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Events on the year of 1970 in history

Events
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01 Jan 1970 "The Epoch" (Time 0 for UNIX systems, Midnight GMT)
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01 Jan 1970 Afro-American Historical Calendar Series Established
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01 Jan 1970 Netherlands Christian Workers Union (NCW) forms
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01 Jan 1970 Revised calendar for Western (RC) Church goes into effect
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01 Jan 1970 Unix time begins at 00:00:00 UTC/GMT.
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02 Jan 1970 Dutch premiere of musical "Hair" in Amsterdam
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02 Jan 1970 US population is 293,200,000; Black population: 22,600,000 (11.1%)
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03 Jan 1970 "Mame" closes at Winter Garden Theater NYC after 1508 performances
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03 Jan 1970 Marxist government takes over in Congo
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03 Jan 1970 WHAG TV channel 25 in Hagerstown, MD (NBC) begins broadcasting
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04 Jan 1970 Beatles last recording session at EMI studios
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04 Jan 1970 Kansas City Chiefs beat Oakland Raiders 17-7 in AFC championship game
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04 Jan 1970 Minnesota Vikings beat Cleveland Browns 27-7 in NFC championship game
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04 Jan 1970 New York City transit fare rises from 20 cents to 30 cents, new larger tokens used
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04 Jan 1970 Walter Cronkite ends hosting weekly documentary
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04 Jan 1970 A magnitude 7.7 earthquake strikes Tonghai County, China, killing at least 15,000 people.
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05 Jan 1970 23,000 Belgian mine workers strike
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05 Jan 1970 KPTS TV channel 8 in Hutchinson-Wichita, KS (PBS) begins broadcasting
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05 Jan 1970 Soap Opera "All My Children, " premieres on ABC
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07 Jan 1970 Farmers sue Max Yasgur for $35,000 in damages caused by "Woodstock"
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07 Jan 1970 The Punjab Legislative Council (Abolition) Act, 1969 comes into effect.
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09 Jan 1970 Constitution of Singapore enacted
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10 Jan 1970 Preview Center Opens
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11 Jan 1970 Super Bowl IV Kansas City Chiefs beat Minnesota Vikings, 23-7 in New Orleans; Super Bowl MVP Len Dawson, Kansas City, Quarterback
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12 Jan 1970 Biafra capitulates, ending the Nigerian Civil War.
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12 Jan 1970 Boeing 747 makes its maiden voyage
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12 Jan 1970 Biafran War ends, Biafra surrenders to Nigeria
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15 Jan 1970 Milwaukee Brewers make their 1st trade (with Oakland Athletics)
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15 Jan 1970 Muammar Gaddafi is proclaimed premier of Libya.
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15 Jan 1970 Nigerian Civil War: After a 32-month fight for independence from Nigeria, Biafra surrenders.
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15 Jan 1970 Republic Biafra disbands/joins Nigeria
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16 Jan 1970 Buckminster Fuller receives the Gold Medal award from the American Institute of Architects.
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16 Jan 1970 Curt Flood files a civil lawsuit challenging baseball's reserve clause
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16 Jan 1970 Colonel Kadhaffi becomes premier of Libya
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16 Jan 1970 NFL realigns into 3 divisions (down from 4)
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16 Jan 1970 AAU player Steve Myers makes a basketball field goal of 92'3
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17 Jan 1970 Sporting News names Willie Mays as Player of the Decade for the 1960s
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17 Jan 1970 357 baseball players are available in the free-agent draft
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17 Jan 1970 John M Burgess installed as bishop of Protestant Episcopals (Massachusetts)
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18 Jan 1970 NFL Pro Bowl West beats East 16-13
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18 Jan 1970 Hasse B
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19 Jan 1970 Nixon nominates G Harrold Carswell to Supreme Court (fails)
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19 Jan 1970 Dutch bishop says he is in favor of married priest
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19 Jan 1970 UCLA fires Angela Davis for being a communist
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20 Jan 1970 20th NBA All-Star Game East beats West 142-135 at Philadelphia
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20 Jan 1970 23rd NHL All-Star Game East beat West 4-1 at St Louis
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20 Jan 1970 Super Fight, computer mock championship between Ali & Marciano
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21 Jan 1970 Panama Boeing 747 1st flight NY-London
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22 Jan 1970 The Boeing 747, the world's first "jumbo jet", enters commercial service for launch customer Pan American Airways with its maiden voyage from John F. Kennedy International Airport to London Heathrow Airport.
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22 Jan 1970 1st commercial Boeing 747 flight (Pan Am), New York to London in 6
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22 Jan 1970 Test debut of Barry Richards, South Africa vs Australia, Cape Town
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23 Jan 1970 Australia's 1st amateur radio satellite (Oscar 5) launched (California)
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23 Jan 1970 US launches 2nd generation weather satellite, ITOS 1
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23 Jan 1970 Dolle Mina burns her bra in Amsterdam
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23 Jan 1970 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
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24 Jan 1970 3rd ABA All-Star Game West 128 beats East 98 at Indiana
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24 Jan 1970 Valeri Muratov skates world record 500m (38.99 seconds)
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25 Jan 1970 Robert Altman's "M*AS*H" premieres
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26 Jan 1970 Pendleton, Ford & Cryer's "Last Sweet Days of Isaac" premieres in New York City NY
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27 Jan 1970 Movie rating system modifies "M" rating to "PG"
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27 Jan 1970 Movie rating system modifies "M" rating to "PG"
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28 Jan 1970 Lubom
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29 Jan 1970 USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakstan/Semipalatinsk USSR
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31 Jan 1970 Grateful Dead members busted on LSD charges
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01 Feb 1970 Ford Frick, Earle Combs and Jesse Haines elected to Hall of Fame
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01 Feb 1970 Stalled commuter train rammed by express in Argentina, 139 die
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01 Feb 1970 West-Germany and the USSR sign gas contract
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01 Feb 1970 WMAA TV channel 29 in Jackson, MS (PBS) begins broadcasting
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02 Feb 1970 Pete Maravich becomes 1st to score 3,000 college basketball points
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04 Feb 1970 "Charles Aznavour" opens at Music Box Theater NYC for 23 performances
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04 Feb 1970 "Gantry" opens at George Abbott Theater NYC for 1 performance
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05 Feb 1970 WSCV TV channel 51 in Ft Lauderdale, Florida (IND) suspends broadcasting
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06 Feb 1970 Graeme Pollock completes 274 vs. Australia at Durban
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06 Feb 1970 NBA expands to 18 teams with Buffalo, Cleveland, Houston and Portland
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07 Feb 1970 "Hollywood Palace, " last airs on ABC TV
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07 Feb 1970 "Jingle Jangle" hits #10 on the pop singles chart by Archies
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07 Feb 1970 US female Figure Skating championship won by Janet Lynn
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07 Feb 1970 US male Figure Skating championship won by Tim Wood
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10 Feb 1970 Dry powder avalanche moving at 120 mph smashes into youth hostel killing 40 Belgian, French, & German youths (Val d'Isere, France)
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10 Feb 1970 26.4 cm precipitation falls on Mount Washington NH (state record)
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11 Feb 1970 26.37 cm (10.38") of rainfall, Mt Washington NH (state 24-hour record)
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11 Feb 1970 Japan becomes 4th nation to put a satellite (Osumi) in orbit
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11 Feb 1970 John Lennon pays
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12 Feb 1970 Anthony Shaffers "Sleuth, " premieres in New York City
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12 Feb 1970 Anthony Shaffers "Sleuth" premieres in New York NY
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13 Feb 1970 NL offices begins move from Cin to SF (completed February 23)
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13 Feb 1970 Man-eating tiger is reported to have killed 48, 80 km from New Delhi
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13 Feb 1970 NL offices begins move from Cincinnati to San Francisco (completed Feb 23)
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14 Feb 1970 "Gantry" closes at George Abbott Theater NYC after 1 performance
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14 Feb 1970 The iconic live album Live at Leeds by The Who is recorded.
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15 Feb 1970 Nationalists disrupt UN session on Congo
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15 Feb 1970 Ard Schenk becomes world champion all-round skater
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15 Feb 1970 Carol Mann wins LPGA Burdine's Golf Invitational
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15 Feb 1970 Dominican DC-9 crashes into sea at Santo Domingo, kills 102
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15 Feb 1970 KAMU TV channel 15 in College Station TX (PBS) begins broadcasting
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16 Feb 1970 Joe Frazier TKOs Jimmy Ellis in 5 for heavyweight boxing title
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16 Feb 1970 Joe Frazier KOs Jimmy Ellis in 5 for undisputed heavyweight boxing crown
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17 Feb 1970 Jeffrey McDonald slices up his wife & daughter
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17 Feb 1970 Joni Mitchell's final concert (Royal Albert Hall)
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17 Feb 1970 Robert Marasco's "Child's Play" premieres in New York NY
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18 Feb 1970 US President Nixon launches "Nixon-doctrine"
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18 Feb 1970 The Chicago Seven are found not guilty of conspiring to incite riots at the 1968 Democratic National Convention.
