1970
1970 (
MCMLXX) was a
common year starting on Thursday (the link is to a full 1970 calendar).1970 is the
Unix epoch time.
January
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January 1 - Construction begins on
Arcosanti, by
Paolo Soleri, in
Mayer, Arizona, located 65
miles
north of
Phoenix, Arizona.
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January 1 -
Unix epoch at 00:00:00 UTC.
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January 5 - The first episode of
All My Children was broadcast on the ABC television network.
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January 12 -
Biafra capitulates, ending the
Nigerian civil war.
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January 15 - After a 32-month fight for independence from
Nigeria,
Biafran forces under
General Effiong formally surrender to General
Yakubu Gowon.
February
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February 11 -
Osumi,
Japan's first satellite is launched on a
Lamba-4 rocket.
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February 17 -
MacDonald family massacre at
Fort Bragg, North Carolina.
Jeffrey R. MacDonald kills his wife and children and claims that drugged-out "hippies" did it.
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February 18 - A jury finds the
Chicago Seven defendants not guilty on charges of
conspiring to incite a
riot in charges stemming from the violence at the
1968 Democratic National Convention. Five of the defendants are found guilty on the lesser charge of crossing state lines to incite riot.
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February 20 - Construction begins on the
Bogazici Bridge crossing the
Bosphorus in
Istanbul.
March
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March 1 -
Rhodesia severs its last tie with the
United Kingdom and declares itself a racially-segregated
republic.
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March 5 - The
Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty goes into effect after ratification by 43 nations.
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March 11 -
Henry "Dickie" Marrow is murdered in a violent
hate crime in
Oxford, North Carolina.
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March 15 - The
Expo '70 world's fair opens in Suita, Osaka, Japan.
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March 16 - Publication of complete
New English Bible.
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March 17 -
My Lai massacre: The
United States Army charges 14 officers with suppressing information related to the incident.
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March 18 -
Lon Nol ousts
Prince Norodom Sihanouk of
Cambodia.
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March 18 -
United States Postal Service workers in
New York City go on
strike; the strike spreads to the state of
California and the cities of
Akron,
Philadelphia,
Chicago,
Boston,
Denver; 210,000 out of 750,000 U.S. postal employees walk out. President Nixon assigns military units to New York City post offices. The strike lasts two weeks.
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March 21 The first
Earth Day proclamation is issued by
San Francisco Mayor Joseph Alioto.
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March 25 - The
Concorde makes its first
supersonic flight (700 mph/1127 km/h).
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March 31 -
NASA's Explorer I, the first American
artificial satellite and the first of the
Explorer program spacecrafts, reenters
Earth's atmosphere after 12 years in orbit.
April
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April 1 - President
Richard Nixon signs the
Public Health Cigarette Smoking Act into law banning
cigarette television advertisements in the
United States starting on
January 1,
1971.
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April 1 -
American Motors introduces the
Gremlin.
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April 10 -
Paul McCartney announces that
the Beatles have disbanded.
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April 11 - US spaceflight
Apollo 13 launches for the moon, carrying
Jim Lovell,
Fred Haise, and
Jack Swigert. On
April 13, an oxygen tank in the spacecraft explodes, forcing the crew to abort the mission. The crew returns to earth safely on
April 17.
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April 22 - First
Earth Day celebrated.
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April 24 - Launch of China's first satellite
Dong Fang Hong 1 with a
Long March-1 Rocket(CZ-1).
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April 29 - U.S. invades
Cambodia to hunt out
Viet Cong. Massive protests against the war continue in the U.S.
May
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May 4 - The
Kent State shootings: Four students at
Kent State University in
Ohio are killed and 9 wounded by
National Guardsmen at a demonstration protesting against the incursion into
Cambodia.
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May 5 - Opening of
The Sahastrara of Universe by
Nirmala Srivastava(Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi), the founder of
Sahaja yoga.
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May 6 -
Charles Haughey and
Neil Blaney are dismissed as members of the Irish Government due to accusations of their involvement in a plot to import arms for use in
Northern Ireland.
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May 6 -
Feyenoord won the
Champions League after a 2-1 win over
Celtic*
May 9 - 100,000 people demonstrate in
Washington DC against the Vietnam War.
