Explore 5304 historical events from 1970–1979.
Charlotte "Lotte" Pauline Sophie Lehmann was a German-American dramatic soprano noted for her successful performances with international opera houses, on the recital stage and in t…
Lotte Lehmann, German-American soprano (born 1888)
Mao Zedong was a Chinese communist revolutionary, political theorist and the founder of the People's Republic of China (PRC). He led China from the PRC's establishment in October 1…
Mao Zedong, Chinese philosopher, academic, and politician, 1st Chairman of the Chinese Communist Party (born 1893)
James Dalton Trumbo was an American screenwriter who scripted many award-winning films, including Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo (1944), Roman Holiday (1953), Spartacus (1960), and Exod…
Dalton Trumbo, American screenwriter and novelist (born 1905)
Bertha Maria Júlia Lutz was a Brazilian zoologist, politician, and diplomat. Lutz became a leading figure in both the Pan American feminist movement and human rights movement. She …
Bertha Lutz, Brazilian feminist and scientist (born 1894)
Benjamin Graham was an English-American financial analyst, economist, accountant, investor and professor. He is widely known as the "father of value investing", and wrote two of th…
Benjamin Graham, British-American economist, professor, and investor (born 1894)
Marcos Orlando Letelier del Solar was a Chilean Marxist and diplomat during the presidency of Salvador Allende. A member of the Socialist Party of Chile, he fled from the military …
Orlando Letelier, Chilean economist and politician, Minister of Foreign Affairs for Chile (born 1932)
Philip Comi Gbeho was a Ghanaian musician, composer and teacher. He was instrumental in the establishment of the Arts Council of Ghana and was a director of music and conductor of …
Philip Gbeho, Ghanaian composer and educator (born 1904)
Leopold Ružička was a Croatian-Swiss scientist and joint winner of the 1939 Nobel Prize in Chemistry "for his work on polymethylenes and higher terpenes" "including the first chemi…
Leopold Ružička, Croatian-Swiss chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1887)
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…
An earthquake struck Northern Italy, killing 990 people and injuring up to 3,000
The Ramones were an American punk rock band formed in the New York City neighborhood Forest Hills, Queens in 1974. Known for helping establish the punk movement in the United State…
The American band the Ramones released their debut album, which became highly influential on the emerging punk rock move
The Great American Revolution is a steel roller coaster located at Six Flags Magic Mountain in Valencia, California, United States. Manufactured by Anton Schwarzkopf and designed b…
Great American Revolution, the first steel coaster with a vertical loop, opened at Six Flags Magic Mountain, California
A wine competition is an organized event in which trained judges or consumers competitively rate different vintages, categories, and/or brands of wine. Wine competitions generally …
In a wine competition in Paris (wine bottle pictured), French judges shocked the wine industry by rating California wine
The Teton Dam was an earthen dam in the western United States, on the Teton River in eastern Idaho. It was built by the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation, one of eight federal agencies au…
The Teton Dam in eastern Idaho, U
The Double Six Crash, also known as the Double Six Tragedy, was a crash, involving a GAF N-22B Nomad of Sabah Air, which took place on 6 June 1976 at Kota Kinabalu, Malaysia, killi…
A plane crashed near Kota Kinabalu International Airport, Malaysia, killing politicians Fuad Stephens (pictured) and Pet
Ebola, also known as Ebola virus disease (EVD) and Ebola hemorrhagic fever (EHF), is a zoonotic viral hemorrhagic fever in humans and other primates, caused by four of the six know…
The first identifiable case of Ebola occurred in Sudan
The Bunbury woodchip bombing was a politically motivated bombing that took place on 19 July 1976 at a woodchip export terminal in Bunbury, Western Australia.
Environmental activists bombed the port facilities in Bunbury, Western Australia, in an attempt to disrupt the…
The Vietnam War was an armed conflict in Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia fought between North Vietnam and South Vietnam and their allies. North Vietnam was supported by the Soviet Unio…
More than a year after the end of the Vietnam War, North and South Vietnam officially merged under communist rule to…
The Israel Defense Forces, alternatively referred to by the Hebrew-language acronym Tzahal (צה״ל), is the national military of the State of Israel. It consists of three service bra…
Israeli forces raided Uganda's Entebbe International Airport to free hostages taken by hijackers on Air France…
The 1976 Summer Olympics, officially known as the Games of the XXI Olympiad and officially branded as Montreal 1976, were an international multi-sport event held from July 17 to Au…
At the Olympic Games in Montreal, Nadia Comăneci (pictured) became the first person to score a perfect 10 in a modern…
Viking 1 was the first of two spacecraft, along with Viking 2, each consisting of an orbiter and a lander, sent to Mars as part of NASA's Viking program. The lander touched down on…
The Viking 1 lander became the first spacecraft to successfully land on Mars and perform its mission.
The Philippines, officially the Republic of the Philippines, is an archipelagic country in Southeast Asia. Located in the western Pacific Ocean, it consists of about 7,641 islands,…
Japan completed its last reparation to the Philippines for war crimes committed during imperial Japan's conquest of…
Viking 1 was the first of two spacecraft, along with Viking 2, each consisting of an orbiter and a lander, sent to Mars as part of NASA's Viking program. The lander touched down on…
The orbiting spacecraft Viking 1 took a photograph of an apparent face on Mars in a classic example of pareidolia.
The 1976 Tangshan earthquake was a Mw 7.6 earthquake that hit the region around Tangshan, Hebei, China, at 19:42:55 UTC on 27 July. The maximum intensity of the earthquake was XI (…
An earthquake registering 7.6 Mw, one of the deadliest in history, devastated Tangshan, China, and killed at least…
Viktor Ivanovich Belenko was a Soviet-born American aerospace engineer and pilot who defected in 1976 to the West while flying his MiG-25 "Foxbat" jet interceptor and landed in Hak…
Soviet pilot Viktor Belenko landed his MiG-25 in Hakodate, Japan, declaring his intention to defect to the West.