1970 34726 226127463 2008-07-16T22:58:38Z CalendarWatcher 2292203 Reverted 2 edits by [[Special:Contributions/72.144.135.149|72.144.135.149]]. ([[WP:TW|TW]]) {{year nav|1970}} {{C20YearInTopicX}} Year '''1970''' ('''[[Roman numerals|MCMLXX]]''') was a [[common year starting on Thursday]] (link shows full calendar) of the [[Gregorian calendar]]. Year 1970 is the [[unixtime|Unix epoch time]]. {{C20YearTOC|1970|Fields Medalists||World population}} ==Events of 1970== <!--The calendar article is "common year starting on Thursday". --Delete any month-calendars here, like "{{Month3|...}}". --> ===January=== <!--Link dates even if repeated, for date-format preferences. Preferred style is to repeat dates, shorter than sub-bullets, and helps search-engines to display related dates. --> * [[January 1]] - The [[Unix time|Unix epoch]] occurs at 00:00:00 UTC * [[January 2]] - The last studio performance of [[The Beatles]] * [[January 5]] - The first episode of ''[[All My Children]]'' is broadcast on the ABC television network. * [[January 5]] - At least 15,621 killed, Richer Scale 7.7 magunitude of [[Yunnan]] earthquake at China. * [[January 11]] - The [[Kansas City Chiefs]] beat the heavily-favored [[Minnesota Vikings]] 23-7 in [[Super Bowl IV]]. * [[January 12]] - [[Biafra]] capitulates, ending the [[Nigerian civil war]]. *[[January 14]] - [[Diana Ross & The Supremes]] perform their farewell live concert together at the Frontier Hotel in Las Vegas, and Ross's replacement, [[Jean Terrell]], is introduced onstage at the end of the last show. * [[January 15]] - After a 32-month fight for independence from [[Nigeria]], [[Biafra]]n forces under [[Philip Effiong]] formally surrender to General [[Yakubu Gowon]]. * [[January 20]] - The [[Greater London Council]] announces its plans for the [[Thames Barrier]] at [[Woolwich]] to prevent flooding. The barrier opened in [[1981]]. * [[January 21]] - Five lifeboatmen are killed when the [[Fraserburgh]] [[lifeboat (rescue)|lifeboat]] ''Duchess of Kent'' capsizes during a rescue off Kinnaird's Head, Aberdeenshire. * [[January 26]] - [[Mick Jagger]] is fined £200 for possession of [[cannabis]]. [[Image:Thames.barrier.6.london.arp.jpg|thumb|150px| [[January 20|Jan. 20]]: [[Thames Barrier]] is planned.]] ===February=== * [[February 1]] - A train collision near [[Buenos Aires]], [[Argentina]], at least 236 killed. * [[February 2]] - British philosopher and logician [[Bertrand Russell]] dies. * [[February 10]] - An [[avalanche]] at [[Val d'Isère]], [[France]] kills 39 tourists. * [[February 11]] - [[Osumi (satellite)|Osumi]], [[Japan]]'s first satellite, is launched on a [[Lambda (rocket)|Lamba-4]] rocket. * [[February 13]] - [[Black Sabbath]]'s debut album, [[Black Sabbath (album)]] released; often regarded as the first true [[heavy metal]] album. * [[February 14]] - Iconic live album "[[The Who]]: [[Live at Leeds]]" recorded. * [[February 17]] - [[Jeffrey R. MacDonald|MacDonald family massacre]]: [[Jeffrey R. MacDonald]] kills his wife and children at [[Fort Bragg, North Carolina]], claiming that drugged-out "hippies" did it.[[Image:Osumi satellite.jpg|thumb|150px| [[February 11]]: [[Osumi (satellite)]] launched]] * [[February 17]] - Author [[David Irving]] is ordered to pay £40,000 [[libel]] damages to Capt. John Broome over his book "The Destruction of Convoy PQ17". * [[February 18]] - A jury finds the [[Chicago Seven]] defendants not guilty of [[Conspiracy (crime)|conspiring]] to incite a [[riot]], in charges stemming from the violence at the [[1968 Democratic National Convention]]. Five of the defendants are found guilty on the lesser charge of crossing state lines to incite a riot. * [[February 21]] - Construction begins on the [[Bosphorus Bridge|Bogazici Bridge]] crossing the [[Bosphorus]] in [[Istanbul]]. * [[February 22]] - [[Guyana]] becomes a Republic within the [[Commonwealth of Nations]]. ===March=== * [[March 1]] - [[Rhodesia]] severs its last tie with the [[United Kingdom]], declaring itself a racially-segregated [[republic]]. * [[March 5]] - The [[Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty]] goes into effect, after ratification by 43 nations. * [[March 6]] - A bomb being constructed by members of the [[Weatherman (organization)|Weathermen]] and meant to be planted at a military dance in New Jersey, explodes, killing 3 members of the organization. * [[March 12]] - Teenagers in the [[United Kingdom]] vote for the first time, in a [[by-election]] in [[Bridgwater (UK Parliament constituency)|Bridgwater]]. * [[March 15]] - The [[Expo '70]] World's Fair opens in Suita, Osaka, Japan. * [[March 16]] - The complete [[New English Bible]] is published. * [[March 17]] - [[My Lai massacre]]: The [[United States Army]] charges 14 officers with suppressing information related to the incident. * [[March 18]] - General [[Lon Nol]] ousts Prince [[Norodom Sihanouk]] of [[Cambodia]]. * [[March 18]] - [[United States Postal Service]] workers in [[New York City]] go on [[Strike action|strike]]; the strike spreads to the state of [[California]] and the cities of [[Akron, Ohio]], [[Philadelphia, Pennsylvania]], [[Chicago]], [[Boston]], and [[Denver, Colorado]]; 210,000 out of 750,000 U.S. postal employees walk out. President Nixon assigns military units to New York City post offices. The strike lasts 2 weeks. * [[March 21]] - The first [[Earth Day]] proclamation is issued by [[List of Mayors of San Francisco, California|San Francisco Mayor]] [[Joseph Alioto]]. * [[March 21]] - "All Kinds of Everything" sung by Dana (music and text by Derry Lindsay and Jackie Smith) wins [[Eurovision Song Contest 1970]] for [[Ireland]]. * [[March 25]] - The [[Concorde]] makes its first [[Supersonic transport|supersonic flight]] (700&nbsp;mph/1127&nbsp;km/h). * [[March 31]] - [[NASA]]'s [[Explorer 1]], the first American [[satellite]] and [[Explorer program]] spacecraft, reenters [[Earth's atmosphere]] after 12 years in orbit. * [[March 31]] - [[Japan Airlines Flight 351]], carrying 131 passengers and 7 crews from [[Tokyo]] to [[Fukuoka, Fukuoka|Fukuoka]], is hijacked by [[Japanese Red Army]] members. All passengers are eventually freed. [[Image:Taiyo no tou.jpg|thumb|145px|right| '''[[March 15]]''': [[Expo '70]] opens in [[Japan]].]] ===April=== * [[April 1]] - President [[Richard Nixon]] signs the [[Public Health Cigarette Smoking Act]] into law, banning [[cigarette]] television advertisements in the [[United States]], starting on [[January 1]], [[1971]]. * [[April 1]] - [[American Motors Corporation]] introduces the [[AMC Gremlin|Gremlin]]. * [[April 8]] - A huge gas explosion at a [[Subway (rail)|subway]] construction site in [[Osaka]], [[Japan]] kills 79 and injures over 400. * [[April 10]] - [[Paul McCartney]] announces that [[the Beatles]] have disbanded, while at the same press conference, announcing the release of [[McCartney (album)|his new solo album]]. * [[April 11]] - 74 people, mostly young boys, die as an [[avalanche]] buries a [[tuberculosis]] [[sanatorium]] in the [[French Alps]]. * [[April 11]] - [[Apollo program]]: ''[[Apollo 13]]'' ([[Jim Lovell]], [[Fred Haise]], [[Jack Swigert]]) is launched toward the [[Moon]]. On [[April 13]], an oxygen tank in the spacecraft explodes, forcing the crew to abort the mission and return in 4 days. [[Image:1974 Gremlin.jpg|thumb|130px|'''[[April 1]]''': New car: [[AMC Gremlin]].]] * [[April 16]] - Rev. [[Ian Paisley]] won a [[by-election]] to the [[House of Commons of Northern Ireland]]. * [[April 16]] - The [[NatWest|National Westminster Bank]] begins trading in the [[UK|United Kingdom]]. * [[April 17]] - Safe return & [[Splashdown (spacecraft landing)|splashdown]] of ''[[Apollo 13]]'' ([[Apollo program]]). * [[April 21]] - The [[Hutt River Province Principality]] secedes from [[Australia]]. * [[April 22]] - The first [[Earth Day]] is celebrated in the U.S. * [[April 24]] - China's first satellite ([[Dong Fang Hong 1]]) is launched to orbit using a [[Long March]]-1 Rocket (CZ-1). * [[April 29]] - The U.S. invades [[Cambodia]] to hunt out the [[Viet Cong]]; massive antiwar protests occur in the U.S. [[Image:Apollo 13 crew postmission onboard USS Iwo Jima.jpg|thumb|130px| '''[[April 17]]''': ''[[Apollo 13]]'' crew after [[Splashdown (spacecraft landing)|splashdown]].]] ===May=== <!--Link dates even if repeated, for date-format preferences. --> * [[May 1]] - Demonstrations against the trial of the [[New Haven Nine]], [[Bobby Seale]], and Ericka Huggins draw 12,000. President [[Richard Nixon]] orders US forces to cross into neutral Cambodia, threatening to widen the [[Vietnam War]], sparking nation wide riots and leading to the [[Kent State Shootings]]. * [[May 4]] - [[Kent State shootings]]: Four students at [[Kent State University]] in [[Ohio]] are killed and nine wounded by Ohio State National Guardsmen at a protest against the incursion into [[Cambodia]]. * [[May 6]] - [[Arms Crisis]] in the [[Republic of Ireland]]: [[Charles Haughey]] and [[Neil Blaney]] are dismissed as members of the [[Irish Government]], due to accusations of their involvement in a plot to import arms for use by the [[Provisional IRA]] in [[Northern Ireland]]. * [[May 6]] - [[Feyenoord Rotterdam|Feyenoord]] wins the [[UEFA Champions League|European Cup]] after a 2-1 win over [[Celtic F.C.|Celtic]]. * [[May 8]] - Unionized construction workers attack about 1,000 students and others protesting the [[Kent State shootings]] near the intersection of [[Wall Street]] and [[Broad Street, Manhattan|Broad Street]] and at [[New York City Hall]], leading to the [[Hard Hat riot]]. *[[May 8]] - The Beatles release their 12th and final album ''Let It Be'' * [[May 9]] - In [[Washington, D.C.]], 100,000 people demonstrate against the Vietnam War. * [[May 11]] - [[Henry Marrow]] is murdered in a violent [[hate crime]] in [[Oxford, North Carolina]]. * [[May 11]] - [[Lubbock Tornado]]: An '''F5''' tornado hits downtown [[Lubbock, Texas]], the first to hit a downtown district of a major city since [[Topeka, Kansas]] in [[1966]] (28 are killed). * [[May 14]] - [[Ulrike Meinhof]] helps [[Andreas Baader]] escape. * [[May 14]] - In the second day of violent demonstrations at [[Jackson State University]] in [[Jackson, Mississippi]], state law enforcement officers fire into the demonstrators, killing 2 and injuring 12. * [[May 17]] - [[Thor Heyerdahl]] sets sail from [[Morocco]] on the [[papyrus]] boat ''Ra II'', to sail the [[Atlantic Ocean]]. * [[May 23]] - A fire occurs in the [[Britannia Bridge]] over the [[Menai Straits]] in north [[Wales]], contributing to its partial destruction and amounting to approximately £1,000,000 worth of fire damage. * [[May 24]] - The [[scientific drilling]] of the [[Kola Superdeep Borehole]] begins in the [[USSR]]. * [[May 26]] - The [[Soviet Union|Soviet]] [[Tupolev Tu-144]] becomes the first commercial transport to exceed [[speed of sound|Mach]] 2. * [[May 27]] - A British expedition climbs the south face of [[Annapurna I]]. * [[May 31]] - The [[1970 Ancash earthquake]] causes a [[landslide]] that buries the town of [[Yungay, Peru]]; more than 47,000 people are killed. * [[May 31]] - The [[1970 FIFA World Cup]] is inaugurated in [[Mexico]]. ===June=== * [[June 1]] - [[Soyuz 9]], a two man spacecraft, is launched in the [[Soviet Union]]. * [[June 2]] - [[Norway]] announces that it has rich oil deposits off its [[North Sea]] coast. * [[June 4]] - [[Tonga]] gains independence from the [[United Kingdom]]. * [[June 8]] - A [[coup]] in [[Argentina]] brings a new [[military junta|junta]] of service chiefs; on [[June 18]], [[Roberto M. Levingston]] becomes President. * [[June 10]] - U.S. President [[Richard Nixon]] signs a measure lowering the voting age to 18. * [[June 11]] - The United States gets its first female generals: [[Anna Mae Hays]] and [[Elizabeth P. Hoisington]]. * [[June 18]] - [[United Kingdom general election, 1970]]: the [[Conservative Party (UK)|Conservative Party]] wins and [[Edward Heath]] becomes Prime Minister. * [[June 21]] - [[Brazil national football team|Brazil]] defeats [[Italy national football team|Italy]] 4-1 to win the [[1970 FIFA World Cup]]. * [[June 22]] - The [[England|English]] [[rock band]] [[Led Zeppelin]] performs in [[Iceland]], with the visit inspiring them to write the [[Immigrant Song]]. * [[June 24]] - The [[United States Senate]] repeals the [[Gulf of Tonkin Resolution]]. * [[June 25]] - The [[Greater London Council]]'s Policy and Resources committee endorses the "[[Jubilee