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May 14 -
Ulrike Meinhof helps
Andreas Baader escape.
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May 14 - In the second day of violent demonstrations at
Jackson State College in
Jackson, Mississippi, state law enforcement officers fire into the demonstrators, killing 2 and injuring 12.
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May 17 -
Thor Heyerdahl sets sail from
Morocco on the
papyrus boat
Ra II to sail the
Atlantic Ocean.
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May 23 - An outbreak of fire occurs in the
Britannia Bridge over the
Menai Straits in north
Wales contributing to its partial destruction and amounting to approximately £1,000,000 worth of fire damage.
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May 24 - The
drilling of the
Kola Superdeep Borehole begins in the
USSR*
May 26 - The
Soviet Tupolev Tu-144 becomes the first commercial transport to exceed
Mach 2.
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May 27 - British expedition climbs south face of
Annapurna I.
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May 31 - The
Ancash earthquake causes a
landslide that buries the town of
Yungay,
Peru; more than 47,000 people are killed. The
1970 FIFA World Cup is inaugurated
June
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June 2 -
Norway announces that it has rich oil deposits off its
North Sea coast.
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June 4 -
Tonga gains independence from the
United Kingdom.
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June 10 -
President Nixon signed a measure lowering the voting age to 18.
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June 11 - The United States gets its first female
Generals:
Anna Mae Hays and
Elizabeth P. Hoisington.
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William DeVino is murdered in a Queens Bar
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June 18 -
Edward Heath is elected Prime Minister of
United Kingdom.
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June 21 -
Brazil defeat
Italy 4-1 to win the
1970 FIFA World Cup*
June 24 - The
United States Senate repeals the
Gulf of Tonkin Resolution.
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June 28 - US ground troops withdraw from
Cambodia.
July
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July 1 - Colorado State College changes name to
University of Northern Colorado*
July 4 - Chartered
Dan-Air Comet crashes into mountains north of
Barcelona - at least 112 dead.
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July 4 -
Bob Hope and other entertainers gather in
New York City for
Honor America Day, a nonpartisan holiday event.
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July 11 - The first tunnel under the
Pyrenees links the
Basque towns of
Aranoutes and
Biesma.
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July 21 -
Aswan High Dam in
Egypt completed.
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July 30 - Damages awarded to
Thalidomide victims,
August
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August 7 -
Harold Haley, Marin County Superior Court Judge taken hostage and murdered in an effort to free
George Jackson from police custody.
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August 17-
18 - US sinks 418 containers of
nerve gas into the
Gulf Stream near the
Bahamas*
August 17 -
Venera program:
Venera 7 is launched. It will later becomes the first spacecraft to successfully transmit data from another
planet.
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August 26- The Women's Strike For Equality takes place down
Fifth Avenue in
New York City.
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August 26-
August 30- The
Isle of Wight Festival 1970 takes place on
East Afton Farm off the coast of
England. 600,000 people attend the largest rock festival of all time. Artists include
Jimi Hendrix,
The Who,
The Doors,
Chicago,
Richie Havens,
John Sebastian,
Joan Baez,
Ten Years After,
Emerson, Lake & Palmer and
Jethro Tull.
September
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September 1 - Assassination attempt against king
Hussein of Jordan; start of
Black September crisis
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September 3-
6 - Israeli forces fight Palestinian guerillas in southern Lebanon.
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September 5 -
Vietnam War:
Operation Jefferson Glenn begins - The
United States 101st Airborne Division and the
South Vietnamese 1st Infantry Division initiate a new operation in
Thua Thien Province (operation ends in October 1971).
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September 7 - An anti-war rally is held at
Valley Forge, Pennsylvania, attended by
John Kerry,
Jane Fonda and
Donald Sutherland.
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September 7 - Fighting between Arabic guerillas and government forces in
Amman,
Jordan*
September 8-
10 -
Jordanian government and Palestinian guerillas make truces that keep breaking.
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September 9 "
Guinea recognizes
East Germany.
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September 9 -
Elvis Presley begins his first concert tour since 1958 in
Phoenix, Arizona at the Veterans Memorial Coliseum.
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September 10 "
Cambodian government forces break the blockage around
Kompong Tho after a 3-month siege.
