June 1970 in History

Events in History

Election of Interest

Jun 18 Edward Heath's Conservative Party win the General Election in UK, replacing the Labour Party

Jun 19 A Nikolayev & V Sevastyanov return after 18 days in Soyuz 9
Jun 19 Conservatives led by Edward Heath win British parliamentary election
Jun 19 The Patent Cooperation Treaty is signed
Jun 20 British government of Edward Heath forms (with Margaret Thatcher in the Cabinet)
Jun 21 Detroit's Cesar Gutierrez goes 7-for-7 to tie a record set in 1892
Jun 22 Irish socialist, republican and Member of Parliament, Bernadette Devlin, loses her appeal against a 6-month prison sentence imposed for taking part in riots in Derry

Event of Interest

Jun 22 President Richard Nixon signs extension of the 1965 Voting Rights Act that requires voting age at 18 in all federal, state, and local elections

Jun 22 Supreme Court ruled juries of less than 12 are constitutional

Event of Interest

Jun 23 Charles Rangel defeats Adam Clayton Powell Jr. in Democratic primary in New York

Jun 24 Bobby Murcer ties record of 4 consecutive HRs
Jun 24 Reds play final game at Cincinnati's Crosley Field, beat Giants 5-4
Jun 24 US Senate votes overwhelmingly to repeal Gulf of Tonkin Resolution
Jun 26 Two young girls die in a premature explosion in Derry after their father, a member of the Irish Republican Army, was making an incendiary device, presumably for use against the British Army
Jun 27 Following the arrest of Bernadette Devlin, intense riots erupt in Derry and Belfast leading to a prolonged gun battle between Irish republicans and loyalists
Jun 28 Around 500 Catholic workers at the Harland and Wolff shipyard are forced to leave their work by Protestant employees as serious rioting continues in Belfast
Jun 29 US ends 2 month military offensive into Cambodia

Birthdays in History

Jun 1 Joshua Compston, English art impresario, born in London, England (d. 1996)
Jun 3 Ammon McNeely, American rock climber (holds most speed climbing records)
Jun 4 Ekrem İmamoğlu, Turkish politician, Mayor of Istanbul (2019-), born in Akçaabat, Turkey
Jun 6 Sarah Dessen, American author
Jun 8 Gabrielle Giffords, American politician
Jun 19 Rahul Gandhi, Indian politician
Jun 20 Andrea Nahles, German politician, Leader of Social Democratic Party (2018-), born in Mendig, West Germany
Jun 20 Prince Moulay Rachid of Morocco, born in Rabat, Morocco
Jun 22 Michel Elefteriades, Greek-Lebanese politician, artist, producer and businessman
Jun 25 Ariel Gore, American journalist and author, born in Carmel, California

Weddings in History

Jonas Salk

Jun 29 Medical researcher Jonas Salk (55) weds painter and author Françoise Gilot (48) in Paris

Deaths in History

Jun 1 Giuseppe Ungaretti, Italian poet (Hermeticism) and journalist, dies at 82
Jun 3 Adrian Conan Doyle, youngest son of Arthur Conan Doyle, dies at 59
Jun 3 Douwe Hermans Kiestra, Frisian farmer and writer, dies at 70
Jun 3 Hjalmar Schacht, German economist, banker and politician (co-founder German Democratic Party), dies at 93
Jun 4 Emmett J. Culligan, American entrepreneur (founder of water treatment organization Culligan Inc.), dies at 77
Jun 4 Hjalmar Schcacht [Horace Greeley], Nazi minister, dies
Jun 4 Jopie [Johan A] Pengel, premier Suriname, dies
Jun 5 "Jopie" Pengel [Johan A], Premier of Suriname (1963-69), dies at 54
Jun 5 Jay Irving, American cartoonist (Draw Me a Laugh), dies at 69

E. M. Forster (1879-1970)

Jun 7 English writer and novelist (Maurice, Passage to India), dies at 91

Jun 8 Abraham Maslow, American psychologist (b. 1908)
Jun 11 Aleksander Kerensky, Minister-Chairman of the Russian Provisional Government (1917), dies at 89
Jun 11 Frank Laubach, Benton Pa, taught reading through phonetics, dies
Jun 11 William 'Billy Batts' Devino, American crime figure (b. 1921)
Jun 16 Elsa Triolet [Ella Kagan], Russian-French writer and Resistance fighter, dies at 73