Line|Fleet Line]]" and the extension of the [[Piccadilly Line]] to [[Heathrow Airport]]. * [[June 28]] - U.S. ground troops withdraw from [[Cambodia]]. ===July=== * [[July 1]] - Colorado State College changes its name to [[University of Northern Colorado]]. * [[July 4]] - A chartered [[Dan-Air]] [[De Havilland Comet]] crashes into the mountains north of [[Barcelona]]; at least 112 are killed. * [[July 4]] - [[Bob Hope]] and other entertainers gather in [[Washington, D.C.]] for ''Honor America Day'', a nonpartisan holiday event. * [[July 6]] - [[Air Canada Flight 621]] caught fire after landing at [[Pearson International Airport]], [[Toronto]], [[Ontario]], all 108 passengers and crew are killed. * [[July 11]] - The first tunnel under the [[Pyrenees]] links the [[Basque Country (autonomous community)|Basque]] towns of Aranoutes and Biesma. * [[July 16]] - [[Three Rivers Stadium]] in [[Pittsburgh]] opens. * [[July 21]] - The [[Aswan High Dam]] in [[Egypt]] is completed. * [[July 23]] - [[Said bin Taimur]], Sultan of Muscat and [[Oman]], is deposed in a palace [[coup]] by his son, [[Qaboos of Oman|Qaboos]]. * [[July 23]] - Two [[CS gas]] canisters are thrown into the chamber of the [[British House of Commons]]. * [[July 30]] - Damages totalling £485,528 are awarded to 28 [[Thalidomide]] victims. * [[July 31]] - NBC anchor [[Chet Huntley]] retires from full-time broadcasting. ===August=== * [[August 7]] - [[Harold Haley]], Marin County Superior Court Judge, is taken hostage and murdered, in an effort to free [[George Jackson (Black Panther)|George Jackson]] from police custody. * [[August 17]] - [[August 18]] - The U.S. sinks 418 containers of [[nerve gas]] into the [[Gulf Stream]] near the [[Bahamas]]. * [[August 17]] - [[Venera program]]: ''[[Venera 7]]'' is launched. It will later becomes the first spacecraft to successfully transmit data from another [[planet]]. * [[August 26]] - The Women's Strike For Equality takes place down [[Fifth Avenue]] in [[New York City]]. * [[August 26]]-[[August 30]] - The [[Isle of Wight Festival 1970]] takes place on East Afton Farm off the coast of [[England]]. Some 600,000 people attend the largest rock festival of all time. Artists include [[Jimi Hendrix]], [[The Who]], [[The Doors]], [[Chicago (band)|Chicago]], [[Richie Havens]], [[John Sebastian]], [[Joan Baez]], [[Ten Years After]], [[Emerson, Lake & Palmer]] and [[Jethro Tull (band)|Jethro Tull]]. * [[August 29]] - [[Ruben Salazar]] shot during rally in East L.A. ===September=== <!--Link dates even if repeated, for date-format preferences. Preferred style is to repeat dates, shorter than sub-bullets, and helps search-engines to display related dates. --> * [[September 1]] - An assassination attempt against King [[Hussein of Jordan]] precipitates the [[Black September in Jordan|Black September]] crisis. * [[September 4]] - [[Salaheddin Ali Nader Shah Angha]] receives the official leadership of the [[Oveyssi]] [[Sufi]] order and receives the "Robe of Faghr" by [[Shah Maghsoud Sadegh Angha]]. * [[September 3]]-[[September 6]] - Israeli forces fight Palestinian guerillas in southern Lebanon. * [[September 5]] - [[Vietnam War]]: [[Operation Jefferson Glenn]] begins - The [[101st Airborne Division|United States 101st Airborne Division]] and the [[South Vietnam]]ese 1st Infantry Division initiate a new operation in Thua Thien Province (the operation ends in October 1971). * [[September 6]] - The [[Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine]] hijacks 4 passenger aircraft from Pan Am, TWA and Swissair on flights to New York from Brussels, Frankfurt and Zürich. * [[September 7]] - An anti-war rally is held at [[Valley Forge, Pennsylvania]], attended by [[John Kerry]], [[Jane Fonda]] and [[Donald Sutherland]]. * [[September 7]] - Fighting breaks out between Arab guerillas and government forces in [[Amman]], [[Jordan]]. * [[September 8]]-[[September 10]] - [[Jordan]]ian government and Palestinian guerillas make truces they keep breaking. * [[September 9]] - [[Guinea]] recognizes [[East Germany]]. * [[September 9]] - [[Elvis Presley]] begins his first concert tour since 1958 in [[Phoenix, Arizona]] at the Veterans Memorial Coliseum. * [[September 10]] - [[Cambodia]]n government forces break the siege of Kompong Tho after 3 months. * [[September 11]] - The [[Ford Pinto]] is introduced. * [[September 13]] - The first [[New York City Marathon]] begins. * [[September 15]] - King [[Hussein of Jordan]] forms a military government with Muhammad Daoud as the prime minister. * [[September 18]] - [[Jimi Hendrix]] dies from choking on his own vomit while unconscious due to a [[barbiturate]] [[overdose]] in [[London]]. * [[September 19]] - [[Kostas Georgakis]] sets himself ablaze in [[Genoa]], [[Italy]] as a protest against the [[Greek military junta of 1967-1974]]. * [[September 20]] - [[Syria]]n armored forces cross the Jordanian border. * [[September 20]] - ''[[Luna 16]]'' lands on the Moon and lifts off the next day with samples. It lands on Earth [[September 24]]. * [[September 21]] - Palestinian armored forces reinforce Palestinian guerillas in [[Irbidi]], [[Jordan]]. * [[September 22]] - [[Tunku Abdul Rahman]] resigns as prime minister of [[Malaysia]], and is succeeded by his deputy [[Tun Abdul Razak]]. * [[September 26]] - The [[Laguna Fire]] starts in [[San Diego County]], burning 175,425 acres (710&nbsp;km²). * [[September 27]] - [[Richard Nixon]] begins a tour of Europe, visiting [[Italy]], [[Yugoslavia]], [[Spain]], the [[United Kingdom]] and [[Ireland]]. * [[September 28]] - [[Gamal Abdal Nasser]] dies; Vice President [[Anwar Sadat]] is named temporary [[president of Egypt]]. * [[September 29]] - The U.S. Congress gives President [[Richard Nixon]] authority to sell arms to Israel. * [[September 29]] - In [[Berlin]], [[Baader-Meinhof Gang]] members rob 3 banks, with loot totaling over [[Deutsche Mark|DM]]200,000. ===October=== <!