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September 11 - The
Ford Pinto is introduced.
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September 13 - First running of the
New York City Marathon.
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September 15 - King
Hussein of Jordan forms a military government with
Muhammad Daoud as the prime minister.
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September 18 -
Jimi Hendrix dies of
barbiturate overdose in
London*
September 19 -
Kostas Georgakis sets himself ablaze in
Genoa,
Italy as a protest to the
Greek military junta of 1967-1974*
September 20 - End of term for
Ismail Nasiruddin Shah ibni Almarhum Sultan Zainal Abidin III as the 4th
Yang di-Pertuan Agong of
Malaysia.
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September 20 -
Syrian armored forces cross Jordanian border.
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September 20-
21 -
Luna 16 lands on the Moon and lifts off the day later with samples. Lands on Earth
September 24.
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September 21 - Palestinian armored forces reinforce Palestinian guerillas in
Irbidi,
Jordan.
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September 21 -
Tuanku Al-Mutassimu Billahi Muhibbudin Sultan Abdul Halim Al-Muadzam Shah ibni Almarhum Sultan Badlishah,
Sultan of
Kedah becomes the 5th
Yang di-Pertuan Agong of
Malaysia.
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September 22 -
Tunku Abdul Rahman resigned as
prime minister of Malaysia and he was succeeded by his deputy
Tun Abdul Razak.
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September 26 -
Laguna Fire starts in
San Diego County burning 175,425 acres (710 km²).
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September 27 -
Richard Nixon begins a tour in Europe and visits
Italy,
Yugoslavia,
Spain,
United Kingdom and
Ireland.
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September 28 -
Gamal Abdal Nasser dies - vice president
Anwar Sadat is named temporary
president of Egypt.
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September 29 - US Congress gives president
Richard Nixon authority to sell arms to Israel.
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September 29 - In
Berlin,
Baader-Meinhof Gang members rob three banks, loot totaling over
DM200.000.
October
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October 2 - The
Wichita State University football team's "Gold" plane crashes in
Colorado, killing most of the players. They were on their way (along with administrators and fans) to a game with
Utah State University*
October 3 - In
Lebanon, government of the prime minister
Rashid Karami resigns.
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October 4 - In
Bolivia, army commander general
Rogelio Miranda and group of officers rebel and demand resignation of the president
Alfredo Ovando Candía " president fires him.
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October 4 -
Janis Joplin dies of a heroin overdose inside her hotel room in
Los Angeles,
California *
October 5 - Nixon's European tour ends.
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October 5 - The
Front de Libération du Québec (FLQ) kidnap
James Cross in Montreal and demands release of all its imprisoned members. The next day the Canadian government announces it won't accept the demand - first stirrings of
Quebec's
October Crisis.
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October 5 - The
Public Broadcasting Service commenced broadcasting.
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October 6 - Bolivian president
Alfredo Ovando Candía resigns " general
Rogelio Miranda takes over but resigns soon after.
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October 6 - French president
Georges Pompidou visits Soviet Union.
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October 7 - General
Juan José Torres becomes the new
president of Bolivia.
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October 7 -
Anwar Sadat accepted as
Egyptian president.
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October 8 - US foreign office announces that it renews its arms sales to
Pakistan.
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October 8 - Soviet author
Alexander Solzhenitsyn is awarded
Nobel Prize for Literature.
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October 8 -
Vietnam War: In
Paris, a
Communist delegation rejects US President
Richard Nixon's October 7 peace proposal as "a maneuver to deceive world opinion."
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October 9 - The
Khmer Republic is proclaimed in
Cambodia.
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October 9 -
Divorce law in
Italy.
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October 10 -
Fiji becomes independent.
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October 10 -
October Crisis: In
Montreal, Quebec, a national crisis hits
Canada when
Quebec Vice-Premier and Minister of Labour
Pierre Laporte becomes the second statesman kidnapped by members of the
FLQ terrorist group.
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October 11 - 11 French soldiers are killed in a shootout with rebels in
Chad.
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October 12 -
Vietnam War: US President
Richard Nixon announces that the
United States will withdraw 40,000 more troops before
Christmas.
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October 13 -
Canada and the
People's Republic of China established diplomatic relations.
