Explore 4925 historical events from 1970–1979.
John George Diefenbaker was the 13th prime minister of Canada, serving from 1957 to 1963. He was the only Progressive Conservative party leader between 1935 and 1979 to lead the pa…
John Diefenbaker, Canadian lawyer and politician, 13th Prime Minister of Canada (born 1895)
John C. Allen was a roller coaster designer who was responsible for the revival of wooden roller coasters which began in the 1960s. He attended Drexel University. He started workin…
John C. Allen, American roller coaster designer (born 1907)
Vivian Vance was an American actress best known for playing landlady Ethel Mertz on the sitcom I Love Lucy (1951–1957), for which she won the 1953 Primetime Emmy Award for Outstand…
Vivian Vance, American actress and singer (born 1909)
Vasantrao Phulsingh Naik was an Indian politician, social reformer and Pioneer of Green, White Revolution and Guarantee Employment Scheme. He served as the Chief Minister of Mahara…
Vasantrao Naik, Indian politician (born 1913)
Christian Dotremont,, was a Belgian painter and poet who was born in Tervuren, Belgium. He was a founding member of the Revolutionary Surrealist Group (1946) and he also founded CO…
Christian Dotremont, Belgian painter and poet (born 1922)
Giuseppe Meazza was an Italian football manager and player. Throughout his career, he played mainly for Inter Milan in the 1930s, scoring 284 goals in 408 games for the club, and w…
Giuseppe Meazza, Italian footballer and manager (born 1910)
James Thomas Farrell was an American novelist, short story writer and poet.
James T. Farrell, American novelist, short-story writer, and poet (born 1904)
Hanna Reitsch was a German aviator and test pilot. Reitsch was among the very last people to meet Adolf Hitler before his suicide in the Führerbunker in April 1945. Following her c…
Hanna Reitsch, German soldier and pilot (born 1912)
Stanley Newcomb Kenton was an American popular music and jazz artist. As a pianist, composer, arranger and band leader, he led an innovative and influential jazz orchestra for almo…
Stan Kenton, American pianist, composer, and bandleader (born 1911)
Mika Toimi Waltari was a Finnish writer, best known for his best-selling novel The Egyptian. He was extremely productive; Besides his novels he also wrote poetry, short stories, cr…
Mika Waltari, Finnish author, translator, and academic (born 1908)
Louis Francis Albert Victor Nicholas Mountbatten, 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma, commonly known as Lord Mountbatten, was a British statesman, naval officer, and member of the Briti…
Louis Mountbatten, 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma, English admiral and politician, 44th Governor-General of India (born…
Gertrude Chandler Warner was an American author, mainly of children's stories. She was most famous for writing the original book of The Boxcar Children and for the next 18 books in…
Gertrude Chandler Warner, American author and educator (born 1890)
Jean Dorothy Seberg was an American actress. She is considered an icon of the French New Wave as a result of her performance in Jean-Luc Godard's 1960 film Breathless.
Jean Seberg, American actress (born 1938)
Sally Rand was an American burlesque dancer, stripper, vedette, and actress, famous for her ostrich-feather fan dance and balloon bubble dance. She also performed under the name Bi…
Sally Rand, American actress and dancer (born 1904)
Ernest James "Tiger" Smith was an English wicket-keeper who played in 11 Tests from 1911/1912 to 1914. In county cricket, he had a much longer career as the successor to Dick Lille…
Tiger Smith, English cricketer and coach (born 1886)
Otto Paul Weyland was a United States Air Force (USAF) general and the post-World War II Commander of Far East Air Forces during the Korean War and of Tactical Air Command.
Otto P. Weyland, American general (born 1903)
Alberto di Jorio was a cardinal of the Catholic Church and for many years along with the layman Bernardino Nogara the powerhouse behind the growing wealth of the Vatican and the Is…
Alberto di Jorio, Italian cardinal (born 1884)
Ronald Binge was a British composer and arranger of light music. He arranged many of Mantovani's most famous pieces before composing his own music, which included Elizabethan Seren…
Ronald Binge, English organist and composer (born 1910)
Ivor Armstrong Richards CH, known as I. A. Richards, was an English educator, literary critic, poet, and rhetorician. His work contributed to the foundations of New Criticism, a fo…
I. A. Richards, English literary critic and rhetorician (born 1893)
Norman William "Norrie" Paramor was a British record producer, composer, arranger, pianist, bandleader, and orchestral conductor. He is best known for his work with Cliff Richard a…
Norrie Paramor, English composer, conductor, and producer (born 1914)
Nur Muhammad Taraki was an Afghan communist politician, revolutionary, journalist and writer. He was a founding member of the People's Democratic Party of Afghanistan (PDPA) who se…
Nur Muhammad Taraki, Afghan journalist and politician, 3rd President of Afghanistan (born 1917)
Ludvík Svoboda was a Czech general and politician. He fought in both World Wars, for which he was regarded as a national hero, and he later served as the president of Czechoslovaki…
Ludvík Svoboda, Czech general and politician, 8th President of Czechoslovakia (born 1895)
António Agostinho Neto Kilamba was an Angolan communist revolutionary, politician and poet. He served as the first president of Angola from 1975 to 1979, after leading the Popular …
Agostinho Neto, Angolan politician, 1st President of Angola (born 1922)
Clement Blair Peach was a New Zealand teacher who was killed during an anti-racism demonstration in Southall, London, England. A campaigner and activist against the far right, in A…
Blair Peach, a New Zealand teacher, was fatally injured while taking part in an Anti-Nazi League demonstration against a