Notable Historical Events - 1970
1970 Historical Events
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
Jan 1 |
"The Epoch" (Time 0 for UNIX systems, Midnight GMT) |
Jan 1 |
Afro-American Historical Calendar Series Established |
Jan 1 |
Charles "Chub" Feeney becomes president of baseball's National League |
Jan 1 |
Neth Christian Workers Union (NCW) forms |
Jan 1 |
Revised calendar for Western (RC) Church goes into effect |
Jan 1 |
The University College of Zululand, formerly affiliated to the University of South Africa, attains full academic autonomy as the University of Zululand. |
Jan 1 |
The Ulster Defence Regiment (UDR), an infantry regiment of the British Army, comes into existence |
Jan 1 |
US Federal oil depletion allowance reduced from 27.5 to 22.0 percent |
Jan 2 |
Dutch premiere of musical "Hair" in Amsterdam |
Jan 2 |
US population is 293,200,000; Black 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 |
KC Chiefs beat Oakland Raiders 17-7 in AFC championship game |
Jan 4 |
Minnesota Vikings beat Cleveland Browns 27-7 in NFC championship game |
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 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 7 |
Farmers sue Max Yasgur for $35,000 in damages caused by "Woodstock" |
Jan 9 |
Constitution of Singapore enacted |
Jan 10 |
Preview Center Opens |
Jan 11 |
Super Bowl IV: KC Chiefs beat Minnesota Vikings, 23-7 in New Orleans Super Bowl 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 12 |
Biafran War ends, Biafra surrenders to Nigeria |
Jan 12 |
Boeing 747 makes its maiden voyage |
Jan 12 |
Biafra capitulates, ending the Nigerian civil war. |
Jan 13 |
Riots begin in the Ballymurphy area of Belfast |
Jan 14 |
Royal Ulster Constabulary (RUC) officers begin to patrol the Falls Road area of Belfast for the first time since August 1969 |
Jan 15 |
Milwaukee Brewers make their 1st trade (with Oakland A's) |
Jan 15 |
Republic Biafra disbands/joins Nigeria |
Jan 15 |
Riots break out in the Ardoyne area of Belfast |
Jan 16 |
Col Kadhaffi becomes 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 17 |
357 baseball players are available in the free-agent draft |
Jan 17 |
AFL Pro Bowl: West beats East 26-3 |
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 |
NFL Pro Bowl: West beats East 16-13 |
Jan 19 |
Dutch bishops says he is in favor of married priest |
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: East beats West 142-135 at Philadelphia |
Jan 20 |
23rd NHL All-Star Game: East beat West 4-1 at St Louis |
Jan 20 |
Super Fight, computer mock championship between Ali & Marciano |
Jan 21 |
PanAm Boeing 747 1st flight NY-London |
Jan 22 |
1st commercial Boeing 747 flight, NY 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 |
Dolle Mina's burns her bra 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 |
Robert Altman's M*A*S*H premieres |
Jan 26 |
Pendleton, Ford & Cryer's "Last Sweet Days of Isaac," premieres in NYC |
Jan 27 |
Movie rating system modifies "M" rating to "PG" |
Jan 28 |
LubomÃr 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 |
Feb 1 |
Ford Frick, Earle Combs & Jesse Haines elected to 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 with British Home Secretary James Callaghan to discuss matters related to the Northern Ireland economy |
Feb 2 |
Pete Maravich becomes 1st to score 3,000 college basketball points |
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 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 killing 40 Belgian, French, & German youths (Val d'Isere, France) |
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 Shaffers "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 Cin to SF (completed Feb 23) |
Feb 14 |
"Gantry" closes at George Abbott Theater NYC after 1 performance |
Feb 15 |
Ard Schenk becomes world champion all-round skater |
Feb 15 |
Carol Mann wins LPGA Burdine's Golf Invitational |
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 |
Jeffrey McDonald slices up his wife & daughter |
Feb 17 |
Joni Mitchell's final concert (Royal Albert Hall) |
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 Nixon launches "Nixon-doctrine" |
Feb 19 |
AL Cy Young 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 conquerors Xieng Khuang & Muong Suy |
Feb 22 |
"Charles Aznavour" closes at Music Box Theater NYC after 23 perfs |
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 |
Mar 1 |
Atje Keulen-Deelstra becomes world champion all-round ladies skater |
Mar 1 |
Charles Manson's album "Lie" is released |
Mar 1 |
End of US coml whale hunting |
Mar 1 |
Kreisky's soc-democrats win Austrian parliamentary election |
Mar 1 |
White government of Rhodesia declares independence from Britain |
Mar 2 |
American Airlines' 1st flight of a Boeing 747 |
Mar 2 |
Rhodesia becomes independent republic |
Mar 2 |
Supreme Court ruled draft evaders can not be penalized after 5 years |
Mar 4 |
French submarine "Eurydice" explodes |
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 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 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 |
Iraq 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 |
SF 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 Gen Lon Nol, prince Sihanuk flees |
Mar 18 |
KAEC TV channel 19 in Lufkin, TX (ABC) suspends broadcasting |
Mar 18 |
Two-week US postal strike begins; it is against the government and is the largest wildcat strike in US history |
Mar 18 |
NFL selects Wilson as official football & scoreboard as official time |
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 |
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 22 |
"Blood Red Roses" opens & closes at John Golden Theater NYC |