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October 13 -
Saeb Salam's government forms in
Lebanon.
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October 14 - Chinese nuclear test in
Lop Nor.
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October 15 - In Egypt, referendum supports Anwar Sadat 90.04%.
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October 15 - 35 construction workers are killed when a section of the new
West Gate Bridge in
Melbourne collapses into the river below.
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October 16 - Canadian government declares
state of emergency and outlaws
Quebec Liberation Front.
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October 17 -
Pierre Laporte is found killed in south of Montreal.
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October 17 -
Cholera epidemic in
Istanbul.
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October 17 -
Anwar Sadat becomes officially president of
Egypt.
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October 20 - Soviet Union launches
Zond 8 lunar probe.
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October 20 -
Algerian ex-minister
Krim Belkacem is found strangled in his hotel room in
Frankfurt.
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October 20 - Egyptian president
Anwar Sadat names
Mahmoud Fawzi as his prime minister.
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October 21 - US Air Force plane makes an emergency landing near
Leninakan,
Soviet Union. Soviets release the American officers, including two generals,
November 10.
*
October 22 -
Chilean army commander
Rene Schneider is shot in Santiago " government declares state of emergency. Schneider dies
October 25.
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October 24 -
Salvador Allende is elected President of
Chile.
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October 26 - US and Soviet space researchers meet in Moscow.
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October 26 -
Garry Trudeau's
comic strip Doonesbury, debuts in approximately two dozen newspapers in the United States.
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October 28 - In Jordan, government of
Ahmed Toukan resigns " next prime minister is
Wasfi Al-Tal.
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October 28 -
Cholera outbreak in eastern Slovakia " Hungary closes its border with Czechoslovakia.
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October 28 -
Gary Gabelich drives the rocket-powered
Blue Flame to an official world land speed record of 622.287 mph (1,001.452863 km/h) on the dry lake bed of the
Bonneville Salt Flats in Utah. The record, the first above 1,000 km/h, stands for nearly 13 years.
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October 30 - In
Vietnam, the worst
monsoon to hit the area in six years causes large
floods, kills 293, leaves 200,000 homeless and virtually halts the
Vietnam War.
November
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November 1 - Fire destroys Le Cinq Sept dance hall in
St. Laurent Du Pont,
France " 144 dead.
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November 4 -
Vietnam War:
Vietnamization - The
United States turns control of the
air base in the
Mekong Delta to
South Vietnam.
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November 4 - Social authorities in California, USA, take custody of
Genie, a girl who had been kept in solitary confinement since her birth
*
November 5 - Vietnam War:
United States Military Assistance Command in
Vietnam reports the lowest weekly American soldier death toll in five years (24 soldiers died that week, which was the fifth consecutive week the death toll was below 50; 431 were reported wounded that week, however).
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November 8 -
Egypt,
Libya and
Sudan announce their intentions to form a federation.
*
November 9 -
Charles de Gaulle dies " he is buried
November 13.
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November 9 - Soviet Union launches
Luna 17.
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November 9 - Vietnam War: The
Supreme Court of the United States votes 6 to 3 to not hear a case by the state of
Massachusetts about the constitutionality of a state law granting Massachusetts residents the right to refuse military service in an undeclared war.
*
November 10 - Vietnam War:
Vietnamization - For the first time in five years, an entire week ended with no reports of
American combat fatalities in
Southeast Asia.
*
November 12 - Soviet author
Andrei Amalrik sentenced for three years for anti-Soviet writings.
*
November 12 - The Oregon Highway Division (now known as the Oregon Department of Transportation) is given the task of removing a rotting beached
Grey whale, leading to the now infamous
exploding whale incident.
*
November 13 -
Military coup in
Syria "
Hafez al-Assad takes the power.
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November 13 -
1970 Bhola cyclone: A 120-mph
tropical cyclone hits the densely populated
Ganges Delta region of
East Pakistan (now
Bangladesh), killing an estimated 500,000 people (this is regarded as the
20th century's worst cyclone disaster).
*
November 14 - fatal airplane accident in
Wayne County,
West Virginia, claims the lives of all 75 onboard, including 37 players and 5 coaches from the
Marshall University football team.