--Link dates even if repeated, for date-format preferences. Preferred style is to repeat dates, shorter than sub-bullets, and helps search-engines to display related dates. --> * [[October 2]] - The [[Wichita State University]] football team's "Gold" plane crashes in [[Colorado]], killing most of the players. They were on their way (along with administrators and fans) to a game with [[Utah State University]]. * [[October 3]] - In [[Lebanon]], the government of Prime Minister [[Rashid Karami]] resigns. * [[October 4]] - In [[Bolivia]], Army Commander General [[Rogelio Miranda]] and a group of officers rebel and demand the resignation of President [[Alfredo Ovando Candía]], who fires him. * [[October 4]] - [[Janis Joplin]] dies of a heroin overdose in Los Angeles, California, at the age of 27. * [[October 5]] - U.S. President [[Richard Nixon]]'s European tour ends. * [[October 5]] - The [[Front de Liberation du Quebec]] (FLQ) kidnaps [[James Cross]] in Montreal and demands release of all its imprisoned members. The next day the Canadian government announces it won't meet the demand, beginning [[Quebec]]'s [[October Crisis]]. * [[October 5]] - The [[Public Broadcasting Service]] begins broadcasting. * [[October 6]] - Bolivian President [[Alfredo Ovando Candía]] resigns; General [[Rogelio Miranda]] takes over but resigns soon after. * [[October 6]] - French President [[Georges Pompidou]] visits the Soviet Union. * [[October 7]] - General [[Juan José Torres]] becomes the new [[President of Bolivia]]. * [[October 8]] - The U.S. Foreign Office announces that renewal of arms sales to [[Pakistan]]. * [[October 8]] - Soviet author [[Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn]] is awarded the [[Nobel Prize for Literature]]. * [[October 8]] - [[Vietnam War]]: In [[Paris]], a [[Communism|Communist]] delegation rejects U.S. President [[Richard Nixon]]'s [[October 7]] peace proposal as "a maneuver to deceive world opinion." * [[October 9]] - The [[Khmer Republic]] is proclaimed in [[Cambodia]]. * [[October 10]] - [[Fiji]] becomes independent. * [[October 10]] - [[October Crisis]]: In [[Montreal, Quebec]], a national crisis hits [[Canada]] when [[Quebec]] Vice-Premier and Minister of Labour [[Pierre Laporte]] becomes the second statesman kidnapped by members of the [[FLQ]] terrorist group. * [[October 11]] - Eleven French soldiers are killed in a shootout with rebels in [[Chad]]. * [[October 12]] - [[Vietnam War]]: U.S. President [[Richard Nixon]] announces that the [[United States]] will withdraw 40,000 more troops before [[Christmas]]. * [[October 13]] - [[Canada]] and the [[People's Republic of China]] establish diplomatic relations. * [[October 13]] - [[Saeb Salam]] forms a government in [[Lebanon]]. * [[October 14]] - A Chinese nuclear test is conducted in [[Lop Nor]]. * [[October 15]] - In [[Egypt]], a referendum supports [[Anwar Sadat]] 90.04%. * [[October 15]] - A section of the new [[West Gate Bridge]] in [[Melbourne]] collapses into the river below, killing 35 construction workers. * [[October 15]] - The [[Baltimore Orioles]] defeat the [[Cincinnati Reds]] in Games 5 of the [[World Series]], 9-3, to win the series 4 games to 1 for their 2nd World Championship. * [[October 16]] - [[October Crisis]]: The Canadian government declares a [[state of emergency]] and outlaws the [[Quebec Liberation Front]]. * [[October 17]] - October Crisis: [[Pierre Laporte]] is found killed in south Montreal. * [[October 17]] - A [[cholera]] epidemic breaks out in [[Istanbul]]. * [[October 17]] - [[Anwar Sadat]] officially becomes President of Egypt. * [[October 20]] - The Soviet Union launches the ''[[Zond 8]]'' lunar probe. * [[October 20]] - Egyptian president Anwar Sadat names [[Mahmoud Fawzi]] as his prime minister. * [[October 21]] - A U.S. Air Force plane makes an emergency landing near [[Leninakan]], [[Soviet Union]]. The Soviets release the American officers, including 2 generals, [[November 10]]. * [[October 22]] - [[Chile]]an army commander [[Rene Schneider]] is shot in Santiago; the government declares a state of emergency. Schneider dies [[October 25]]. * [[October 24]] - [[Salvador Allende]] is elected President of [[Chile]]. * [[October 25]] - The wreck of Confederate submarine ''[[Hunley]]'' is found off [[Charleston, South Carolina|Charleston]], [[South Carolina]], by pioneer [[underwater archaeologist]], [[Dr. E. Lee Spence]],<ref>[http://www.usnews.com/usnews/news/articles/070624/2hunley_2.htm Cover Story: Time Capsule From The Sea - ''U.S. News & World Report'', July 2-9, 2007]</ref> then just 22 years old. ''Hunley'' was the first submarine in history to sink a ship in warfare. * [[October 26]] - [[Garry Trudeau]]'s [[comic strip]] ''[[Doonesbury]]'' debuts in approximately two dozen newspapers in the United States. * [[October 28]] - In Jordan, the government of Ahmed Toukan resigns; the next prime minister is [[Wasfi Al-Tal]]. * [[October 28]] - A [[cholera]] outbreak in eastern Slovakia causes Hungary to close its border with Czechoslovakia. * [[October 28]] - [[Gary Gabelich]] drives the rocket-powered [[Blue Flame (car)|Blue Flame]] to an official world land speed record of 622.287&nbsp;mph (1,001.452863&nbsp;km/h) on the dry lake bed of the [[Bonneville Salt Flats]] in Utah. The record, the first above 1,000&nbsp;km/h, stands for nearly 13 years. * [[October 30]] - In [[Vietnam]], the worst [[monsoon]] to hit the area in 6 years causes large [[flood]]s, kills 293, leaves 200,000 homeless and virtually halts the [[Vietnam War]]. ===November=== <!--Link dates even if repeated, for date-format preferences. Preferred style is to repeat dates, shorter than sub-bullets, and helps search-engines to display related dates. --> * [[November 1]] - Fire destroys the Le Cinq Sept dance hall in St. Laurent Du Pont, [[France]]; 144 dead. * [[November 3]] - Democrats sweep the U.S. Congressional midterm elections; [[Ronald Reagan]] is reelected governor of California; [[Jimmy Carter]] is elected governor of Georgia. * [[November 4]] - [[Vietnam War]]: [[Vietnamization]] - The [[United States]] turns control of the [[air base]] in the [[Mekong Delta]] to [[South Vietnam]]. * [[November 4]] - Social workers in [[Los Angeles, California]] take custody of [[Genie (feral child)|Genie]], a girl who had been kept in solitary confinement since her birth. * [[November 5]] - Vietnam War: The [[United States]] Military Assistance Command in [[Vietnam]] reports the lowest weekly American soldier death toll in 5 years (24 soldiers died that week, which was