Explore 6419 historical events from 1970–1979.
Raúl Riganti was an Argentine racing driver. He competed in the Indianapolis 500 three times, qualifying every year he was entered. Riganti was briefly an adviser of driver Juan Ma…
Raúl Riganti, Argentinian race car driver (born 1893)
Janis Lyn Joplin was an American singer and songwriter. One of the most iconic and successful rock performers of her era, she was noted for her powerful mezzo-soprano vocals and he…
Janis Joplin, American singer-songwriter (born 1943)
Alphonse-Marie Parent was a Canadian priest, educator and academic administrator. He is best known for having given his name to the Parent Report on the reform of Quebec's educatio…
Alphonse-Marie Parent, Canadian priest and academic (born 1906)
Jean Giono was a French writer who wrote works of fiction mostly set in the Provence region of France.
Jean Giono, French author and poet (born 1895)
Édouard Daladier was a French Radical-Socialist (centre-left) politician, who was the Prime Minister of France in 1933, 1934 and again from 1938 to 1940.
Édouard Daladier, French captain and politician, 105th Prime Minister of France (born 1884)
Feodor Stepanovich Rojankovsky, also known as Rojan, was a Russian émigré illustrator. He is well known both for children's book illustration and for erotic art. He won the 1956 Ca…
Feodor Stepanovich Rojankovsky, Russian-American illustrator and painter (born 1891)
Mustafa Zaidi was a Pakistani Urdu poet and a civil servant.
Mustafa Zaidi, Pakistani poet and academic (born 1930)
Mavis Wheeler was an English artist's model, the mistress of painter Augustus John, and the wife of prankster Horace de Vere Cole and archaeologist Sir Mortimer Wheeler. She came t…
Mavis Wheeler, English socialite and artist's model, also known for shooting her lover (born 1908)
Pierre Laporte was a Canadian lawyer, journalist and politician. He was deputy premier of the province of Quebec when he was kidnapped and murdered by members of the Front de libér…
Pierre Laporte, Canadian journalist, lawyer, and politician (born 1921)
Vola Vale was a silent film actress. She was active in the film industry from 1916 through 1936.
Vola Vale, American actress (born 1897)
Philip Quincy Wright was an American political scientist based at the University of Chicago known for his pioneering work and expertise in international law, international relation…
Quincy Wright, American political scientist and academic (born 1890)
Lázaro Cárdenas del Río was a Mexican general, statesman, and revolutionary who served as the 51st president of Mexico from 1934 to 1940. Previously, he served as a general in the …
Lázaro Cárdenas, Mexican general and politician, 44th President of Mexico (born 1895)
Ülo Ilmar Sooster was an Estonian nonconformist painter.
Ülo Sooster, Estonian painter (born 1924)
James Thomas Ramey, known professionally as Baby Huey, was an American soul singer. He was the frontman of the band Baby Huey & the Babysitters, whose sole LP for Curtom Records in…
Baby Huey, American singer-songwriter (born 1944)
The Patent Cooperation Treaty (PCT) is an international patent law treaty, concluded in 1970. It provides a unified procedure for filing patent applications to protect inventions i…
The international Patent Cooperation Treaty was signed, providing a unified procedure for filing patent applications to
The Glastonbury Festival of Contemporary Performing Arts is a five-day festival of contemporary performing arts held near Pilton, Somerset, England, in most summers.
The first Glastonbury Festival was held at Michael Eavis's farm in Glastonbury, England.
Li Linsi, born Li Jiaxiang (厉家祥), was a Chinese educator, diplomat, and scholar who has been recognized as one of the key figures in modern Chinese cultural and diplomatic history.…
Li Linsi, Chinese educator and diplomat (born 1896)
Richard Hofstadter was an American historian and public intellectual. Hofstadter was the DeWitt Clinton Professor of American History at Columbia University. Rejecting his earlier …
Richard Hofstadter, American historian and author (born 1916)
Western Australia (WA) is the westernmost state of Australia. It is bounded by the Indian Ocean to the north and west, the Southern Ocean to the south, the Northern Territory to th…
In response to a dispute over wheat production quotas, Leonard Casley declared his 75 km2 (29 sq mi) farm in Western Aus
The World Intellectual Property Organization is one of the 15 specialized agencies of the United Nations (UN). Pursuant to the 1967 Convention Establishing the World Intellectual P…
The World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) came into being when the WIPO Convention entered into force
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: South Vietnamese forces began the Cambodian campaign, aiming to attack North Vietnamese jungle bases
The Hard Hat Riot occurred in New York City on May 8, 1970, when around 400 construction workers and around 800 office workers attacked around 1,000 demonstrators affiliated with t…
Construction workers attacked students and others who were protesting the Vietnam War in New York City
Lubbock is a city in the U.S. state of Texas and the county seat of Lubbock County. With a population of 257,141 at the 2020 census, Lubbock is the 10th-most populous city in Texas…
Lubbock, Texas, was struck by a tornado that left 26 people dead
The Jackson State killings occurred on May 15, 1970, at Jackson State College in Jackson, Mississippi. On May 14, 1970, city and state police confronted a group of students outside…
Police opened fire during a confrontation with a group of Jackson State College students, killing two students and injur