Explore 5304 historical events from 1970–1979.
Leopold Anthony Stokowski was a British conductor. One of the leading conductors of the early and mid-20th century, he is best known for his long association with the Philadelphia …
Leopold Stokowski, English conductor (born 1882)
Marc Bolan was an English guitarist, singer-songwriter and poet. He was a pioneer of the glam rock movement in the early 1970s with his band T. Rex. Bolan is an influence on artist…
Marc Bolan, English singer-songwriter and guitarist (born 1947)
Maria Callas was an American and Greek soprano, and one of the most renowned and influential opera singers of the 20th century. Critics praised her bel canto technique, wide-rangin…
Maria Callas, Greek operatic soprano (born 1923)
Paul Isaac Bernays was a Swiss mathematician who made significant contributions to mathematical logic, axiomatic set theory, and the philosophy of mathematics. He was an assistant …
Paul Bernays, English-Swiss mathematician and philosopher (born 1888)
Uday Shankar was an Indian dancer and choreographer, best known for creating a fusion style of dance, adapting European theatrical techniques to Indian classical dance, imbued with…
Uday Shankar, Indian dancer and choreographer (born 1900)
Robert Porter McKimson Sr. was an American animator and illustrator, best known for his work on the Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies series of cartoons from Warner Bros. Cartoons a…
Robert McKimson, American animator and illustrator (born 1910)
Alexander Nikolayevich Tcherepnin was a Russian-born composer and pianist.
Alexander Tcherepnin, Russian-American composer and pianist (born 1899)
Mary Ford was an American guitarist and vocalist, comprising half of the husband-and-wife musical team Les Paul and Mary Ford. Between 1950 and 1954, the couple had 16 top-ten hits…
Mary Ford, American singer and guitarist (born 1924)
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
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
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.
Tandy Corporation was an American family-owned retailer based in Fort Worth, Texas that made leather goods, operated the RadioShack and Tandy electronics stores, and later built pe…
Tandy Corporation announced the TRS-80, one of the world's first mass-produced personal computers.
The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration is an agency of the U.S. federal government, part of the Department of Transportation, focused on automobile safety regulations.
The U.S. National Highway Traffic Safety Administration initiated an investigation into the alleged vulnerability of…
The Humboldt Park riot was the second major conflict between Puerto Ricans in Chicago and the Chicago Police Department. The riot began on June 4, 1977, and lasted a day and a half…
The Humboldt Park riot began in Chicago, resulting in three deaths, three cars in the Humboldt Park lagoon, and increase
The Johnstown flood of 1977 was a major flood which began on the night of July 19, 1977, when heavy rainfall caused widespread flash flooding in Cambria County, Pennsylvania, Unite…
Rain from a stalled thunderstorm caused six dams to fail, flooding Johnstown, Pennsylvania, resulting in 84 deaths and…
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…
Big Ear, a radio telescope at Ohio State University received a strong, apparently extraterrestrial radio signal that…
Elvis Aaron Presley was an American singer and actor. Referred to as the "King of Rock and Roll", he is widely regarded as one of the most culturally significant figures of the 20t…
American singer and actor Elvis Presley (pictured) was found dead in his home in Memphis, Tennessee.
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…
Big Ear, a radio telescope at Ohio State University, received a strong, apparently extraterrestrial radio signal that…
Elvis Aaron Presley was an American singer and actor. Referred to as the "King of Rock and Roll", he is widely regarded as one of the most culturally significant figures of the 20t…
American singer and actor Elvis Presley (pictured), often referred to as the "King of Rock and Roll", was found dead…
The Golden Dragon massacre was a gang-related mass shooting that took place on September 4, 1977, inside the Golden Dragon Restaurant at 822 Washington Street in Chinatown, San Fra…
The Golden Dragon massacre occurred in Chinatown, San Francisco, leaving five dead and spurring police to end Chinese…
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration is an independent agency of the U.S. federal government responsible for the United States' civil space program, as well as researc…
NASA launched the space probe Voyager 1, currently the farthest spacecraft from Earth, from Launch Complex 41 at Cape…
Apartheid was a system of institutionalised racial segregation that existed in South Africa and South West Africa from 1948 to 1994. It was characterised by an authoritarian politi…
South African anti-apartheid activist Steve Biko died after being beaten in police custody in Port Elizabeth.
The Petrozavodsk phenomenon was a series of celestial events of a disputed nature that occurred on 20 September 1977. The sightings were reported over a vast territory, from Copenh…
A series of celestial phenomena of disputed nature was observed in the western Soviet Union, Finland and Denmark.
The Chicago Marathon is a road marathon held in October in Chicago, Illinois. It is one of the eight World Marathon Majors. Thus, it is also a World Athletics Label Road Race. The …
About 4,200 people took part in the first modern Chicago Marathon.