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1970 Guide, Meaning , Facts, Information and Description

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Events

January-February

January 1 - Construction begins on Arcosanti, by Paolo Soleri, in Mayer, Arizona, located 65, miles north of Phoenix, Arizona.
January 1 - Unix epoch at 00:00:00 UTC.
January 12 - Biafra capitulates, ending the Nigerian civil war.
January 15 - After a 32-month fight for independence from Nigeria, Biafran forces under General Effiong formally surrender to General Yakabu Gowon
January 15 - Muammar al-Qaddafi is proclaimed premier of Libya
January 16 - Buckminster Fuller receives the Gold Medal award from the American Institute of Architects
February 11 - John Lennon pays Ł1,344 in fines for 96 people who had protested against the South African rugby team playing in Scotland.
February 11 - Japan becomes the fourth country to launch a satellite into orbit.
February 18 - The Chicago Eight are found not guilty of conspiring to incite riots at the 1968 Democratic National Convention
February 26 - National Public Radio incorporates as a non-profit corporation

March-April

March 1 - Rhodesia severs its last tie with the British crown and declares itself a racially segregated republic.
March 5 - A nuclear non-proliferation treaty goes into effect after ratification by 43 nations
March 16 - Publication of complete New English Bible
March 17 - My Lai massacre: The United States Army charges 14 officers with suppressing information related to the incident.
March 18 - Lon Nol ousts Prince Norodom Sihanouk of Cambodia
March 18 - Post Office strike in USA - 210.000 out of 750.000 US postal employees walk out. President Nixon assigns military units to New York City post offices. Strike lasts two weeks
March 23 - Del Lord, pioneer Hollywood director
March 31 - Explorer I reentry (after 12 years in orbit)
April 1 - President Richard Nixon signs the Public Health Cigarette Smoking Act into law banning cigarette television advertisements in the United States starting on January 1, 1971
April 10 - Paul McCartney announces that the Beatles have disbanded
April 11 - Apollo 13 ill-fated space mission launched
April 17 - Apollo 13 returns safely to earth
April 22 - First Earth Day celebrated
April 29 - U.S. invades Cambodia to hunt out Viet Cong. Massive protests against the war continue in the U.S

May-August

May 4 Four students at Kent State University in Ohio are killed by National Guardsmensmen at a demonstration protesting against the incursion into Cambodia.
May 6 - Charles Haughey and Neil Blaney are dismissed as members of the Irish Government due to accusations of their involvement in a plot to import arms for use in Northern Ireland.
May 9 - 100,000 people demonstrate in Washington DC against the Vietnam War
May 14 - Ulrike Meinhof helps Andreas Baader escape
May 17 - Thor Heyerdahl sets sail from Morocco on the papyrus boat Ra II to sail the Atlantic Ocean.
May 26 - The Soviet Tupolev Tu-144 becomes the first commercial transport to exceed Mach 2.
May 27 - British expedition climbs south face of Annapurna I
May 31 - Avalanche on Nevado Huascarán in destroys the town of Yungay, Peru
June 2 - Norway announces that it has rich oil deposits off its North Sea coast
June 4 - Tonga gains independence from the United Kingdom.
June 18 - Edward Heath is elected Prime Minister of United Kingdom
June 24 - The United States Senate repeals the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution.
June 28 - US ground troops withdraw from Cambodia
July 4 - Chartered Dan-Air Comet crashes into mountains north of Barcelona - at least 112 dead
July 11 - The first tunnel under the Pyrenees links the French and Spanish towns of Aranoutes and Biesma
July 21 - Aswan High Dam in Egypt completed.
July 30 - Damages awarded to Thalidomide victims
August 17-18 - US sinks 418 containers of nerve gas into the Gulf Stream near the Bahamas
August 17 - Venera program: Venera 7 is launched. It will later becomes the first spacecraft to successfully transmit data from another planet.

