Explore 5304 historical events from 1970–1979.
Bangladeshis are the citizens and nationals of Bangladesh, a South Asian country centred on the transnational historical region of Bengal along the eponymous bay.
Bangladeshi leader Sheikh Mujibur Rahman is killed along with most members of his family during a military coup.
West Africa, also known as Western Africa, is the westernmost region of Africa. The United Nations defines Western Africa as the 16 countries of Benin, Burkina Faso, Cape Verde, Th…
Fifteen West African countries sign the Treaty of Lagos, creating the Economic Community of West African States
The Patriotic Union of Kurdistan is a centre-left regionalist political party active in Kurdistan Region and the disputed territories in Iraq. The PUK describes its goals as self-d…
The Patriotic Union of Kurdistan was founded by Jalal Talabani, Nawshirwan Mustafa, Fuad Masum and others
The 1975 United Kingdom European Communities membership referendum, also known variously as the Referendum on the European Community (Common Market), the Common Market referendum a…
The United Kingdom holds its first country-wide referendum on membership of the European Economic Community (EEC)
The State of Uttar Pradesh v. Raj Narain was an election case heard by the Allahabad High Court in 1975 that found the Prime Minister of India Indira Gandhi guilty of electoral mal…
State of Uttar Pradesh v
Jaws is a 1975 American thriller film directed by Steven Spielberg, based on the 1974 novel by Peter Benchley. It stars Roy Scheider as police chief Martin Brody, who, with the hel…
The film Jaws is released in the United States, becoming the highest-grossing film of that time and starting the trend o
Takeo Miki was a Japanese politician who served as Prime Minister of Japan from 1974 to 1976.
Takeo Miki makes the first official pilgrimage to Yasukuni Shrine by an incumbent prime minister on the anniversary of…
Portuguese Timor was a Portuguese colony on the territory of present-day Timor-Leste from 1702 until 1975. During most of this period, Portugal shared the island of Timor with the …
The Governor of Portuguese Timor abandons its capital, Dili, and flees to Atauro Island, leaving control to a rebel…
Eastern Air Lines Flight 66 was a regularly scheduled flight from New Orleans to New York City that crashed on June 24, 1975, when a Boeing 727-225 went on approach to New York's J…
Eastern Air Lines Flight 66 encounters severe wind shear and crashes on final approach to New York's JFK Airport killing
Indira Priyadarshini Gandhi was an Indian politician who served as the prime minister of India from 1966 to 1977 and again from 1980 until her assassination in 1984. She was India'…
Prime Minister Indira Gandhi declares a state of internal emergency in India
The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) is the domestic intelligence and security service of the United States and its principal federal law enforcement agency. An agency of the …
Two FBI agents and a member of the American Indian Movement are killed in a shootout on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservatio
Pope Paul VI was head of the Catholic Church and sovereign of Vatican City from 21 June 1963 until his death on 6 August 1978. Succeeding John XXIII, he continued the Second Vatica…
Pope Paul VI ordains some 350 priests in St
Cape Verde, also referred to in English by its Portuguese name Cabo Verde, and known officially as the Republic of Cabo Verde, is an archipelagic country in the central Atlantic Oc…
Cape Verde gains its independence from Portugal.
The Sinai Interim Agreement, also known as the Sinai II Agreement, was a diplomatic agreement signed by Egypt and Israel on September 4, 1975, with the intention of peacefully reso…
The Sinai Interim Agreement relating to the Arab–Israeli conflict is signed.
The Mikoyan MiG-31 is a supersonic interceptor aircraft developed for the Soviet Air Forces by the Mikoyan design bureau as a replacement for the MiG-25 "Foxbat", on which it is ba…
The first prototype of the Mikoyan MiG-31 interceptor makes its maiden flight.
Sara Jane Moore was an American accountant and FBI informant who attempted to assassinate U.S. president Gerald Ford in 1975.
Sara Jane Moore tries to assassinate U.S. President Gerald Ford, but is foiled by the Secret Service.
The Comoros, officially the Union of the Comoros, is an archipelagic country made up of three islands in Southeast Africa, located at the northern end of the Mozambique Channel in …
The Comoros declares independence from France.
São Tomé and Príncipe, officially the Democratic Republic of Sao Tome and Principe, is an island country in the Gulf of Guinea, off the western equatorial coast of Central Africa. …
São Tomé and Príncipe declare independence from Portugal.
The Space Race was a 20th-century competition between the Cold War rivals, the United States and the Soviet Union, to achieve superior spaceflight capability. It had its origins in…
Space Race: Apollo–Soyuz Test Project features the dual launch of an Apollo spacecraft and a Soyuz spacecraft on the…
Alexander Kartveli Batumi International Airport is an international airport located 2 km (1.2 mi) south of Batumi, a city on the Black Sea coast and capital of Adjara, an autonomou…
Aeroflot Flight E-15 crashes on approach to Batumi International Airport, killing 40.
Apollo–Soyuz was the first crewed international space mission, conducted jointly by the United States and the Soviet Union in July 1975. Millions watched on television as an Americ…
Apollo–Soyuz Test Project: An American Apollo and a Soviet Soyuz spacecraft dock with each other in orbit marking the…
WWJ-TV, branded as CBS Detroit, is a television station in Detroit, Michigan, United States. It is owned and operated by the CBS television network through its CBS News and Station…
WGPR becomes the first black-owned-and-operated television station in the US.
Heidi Alexander is a British politician who has served as Secretary of State for Transport since November 2024. A member of the Labour Party, she has been the Member of Parliament …
Heidi Alexander, English politician
Travis Matthew Roy was an American college ice hockey player, author and philanthropist.
Travis Roy, American ice hockey player (died 2020)