*
November 16 - Canadian Child Advocate John Dunn is born in Toronto at Doctors Hospital
*
November 17 -
Vietnam War: Lieutenant
William Calley goes on trial for the
My Lai massacre.
*
November 17 -
Luna program: The
Soviet Union lands
Lunokhod 1 on
Mare Imbrium (Sea of Rains) on the
Moon. This is the first roving remote-controlled robot to land on another world and was released by the orbiting
Luna 17 spacecraft.
*
November 18 - US President
Richard Nixon asks the
U.S. Congress for US$155 million in supplemental aid for the
Cambodian government (US$85 million was for military assistance in order to help prevent the overthrow of the government of Premier
Lon Nol by the
Khmer Rouge and
North Vietnam).
*
November 18 -
United Nations Security Council demands that no government should recognize
Rhodesia.
*
November 19 -
EEC prime minister meeting in
Munich.
*
November 21 -
Syrian Prime Minister
Hafez al-Assad forms a new government but retains the post of defense minister.
*
November 21 - in
Ethiopia,
Eritrean Liberation Front kills an Ethiopian general.
*
November 21 -
Vietnam War:
Operation Ivory Coast - A joint
Air Force and Army team raids the
Son Tay prison camp in an attempt to free American
POWs thought to be held there (there were zero Americans killed, but the prisoners had already moved to another camp; All US POWs were moved to a handful of central prison complexes as a result of this raid).
*
November 22 -
Guinean president
Sekou Toure accuses
Portugal of an attack when hundreds of mercenaries land near capital
Conakry. Guinean army repels the landing attempts in
November 23-
24.
November 25-
29 UN delegation arrives to investigate the situation. In
December 4 UN announces that Portuguese navy and army units are responsible.
*
November 25 - In
Japan, world-famous author and
Tatenokai militia leader
Yukio Mishima and his followers take over
Inchigaya HQ of the
Japan Self-Defense Forces and take general
Kanetoshi Mashita hostage. When Mishima's speech fails to sway public opinion towards his right-wing political beliefs, he commits
seppuku.
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November 26 - East Pakistan leader sheik
Mujibur Rahman accuses central government of negligence in catastrophe relief.
*
November 26 -
Pope Paul VI begins an Asian tour.
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November 27 - Bolivian artist
Benjamin Mendoza tries to assassinate Paul VI during pope's visit in
Manila.
December
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December 1 - Italian House of Representatives accepts the
divorce law.
*
December 1 -
Ethiopia recognizes
People's Republic of China.
*
December 1 -
Basque ETA kidnaps West German
Eugen Beihl in
San Sebastian.
*
December 1 -
Luis Echeverría Álvarez becomes
president of Mexico.
*
December 2 - The
United States Environmental Protection Agency begins operations.
*
December 3 -
October Crisis: In
Montreal, Quebec, kidnapped
British Trade Commissioner
James Cross is released by the
Front de Libération du Québec terrorist group after being held hostage for 60 days. Police negotiate his release and in return the Government of
Canada grants five terrorists from the FLQ's Chenier Cell their request for safe passage to
Cuba.
*
December 3 -
Burgos Trial - In
Burgos,
Spain, begins a trial against 16
Basques accused of terrorism.
*
December 4 - Spanish government declares a three-month martial law in Basque county of
Guipuzco due to strikes and demonstrations.
*
December 5 - Asian and Australian tour of Paul VI ends.
*
December 7 -
Giovanni Enrico Bucher, Swiss ambassador to Brazil, is kidnapped in
Rio de Janeiro; kidnappers demand release of 70 political prisoners.
*
December 7 - UN general assembly supports the isolation of
South Africa due to its
apartheid policies.
*
December 7 - During his visit to the Polish capital,
German Chancellor Willy Brandt goes down on his knees in front of a monument for the victims of the
Warsaw Ghetto.
*
December 12 -
Landslide in western
Colombia " over 200 dead.
*
December 13 - Government of
Poland announces increases in the price of food. Riots and looting erupt until a bloody confrontation between the rioters and the government in
December 15. Martial law December 17-22.
December 23 the government will freeze the food prices for two years.
