Historical Events in September 1970

Sep 3 Indonesian president Suharto visits Netherlands

Sep 4 Marxist Salvador Allende wins a narrow plurality of votes in Chile's presidential election

Sep 4 An Irish Republican Army (IRA) member, Michael Kane (35), is killed in the premature explosion of the bomb he was planting at an electricity transformer in Belfast
Sep 5 Estimated 15 cm (6") of rainfall, Bug Point, Utah (state record)
Sep 6 Palestinians seize 3 airliners
Sep 6 USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR

Sep 7 Jerry Lewis' 5th Muscular Dystrophy telethon

Sep 7 Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine hijacks 4 planes and forces them to land at Dawson's Field, Jordan
Sep 7 White Sox use record 41 players in doubleheader & lose both games
Sep 7 Donald Boyles sets record for highest parachute jump from a bridge, by leaping off of 1,053' Royal George Bridge in Colorado
Sep 7 Fighting between Arabic guerillas and government forces in Amman, Jordan.
Sep 8 Black September hijackings begin, three airliners hijacked and blown up by Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine
Sep 9 Bowie Kuhn suspends Denny McLain for carrying a gun
Sep 9 Feyenoord wins soccer's Club World Cup
Sep 11 88 of the hostages from the Dawson's Field hijackings are released. The remaining hostages, mostly Jews and Israeli citizens, are held until September 25.
Sep 11 The Ford Pinto is introduced.
Sep 12 Soviet unmanned spacecraft Luna 16 launched to the moon
Sep 12 Phyllis Ann George (Texas), 21, crowned 43rd Miss America 1971
Sep 12 Supersonic airliner Concorde lands for the 1st time at Heathrow airport

Sep 12 US LSD professor Timothy Leary escapes from California jail
Sep 12 Palestinian terrorists blow up three hijacked airliners in Jordan, continuing to hold the passengers hostage in various undisclosed locations in Amman.
Sep 13 1st NYC Marathon won by Gary Muhrcke in 2:31:38
Sep 13 IBM announces System 370 computer
Sep 13 Palestine guerillas conquer Irbid Jordania

Sep 13 90th Men's U.S. Open: Ken Rosewall beats Tony Roche (2-6, 6-4, 7-6, 6-3)

Sep 13 90th Women's U.S. Open: Margaret Court beats Rosemary Casals (6-2, 2-6, 6-1)
Sep 14 Economic Council for Northern Ireland holds its first meeting

Sep 15 Decca awards Bing Crosby a 2nd platinum disc for selling 300 million

Sep 15 PLO leader Arafat threatens to make a cemetery of Jordan
Sep 15 Rotterdam dock strikes end
Sep 15 Officers of the Royal Ulster Constabulary (RUC) in Northern Ireland vote narrowly in favour of remaining unarmed
Sep 16 King Hussein of Jordan forms military government
Sep 17 Jordan launches offensive against guerrilla army
Sep 17 WSWP TV channel 9 in Grandview, WV (PBS) begins broadcasting

Sep 19 "The Mary Tyler Moore" show premieres on CBS

Sep 20 Jim Morrison found guilty of "open profanity and indecent exposure" after allegedly exposing himself at a concert in Miami in 1969

Sep 20 Soviet spcecraft Luna 16 lands on Moon's Mare Fecunditatis, drills core sample
Sep 21 "Monday Night Football" premieres on ABC - Browns 31, Jets 21
Sep 21 KAPP TV channel 35 in Yakima, WA (ABC) begins broadcasting
Sep 21 Soviet space probe Luna 16 leaves the Moon
Sep 21 Oakland A's Vida Blue no-hits Minnesota Twins, 6-0
Sep 21 New York Times starts first modern op-ed page

Sep 22 US President Richard Nixon requests 1,000 new FBI agents for college campuses

Sep 23 Abdul Razak bin Hussain becomes premier of Malaysia
Sep 23 Gary Muhrcke wins 1st NY Marathon
Sep 23 Chief Constable of the Royal Ulster Constabulary (RUC) Arthur Young announces his resignation
Sep 24 Soviet space probe Luna 16 lands on earth after 1st unmanned round trip to moon

Sep 25 Ringo Starr releases his album "Beaucoups of Blues"

Sep 26 The Laguna Fire starts in San Diego County, California, burning 175,425 acres (710 km²).
Sep 26 A groups of Protestant youths attack the Catholic Unity Flats as rioting continues in the Protestant Shankill Road area
Sep 27 Ken Boswell sets 2nd baseman record of 85 games without an error
Sep 28 "Words & Music" debuts on NBC-TV

Sep 28 Anwar Sadat replaces Gamal Abdel Nasser as acting Egyptian President

Sep 28 Intrepid (US) beats Gretel II (Aust) in 22nd America's Cup
Sep 29 "NET Festival" last aired
Sep 30 New American Bible published
Sep 30 A Protestant man is shot and killed by Loyalists in Belfast, North Ireland