Explore 5304 historical events from 1970–1979.
James Marshall "Jimi" Hendrix was an American guitarist, singer, and songwriter. He is widely regarded as one of the greatest and most influential guitarists of all time. He was in…
Jimi Hendrix, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer (born 1942)
Erich Maria Remarque was a German novelist. His 1928 landmark novel All Quiet on the Western Front, which was based on his experience in the Imperial German Army during World War I…
Erich Maria Remarque, German-Swiss author and translator (born 1898)
Gamal Abdel Nasser Hussein was an Egyptian military officer and revolutionary who served as the second president of Egypt from 1954 until his death in 1970. Nasser led the Egyptian…
Gamal Abdel Nasser, Egyptian colonel and politician, 2nd President of Egypt (born 1918)
Edward Everett Horton, Jr. was an American character actor and comedian. He had a long career in film, theater, radio, television, and voice work for animated cartoons.
Edward Everett Horton, American actor (born 1886)
Gilbert Vivian Seldes was an American writer and cultural critic. Seldes served as the editor and drama critic of the seminal modernist magazine The Dial and hosted the NBC televis…
Gilbert Seldes, American writer and cultural critic (born 1893)
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 Glastonbury Festival of Contemporary Performing Arts is a five-day festival of contemporary performing arts held near Pilton, Somerset, England, in most summers.
The first Glastonbury Festival was held at Michael Eavis's farm in Glastonbury, England.
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…
Jonathan Peter Jackson was an American militant activist who died of gunshot wounds sustained during an armed invasion of the Marin County Civic Center. The action was initiated to…
Jonathan Jackson took hostages in a courthouse in Marin County, California, to coerce the release of the Soledad…
Betty Friedan was an American feminist writer and activist. A leading figure in the women's movement in the United States, her 1963 book The Feminine Mystique is often credited wit…
Betty Friedan and the National Organization for Women organized the Women's Strike for Equality in New York City, in…
Black September, also known as the Jordanian Civil War, was an armed conflict between Jordan, led by King Hussein, and the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO), led by chairman …
Black September: The Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine hijacked four airliners, landing two at Dawson's…
Amman is the capital and the largest city of Jordan, and the country's economic, political, and cultural center. With a population of five million as of 2024, Amman is Jordan's pri…
The Jordanian army entered Amman as part of operations to oust Palestinian fedayeen from the country in events later…
Kostas Georgakis was a Greek student studying geology in Italy. On 26 July 1970, while in Italy, he gave an interview denouncing the dictatorial regime of Georgios Papadopoulos. Th…
Greek student Kostas Georgakis set himself on fire in Genoa, Italy, as a protest against the military junta of…
The 1970 Italian Grand Prix was a Formula One motor race held at the Autodromo Nazionale di Monza on 6 September 1970. It was race 10 of 13 in both the 1970 World Championship of D…
During the practice session of the Italian Grand Prix at Monza Circuit, Jochen Rindt was killed and subsequently…