*
December 15 - The USSR's
Venera 7 becomes the first spacecraft to land successfully on Venus and transmit data back to earth
*
December 16 - Ethiopian government declares
state of emergency in the county of Eritrea due to activities of
Eritrean Liberation Front.
*
December 20 -
General Secretary of the
Polish Communist Party,
Władysław Gomułka, resigns "
Edward Gierek takes his place.
*
December 20 - Egyptian delegation leaves for Moscow to ask for
economic and
military aid.
*
December 22 -
Libyan revolutionary council declares that it will
nationalize all foreign banks in the country.
*
December 22 -
Franz Stangl, the ex-commander of
Treblinka, is sentenced to life imprisonment.
*
December 23 -
Bolivian government releases
Regis Debray.
*
December 23 - The North Tower of the
World Trade Center is topped out at 1,368 feet, making it the tallest building in the world.
*
December 25 -
ETA releases
Eugen Beihl.
*
December 27 -
Indian president declares new elections.
*
December 28 -
Burgos Trial " three Basques are sentenced to death (three twice), others sentenced for 12-62 years and one released.
*
December 28 - Suspects of killing
Pierre Laporte, Jacques & Paul Rose and Francis Sunard, are arrested near Montreal.
*
December 30 -
Franco commutes the death sentences to 30 years in prison.
*
December 30 - In
Viscaya Basque county 15,000 go on strike to protest Burgos trial death sentences.
*
December 31 -
Paul McCartney sues in Great Britain to dissolve
the Beatles's legal partnership.
Unknown date
*The first
Regional Technical Colleges open in
Ireland.
*Disappearance of
Sada Abe,
Japanese former
prostitute and later
actress.
*Discovery in
England of the
Sweet Track, the World's oldest engineered
roadway.
January
*
January 1 -
Kimberly Page, American model
*
January 3 -
Christian Duguay, American comedian
*
January 6 -
Julie Chen, American television host
*
January 6 -
Gabrielle Reece, American volleyball player and model
*
January 9 -
Lara Fabian, Canadian/Belgian singer
*
January 13 -
Keith Coogan, American actor
*
January 13 -
Marco Pantani, Italian cyclist (d.
2004)
*
January 15 -
Shane McMahon, American professional wrestler and wrestling executive
*
January 17 -
Jeremy Roenick, American hockey player
*
January 17 -
Genndy Tartakovsky, Russian animator
*
January 19 -
Tim Foster, British rower
*
January 20 -
Mitch Benn, British comedian and songwriter
*
January 20 -
Skeet Ulrich, American actor
*
January 22 -
Alex Ross, American comic artist
*
January 29 -
Heather Graham, American actress
*
January 29 -
Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore, Indian shooter
*
January 31 -
Minnie Driver, English actress
February
*
February 1 -
Malik Sealy, American basketball player (d.
2000)
*
February 4 -
Nicole Wood, Playboy playmate
*
February 8 -
Alonzo Mourning, American basketball player
*
February 9 -
Glenn McGrath, Australian Test Cricketer
*
February 15 -
Gloria Trevi, Mexican singer and actress
*
February 24 -
Jeff Garcia, American football player
*
February 26 -
Linda Brava, Finnish violinist
March
*
March 5 -
John Frusciante, musician (
Red Hot Chili Peppers)
*
March 8 -
Jason Elam, American football player
*
March 9 -
Stuart Neild, English author
*
March 18 -
Queen Latifah, American rapper, record producer, and actress
*
March 22 -
Leontien van Moorsel, Dutch cyclist
*
March 24 -
Lara Flynn Boyle, American actress
*
March 24 -
Sharon Corr, Irish musician (
The Corrs)
*
March 26 -
Mark Osher, Australian writer
*
March 27 -
Mariah Carey, American singer
*
March 27 -
Leila Pahlavi, Iranian princess (d.