Mar 22 |
Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Orange Blossom Golf Classic |
Mar 23 |
US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
Mar 24 |
Dutch cartoonist Frans Piet ends "Sjors & Sjimmie" strip |
Mar 25 |
Concorde makes its 1st supersonic flight (700 MPH/1,127 KPH) |
Mar 26 |
"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) plead 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 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 (Gediz Turkey) |
Mar 29 |
"Look to the Lilies" opens at Lunt-Fontanne Theater NYC for 25 perfs |
Mar 29 |
Manchester City wins 10th Europe Cup II |
Mar 29 |
Serious disturbances in Derry, North Ireland, following a march to commemoration the Easter Rising |
Mar 30 |
"Applause" opens at Palace Theater NYC for 900 performances |
Mar 30 |
Miles Davis 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 used CS gas for the first time in large quantities |
Apr 1 |
Bud Selig becomes CEO of Milwaukee Brewers |
Apr 1 |
John & Yoko release hoax they are having dual sex change operations |
Apr 1 |
Milwaukee Brewers Baseball Club, headed by Bud Selig, purchases the Seattle Pilots for $10,800,000 Although negotiations were conducted over a period of months, it was not until March 13 when a federal bankruptcy referee declared the Pilots bankrupt |
Apr 1 |
Pres Nixon signs bill limiting cigarette advertisements on 1/1/71 |
Apr 1 |
Serious riots continue in the Ballymurphy estate in Belfast between Catholic residents and the British Army |
Apr 2 |
Meghalaya becomes autonomous state within India's Assam state |
Apr 2 |
Qatar gains independence from Britain |
Apr 2 |
2 men begin ascent of south face of Annapurna I, highest final stage in a wall climb in world |
Apr 3 |
Miriam Hargrave of England passes her drivers test on 40th attempt |
Apr 3 |
As part of a new 'get tough' policy in Northern Ireland, Ian Freeland of the British Army, warned that those throwing petrol bombs could be shot dead |
Apr 4 |
Firestone World Tournament of Champions won by Don Johnson |
Apr 5 |
WSNS TV channel 44 in Chicago, IL (IND) begins broadcasting |
Apr 7 |
"Effects of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-moon Marigolds," premieres in NYC |
Apr 7 |
42nd Academy Awards - "Midnight Cowboy", John Wayne & Maggie Smith win |
Apr 7 |
Milwaukee Brewers (former Seat Pilots) 1st game, lose to Angels 12-0 |
Apr 8 |
"Cry for Us All" opens at Broadhurst Theater NYC for 8 performances |
Apr 8 |
Senate rejects Nixon's nomination of Carswell to Supreme Court |
Apr 10 |
Paul McCartney officially announces the split of The Beatles |
Apr 11 |
Apollo 13 launched to Moon; unable to land, returns in 6 days |
Apr 11 |
Beatles' "Let It Be" single goes #1 & stays #1 for 2 weeks |
Apr 11 |
SF beats Cincinnati 2-1, only day Reds aren't in 1st place in 1970 |
Apr 12 |
Yankees dedicate plaques to Mickey Mantle & Joe DiMaggio |
Apr 13 |
34th Golf Masters Championship: Billy Casper wins, shooting a 279 |
Apr 13 |
Greek composer Mikis Theordorakis freed |
Apr 13 |
Apollo 13 announces "Houston, we've got a problem!" as Beech-built oxygen tank explodes en route to Moon |
Apr 13 |
Oakland uses gold-colored bases during the club's home opener Rules Committee subsequently bans this innovation |
Apr 14 |
"Boy Friend" opens at Ambassador Theater NYC for 119 performances |
Apr 15 |
"Cry for Us All" closes at Broadhurst Theater NYC after 8 performances |
Apr 15 |
Libyan leader Gadaffi launches "Green Revolution" |
Apr 15 |
WMGZ TV channel 16 in Mayaguez, PR ([M]) begins broadcasting |
Apr 15 |
WPSJ TV channel 14 in Ponce, PR ([P]) begins broadcasting |
Apr 16 |
70 die in a snow crush (France) |
Apr 16 |
Protestant Unionist Ian Paisley wins seat formerly held by Terence O'Neill in the Stormont (North Ireland Parliament |
Apr 17 |
Apollo 13 limps back safely, Beech-built oxygen tank no help |
Apr 17 |
Paul McCartney's 1st solo album "McCartney" is released |
Apr 19 |
"Look to the Lilies" closes at Lunt-Fontanne NYC after 25 perfs |
Apr 19 |
24th Tony Awards: Borstal Boy & Applause win |
Apr 19 |
Sandra Haynie wins LPGA Raleigh Ladies Golf Invitational |
Apr 20 |
74th Boston Marathon won by Ron Hill of Great Britain in 2:10:30 |
Apr 20 |
Bruno Kreisky becomes 1st socialist chancellor of Austria |
Apr 20 |
Ron Hill's 2:10:30 at Boston, sets new US marathon record |
Apr 21 |
Reds clout 7 HRs by 6 batters, Braves counter with 3 HRs, 6 for one team & 9 different batters for two teams, all tie or set records |
Apr 21 |
The Principality of Hutt River (previously Hutt River Province) secedes from Australia - it remains unrecognised by Australia or other nations |
Apr 21 |
The Alliance Party of Northern Ireland (APNI) is formed; it attempts to appeal to Catholics and Protestant to unite in support of moderate policies |
Apr 22 |
"Park" opens at John Golden Theater NYC for 5 performances |
Apr 22 |
1st Earth Day held internationally to conserve natural resources |
Apr 22 |
Flat Earth celebrated |
Apr 22 |
NY Met Jerry Grote sets record of 20 put outs by a catcher |
Apr 22 |
NY Met Tom Seaver strikes out last 10 Padres, for a total of 19 |
Apr 22 |
Senators beat Yankees 2-1 in 18 innings |
Apr 24 |
China PR launches its 1st satellite transmitting song "East is Red" |
Apr 24 |
Gambia becomes a republic within Commonwealth |
Apr 24 |
Senegal adopts constitution |
Apr 25 |
"Park" closes at John Golden Theater NYC after 5 performances |
Apr 25 |
Freda Payne releases "Band of Gold" |
Apr 25 |
Melanie releases "Lay Down" |
Apr 26 |
"Company" opens at Alvin Theater NYC for 690 performances |
Apr 29 |
50,000 US & South Vietnamese troops invade Cambodia |
Apr 30 |
