Explore 1298 historical events from 1970–1979.
Mitsuo Fuchida was a Japanese captain in the Imperial Japanese Navy Air Service and a bomber observer in the Imperial Japanese Navy before and during World War II. He is perhaps b…
Mitsuo Fuchida, Japanese captain (born 1902)
Jacques Lucien Monod was a French biochemist. He shared the 1965 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with François Jacob and André Lwoff "for their discoveries concerning genetic…
Jacques Monod, French biologist and geneticist, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1910)
Lieutenant-Colonel Kenneth Mason MC was a British soldier and explorer notable as the first statutory professor of Geography at the University of Oxford. His work surveying the Him…
Kenneth Mason, English soldier and geographer (born 1887)
Juan José Torres González was a Bolivian socialist politician and military leader who served as the 50th president of Bolivia from 1970 to 1971, when he was ousted in a coup that r…
Juan José Torres, Bolivian general and politician, 61st President of Bolivia (born 1920)
The Ramones were an American punk rock band formed in the New York City neighborhood Forest Hills, Queens in 1974. Known for helping establish the punk movement in the United State…
The American band the Ramones released their debut album, which became highly influential on the emerging punk rock move
The 1976 Friuli earthquake, also known in Italy as Terremoto del Friuli, occurred on 6 May 1976, at 21:00:13 with a moment magnitude of 6.5 and a maximum EMS intensity of X. The sh…
An earthquake struck Northern Italy, killing 990 people and injuring up to 3,000
The Great American Revolution is a steel roller coaster located at Six Flags Magic Mountain in Valencia, California, United States. Manufactured by Anton Schwarzkopf and designed b…
Great American Revolution, the first steel coaster with a vertical loop, opened at Six Flags Magic Mountain, California
A wine competition is an organized event in which trained judges or consumers competitively rate different vintages, categories, and/or brands of wine. Wine competitions generally …
In a wine competition in Paris (wine bottle pictured), French judges shocked the wine industry by rating California wine
Sony Group Corporation, commonly referred to as Sony, is a Japanese multinational conglomerate headquartered at Sony City in Minato, Tokyo, Japan. The Sony Group encompasses variou…
Sony introduces the Betamax videocassette recorder
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…
Junko Tabei from Japan becomes the first woman to reach the summit of Mount Everest
On 27 May 1975, a coach carrying elderly passengers crashed at the bottom of a steep hill at Dibble's Bridge over the River Dibb, near Hebden in North Yorkshire, England. Thirty-th…
Dibbles Bridge coach crash near Grassington, in North Yorkshire, England, kills 33 – the highest ever death toll in a ro
Brampton Centennial Secondary School (BCSS) is a public high school located in Brampton, Ontario, Canada and is part of the Peel District School Board. In September 2008, BCSS had …
At Brampton Centennial Secondary School, student Michael Slobodian kills two people and injures 13 others before committ
The European Space Agency (ESA), pronounced 'ee-sah', is a 23-member international organisation devoted to space exploration. It has its headquarters in Paris and a staff of around…
European Space Agency is established
The governor of California is the head of government of the U.S. state of California. The governor is the commander-in-chief of the California National Guard and the California Sta…
Governor of California Jerry Brown signs the California Agricultural Labor Relations Act into law, the first law in the
The Cambodian Civil War was a civil war in Cambodia fought between the Khmer Rouge, supported by North Vietnam and China, against the government of the Kingdom of Cambodia and, aft…
The Cambodian Civil War ends and the Cambodian Genocide begins
India, officially the Republic of India, is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by area; the most populous country since 2023; and, since its independence in…
India's first satellite Aryabhata launched in orbit from Kapustin Yar, Russia
The Army of the Republic of Vietnam composed the ground forces of the South Vietnamese military from its inception in 1955 to the fall of Saigon on 30 April 1975. Its predecessor w…
South Vietnamese forces withdraw from the town of Xuan Loc in the last major battle of the Vietnam War
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: President of South Vietnam Nguyễn Văn Thiệu flees Saigon, as Xuân Lộc, the last South Vietnamese outpost bl
Cao Văn Viên was a four-star army general in the Army of the Republic of Vietnam during the Vietnam War. He rose to the position of Chairman of the South Vietnamese Joint General S…
General Cao Văn Viên, chief of the South Vietnamese military, departs for the US as the North Vietnamese Army closes in
Heidi Alexander is a British politician who has served as Secretary of State for Transport since November 2024. A member of the Labour Party, she has been the Member of Parliament …
Heidi Alexander, English politician
Travis Matthew Roy was an American college ice hockey player, author and philanthropist.
Travis Roy, American ice hockey player (died 2020)
Jason Neil Gillespie is an Australian cricket coach and former international cricketer who played all three formats of the game. A right-arm fast bowler, he was also a competent lo…
Jason Gillespie, Australian cricketer and coach
Bobby T. Shaw II is an American former professional football player who was a wide receiver in the National Football League (NFL). He played college football for the California Gol…
Bobby Shaw, American football player
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…
Vietnam War: Operation Frequent Wind: The U