January 1970 in History

Events in History

Jan 4 Walter Cronkite ends hosting weekly documentary

Jan 5 23,000 Belgian mine workers strike
Jan 9 Constitution of Singapore enacted
Jan 11 Irish republican political party Sinn Féin party splits between those in favor of abstentionism (of not taking any seats won in the parliaments) and those where against
Jan 13 Colonel Odumegwu Ojukwu flees Biafra into exile, leaving his deputy Philip Effiong to surrender to the Nigerian army, unofficially ending the Nigerian Civil War
Jan 13 Riots begin in the Ballymurphy area of Belfast
Jan 14 Royal Ulster Constabulary officers patrol the Falls Road area of Belfast for the first time since 1969

Jan 15 Muammar Gaddafi is proclaimed premier of Libya

Jan 15 Nigerian civil war officially ends after 2 1/2 years of fighting when the Republic of Biafra disbands and joins Nigeria
Jan 15 Riots break out in the Ardoyne area of Belfast
Jan 16 4 months after leading a coup against monarchy, Muammar Gaddafi takes over rule of Libya
Jan 16 AAU player Steve Myers makes a basketball field goal of 92'3½" from out of bounds, Tacoma-it shouldn't have counted, but was allowed
Jan 16 Buckminster Fuller receives the Gold Medal award from the American Institute of Architects
Jan 17 John M Burgess installed as bishop of Protestant Episcopals (Mass)
Jan 18 Hasse Borjes skates world record 500m in 38.9 sec
Jan 19 Eight Bishops of the Roman Catholic Church in the Netherlands say there should be room in the church for both married priests and celibate priests

Jan 19 US President Richard Nixon nominates G. Harold Carswell to Supreme Court, approval rejected by US Senate

Jan 20 Super Fight, computer mock championship between Ali & Marciano; Marciano won.
Jan 22 1st commercial Boeing 747 flight, Pan American World Airways flies from New York City to London in 6½ hours
Jan 22 Test debut of Barry Richards, South Africa v Australia, Cape Town
Jan 23 Australia's 1st amateur radio satellite (Oscar 5) launched (California)
Jan 23 Member of Dutch feminist group Dolle Mina burn their bras in Amsterdam
Jan 23 US launches 2nd generation weather satellite, ITOS 1
Jan 23 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
Jan 24 3rd ABA All-Star Game: West 128 beats East 98 at Indiana
Jan 24 Valeri Muratov skates world record 500m (38.99 sec)
Jan 26 "Bridge over Troubled Water" 5th and final studio album by Simon & Garfunkel is released (Grammy Award Album of the Year, Best Engineered Non-Classical Album 1971)
Jan 26 Pendleton, Ford & Cryer's "Last Sweet Days of Isaac," premieres in NYC
Jan 28 Lubomír Strougal succeeds Cernik as premier of Czechoslovakia
Jan 29 USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR

Jan 16 Garth Ennis, Irish comic book author, born in Holywood, United Kingdom
Jan 22 Alex Ross, American comic book painter (Marvels, Kingdom Come), born in Portland, Oregon
Jan 27 Carlos Javier Bernardo, Dutch prince
Jan 29 Paul Ryan, American politician (R-Wisconsin) & Speaker of the House (2015-2018), born in Janesville, Wisconsin

Jan 3 Gladys Aylward, British missionary in China; portrayed by Ingrid Bergman in The Inn of the Sixth Happiness (b. 1902)
Jan 4 Jean-Étienne Valluy, French general (b. 1899)
Jan 5 Cyril Fagan, Irish astrologer and author, dies at 73
Jan 5 Max Born, German physicist (quantum mechanics, Nobel 1954), dies at 87
Jan 8 Georges Guibourg, French performer (b. 1891)
Jan 10 Charles Olson, American poet (The Maximus Poems), dies of liver cancer at 59
Jan 10 Pavel Belyayev, Soviet fighter pilot and cosmonaut (Voskhod II), dies at 44
Jan 12 Blanche Stuart Scott, US pilot, dies at 84
Jan 14 William Feller, Croatian mathematician (b. 1906)
Jan 16 Armijn Pane, Indonesian writer (Djinak-djinak merpati), dies at 61
Jan 18 David O. McKay, 9th President of the Church of Jesus Christ of the Latter-day Saints, dies at 96
Jan 24 Caresse Crosby, American poet (b. 1891)
Jan 25 Eunice Hunton Carter, 1st African American female district attorney (NY), dies at 70
Jan 27 Rita Angus, New Zealand painter (b. 1908)
Jan 29 B. H. Liddell Hart, English military historian and publicist (The Rommel Papers), dies at 74