Explore 6419 historical events from 1970–1979.
Erik Nicklas Lidström is a Swedish former professional ice hockey defenceman and current vice president of hockey operations for the Detroit Red Wings. He played 20 seasons in the …
Nicklas Lidström, Swedish ice hockey player and scout
Diego Pablo Simeone González, nicknamed "Cholo", is an Argentine professional football manager and former player who played as a midfielder. He has been the manager of La Liga club…
Diego Simeone, Argentinian footballer and manager
Uma Karuna Thurman is an American actress. Known for her collaborations with Quentin Tarantino, she has performed in over fifty film and television productions since the 1980s, acr…
Uma Thurman, American actress
Bernard Joseph Butler is an English musician, songwriter and record producer. He is best known for being the guitarist for the band Suede from 1989 to 1994, appearing on the albums…
Bernard Butler, English singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer
In September 1970, members of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) hijacked four airliners bound for New York City and one for London. Three aircraft were force…
The Dawson's Field hijackers release 88 of their hostages. The remaining hostages, mostly Jews and Israeli citizens,…
In September 1970, members of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) hijacked four airliners bound for New York City and one for London. Three aircraft were force…
Dawson's Field hijackings: Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine terrorists blow up three hijacked airliners…
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…
Kostas Georgakis, a Greek student of geology, sets himself ablaze in Matteotti Square in Genoa, Italy, as a protest…
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 is established.
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…
Egyptian President Gamal Abdel Nasser dies of a heart attack in Cairo.
William Emerson Arnett is a Canadian and American actor and comedian. He is widely known for his roles as Gob Bluth in the Fox/Netflix sitcom Arrested Development and the titular c…
Will Arnett, Canadian actor and producer
Naomi Klein is a Canadian author, social activist, and filmmaker known for her political analyses, support of ecofeminism and organized labour, and criticism of corporate globaliza…
Naomi Klein, Canadian author and activist
Luis Enrique Martínez García, known as Luis Enrique, is a Spanish football manager and former player. He is currently the head coach of Ligue 1 club Paris Saint-Germain.
Luis Enrique, Spanish footballer and manager
In September 1970, members of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) hijacked four airliners bound for New York City and one for London. Three aircraft were force…
Jordan makes a deal with the PFLP for the release of the remaining hostages from the Dawson's Field hijackings.
In clear and calm weather in Colorado at 1:14 p.m. MDT on Friday, October 2, 1970, a chartered Martin 4-0-4 airliner crashed into a mountain eight miles (13 km) west of Silver Plum…
An aircraft carrying the Wichita State University football team, administrators, and supporters crashes in Colorado,…
The Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) is an American public broadcaster and non-commercial, free-to-air television network based in Arlington, Virginia. PBS is a nonprofit organiza…
The Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) is founded in the United States.[citation needed]
James Richard Cross was an Irish-born British diplomat who served in India, Malaysia and Canada. While posted in Canada, Cross was kidnapped by members of the Front de libération d…
The British Trade Commissioner, James Cross, is kidnapped by members of the Front de libération du Québec, triggering…
Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn was a Soviet and Russian author and dissident who helped to raise global awareness of political repression in the Soviet Union, especially the Gula…
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn wins the Nobel Prize in literature.
Douglas Dale Christie is an American professional basketball coach and former player who is the head coach for the Sacramento Kings of the National Basketball Association (NBA).
Doug Christie, American basketball player and coach
Hao Haidong is a Chinese former international footballer. He holds the record for being China's top goalscorer.
Hao Haidong, Chinese footballer
Harold Eugene Ford Jr. is an American financial managing director, pundit, author, and former U.S. Congressman who served from 1997 to 2007 in the United States House of Representa…
Harold Ford Jr
David Gillespie Weir is a Scottish football coach and former professional player who was most recently the technical director of Premier League club Brighton & Hove Albion.
David Weir, Scottish footballer
James Michael Furyk is an American professional golfer who plays on the PGA Tour and the PGA Tour Champions. In 2010, he was the FedEx Cup champion and PGA Tour Player of the Year.…
Jim Furyk, American golfer
The Khmer Republic was a Cambodian state under the United States-backed military dictatorship of Marshal Lon Nol from 1970 to 1975. Its establishment was formally declared on 9 Oct…
The Khmer Republic is proclaimed in Cambodia.
Fiji, officially the Republic of Fiji, is an archipelagic country in Melanesia, part of Oceania in the South Pacific Ocean. It lies about 1,100 nautical miles north-northeast of Ne…
Fiji becomes independent.