Events in History in 1970

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• Jan 1 "The Epoch" (Time 0 for UNIX systems, Midnight GMT)
• Jan 1 Afro-American Historical Calendar Series Established

• Jan 1 The Netherland Christian Workers Union (NCW) forms
• Jan 1 Revised calendar for Western (RC) Church goes into effect
• Jan 1 The University College of Zululand, formerly affiliated to the University of South Africa, attains full academic autonomy as the University of Zululand.
• Jan 1 The Ulster Defence Regiment (UDR), an infantry regiment of the British Army, comes into existence
• Jan 1 US Federal oil depletion allowance reduced from 27.5 to 22.0 percent
• Jan 2 US population is 293,200,000; African American population: 22,600,000 (11.1%)
• Jan 3 Marxist government takes over in Congo
• Jan 4 NYC transit fare rises from 20 cents to 30 cents, new larger tokens used

• Jan 4 More than 15,000 people are killed in Tonghai County, China after a magnitude 7.7 earthquake
• 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 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 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 16 4 months after leading a coup against monarchy, Muammar Gaddafi takes over rule of Libya
• 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 Nixon nominates G Harold Carswell to Supreme Court (fails)
• Jan 19 UCLA fires Angela Davis for being a communist
• 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 Pendleton, Ford & Cryer's "Last Sweet Days of Isaac," premieres in NYC
• 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 28 Lubomír Strougal succeeds Cernik as premier of Czechoslovakia
• Jan 29 USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
• Feb 1 Stalled commuter train rammed by express in Argentina, 139 die
• Feb 1 West-Germany & USSR sign gas contract

• Feb 4 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
• Feb 5 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
• Feb 6 Graeme Pollock completes 274 v Australia at Durban
• Feb 7 LSU's "Pistol" Pete Marovich scores 69 pts in losing cause
• Feb 7 US female Figure Skating championship won by Janet Lynn
• Feb 7 US male Figure Skating championship won by Tim Wood
• Feb 10 26.4 cm precipitation falls on Mount Washington NH (state record)
• Feb 10 Dry powder avalanche moving at 120 mph smashes into youth hostel at Val d'Isere, France, killing 40 Belgian, French, & German youths
• Feb 11 26.37 cm (10.38") of rainfall, Mt Washington, NH (state 24-hr rec)
• Feb 11 Japan becomes 4th nation to put a satellite (Osumi) in orbit
• Feb 12 Anthony Shaffer's "Sleuth" premieres in NYC
• Feb 13 Man-eating tiger is reported to have killed 48, 80 km from New Delhi
• Feb 13 NL offices begins move from Cincinnati to San Francisco (completed Feb 23)
• Feb 15 Dominican DC-9 crashes into sea at Santo Domingo, kills 102
• Feb 15 Nationalists disrupt UN session on Congo
• Feb 17 US army officer Jeffrey MacDonald murders his pregnant wife and two small daughters
• Feb 17 Robert Marasco's "Child's Play" premieres in NYC
• Feb 18 Chicago 7 defendants found innocent of inciting to riot

• Feb 19 AL Cy Young Award winner Denny McLain suspended for bookmaking
• Feb 19 USSR launches Sputnik 52 & Molniya 1-13 communications satellite
• Feb 21 Jackson 5 make TV debut on "American Bandstand"
• Feb 21 Pathet Lao conquers Xieng Khuang & Muong Suy
• Feb 23 Guyana becomes a republic (National Day)
• Feb 23 Holy Eucharist given by women for 1st time in Roman Catholic service
• Feb 24 29 Swiss Army officers die in avalanche (Reckingen, Switzerland)
• Feb 24 Heintje Simons (14) wins 7 gold records
• Feb 27 NY Times (falsely) reports US army has ended domestic surveillance

• Mar 1 End of US commercial whale hunting
• Mar 1 Kreisky's social democrats win Austrian parliamentary election
• Mar 2 White government of Rhodesia declares itself a republic
• Mar 2 American Airlines' 1st flight of a Boeing 747
• Mar 2 Supreme Court ruled draft evaders can not be penalized after 5 years
• Mar 4 French submarine "Eurydice" explodes off Cape Camarat in the Mediterranean, all 57 crew lost
• Mar 5 Edison Theater opens at 240 W 47th St NYC
• Mar 5 Nuclear non-proliferation treaty goes into effect
• Mar 5 SDS Weathermen terrorist group bomb 18 West 11th St in NYC
• Mar 5 Dubnium atoms are first detected conclusively.
• Mar 6 A Catholic man is shot dead by British soldiers in Belfast, North Ireland
• Mar 7 Ice Pairs Championship at Ljubljana won by Rodnina & Ulanov (URS)
• Mar 7 Ladies' Figure Skating Champ in Ljubljana won by Gabriele Seyfert (GDR)
• Mar 7 Men's Figure Skating Championship in Ljubljana won by Tim Wood (USA)
• Mar 10 South Africa complete 4-0 series drubbing of Australia
• Mar 10 Members of the Stormont Parliament of Northern Ireland given police protection