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18 Feb 1970 Chicago 7 defendants found innocent of inciting to riot
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19 Feb 1970 AL Cy Young winner Denny McLain suspended for book-making
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19 Feb 1970 USSR launches Sputnik 52 & Molniya 1-13 communications satellite
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21 Feb 1970 Jackson 5 make TV debut on "American Bandstand"
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21 Feb 1970 Pathet Lao conquerors Xieng Khuang & Muong Suy
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22 Feb 1970 "Charles Aznavour" closes at Music Box Theater NYC after 23 performances
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23 Feb 1970 Guyana becomes a republic (National Day)
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23 Feb 1970 Holy Eucharist given by women for 1st time in Roman Catholic service
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24 Feb 1970 29 Swiss Army officers die in avalanche (Reckingen, Switzerland)
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24 Feb 1970 Heintje Simons (14) wins 7 gold records
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24 Feb 1970 KVDO TV channel 3 in Salem OR (IND) begins broadcasting
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26 Feb 1970 Beatles release "Beatles Again" aka "Hey Jude" album
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26 Feb 1970 Beatles release "Beatles Again" aka "Hey Jude" album
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27 Feb 1970 New York Times (falsely) reports US army has ended domestic surveillance
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28 Feb 1970 WUTR TV channel 20 in Utica-Rome, New York (ABC) begins broadcasting
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28 Feb 1970 Bicycles permitted to cross Golden Gate Bridge
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28 Feb 1970 Caroline Walker runs world female record marathon (3:02:53)
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28 Feb 1970 KIIN (now KUN) TV channel 12 in Iowa City IA (PBS) 1st broadcast
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01 Mar 1970 Atje Keulen-Deelstra becomes world champion all-round ladies skater
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01 Mar 1970 End of US coml whale hunting
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01 Mar 1970 White government of Rhodesia declares independence from Britain
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02 Mar 1970 Rhodesia becomes independent Republic
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02 Mar 1970 Supreme Court ruled draft evaders can not be penalized after 5 years
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02 Mar 1970 Rhodesia declares itself a republic, breaking its last links with the British crown.
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04 Mar 1970 French submarine "Eurydice" explodes
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04 Mar 1970 Jacksonville is 1st college basketball team to average 100+ pts per game
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04 Mar 1970 New York Rangers set then NHL record of 126 games without being shut-out
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04 Mar 1970 French submarine Eurydice explodes underwater, resulting in the loss of the entire 57-man crew.
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05 Mar 1970 Edison Theater opens at 240 W 47th St, New York City
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05 Mar 1970 Nuclear non-proliferation treaty goes into effect
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05 Mar 1970 SDS Weathermen terrorist group bomb 18 West 11th St. in New York City
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05 Mar 1970 The Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty goes into effect after ratification by 43 nations.
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06 Mar 1970 Beatles release "Let it Be" in the UK
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06 Mar 1970 An explosion at the Weather Underground safe house in Greenwich Village kills three.
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07 Mar 1970 Ice Dance Championship at Ljubljana won by Pakhomova and Gorshkov (URS)
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07 Mar 1970 Ice Pairs Championship at Ljubljana won by Rodnina and Ulanov (URS)
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07 Mar 1970 Ladies Figure Skating Champ in Ljubljana won by Gabriele Seyfert (GDR)
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07 Mar 1970 WXOW TV channel 19 in La Crosse, WI (ABC) begins broadcasting
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08 Mar 1970 WTCI TV channel 45 in Chattanooga, TN (PBS) begins broadcasting
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10 Mar 1970 Barbra Streisand records "The Singer" and"I Can Do It"
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10 Mar 1970 Vietnam War: Captain Ernest Medina is charged by the U.S. military with My Lai war crimes.
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10 Mar 1970 Barbra Streisand records "The Singer" & "I Can Do It"
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10 Mar 1970 South Africa complete 4-0 series drubbing of Australia
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11 Mar 1970 12th Grammy Awards: Aquarius, Crosby Stills & Nash, Peggy Lee win
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11 Mar 1970 Iraq Ba'th Party recognizes Kurd nation
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12 Mar 1970 US lowers voting age from 21 to 18
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13 Mar 1970 100 year Beehive anniversary ends in brawl in Amsterdam
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13 Mar 1970 Digital Equipment Corp introduces PDP-11 minicomputer
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13 Mar 1970 San Francisco city employees begin 4-day strike
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15 Mar 1970 Expo '70 opens in Osaka, Japan
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15 Mar 1970 Gary Geld & Peter Udell's "Purlie" premieres at Broadway Theater NYC for 689 performances
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16 Mar 1970 New English Bible published
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16 Mar 1970 WNIN TV channel 9 in Evansville IN (PBS) begins broadcasting
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17 Mar 1970 My Lai Massacre: The United States Army charges 14 officers with suppressing information related to the incident.
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17 Mar 1970 Peter O'Malley becomes CEO of Los Angeles Dodgers
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17 Mar 1970 US casts their 1st UN Security Council veto (Support England)
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18 Mar 1970 The U.S. postal strike of 1970 begins, one of the largest wildcat strikes in U.S. history.
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18 Mar 1970 Lon Nol ousts Prince Norodom Sihanouk of Cambodia.
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18 Mar 1970 Cambodia military coup under General Lon Nol, prince Sihanuk flees
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18 Mar 1970 KAEC TV channel 19 in Lufkin TX (ABC) suspends broadcasting
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18 Mar 1970 Mail service paralyzed by 1st major postal strike
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18 Mar 1970 NFL selects Wilson as official football & scoreboard as official time
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19 Mar 1970 W German chancellor and E German Premier Willy Brandt meet
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19 Mar 1970 West German Chancellor Willy Brandt & East German Premier Willi Stoph meet
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21 Mar 1970 The first Earth Day proclamation is issued by Mayor of San Francisco Joseph Alioto.
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21 Mar 1970 32nd NCAA Men's Basketball Championship: UCLA beats Jacksonville 80-69
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22 Mar 1970 "Blood Red Roses" opens and closes at John Golden Theater, New York City
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22 Mar 1970 "Blood Red Roses" opens & closes at John Golden Theater NYC
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22 Mar 1970 Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Orange Blossom Golf Classic
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24 Mar 1970 Dutch cartoonist Frans Pi
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25 Mar 1970 Concorde makes its 1st supersonic flight (700 mph / 1,127 km/h)
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26 Mar 1970 Peter Yarrow (Peter, Paul & Mary) plead guilty to "taking immoral liberties" with a 14 year old girl
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26 Mar 1970 South Vietnamese President Nguyễn Văn Thiệu implements a land reform program to solve the problem of land tenancy
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26 Mar 1970 "Minnie's Boys" opens at Imperial Theater NYC for 80 performances
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26 Mar 1970 500th nuclear explosion announced by the US since 1945
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26 Mar 1970 Golden Gate Park Conservatory made city landmark
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27 Mar 1970 Ringo releases his 1st solo album "Sentimental Journey"
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27 Mar 1970 USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakhstan/Semipalitinsk USSR
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28 Mar 1970 Gediz earthquake: A 7.2 magnitude earthquake strikes western Turkey at about 23:05 local time, killed 1,086 and injured 1,260.
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28 Mar 1970 1,086 die when 7.3 earthquake destroys 254 villages (Gediz Turkey)
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29 Mar 1970 "Look to the Lilies" opens at Lunt-Fontanne Theater NYC for 25 performances
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29 Mar 1970 Manchester City wins 10th Europe Cup II
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30 Mar 1970 "Applause" opens at Palace Theater NYC for 900 performances
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30 Mar 1970 Soap opera "Somerset" premieres
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30 Mar 1970 Miles Davis Bitches Brew released
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30 Mar 1970 Soap opera "Somerset" premieres
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30 Mar 1970 Strouse, Adams, Comden & Green's musical "Applause" premieres at Palace Theater NYC for 900 performances
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30 Mar 1970 USSR wins its 8th straight world hockey championship
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31 Mar 1970 Explorer 1 re-enters the Earth's atmosphere after 12 years in orbit.
