September 1970 in History

Events in History

Sep 1 Failed assassination attempt on Jordanian king Hussain
Sep 1 Jose Velasco Ibarra re-elected president of Ecuador

Event of Interest

Sep 3 Indonesian president Suharto visits Netherlands

Sep 4 -5) 29.0 cm rainfall at Workman Creek, Arizona (state record)
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

Election of Interest

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

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 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 7 Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine hijacks 4 planes and forces them to land at Dawson's Field, Jordan
Sep 8 Black September hijackings begin, three airliners hijacked and blown up by Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine
Sep 11 Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine members release majority of 310 hostages from the Dawson's Field hijackings, near Zarqa, Jordan; 56 hostages, mostly Jews and Israeli citizens, are held until September 25
Sep 12 Palestinian terrorists blow up three hijacked airliners in Jordan, continuing to hold the passengers hostage in various undisclosed locations in Amman.
Sep 12 Soviet unmanned spacecraft Luna 16 launched to the moon
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 13 IBM announces System 370 computer
Sep 13 Palestine guerillas conquer Irbid Jordania
Sep 14 Economic Council for Northern Ireland holds its first meeting
Sep 15 Officers of the Royal Ulster Constabulary (RUC) in Northern Ireland vote narrowly in favour of remaining unarmed
Sep 15 PLO leader Arafat threatens to make a cemetery of Jordan
Sep 15 Rotterdam dock strikes end
Sep 16 King Hussein of Jordan forms military government
Sep 17 Jordan launches offensive against guerrilla army
Sep 20 Soviet spcecraft Luna 16 lands on Moon's Mare Fecunditatis, drills core sample
Sep 21 New York Times starts first modern op-ed page
Sep 21 Soviet space probe Luna 16 leaves the Moon

Event of Interest

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 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 26 A groups of Protestant youths attack the Catholic Unity Flats as rioting continues in the Protestant Shankill Road area
Sep 26 The Laguna Fire starts in San Diego County, California, burning 175,425 acres (710 km²).

Event of Interest

Sep 28 Anwar Sadat replaces the late Gamal Abdel Nasser as acting Egyptian President; elected president in October 1970

Sep 29 "NET Festival" last aired
Sep 30 A Protestant man is shot and killed by Loyalists in Belfast, North Ireland
Sep 30 New American Bible published

Birthdays in History

Sep 3 Jeremy Glick, American United Airlines Flight 93 passenger (d. 2001)
Sep 14 Ketanji Brown Jackson, American attorney and judge, born in Washington D.C.
Sep 18 Dan Eldon, British-Kenyan photojournalist, born in Hampstead, London (d. 1993)

Samantha Power (52 years old)

Sep 21 Irish American author and diplomat (US Ambassador to the UN), born in Dublin, Ireland

Sep 22 Gladys Berejiklian, Australian politician (Premier of New South Wales 2019-21), born in Sydney, Australia
Sep 27 Yoshiharu Habu, Japanese professional shogi player

Deaths in History

Sep 1 Francois Mauriac, French novelist, poet and playwright (Nobel 1952), dies at 84
Sep 4 James M. Taylor, American USAF officer and astronaut, killed during a training mission at 39
Sep 8 Percy Spencer, inventor of the microwave oven, (b. 1894)
Sep 11 Ernst May, German architect and city planner (New Frankfurt), dies at 84
Sep 14 Rudolph Carnap, German philosopher and mathematician, dies at 79
Sep 21 Gijsbert Friedhoff, Dutch architect (Wibautstrat tax office, Amsterdam), dies at 78
Sep 22 Alice Hamilton, American physician, scientist and social advocate (workmen's compensation laws, occupational illnesses), dies at 101 [1]
Sep 25 Erich Maria Remarque, German novelist (All Quiet on the Western Front), dies at 72