Explore 6419 historical events from 1970–1979.
Constantinos Christophorou is a Greek Cypriot singer. He represented Cyprus in Eurovision Song Contest as a solo singer with "Mono Yia Mas" (1996) and "Ela Ela " (2005) and as part…
Constantinos Christoforou, Cypriot singer-songwriter
Marguerite Moreau is an American actress. She is known for her role as Jesse Reeves in the fantasy horror film Queen of the Damned, Katie in the comedy Wet Hot American Summer, and…
Marguerite Moreau, American actress and producer
Matthew Joseph West is an American contemporary Christian singer-songwriter. He has released five studio albums and is known for his songs "More", "You Are Everything", and "The Mo…
Matthew West, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and actor
The Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) is a civilian foreign intelligence service of the federal government of the United States tasked with advancing national security through coll…
The Central Intelligence Agency releases documents under the Freedom of Information Act revealing it had engaged in…
Aeroflot Flight B-2 was a regularly scheduled passenger flight operated by Aeroflot from Vitim Airport in the Sakha Republic to Irkutsk International Airport near Irkutsk. On 20 Ju…
Aeroflot Flight B-2 crashes after takeoff from Vitim Airport in the Sakha Republic, killing 39.
The Egyptian–Libyan War, also known as the Four Day War, was a short border war fought between Libya and Egypt that lasted from 21 to 24 July 1977. The conflict stemmed from a dete…
The start of the four-day-long Libyan–Egyptian War.
Deng Xiaoping was a Chinese statesman, revolutionary, and political theorist who served as the paramount leader of the People's Republic of China (PRC) from 1978 to 1989. Emerging …
Chinese leader Deng Xiaoping is restored to power.
The Egyptian–Libyan War, also known as the Four Day War, was a short border war fought between Libya and Egypt that lasted from 21 to 24 July 1977. The conflict stemmed from a dete…
End of a four-day-long Libyan–Egyptian War.
Samantha Cristoforetti is an Italian European Space Agency (ESA) astronaut, former Italian Air Force pilot and engineer. She is the second of two women sent into space by ESA and t…
Samantha Cristoforetti, Italian astronaut
Kosuke Fukudome is a Japanese former professional baseball player. He played as an outfielder in the Nippon Professional Baseball (NPB) league from 1999 to 2007 and in Major Leagu…
Kosuke Fukudome, Japanese baseball player
Roxana Saberi is an American journalist who works as a correspondent for CBS News. In 2009, she was held prisoner in Iran's Evin Prison for 101 days under accusations of espionage.…
Roxana Saberi, American journalist and author
Quebec is Canada's largest province by area. Located in Central Canada, it is the only Francophone-majority province in the country, being home to Québécois French. It shares borde…
The National Assembly of Quebec imposes the use of French as the official language of the provincial government.
Yonkers is a city in Westchester County, New York, United States. With a population of 211,569 at the 2020 census, its highest decennial census count ever, Yonkers is the third-mos…
In Yonkers, New York, 24-year-old postal employee David Berkowitz ("Son of Sam") is arrested for a series of killings…
The Approach and Landing Tests were a series of sixteen taxi and flight trials of the prototype Space Shuttle Enterprise that took place between February and October 1977 to test t…
The first free flight of the Space Shuttle Enterprise.
The 1977 anti-Tamil pogrom in Sri Lanka followed the 1977 general elections in Sri Lanka where the Sri Lankan Tamil nationalistic Tamil United Liberation Front won a plurality of m…
The Sri Lanka Riots: Targeting the minority Sri Lankan Tamils, begin, less than a month after the United National…
The National Front (NF) is a far-right, fascist political party in the United Kingdom. It is currently led by Tony Martin. A minor party, it has never had its representatives elect…
Members of the British National Front (NF) clash with anti-NF demonstrators in Lewisham, London, resulting in 214…
Thomas Joseph Welling is an American actor, director, and producer. He is best known for his role as Clark Kent in The WB superhero drama Smallville (2001–2011). He also co-starred…
Tom Welling, American actor
Thaddeus Michael Bullard is an American professional wrestler and former arena football player. He is signed to WWE as a Global Ambassador. Described by the company as "one of the …
Titus O'Neil, American wrestler and football player
Zuzana Hejdová is a former Czech tennis player.
Zuzana Hejdová, Czech tennis player
Claus William Jensen is a Danish professional football manager, and former player. During his active playing career, he played as an attacking midfielder for homeland clubs Næstved…
Claus Jensen, Danish international footballer and manager
David Wade Sullivan is an American film and television actor.
David Sullivan, American film and television actor
Jeannie Haddaway-Riccio is an American politician who served as the secretary of the Maryland Department of Natural Resources from 2019 to 2023. A member of the Republican Party, s…
Jeannie Haddaway-Riccio, American politician
The Ohio State University Radio Observatory was a Kraus-type radio telescope located on the grounds of the Perkins Observatory at Ohio Wesleyan University in Delaware, Ohio from 19…
The Big Ear, a radio telescope operated by Ohio State University as part of the SETI project, receives a radio signal…
Bantu Stephen Biko OMSG was a South African anti-apartheid activist. Ideologically an African nationalist and African socialist, he was at the forefront of a grassroots anti-aparth…
Steve Biko is arrested at a police roadblock under Terrorism Act No. 83 of 1967 in King William's Town, South Africa.…