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31 Mar 1970 Federal bankruptcy court allows Seattle Pilots to be sold to Milwaukee
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01 Apr 1970 Bud Selig becomes CEO of Milwaukee Brewers
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01 Apr 1970 John andYoko release hoax they are having dual sex change operations
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01 Apr 1970 President Nixon signs bill limiting cigarette advertisements on 1 / 1 / 71
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01 Apr 1970 President Richard Nixon signs the Public Health Cigarette Smoking Act into law, requiring the Surgeon General's warnings on tobacco products and banning cigarette advertising on television and radio in the United States, starting on January 1, 1971.
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02 Apr 1970 2 men begin ascent of south face of Annapurna I, highest final stage in a wall climb in world
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02 Apr 1970 Qatar gains independence from Britain
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03 Apr 1970 Miriam Hargrave of England passes her drivers test on 40th try
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04 Apr 1970 Firestone World Tournament of Champions won by Don Johnson
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05 Apr 1970 WSNS TV channel 44 in Chicago, IL (IND) begins broadcasting
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06 Apr 1970 Newhall massacre: Four California Highway Patrol officers are killed in a shootout.
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07 Apr 1970 "Effects of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-moon Marigolds, " premieres in New York City
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07 Apr 1970 42nd Academy Awards - "Midnight Cowboy, " John Wayne and Maggie Smith win
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07 Apr 1970 Milwaukee Brewers (former Seat Pilots) 1st game, lose to Angels 12-0
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08 Apr 1970 "Cry for Us All" opens at Broadhurst Theater NYC for 8 performances
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08 Apr 1970 Bahr El-Baqar primary school bombing: Israeli bombers strike an Egyptian school. Forty-six children are killed.
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09 Apr 1970 Paul McCartney announces official split of Beatles
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10 Apr 1970 Paul McCartney announces that he is leaving The Beatles for personal and professional reasons.
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11 Apr 1970 Apollo 13 is launched.
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11 Apr 1970 Apollo 13 launched to Moon; unable to land, returns in 6 days
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11 Apr 1970 Beatles' "Let It Be", single goes #1 & stays #1 for 2 weeks
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11 Apr 1970 San Francisco beats Cincinnati 2-1, only day Reds aren't in 1st place in 1970
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12 Apr 1970 Soviet submarine K-8, carrying four nuclear torpedoes, sinks in the Bay of Biscay four days after a fire on board.
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12 Apr 1970 Yankees dedicate plaques to Mickey Mantle & Joe DiMaggio
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13 Apr 1970 An oxygen tank aboard Apollo 13 explodes, putting the crew in great danger and causing major damage to the spacecraft while en route to the Moon.
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13 Apr 1970 Apollo 13 announces "Houston, we've got a problem!" as Beech-built oxygen tank explodes en route to Moon
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13 Apr 1970 34th Golf Masters Championship Billy Casper wins, shooting a 279
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13 Apr 1970 Greek composer Mikis Theordorakis is freed
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13 Apr 1970 Oakland uses gold-colored bases during the club's home opener; Rules Committee subsequently bans this innovation
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14 Apr 1970 "Boy Friend" opens at Ambassador Theater NYC for 119 performances
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15 Apr 1970 "Cry for Us All" closes at Broadhurst Theater NYC after 8 performances
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15 Apr 1970 Libyan leader Gadaffi launches "Green Revolution"
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15 Apr 1970 During the Cambodian Civil War, massacres of the Vietnamese minority results in 800 bodies flowing down the Mekong river into South Vietnam.
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15 Apr 1970 Libyan leader Qadhafi launches "Green Revolution"
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15 Apr 1970 WMGZ TV channel 16 in Mayaguez Puerto Rico ([M]) begins broadcasting
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15 Apr 1970 WPSJ TV channel 14 in Ponce Puerto Rico ([P]) begins broadcasting
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16 Apr 1970 70 die in a snow crush (France)
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16 Apr 1970 70 die in an avalanche (France)
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17 Apr 1970 Apollo program: The ill-fated Apollo 13 spacecraft returns to Earth safely.
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17 Apr 1970 Apollo 13 limps back safely, Beech-built oxygen tank no help
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17 Apr 1970 Paul McCartney's 1st solo album "McCartney" is released
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19 Apr 1970 "Look to the Lilies" closes at Lunt-Fontanne NYC after 25 performances
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19 Apr 1970 24th Tony Awards Borstal Boy & Applause win
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19 Apr 1970 Sandra Haynie wins LPGA Raleigh Ladies Golf Invitational
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20 Apr 1970 74th Boston Marathon won by Ron Hill of Great Britain in 2:10:30
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20 Apr 1970 74th Boston Marathon won by Ron Hill of Great Britain in 2:10:30 (new US marathon record)
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20 Apr 1970 Bruno Kreisky becomes 1st socialist chancellor of Austria
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21 Apr 1970 Reds clout 7 HRs by 6 batters, Braves counter with 3 HRs, 6 for one team and 9 different batters for two teams, all tie or set records
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21 Apr 1970 The Hutt River Province secedes from Australia as the Principality of Hutt River.
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22 Apr 1970 "Park" opens at John Golden Theater NYC for 5 performances
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22 Apr 1970 New York Met Tom Seaver strikes out last 10 Padres, for a total of 19
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22 Apr 1970 Senators beat Yankees 2-1 in 18 innings
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22 Apr 1970 The first Earth Day is celebrated.
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22 Apr 1970 1st Earth Day held internationally to conserve natural resources
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22 Apr 1970 New York Mets' Jerry Grote sets record of 20 put outs by a catcher
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22 Apr 1970 New York Mets' Tom Seaver consecutively strikes out 10 San Diego Padres, for a total of 19
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22 Apr 1970 Washington Senators beat New York Yankees 2-1 in 18 innings
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22 Apr 1970 Flat Earth celebrated
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24 Apr 1970 China PR launches its 1st satellite transmitting song "East is Red"
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24 Apr 1970 The Gambia becomes a republic within the Commonwealth of Nations, with Dawda Jawara as the first President.
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24 Apr 1970 The first Chinese satellite, Dong Fang Hong I, is launched.
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24 Apr 1970 Gambia becomes a republic within the Commonwealth
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24 Apr 1970 People's Rebublic of China launches its 1st satellite transmitting song "East is Red"
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24 Apr 1970 Senegal adopts constitution
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25 Apr 1970 "Park" closes at John Golden Theater NYC after 5 performances
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25 Apr 1970 Freda Payne releases "Band of Gold"
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25 Apr 1970 Melanie releases "Lay Down"
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25 Apr 1970 Freda Payne releases "Band of Gold"
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25 Apr 1970 Melanie releases "Lay Down"
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26 Apr 1970 "Company" opens at Alvin Theater NYC for 690 performances
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26 Apr 1970 The Convention Establishing the World Intellectual Property Organization enters into force.
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28 Apr 1970 Vietnam War: U.S. President Richard M. Nixon formally authorizes American combat troops to fight communist sanctuaries in Cambodia.
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29 Apr 1970 Vietnam War: United States and South Vietnamese forces invade Cambodia to hunt Viet Cong.
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29 Apr 1970 50,000 US & South Vietnamese troops invade Cambodia
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30 Apr 1970 US troops invade Cambodia
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30 Apr 1970 Chicago Cubs Billy Williams is 1st National Leaguer to play in 1,000 consecutive games
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01 May 1970 Protests erupt in Seattle, following the announcement by U.S. President Richard Nixon that U.S. Forces in Vietnam would pursue enemy troops into Cambodia, a neutral country.
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02 May 1970 1st woman jockey at Kentucky Derby (Diane Crump)
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02 May 1970 96th Kentucky Derby: Mike Manganello on Dust Commander wins 2:03.4
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02 May 1970 KOAI (now KNAZ) TV channel 2 in Flagstaff, AZ (NBC) 1st broadcast
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03 May 1970 24th NBA Championship: New York Knicks beat LA Lakers, 4 games to 3
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03 May 1970 Sandra Haynie wins LPGA Shreveport Kiwanis Golf Invitational
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04 May 1970 National Guard kills 4 at Kent State in Ohio
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04 May 1970 Premier Kosygin affirms existence Russian military advisors in Egypt
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04 May 1970 Vietnam War: Kent State shootings: The Ohio National Guard, sent to Kent State University after disturbances in the city of Kent the weekend before, opens fire killing four unarmed students and wounding nine others. The students were protesting the United States' invasion of Cambodia.
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06 May 1970 Yuchiro Miura of Japan skies down Mt Everest
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08 May 1970 Beatles release "Let it Be" album
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08 May 1970 NBA championship: Knicks beat Lakers, 113-99
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08 May 1970 The Hard Hat Riot occurs in the Wall Street area of New York City as blue-collar construction workers clash with demonstrators protesting the Vietnam War.
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09 May 1970 100,000s demonstrate against Vietnam War
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09 May 1970 Vietnam War: In Washington, D.C., 75,000 to 100,000 war protesters demonstrate in front of the White House.