September

September 1 – Assassination attempt against king Hussein of Jordan
September 3 - Salvador Allende wins the presidential election in Chile
September 3-6 – Israeli forces fight Palestinian guerillas in southern Lebanon
September 5 - Vietnam War: Operation Jefferson Glenn begins - The United States 101st Airborne Division and the South Vietnamese 1st Infantry Division initiate a new operation in Thua Thien Province (operation ends in October 1971)
September 7 - An anti-war rally is held at Valley Forge, Pennsylvania, attended by John Kerry, Jane Fonda and Donald Sutherland.
September 7 – Fighting between Arabic guerillas and government forces in Amman, Jordan
September 8-10 – Jordanian government and Palestinian guerillas make truces that keep breaking
September 9 – Guinea recognizes East Germany
September 10 – Cambodian government forces break the blockage around Kompong Tho after a 3-month siege
September 11 - The Ford Pinto is introduced
September 13 - First running of the New York City Marathon
September 15 – King Hussein of Jordan forms a military government with Mohamed Daoud as the prime minister
September 20 - End of term for Ismail Nasiruddin Shah ibni Almarhum Sultan Zainal Abidin III as the 4th Yang di-Pertuan Agong of Malaysia.
September 20 – Syrian armored forces cross Jordanian border
September 20-21 – Luna 16 lands on the Moon and lifts off the day later with samples. Lands on Earth September 24
September 21 – Palestinian armored forces reinforce Palestinian guerillas in Irbidi, Jordan
September 21 - Tuanku Al-Mutassimu Billahi Muhibbudin Sultan Abdul Halim Al-Muadzam Shah ibni Almarhum Sultan Badlishah, Sultan of Kedah becomes the 5th Yang di-Pertuan Agong of Malaysia.
September 23 – Jordanian army drives Syrian tanks back over the Syrian border
September 25 – Jordanian army releases 15 people who had been Palestinian hostages
September 26 – Laguna Fire starts in San Diego County butining 175,425 acres.
September 26 – PFLP releases 32 hostages, victims of their plane hijackings
September 26 – King Hussein of Jordan forms a new government, with Ahmed Toukan as the prime minister
September 27 – Jordanian government and Palestinians sign a treaty where both sides withdraw their forces from Jordanian cities
September 27 – Richard Nixon begins a tour in Europe and visits Italy, Yugoslavia, Spain, United Kingdom and Ireland
September 28 – Gamal Abdal Nasser dies - vice president Anwar Sadat is named temporary president of Egypt
September 29 – Last six hostages in the hands of Palestinians are released
September 29 – US Congress gives president Richard Nixon authority to sell arms to Israel
September 29 - In Berlin, Baader-Meinhof Gang members rob three banks, loot totaling over DM200.000
September 30 – Britain releases Leila Khaled; West Germany and Switzerland release six other Palestinian guerillas

