This Year in History 1970 E-Book

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• Herausgeber: Kerry Butters
• Kategorie: Fachliteratur
• Sprache: Englisch
• Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2019

Beschreibung

This Year in History 1970 by Kerry Butters is a reference Book from that year, included in it are things in the News, Famous Births and Deaths, Weddings, cost of living, Music and Sport, 1970 Fun Facts etc. Everything 1970. UK and USA Facts, Great for Birthday presents or Anniversaries, Look out for other years in the series or maybe buy your own birth year.

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Table of contents

Table of Contents

Major News Events of 1970

Who Was Born This Year in 1970

Who Died This Year in 1970

Film and TV 1970

Sport of 1970

1970 Music

Cost of Living in 1970

Famous Weddings and Divorces

1970 Fun Facts

1970 Calendar

Look out for More Books in the Series

This Year in History

1970

By

Kerry Butters

Table of Contents

Major News Events of 1970

Who Was Born This Year in 1970

Who Died This Year in 1970

Film and TV 1970

Sport of 1970

1970 Music

Cost of Living in 1970

Famous Weddings and Divorces

1970 Fun Facts

1970 Calendar

Major News Events of 1970

January

Jan 1 Afro-American Historical Calendar Series Established

Jan 1 Charles "Chub" Feeney becomes president of baseball's National League

Jan 1 The Netherland Christian Workers Union (NCW) forms

Jan 1 Revised calendar for Western (RC) Church goes into effect

Jan 1 The University College of Zululand, formerly affiliated to the University of South Africa, attains full academic autonomy as the University of Zululand.

Jan 1 The Ulster Defence Regiment (UDR), an infantry regiment of the British Army, comes into existence

Jan 1 US Federal oil depletion allowance reduced from 27.5 to 22.0 percent

Jan 1 56th Rose Bowl: #5 Southern California beats #7 Michigan, 10-3

Jan 1 36th Sugar Bowl: #13 Mississippi beats #3 Arkansas, 27-22

Jan 1 36th Orange Bowl: #2 Penn State beats #6 Missouri, 10-3

Jan 2 Dutch premiere of musical "Hair" in Amsterdam

Jan 2 US population is 293,200,000; African American population: 22,600,000 (11.1%)

Jan 3 "Jimmy" closes at Winter Garden Theater NYC after 84 performances

Jan 3 "Mame" closes at Winter Garden Theater NYC after 1508 performances

Jan 3 Marxist government takes over in Congo

Jan 3 WHAG TV channel 25 in Hagerstown, MD (NBC) begins broadcasting

Jan 4 Beatles last recording session at EMI studios

Jan 4 NYC transit fare rises from 20 cents to 30 cents, new larger tokens used

Jan 4 Walter Cronkite ends hosting weekly documentary

Jan 4 More than 15,000 people are killed in Tonghai County, China after a magnitude 7.7 earthquake

Jan 4 AFL Championship, Alameda County Coliseum, Oakland: Kansas City Chiefs beat Oakland Raiders, 17-7; Chiefs defence forces 4 interceptions

Jan 4 NFL Championship, Metropolitan Stadium, Bloomington: Minnesota Vikings beat Cleveland Browns, 27-7

Jan 5 23,000 Belgian mine workers strike

Jan 5 KPTS TV channel 8 in Hutchinson-Wichita, KS (PBS) begins broadcasting

Jan 5 Soap Opera "All My Children" premieres on ABC

Jan 6 Australian boxer Johnny Famechon retains his WBC featherweight title with a 14th-round knockout of Fighting Harada in Tokyo; re-match of questionable 15-round decision in 1969 in his first title defence

Jan 7 Farmers sue Max Yasgur for $35,000 in damages caused by "Woodstock"

Jan 9 Constitution of Singapore enacted

Jan 10 Preview Center opens at Walt Disney World, Florida - first building to open

Jan 11 Super Bowl IV, Tulane Stadium, New Orleans, LA: KC Chiefs beat Minnesota Vikings, 23-7; MVP: Len Dawson, Kansas City, QB

Jan 11 Irish republican political party Sinn Féin party splits between those in favor of abstentionism (of not taking any seats won in the parliaments) and those where against