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10 May 1970 Bobby Orr scores "The Goal" to win the 1970 Stanley Cup Finals, for the Boston Bruins' fourth NHL championship in their history.
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10 May 1970 Betsy Rawls wins LPGA Dallas Civitan Golf Open
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10 May 1970 Brave's Hoyt Wilhelm pitches in his 1,000th game, loses to Cardinals 6-5
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10 May 1970 Stanley Cup: Boston Bruins sweep St Louis Blues in 4 games
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11 May 1970 The Lubbock tornado, a F5 tornado, hits Lubbock, Texas, killing 26 and causing $250 million in damage.
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11 May 1970 Sammy Davis Jr weds Altovise
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12 May 1970 KTVM TV channel 6 in Butte, MT (NBC / ABC) begins broadcasting
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12 May 1970 Race riots in Augusta Georgia; 6 blacks killed (5 by cops)
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12 May 1970 Ernie Banks hits his 500th home run
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12 May 1970 Harry A Blackmun is confirmed as a justice on the Supreme Court
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12 May 1970 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
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13 May 1970 Beatles movie "Let it Be" premieres
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13 May 1970 Beatles movie "Let it Be" premieres
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14 May 1970 New York City local newspaper "Our Town" begins publishing
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14 May 1970 The Red Army Faction is established in West Germany.
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14 May 1970 Cops kill 2 students in racial disturbance (Jackson State University, Mississippi)
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14 May 1970 Harry A Blackmun appointed to the Supreme Court
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14 May 1970 NYC local newspaper "Our Town" begins publishing
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14 May 1970 RAF-leader Andreas Baader freed after serving 2 years in West Berlin
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15 May 1970 Mississippi Highway Patrol kills 2 at Jackson State College
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15 May 1970 Philip Lafayette Gibbs and James Earl Green are killed at Jackson State University by police during student protests.
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15 May 1970 President Richard Nixon appoints Anna Mae Hays and Elizabeth P. Hoisington the first female United States Army Generals.
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15 May 1970 Beatles' last LP, "Let It Be" is released in US
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15 May 1970 Elizabeth Hoisington & Anna Mae Mays named 1st female US generals
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15 May 1970 France performs nuclear test at Muruora Island
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15 May 1970 South-Africa excluded from Olympic play
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16 May 1970 "Grover Henson Feels Forgotten" by Bill Cosby hits #70
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16 May 1970 96th Preakness: Eddie Belmonte aboard Personality wins in 1:56.2
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17 May 1970 Thor Heyerdahl sets sail from Morocco on the papyrus boat Ra II to sail the Atlantic Ocean.
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17 May 1970 Hank Aaron becomes 9th player to get 3,000 hits
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17 May 1970 Shirley Englehorn wins LPGA Johnny Londoff Chevrolet Golf Tournament
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17 May 1970 Thor Heyerdahl crosses the Atlantic on reed raft Ra
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20 May 1970 100,000 march in New York supporting US policies in Vietnam
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20 May 1970 2 die in a NYC subway accident
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20 May 1970 The Beatles' "Let it Be" movie premieres in UK
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21 May 1970 National Guard mobilized to quell disturbances at Ohio State University
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21 May 1970 USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR
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22 May 1970 Arab terrorists kill 9 children & 3 adults on a school bus
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22 May 1970 France performs nuclear test at Muruora Island
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22 May 1970 Mel Stottlemyre sets record by walking 11, but wins 2-0
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23 May 1970 SD Padres beat SF Giants 17-16 in 15 innings
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23 May 1970 Robert Stephenson's pioneering Britannia Tubular Bridge over the Menai Strait is catastrophically damaged by fire after standing for 120 years.
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23 May 1970 Grateful Dead's 1st perfomance outside of the US (England)
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23 May 1970 San Diego Padres beat San Fransisco Giants 17-16 in 15 innings
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23 May 1970 USSR performs nuclear test (underground)
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24 May 1970 The drilling of the Kola Superdeep Borehole begins in the Soviet Union.
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24 May 1970 Donna Caponi Young wins LPGA Bluegrass Golf Invitational
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24 May 1970 Peter Queen quits Fleetwood Mac to join a religious cult
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25 May 1970 3rd ABA Championship: Indiana Pacers beat Los Angeles Stars, 4 games to 2
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26 May 1970 The Soviet Tupolev Tu-144 becomes the first commercial transport to exceed Mach 2.
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27 May 1970 British expedition climbs south face of Annapurna I
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29 May 1970 USSR performs nuclear test (underground)
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30 May 1970 "Minnie's Boys" closes at Imperial Theater NYC after 80 performances
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30 May 1970 Baseball All-Star voting is returned to fans
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31 May 1970 The Ancash earthquake causes a landslide that buries the town of Yungay, Peru; more than 47,000 people are killed.
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31 May 1970 At 03:23 PM, Yungay Peru levelled by 7.75 earthquake (50-70,000 die)
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31 May 1970 KDUB TV channel 40 in Dubuque IA (ABC) begins broadcasting
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31 May 1970 Shirley Englehorn wins LPGA O'Sullivan Ladies' Golf Open
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01 Jun 1970 "Everything Is Beautiful" by Ray Stevens hits #1
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01 Jun 1970 Com Bowie Kuhn reprimands Astro Jim Bouton for writing "Ball Four"
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01 Jun 1970 Soyuz 9 launched into Earth orbit for 18 days
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01 Jun 1970 Tigers Al Kaline collides with another player and swallows his tongue
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03 Jun 1970 1st artificial gene synthesized
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03 Jun 1970 Ray Davies of Kinks travels round trip NY-London to change 1 word in "Lola, " (Coca-Cola to Cherry Cola) because of BBC coml reference ban
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04 Jun 1970 43rd National Spelling Bee: Libby Childress wins spelling croissant
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04 Jun 1970 SD Padres draft Mike Ivie #1
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04 Jun 1970 Tonga (formerly Friendly Islands) declares independence from the UK
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04 Jun 1970 WSMW TV channel 27 in Worcester, MA (IND) begins broadcasting
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04 Jun 1970 Yanks Horace Clarke breaks up a no-hitter in the 9th for the 1st of 3 times in 28 days
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04 Jun 1970 Tonga gains independence from the United Kingdom.
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05 Jun 1970 KPAX TV channel 8 in Missoula, MT (CBS) begins broadcasting
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06 Jun 1970 102nd Belmont: John Rotz aboard High Echelon wins in 2:34
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07 Jun 1970 22nd Emmy Awards: Marcus Welby, Robert Young and Susan Hampshire
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07 Jun 1970 Jockey Willie Shoemaker passes Johnny Longden with his 6,033 win
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07 Jun 1970 Shirley Englehorn wins LPGA Lady Carling Golf Open
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08 Jun 1970 Players and management end labor dispute up min salary to $12,000
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09 Jun 1970 Bob Dylan given honorary Doctorate of Music at Princeton University
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09 Jun 1970 Harry A Blackmun, sworn in as Supreme Court Justice
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11 Jun 1970 After being appointed on May 15, Anna Mae Hays and Elizabeth P. Hoisington officially receive their ranks as U.S. Army Generals, becoming the first females to do so.
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11 Jun 1970 US leaves Wheelus AFB Libya
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12 Jun 1970 Pittsburgh Pirate Doc Ellis no-hits San Diego Padres, 2-0
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13 Jun 1970 "In The Summertime" by Mungo Jerry hit #1 in the UK
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13 Jun 1970 "The Long and Winding Road" becomes The Beatles' last U.S. number one song.
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13 Jun 1970 Beatles' "Let It Be," album goes #1 & stays #1 for 4 weeks
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13 Jun 1970 Beatles' "Long & Winding Road," single goes #1 & stays #1 for 2 weeks
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14 Jun 1970 Cincinatti Red Stockings loses 1st game after winning 130 straight
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15 Jun 1970 16th LPGA Championship won by Shirley Englehorn
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15 Jun 1970 Charles Manson goes on trial for the Sharon Tate murders.
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16 Jun 1970 Kenneth A Gibson elected 1st black Mayor of Newark, New Jersey
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16 Jun 1970 Race riots in Miami Florida
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17 Jun 1970 Edwin Land patents Polaroid camera
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19 Jun 1970 Conservatives win British parliamentary election
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19 Jun 1970 Yanks Horace Clarke breaks up a no-hitter in the 9th for the 2nd of 3 times in 28 days
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19 Jun 1970 The Patent Cooperation Treaty is signed.