October

October 3 – In Lebanon, government of the prime minister Rashid Karam resigns
October 4 – In Bolivia, army commander general Rogelio Miranda and group of officers rebel and demand resignation of the president Alfredo Ovando Candia – president fires him
October 5 – Nixon's European tour ends
October 5 - The Front de Libération du Québec; (FLQ) kidnap James Cross in Montreal and demands release of all its imprisoned members. The next day the Canadian government announces it won't accept the demand - first stirrings of Quebec's October Crisis
October 6 – Bolivian president Alredo Ovando Candia resigns – general Rogelio Miranda takes over but resigns soon after
October 6 – French president Georges Pompidou visits Soviet Union
October 7 – General Juan Jose Torres becomes the new president of Bolivia
October 7 – Anwar Sadat accepted as Egyptian president
October 8 – US foreign office announces that it renews its arms sales to Pakistan
October 8 - Soviet author Alexander Solzhenitsyn is awarded Nobel Prize for Literature
October 8 - Vietnam War: In Paris, a Communist delegation rejects US President Richard Nixon's October 7 peace proposal as "a maneuver to deceive world opinion."
October 9 - The Khmer Republic is proclaimed in Cambodia
October 9 – Divorce law in Italy
October 10 - Fiji becomes independent.
October 10 - October Crisis: In Montreal, Quebec, a national crisis hits Canada when Quebec Vice-Premier and Minister of Labour Pierre Laporte becomes the second statesman kidnapped by members of the FLQ terrorist group
October 11 – 11 French soldiers are killed in a shootout with rebels in Chad
October 12 – USA begins to sell arms to Jordan
October 12 - Vietnam War: US President Richard Nixon announces that the United States will withdraw 40,000 more troops before Christmas
October 13 - Canada and the People's Republic of China established diplomatic relations.
October 13 – China and Canada renew diplomatic relations
October 13 – Saeb Salam's government forms in Lebanon
October 14 – Chinese nuclear test in Lop Nor
October 15 – In Egypt, referendum supports Anwar Sadat 90.04%
October 15 - 35 construction workers are killed when a section of the new West Gate Bridge in Melbourne collapses into the river below.
October 16 – Canadian government declares state of emergency and outlaws Quebec Liberation Front
October 17 – Pierre Laporte is found killed in south of Montreal
October 17 – Cholera epidemic in Istanbul
October 17 - Anwar Sadat becomes officially president of Egypt
October 20 – Soviet Union launches Zond 8 lunar brobe
October 20 – Algerian ex-minister Krim Belkacem is found strangled in his hotel room in Frankfurt
October 20 – Egyptian president Anwar Sadat names Mahmoud Fawzi as his prime minister
October 21 – US Air Force plane makes an emergency landing near Leninakan, Soviet Union. Soviets release the American officers, including two generals, November 10
October 22 – Chilean army commander Rene Schneider is shot in Santiago – government declares state of emergency. Schneider dies October 25
October 26 – US and Soviet space researchers meet in Moscow
October 28 – In Jordan, government of Ahmed Toukan resigns – next prime minister is Wasfi Tell
October 28 – Cholera outbreak in eastern Slovakia – Hungary closes its border with Czechoslovakia
October 30 - In Vietnam, the worst monsoon to hit the area in six years causes large floods, kills 293, leaves 200,000 homeless and virtually halts the Vietnam War.

November

November 1 – Fire destroys Le Cinq Sept dance hall in St. Laurent Du Pont, France – 144 dead
November 4 - Vietnam War: Vietnamization - The United States turns control of the air base in the Mekong Delta to South Vietnam.
November 5 - Vietnam War: United States Military Assistance Command in Vietnam reports the lowest weekly American soldier death toll in five years (24 soldiers died that week, which was the fifth consecutive week the death toll was below 50; 431 were reported wounded that week, however)
November 8 – Egypt, Sudan and Libya announce their intentions to form a federation
November 9 – Charles de Gaulle dies – he is buried November 13
November 9 – Soviet Union launches Luna 17
November 9 - Vietnam War: The Supreme Court of the United States votes 6 to 3 to not hear a case by the state of Massachusetts asking to allow the state the ability to enforce its law granting Massachusetts residents the right to refuse military service in an undeclared war.
November 10 - Vietnam War: Vietnamization - For the first time in five years, an entire week ended with no reports of American combat fatalities in Southeast Asia
November 12 – Soviet author Andrei Amalrik sentenced for three years for anti-Soviet writings
November 12 – Tornado in East Pakistan - 250.000 dead
November 12 - The Oregon Highway Division (now known as the Oregon Department of Transportation) is given the task of removing a rotting beached Grey whale, leading to the now infamous exploding whale incident
November 13 – Military coup in Syria – Hafez al-Assad takes the power
November 13 - A 100-mph tropical cyclone hits the densely populated Ganges Delta region of East Pakistan (now Bangladesh)s, killing an estimated 500,000 people (this is regarded as the 20th century's worst cyclone disaster).
November 14 - fatal airplane accident in Wayne County, West Virginia, claims the lives of the entire Marshall University football team.
November 17 - Vietnam War: Lieutenant William Calley goes on trial for the My Lai massacre
November 17 - Luna program: The Soviet Union lands Lunokhod 1 on Mare Imbrium (Sea of Rains) on the Moon. This is the first roving remote-controlled robot to land on another world and was released by the orbiting Luna 17 spacecraft
November 18 - US President Richard Nixon asks the United States Congress for US$155 million in supplemental aid for the Cambodian government (US$85 million was for military assistance in order to help prevent the overthrow of the government of Premier Lon Nol by the Khmer Rouge and North Vietnam)
November 18 – United Nations Security Council demands that no government should recognize Rhodesia
November 19 – EEC prime minister meeting in Munich
November 21 – Syrian Prime Minister Hafez al-Assad forms a new government but retains the post of defense minister
November 21 – in Ethiopia, Eritrea Liberation Front kills an Ethiopian general
November 21 - Vietnam War: Operation Ivory Coast - A joint Air Force and Army team raids the Son Tay prison camp in an attempt to free American POWss thought to be held there (there were zero Americans killed, but the prisoners had already moved to another camp; All US POWs were moved to a handful of central prison complexes as a result of this raid).
November 22 – Guinean president Sekou Toure accuses Portugal of an attack when hundreds of mercenaries land near capital Conakry. Guinean army repels the landing attempts in November 23-24. November 25-29 UN delegation arrives to investigate the situation. In December 4 UN announces that Portuguese navy and army units are responsible
November 25 - In Japan, world-famous author and Tatenokai militia leader Yukio Mishima and his followers take over Inchigaya HQ of the Japanese Self-Defense Force and take general Kanetoshi Mashita hostage. When Mishima's speech fails to sway public opinion towards his right-wing political beliefs, he commits seppuku
November 26 – East Pakistan leader sheik Mujibur Rahman accuses central government of negligence in catastrophe relief
November 26 – Pope Paul VI begins an Asian tour
November 27 – Philipino artist Benjamin Mendoza tries to assassinate Paul VI during pope's visit in Manila

