Explore 6419 historical events from 1970–1979.
Eugene Bertram Krupa was an American jazz drummer, bandleader, and composer. Krupa is widely regarded as one of the most influential drummers in the history of popular music. His d…
Gene Krupa, American drummer, composer, and actor (born 1909)
Ludwig Heinrich von Mises was an Austrian and American political economist and philosopher of the Austrian school. Mises wrote and lectured extensively on the social contributions …
Ludwig von Mises, Ukrainian-American economist and sociologist (born 1881)
Avraham Albert Mandler was an Israeli major general. His journey to the then British Mandate of Palestine started from having been expelled at age 10 from his school in Linz, Austr…
Albert Mandler, Austrian-Israeli general (born 1929)
Edmund Albert Chester Sr. was an American television executive and journalist. He served as a vice president and executive at the CBS radio and television networks during the 1940s…
Edmund A. Chester, American journalist and broadcaster (born 1897)
Ingeborg Bachmann was an Austrian poet and author. She is regarded as one of the major voices of German-language literature in the 20th century. In 1963, she was nominated for the …
Ingeborg Bachmann, Austrian author and poet (born 1926)
Margaret Caroline Anderson was the American founder, editor and publisher of the art and literary magazine The Little Review, which published a collection of modern American, Engli…
Margaret Caroline Anderson, American publisher, founded The Little Review (born 1886)
Walter Crawford Kelly Jr. was an American animator and cartoonist, best known for the comic strip Pogo. He began his animation career in 1936 at Walt Disney Productions, contributi…
Walt Kelly, American illustrator and animator (born 1913)
Norman Chandler was the publisher of the Los Angeles Times from 1945 to 1960.
Norman Chandler, American newspaper executive (born 1899)
Nasif Moisés Estéfano was a racing driver from Argentina with Lebanese ancestry. He participated in two World Championship Formula One Grands Prix, debuting on 7 February 1960, but…
Nasif Estéfano, Argentinian race car driver (born 1932)
Pablo Casals, also known by his birth name, Pau Casals i Defilló, was a Catalan cellist, composer, and conductor, born in Spain. He made many recordings throughout his career of so…
Pablo Casals, Catalan cellist and conductor (born 1876)
Leo Strauss was a German-American political philosopher and historian of philosophy whose work greatly influenced twentieth-century political theory in the United States and the st…
Leo Strauss, German-American political scientist, philosopher, and academic (born 1899)
Shambel Abebe Bikila was an Ethiopian marathon runner who was a back-to-back Olympic marathon champion. He was the first Ethiopian Olympic gold medalist, winning his first gold med…
Abebe Bikila, Ethiopian runner (born 1932)
Cleo Una Moore was an American actress, usually featured in the role of a blonde bombshell in Hollywood films of the 1950s, including seven films with Hugo Haas. She also became a …
Cleo Moore, American actress (born 1928)
Robert Scholl was a Württembergian politician and father of Hans and Sophie Scholl. Robert Scholl was a critic of the Nazi Party before, during and after the Nazi regime, and was t…
Robert Scholl, German accountant and politician (born 1891)
Semyon Mikhailovich Budyonny was a Russian and Soviet cavalryman, military commander during the Russian Civil War, Polish–Soviet War and World War II, and politician, who was a clo…
Semyon Budyonny, Marshal of the Soviet Union (born 1883)
Taha Hussein was among the most influential 20th-century Egyptian writers and intellectuals, and a leading figure of the Arab Renaissance and the modernist movement in the Arab wo…
Taha Hussein, Egyptian historian, author, and academic (born 1889)
Sergio Tòfano was an Italian actor, theatre director, playwright, scene designer and illustrator. As a comics artist, he is best-known for creating Signor Bonaventura.
Sergio Tofano, Italian actor, director, and playwright (born 1883)
Ants Lauter was an Estonian actor, theatre director and pedagogue, People's Artist of the USSR (1948). He was born in the parish of Velise within Veski, Wiek County, and died, aged…
Ants Lauter, Estonian actor and director (born 1894)
Della Aleksander (1923–2001) was a British teacher and campaigner for trans rights. She was a co-producer of an episode of the current affairs programme Open Door, which was the f…
Della Aleksander co-presented an episode of Open Door on transgender women's lives
Juvénal Habyarimana was a Rwandan politician and military officer who was the second president of Rwanda, from 1973 until his assassination in 1994. He was nicknamed Kinani, a Kiny…
Juvénal Habyarimana (pictured) orchestrated a bloodless coup d'état of the Rwandan government and began a totalitarian…
George Walton Lucas Jr. is an American filmmaker and philanthropist. He created the Star Wars franchise and its fictional universe, the Indiana Jones franchise, and founded Lucasfi…
George Lucas began writing a 13-page film treatment that later formed the basis of Star Wars
The Dark Side of the Moon is the eighth studio album by the English progressive rock band Pink Floyd, released on 1 March 1973 by Capitol Records in the US and on 16 March 1973 by …
The album The Dark Side of the Moon by the British progressive rock band Pink Floyd entered the Billboard Top LPs & Tape
The Paris Air Show is a trade fair and air show held in odd years at Paris–Le Bourget Airport in France. Organized by the French aerospace industry's primary representative body, t…
At the Paris Air Show, a Tupolev Tu-144 broke up in mid-air, killing all six members of its crew and eight bystanders on
Secretariat, also known as Big Red, was a champion American Thoroughbred racehorse who was the ninth winner of the American Triple Crown, setting and still holding the fastest time…
The racehorse Secretariat, of Meadow Stables (racing colors pictured), won the Belmont Stakes by 31 lengths, achieving t