Jan 13 Colonel Odumegwu Ojukwu flees Biafra into exile, leaving his deputy Philip Effiong to surrender to the Nigerian army, unofficially ending the Nigerian Civil War

Jan 13 Riots begin in the Ballymurphy area of Belfast

Jan 14 Royal Ulster Constabulary officers patrol the Falls Road area of Belfast for the first time since 1969

Jan 15 Nigerian civil war officially ends after 2 1/2 years of fighting when the Republic of Biafra disbands and joins Nigeria

Jan 15 Riots break out in the Ardoyne area of Belfast

Jan 15 Muammar Gaddafi is proclaimed premier of Libya

Jan 16 Curt Flood files a civil lawsuit challenging baseball's reserve clause

Jan 16 NFL realigns into 3 divisions (down from 4)

Jan 16 AAU player Steve Myers makes a basketball field goal of 92'3½" from out of bounds, Tacoma-it shouldn't have counted, but was allowed

Jan 16 Buckminster Fuller receives the Gold Medal award from the American Institute of Architects

Jan 16 4 months after leading a coup against monarchy, Muammar Gaddafi takes over rule of Libya

Jan 16 Inaugural Buffalo Sabres owners Seymour H. Knox III and Northrup Knox hire former Toronto Maple Leafs general manager and head coach Punch Imlach in the same capacities for their new NHL franchise

Jan 17 357 baseball players are available in the free-agent draft

Jan 17 9th AFL All Star Game, Astrodome, Houston: Western Division beats Eastern Division, 26-3; MVP: John Hadl, LA Chargers, QB

Jan 17 John M Burgess installed as bishop of Protestant Episcopals (Mass)

Jan 17 Sporting News names Willie Mays as Player of the Decade for the 1960s

Jan 18 Hasse Borjes skates world record 500m in 38.9 sec

Jan 18 20th NFL Pro Bowl, LA Memorial Coliseum: West beats East, 16-13; MVPs: Gale Sayers, Chicago Bears, HB; George Andrie, Dallas Cowboys, DE

Jan 19 Dutch bishops says he is in favor of married priests

Jan 19 Nixon nominates G Harold Carswell to Supreme Court (fails)

Jan 19 UCLA fires Angela Davis for being a communist

Jan 20 20th NBA All-Star Game, Spectrum, Philadelphia, Pa: East beats West, 142-135; MVP: Willis Reed, NY Knicks, C; Tom and Dick Van Arsdale, first brothers to play in same NBA All-Star Game

Jan 20 23rd NHL All-Star Game, St. Louis Arena: East beats West, 4-1; MVP: Bobby Hull, Chicago, LW

Jan 20 Super Fight, computer mock championship between Ali & Marciano; Marciano won.

Jan 22 1st commercial Boeing 747 flight, Pan American World Airways flies from New York City to London in 6½ hours

Jan 22 Test debut of Barry Richards, South Africa v Australia, Cape Town

Jan 23 Australia's 1st amateur radio satellite (Oscar 5) launched (California)

Jan 23 Member of Dutch feminist group Dolle Mina burn their bras in Amsterdam

Jan 23 US launches 2nd generation weather satellite, ITOS 1

Jan 23 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site

Jan 24 3rd ABA All-Star Game: West 128 beats East 98 at Indiana

Jan 24 Valeri Muratov skates world record 500m (38.99 sec)

Jan 25 "M*A*S*H", directed by Robert Altman, starring Donald Sutherland and Elliott Gould, is released (Palme d'Or 1970)

Jan 26 Pendleton, Ford & Cryer's "Last Sweet Days of Isaac," premieres in NYC

Jan 26 Australian Open Women's Tennis: Margaret Court beats fellow Australian Kerry Melville Reid 6-1, 6-3; Court retains title for 9th Australian singles crown and 1st leg of her Grand Slam

Jan 26 "Bridge over Troubled Water" 5th and final studio album by Simon & Garfunkel is released (Grammy Award Album of the Year, Best Engineered Non-Classical Album 1971)

Jan 27 Movie rating system modifies "M" rating to "PG"