the fifth consecutive week the death toll was below 50; 431 were reported wounded that week, however). * [[November 8]] - [[Egypt]], [[Libya]] and [[Sudan]] announce their intentions to form a federation. * [[November 9]] - The Soviet Union launches ''[[Luna 17]]''. * [[November 9]] - Vietnam War: The [[Supreme Court of the United States]] votes 6-3 not to hear a case by the state of [[Massachusetts]], about the constitutionality of a state law granting Massachusetts residents the right to refuse military service in an undeclared war. * [[November 10]] - Vietnam War: [[Vietnamization]] - For the first time in 5 years, an entire week ends with no reports of [[United States]] combat fatalities in [[Southeast Asia]]. * [[November 12]] - Soviet author [[Andrei Amalrik]] is sentenced to 3 years for 'anti-Soviet' writings. * [[November 13]] - [[Hafez al-Assad]] comes to power in [[Syria]], following a military coup. * [[November 13]] - [[1970 Bhola cyclone]]: A 120-mph [[tropical cyclone]] hits the densely populated [[Ganges Delta]] region of [[East Pakistan]] (now [[Bangladesh]]), killing an estimated 500,000 people (considered the [[20th century]]'s worst cyclone disaster). * [[November 14]] - A fatal airplane accident in [[Wayne County, West Virginia]], [[Southern Airlines Flight 932]], claims the lives of all 75 onboard, including 37 players and 5 coaches from the [[Marshall University]] [[American football|football]] team. * [[November 17]] - [[Vietnam War]]: Lieutenant [[William Calley]] goes on trial for the [[My Lai massacre]]. * [[November 17]] - [[Luna program]]: The [[Soviet Union]] lands ''[[Lunokhod 1]]'' on [[Mare Imbrium]] (Sea of Rains) on the [[Moon]]. This is the first roving remote-controlled robot to land on another world, and is released by the orbiting [[Luna 17]] spacecraft. * [[November 18]] - U.S. President [[Richard Nixon]] asks the [[Congress of the United States|U.S. Congress]] for US$155 million in supplemental aid for the [[Cambodia]]n government (US$85 million is for military assistance to prevent the overthrow of the government of Premier [[Lon Nol]] by the [[Khmer Rouge]] and [[North Vietnam]]). * [[November 18]] - The [[United Nations Security Council]] demands that no government recognize [[Rhodesia]]. * [[November 19]] - [[European Economic Community]] prime ministers meet in [[Munich]]. * [[November 21]] - [[Syria]]n Prime Minister [[Hafez al-Assad]] forms a new government but retains the post of defense minister. * [[November 21]] - In [[Ethiopia]], the [[Eritrean Liberation Front]] kills an Ethiopian general. * [[November 21]] - [[Vietnam War]]: [[Operation Ivory Coast]] - A joint [[United States Air Force|Air Force]] and Army team raids the [[Son Tay]] prison camp in an attempt to free American [[prisoner of war|POW]]s thought to be held there (no Americans are killed, but the prisoners have already moved to another camp; all U.S. POWs are moved to a handful of central prison complexes as a result of this raid). * [[November 22]] - [[Guinea]]n president [[Sekou Toure]] accuses [[Portugal]] of an attack when hundreds of mercenaries land near the capital [[Conakry]]. * [[November 23]]-[[November 24]] - The Guinean army repels the landing attempts. * [[November 23]] - [[Rodgers and Hammerstein]]'s ''[[Oklahoma! (musical)|Oklahoma!]]'' makes its network TV debut, when [[CBS]] telecasts the [[Oklahoma! (film)|1955 film version]] as a three-hour [[Thanksgiving]] special. * [[November 25]]-[[November 29]] - A UN delegation arrives to investigate the Guinea situation. * [[November 25]] - In [[Tokyo]], author and [[Tatenokai]] militia leader [[Yukio Mishima]] and his followers take over the headquarters of the [[Japan Self-Defense Forces]]. When Mishima's speech fails to sway public opinion towards his right-wing political beliefs, he commits [[seppuku]]. * [[November 26]] - East Pakistan leader Sheik [[Mujibur Rahman]] accuses the central government of negligence in catastrophe relief. * [[November 26]] - [[Pope Paul VI]] begins an Asian tour. * [[November 27]] - Bolivian artist Benjamin Mendoza tries to assassinate [[Pope Paul VI]] during his visit in [[Manila]]. * [[November 30]] - Formation of [[British Caledonian|British Caledonian Airways Ltd. (BCal)]]. ===December=== <!--Link dates even if repeated, for date-format preferences. Preferred style is to repeat dates, shorter than sub-bullets, and helps search-engines to display related dates. --> * [[December 1]] - The Italian House of Representatives accepts the new [[divorce]] law. * [[December 1]] - [[Ethiopia]] recognizes the [[People's Republic of China]]. * [[December 1]] - The [[Basque people|Basque]] [[ETA]] kidnaps West German Eugen Beihl in [[San Sebastián]]. * [[December 1]] - [[Luis Echeverría]] becomes [[president of Mexico]]. * [[December 2]] - The [[United States Environmental Protection Agency]] begins operations. * [[December 3]] - October Crisis: In [[Montreal, Quebec]], kidnapped [[United Kingdom|British]] Trade Commissioner [[James Cross]] is released by the [[Front de Libération du Québec]] terrorist group after being held hostage for 60 days. Police negotiate his release and in return the Government of [[Canada]] grants 5 terrorists from the FLQ's Chenier Cell their request for safe passage to [[Cuba]]. * [[December 3]] - Burgos Trial: In [[Burgos]], [[Spain]], a trial begins of 16 [[Basque people|Basques]] terrorism suspects. * [[December 4]] - The Spanish government declares a 3-month martial law in the Basque county of Guipuzco, due to strikes and demonstrations. * [[December 4]] - The U.N. announces that Portuguese navy and army units were responsible for the attempted invasion of Guinea. * [[December 5]] - The Asian and Australian tour of Pope Paul VI ends. * [[December 7]] - Giovanni Enrico Bucher, the Swiss ambassador to Brazil, is kidnapped in [[Rio de Janeiro]]; kidnappers demand the release of 70 political prisoners. * [[December 7]] - The U.N. General Assembly supports the isolation of [[South Africa]] due to its [[apartheid]] policies. * [[December 7]] - During his visit to the Polish capital, [[German Chancellor]] [[Willy Brandt]] goes down on his knees in front of a monument to the victims of the [[Warsaw