1970

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Events

January

January 1 - Construction begins on Arcosanti, by Paolo Soleri, in Mayer, Arizona, located 65, miles north of Phoenix, Arizona.
January 1 - Unix epoch at 00:00:00 UTC.
January 12 - Biafra capitulates, ending the Nigerian civil war.
January 15 - After a 32-month fight for independence from Nigeria, Biafran forces under General Effiong formally surrender to General Yakabu Gowon.
January 15 - Muammar al-Qaddafi is proclaimed premier of Libya.
January 16 - Buckminster Fuller receives the Gold Medal award from the American Institute of Architects.

March

March 1 - Rhodesia severs its last tie with the British crown and declares itself a racially segregated republic.
March 5 - A nuclear non-proliferation treaty goes into effect after ratification by 43 nations.
March 16 - The Expo '70 world's fair opens in Osaka, Japan.
March 16 - Publication of complete New English Bible.
March 17 - My Lai massacre: The United States Army charges 14 officers with suppressing information related to the incident.
March 18 - Lon Nol ousts Prince Norodom Sihanouk of Cambodia.
March 18 - Post Office strike in USA - 210.000 out of 750.000 US postal employees walk out. President Nixon assigns military units to New York City post offices. Strike lasts two weeks.
March 31 - Explorer I re-entry (after 12 years in orbit).

April

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.
April 1 - American Motors introduces the Gremlin.
April 10 - Paul McCartney announces that the Beatles have disbanded.
April 11 - Apollo 13 ill-fated space mission launched.
April 17 - Apollo 13 returns safely to earth.
April 22 - First Earth Day celebrated.
April 29 - U.S. invades Cambodia to hunt out Viet Cong. Massive protests against the war continue in the U.S.

May

May 4 Four students at Kent State University in Ohio are killed by National Guardsmen at a demonstration protesting against the incursion into Cambodia.
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.
May 9 - 100,000 people demonstrate in Washington DC against the Vietnam War.
May 14 - Ulrike Meinhof helps Andreas Baader escape.
May 17 - Thor Heyerdahl sets sail from Morocco on the papyrus boat Ra II to sail the Atlantic Ocean.
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.
May 31 - Avalanche on Huascarán destroys the town of Yungay, Peru.

June

June 2 - Norway announces that it has rich oil deposits off its North Sea coast.
June 4 - Tonga gains independence from the United Kingdom.
June 18 - Edward Heath is elected Prime Minister of United Kingdom.
June 24 - The United States Senate repeals the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution.
June 28 - US ground troops withdraw from Cambodia.

July

July 4 - Chartered Dan-Air Comet crashes into mountains north of Barcelona - at least 112 dead.
July 11 - The first tunnel under the Pyrenees links the French and Spanish towns of Aranoutes and Biesma.
July 21 - Aswan High Dam in Egypt completed.
July 30 - Damages awarded to Thalidomide victims,

November

November 1 – Fire destroys Le Cinq Sept dance hall in St. Laurent Du Pont, France – 144 dead.
November 4 - Vietnam War: Vietnamization - The United States turns control of the air base in the Mekong Delta to South Vietnam.
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).
November 8 – Egypt, Sudan and Libya announce their intentions to form a federation.
November 9 – Charles de Gaulle dies – he is buried November 13.
November 9 – Soviet Union launches Luna 17.
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 asking to allow the state the ability to enforce its 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 – Tornado in East Pakistan - 250.000 dead.
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.
November 13 - A 100-mph tropical cyclone hits the densely populated Ganges Delta region of East Pakistan (now Bangladesh)s, 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 the entire Marshall University football team.
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 United States 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, Eritrea 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 Japanese Self-Defense Force and take general Kanetoshi Mashita hostage. When Mishima's speech fails to sway public opinion towards his right-wing political beliefs, he commits seppuku.
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.
November 27 – Philipino artist Benjamin Mendoza tries to assassinate Paul VI during pope's visit in Manila.

December

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 Echeverria Alvarez 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 12 – Landslide in western Colombia – over 200 dead.
December 13 – Government of Poland announces increases in the prize of food. Riots and looting erupt until a bloody confrontation between the rioters against army and the police in December 15. Martial law December 17-22. December 23 the government will freeze the food prizes for two years.
December 15 – Venus 7 lands on Venus.
December 16 – Ethiopian government declares state of emergency in the county of Eritrea due to activities of Eritrea Liberation Front.
December 20 – General secretary of the communist part of Poland, Wladyslaw Gomulka, 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 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 30 Franco commutes the death sentences to 30 years in prison.
December 28 – Suspects of killing Pierre Laporte, Jacques & Paul Rose and Francis Sunard, are arrested near Montreal.
December 30 – In Viscaya Basque county 15.000 goes to strike to protest Burgos trial death sentences.

Deaths

April

April 5 - Alfred Henry Sturtevant geneticist (born 1891)
April 26 - Gypsy Rose Lee, actress
April 26 - John Knittel, dramatist
April 30 - Inger Stevens, actress

May

May 1 - Ralph Hartley, electronics researcher and inventor
May 6 - George Rivas, ringleader of the Texas 7
May 9 - Walter Reuther, labor union leader
May 14 - Billie Burke, actress, The Wizard of Oz
May 12 - Nelly Sachs, writer and recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature 1966
May 21 - E. L. Grant Watson
May 31 - Terry Sawchuk, Hockey Hall of Fame goaltender

June

June 8 - Abraham Maslow, psychologist
June 16 - Brian Piccolo, American football star
June 21 - Sukarno, Indonesian President
June 27 - Daniel Kinsey, American hurdler

July

July 4 - Somaly Hav, painter
July 19 - Egon Eiermann, architect
July 22 - Fritz Kortner, director
July 22 - Grete Wiesenthal, dancer and choreographer
July 27 - Walt Rohr, Portuguese dictator
July 29 - John Barbirolli, English conductor
July 29 - George Szell, Hungarian conductor (b. 1897)

August

August 1 - Frances Farmer, actress
August 19 - Paweł Jasienica, Polish historian (born 1909)

September

September 1 - Francois Mauriac, author
September 3 - Vince Lombardi, American football coach
September 5 - Jochen Rindt, Austrian racing driver
September 11 - Ernst May, architect
September 18 - Jimi Hendrix, rock musician
September 25 - Erich Maria Remarque, author
September 28 - Gamal Abdal Nasser, first president of Egypt
September 28 - John Dos Passos, novelist
September 29 - Edward Everett Horton, actor

October

October 4 - Janis Joplin, blues and rock and roll singer
October 10 - Kevin Herrell, actress
October 17 - Pierre Laporte, statesman, murdered by FLQ terrorists
October 24 - Richard Hofstadter, historian

November

November 9 - Charles de Gaulle, French general, statesman

December

December 7 - Debra Trotter, cartoonist
December 12 - Doris Blackburn, Australian politician (b. 1889)

Unknown date

Paul Celan, Romanian born German language poet (body found on May 1)
Sada Abe, Japanese former prostitute and later actress (unconfirmed).

Nobel Prizes

Physics - Hannes Olof Gösta Alfvén, Louis Eugène Félix Néel
Chemistry - Luis F Leloir
Medicine - Sir Bernard Katz, Ulf von Euler, Julius Axelrod
Literature - Aleksandr Isaevich Solzhenitsyn
Peace - Norman E. Borlaug
Economics - Paul Samuelson

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