Jan 27 1970 NFL Draft: Terry Bradshaw from Louisiana Tech first pick by Pittsburgh Steelers

Jan 27 Australian Open Men's Tennis: Arthur Ashe beats big serving local Dick Crealy 6-4, 9-7, 6-2

Jan 28 Lubomír Strougal succeeds Cernik as premier of Czechoslovakia

Jan 29 USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR

Jan 31 Grateful Dead members busted on LSD charges

February

Feb 1 Former MLB Commissioner Ford Frick and ex-players Earle Combs & Jesse Haines are elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame

Feb 1 Stalled commuter train rammed by express in Argentina, 139 die

Feb 1 WMAA TV channel 29 in Jackson, MS (PBS) begins broadcasting

Feb 1 West-Germany & USSR sign gas contract

Feb 1 Northern Ireland PM Chichester-Clark meets British Home Secretary James Callaghan to discuss the economy of Northern Ireland

Feb 1 Rangers' Terry Sawchuk records his 447th (and final) victory, and 103rd career shutout when New York beats the Pittsburgh Penguins, 6-0; both are NHL records at the time

Feb 2 Pete Maravich becomes 1st to score 3,000 college basketball points

Feb 2 27th Golden Globes: Anne of the Thousand Days, John Wayne, & Genevieve Bujold

Feb 4 "Charles Aznavour" opens at Music Box Theater NYC for 23 performances

Feb 4 "Gantry" opens at George Abbott Theater NYC for 1 performance

Feb 4 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site

Feb 4 "Patton" directed by Franklin J. Schaffner and starring George C. Scott premieres in New York (Academy Awards Best Picture 1971)

Feb 5 1st Test Cricket ton of Barry Richards, 126, 164 balls, 20 fours 1 six

Feb 5 Test Cricket debut of John Traicos, South Africa v Australia, Durban

Feb 5 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site

Feb 5 WSCV TV channel 51 in Fort Lauderdale, FL (IND) suspends broadcasting

Feb 6 Graeme Pollock completes 274 v Australia at Durban

Feb 6 NBA expands to 18 teams with Buffalo, Cleveland, Houston & Portland

Feb 7 "Hollywood Palace" last airs on ABC TV

Feb 7 "Jingle Jangle" hits #10 on the pop singles chart by Archies

Feb 7 LSU's "Pistol" Pete Marovich scores 69 pts in losing cause

Feb 7 US female Figure Skating championship won by Janet Lynn

Feb 7 US male Figure Skating championship won by Tim Wood

Feb 10 26.4 cm precipitation falls on Mount Washington NH (state record)

Feb 10 Dry powder avalanche moving at 120 mph smashes into youth hostel at Val d'Isere, France, killing 40 Belgian, French, & German youths

Feb 11 26.37 cm (10.38") of rainfall, Mt Washington, NH (state 24-hr rec)

Feb 11 Japan becomes 4th nation to put a satellite (Osumi) in orbit

Feb 11 John Lennon pays £1,344 fines for 96 protesting South African rugby team playing in Scotland

Feb 12 Anthony Shaffer's "Sleuth" premieres in NYC

Feb 13 Man-eating tiger is reported to have killed 48, 80 km from New Delhi

Feb 13 NL offices begins move from Cincinnati to San Francisco (completed Feb 23)

Feb 13 16th National Film Awards (India): "Goopy Gyne Bagha Byne" wins the Golden Lotus

Feb 14 "Gantry" closes at George Abbott Theater NYC after 1 performance

Feb 15 Ard Schenk becomes world champion all-round skater

Feb 15 Dominican DC-9 crashes into sea at Santo Domingo, kills 102

Feb 15 KAMU TV channel 15 in College Station, TX (PBS) begins broadcasting

Feb 15 Nationalists disrupt UN session on Congo

Feb 16 Joe Frazier TKOs Jimmy Ellis in 5 for heavyweight boxing title

Feb 17 US army officer Jeffrey MacDonald murders his pregnant wife and two small daughters

Feb 17 Robert Marasco's "Child's Play" premieres in NYC

Feb 18 Chicago 7 defendants found innocent of inciting to riot

Feb 18 US President Richard Nixon launches the "Nixon doctrine"