December

December 1 – Italian House of Representatives accepts the divorce law
December 1 – Ethiopia recognizes People's Republic of China
December 1 – Basque ETA kidnaps West German Eugen Beihl in San Sebastian
December 1 – Luis Echeverria Alvarez becomes president of Mexico
December 2 - The United States Environmental Protection Agency begins operations
December 3 - October Crisis: In Montreal, Quebec, kidnapped British Trade Commissioner James Cross is released by the Front de Libération du Québec terrorist group after being held hostage for 60 days. Police negotiate his release and in return the Government of Canada grants five terrorists from the FLQ's Chenier Cell their request for safe passage to Cuba
December 3 – Burgos Trial - In Burgos, Spain, begins a trial against 16 basques accused of terrorism
December 4 – Spanish government declares a three-month martial law in Basque county of Guipuzco due to strikes and demonstrations
December 5 – Asian and Australian tour of Paul VI ends
December 7 – Giovanni Enrico Bucher, Swiss ambassador to Brazil, is kidnapped in Rio de Janeiro; kidnappers demand release of 70 political prisoners
December 7 – UN general assembly supports the isolation of South Africa due to its apartheid policies
December 12 – Landslide in western Colombia – over 200 dead
December 13 – Government of Poland announces increases in the prize of food. Riots and looting erupt until a bloody confrontation between the rioters against army and the police in December 15. Martial law December 17-22. December 23 the government will freeze the food prizes for two years
December 15 – Venus 7 lands on Venus
December 16 – Ethiopian government declares state of emergency in the county of Eritrea due to activities of Eritrea Liberation Front
December 20 – General secretary of the communist part of Poland, Wladyslaw Gomulka, resigns – Edward Gierek takes his place
December 20 – Egyptian delegation leaves for Moscow to ask for economic and military aid
December 22 – Libyan revolutionary council declares that it will nationalize all foreign banks in the country
December 22 - Franz Stangl, the ex-commander of Treblinka is sentenced to life imprisonment
December 23 – Bolivian government releases Regis Debray
December 25 – ETA releases Eugen Beihl
December 27 – Indian president declares new elections
December 28 – Burgos Trial – three Basques are sentenced to death (three twice), others sentenced for 12-62 years and one released. December 30 Franco commutes the death sentences to 30 years in prison
December 28 – Suspects of killing Pierre Laporte, Jacques & Paul Rose and Francis Sunard, are arrested near Montreal
December 30 – In Viscaya Basque county 15.000 goes to strike to protest Burgos trial death sentences

Uncertain Date

The first Regional Technical Colleges open in Ireland.
Disappearance of Sada Abe, Japanese former prostitute and later actress.
Discovery in England of the Sweet Track, the World's oldest engineered roadway.

