Explore 2973 historical events from 1970–1979.
Santiago Bernabéu de Yeste was a Spanish football player, coach, and administrator who played for Real Madrid as a forward, later serving as the club's manager and then president. …
Santiago Bernabéu Yeste, Spanish footballer and coach (born 1895)
Ronald George Wreyford Norrish FRS was a British chemist who was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1967.
Ronald George Wreyford Norrish, English chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1897)
Guo Moruo, courtesy name Dingtang, was a Chinese author, poet, historian, archaeologist, and government official. A prominent Chinese writer in the May Fourth Movement and later in…
Guo Moruo, Chinese historian, author, and poet (born 1892)
Georg Siimenson was an Estonian international footballer who scored 13 goals in 42 games for the Estonian national side.
Georg Siimenson, Estonian footballer (born 1912)
Walter Clement Alvarez was an American physician of Spanish descent. He authored several dozen books on medicine, and wrote introductions and forewords for many others.
Walter C
Robert Charroux was the best-known pen-name of Robert Joseph Grugeau. He was a French author known for his writings on the ancient astronaut theme.
Robert Charroux, French author and critic (born 1909)
Robert Edward Crane was an American actor, drummer, radio personality and disc jockey known for starring in the CBS sitcom Hogan's Heroes.
Bob Crane, American actor (born 1928)
Aris Alexandrou was a Greek novelist, poet and translator. Always on the Left and always unconventional, he is the author of a single novel which is widely considered to be among t…
Aris Alexandrou, Greek author and poet (born 1922)
James Firman Daly was an American actor. Recognized for his work on stage and screen, he is perhaps best known for his role as Paul Lochner in the hospital drama series Medical Cen…
James Daly, American actor (born 1918)
Mark Robson was a Canadian-American film director, producer, and editor. Robson began his 45-year career in Hollywood as a film editor. He later began working as a director and pro…
Mark Robson, Canadian-American director and producer (born 1913)
Clifford Walter Dupont was a British-born Rhodesian politician who served in the internationally unrecognised positions of officer administrating the government and president. Born…
Clifford Dupont, English-Rhodesian lawyer and politician, 1st President of Rhodesia (born 1905)
Kurt Arthur Benno Student was a German general in the Luftwaffe during World War II. An early pioneer of airborne forces, Student was in overall command of developing a paratrooper…
Kurt Student, German general and pilot (born 1890)
Barbara Cushing Mortimer Paley was an American magazine editor and socialite. Affectionately known as Babe throughout her life, Paley made notable contributions to the field of mag…
Babe Paley, American socialite and fashion style icon (born 1915)
Francisco Mendes, popularly known by his nom de guerre as Chico Té, was a Bissau-Guinean politician and revolutionary. He was the country's first Prime Minister and held that posit…
Francisco Mendes, Guinea-Bissau lawyer and politician, 1st Prime Minister of Guinea-Bissau (born 1933)
John Davison Rockefeller III was an American philanthropist. Rockefeller was the eldest son and second child of John D. Rockefeller Jr. and Abby Aldrich Rockefeller as well as a gr…
John D. Rockefeller III, American businessman and philanthropist, founded the Asia Society (born 1906)
Kamil Özdemir Tolon was a Turkish businessperson, industrialist and inventor, known for the first manufacture of an electric engine in Turkey. Tolon was born in 1912 in Istanbul. H…
Kamil Tolon, Turkish industrialist (born 1912)
Jan Willem van Otterloo was a Dutch conductor, cellist and composer.
Willem van Otterloo, Dutch cellist, composer, and conductor (born 1907)
Andrzej Bogucki was a Polish television, stage and film actor, as well as operetta singer and songwriter, sometimes referred to as "The Polish Chevalier".
Andrzej Bogucki, Polish actor, operetta singer, and songwriter (born 1904)
Hussein bin Talal was King of Jordan from 1952 until his death in 1999. A member of the Hashemite dynasty, he is regarded as a 40th-generation direct descendant of the Islamic prop…
King Hussein of Jordan married American Lisa Halaby, who became known as Queen Noor of Jordan (pictured)
Robert James Heffron, also known as Bob Heffron or R. J. Heffron, was a long-serving New South Wales politician, union organiser and Australian Labor Party (ALP) Premier of New Sou…
Bob Heffron, New Zealand-Australian miner and politician, 30th Premier of New South Wales (born 1890)
Korean Air Lines Flight 902 was a scheduled Korean Air Lines flight from Paris to Seoul via Anchorage. On 20 April 1978, the Soviet air defense shot down the aircraft serving the f…
Korean Air Lines Flight 902 was shot down after violating Soviet airspace and was forced to make an emergency landing
David Richard Berkowitz, also known as the Son of Sam, the .44 Caliber Killer and the Phantom of the Bronx, is an American serial killer, serial arsonist and former United States A…
American serial killer David Berkowitz, popularly known as the "Son of Sam", was sentenced to 25-years-to-life in prison
The rainbow flag or pride flag is a symbol of LGBTQ pride and LGBTQ social movements, as well as a peace symbol. The colors reflect the diversity of the LGBTQ community and the spe…
The rainbow flag (original version pictured) representing gay pride was first flown at the San Francisco Gay Freedom Day
Regents of the University of California v. Bakke, 438 U.S. 265 (1978), was a landmark decision by the Supreme Court of the United States that involved a dispute over whether prefer…
In Regents of the University of California v