Editing 1970s (section)

==Disasters==

===Natural disasters===
[[File:November 1970 Bhola Cyclone Repair.jpg|right|thumb|The [[1970 Bhola cyclone]], considered the 20th century's worst cyclone disaster, kills an estimated 500,000 people in the densely populated [[Ganges Delta]] region of [[East Pakistan]] during November 1970.]]
* On January 5, 1970, the 7.1 {{M|w|link=y}} [[1970 Tonghai earthquake|Tonghai earthquake]] shakes [[Tonghai County]], [[Yunnan]], China, with a maximum [[Mercalli intensity scale|Mercalli intensity]] of X (''Extreme''). Between 10,000 and 14,621 were killed and 26,783 were injured.
* On May 31, 1970, the [[1970 Ancash earthquake]] caused a [[landslide]] that buried the town of [[Yungay, Peru|Yungay]] in Peru; more than 47,000 people were killed. 
* The [[1970 Bhola cyclone]], a 120 mph (193 km/h) [[tropical cyclone]], hit the densely populated [[Ganges Delta]] region of [[East Pakistan]] (now Bangladesh) on November 12 and 13, 1970, killing an estimated 500,000 people. The storm remains to date the deadliest tropical cyclone in world history.
* On October 29, 1971, the [[1971 Odisha cyclone]] in the [[Bay of Bengal]], in the Indian state of [[Odisha]], killed 10,000 people.
* June, 1972, [[Hurricane Agnes]] hit the east coast of the United States, resulting in 128 deaths and causing over $2.1 billion in damage. 
* On April 3, 1974, the [[1974 Super Outbreak]] occurred in the U.S. producing 148 tornadoes and killing a total of 330 people.
* On December 24, 1974, [[Cyclone Tracy]] devastated the Australian city of [[Darwin, Northern Territory|Darwin]].
* [[Bangladesh famine of 1974]] — Official records claim a death toll of 26,000. However, various sources claim about 1,000,000.
* On August 8, 1975, the [[Banqiao Dam]], in China's [[Henan]], [[1975 Banqiao Dam failure|failed]] after a freak typhoon; over 200,000 people perished.
* On February 4, 1976, a [[1976 Guatemala earthquake|major earthquake]] in Guatemala and Honduras killed more than 22,000.
* On July 28, 1976, [[1976 Tangshan earthquake|a 7.5 earthquake]] flattened [[Tangshan]], China, killing 242,769 people and injuring 164,851.
* On August 17, 1976, a [[1976 Moro Gulf earthquake|magnitude 8 earthquake]] struck the [[Moro Gulf]] near the island of [[Sulu]] in [[Mindanao]], Philippines, causing a tsunami killing 5,000 to 8,000 people.
* [[Typhoon Tip|Super Typhoon Tip]] affected areas in the southwestern Pacific Ocean from October 4–19, 1979. Off the coast of [[Guam]], Tip became the largest and most powerful tropical cyclone ever recorded, with a gale diameter of almost 1,400 miles, 190-mph winds, and a record intensity of 870 millibars.

===Non-natural disasters===
*On October 2, 1970, a plane carrying the [[Wichita State University]] [[1970 Wichita State Shockers football team|football team]] [[Wichita State University football team plane crash|crashed]] into a mountain near [[Logan, Utah]], killing 31 with 9 survivors.
* On November 14, 1970, [[Southern Airways Flight 932]] carrying the entire Marshall (West Virginia) football team and boosters crashed into a mountainside near [[Ceredo, West Virginia|Ceredo]], West Virginia, on approach to [[Tri-State Airport]] in heavy rain and fog. They were returning from a road game loss at East Carolina University in Greenville, North Carolina. There were no survivors.
* On July 30, 1971, [[All Nippon Airways Flight 58]] collided with a [[Japanese Air Self-Defense Force|JASDF]] fighter plane, killing all 162 on board. The JASDF pilot survived.
* On October 13, 1972, [[Uruguayan Air Force Flight 571]] from Uruguay to Chile crashed in the [[Andes]] mountains. Survivors suffered from freezing temperatures, exposure and starvation for 72 days until their rescue on December 23.
* On December 29, 1972, [[Eastern Air Lines Flight 401]] crashed in the Florida [[Everglades]] while its crew was distracted. 101 people died in the accident while 75 survived.
* On January 22, 1973, an [[Royal Jordanian|Alia]] [[Boeing 707]], chartered by [[Nigeria Airways]], [[Kano air disaster|crashed]] upon landing at Nigeria's [[Kano Airport]] after one of its landing gear struts collapsed. 176 of the 202 people on board perished, leaving 26 survivors.
* On March 3, 1974, [[Turkish Airlines Flight 981]] crashed in northern France after a cargo hatch blowout, killing all 346 people aboard.
* On April 4, 1975, the rear loading ramp on a [[United States Air Force|USAF]] [[Lockheed C-5 Galaxy]] [[1975 Tan Son Nhut C-5 accident|blew open mid-flight]], causing [[Uncontrolled decompression|explosive decompression]] that crippled the aircraft. 153 were killed in the incident while 175 survived.
* On November 10, 1975, the U.S. Great Lakes bulk freighter [[SS Edmund Fitzgerald|SS ''Edmund Fitzgerald'']] foundered on [[Lake Superior]] with the loss of all 29 crewmen.
* On September 10, 1976, in the [[1976 Zagreb mid-air collision|Zagreb mid-air collision]], a [[British Airways]] [[Hawker Siddeley Trident]] and an [[Adria Airways|Inex-Adria Aviopromet]] [[McDonnell Douglas DC-9|Douglas DC-9]] collided near [[Zagreb]], [[Yugoslavia]] (now Croatia), killing all 176 aboard both planes and another person on the ground.
* On March 27, 1977, two [[Boeing 747]]s (a [[KLM]] and a [[Pan American World Airways|Pan Am]]) collided on the runway in heavy fog at [[Tenerife North Airport|Los Rodeos Airport]] in [[Tenerife]], Canary Islands, Spain, killing 583 people – the [[Tenerife airport disaster|worst aviation disaster]] on record.
* On January 1, 1978, [[Air India Flight 855]] crashed into the sea off the coast of India, killing all 213 aboard.
* On September 25, 1978, [[PSA Flight 182]] collided with a private [[Cessna 172]] over San Diego, California, and crashed into a local neighborhood. All 135 on the PSA aircraft, both pilots of the Cessna, and 7 people on the ground (144 total) were killed.
* On May 25, 1979, [[American Airlines Flight 191]], outbound from [[O'Hare International Airport]] in Chicago, Illinois, lost an engine during take-off and crashed, killing all 271 on board and 2 others on the ground. It was and remains the deadliest single-plane crash on American soil.
* On November 28, 1979, [[Air New Zealand Flight 901]] crashed on the flanks of [[Mount Erebus]] in [[Antarctica]], killing all 257 people on board.
* On March 28, 1979, there was a [[Three Mile Island accident|partial meltdown of the Three Mile Island Unit 2 reactor]] in Pennsylvania, United States. It is the most significant accident in U.S. commercial nuclear power plant history.