2001)
*
March 28 -
Vince Vaughn, American actor, writer, and producer
April
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April 4 -
Barry Pepper, Canadian actor
*
April 4 -
Wendy Bell,
WTAE-TV News anchor*
April 5 -
Miho Hatori, Japanese singer and songwriter (
Cibo Matto)
*
April 12 -
Nick Hexum, American singer and guitarist
*
April 13 -
Rick Schroeder, American actor
*
April 17 -
Redman, American rapper
*
April 18 -
Greg Eklund, American drummer (
Everclear)
*
April 21 -
Nicole Sullivan, American actress, comedienne, and writer
*
April 22 -
Regine Velasquez, Filipina singer, actress, model, record producer, and entrepreneur
*
April 25 -
Jason Lee, American skateboarder and actor
*
April 27 -
Kylie Travis, English-born actress and model
*
April 29 -
Andre Agassi, American tennis player
*
April 29 -
Uma Thurman, American actress
May
*
May 12 -
Mike Weir, Canadian golfer
*
May 15 -
Rod Smith, American football player
*
May 16 -
Gabriela Sabatini, Argentine tennis player
*
May 18 -
Tina Fey, American writer, comedian, and actress
*
May 22 -
Naomi Campbell, English model and actress
*
May 23 -
Yigal Amir,
Israeli
assassin of the
Prime Minister of Israel Yitzhak Rabin*
May 24 -
Jeff Zgonina, American football player
*
May 25 -
Jamie Kennedy, American actor and comedian
*
May 25 -
Satsuki Yukino, Japanese voice actress
*
May 26 -
Nobuhiro Watsuki, Japanese cartoonist
*
May 27 -
Joseph Fiennes, English actor
June
*
June 2 -
B-Real, American rapper
*
June 6 -
Anthony Norris, American professional wrestler
*
june 6 -
Andrian Dushev,Bulgarian canoer,bronze olympic medal Atlanta96
*
June 8 -
Kelli Williams, American actress
*
June 13 -
Mikael Ljungberg, Swedish wrestler (d.
2004)
*
June 16 -
Phil Mickelson, American golfer
*
June 17 -
Sasha Sokol, Mexican Singer
*
June 17 -
Will Forte, American writer, actor and comedian
*
June 19 -
Quincy Watts, American athlete
*
June 20 -
Russell Garcia, British field hockey player
*
June 20 -
Moulay Rachid, Prince of Morocco
*
June 21 -
Pete Rock, American rapper/DJ/producer
*
June 25 -
Lucy Benjamin, British actress
*
June 26 -
Patrick Norton, American writer and television host
*
June 26 -
Chris O'Donnell, American actor
*
June 26 -
Nick Offerman, American actor
*
June 27 -
Jim Edmonds, baseball player
*
June 27 -
Vitamin C, American singer
*
June 30 -
Brian Bloom, American actor
July
*
July 2 -
Steve Morrow, Northern Irish footballer
*
July 3 -
Teemu Selänne, Finnish hockey player
*
July 3 -
Shawnee Smith, American actress
*
July 5 -
Mac Dre, American rapper (d.
2004)
*
July 6 -
Martin Smith, English singer and songwriter
*
July 7 -
Wayne McCullough, Northern Irish boxer
*
July 8 -
Beck, American singer
*
July 11 -
Saj Karim, British politician
*
July 23 -
Charisma Carpenter, American actress
*
July 23 -
Thea Dorn, German writer
*
July 29 -
Andi Peters, British TV presenter and producer
August
*
August 2 -
Tony Amonte, American hockey player
*
August 4 -
Pete Abrams,
American webcomic artist, author of
Sluggy Freelance *
August 6 -
M. Night Shyamalan, Indian film director, writer, producer, and actor
*
August 13 -
Alan Shearer, English footballer
*
August 14 -
Leah Purcell, Australian actress
*
August 17 -
Jim Courier, American tennis player
*
August 18 -
Malcolm-Jamal Warner, American actor
*
August 20 -
John Carmack, American computer game programmer
*
August 20 -
Fred Durst, American singer
*
August 21 -
Erik Dekker, Dutch professional cyclist
*
August 23 -
Jay Mohr, American actor and comedian
* August 23 -
River Phoenix, American actor (d.
1993)
*
August 25 -
Claudia Schiffer, German model
*
August 27 -
Jim Thome, baseball player
*
August 29 -
Jacco Eltingh, Dutch tennis player
*
August 31 -
Deborah Gibson, American singer
September
*
September 4 -
Daisy Dee, Dutch singer and actress
*
September 5 -
Liam Lynch, American musician, comedian, puppetteer, creator of the
Sifl and Olly Show.