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19 Jun 1970 A Nikolayev & V Sevastyanov return after 18 days in Soyuz 9
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19 Jun 1970 Jim Bouton's controversial "Ball Four" is published
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20 Jun 1970 "Ray Stevens Show, " debuts on NBC-TV
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20 Jun 1970 British government of Edward Heath forms (with Margaret Thatcher)
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20 Jun 1970 Oriole's Brooks Robinson get his 2,000 career hit, a 3 run HR
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21 Jun 1970 70th US Golf Open: Tony Jacklin shoots a 281 at Hazeltine National, Minnesota
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21 Jun 1970 Judy Rankin wins LPGA George Washington Golf Classic
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21 Jun 1970 Penn Central declares Section 77 bankruptcy, largest ever US corporate bankruptcy up to this date.
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21 Jun 1970 Brazil wins last Jules Rimet Trophy, soccer championship
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22 Jun 1970 President Nixon signs 26th amendment (voting age lowered to 18)
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22 Jun 1970 Supreme Court ruled juries of less than 12 are constitutional
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22 Jun 1970 WSWO TV channel 26 in Springfield, OH (ABC) suspends broadcasting
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23 Jun 1970 "Red Skelton Show, " last airs on CBS-TV, moved to NBC-TV
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23 Jun 1970 Rocker Chubby Checker arrested for marijuana possession
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23 Jun 1970 Charles Rangel defeats Adam Clayton Powell in Democratic primary
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24 Jun 1970 "Catch 22" opens in movie theaters
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24 Jun 1970 Bobby Murcer ties record of 4 consecutive HRs
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24 Jun 1970 Senate votes overwhelmingly to repeal Gulf of Tonkin Resolution
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26 Jun 1970 Frank Robinson hits 2 grand slams as Orioles beat Senators 12-2
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28 Jun 1970 Mary Mills wins LPGA Len Immke Buick Golf Open
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29 Jun 1970 US ends 2 month military offensive into Cambodia
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30 Jun 1970 1st baseball game at Cincinnati's Riverfront Stadium
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30 Jun 1970 Brazil beats Italy 4-1 in soccer's 9th World Cup at Mexico City
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30 Jun 1970 T Smirnova discovers asteroid #2139 Makharadze
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01 Jul 1970 Denny McLain returns, (leaves trailiing) Tigers beat Yankees in 11
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01 Jul 1970 FC Utrecht soccer team forms in Utrecht
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01 Jul 1970 Jimi Hendrix 1st recording session (NYC)
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01 Jul 1970 President General Yahya Khan abolishes One-Unit of West Pakistan restoring the provinces.
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02 Jul 1970 1st Boeing 747 to land in Amsterdam and Brussels
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02 Jul 1970 New York Yankees Horace Clarke breaks up a no-hitter in the 9th for 3rd time in 28 days
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03 Jul 1970 200,000 attend Atlanta Pop Festival
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03 Jul 1970 77th Wimbledon Womens Tennis: Margaret Smith beats King (14-12 11-9)
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03 Jul 1970 British aircraft crashes at Barcelona, 112 killed
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03 Jul 1970 California Angels Clyde Wright no-hits Oakland Athletics, 8-0
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03 Jul 1970 The Troubles: The "Falls Curfew" begins in Belfast, Northern Ireland.
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04 Jul 1970 100 injured in race rioting in Asbury Park, New Jersey
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04 Jul 1970 84th Wimbledon Mens Tennis: Newcombe beats K Rosewall (57 63 62 36 61)
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04 Jul 1970 Chartered Dan-Air Comet crashes into mountains north of Barcelona, Spain killing 112 vacationing Britons
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06 Jul 1970 California passes 1st "no fault" divorce law
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06 Jul 1970 Italian Rumor government resigns
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08 Jul 1970 Richard Nixon delivers a special congressional message enunciating Native American self-determination as official US Indian policy, leading to the Indian Self-Determination and Education Assistance Act of 1975.
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09 Jul 1970 In Atlanta, Chief-No-ka-homa is joined by cousin Chief Round-the-Horn
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12 Jul 1970 99th British Golf Open: Jack Nicklaus shoots a 283 at St. Andrews
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12 Jul 1970 Blues-Rock singer Janis Joplin debuts in Kentucky
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12 Jul 1970 Tanzania signs contract with China for building Tanzam-railway
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12 Jul 1970 Thor Heyerdahl crosses Atl Ocean in "Ra" docks in Barbados
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12 Jul 1970 A fire consumes the wooden home of Norwegian composer Geirr Tveitt and irretrievably destroys about 90 percent of his output.
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12 Jul 1970 Janis Joplin debuts in Kentucky
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13 Jul 1970 Building begins of Amsterdam metro
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14 Jul 1970 41st All Star Baseball Game: NL wins 5-4 at Riverfront Stadium, Cin
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14 Jul 1970 All star MVP: Carl Yastremski (Boston Red Sox)
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14 Jul 1970 NL wins 8th straight All Star Game, 5-4 in 12 innings (Riverfront, Cin)
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15 Jul 1970 Denmark beats Italy 2-0 in 1st world female soccer championship
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16 Jul 1970 Pitts Pirates replaces Forbes Field with 3 River Stadium
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17 Jul 1970 30,000 attend Randall's Island Rock Festival, NYC
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18 Jul 1970 "Boy Friend" closes at Ambassador Theater NYC after 119 performances
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18 Jul 1970 Giants Willie Mays hits 3,000 homers
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18 Jul 1970 Willie Mays, is 10th to get 3,000 hits
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18 Jul 1970 WJCL TV channel 22 in Savannah, Georgia (ABC) begins broadcasting
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18 Jul 1970 Arthur Brown arrested for stripping on stage in Palemo Sicily
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18 Jul 1970 Ron Hunt gets hit by a pitch for a record 119th time
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18 Jul 1970 Willie Mays hits # 3,000
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19 Jul 1970 Judy Rankin wins LPGA Springfield Jaycee Golf Open
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20 Jul 1970 Dodgers Bill Singer no-hits the Phillies 5-0, giving up no walks
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20 Jul 1970 1st baby born on Alcatraz Island
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20 Jul 1970 LA Angel Bill Singer no-hits Phillies, 5-0
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21 Jul 1970 Clay Kirby has a no-hitter going for 8 inn, but is lifted for a pinch hitter, Reliever Jack Baldschun gives up 3 hits and Padres lose, 3-0
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21 Jul 1970 Huge Aswan Dam opens in Egypt
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21 Jul 1970 Libya orders confiscation of all Jewish property
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21 Jul 1970 After 11 years of construction, the Aswan High Dam in Egypt is completed.
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23 Jul 1970 Qaboos bin Said al Said becomes Sultan of Oman after overthrowing his father, Said bin Taimur initiating massive reforms, modernization programs and end to a decade long civil war.
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24 Jul 1970 International Law Tennis Association institutes 9 point tie break rule
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25 Jul 1970 " (They Long to Be) Close to You" reaches #1
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26 Jul 1970 Reds Johnny Bench hits 3 consecutive HRs of Phillies Steve Carlton
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27 Jul 1970 Expos beat White Sox 10-6 in the annual Hall of Fame game
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27 Jul 1970 L Boudreau, Earle Combs, Ford Frick, and Jesse Haines enter Hall of Fame
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29 Jul 1970 6 days of race rioting in Hartford, Connecticut
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30 Jul 1970 30,000 attend Powder Ridge Rock Festival, Middlefield, Connecticut
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30 Jul 1970 Smirnova discover asteroid 1835 Gajdariya, 2032 Ethel & 2349 Kurchenko
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31 Jul 1970 37th NFL Chicago All Star Game: Kansas City 24, All Stars 3 (69,940)
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31 Jul 1970 Chet Huntley retires from NBC, ends "Huntley-Brinkley Report"
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31 Jul 1970 Black Tot Day: The last day of the officially sanctioned rum ration in the Royal Navy.
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01 Aug 1970 EAA Convention moves from Rockford Ill to Oshkosh, Wisconsin
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01 Aug 1970 KTSD TV channel 10 in Pierre, SD (PBS) begins broadcasting
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01 Aug 1970 Willie Stargell (Pirates) ties record of 5 extra base hits in a game
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02 Aug 1970 Baltimore defeats Kansas City 10-8, Orioles 23rd straight win over the Royals
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02 Aug 1970 Songwriter Sammy Cahn marries Tita Curtis in California
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03 Aug 1970 4 day NFL strike ends
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03 Aug 1970 Hurricane "Celia" becomes most expensive Gulf storm in history
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03 Aug 1970 Mairiam Hargrave of Yorkshire, passes her driving test on 40th try
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04 Aug 1970 Jim Morrison arrested for drunkenness
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05 Aug 1970 US Black Panther leader Huey Newton let out of jail
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07 Aug 1970 1st computer chess tournament
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07 Aug 1970 4, including presiding judge, killed in courthouse shootout in San Rafael, California (Police charge Angela Davis provided weapons)
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07 Aug 1970 Christine Perfect (McVie) joins Fleetwood Mac
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07 Aug 1970 WDHN TV channel 18 in Dothan, AL (ABC) begins broadcasting
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07 Aug 1970 California judge Harold Haley is taken hostage in his courtroom and killed during an effort to free George Jackson from police custody.