Cubs Billy Williams is 1st NLer to play in 1,000 consecutive games |
Apr 30 |
US troops invade Cambodia |
May 2 |
1st woman jockey at Kentucky Derby (Diane Crump) |
May 2 |
96th Kentucky Derby: Mike Manganello on Dust Commander wins 2:03.4 |
May 2 |
KOAI (now KNAZ) TV channel 2 in Flagstaff, AZ (NBC) 1st broadcast |
May 3 |
24th NBA Championship: NY Knicks beat LA Lakers, 4 games to 3 |
May 3 |
Sandra Haynie wins LPGA Shreveport Kiwanis Golf Invitational |
May 3 |
Trans-Arabian Pipeline delivery from Saudi Arabia to the Mediterranean interrupted in Syria, driving oil tanker rates to all time highs |
May 4 |
National Guard kills 4 at Kent State in Ohio |
May 4 |
Premier Kosygin affirms existence Russian military advisors in Egypt |
May 4 |
Pulitzer prize awarded to Erik H Erikson (Gandhi's Truth) |
May 5 |
US performs nuclear test at Nevada test Site |
May 6 |
Yuchiro Miura of Japan skies down Mt Everest |
May 6 |
Irish Prime Minister Jack Lynch sacks two ministers in the Irish government over allegations of illegal arms importation |
May 7 |
"Long & Winding Road" becomes Beatles' last American release |
May 8 |
Beatles release "Let it Be" album |
May 8 |
Construction workers break up an anti-war rally in NYC's Wall Street |
May 8 |
NBA championship: Knicks beat Lakers, 113-99 |
May 9 |
100,000s demonstrate against Vietnam War |
May 10 |
Betsy Rawls wins LPGA Dallas Civitan Golf Open |
May 10 |
Brave's Hoyt Wilhelm pitches in his 1,000th game, loses to Cards 6-5 |
May 10 |
Bobby Orr scores one of the most famous goals in hockey history, an overtime goal that gives the Boston Bruins its first Stanley Cup since 1941 |
May 11 |
Henry Marrow is murdered in a violent racially-motivated crime in Oxford, North Carolina. |
May 12 |
Ernie Banks hits his 500th home run |
May 12 |
Harry A Blackmun is confirmed as a justice on Supreme Court |
May 12 |
KTVM TV channel 6 in Butte, MT (NBC/ABC) begins broadcasting |
May 12 |
Race riots in Augusta Georgia; 6 blacks killed (5 by cops) |
May 12 |
US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
May 13 |
Beatles movie "Let it Be" premieres |
May 14 |
Cops kill 2 students in racial disturbance (Jackson State U, Miss) |
May 14 |
Harry A Blackmun appointed to Supreme Court |
May 14 |
NYC local newspaper "Our Town" begins publishing |
May 14 |
RAF-leader Andreas Baader freed after serving 2 years in West Berlin |
May 14 |
The Red Army Faction is established in Germany. |
May 15 |
Elizabeth Hoisington & Anna Mae Mays named 1st female US generals |
May 15 |
France performs nuclear test at Muruora Island |
May 15 |
Mississippi Highway Patrol kills 2 at Jackson State College |
May 15 |
South-Africa excluded from Olympic play |
May 16 |
96th Preakness: Eddie Belmonte aboard Personality wins in 1:56.2 |
May 16 |
Grover Henson Feels Forgotten by Bill Cosby hits #70 |
May 17 |
Hank Aaron becomes 9th player to get 3,000 hits |
May 17 |
Shirley Englehorn wins LPGA Johnny Londoff Chevrolet Golf Tournament |
May 18 |
Beatles' last released LP, "Let It Be" released in US |
May 20 |
100,000 march in NY supporting US policies in Vietnam |
May 20 |
2 die in a NYC subway accident |
May 20 |
Beatles' "Let it Be" movie premieres in UK |
May 21 |
National Guard mobilizes to quell disturbances at Ohio State U |
May 21 |
USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR |
May 22 |
Arab terrorists kill 9 children & 3 adults on a school bus |
May 22 |
France performs nuclear test at Muruora Island |
May 22 |
Mel Stottlemyre sets record by walking 11, but wins 2-0 |
May 23 |
Grateful Dead's 1st performance outside US (England) |
May 23 |
SD Padres beat SF Giants 17-16 in 15 innings |
May 23 |
USSR performs nuclear test (underground) |
May 23 |
A fire breaks out in the Britannia Bridge over the Menai Straits in north Wales contributing to its partial destruction and causing approximately £1,000,000 worth of fire damage. |
May 24 |
Donna Caponi Young wins LPGA Bluegrass Golf Invitational |
May 24 |
Peter Green quits Fleetwood Mac to join a religious cult |
May 24 |
The drilling of the Kola Superdeep Borehole begins in the Soviet Union. |
May 25 |
3rd ABA Championship: Indiana Pacers beat LA Stars, 4 games to 2 |
May 26 |
The Soviet Tupolev Tu-144 becomes the first commercial transport to exceed Mach 2. |
May 27 |
British expedition climbs south face of Annapurna I |
May 27 |
USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR |
May 28 |
The formerly united Free University of Brussels officially splits into two separate entities, the French-speaking Université Libre de Bruxelles and the Dutch-speaking Vrije Universiteit Brussel. |
May 28 |
Arms Trial Begins: several men are charged in a Dublin court with conspiracy to illegally import arms for use by the Irish Republican Army (IRA) |
May 29 |
USSR performs underground nuclear test |
May 30 |
"Minnie's Boys" closes at Imperial Theater NYC after 80 performances |
May 30 |
Baseball All-Star voting is returned to fans |
May 30 |
Indianapolis 500: Al Unser wins in 3:12:37.057 (250.654 km/h) |
May 31 |
At 03:23 PM, Yungay Peru levelled by 7.75 earthquake (50-70,000 die) |
May 31 |
KDUB TV channel 40 in Dubuque, IA (ABC) begins broadcasting |
May 31 |
Shirley Englehorn wins LPGA O'Sullivan Ladies' Golf Open |
Jun 1 |
"Everything Is Beautiful" by Ray Stevens hits #1 |
Jun 1 |
Com Bowie Kuhn reprimands Astro Jim Bouton for writing "Ball Four" |
Jun 1 |
Soyuz 9 launched into Earth orbit for 18 days |
Jun 1 |
Tigers Al Kaline collides with another player & swallows his tongue |
Jun 3 |
1st artificial gene synthesized |
Jun 3 |
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 |
Jun 4 |
43rd National Spelling Bee: Libby Childress wins spelling croissant |
