Explore 6419 historical events from 1970–1979.
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…
Chiyonoyama Masanobu was a Japanese professional sumo wrestler from Fukushima, Hokkaidō. He was the sport's 41st yokozuna, between 1951 until 1959. He is regarded as the first "mo…
Chiyonoyama Masanobu, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 41st Yokozuna (born 1926)
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
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.
Lynyrd Skynyrd is an American rock band formed in Jacksonville, Florida, in 1964. The group originally formed as My Backyard and comprised Ronnie Van Zant (vocals), Gary Rossington…
Three members of the American rock band Lynyrd Skynyrd died when their chartered plane crashed in Gillsburg,…
Ali Maow Maalin was a Somali hospital cook and health worker from Merca who is the last person known to have been infected with naturally occurring Variola minor smallpox. The dise…
Somali hospital cook Ali Maow Maalin began displaying symptoms of smallpox, becoming the last person known to be…
The 1976 Friuli earthquake, also known in Italy as Terremoto del Friuli, occurred on 6 May 1976, at 21:00:13 with a moment magnitude of 6.5 and a maximum EMS intensity of X. The sh…
The 6
Aeroflot Flight 1802 was a commercial flight from Vinnytsia to Moscow that crashed after the rudder deflected sharply and the propellers feathered on 15 May 1976. All 52 passengers…
Aeroflot Flight 1802 crashes near Viktorivka, Chernihiv Raion, Chernihiv Oblast, killing 52
Aeroflot Flight 418 was an international passenger flight from Luanda to Moscow Sheremetyevo with three intermediate stops. On 1 June 1976, the Tupolev Tu-154A (CCCP-85102) operati…
Aeroflot Flight 418 crashes in Bioko, Equatorial Guinea, killing 46
During the evening hours of April 19, 1976, a violent tornado struck Brownwood, Texas, United States. The damage caused by the tornado was extreme enough for the National Weather S…
A violent F5 tornado strikes around Brownwood, Texas, injuring 11 people
American Airlines Flight 625, a Boeing 727-100, crashed at St. Thomas, U.S. Virgin Islands on April 27, 1976, while on a domestic scheduled passenger flight originating at T. F. Gr…
Thirty-seven people are killed when American Airlines Flight 625 crashes at Cyril E