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08 Aug 1970 New York Yankees honor Casey Stengel, retiring his number 37 (BTG was there)
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09 Aug 1970 Jane Blalock wins LPGA Lady Carling Golf Open
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09 Aug 1970 Peruvian Airlines jet carrying 45 US exchange students explodes
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10 Aug 1970 Jim Morrison is tried in Miami on "lewd & lascivious behavior"
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11 Aug 1970 Jim Bunning becomes 2nd (Cy Young) to win 100 games in both leagues
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11 Aug 1970 Tony Perez becomes the 1st to hit a HR in the red seats at Riverfront
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12 Aug 1970 Curt Flood loses his $41 million antitrust suit against baseball
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14 Aug 1970 City University of New York inaugurates open admissions
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14 Aug 1970 Steven Stills arrested for drug possession
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15 Aug 1970 Patricia Palinkas becomes the first woman to play professionally in an American football game.
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15 Aug 1970 Patricia Palinkas becomes 1st woman pro football player (Orlando)
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16 Aug 1970 52nd PGA Championship: Dave Stockton shoots 279 at Southern Hills, Oklahoma
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16 Aug 1970 Betsy Rawls wins LPGA Cincinnati Golf Open
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17 Aug 1970 Venera 7 (US), 1st softlanding on Venus, launched
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17 Aug 1970 Venera 7 launched by USSR for soft landing on Venus
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23 Aug 1970 Kathy Ahern wins LPGA Southgate Ladies Golf Open
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23 Aug 1970 Roberto Clemente compiles his record 2nd straight 5-hit game
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24 Aug 1970 Bomb kills 1 at U of Wisconsin's Army Math Research Center in Madison
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28 Aug 1970 Phillies Larry Bowa steals home for 2nd time in 1970
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29 Aug 1970 Black Panthers confront cops in Philadelphia (1 cop killed)
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29 Aug 1970 Chicano Moratorium against the Vietnam War, East Los Angeles, California. Police riot kills three people, including journalist Rubén Salazar.
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31 Aug 1970 59th Davis Cup: USA beats Germany in Cleveland (5-0)
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31 Aug 1970 Peter Yarrow arrested for taking "immoral liberties" with girl, 14
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31 Aug 1970 WKMJ TV channel 68 in Louisville, KY (PBS) begins broadcasting
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31 Aug 1970 Lonnie McLucas, a Black Panther activist, convicted
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31 Aug 1970 US defeats German FR for tennis' Davis Cup
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01 Sep 1970 Failed assassination attempt on Jordanian King Hussain
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01 Sep 1970 Jose Velasco Ibarra re-elected President of Ecuador
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01 Sep 1970 Attempted assassination of King Hussein of Jordan by Palestinian guerrillas, who attack his motorcade.
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02 Sep 1970 1st tennis tie break at a Grand Slam (US Open) (9 pt sudden death)
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02 Sep 1970 NASA announces the cancellation of two Apollo missions to the Moon, Apollo 15 (the designation is re-used by a later mission), and Apollo 19.
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03 Sep 1970 After NL record 1,117 consecutive games, Billy Williams asks to sit out
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03 Sep 1970 Bill Haley & His Comets reject $30,000 for 15 date tour of Australia
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03 Sep 1970 Indonesian President Suharto visits Netherlands
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04 Sep 1970 George Harrison releases "My Sweet Lord" single
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04 Sep 1970 Russian ballerina Natalia Makarova gets political asylum
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04 Sep 1970 Salvador Allende wins presidential election in Chile
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04 Sep 1970 Salvador Allende is elected President of Chile.
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05 Sep 1970 Estimated 15 cm (6") of rainfall, Bug Point, Utah (state record)
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05 Sep 1970 Vietnam War: Operation Jefferson Glenn begins: The United States 101st Airborne Division and the South Vietnamese 1st Infantry Division initiate a new operation in Thừa Thiên–Huế Province.
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05 Sep 1970 Jochen Rindt becomes the only driver to posthumously win the Formula One World Drivers' Championship (in 1970), after being killed in practice for the Italian Grand Prix.
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06 Sep 1970 New York Met Tommy Agee hits for the cycle
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06 Sep 1970 Palestinians seize 3 jetliners
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06 Sep 1970 Two passenger jets bound from Europe to New York are simultaneously hijacked by Palestinian terrorist members of the PFLP and taken to Dawson's Field in Jordan.
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07 Sep 1970 PLO hijacks 4 planes
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07 Sep 1970 White Sox use record 41 players in doubleheader and lose both games
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07 Sep 1970 Fighting between Arab guerrillas and government forces in Amman, Jordan.
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07 Sep 1970 Bill Shoemaker sets record for most lifetime wins as a jockey (passing Johnny Longden).
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09 Sep 1970 Bowie Kuhn suspends Denny McLain for carrying a gun
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09 Sep 1970 A British airliner is hijacked by the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine and flown to Dawson's Field in Jordan.
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11 Sep 1970 The Dawson's Field hijackers release 88 of their hostages. The remaining hostages, mostly Jews and Israeli citizens, are held until September 25.
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12 Sep 1970 1st Concorde lands at Heathrow airport
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12 Sep 1970 Luna 16 Launch (Moon Sample Return)
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12 Sep 1970 Phyllis Ann George (Texas), 21, crowned 43rd Miss America 1971
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12 Sep 1970 Supersonic airliner Concorde lands for 1st time at Heathrow airport
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12 Sep 1970 US LSD Professor Timothy Leary escapes from California jail
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12 Sep 1970 Dawson's Field hijackings: Palestinian terrorists blow up three hijacked airliners in Jordan, continuing to hold the passengers hostage in various undisclosed locations in Amman.
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12 Sep 1970 USSR launches Luna 16; returns samples from lunar Sea of Fertility
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13 Sep 1970 1st NYC Marathon won by Gary Muhrcke in 2:31:38
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13 Sep 1970 84th US Womens Tennis: M Smith Court beats Rosemary Casals (62 26 61)
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13 Sep 1970 90th US Mens Tennis: Ken Rosewall beats Tony Roche (26 64 76 63)
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13 Sep 1970 Joanne Carner wins LPGA Wendell-West Golf Open
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13 Sep 1970 Palestine guerillas conquer Irbid Jordania
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13 Sep 1970 IBM announces System 370 computer
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14 Sep 1970 Stevie Miracle marries Rita Wright, [Syreeta]
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15 Sep 1970 PLO leader Arafat threatens to make a cemetery of Jordan
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15 Sep 1970 Rotterdam harbor strikes end
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15 Sep 1970 Decca awards Bing Crosby a 2nd platinum disc for selling 300 million
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16 Sep 1970 Jordan King Hussein forms military government
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16 Sep 1970 King Hussein of Jordan declares military rule following the hijacking of four civilian airliners by the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP). This results in the formation of the Black September Palestinian paramilitary unit.
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17 Sep 1970 Jordan launches offensive against guerrilla army
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17 Sep 1970 Jordanian King Hussein moves against PLO guerrillas
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17 Sep 1970 WSWP TV channel 9 in Grandview, WV (PBS) begins broadcasting
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19 Sep 1970 "Mary Tyler Moore" show premieres
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19 Sep 1970 The first Glastonbury Festival is held at Michael Eavis's farm in Glastonbury, United Kingdom.
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19 Sep 1970 Kostas Georgakis, a Greek student of geology, sets himself ablaze in Matteotti Square in Genoa, Italy, as a protest against the dictatorial regime of Georgios Papadopoulos.
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19 Sep 1970 "Mary Tyler Moore" show premiers
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20 Sep 1970 Jim Morrison found not guilty of "lewd" behavior
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20 Sep 1970 Syrian tanks roll into Jordan in response to continued fighting between Jordan and the fedayeen.