Ghetto]]. * [[December 12]] - A [[landslide]] in western [[Colombia]] leaves 200 dead. * [[December 13]] - The government of [[Poland]] announces increases in the price of food. Riots and looting lead to a bloody confrontation between the rioters and the government on [[December 15]], and martial law December 17-22. [[December 23]] the government will freeze the food prices for two years. * [[December 15]] - The USSR's [[Venera 7]] becomes the first spacecraft to land successfully on Venus and transmit data back to Earth. * [[December 15]] - [[South Korean]] ferry ''[[Namyong Ho]]'' capsized off [[Korean Strait]], 308 killed. * [[December 16]] - The Ethiopian government declares a [[state of emergency]] in the county of Eritrea, due to the activities of the [[Eritrean Liberation Front]]. * [[December 20]] - [[Secretary General|General Secretary]] of the [[Polish Communist Party]], [[Władysław Gomułka]], resigns; [[Edward Gierek]] replaces him. * [[December 20]] - An Egyptian delegation leaves for Moscow to ask for economic and [[military aid]]. * [[December 22]] - The [[Libya]]n Revolutionary Council declares that it will nationalize all foreign banks in the country. * [[December 22]] - [[Franz Stangl]], the ex-commander of [[Treblinka]], is sentenced to life imprisonment. * [[December 23]] - The [[Bolivia]]n government releases [[Regis Debray]]. * [[December 23]] - The North Tower of the [[World Trade Center]] is topped out at 1,368 feet, making it the tallest building in the world. * [[December 25]] - The [[ETA]] releases Eugen Beihl. * [[December 27]] - [[India]]'s president declares new elections. * [[December 28]] - Burgos Trial: Three Basques are sentenced to death (3 twice), others sentenced for 12-62 years, and 1 is released. * [[December 28]] - The suspected killers of [[Pierre Laporte]], Jacques & Paul Rose and Francis Sunard, are arrested near Montreal. * [[December 30]] - In [[Vizcaya (Spanish Congress Electoral District)|Viscaya]], [[Spain]], [[Basque Country (autonomous community)|Basque county]], 15,000 go on strike to protest the Burgos trial death sentences. * [[December 30]] - [[Francisco Franco]] commutes the death sentences of the [[Burgos Trial]] defendants to 30 years in prison. * [[December 31]] - [[Paul McCartney]] sues in Great Britain to dissolve [[the Beatles]]'s legal partnership. ===Undated=== *The first [[Regional Technical College]]s open in [[Ireland]]. *Disappearance of [[Sada Abe]], [[Japan]]ese former [[prostitute]] and later [[actress]]. *Discovery in [[England]] of the [[Sweet Track]], the World's oldest engineered [[road]]way. *First laminated tube toothpaste type go on sale brand for [[White and White]] by Japanese toiletry company of [[Lion (company)|Lion]]. (August in Japan) ===Ongoing=== * [[Computer Age]] and [[Cold War]]. Also, [[The Troubles]]. ===World population=== {|class="wikitable" !colspan="7"|[[World population]] |- ! !1970 !colspan="2"|[[1965]] !colspan="2"|[[1975]] |- ![[World]] |align="right"|'''3,692,492,000''' |align="right"|3,334,874,000 |align="right"|{{#switch: u |u=[[Image:Green Arrow Up.svg|10px]] 357,618,000 |d=[[Image:Red Arrow Down.svg|10px]] 357,618,000 |#default=[[Image:Straight Line Steady.svg|10px]] }} |align="right"|4,068,109,000 |align="right"|[[Image:Green Arrow Up.svg|10px]] 1 |- ![[Africa]] |align="right"|'''357,283,000''' |align="right"|313,744,000 |align="right"|[[Image:Green Arrow Up.svg|10px]] 43,539,000 |align="right"|408,160,000 |align="right"|[[Image:Green Arrow Up.svg|10px]] 50,877,000 |- ![[Asia]] |align="right"|'''2,143,118,000''' |align="right"|1,899,424,000 |align="right"|[[Image:Green Arrow Up.svg|10px]] 243,694,000 |align="right"|2,397,512,000 |align="right"|[[Image:Green Arrow Up.svg|10px]] 254,394,000 |- ![[Europe]] |align="right"|'''655,855,000''' |align="right"|634,026,000 |align="right"|[[Image:Green Arrow Up.svg|10px]] 21,829,000 |align="right"|675,542,000 |align="right"|[[Image:Green Arrow Up.svg|10px]] 19,687,000 |- ![[Latin-America]] |align="right"|'''284,856,000''' |align="right"|250,452,000 |align="right"|[[Image:Green Arrow Up.svg|10px]] 34,404,000 |align="right"|321,906,000 |align="right"|[[Image:Green Arrow Up.svg|10px]] 37,050,000 |- ![[Northern America|North America]] |align="right"|'''231,937,000''' |align="right"|219,570,000 |align="right"|[[Image:Green Arrow Up.svg|10px]] 12,367,000 |align="right"|243,425,000 |align="right"|[[Image:Green Arrow Up.svg|10px]] 11,488,000 |- ![[Oceania]] |align="right"|'''19,443,000''' |align="right"|17,657,000 |align="right"|[[Image:Green Arrow Up.svg|10px]] 1,786,000 |align="right"|21,564,000 |align="right"|[[Image:Green Arrow Up.svg|10px]] 2,121,000 |} ==Births== {{Year in other calendars|japanese=[[Shōwa]] 45}} ===January-February=== <!--Link dates even if repeated, for date-format preferences. Preferred style is to repeat dates, shorter than sub-bullets, and helps search-engines to display Wikipedia birthdates. --> *[[January 1]] - [[Kimberly Page]], American model *[[January 3]] - [[Christian Duguay]], American comedian *[[January 6]] - [[Julie Chen]], American television host *[[January 6]] - [[Gabrielle Reece]], American volleyball player and model *[[January 9]] - [[Lara Fabian]], Canadian/Belgian singer *[[January 12]] - [[Zack de la Rocha]], American musician ([[Rage Against the Machine]]) *[[January 13]] - [[Keith Coogan]], American actor *[[January 13]] - [[Marco Pantani]], Italian cyclist (d. [[2004]]) *[[January 15]] - [[Shane McMahon]], American professional wrestler and wrestling executive *[[January 17]] - [[Jeremy Roenick]], American hockey player *[[January 17]] - [[Genndy Tartakovsky]], Russian animator *[[January 19]] - [[Tim Foster]], British rower *[[January 19]] - [[Udo Suzuki]], Japanese comedian *[[January 20]] - [[Mitch Benn]], British comedian and songwriter *[[January 20]] - [[Skeet Ulrich]], American actor *[[January 22]] - [[Alex Ross (comic illustrator)|Alex Ross]], American comic artist *[[January 24]] - [[Matthew Lillard]], American actor *[[January 29]] - [[Heather Graham (actress)|Heather Graham]], American actress *[[January 29]] - [[Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore]], Indian shooter *[[January 31]] - [[Minnie Driver]], English actress <!