Jun 4 |
SD Padres draft Mike Ivie #1 |
Jun 4 |
Tonga (formerly Friendly Islands) declares independence from UK |
Jun 4 |
WSMW TV channel 27 in Worcester, MA (IND) begins broadcasting |
Jun 4 |
Yanks Horace Clarke breaks up a no-hitter in the 9th for the 1st of 3 times in 28 days |
Jun 5 |
KPAX TV channel 8 in Missoula, MT (CBS) begins broadcasting |
Jun 5 |
Chile becomes a member of the Berne Convention copyright treaty. |
Jun 5 |
The Falls Road curfew in North Ireland, imposed by the British Army while searching for IRA weapons, is lifted after a march by women breaches the British Army cordon |
Jun 6 |
102nd Belmont: John Rotz aboard High Echelon wins in 2:34 |
Jun 7 |
22nd Emmy Awards: Marcus Welby, Robert Young & Susan Hampshire win |
Jun 7 |
Jockey Willie Shoemaker passes Johnny Longden with his 6,033 win |
Jun 7 |
Shirley Englehorn wins LPGA Lady Carling Golf Open |
Jun 7 |
The Who's "Tommy" is performed at NY's Lincoln Center |
Jun 8 |
Players & management end labor dispute up min salary to $12,000 |
Jun 9 |
Argentine milt junta under lt-gen Lanusse drives out pres Ongania |
Jun 9 |
Bob Dylan given honorary Doctorate of Music at Princeton University |
Jun 9 |
Harry A Blackmun, sworn in as Supreme Court Justice |
Jun 11 |
US leaves Wheelus AFB Libya |
Jun 12 |
Pitts Pirate Doc Ellis no-hits San Diego Padres, 2-0 |
Jun 13 |
"In The Summertime" by Mungo Jerry hit #1 in UK |
Jun 13 |
Beatles' "Let It Be" album goes #1 & stays #1 for 4 weeks |
Jun 13 |
Beatles' "Long & Winding Road" single goes #1 & stays #1 for 2 weeks |
Jun 14 |
Cincinnati Red Stockings loses 1st game after winning 130 straight |
Jun 15 |
16th LPGA Championship won by Shirley Englehorn |
Jun 16 |
Kenneth A Gibson elected 1st black mayor of Newark, NJ |
Jun 16 |
Race riots in Miami Florida |
Jun 17 |
Edwin Land patents Polaroid camera |
Jun 17 |
Led Zeppelin begins their last European tour |
Jun 18 |
Edward Heath's Conservative Party win the General Election in UK, replacing the Labour Party |
Jun 19 |
A Nikolayev & V Sevastyanov return after 18 days in Soyuz 9 |
Jun 19 |
Conservatives win British parliamentary election |
Jun 19 |
Jim Bouton's controversial "Ball Four" is published |
Jun 19 |
Yanks Horace Clarke breaks up a no-hitter in the 9th for the 2nd of 3 times in 28 days |
Jun 19 |
The Patent Cooperation Treaty is signed. |
Jun 20 |
"Ray Stevens Show" debuts on NBC-TV |
Jun 20 |
British government of Edward Heath forms (with Margaret Thatcher in the Cabinet) |
Jun 20 |
Oriole's Brooks Robinson get his 2,000 career hit, a 3 run HR |
Jun 21 |
70th US Golf Open: Tony Jacklin shoots a 281 at Hazeltine Natl Minn |
Jun 21 |
Brazil beats Italy, 4-1, to win soccer's World Cup (in Mexico City) |
Jun 21 |
Detroit's Cesar Gutierrez goes 7-for-7 to tie a record set in 1892 |
Jun 21 |
Judy Rankin wins LPGA George Washington Golf Classic |
Jun 22 |
President Nixon signs 26th amendment (voting age lowered to 18) |
Jun 22 |
Supreme Court ruled juries of less than 12 are constitutional |
Jun 22 |
WSWO TV channel 26 in Springfield, OH (ABC) suspends broadcasting |
Jun 22 |
Irish socialist, republican and Member of Parliament, Bernadette Devlin, loses her appeal against a 6-month prison sentence imposed for taking part in riots in Derry |
Jun 23 |
"Red Skelton Show" last airs on CBS-TV, moved to NBC-TV |
Jun 23 |
Charles Rangel defeats Adam Clayton Powell in Democratic primary |
Jun 23 |
Rocker Chubby Checker arrested for marijuana possession |
Jun 24 |
"Catch 22" opens in movie theaters |
Jun 24 |
Bobby Murcer ties record of 4 consecutive HRs |
Jun 24 |
Reds play final game at Cincinnati's Crosley Field, beat Giants 5-4 |
Jun 24 |
US Senate votes overwhelmingly to repeal Gulf of Tonkin Resolution |
Jun 26 |
Frank Robinson hits 2 grand slams as Orioles beat Senators 12-2 |
Jun 26 |
Two young girls die in a premature explosion in Derry after their father, a member of the Irish Republican Army, was making an incendiary device, presumably for use against the British Army |
Jun 27 |
Following the arrest of Bernadette Devlin, intense riots erupt in Derry and Belfast leading to a prolonged gun battle between Irish republicans and loyalists |
Jun 28 |
Mary Mills wins LPGA Len Immke Buick Golf Open |
Jun 28 |
Around 500 Catholic workers at the Harland and Wolff shipyard are forced to leave their work by Protestant employees as serious rioting continues in Belfast |
Jun 29 |
US ends 2 month military offensive into Cambodia |
Jun 30 |
Brazil beats Italy 4-1 in soccer's 9th World Cup at Mexico City |
Jun 30 |
Cincinnati's Riverfront Stadium opens, Braves beat Reds 8-2 |
Jul 1 |
Denny McLain returns, (leaves trailiing) Tigers beat Yankees in 11 |
Jul 1 |
FC Utrecht soccer team forms in Utrecht |
Jul 1 |
Jimi Hendrix 1st recording session (NYC) |
Jul 1 |
British Home Secretary R. Maudling visits N. Ireland and is reported as saying: "For God's sake bring me a large Scotch. What a bloody awful country!" |
Jul 2 |
1st Boeing 747 to land in Amsterdam & Brussels |
Jul 2 |
NY Yankees Horace Clarke breaks up a no-hitter in the 9th for 3rd time in 28 days |
Jul 2 |
The Prevention of Incitement to Hatred Act (Northern Ireland) is introduced; it proved difficult to secure convictions under its provisions and was seldom enforced |
Jul 2 |
Neil Blaney is found not guilty of illegal arms importation to the Irish Republican Army by a Dublin jury |
Jul 3 |
200,000 attend Atlanta Pop Festival |
Jul 3 |
77th Wimbledon Womens Tennis: Margaret Smith beats King (14-12 11-9) |
Jul 3 |
British aircraft crashes at Barcelona, 112 killed |
Jul 3 |
California Angels Clyde Wright no-hits Oakland A's, 8-0 |
Jul 3 |