Year in topic

1970 in film
- Patton
- Love Story
- M*A*S*H
1970 in literature
- Deliverance by James Dickey (in 2001, named as one of the 100 best English-language novels of the 20th century, as chosen by the editorial board of the Modern Library.)
- I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou
1970 in music
1970 in sports
1970 in television
- January 5 - Soap opera: All My Children premieres.

Births

January-April

January 9 - Andrew Leipus, physiotherapist
January 13 - Keith Coogan, actor
January 17 - Jeremy Roenick, American NHL star
January 29 - Heather Graham, actress
January 29 - Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore, shooter
January 31 - Minnie Driver, actress
March 18 - Queen Latifah, rapper, record producer, actress
March 24 - Lara Flynn Boyle, actress (The Practice)
March 24 - Sharon Corr, musician ("The Corrs")
March 27 - Mariah Carey, singer
March 28 - Vince Vaughn, actor, writer, producer
March 30 - Secretariat, 1973 Triple Crown winner, two-time Horse of the Year (d. 1989)
April 4 - Barry Pepper, actor
April 13 - Rick Schroeder, actor
April 21 - Nicole Sullivan, actress, comedienne and writer
April 25 - Renee Zellweger, actress
April 25 - Jason Lee, professional skateboarder, actor
April 27 - Kylie Travis, actress and model
April 29 - Andre Agassi, professional tennis star
April 29 - Uma Thurman, actress

May-July

May 4 - Karla Homolka, killer, kidnapper, and rapist
May 12 - Mike Weir, Canadian professional golfer
May 16 - Gabriela Sabatini, tennis player
May 18 - Tina Fey, writer, comedienne, actress
May 22 - Naomi Campbell, model, actress
May 24 - Jeff Zgonina, football player
May 24 - Tommy Page, singer
May 27 - Joseph Fiennes, actor
June 8 - Kelli Williams, actress (The Practice)
June 16 - Phil Mickelson, golfer
June 19 - Quincy Watts, American athlete
June 20 - Prince Moulay Rachid, Prince of Morocco
June 25 - Lucy Benjamin, British actress
June 26 - Chris O'Donnell, actor
June 27 - Jim Edmonds, baseball player
June 27 - Vitamin C, pop singer
July 3 - Teemu Selanne, NHL hockey player
July 8 - Beck, alternative rock and roll singer
July 24 - Jennifer Lopez, actress, singer
July 27 - Gavin Morris, English Photographer, Project Manager

August-December

August 2 - Tony Amonte, NHL star
August 6 - M. Night Shyamalan, film director, writer, producer, actor
August 13 - Alan Shearer, England and Newcastle soccer player
August 18 - Malcolm-Jamal Warner, actor
August 23 - Jay Mohr, actor, comedian
August 25 - Claudia Schiffer, model
August 27 - Jim Thome, baseball player
August 31 - Debbie Gibson, singer
September 4 - Daisy Dee, singer, actress
September 8 - Latrell Sprewell, NBA basketball player
September 9 - Macy Gray, singer
September 22 - Mike Matheny, baseball player
September 23 - Ani DiFranco, musician
September 28 - Isabelle Brasseur, figure skating champion
October 2 - Kelly Ripa, actress, television host
October 8 - Matt Damon, actor
October 9 - Annika Sörenstam, Swedish golfer
October 15 - Eric Benét, singer
October 17 - Anil Kumble, Indian cricketer
November 5 - Jen Besemer, surrealist poet and painter
November 12 - Tonya Harding, figure skater
December 20 - Nicole DeBoer, actress (, The Dead Zone)
December 29 - Kevin Weisman, actor
December 30 - Gerben Maassen van den Brink, Programmer, climber, sociologist, philosopher

Deaths

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Sada Abe, Japanese former prostitute and later actress (unconfirmed).

Nobel Prizes

Physics - Hannes Olof Gösta Alfvén, Louis Eugčne Félix Néel
Chemistry - Luis F Leloir
Medicine - Sir Bernard Katz, Ulf von Euler, Julius Axelrod
Literature - Aleksandr Isaevich Solzhenitsyn
Peace - Norman E. Borlaug
Economics - Paul Samuelson

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