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20 Sep 1970 Luna 16 lands on Moon's Mare Fecunditatis, drills core sample
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21 Sep 1970 "Monday Night Football" premieres on ABC - Browns 31, Jets 21
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21 Sep 1970 KAPP TV channel 35 in Yakima, WA (ABC) begins broadcasting
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21 Sep 1970 Oakland Athletics Vida Blue no-hits Minn Twins, 6-0
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21 Sep 1970 "Monday Night Football" on ABC premiers (Browns beat Jetss 31-21)
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21 Sep 1970 Luna 16 leaves the Moon
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22 Sep 1970 President Nixon requests 1,000 new FBI agents for college campuses
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23 Sep 1970 Abdul Razak bin Hussain becomes Premier of Malaysia
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23 Sep 1970 Gary Muhrcke wins 1st New York Marathon
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24 Sep 1970 Soviet Luna 16 lands on earth after 1st unmanned round trip to moon
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24 Sep 1970 1st Automated return of lunar sample by Luna 16
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25 Sep 1970 Ringo releases his "Beaucoups of Blues" album
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25 Sep 1970 Cease-fire between Jordan and the Fedayeen ends fighting triggered by four hijackings on September 6 and 9.
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26 Sep 1970 Judy Rankin wins LPGA Lincoln-Mercury Golf Open
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26 Sep 1970 The Laguna Fire starts in San Diego County, California, burning 175,425 acres (709.92 km2).
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27 Sep 1970 Ken Boswell sets 2nd baseman record of 85 games without an error
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28 Sep 1970 "Words & Music, " debuts on NBC-TV
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28 Sep 1970 Anwar Sadat replaces Egyptian President Nassar
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28 Sep 1970 Ringo Starr released his "Beaccups of Blues" album
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28 Sep 1970 Egyptian President Gamal Abdel Nasser dies of a heart attack in Cairo. Anwar Sadat is named as Nasser's temporary successor, and will later become the permanent successor.
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28 Sep 1970 Intrepid (US) beats Gretel II (Aust) in 22nd America's Cup
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29 Sep 1970 "NET Festival, " last aired
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30 Sep 1970 New American Bible published
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30 Sep 1970 Jordan makes a deal with the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) for the release of the remaining hostages from the Dawson's Field hijackings.
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01 Oct 1970 63 arrest in riot to buy Rolling Stone tickets in Milano Italy
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02 Oct 1970 Billy Martin named manager of Detroit Tigers
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02 Oct 1970 Plane carrying Wichita State University football team crashes killing 30
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02 Oct 1970 A plane carrying the Wichita State University football team, administrators, and supporters crashes in Colorado killing 31 people.
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03 Oct 1970 "Coco" closes at Mark Hellinger Theater NYC after 333 performances
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03 Oct 1970 Baseball umpires call their 1st strike
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03 Oct 1970 WAPT TV channel 16 in Jackson, MS (ABC) begins broadcasting
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04 Oct 1970 Herbert Schmidtz makes highest parachute jump from a tower by leaping from a 1,984 ft TV mast in Tulsa, Oklahoma
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04 Oct 1970 Kansas City Chiefs Jan Stenerud kicks 55-yard field goal
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04 Oct 1970 Umps return after 1-day walkout in quest of higher wages
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04 Oct 1970 WFYI TV channel 20 in Indianapolis, IN (PBS) begins broadcasting
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05 Oct 1970 John Creach, joins Jefferson Airplane
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05 Oct 1970 PBS becomes a network
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05 Oct 1970 Quebec separatists kidnap British trade commissioner James Cross
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05 Oct 1970 The Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) is founded.
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05 Oct 1970 Montreal: British Trade Commissioner James Cross is kidnapped by members of the FLQ terrorist group, triggering the October Crisis.
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08 Oct 1970 Soviet Author Alexander I Solzhenitsyn wins Nobel Prize for Literature
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08 Oct 1970 Vietnam War: In Paris, a Communist delegation rejects US President Richard Nixon's October 7 peace proposal as "a manoeuvre to deceive world opinion".
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09 Oct 1970 Khmer Republic (Cambodia) declares independence
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09 Oct 1970 The Khmer Republic is proclaimed in Cambodia.
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10 Oct 1970 Fiji becomes independent.
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10 Oct 1970 In Montreal, 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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10 Oct 1970 Fiji gains independence from Britain (National Day)
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12 Oct 1970 Rock Memorabilia Auction at Filmore East
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12 Oct 1970 Vietnam War: US President Richard Nixon announces that the United States will withdraw 40,000 more troops before Christmas
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13 Oct 1970 Angela Davis arrested in New York City
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13 Oct 1970 Fiji joins the United Nations.
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13 Oct 1970 Angela Davis arrested in NYC
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14 Oct 1970 4th Country Music Association Award: Merle Haggard wins
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14 Oct 1970 Cleveland Cavaliers lose to Buffalo Braves in their 1st game 107-92
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15 Oct 1970 Bridge over Yarra River in Melbourne crashes; killing 35
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15 Oct 1970 Russian passenger flight hijacked to Turkey
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15 Oct 1970 Anwar Sadat elected President of Egypt
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15 Oct 1970 Thirty-five construction workers are killed when a section of the new West Gate Bridge in Melbourne collapses.
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15 Oct 1970 The domestic Soviet Aeroflot Flight 244 is hijacked and diverted to Turkey.
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15 Oct 1970 Baltimore Orioles beat Cin Reds, 4 games to 1 in 67th World Series
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16 Oct 1970 In response to the October Crisis terrorist kidnapping, Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau of Canada invokes the War Measures Act.
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16 Oct 1970 Anwar Sadat elected president of Egypt, succeeding Gamal Abdel Nasser
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17 Oct 1970 Anwar Sadat sworn in as President of Egypt
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17 Oct 1970 Montreal: Quebec Vice-Premier and Minister of Labour Pierre Laporte murdered by members of the FLQ terrorist group.
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18 Oct 1970 Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Quality Chekd Golf Classic
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18 Oct 1970 Sachio Kinugasa begins 2,215 cons game streak for Hiroshima Carp
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19 Oct 1970 "Rothschilds" opens at Lunt-Fontanne Theater NYC for 505 performances
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19 Oct 1970 Amdahl Corp forms at Sunnyvale, California
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19 Oct 1970 John Frazier kills Ohta's declares WW 3 has begun
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20 Oct 1970 American Norman Borlaug awarded the Nobel Peace Prize
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20 Oct 1970 Zond 8 Launch (Moon Orbit & Return)
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20 Oct 1970 Siad Barre declares Somalia a socialist state.
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21 Oct 1970 Nobel prize of peace awarded to Norman E Borlaugh
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21 Oct 1970 777 Unification church couples wed in Korea
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21 Oct 1970 Caledonian Airways takes over British United Airways
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23 Oct 1970 Gary Gabelich sets a land speed record in a rocket-powered automobile called the Blue Flame, fueled with natural gas.
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23 Oct 1970 Gary Gabelich sets auto speed record 622.4 mph (1,002 kph)
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24 Oct 1970 Nancy Walker creates Ida Morgenstein role on Mary Tyler Moore Show
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24 Oct 1970 Salvador Allende Gossens elected president of Chile
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26 Oct 1970 "Doonesbury" comic strip debuts in 28 newspapers
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26 Oct 1970 Tanzania begins building railway Lusaka-Drone ash Salaam
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26 Oct 1970 Muhammad Ali faces off against Jerry Quarry in Atlanta, Georgia for the first time after Ali's three year hiatus from evading to be drafted in the Vietnam War.
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27 Oct 1970 "Light, Lively & Yiddish" opens at Belasco Theater NYC for 87 performances
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28 Oct 1970 NBA Cleveland Cavaliers 1st home game, lose to San Diego 110-99
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28 Oct 1970 US/USSR sign an agreement to discuss joint space efforts
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29 Oct 1970 WYEA (now WLTZ) TV channel 38 in Columbus, Georgia (NBC) 1st broadcast
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30 Oct 1970 KVEW TV channel 42 in Kennewick, WA (ABC) begins broadcasting
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30 Oct 1970 In Vietnam, the worst monsoon to hit the area in six years causes severe floods, kills 293, leaves 200,000 homeless and virtually halts the Vietnam War.
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01 Nov 1970 1st regular season Giants-Jets game, Giants win 22-10 at Shea
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01 Nov 1970 Discotheque in Grenoble France burns, all exits padlocked and 142 die
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01 Nov 1970 Fire on Saint-Laurent-du-Pont, France, 144 die
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01 Nov 1970 KGTF TV channel 12 in Agana, GU (PBS) begins broadcasting
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01 Nov 1970 Club Cinq-Sept fire in Saint-Laurent-du-Pont, France kills 146 young people.
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02 Nov 1970 Cleveland Cavaliers lose by biggest margin-54 pts (Philadelphia 141-87)
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03 Nov 1970 Bob Gibson wins NL Cy Young Award
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03 Nov 1970 President Nixon promises gradual troop removal of Vietnam
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03 Nov 1970 Salvador Allende inaugurated as President of Chile
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04 Nov 1970 Russian nuclear physicist Sacharov forms Human Rights Comittee
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04 Nov 1970 Vietnam War: Vietnamization: The United States turns control of the Binh Thuy Air Base in the Mekong Delta over to South Vietnam.