The British Army imposed a curfew on the Falls Road area of Belfast as they search for weapons; during the operation they come under attack from the Official IRA (OIRA) and republican rioters |
Jul 4 |
100 injured in race rioting in Asbury Park NJ |
Jul 4 |
84th Wimbledon Men's Tennis: John Newcombe beats Ken Rosewall (57 63 62 36 61) |
Jul 4 |
Casey Kasem's "American Top 40" debuts on LA radio |
Jul 4 |
Chartered Dan-Air Comet crashes into mountains north of Barcelona, Spain killing 112 vacationing Britons |
Jul 4 |
The Falls Road curfew in North Ireland, imposed by the British Army while searching for IRA weapons, continues throughout the day; a man is killed by the British Army. |
Jul 5 |
25th US Women's Open Golf Championship won by Donna Caponi Young |
Jul 5 |
Air Canada DC-8 crashes 7 miles from Toronto's airport killing 109 |
Jul 6 |
California passes 1st "no fault" divorce law |
Jul 6 |
Italian Rumor government resigns |
Jul 6 |
Baseball player NY Met Tommie Agee hits for the cycle |
Jul 6 |
Irish Minister for External Affairs Partick Hillery pays an unofficial visit to the Falls Road area of Belfast, an areas only just subject to a curfew by British Army |
Jul 8 |
SF Giant Jim Ray Hart is 8th to get 6 RBIs in an inning (5th) |
Jul 9 |
In Atlanta, Chief-No-ka-homa is joined by cousin Chief Round-the-Horn |
Jul 12 |
Thor Heyerdahl crosses Atlantic on raft Ra II, arrives in Barbados from Morocco in 57 days |
Jul 12 |
99th British Golf Open: Jack Nicklaus shoots a 283 at St Andrews |
Jul 12 |
Blues-Rock singer Janis Joplin debuts in Kentucky |
Jul 12 |
Tanzania signs contract with China for building Tanzam-railway |
Jul 13 |
Building begins of Amsterdam metro |
Jul 13 |
The annual 'Twelfth' parades passes off without serious incident in Northern Ireland |
Jul 14 |
41st All Star Baseball Game: NL wins 5-4 at Riverfront Stadium, Cin |
Jul 14 |
All star MVP: Carl Yastremski (Boston Red Sox) |
Jul 15 |
Denmark beats Italy 2-0 in 1st world female soccer championship |
Jul 16 |
Iraq's constitution goes into effect |
Jul 16 |
Reds spoil Pirates debut in Pittsburgh's Three Rivers Stadium, 3-2 |
Jul 17 |
30,000 attend Randall's Island Rock Festival, NYC |
Jul 18 |
"Boy Friend" closes at Ambassador Theater NYC after 119 performances |
Jul 18 |
Arthur Brown arrested for stripping on stage in Palemo Sicily |
Jul 18 |
Ron Hunt gets hit by a pitch for a record 119th time |
Jul 18 |
WJCL TV channel 22 in Savannah, GA (ABC) begins broadcasting |
Jul 18 |
Willie Mays becomes 10th baseball player to get 3,000 hits |
Jul 19 |
Judy Rankin wins LPGA Springfield Jaycee Golf Open |
Jul 20 |
Dodgers Bill Singer no-hits the Phillies 5-0, giving up no walks |
Jul 21 |
Huge Aswan Dam opens in Egypt |
Jul 21 |
Libya orders confiscation of all Jewish property |
Jul 21 |
USSR performs nuclear Test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR |
Jul 21 |
Clay Kirby has a no-hitter going for 8 inn, but is lifted for a pinch hitter, Reliever Jack Baldschun gives up 3 hits & Padres lose, 3-0 |
Jul 23 |
Qaboos ibn Sa'id becomes Sultan of Oman after overthrowing his father, Sa'id ibn Taimur. |
Jul 23 |
A ban on parades and public processions until January 1971 is announced by the Stormont government (North Ireland Parliament) |
Jul 24 |
International Law Tennis Association institutes 9 point tie break rule |
Jul 24 |
USSR performs nuclear Test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR |
Jul 25 |
"(They Long to Be) Close to You" reaches #1 |
Jul 26 |
Reds Johnny Bench hits 3 consecutive HRs of Phillies Steve Carlton |
Jul 27 |
Expos beat White Sox 10-6 in the annual Hall of Fame game |
Jul 27 |
France performs nuclear Test at Muruora Island |
Jul 27 |
L Boudreau, Earle Combs, Ford Frick, & Jesse Haines enter Hall of Fame |
Jul 29 |
6 days of race rioting in Hartford Ct |
Jul 30 |
-Aug 5] Hurricane Celia, kills 31 in Cuba, Florida & Texas |
Jul 30 |
30,000 attend Powder Ridge Rock Festival, Middlefield Ct |
Jul 30 |
Riots hit Belfast, North Ireland |
Jul 31 |
37th NFL Chicago All Star Game: Kansas City 24, All Stars 3 (69,940) |
Jul 31 |
Chet Huntley retires from NBC, ends "Huntley-Brinkley Report" |
Jul 31 |
Black Tot Day: the last day of the officially sanctioned rum ration in the Royal Navy. |
Jul 31 |
Daniel O'Hagan (19), a Catholic civilian, is shot dead by the British Army during a serious riot in the New Lodge Road area of Belfast, Northern Ireland |
Aug 1 |
EAA Convention moves from Rockford Ill to Oshkosh, Wi |
Aug 1 |
KTSD TV channel 10 in Pierre, SD (PBS) begins broadcasting |
Aug 1 |
Willie Stargell (Pirates) ties record of 5 extra base hits in a game |
Aug 2 |
Baltimore defeats KC 10-8, Orioles 23rd straight win over the Royals |
Aug 2 |
France performs nuclear test at Fangataufa Island |
Aug 2 |
Rubber bullets used for the first time in Northern Ireland during 'The Troubles' |
Aug 3 |
4 day NFL strike ends |
Aug 3 |
Christopher Hampton's "Philanthropist" premieres in London |
Aug 3 |
Hurricane "Celia" becomes most expensive Gulf storm in history |
Aug 3 |
Mairiam Hargrave of Yorkshire passes her driving test on 40th try |
Aug 4 |
Jim Morrison arrested for drunkenness |
Aug 5 |
Robert Morley's "How the Other Half Loves" premieres in London |
Aug 5 |
US Black Panther leader Huey Newton let out of jail |
Aug 6 |
France performs nuclear test at Muruora Island |
Aug 7 |
1st computer chess tournament |
Aug 7 |
Christine Perfect (McVie) joins Fleetwood Mac |
Aug 7 |
WDHN TV channel 18 in Dothan, AL (ABC) begins broadcasting |
Aug 7 |
4, including presiding judge, killed in courthouse shootout in San Rafael, California (Police charge Angela Davis provided weapons) |
Aug 8 |
NY Yankees honor Casey Stengel, retiring his number 37 (BTG was there) |
