Explore 2973 historical events from 1970–1979.
Roberto Gastone Zeffiro Rossellini was an Italian film director, screenwriter and producer. He was one of the most prominent directors of the Italian neorealist cinema, contributin…
Roberto Rossellini, Italian director and screenwriter (born 1906)
Robert Middleton was an American film and television actor known for his large size, beetle-like brows, and deep, booming voice, usually in the portrayal of ruthless villains.
Robert Middleton, American actor (born 1911)
Alan Reed was an American actor, best known as the original voice of Fred Flintstone on The Flintstones and various spinoff series. He also appeared in many films, including Days o…
Alan Reed, American actor, original voice of Fred Flintstone (born1907)
Wernher Magnus Maximilian Freiherr von Braun was a German American aerospace engineer and space architect. He became a member of the Nazi Party and then the Allgemeine SS to suppor…
Wernher von Braun, German-American physicist and engineer (born 1912)
Ali Shariati Mazinani was an Iranian revolutionary and sociologist who specialised in the sociology of religion. He is regarded as one of the most influential Iranian intellectuals…
Ali Shariati, Iranian sociologist and philosopher (born 1933)
Jacqueline Audry was a French film director who began making films in post-World War II France and specialised in literary adaptations that centered women. She was the first commer…
Jacqueline Audry, French director and screenwriter (born 1908)
Peter Laughner was an American guitarist, songwriter and singer.
Peter Laughner, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (born 1952)
Olave St Clair Baden-Powell, Baroness Baden-Powell was the first Chief Guide for Britain and the wife of Robert Baden-Powell, 1st Baron Baden-Powell.
Olave Baden-Powell, British Girl Guiding and Girl Scouting leader (born 1889)
Endre Szervánszky was a Hungarian composer.
Endre Szervánszky, Hungarian pianist and composer (born 1911)
Arthur W. Perdue (1885–1977) was an American businessman and the founder of Perdue Farms along with his wife Pearl in 1920. The business was started in his backyard, and at the tim…
Arthur Perdue, American businessman (born 1885)
Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov, also known by the pen name Vladimir Sirin, was a Russian and American novelist, poet, translator, and entomologist.
Vladimir Nabokov, Russian-born novelist and critic (born 1899)
Alexander Melentyevich Volkov was a Soviet novelist, playwright, university lecturer. He was an author of novels, short stories, plays and poems for children, mostly remembered for…
Alexander Volkov, Russian mathematician and author (born 1891)
Gersh Itskovich Budker, also named Andrey Mikhailovich Budker, was a Soviet physicist born in Murafa in Ukrainian People's Republic, specialized in nuclear physics and accelerator …
Gersh Budker, Ukrainian physicist and academic (born 1918)
Ödön Pártos [alternate transcription in English: Oedoen Partos, Hungarian: Pártos Ödön, Hebrew: עֵדֶן פרטוש ] was a Hungarian-Israeli violist and composer. A recipient of the Israe…
Ödön Pártos, Hungarian-Israeli viola player and composer (born 1907)
Alice Stokes Paul was an American Quaker, suffragette, suffragist, feminist, and women's rights activist, and one of the foremost leaders and strategists of the campaign for the Ni…
Alice Paul, American activist (born 1885)
Donald Bruce Mackay was an Australian businessman and anti-drug campaigner. He disappeared in 1977, but his body has never been found. In 1986, James Bazley was convicted for his m…
Donald Mackay, Australian businessman and activist (born 1933)
Karl Ristikivi was an Estonian writer. He is known as one of the best Estonian writers for his historical novels.
Karl Ristikivi, Estonian geographer, author, and poet (born 1912)
Gary Kellgren was an American audio engineer and co-founder of The Record Plant recording studios, along with businessman Chris Stone.
Gary Kellgren, American record producer, co-founded Record Plant (born 1939)
Elizabeth "Lee" Miller, Lady Penrose was an American photographer and photojournalist. Miller was a fashion model in New York City in the 1920s before going to Paris, becoming a fa…
Lee Miller, American model and photographer (born 1907)
Captain Shivrampant Damle was an Indian educationist. He is best remembered for founding the Maharashtriya Mandal in 1924.
Shivrampant Damle, Indian educationist (born 1900)
Rufus Emory Holloway was an American literary scholar-educator most known for his books and studies of Walt Whitman. His Whitman: An Interpretation in Narrative (1926) was the firs…
Emory Holloway, American scholar, author, and educator (born 1885)
Amsterdam is the capital and largest city of the Netherlands. It has a population of 933,680 in June 2024 within the city proper, 1,457,018 in the urban area and 2,480,394 in the m…
The Hotel Polen in Amsterdam was destroyed by fire (pictured), leaving 33 people dead
Sallum is a harbourside village or town in Egypt. It is along the Egypt/Libyan short north–south aligned coast of the Mediterranean Sea in the far northwest corner of Egypt. It is,…
Libyan forces carried out a raid at Sallum, sparking a four-day war with Egypt.
Chuck E. Cheese is an American entertainment restaurant chain founded in May 17, 1977. Headquartered in Irving, Texas, each location features arcade games, amusement rides and musi…
The first Chuck E