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04 Nov 1970 Genie, a 13-year-old feral child is found in Los Angeles having been locked in her bedroom for most of her life.
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04 Nov 1970 Salvador Allende takes office as President of Chile, the first Marxist to become president of a Latin American country through open elections.
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05 Nov 1970 Vietnam War: The United States Military Assistance Command in Vietnam reports the lowest weekly American soldier death toll in five years (24).
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06 Nov 1970 Boog Powell wins AL MVP
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06 Nov 1970 Twins Jim Perry wins AL Cy Young Award
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07 Nov 1970 "Purlie" closes at Broadway Theater NYC after 689 performances
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07 Nov 1970 Race riots in Daytona Beach Florida
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08 Nov 1970 Tom Dempsey of New Orleans Saints kicks NFL record 63 yard field goal
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09 Nov 1970 Trial of Seattle 8 anti-war protesters begins
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10 Nov 1970 "2 by 2" opens at Imperial Theater NYC for 343 performances
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10 Nov 1970 R Rodgers / M Charnins musical "Two by Two, " premieres in New York City
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10 Nov 1970 Luna 17, with unmanned self-propelled Lunokhod 1, is launched
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11 Nov 1970 Baltimore Oriole Boog Powell wins AL MVP
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12 Nov 1970 240 km/h cyclone hits East Pakistan (Bangladesh); 3-500,000 die
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12 Nov 1970 Scientists perform 1st artificial synthesis of a live cell
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12 Nov 1970 Cleveland Cavaliers 1st NBA victory (11th game), beating Portland 105-103
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13 Nov 1970 Flooding ravages Ganges delta, 200,000-1 million killed
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13 Nov 1970 Lieutenant General Hafez al-Assad becomes Prime Minister of Syria following military coup
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13 Nov 1970 VP Spiro Agnew calls TV executives "impudent snobs"
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13 Nov 1970 Cyclone kills estimated 300,000 in Chittagong Bangladesh
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13 Nov 1970 Lt Gen Hafez al-Assad becomes PM of Syria following military coup
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14 Nov 1970 DC-9 crashes in West Virginia, 75 killed
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14 Nov 1970 Marshall University football team wiped out in air crash at Kenova, West Virginia
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17 Nov 1970 British newspaper Sun puts 1st pinup girl on pg 3 (Stephanie Rahn)
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17 Nov 1970 Russia lands Lunokhod 1 unmanned remote-controlled vehicle on Moon
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18 Nov 1970 Joe Frazier KOs Bob Foster in 2 for heavyweight boxing title
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18 Nov 1970 Johnny Bench wins NL MVP
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18 Nov 1970 Linus Pauling declares large doses of Vitamin C could ward off colds
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18 Nov 1970 Netherlands and Albania form diplomatic relations
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18 Nov 1970 Russia lands self propelled rover on the Moon
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19 Nov 1970 Golden Gate Park Conservatory becomes a California state historical landmark
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20 Nov 1970 UN General Assembly accepts membership of China PR
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21 Nov 1970 New York Knicks 1st game against Cleveland Cavalier, Knicks win 102-94 at Madison Square Garden
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23 Nov 1970 KNCT TV channel 46 in Belton / Killeen, TX (PBS) begins broadcasting
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24 Nov 1970 36th Heisman Trophy Award: Jim Plunkett, Stanford (QB)
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24 Nov 1970 Stanford's QB Jim Plunkett wins Heisman Trophy
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25 Nov 1970 Yankees catcher Thurman Munson wins AL Rookie of Year
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26 Nov 1970 In Basse-Terre, Guadeloupe, 1.5 inches (38.1 mm) of rain fall in a minute, the heaviest rainfall ever recorded.
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27 Nov 1970 Carl Morton (18-11 for last-place Expos), receives NL Rookie of Year
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27 Nov 1970 George Harrison releases 3 album set "All Things Must Pass"
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27 Nov 1970 Pope Paul VI wounded in chest during a visit to Philippines by a dagger-wielding Bolivian painter disguised as a priest
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28 Nov 1970 58th CFL Grey Cup: Montreal Alouettes defeat Calgary Stampeders, 23-10
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30 Nov 1970 George Harrison releases his triple album set "All Things Must Pass"
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01 Dec 1970 Luis Echeverria Alvarez sworn in as President of Mexico
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01 Dec 1970 NHL takes control of Pittsburgh Penguins
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02 Dec 1970 Environmental Protection Agency begins (Dir: William Ruckelshaus)
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02 Dec 1970 Tippetts Opera "Knot Garden, " premieres in London
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02 Dec 1970 The United States Environmental Protection Agency begins operations.
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04 Dec 1970 Unemployment in US increases to 5.8%
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05 Dec 1970 LA Rams Willie Ellison sets NFL record of 247 yards rushing
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05 Dec 1970 Stanley Cup, Conn Smythe Trophy and Bill Masterson trophy stolen from NHL hall of fame
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06 Dec 1970 Cleveland Cavaliers 1st NBA home victory, beating Buffalo Braves 108-106
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07 Dec 1970 Taizan Maezumi Roshi, head of LA Zen Center, receives dharma
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07 Dec 1970 West Germany and Poland normalize relations
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09 Dec 1970 Dutch Antilles: government of Petronia falls
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10 Dec 1970 North American Soccer League awards New York & Toronto franchises
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11 Dec 1970 John Lennon releases an album that contains songs with word "fuck"
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11 Dec 1970 Start of the 1st Test match at the WACA, vs England
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11 Dec 1970 Test Cricket debut of Gregory Stephen Chappell
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12 Dec 1970 Small Astronomy Satellite Explorer 42 launched to study X-rays
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12 Dec 1970 Polish government proclaims price rise
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12 Dec 1970 USSR performs underground nuclear test
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13 Dec 1970 Greg Chappell scores 108 on Test debut vs England at the WACA
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13 Dec 1970 Neil Simon's "Gingerbread Lady" premieres in New York NY
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15 Dec 1970 Ferryboat capsized in Korean Strait drowning 261
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15 Dec 1970 Soviet spacecraft Venera 7 successfully land on Venus. It is the first successful soft landing on another planet
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15 Dec 1970 The South Korean ferry Namyong Ho capsizes in the Korea Strait, killing over 300 people.
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15 Dec 1970 Soviet Venera 7 is 1st spacecraft to land on another planet (Venus)
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15 Dec 1970 South Korean ferry Namyong-Ho sinks in Strait of Korea, 308 killed
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16 Dec 1970 1st successful landing on Venus (USSR)
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17 Dec 1970 Polish 1970 protests: In Gdynia, soldiers fire at workers emerging from trains, killing dozens.
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17 Dec 1970 Gdansk, Poland shipworkers strike
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17 Dec 1970 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
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18 Dec 1970 "Me Nobody Knows" opens at Helen Hayes Theater NYC for 587 performances
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18 Dec 1970 Polish uprising fails
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18 Dec 1970 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
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20 Dec 1970 Edward Gierek succeeds Wladyslaw Gomulka as Poland's party leader
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21 Dec 1970 WUTV TV channel 29 in Buffalo, New York (IND) begins broadcasting
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22 Dec 1970 Treblinka SS commander Franz Stangl sentenced to life imprisonment
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22 Dec 1970 SS Commander Franz Stangl of Treblinka, sentenced to life imprisonment
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23 Dec 1970 The North Tower of the World Trade Center in Manhattan, New York, New York is topped out at 1,368 feet (417 m), making it the tallest building in the world.
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23 Dec 1970 The Democratic Republic of the Congo officially becomes a single-party state.
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23 Dec 1970 7,511th performance of Agatha Christie's "Mousetrap" (record)
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23 Dec 1970 French author R
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23 Dec 1970 New York World Trade Center reaches highest point (411 m)
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23 Dec 1970 USSR performs nuclear test
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24 Dec 1970 9 Jews are convicted in Leningrad for hijacking a plane
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24 Dec 1970 Walt Disney's "The Aristocats" is released
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27 Dec 1970 "Hello, Dolly!" closes at St. James Theater NYC after 2844 performances
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28 Dec 1970 "Lovely Ladies, Kind Gentlemen" opens at Majestic NYC for 19 performances
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28 Dec 1970 Yemen Arab Republic (North Yemen) adopts constitution
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30 Dec 1970 Paul McCartney sues his bandmates to dissolve the Beatles
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31 Dec 1970 Congress authorizes the Eisenhower dollar coin
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31 Dec 1970 Paul McCartney files a lawsuit to dissolve the Beatles
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31 Dec 1970 President Allende nationalizes Chilean coal mines
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31 Dec 1970 Would have been start of Australia/England Test Cricket at MCG, washed out
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