Aug 9 |
Jane Blalock wins LPGA Lady Carling Golf Open |
Aug 9 |
Peruvian Airlines jet carrying 45 US exchange students explodes |
Aug 10 |
Jim Morrison is tried in Miami on "lewd & lascivious behavior" |
Aug 10 |
British Home Secretary Reginald Maulding threatens to impose direct rule on Northern Ireland if the agreed reform measures are not carried out |
Aug 11 |
Jim Bunning becomes 2nd (Cy Young) to win 100 games in both leagues |
Aug 11 |
Tony Perez becomes 1st to hit a HR in red seats at Riverfront |
Aug 11 |
Two Royal Ulster Constabulary (RUC) officers are killed by the Irish Republican Army (IRA) when they set off a booby trap bomb planted in a car near Crossmaglen, County Armagh |
Aug 12 |
Curt Flood loses his $41 million antitrust suit against baseball |
Aug 13 |
Pamphlet bombs which scatter revolutionary African National Congress propaganda leaflets explode in Cape Town, Johannesburg, Durban and Port Elizabeth, South Africa |
Aug 14 |
City University of NY inaugurates open admissions |
Aug 14 |
Steven Stills arrested for drug possession |
Aug 15 |
Patricia Palinkas becomes 1st woman pro football player (Orlando) |
Aug 16 |
52nd PGA Championship: Dave Stockton shoots 279 at Southern Hills OK |
Aug 16 |
Betsy Rawls wins LPGA Cincinnati Golf Open |
Aug 17 |
Venera 7 (US), 1st softlanding on Venus, launched |
Aug 19 |
The Chinese Community in South Africa is granted 'White' status |
Aug 20 |
-21] Hurricane Dorothy, kills 42 in Martinique |
Aug 21 |
The Social and Democratic Labour Party (SDLP) is established with Gerry Fitt as the first leader of the party |
Aug 23 |
Kathy Ahern wins LPGA Southgate Ladies Golf Open |
Aug 23 |
Roberto Clemente compiles his record 2nd straight 5-hit game |
Aug 24 |
Bomb kills 1 at U of Wisconsin's Army Math Research Center in Madison |
Aug 25 |
Elton John's 1st US appearance (Los Angeles) |
Aug 26 |
Minister of Home Affairs Robert Porter resigns from the Stormont government (North Ireland parliament) |
Aug 28 |
Phillies Larry Bowa steals home for 2nd time in 1970 |
Aug 29 |
Black Panthers confront cops in Phila (1 cop killed) |
Aug 31 |
59th Davis Cup: USA beats Germany in Cleveland (5-0) |
Aug 31 |
Lonnie McLucas, a Black Panther activist, convicted |
Aug 31 |
Molukkers occupy Indonesian ambassador's home in Wassenaar |
Aug 31 |
Peter Yarrow arrested for taking "immoral liberties" with girl, 14 |
Aug 31 |
WKMJ TV channel 68 in Louisville, KY (PBS) begins broadcasting |
Sep 1 |
Failed assassination attempt on Jordanian king Hussain |
Sep 1 |
Jose Velasco Ibarra re-elected president of Ecuador |
Sep 2 |
1st tennis tie break at a Grand Slam (US Open) (9 pt sudden death) |
Sep 3 |
After NL record 1,117 consec games, Billy Williams asks to sit out |
Sep 3 |
Bill Halley & Comets reject $30,000 for 15 date tour of Australia |
Sep 3 |
Indonesian president Suharto visits Netherlands |
Sep 4 |
-5) 29.0 cm rainfall at Workman Creek, Arizona (state record) |
Sep 4 |
George Harrison releases "My Sweet Lord" single |
Sep 4 |
Russian ballerina Natalia Makarova gets political asylum |
Sep 4 |
Salvador Allende wins presidential election in Chile |
Sep 4 |
An Irish Republican Army (IRA) member, Michael Kane (35), is killed in the premature explosion of the bomb he was planting at an electricity transformer in Belfast |
Sep 5 |
Estimated 15 cm (6") of rainfall, Bug Point, Utah (state record) |
Sep 6 |
Palestinians seize 3 airiners |
Sep 6 |
USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR |
Sep 7 |
Jerry Lewis' 5th Muscular Dystrophy telethon |
Sep 7 |
PLO hijacks 4 planes |
Sep 7 |
White Sox use record 41 players in doubleheader & lose both games |
Sep 7 |
Donald Boyles sets record for highest parachute jump from a bridge, by leaping off of 1,053' Royal George Bridge in Colorado |
Sep 7 |
Fighting between Arabic guerillas and government forces in Amman, Jordan. |
Sep 8 |
Hijacking (and subsequent destruction) of three airliners to Jordan by Palestinians; the events to follow would later become known as Black September |
Sep 9 |
Bowie Kuhn suspends Denny McLain for carrying a gun |
Sep 9 |
Feyenoord wins soccer's World Cup |
Sep 11 |
88 of the hostages from the Dawson's Field hijackings are released. The remaining hostages, mostly Jews and Israeli citizens, are held until September 25. |
Sep 11 |
The Ford Pinto is introduced. |
Sep 12 |
1st Concorde lands at Heathrow airport |
Sep 12 |
Luna 16 Launch (Moon Sample Return) |
Sep 12 |
Phyllis Ann George (Texas), 21, crowned 43rd Miss America 1971 |
Sep 12 |
Supersonic airliner Concorde lands for 1st time at Heathrow airport |
Sep 12 |
US LSD professor Timothy Leary escapes from California jail |
Sep 12 |
USSR launches Luna 16; returns samples from lunar Sea of Fertility |
Sep 12 |
Palestinian terrorists blow up three hijacked airliners in Jordan, continuing to hold the passengers hostage in various undisclosed locations in Amman. |
Sep 13 |
1st NYC Marathon won by Gary Muhrcke in 2:31:38 |
Sep 13 |
84th US Womens Tennis: M Smith Court beats Rosemary Casals (62 26 61) |
Sep 13 |
90th US Mens Tennis: Ken Rosewall beats Tony Roche (26 64 76 63) |
Sep 13 |
IBM announces System 370 computer |
Sep 13 |
Joanne Carner wins LPGA Wendell-West Golf Open |
Sep 13 |
Palestine guerillas conquer Irbid Jordania |
Sep 14 |
Economic Council for Northern Ireland holds its first meeting |
Sep 15 |
Decca awards Bing Crosby a 2nd platinum disc for selling 300 million |
Sep 15 |
PLO leader Arafat threatens to make a cemetery of Jordan |
Sep 15 |
Rotterdam dock strikes end |
Sep 15 |
Officers of the Royal Ulster Constabulary (RUC) in Northern Ireland vote narrowly in favour of remaining unarmed |
Sep 16 |
King Hussein of Jordan forms military government |