• Mar 11 Iraqi Ba'th Party recognizes Kurd nation
• Mar 12 US lowers voting age from 21 to 18
• Mar 13 100 year Beehive anniversary ends in brawl in Amsterdam
• Mar 13 Digital Equipment Corp introduces PDP-11 minicomputer
• Mar 13 San Francisco city employees begin 4-day strike
• Mar 15 Expo '70 opens in Osaka, Japan
• Mar 16 New English Bible published
• Mar 17 US casts their 1st UN Security Council veto (Support England)
• Mar 18 Cambodia military coup under General Lon Nol, Prince Sihanuk flees
• Mar 18 Two-week US postal strike begins; it is against the government and is the largest wildcat strike in US history
• Mar 18 Five Unionist Members of Parliament (MPs), including William Craig and Harry West, are expelled from the Unionist Parliamentary Party, Northern Ireland
• Mar 19 W German chancellor & E German premier meet
• Mar 22 "Blood Red Roses" opens & closes at John Golden Theater NYC
• Mar 23 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
• Mar 24 Dutch cartoonist Frans Piet ends "Sjors & Sjimmie" strip
• Mar 25 Concorde makes its 1st supersonic flight (700 MPH/1,127 KPH)
• Mar 26 500th nuclear explosion announced by the US since 1945
• Mar 26 Golden Gate Park Conservatory made city landmark
• Mar 26 Peter Yarrow (Peter, Paul & Mary) pleads guilty to "taking immoral liberties" with a 14 year old girl
• Mar 26 The Police (Northern Ireland) Act becomes law; the act provides for the disarmament of the Royal Ulster Constabulary (RUC) and the establishment of an RUC reserve force

• Mar 27 USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
• Mar 28 1,086 die when 7.4 quake destroys 254 villages in Gediz Turkey
• Mar 30 USSR wins its 8th straight world hockey championship
• Mar 31 Federal bankruptcy court allows Seattle Pilots to be sold to Milwaukee
• Mar 31 Explorer 1 re-enters the Earth's atmosphere after 12 years in orbit
• Mar 31 Following an Orange Order parade, intense riots erupt on the Springfield Road in Belfast; violence lasts for three days, and the British Army use CS gas for the first time in large quantities
• Apr 1 US President Richard Nixon signs bill limiting cigarette advertisements from 1st Jan 1971
• Apr 1 Serious riots continue in the Ballymurphy estate in Belfast between Catholic residents and the British Army
• Apr 2 Meghalaya becomes autonomous state within India's Assam state


• Apr 2 2 men begin ascent of south face of Annapurna I, highest final stage in a wall climb in world
• Apr 3 Miriam Hargrave of England passes her drivers test on 40th attempt
• Apr 3 As part of a new 'get tough' policy in Northern Ireland, Ian Freeland of the British Army, warned that those throwing petrol bombs could be shot dead
• Apr 4 Firestone World Tournament of Champions won by Don Johnson
• Apr 7 "Effects of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-moon Marigolds," premieres in NYC
• Apr 8 Senate rejects Nixon's nomination of Carswell to Supreme Court
• Apr 11 Apollo 13 launched to Moon; unable to land, returns in 6 days
• Apr 11 San Francisco beats Cincinnati 2-1, only day Reds aren't in 1st place in 1970
• Apr 13 Apollo 13 announces "Okay, Houston, we've had a problem here", as Beech-built oxygen tank explodes en route to Moon
• Apr 13 Oakland uses gold-colored bases during the club's home opener: Rules Committee subsequently bans this innovation
• Apr 15 Libyan leader Gadaffi launches "Green Revolution"
• Apr 16 70 die in a snow crush (France)

