October 1970 in History

Events in History

Nobel Prize

Oct 8 Soviet author Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn wins the Nobel Prize for Literature

Oct 8 The Social Democratic and Labour Party (SDLP) propose that a system of Proportional Representation (PR) should be used in elections in Northern Ireland
Oct 9 Khmer Republic (Cambodia) declares independence
Oct 10 Fiji gains independence from Britain (National Day)
Oct 12 Rock Memorabilia Auction at Filmore East
Oct 13 A man dies in a premature bomb explosion in Dublin, Republic of Ireland
Oct 13 Angela Davis arrested in NYC
Oct 13 USSR performs nuclear test at Sary Shagan USSR
Oct 14 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
Oct 14 USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR

Election of Interest

Oct 15 Anwar Sadat elected 3rd President of Egypt, succeeding the late Gamal Abdel Nasser

Oct 15 Bridge over Yarra River in Melbourne crashes; killing 35
Oct 15 Russian passenger flight hijacked to Turkey

Event of Interest

Oct 16 Pierre Trudeau invokes the War Measures Act as a response to the October Crisis, the only peacetime use of the War Measures Act in Canadian history.

Oct 17 Anwar Sadat sworn in as the 3rd President of Egypt
Oct 18 Sachio Kinugasa begins 2,215 cons game streak for Hiroshima Carp
Oct 19 Amdahl Corp forms at Sunnyvale, California
Oct 19 John Frazier kills Ohta's declares WW 3 has begun
Oct 20 American agronomist Norman Borlaug awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for his contribution to world food supply
Oct 20 Zond 8 Launches to orbit the Moon
Oct 21 777 Unification church couples wed in Korea
Oct 21 Bernadette Devlin is released from prison having served four months of her six month sentence for riotous behaviour
Oct 21 Caledonian Airways takes over British United Airways
Oct 21 Nobel prize of peace awarded to Norman E Borlaugh
Oct 23 Charles Haughey and two others are found not guilty of illegal arms importation by a Dublin jury; the 'Arms Trial' began on 28 May 1970
Oct 23 Gary Gabelich sets auto speed record 622.4 mph (1,001 kph)

Election of Interest

Oct 24 Marxist Salvador Allende elected President of Chile by the Chilean Congress

Oct 24 Nancy Walker creates Ida Morgenstein role on "The Mary Tyler Moore Show"
Oct 26 "Doonesbury" comic strip debuts in 28 newspapers
Oct 26 Tanzania begins building railway Lusaka-Drone ash Salaam
Oct 28 US/USSR sign an agreement to discuss joint space efforts
Oct 29 The Electoral Reform Society calls for the introduction of Proportional Representation (PR) in elections in Northern Ireland

Meeting of Interest

Oct 30 Northern Ireland Prime Minister James Chichester-Clark meets with British Home Secretary Reginald Maulling to discuss matters related to reforms and security

Oct 30 There are serious riots in the Catholic Ardoyne area of Belfast which last for three nights

Birthdays in History

Oct 2 Colin Rivas, Galician artist

Sadiq Khan (52 years old)

Oct 8 British politician and 1st Muslim Mayor of London, born in London

Oct 13 Serena Altschul, American broadcast journalist, born in NYC, New York
Oct 18 José Padilla, American former gang member and alleged supporter of terrorism
Oct 20 Michelle Malkin, American political commentator and author (Fox News), born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Oct 23 Grant Imahara, American TV Mythbuster, born in Lod Angeles, California (d. 2020)
Oct 24 Rob Leslie-Carter, British engineer and project manager, born in Oxford, England

Weddings in History

John Major

Oct 3 75th Prime Minister of UK John Major (27) weds Norma Johnson (28) at St Matthew's Church, Brixton

Deaths in History

Oct 6 Julian Przybos, Polish poet (Sruby), dies at 69
Oct 8 Jean Giono, French writer (Le Hussard Sur le Toit), dies at 75
Oct 8 Lucien Goldmann, Romanian-French sociologist and philosopher, dies at 57
Oct 10 Adam Rapacki, Polish minister of Maritime (1956-68), dies at 60