Sep 17 |
Jordan launches offensive against guerrilla army |
Sep 17 |
WSWP TV channel 9 in Grandview, WV (PBS) begins broadcasting |
Sep 19 |
"Mary Tyler Moore" show premieres |
Sep 20 |
Jim Morrison found not guilty of "lewd" behavior |
Sep 20 |
Luna 16 lands on Moon's Mare Fecunditatis, drills core sample |
Sep 21 |
"Monday Night Football" premieres on ABC - Browns 31, Jets 21 |
Sep 21 |
KAPP TV channel 35 in Yakima, WA (ABC) begins broadcasting |
Sep 21 |
Luna 16 leaves Moon |
Sep 21 |
Oakland A's Vida Blue no-hits Minnesota Twins, 6-0 |
Sep 21 |
New York Times starts first modern op-ed page. |
Sep 22 |
Pres Nixon requests 1,000 new FBI agents for college campuses |
Sep 23 |
Abdul Razak bin Hussain becomes premier of Malaysia |
Sep 23 |
Gary Muhrcke wins 1st NY Marathon |
Sep 23 |
Chief Constable of the Royal Ulster Constabulary (RUC) Arthur Young announces his resignation |
Sep 24 |
1st Automated return of lunar sample by Luna 16 |
Sep 24 |
Soviet Luna 16 lands on earth after 1st unmanned round trip to moon |
Sep 25 |
Ringo Starr releases his album "Beaucoups of Blues" |
Sep 26 |
Judy Rankin wins LPGA Lincoln-Mercury Golf Open |
Sep 26 |
The Laguna Fire starts in San Diego County, California, burning 175,425 acres (710 km²). |
Sep 26 |
A groups of Protestant youths attack the Catholic Unity Flats as rioting continues in the Protestant Shankill Road area |
Sep 27 |
Ken Boswell sets 2nd baseman record of 85 games without an error |
Sep 28 |
"Words & Music" debuts on NBC-TV |
Sep 28 |
Anwar Sadat replaces Egyptian President Nassar |
Sep 28 |
Intrepid (US) beats Gretel II (Aust) in 22nd America's Cup |
Sep 29 |
"NET Festival" last aired |
Sep 30 |
New American Bible published |
Sep 30 |
A Protestant man is shot and killed by Loyalists in Belfast, North Ireland |
Oct 1 |
63 arrested in riot to buy Rolling Stone tickets in Milano, Italy |
Oct 1 |
Last game at Philadelphia's Connie Mack Stadium, Phils-2 Expos-1 |
Oct 2 |
Billy Martin named manager of Det Tigers |
Oct 2 |
Plane carrying Wichita State U football team crashes killing 30 |
Oct 3 |
"Coco" closes at Mark Hellinger Theater NYC after 333 performances |
Oct 3 |
Baseball umpires call their 1st strike |
Oct 3 |
WAPT TV channel 16 in Jackson, MS (ABC) begins broadcasting |
Oct 4 |
KC Chiefs Jan Stenerud kicks 55-yard field goal |
Oct 4 |
Umps return after 1-day walkout in quest of higher wages |
Oct 4 |
WFYI TV channel 20 in Indianapolis, IN (PBS) begins broadcasting |
Oct 4 |
Herbert Schmidtz makes highest parachute jump from a tower by leaping from a 1,984 ft TV mast in Tulsa, Oklahoma |
Oct 5 |
John Creach, joins Jefferson Airplane |
Oct 5 |
Quebec separatists kidnap British trade commissioner James Cross |
Oct 5 |
PBS becomes a US television network. |
Oct 8 |
Soviet author Alexander Isayevich Solzhenitsyn wins Nobel Prize for Literature |
Oct 8 |
The Social Democratic and Labour Party (SDLP) propose that a system of Proportional Representation (PR) should be used in elections in Northern Ireland |
Oct 9 |
Khmer Republic (Cambodia) declares independence |
Oct 10 |
Fiji gains independence from Britain (National Day) |
Oct 12 |
Rock Memorabilia Auction at Filmore East |
Oct 13 |
Angela Davis arrested in NYC |
Oct 13 |
USSR performs nuclear test at Sary Shagan USSR |
Oct 13 |
A man dies in a premature bomb explosion in Dublin, Republic of Ireland |
Oct 14 |
4th Country Music Association Award: Merle Haggard wins |
Oct 14 |
Cleveland Cavaliers lose to Buffalo Braves in their 1st game 107-92 |
Oct 14 |
US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
Oct 14 |
USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR |
Oct 15 |
Anwar Sadat elected president of Egypt |
Oct 15 |
Baltimore Orioles beat Cin Reds, 4 games to 1 in 67th World Series |
Oct 15 |
Bridge over Yarra River in Melbourne crashes; killing 35 |
Oct 15 |
Russian passenger flight hijacked to Turkey |
Oct 16 |
Anwar Sadat elected president of Egypt, succeeding Gamal Abdel Nasser |
Oct 16 |
Pierre Trudeau invokes the War Measures Act as a response to the October Crisis, the only peacetime use of the War Measures Act in Canadian history. |
Oct 17 |
Anwar Sadat sworn in as president of Egypt |
Oct 18 |
Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Quality Chekd Golf Classic |
Oct 18 |
Sachio Kinugasa begins 2,215 cons game streak for Hiroshima Carp |
Oct 19 |
"Rothschilds" opens at Lunt-Fontanne Theater NYC for 505 performances |
Oct 19 |
Amdahl Corp forms at Sunnyvale Calif |
Oct 19 |
John Frazier kills Ohta's declares WW 3 has begun |
Oct 20 |
American Norman Borlaug awarded the Nobel Peace Prize |
Oct 20 |
Zond 8 Launch (Moon Orbit & Return) |
Oct 21 |
777 Unification church couples wed in Korea |
Oct 21 |
Caledonian Airways takes over British United Airways |
Oct 21 |
Nobel prize of peace awarded to Norman E Borlaugh |
Oct 21 |
Bernadette Devlin is released from prison having served four months of her six month sentence for riotous behaviour |
Oct 23 |
Gary Gabelich sets auto speed record 622.4 mph (1,001 kph) |
Oct 23 |
Charles Haughey and two others are found not guilty of illegal arms importation by a Dublin jury; the 'Arms Trial' began on 28 May 1970 |
Oct 24 |
Nancy Walker creates Ida Morgenstein role on Mary Tyler Moore Show |
Oct 24 |
Salvador Allende Gossens elected president of Chile |
Oct 25 |
Marilynn Smith wins LPGA Women's Golf Charities Open |
Oct 26 |
"Doonesbury" comic strip debuts in 28 newspapers |
Oct 26 |
Tanzania begins building railway Lusaka-Drone ash Salaam |
Oct 27 |
"Light, Lively & Yiddish" opens at Belasco Theater NYC for 87 perfs |
Oct 28 |
NBA Cleveland Cavaliers 1st home game, lose to San Diego 110-99 |
Oct 28 |