--FEBRUARY--> *[[February 1]] - [[Malik Sealy]], American basketball player (d. [[2000]]) *[[February 3]] - [[Keith Carney]], American hockey ([[Minnesota Wild]]) *[[February 4]] - [[Nicole Wood]], Playboy playmate *[[February 8]] - [[Alonzo Mourning]], American basketball player *[[February 8]] - [[John Filan]], Australian footballer *[[February 9]] - [[Glenn McGrath]], Australian test cricketer *[[February 14]] - [[Sean Hill]], American hockey player ([[Minnesota Wild]]) *[[February 14]] - [[Simon Pegg]], British comedian,actor and writer *[[February 15]] - [[Gloria Trevi]], Mexican singer and actress *[[February 21]] - [[Dayna Devon]], American news anchor *[[February 22]] - [[Dominic Roussel]], Canadian ice hockey player *[[February 24]] - [[Jeff Garcia]], American football player *[[February 26]] - [[Linda Brava]], Finnish violinist *[[February 27]] - [[Matthias Lechner]], German art director *[[February 28]] - [[Daniel Handler]], American author ===March-April=== <!--Link dates even if repeated, for date-format preferences. Preferred style is to repeat dates, shorter than sub-bullets. --> *[[March 4]] - [[Andrea Bendewald]], American actress *[[March 5]] - [[John Frusciante]], musician ([[Red Hot Chili Peppers]]) *[[March 5]] - [[Mike Brown (basketball, born 1970)|Mike Brown]], American basketball coach *[[March 8]] - [[Jason Elam]], American football player *[[March 9]] - [[Shannon Leto]], American actor and musician ([[30 Seconds to Mars]]) *[[March 9]] - [[Stuart Neild]], English author *[[March 9]] - [[Martin Johnson]], English rugby player *[[March 10]] - [[Antonio Edwards]], American football player *[[March 16]] - [[Paul Oscar]] (Páll Óskar Hjálmtýsson), Icelandic pop singer, songwriter and disc jockey *[[March 18]] - [[Queen Latifah]], American rapper, record producer, and actress *[[March 22]] - [[Leontien van Moorsel]], Dutch cyclist *[[March 24]] - [[Lara Flynn Boyle]], American actress *[[March 24]] - [[Sharon Corr]], Irish musician ([[The Corrs]]) *[[March 27]] - [[Elizabeth Mitchell]], American actress *[[March 27]] - [[Mariah Carey]], American singer *[[March 27]] - [[Leila Pahlavi]], Iranian princess (d. [[2001]]) *[[March 28]] - [[Vince Vaughn]], American actor, writer, and producer <!--APRIL--> *[[April 4]] - [[Barry Pepper]], Canadian actor *[[April 4]] - [[Wendy Bell]], American news reader *[[April 5]] - [[Miho Hatori]], Japanese singer and songwriter ([[Cibo Matto]]) *[[April 11]] - [[Delroy Pearson]], British singer [[Five Star]] *[[April 12]] - [[Nick Hexum]], American singer and guitarist *[[April 13]] - [[Rick Schroder]], American actor *[[April 13]] - [[Eduardo Capetillo]], Mexican actor and singer *[[April 17]] - [[Redman (rapper)|Redman]], American rapper *[[April 18]] - [[Greg Eklund]], American drummer ([[Everclear (band)|Everclear]]) *[[April 19]] - [[Luis Miguel Gallego Basteri|Luis Miguel]], Mexican singer *[[April 20]] - [[Adriano Moraes]], Brazilian rodeo performer *[[April 21]] - [[Nicole Sullivan]], American actress, comedian, and writer *[[April 22]] - [[Regine Velasquez]], Filipino singer, actress, model and record producer *[[April 23]] - [[Sadao Abe]], Japanese actor *[[April 25]] - [[Jason Lee (actor)|Jason Lee]], American skateboarder and actor *[[April 26]] - [[Tionne "T-Boz" Watkins]], American singer *[[April 29]] - [[Andre Agassi]], American tennis player *[[April 29]] - [[Uma Thurman]], American actress ===May-June=== <!--Link dates even if repeated, for date-format preferences. Preferred style is to repeat dates, shorter than sub-bullets. --> *[[May 3]] - [[Jeffrey Sebelia]], American fashion designer *[[May 5]] - [[Will Arnett]], Canadian actor *[[May 5]] - [[Naomi Klein]], Canadian journalist and activist *[[May 5]] - [[Todd Newton]], American game show host *[[May 6]] - [[Kavan Smith]], Canadian actor *[[May 8]] - [[Michael Bevan]], Australian cricketer *[[May 9]] - [[Doug Christie (basketball)|Doug Christie]], NBA basketball player and star of BET J's reality show ''Committed: The Christies'' *[[May 12]] - [[Mike Weir]], Canadian golfer *[[May 13]]? - [[Alison Goldfrapp]], English singer *[[May 15]] - [[Ronald de Boer]] and [[Frank de Boer]], [[Netherlands|Dutch]] footballers *[[May 15]] - [[Rod Smith (NFL football)|Rod Smith]], American football player *[[May 16]] - [[Gabriela Sabatini]], Argentine tennis player *[[May 17]] - [[Joe Castro]], American film director *[[May 18]] - [[Tina Fey]], American writer, comedian, and actress *[[May 19]] - [[Choi Kyung-Ju|K.J. Choi]], South Korean golfer *[[May 19]] - [[Mario Dumont]], Canadian politician *[[May 20]] - [[Louis Theroux]], British-American TV personality and author *[[May 22]] - [[Naomi Campbell]], English model and actress *[[May 23]] - [[Yigal Amir]], [[Israel]]i [[assassin]] of the [[Prime Minister of Israel]] [[Yitzhak Rabin]] *[[May 24]] - [[Jeff Zgonina]], American football player *[[May 25]] - [[Jamie Kennedy]], American actor and comedian *[[May 25]] - [[Satsuki Yukino]], Japanese voice actress *[[May 26]] - [[Nobuhiro Watsuki]], Japanese cartoonist *[[May 27]] - [[Joseph Fiennes]], English actor *[[May 30]] - [[Jeffrey Sebelia]], American fashion designer and winner of [[Project Runway Season 3]] <!--JUNE--> *[[June 2]] - [[B-Real]], American rapper *[[June 3]] - [[Ammon McNeely]], American [[rock climber]] *[[June 4]] - [[Izabella Scorupco]], Polish actress *[[June 6]] - [[Anthony Norris]], American professional wrestler *[[June 6]] - [[Andrian Dushev]], Bulgarian canoer *[[June 8]] - [[Gabrielle Giffords]], American politician *[[June 8]] - [[Kelli Williams]], American actress *[[June 10]] - [[Mike Doughty]], American singer *[[June 13]] - [[Mikael Ljungberg]], Swedish wrestler (d. [[2004]]) *[[June 13]] - [[Rivers Cuomo]], American musician *[[June 15]] - [[Leah Remini]], American actress *[[June 16]] - [[Phil Mickelson]], American golfer *[[June 17]] - [[Sasha Sokol]], Mexican singer *[[June 17]] - [[Will Forte]], American writer, actor and comedian *[[June 19]] - [[MJ Hibbett]], English singer-songwriter *[[June 19]] - [[Quincy Watts]], American athlete *[[June 19]] - [[Brian Welch]], American guitarist *[[June 20]] - [[Russell Garcia (field hockey)|Russell Garcia]], British field hockey player *[[June 20]] - [[Prince Moulay Rachid of Morocco|Moulay Rachid]], Prince of Morocco *[[June 21]] - [[Pete Rock]], American rapper/DJ/producer *[[June 22]] - [[Michel Elefteriades]], Greek-Lebanese politician, artist, producer and businessman *[[June 22]] - [[Freddy Soto]], American comedian and actor. *[[June 25]] - [[Lucy Benjamin]], British actress *[[June 26]] - [[Patrick Norton]], American writer and television host *[[June 26]] - [[Chris O'Donnell]], American actor *[[June 27]] - [[Jim Edmonds]], baseball player *[[June 27]] - [[Colleen Fitzpatrick|Vitamin C]], American singer *[[June 27]] - [[Jo Frost]], English nanny and television host *[[June 28]] - [[Steve Burton (actor)|Steve Burton]]. American actor *[[June 30]] - [[Brian Bloom]], American actor ===July-August=== <!