*
September 8 -
Latrell Sprewell, American basketball player
*
September 9 -
Macy Gray, American singer
*
September 10 -
Phaswane Mpe, South African writer (d.
2004)
*
September 10 -
Jeff Marx, Broadway composer
*
September 14 -
Craig Montoya, American musician (
Everclear)
*
September 18 -
Darren Gough, English cricketer
*
September 19 -
Takanori Nishikawa, Japanese singer
*
September 19 -
Yuka Imai, Japanese
seiyu (voice actress)
*
September 21 -
Bridget Moynahan, American actress
*
September 22 -
Mike Matheny, baseball player
*
September 23 -
Ani DiFranco, American musician
*
September 28 -
Isabelle Brasseur, Canadian figure skater
*
September 29 -
Emily Lloyd, English actress
*
September 29 -
Yoshihiro Tajiri, Japanese Professional Wrestler
*
September 30 -
Mark Smith former
GladiatorOctober
*
October 2 -
Kelly Ripa, American actress and talk-show hostess
*
October 4 -
Richard Hancox, English footballer
*
October 8 -
Matt Damon, American actor
*
October 9 -
Annika Sörenstam, Swedish golfer
*
October 9 -
Rebecca Cummings, American porn star
*
October 10 -
Bai Ling, Chinese actress
*
October 10 - Sir
Matthew Pinsent, British Olympic winning rower
*
October 11 -
Andy Marriott, English footballer
*
October 15 -
Eric Benét, American singer
*
October 17 -
Anil Kumble, Indian cricketer
*
October 18 -
Jose Padilla, American gang member and alleged terrorist
November
*
November 2 -
Sharmell Sullivan,
WWE Valet and former
Nitro Girl*
November 3 -
Dawn Marie Psaltis , former
ECW and
WWE performer
*
November 7 -
Neil Hannon, Northern Irish musician (
The Divine Comedy)
*
November 9 -
Chris Jericho, Canadian Pro Wrestler, and Lead Singer
Fozzy*
November 9 -
Susan Tedeschi, American musician and singer
*
November 12 -
Tonya Harding, American figure skater
*
November 12 -
Harvey Stephens, British, child-actor
*
November 18 -
Peta Wilson, Australian actress
*
November 20 -
Joe Zaso, American actor and producer
*
November 22 -
Stel Pavlou, British novelist and screenwriter
*
November 23 -
Zoë Ball, British television and radio presenter
*
November 26 -
Dave Hughes, Australian comedian
*
November 26 -
Alex Taylor, Latin porn star
*
November 30 -
Natalie Williams, American basketball player
December
*
December 2 -
Sarah Silverman, American comedian
*
December 4 -
Jay-Z, American rapper.
*
December 15 -
Michael Shanks, Canadian actor
*
December 16 -
Nancy Valen, American actress
*
December 17 -
Craig Doyle, Irish television presenter
*
December 17 -
Joshua Seth, American voice actor and hypnotist
*
December 18 -
DMX, American rapper
*
December 18 -
Miles Marshall Lewis, American author
*
December 18 -
Cowboy Troy, American singer and rapper
*
December 18 -
Rob Van Dam, American Pro Wrestler
*
December 20 -
Nicole DeBoer, Canadian actress
*
December 20 -
Massimo Ellul, Maltese entrepreneur and philanthropist
*
December 29 -
Aled Jones, Welsh singer and television presenter
*
December 29 -
Kevin Weisman, American actor
Unknown date
*
Gabrielle Giffords, American politician
*
Naomi Klein, Canadian journalist and activist
*
Tomoki Kyoda, Japanese animation director
*
Dean Del Mastro, Canadian Member of Parliament
*
Freddy Soto, American comedian and actor.
*
Physics -
Hannes Alfvén,
Louis Eugène Félix Néel*
Chemistry -
Luis Federico Leloir*
Medicine -
Sir Bernard Katz,
Ulf von Euler,
Julius Axelrod*
Literature -
Aleksandr Isaevich Solzhenitsyn*
Peace -
Norman E. Borlaug*
Economics -
Paul Samuelson*
Alan Baker,
Heisuke Hironaka,
Sergei Petrovich Novikov,
John Griggs Thompson
