Explore 1298 historical events from 1970–1979.
Kateřina Jacques is a Czech Green Party politician. She was elected to the lower house of the Parliament of the Czech Republic in the June 2006 election, representing the Prague el…
Kateřina Jacques, Czech translator and politician
Joseph Kabila Kabange is a Congolese politician and former military officer who was the fourth president of the Democratic Republic of the Congo from 2001 to 2019. He took office t…
Joseph Kabila, Congolese soldier and politician, President of the Democratic Republic of the Congo
Michael Shumway Lee is an American lawyer and politician serving as the senior United States senator from Utah, a seat he has held since 2011. A member of the Republican Party, Lee…
Mike Lee, American lawyer and politician
Shoji Meguro is a Japanese composer, guitarist, and video game designer. Formerly an employee of the game company Atlus, he is best known for his work in their Shin Megami Tensei …
Shoji Meguro, Japanese director and composer
Noah Strausser Speer Wyle is an American actor, television director, producer and writer. He rose to fame as Dr. John Carter in the NBC medical drama ER (1994–2005), receiving five…
Noah Wyle, American actor and producer
John Kellogg Hodgman is an American author, actor, and humorist. In addition to his published written works, such as his satirical trilogy The Areas of My Expertise, More Informati…
John Hodgman, American humorist
Luigi Piotti was a racing driver from Italy. He participated in nine Formula One World Championship Grands Prix, debuting on January 22, 1956. He scored no championship points.
Luigi Piotti, Italian race car driver (born 1913)
François Duvalier, also known as Papa Doc, was a Haitian politician and physician who served as president of Haiti from 1957 until his death in 1971.
François Duvalier, Haitian physician and politician, 40th President of Haiti (born 1907)
William Brown Meloney V was a journalist, novelist, short-story writer and theatrical producer.
William Brown Meloney, writer and theatrical producer (born 1902)
Violet Constance Jessop was an Irish-Argentine ocean liner stewardess and Voluntary Aid Detachment nurse in the early 20th century. She survived the sinking of both RMS Titanic in …
Violet Jessop, Argentinean-English nurse (born 1887)
Henry Emmett Manush, nicknamed "Heinie", was an American baseball outfielder. He played professional baseball for 20 years from 1920 to 1939, including 17 years in Major League Bas…
Heinie Manush, American baseball player and coach (born 1901)
Sir William Tyrone Guthrie was an English theatrical director instrumental in the founding of the Stratford Festival of Canada, the Guthrie Theater in Minneapolis, Minnesota, and t…
Tyrone Guthrie, English director, producer, and playwright (born 1900)
Aleksandr Gennadyevich Kurosh was a Soviet mathematician, known for his work in abstract algebra. He is credited with writing The Theory of Groups, the first modern and high-level …
Aleksandr Gennadievich Kurosh, Russian mathematician and theorist (born 1908)
Frederic Ogden Nash was an American poet well known for his light verse, of which he wrote more than 500 pieces. With his unconventional rhyming schemes, he was declared by The New…
Ogden Nash, American poet (born 1902)
Waldo Goronwy Williams was one of the leading Welsh-language poets of the 20th century. He was also a notable Christian pacifist, anti-war campaigner, and Welsh nationalist. He is …
Waldo Williams, Welsh poet and academic (born 1904)
Béla Juhos was a Hungarian-Austrian philosopher and member of the Vienna Circle.
Béla Juhos, Hungarian-Austrian philosopher from the Vienna Circle (born 1901)
Armando Picchi was an Italian football player and coach. Regularly positioned as a libero, he captained the Inter Milan side known as "La Grande Inter".
Armando Picchi, Italian footballer and coach (born 1935)
Audie Leon Murphy was an American soldier, actor, and songwriter. He was widely celebrated as the most decorated American combat soldier of World War II, and has been described as …
Audie Murphy, American soldier and actor, Medal of Honor recipient (born 1925)
Marcel Jean-Jules Dupré was a French organist, composer, and pedagogue.
Marcel Dupré, French organist and composer (born 1886)
Heinz Hopf was a German mathematician who worked on the fields of dynamical systems, topology and geometry.
Heinz Hopf, German-Swiss mathematician and academic (born 1894)
Karl Paul Reinhold Niebuhr was an American Reformed theologian, ethicist, commentator on politics and public affairs, and professor at Union Theological Seminary for more than 30 y…
Reinhold Niebuhr, American theologian and academic (born 1892)
György Lukács was a Hungarian Marxist philosopher, literary historian, literary critic, and aesthetician. He was one of the founders of Western Marxism, an interpretive tradition t…
György Lukács, Hungarian historian and philosopher (born 1885)
Salyut 1, also known as DOS-1, was the world's first space station. It was launched into low Earth orbit by the Soviet Union on April 19, 1971. The Salyut program subsequently achi…
Salyut 1, the first space station, was launched from the Baikonur Cosmodrome near Tyuratam in the Soviet Union
The Doors were an American rock band formed in Los Angeles in 1965, comprising vocalist Jim Morrison, keyboardist Ray Manzarek, guitarist Robby Krieger, and drummer John Densmore. …
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