Feb 19 AL Cy Young Award winner Denny McLain suspended for bookmaking

Feb 19 USSR launches Sputnik 52 & Molniya 1-13 communications satellite

Feb 21 Jackson 5 make TV debut on "American Bandstand"

Feb 21 Pathet Lao conquers Xieng Khuang & Muong Suy

Feb 22 "Charles Aznavour" closes at Music Box Theater NYC after 23 performances

Feb 22 12th Daytona 500: Pete Hamilton wins by just 3 car lengths over David Pearson, after passing him with 9 laps to go

Feb 23 Guyana becomes a republic (National Day)

Feb 23 Holy Eucharist given by women for 1st time in Roman Catholic service

Feb 24 29 Swiss Army officers die in avalanche (Reckingen, Switzerland)

Feb 24 Heintje Simons (14) wins 7 gold records

Feb 24 KVDO TV channel 3 in Salem, OR (IND) begins broadcasting

Feb 26 "Georgy" opens at Winter Garden Theater NYC for 4 performances

Feb 26 Beatles release "Beatles Again" aka "Hey Jude" album

Feb 27 NY Times (falsely) reports US army has ended domestic surveillance

Feb 28 "Georgy" closes at Winter Garden Theater NYC after 4 performances

Feb 28 Bicycles permitted to cross Golden Gate Bridge

Feb 28 Caroline Walker runs world female record marathon (3:02:53)

Feb 28 KIIN (now KUN) TV channel 12 in Iowa City, IA (PBS) 1st broadcast

Feb 28 WUTR TV channel 20 in Utica-Rome, NY (ABC) begins broadcasting

March

Mar 1 Charles Manson's album "Lie" is released

Mar 1 End of US commercial whale hunting

Mar 1 Kreisky's social democrats win Austrian parliamentary election

Mar 1 Minnesota coach Charlie Burns becomes the final player/coach in NHL history, when he plays in the North Stars' 8-0 win over Toronto Maple Leafs; remains in role for final month of the season

Mar 1 Boston's Bobby Orr becomes the first defenseman in NHL history to score 25 goals in a season during a 3-1 Bruins win over the visiting St. Louis Blues

Mar 2 White government of Rhodesia declares itself a republic

Mar 2 American Airlines' 1st flight of a Boeing 747

Mar 2 Supreme Court ruled draft evaders can not be penalized after 5 years

Mar 4 French submarine "Eurydice" explodes off Cape Camarat in the Mediterranean, all 57 crew lost

Mar 4 Jacksonville is 1st college basketball team to avg 100+ pts per game

Mar 4 NY Rangers set then NHL record of 126 games without being shut-out

Mar 5 Edison Theater opens at 240 W 47th St NYC

Mar 5 Nuclear non-proliferation treaty goes into effect

Mar 5 SDS Weathermen terrorist group bomb 18 West 11th St in NYC

Mar 5 Dubnium atoms are first detected conclusively.

Mar 5 "Airport" based on the book by Arthur Hailey, directed by George Seaton and starring Burt Lancaster and Dean Martin is released

Mar 6 Beatles release "Let it Be" in UK

Mar 6 A Catholic man is shot dead by British soldiers in Belfast, North Ireland

Mar 7 Ice Dance Championship at Ljubljana won by Pakhomova & Gorshkov (URS)

Mar 7 Ice Pairs Championship at Ljubljana won by Rodnina & Ulanov (URS)

Mar 7 Ladies' Figure Skating Champ in Ljubljana won by Gabriele Seyfert (GDR)

Mar 7 Men's Figure Skating Championship in Ljubljana won by Tim Wood (USA)

Mar 7 WXOW TV channel 19 in La Crosse, WI (ABC) begins broadcasting

Mar 7 17th ACC Men's Basketball Tournament: NC State beats South Carolina, 42-39 (2 OT)

Mar 8 WTCI TV channel 45 in Chattanooga, TN (PBS) begins broadcasting

Mar 10 Barbra Streisand records "The Singer" & "I Can Do It"

Mar 10 South Africa complete 4-0 series drubbing of Australia

Mar 10 Members of the Stormont Parliament of Northern Ireland given police protection

