leagu…
Dominic Matteo, Scottish footballer and journalist
Christian Tamminga is a retired Dutch athlete who specialised in the pole vault. His biggest success was the sixth place at the 2001 World Championships.
Christian Tamminga, Dutch athlete
Sir Anthony Peter McCoy, commonly known as AP McCoy or Tony McCoy, is a Northern Irish former National Hunt horse racing jockey. Based in Ireland and Britain, McCoy rode a record 4…
Tony McCoy, Northern Irish jockey and sportscaster
Breckin Meyer is an American actor and podcaster. He is best known for his work on the Adult Swim animated sketch series Robot Chicken, which has earned him two Annie Awards and fi…
Breckin Meyer, American actor, writer, and producer
Yuk Young-soo was the wife of the 3rd South Korean president Park Chung Hee and the mother of the 11th South Korean president Park Geun-hye. She was the first lady when Park was in…
Yuk Young-soo, First Lady of South Korea, is killed during an apparent assassination attempt upon President Park Chung…
Belgrade is the capital and historic largest city of Serbia. It is located at the confluence of the Sava and Danube rivers and at the crossroads of the Pannonian Plain and the Balk…
A Belgrade–Dortmund express train derails at the main train station in Zagreb killing 153 passengers.
The 1974 Mitsubishi Heavy Industries bombing was a terrorist bombing of the Mitsubishi Heavy Industries headquarters in Tokyo, Japan, on 30 August 1974, killing eight people and in…
A powerful bomb explodes at the Mitsubishi Heavy Industries headquarters in Marunouchi, Tokyo. Eight are killed, 378…
The first ever World Population Conference was held at the Salle Centrale, Geneva, Switzerland, from 29 August to 3 September 1927. Organized by the forerunner of the United Nation…
The Third World Population Conference ends in Bucharest, Romania. At the end of the ceremony, the UN-Romanian…
The Lockheed SR-71 "Blackbird" is a retired long-range, high-altitude, Mach 3+ strategic reconnaissance aircraft that was developed and manufactured by the American aerospace compa…
The SR-71 Blackbird sets (and holds) the record for flying from New York to London in the time of one hour, 54 minutes…
The Watergate scandal, or simply Watergate, was a political scandal in the United States involving the administration of President Richard Nixon. On June 17, 1972, operatives assoc…
Watergate scandal: US President Gerald Ford signs the pardon of Richard Nixon for any crimes Nixon may have committed…
Korey Damont Stringer was an American professional football offensive tackle who played in the National Football League (NFL) for six seasons. He played college football for the Oh…
Korey Stringer, American football player (died 2001)
Stanley Gene is a Papua New Guinean former rugby league Kumul player and Assistant Coach of Hull F.C. He previously coached Gateshead Thunder and assistant coach at Hull Kingston R…
Stanley Gene, Papua New Guinean rugby league player
Eastern Air Lines Flight 212 was a scheduled domestic passenger flight from Charleston Municipal Airport, South Carolina to Chicago O'Hare, Illinois, with an intermediate stop in C…
Eastern Air Lines Flight 212 crashes in Charlotte, North Carolina, killing 69 passengers and two crew.
Bangladesh, officially the People's Republic of Bangladesh, is a country in South Asia. It is the eighth-most populous country in the world with a population of almost 177.8 millio…
Bangladesh, Grenada and Guinea-Bissau join the United Nations.
Hurricane Fifi, later known as Hurricane Orlene, was a catastrophic tropical cyclone that killed over 8,000 people in Honduras in September 1974, ranking it as the third deadliest …
Hurricane Fifi strikes Honduras with 110 mph winds, killing 5,000 people.
The Provisional Irish Republican Army, officially known as the Irish Republican Army and informally known as the Provos, was an Irish republican paramilitary force that sought to e…
Bombs planted by the PIRA in pubs in Guildford kill four British soldiers and one civilian.
Franklin National Bank was a bank based in Franklin Square on Long Island, New York. It was once the United States' 20th largest bank. On October 8, 1974, it collapsed in obscure c…
Franklin National Bank collapses due to fraud and mismanagement; at the time it is the largest bank failure in the…
Sylvain Claude Wiltord is a French former professional footballer. Mainly a right winger, he also played as a centre-forward, second striker and on the left wing.
Sylvain Wiltord, French footballer
Vasilis Kikilias is a Greek politician, currently Minister of Maritime Affairs and Insular Policy in the second cabinet of Kyriakos Mitsotakis.
Vasilis Kikilias, Greek basketball player and politician
Matthew David Sadler is an English chess grandmaster, chess writer and two-time British Chess Champion.
Matthew Sadler, English chess player and author
Marko Tredup is a German former professional footballer who played as a right-back.
Marko Tredup, German footballer and manager
Ahmet Emuukha Rodan Zappa is an American musician, writer, actor and trustee of the Zappa Family Trust.
Ahmet Zappa, American musician and writer
Edgar Howard Wright is an English filmmaker. He is known for his fast-paced and kinetic, satirical genre films, which feature extensive use of expressive popular music, Steadicam t…
Edgar Wright, English filmmaker