• Apr 17 Apollo 13 limps back safely, Beech-built oxygen tank no help
• Apr 19 24th Tony Awards: Borstal Boy & Applause win
• Apr 20 Bruno Kreisky becomes 1st socialist chancellor of Austria
• Apr 21 The Principality of Hutt River (previously Hutt River Province) secedes from Australia - it remains unrecognised by Australia or other nations
• Apr 21 The Alliance Party of Northern Ireland (APNI) is formed; it attempts to appeal to Catholics and Protestant to unite in support of moderate policies
• Apr 22 First Earth Day celebrated, founded by Gaylord Nelson
• Apr 24 People's Republic of China launches its 1st satellite transmitting song "East is Red"
• Apr 24 Gambia becomes a republic within the Commonwealth
• Apr 25 Freda Payne releases "Band of Gold"
• Apr 25 Melanie (Safka) releases "Lay Down"
• Apr 29 US and South Vietnamese forces launch an incursion into Cambodia, expanding the Vietnam War
• Apr 30 US troops invade Cambodia
• May 3 Trans-Arabian Pipeline delivery from Saudi Arabia to the Mediterranean interrupted in Syria, driving oil tanker rates to all time highs
• May 4 National Guard kills 4 at Kent State in Ohio
• May 4 Premier Kosygin affirms existence Russian military advisors in Egypt
• May 4 Pulitzer prize awarded to Erik H Erikson (Gandhi's Truth)
• May 5 US performs nuclear test at Nevada test Site


• May 6 Yuchiro Miura of Japan skis down Mt Everest
• May 6 Irish Prime Minister Jack Lynch sacks two ministers in the Irish government over allegations of illegal arms importation
• May 8 Construction workers break up an anti-war rally in NYC's Wall Street
• May 8 Thousands of students protest against the Vietnam War following the Kent State shootings in Ohio
• May 11 Henry Marrow is murdered in a violent racially-motivated crime in Oxford, North Carolina.
• May 12 Harry A Blackmun is confirmed as a justice on Supreme Court
• May 12 Race riots in Augusta Georgia; 6 blacks killed (5 by cops)
• May 12 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
• May 14 Cops kill 2 students in racial disturbance (Jackson State U, Miss)
• May 14 Harry A Blackmun appointed to US Supreme Court
• May 14 NYC local newspaper "Our Town" begins publishing
• May 14 Red Army Faction leader Andreas Baader freed after serving 2 years in West Berlin
• May 14 The Red Army Faction is established in Germany.
• May 15 Elizabeth Hoisington and Anna Mae Mays named 1st female US generals
• May 15 France performs nuclear test at Mururoa atoll
• May 15 Mississippi Highway Patrol kills 2 at Jackson State College
• May 20 100,000 march in NY supporting US policies in Vietnam
• May 20 2 die and 70 injured when 2 NYC subway trains crash in Queens
• May 21 National Guard mobilizes to quell disturbances at Ohio State University
• May 21 USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR
• May 22 Arab terrorists kill 9 children & 3 adults on a school bus
• May 22 France performs nuclear test at Mururoa atoll
• May 22 Mel Stottlemyre sets record by walking 11, but wins 2-0
• May 23 USSR performs nuclear test (underground)
• May 23 A fire breaks out in the Britannia Bridge over the Menai Straits in north Wales contributing to its partial destruction and causing approximately £1,000,000 worth of fire damage
• May 24 The drilling of the Kola Superdeep Borehole begins in the Soviet Union
• May 26 The Soviet Tupolev Tu-144 becomes the first commercial transport to exceed Mach 2
• May 27 British expedition climbs south face of Annapurna I in the Himalayas in north-central Nepal, 10th highest mountain
• May 27 USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
• May 28 The formerly united Free University of Brussels officially splits into two separate entities, the French-speaking Université Libre de Bruxelles and the Dutch-speaking Vrije Universiteit Brussel.


• May 28 Arms Trial Begins: several men are charged in a Dublin court with conspiracy to illegally import arms for use by the Irish Republican Army (IRA)
• May 29 USSR performs underground nuclear test
• May 30 Tigers Al Kaline collides with another player & swallows his tongue
• May 31 7.75 Ancash earthquake off coast of Peru kills 66-70,000 and sets off world's deadliest avalanche
• Jun 1 Com Bowie Kuhn reprimands Astro Jim Bouton for writing "Ball Four"
• Jun 1 Soyuz 9 launched into Earth orbit for 18 days
• Jun 3 1st artificial gene synthesized
• Jun 4 43rd National Spelling Bee: Libby Childress wins spelling croissant
• Jun 4 Tonga (formerly Friendly Islands) declares independence from UK
• Jun 5 Chile becomes a member of the Berne Convention copyright treaty
• Jun 5 The Falls Road curfew in North Ireland, imposed by the British Army while searching for IRA weapons, is lifted after a march by women breaches the British Army cordon
• Jun 8 Players & management end labor dispute up min salary to $12,000
• Jun 9 Argentine military junta under lt gen Lanusse ousts President Ongania
• Jun 9 Harry A Blackmun sworn in as Supreme Court Justice
• Jun 11 US leaves Wheelus AFB Libya
• Jun 16 Kenneth A Gibson elected 1st black mayor of Newark, NJ
• Jun 16 Race riots in Miami Florida

• Jun 19 A Nikolayev & V Sevastyanov return after 18 days in Soyuz 9

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