Explore 6419 historical events from 1970–1979.
Robert Allen Riggle Jr. is an American actor, stand-up comedian, and retired United States Marine officer. He was born in Louisville, Kentucky, joining the Marines in 1990 and late…
Rob Riggle, American actor and comedian
Egemen Bağış is a former Turkish politician of, former member of the Turkish parliament, the former minister for EU Affairs and chief negotiator of Turkey in accession talks with t…
Egemen Bağış, Turkish politician, 1st Minister of European Union Affairs
Harold Joseph Haley was an American judge. He was a Superior Court judge in Marin County, California. He was taken hostage in his courtroom, along with several others, during the …
California judge Harold Haley is taken hostage in his courtroom and killed during an effort to free George Jackson…
LANSA Flight 502 was a Lockheed L-188A Electra operated by Líneas Aéreas Nacionales Sociedad Anónima (LANSA) which crashed shortly after takeoff from Quispiquilla Airport near Cusc…
LANSA Flight 502 crashes after takeoff from Alejandro Velasco Astete International Airport in Cusco, Peru, killing 99…
Patricia Palinkas was the first woman to have played American football professionally in a predominantly male league. She was a holder for her husband Stephen Palinkas for the Orla…
Patricia Palinkas becomes the first woman to play professionally in an American football game.
Mexican Americans are Americans of full or partial Mexican descent. In 2022, Mexican Americans made up 11.2% of the US population and 58.9% of all Hispanic Americans. In 2019, 71% …
Organized by Mexican American labor union leader César Chávez, the Salad Bowl strike, the largest farm worker strike…
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 protesters bomb Sterling Hall at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, leading to an international manhunt…
Dennis Culp is an American trombonist and singer-songwriter best known for his work with the bands Brave Saint Saturn and Five Iron Frenzy.
Dennis Culp, American singer-songwriter and trombonist
Andrew Gee is an Australian rugby league administrator and former football operations manager at the Brisbane Broncos of the NRL. Also a former player with the club, he was a Queen…
Andrew Gee, Australian rugby league player and manager
Hans Välimäki is a Finnish chef, and since 1998, was the owner of the now closed restaurant Chez Dominique. Välimäki was the chief judge of the Sub culinary show Top Chef Suomi and…
Hans Välimäki, Finnish chef and author
Tayfur Havutçu is a Turkish football manager and former professional player who was most recently the manager of Süper Lig club Kasımpaşa. He was part of the Turkey national team s…
Tayfur Havutçu, Turkish international footballer and manager
The Women's Strike for Equality took place in the United States on August 26, 1970. It celebrated the 50th anniversary of the passing of the Nineteenth Amendment, which effectively…
The fiftieth anniversary of American women being able to vote is marked by a nationwide Women's Strike for Equality.
The Chicano Moratorium, formally known as the National Chicano Moratorium Committee Against The Vietnam War, was a movement of Chicano anti-war activists that built a broad-based c…
Chicano Moratorium against the Vietnam War, East Los Angeles, California. Police riot kills three people, including…
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration is an independent agency of the U.S. federal government responsible for the United States' civil space program, as well as researc…
NASA announces the cancellation of two Apollo missions to the Moon, Apollo 15 (the designation is re-used by a later…
Aeroflot Flight 3630 was a regularly scheduled passenger flight operated by Aeroflot from Mineralnye Vody, Stavropol Krai, to Vilnius, capital of Lithuania SSR with a stop over at …
Aeroflot Flight 3630, a Tupolev Tu-124 en route from southern Russia to Lithuania, crashes after the pilots lost…
Damien William Fleming is an Australian cricket commentator and former cricketer who played for the Australian national cricket team and domestic cricket for Victoria. He played in…
Damien Fleming, Australian cricketer, coach, and sportscaster
Dean Barry Austin is an English football manager and former professional player who is head of recruitment at Coventry City.
Dean Austin, English footballer and manager
Tionne Tenese Watkins, also known by her stage name T-Boz, is an American singer and actress. Watkins rose to fame in the early 1990s as a member of the best selling girl group TLC…
Tionne "T-Boz" Watkins, American singer-songwriter, dancer, and actress
Richard James Fromberg is a former professional tennis player from Australia.
Richard Fromberg, Australian tennis player
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: Operation Jefferson Glenn begins: The United States 101st Airborne Division and the South Vietnamese 1st…
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 …
Two passenger jets bound from Europe to New York are simultaneously hijacked by Palestinian terrorist members of the…
Vietnam Television, also known as VTV, is the national television station of Vietnam, operating under the auspices of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Vietnam and ma…
Vietnam Television was established.
Trans International Airlines Flight 863 was a ferry flight from John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York City to Washington Dulles International Airport. On September 8, 1…
Trans International Airlines Flight 863 crashes during takeoff from John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York…
The Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine is a Palestinian Marxist–Leninist organization founded in 1967 by George Habash. It has consistently been the second-largest of th…
A British airliner is hijacked by the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine and flown to Dawson's Field in…