Mar 11 12th Grammy Awards: Aquarius, Crosby Stills & Nash, Peggy Lee win

Mar 11 Iraqi Ba'th Party recognizes Kurd nation

Mar 12 US lowers voting age from 21 to 18

Mar 13 100 year Beehive anniversary ends in brawl in Amsterdam

Mar 13 Digital Equipment Corp introduces PDP-11 minicomputer

Mar 13 San Francisco city employees begin 4-day strike

Mar 15 Gary Geld & Peter Udell's "Purlie" opens at Broadway Theater NYC for 689 performances

Mar 15 Expo '70 opens in Osaka, Japan

Mar 16 New English Bible published

Mar 16 WNIN TV channel 9 in Evansville, IN (PBS) begins broadcasting

Mar 17 Peter O'Malley becomes CEO of LA Dodgers

Mar 17 US casts their 1st UN Security Council veto (Support England)

Mar 18 Cambodia military coup under General Lon Nol, Prince Sihanuk flees

Mar 18 KAEC TV channel 19 in Lufkin, Texas (ABC) suspends broadcasting

Mar 18 NFL selects Wilson as official football & scoreboard as official time

Mar 18 Two-week US postal strike begins; it is against the government and is the largest wildcat strike in US history

Mar 18 Five Unionist Members of Parliament (MPs), including William Craig and Harry West, are expelled from the Unionist Parliamentary Party, Northern Ireland

Mar 19 W German chancellor & E German premier meet

Mar 21 32nd NCAA Men's Basketball Championship: UCLA beats Jacksonville, 80-69; Bruins' 4th straight title under coach John Wooden

Mar 21 Vinko Bogataj crashes during a ski-jumping championship in Germany; his image becomes that of the "agony of defeat guy" in the opening credits of ABC's Wide World of Sports.

Mar 21 1st San Diego Comic-Con International opens at U.S. Grant Hotel

Mar 21 15th Eurovision Song Contest: Dana for Ireland wins singing "All Kinds of Everything" in Amsterdam

Mar 22 "Blood Red Roses" opens & closes at John Golden Theater NYC

Mar 23 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site

Mar 23 "Hello Darlin'" single released by Conway Twitty (Billboard Song of the Year 1970)

Mar 24 Dutch cartoonist Frans Piet ends "Sjors & Sjimmie" strip

Mar 25 Concorde makes its 1st supersonic flight (700 MPH/1,127 KPH)

Mar 26 "Minnie's Boys" opens at Imperial Theater NYC for 80 performances

Mar 26 500th nuclear explosion announced by the US since 1945

Mar 26 Golden Gate Park Conservatory made city landmark

Mar 26 Peter Yarrow (Peter, Paul & Mary) pleads guilty to "taking immoral liberties" with a 14 year old girl

Mar 26 The Police (Northern Ireland) Act becomes law; the act provides for the disarmament of the Royal Ulster Constabulary (RUC) and the establishment of an RUC reserve force

Mar 27 Ringo Starr releases his 1st solo album "Sentimental Journey"

Mar 27 USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR

Mar 28 1,086 die when 7.4 quake destroys 254 villages in Gediz Turkey

Mar 29 "Look to the Lilies" opens at Lunt-Fontanne Theater NYC for 25 performances

Mar 29 Manchester City of England win 10th European Cup Winner's Cup against Górnik Zabrze of Poland 2-1 in Vienna

Mar 30 Miles Davis's influential double album "Bitches Brew" released

Mar 30 Soap opera "Somerset" premieres

Mar 30 Strouse, Adams, Comden & Green's musical "Applause" premieres in NYC

Mar 30 USSR wins its 8th straight world hockey championship

Mar 31 Federal bankruptcy court allows Seattle Pilots to be sold to Milwaukee

Mar 31 Explorer 1 re-enters the Earth's atmosphere after 12 years in orbit

Mar 31 Following an Orange Order parade, intense riots erupt on the Springfield Road in Belfast; violence lasts for three days, and the British Army use CS gas for the first time in large quantities

April

Apr 1 John Lennon and Yoko Ono release hoax they are having dual sex change operations