US/USSR sign an agreement to discuss joint space efforts |
Oct 29 |
WYEA (now WLTZ) TV channel 38 in Columbus, GA (NBC) 1st broadcast |
Oct 29 |
The Electoral Reform Society calls for the introduction of Proportional Representation (PR) in elections in Northern Ireland |
Oct 30 |
KVEW TV channel 42 in Kennewick, WA (ABC) begins broadcasting |
Oct 30 |
There are serious riots in the Catholic Ardoyne area of Belfast which last for three nights |
Oct 30 |
Northern Ireland Prime Minister James Chichester-Clark meets with British Home Secretary Reginald Maulling to discuss matters related to reforms and security |
Nov 1 |
1st regular season Giants-Jets game, Giants win 22-10 at Shea |
Nov 1 |
Discotheque in Grenoble France burns, all exits padlocked & 142 die |
Nov 1 |
Fire on Saint-Laurent-du-Pont, France, 144 die |
Nov 1 |
KGTF TV channel 12 in Agana, GU (PBS) begins broadcasting |
Nov 2 |
Cleveland Cavaliers lose by biggest margin-54 pts (Phila 141-87) |
Nov 3 |
"President's Daughter" opens at Billy Rose Theater NYC for 72 perfs |
Nov 3 |
Bob Gibson wins NL Cy Young Award |
Nov 3 |
Pres Nixon promises gradual troop removal of Vietnam |
Nov 3 |
Salvador Allende inaugurated as president of Chile |
Nov 4 |
Russian nuclear physicist Sacharov forms Human Rights Comittee |
Nov 4 |
Genie, a 13 year old feral child was found in Los Angeles, California having been locked in her bedroom for most of her life. |
Nov 6 |
Boog Powell wins AL MVP |
Nov 6 |
Twins Jim Perry wins AL Cy Young Award |
Nov 7 |
"Purlie" closes at Broadway Theater NYC after 689 performances |
Nov 7 |
Race riots in Daytona Beach Florida |
Nov 8 |
Tom Dempsey of New Orleans Saints kicks NFL record 63 yard field goal |
Nov 9 |
Trial of Seattle 8 anti-war protesters begins |
Nov 9 |
The Irish School of Ecumenics is founded by Michael Hurley |
Nov 10 |
"2 by 2" opens at Imperial Theater NYC for 343 performances |
Nov 10 |
Luna 17, with unmanned self-propelled Lunokhod 1, is launched |
Nov 10 |
R Rodgers/M Charnins musical "Two by Two" premieres in NYC |
Nov 11 |
Balt Oriole Boog Powell wins AL MVP |
Nov 12 |
240 KPH cyclone hits East Pakistan (Bangladesh); 3-500,000 die |
Nov 12 |
Cleveland Cavaliers 1st NBA victory (11th game), beating Portland 105-103 |
Nov 12 |
Scientists perform 1st artificial synthesis of a live cell |
Nov 12 |
Cyclone Bhola makes landfall, deadliest tropical cyclone recorded kills up to 500,000 in East Pakistan (modern Bangladesh), |
Nov 12 |
The Northern Ireland Housing Executive (NIHE) is formed; the NIHE gradually took over control of the building and allocation of public sector housing in Northern Ireland |
Nov 13 |
Lt Gen Hafez al-Assad becomes PM of Syria following military coup |
Nov 13 |
VP Spiro Agnew calls TV executives "impudent snobs" |
Nov 14 |
DC-9 crashes in West Virginia, 75 killed |
Nov 14 |
Marshall U football team wiped out in air crash at Kenova WV |
Nov 14 |
Paul Brown, as head coach of the expansion Cincinnati Bengals, defeats his former team the Cleveland Browns, a moment he calls his "greatest victory" |
Nov 16 |
Two men are shot dead by the Irish Republican Army (IRA) |
Nov 16 |
South Vietnamese Vice President Nguyen Cao Ky defends operations in Cambodia because communist forces could overrun South Vietnam "within 24 hours" if troops operating there were withdrawn |
Nov 16 |
Elton John records a show in New York City which was later released as his 11-17-70 album |
Nov 17 |
British newspaper Sun puts 1st pinup girl on page 3 (Stephanie Rahn) |
Nov 17 |
Russia lands Lunokhod 1 unmanned remote-controlled vehicle on Moon |
Nov 17 |
Douglas Engelbart receives the patent for the first computer mouse. |
Nov 18 |
Joe Frazier KOs Bob Foster in 2 for heavyweight boxing title |
Nov 18 |
Johnny Bench wins NL MVP |
Nov 18 |
Linus Pauling declares large doses of Vitamin C could ward off colds |
Nov 18 |
Netherlands & Albania form diplomatic relations |
Nov 18 |
Russia lands self propelled rover on Moon |
Nov 19 |
Golden Gate Park Conservatory becomes a Cal state historical landmark |
Nov 19 |
US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
Nov 20 |
UN General Assembly accepts membership of China PR |
Nov 21 |
NY Knicks 1st game against Cleve Cavalier, Knicks win 102-94 at Madison Square Garden |
Nov 23 |
KNCT TV channel 46 in Belton/Killeen, TX (PBS) begins broadcasting |
Nov 23 |
Arthur Young resigns as Chief Constable of the Royal Ulster Constabulary (RUC) |
Nov 24 |
36th Heisman Trophy Award: Jim Plunkett, Stanford (QB) |
Nov 25 |
Yankees catcher Thurman Munson wins AL Rookie of Year |
Nov 25 |
In Japan, author Yukio Mishima and two compatriots commit ritualistic suicide after an unsuccessful coup attempt. |
Nov 26 |
In Basse-Terre, Guadeloupe, 1.5 inches (38.1mm) of rain fall in a minute, the heaviest rainfall ever on record. |
Nov 27 |
Carl Morton (18-11 for last-place Expos), receives NL Rookie of Year |
Nov 27 |
George Harrison releases 3 album set "All Things Must Pass" |
Nov 27 |
Pope Paul VI wounded in chest during a visit to Philippines by a dagger-wielding Bolivian painter disguised as a priest |
Nov 27 |
Test Cricket debut of Rodney "Iron Gloves" Marsh v England, Brisbane |
Nov 28 |
58th CFL Grey Cup: Montreal Alouettes defeat Calgary Stampeders, 23-10 |
Nov 29 |
Charles Ives' "Yale-Princeton" premieres |
Nov 29 |
Colin Cowdrey becomes Test Cricket's leading run scorer (7,250) |
Nov 30 |
George Harrison releases his triple album set "All Things Must Pass" |
Dec 1 |
Luis Echeverria Alvarez sworn in as president of Mexico |
Dec 1 |
NHL takes control of Pittsburgh Penguins |
Dec 1 |
Independent People's Republic of South Yemen renames itself as People's Democratic Republic of Yemen |