Explore 4925 historical events from 1970–1979.
Amanda Sage is an American painter who has studied and worked in Vienna, Austria, and Los Angeles, California. She trained and worked with Ernst and Michael Fuchs, a classical arti…
Amanda Sage, American-Austrian painter and educator
The Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS) is the highest court in the federal judiciary of the United States. It has ultimate appellate jurisdiction over all U.S. federal cou…
The United States Supreme Court, in Regents of the University of California v
The Northern Territory is an Australian internal territory in the central and central-northern regions of Australia. The Northern Territory shares its borders with Western Australi…
The Northern Territory in Australia is granted self-government.
Solomon Islands, also known simply as the Solomons, is an archipelagic country consisting of six major islands and over 1,000 smaller islands in Melanesia, Oceania, to the north-ea…
The Solomon Islands becomes independent from the United Kingdom.
Moktar Ould Daddah was a Mauritanian politician who served as the country's first President after it gained its independence from France. Moktar served as the country's first Prime…
President Moktar Ould Daddah of Mauritania is ousted in a bloodless coup d'état.
The Los Alfaques disaster was caused by the explosion of a road tanker near a holiday campsite on 11 July 1978 in Alcanar, Spain. The exploding tanker, which was carrying 23 tons o…
Los Alfaques disaster: A truck carrying liquid gas crashes and explodes at a coastal campsite in Tarragona, Spain…
Carl Gary Greenidge is an English cricketer. He is a right-handed batsman and a right-arm medium-fast bowler. He was born in Basingstoke, Hampshire, the son of Gordon Greenidge.
Carl Greenidge, English cricketer
Paul Malakwen Kosgei is a Kenyan long-distance and marathon runner. He first came to prominence in athletics by taking the World Junior Record of 3000m steeple in 1997, and later w…
Paul Malakwen Kosgei, Kenyan runner and coach
Gezahegne Abera is an Ethiopian athlete and winner of the marathon race at the 2000 Summer Olympics.
Gezahegne Abera, Ethiopian runner
Diego Jesús Quintana is an Argentine footballer who spent his career mostly playing for Skoda Xanthi in Greece.
Diego Quintana, Argentine footballer
Matthew "Matt" Benedict Walker MBE is a British swimmer who has participated in four Paralympic Games, winning eleven medals. He competes in the S7, SM7 (medley) and SB7 (breaststr…
Matt Walker, English swimmer
Puerto Rico, officially the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, is a self-governing Caribbean archipelago and island organized as an unincorporated territory of the United States under th…
Puerto Rican police shoot two nationalists in the Cerro Maravilla murders.
James Earl Carter Jr. was an American politician and humanitarian who served as the 39th president of the United States from 1977 to 1981. A member of the Democratic Party, Carter …
U.S. President Jimmy Carter declares a federal emergency at Love Canal due to toxic waste that had been disposed of…
Palestinians are an Arab national group native to the region of Palestine, descended from those who have inhabited the area over the millennia. They represent a highly homogenized …
One hundred fifty Palestinians in Beirut are killed in a terrorist attack during the second phase of the Lebanese…
Double Eagle II, piloted by Ben Abruzzo, Maxie Anderson and Larry Newman, became the first balloon to cross the Atlantic Ocean when it landed on 17 August 1978 in Miserey near Pari…
Double Eagle II becomes first balloon to cross the Atlantic Ocean when it lands in Miserey, France near Paris, 137…
The Cinema Rex fire occurred on 19 August 1978 when the Cinema Rex in Abadan, Iran, was set ablaze, killing between 377 and 470 people. The event started when four individuals, who…
In Iran, the Cinema Rex fire causes more than 300 deaths.
The District of Columbia Voting Rights Amendment was a proposed amendment to the United States Constitution that would have given the District of Columbia full representation in th…
The District of Columbia Voting Rights Amendment is passed by the U.S. Congress, although it is never ratified by a…
Stana Katić is a Canadian and American actress. She played Kate Beckett on the ABC television romantic crime series Castle (2009–2016) and FBI Special Agent Emily Byrne in the psyc…
Stana Katic, Canadian actress
Peter Planch Madsen is a Danish former professional footballer who played as a striker.
Peter Madsen, Danish footballer
Lauren Cecilia Fisher, known professionally as Lauren Laverne, is an English radio and television presenter, author and singer. She was the lead singer and guitarist in the alterna…
Lauren Laverne, English singer and television and radio host
Tyler Labine is a Canadian actor. He is best known for starring in the film Tucker & Dale vs. Evil, the television series Breaker High, Invasion, Reaper, Deadbeat and as Dr. Iggy F…
Tyler Labine, Canadian actor and comedian
The Rhodesian Bush War, also known as the Rhodesian Civil War, the Second Chimurenga or the Zimbabwe War of Independence, was a civil conflict from July 1964 to December 1979 in th…
During the Rhodesian Bush War a group of ZIPRA guerrillas shot down civilian Vickers Viscount aircraft (Air Rhodesia…
The Camp David Accords were a pair of political agreements signed by Egyptian president Anwar Sadat and Israeli prime minister Menachem Begin on 17 September 1978, following twelve…
Camp David Accords: Menachem Begin and Anwar Sadat begin peace discussions at Camp David, Maryland.
Georgi Ivanov Markov was a Bulgarian dissident writer. He worked as a novelist, screenwriter and playwright in his native country, the People's Republic of Bulgaria, until his defe…
While walking across Waterloo Bridge in London, Bulgarian dissident Georgi Markov is assassinated by Bulgarian secret…