--Link dates even if repeated, for date-format preferences. Preferred style: repeat dates, shorter than sub-bullets. --> *[[July 2]] - [[Steve Morrow]], Northern Irish footballer *[[July 3]] - [[Teemu Selänne]], National Hockey League player *[[July 3]] - [[Shawnee Smith]], American actress *[[July 5]] - [[Mac Dre]], American rapper (d. [[2004]]) *[[July 6]] - [[Grant Bond (cartoonist)]], Comic book artist and writer *[[July 6]] - [[Martin Smith (songwriter)|Martin Smith]], English singer and songwriter *[[July 7]] - [[Wayne McCullough]], Northern Irish boxer *[[July 8]] - [[Beck]], American singer *[[July 9]] - [[Trent Green]], National Football League quarterback *[[July 10]] - [[Gary LeVox]], American singer *[[July 10]] - [[Mike Doughty]], American singer *[[July 11]] - [[Saj Karim]], British politician *[[July 23]] - [[Thea Dorn]], German writer *[[July 29]] - [[Andi Peters]], British TV presenter and producer *[[July 30]] - [[Christopher Nolan]], English writer and director <!--AUGUST--> *[[August 1]] - [[David James (footballer)]], English football goalkeeper *[[August 2]] - [[Tony Amonte]], American hockey player *[[August 2]] - [[Kevin Smith (film maker)|Kevin Smith]], American screenwriter, film director, and actor *[[August 4]] - [[Pete Abrams]], American webcomic artist, author of [[Sluggy Freelance]] *[[August 6]] - [[M. Night Shyamalan]], Indian-American film director, writer, producer, and actor *[[August 12]] - [[Jim Schlossnagle]], baseball coach *[[August 13]] - [[Alan Shearer]], English footballer *[[August 13]] - [[Will Clarke]], American novelist *[[August 14]] - [[Leah Purcell]], Australian actress *[[August 16]] **[[Bonnie Bernstein]], American sportscaster ([[ESPN]]) **[[Dean Del Mastro]], Canadian Member of Parliament *[[August 17]] - [[Jim Courier]], American tennis player *[[August 18]] - [[Malcolm-Jamal Warner]], American actor *[[August 19]] - [[Fat Joe|Joseph Cartagena (Fat Joe)]], American rapper *[[August 20]] - [[John D. Carmack]], American computer game programmer *[[August 20]] - [[Fred Durst]], American singer *[[August 21]] - [[Erik Dekker]], Dutch professional cyclist *[[August 23]] ** [[Jay Mohr]], American actor and comedian ** [[River Phoenix]], American actor (d. [[1993]]) ** [[Fabian Wilnis]], Dutch footballer *[[August 24]] - Kristyn Robyn Osborn, American Singer ([[SHeDAISY]]) *[[August 25]] - [[Claudia Schiffer]], German model *[[August 27]] - [[Jim Thome]], baseball player *[[August 27]] - [[Peter Ebdon]], English snooker player *[[August 28]] - [[Sherrié Austin]], Australian actress and singer *[[August 29]] - [[Jacco Eltingh]], Dutch tennis player *[[August 30]] - [[Guang Liang]], Malaysian singer *[[August 31]] - [[Deborah Gibson]], American singer ===September-October=== *[[September 1]] - [[Hwang Jung-min]], South Korean actor *[[September 4]] - [[Daisy Dee]], Dutch singer and actress *[[September 5]] - [[Liam Lynch (musician)|Liam Lynch]], American musician, comedian, puppetteer, creator of the [[Sifl and Olly Show]]. *[[September 8]] - [[Latrell Sprewell]], American basketball player *[[September 8]] - [[Benny Ibarra]], Mexican singer *[[September 9]] - [[Macy Gray]], American singer *[[September 10]] - [[Phaswane Mpe]], South African writer (d. [[2004]]) *[[September 10]] - [[Jeff Marx]], Broadway composer *[[September 14]] - [[Craig Montoya]], American musician ([[Everclear (band)|Everclear]]) *[[September 15]] - [[Jukka Jokikokko]], Finnish musician and studio engineer *[[September 18]] - [[Darren Gough]], English cricketer *[[September 19]] - [[Dan Bylsma]], American ice hockey player *[[September 19]] - [[Takanori Nishikawa]], Japanese singer *[[September 19]] - [[Yuka Imai]], Japanese [[seiyu]] (voice actress) *[[September 20]] - [[Gert Verheyen]], Belgian footballer *[[September 21]] - [[Bridget Moynahan]], American actress *[[September 22]] - [[Mike Matheny]], baseball player *[[September 23]] - [[Ani DiFranco]], American musician *[[September 27]] - [[Yoshiharu Habu]], Japanese professional shogi player *[[September 28]] - [[Isabelle Brasseur]], Canadian figure skater *[[September 29]] - [[Emily Lloyd]], English actress *[[September 29]] - [[Yoshihiro Tajiri]], Japanese professional wrestler *[[September 30]] - [[Mark Smith (gladiator)|Mark Smith]], former ''[[Gladiators (British TV show)|Gladiators]]'' player <!--OCTOBER--> *[[October 2]] - [[Kelly Ripa]], American actress and talk-show hostess *[[October 4]] - [[Richard Hancox]], English footballer *[[October 4]] - [[Zdravko Zdravkov]], Bulgarian footballer *[[October 6]] - [[Amy Jo Johnson]], American actress and singer *[[October 8]] - [[Matt Damon]], American actor *[[October 8]] - [[Tetsuya Nomura]], Japanese video game and film director ([[Final Fantasy VII Advent Children]]) *[[October 9]] - [[Annika Sörenstam]], Swedish golfer *[[October 10]] - [[Bai Ling]], Chinese actress *[[October 10]] - Sir [[Matthew Pinsent]], British Olympic winning rower *[[October 11]] - [[Andy Marriott]], English footballer *[[October 12]] - [[Kirk Cameron]], American actor *[[October 12]] - [[Charlie Ward]], Professional football and basketball player *[[October 14]] - [[Daniela Peštová]], Czech Supermodel *[[October 15]] - [[Ginuwine]], American singer *[[October 15]] - [[Eric Benét]], American singer *[[October 17]] - [[Anil Kumble]], Indian cricketer *[[October 17]] - [[Marciano Vink]], Dutch footballer *[[October 18]] - [[José Padilla (alleged terrorist)|Jose Padilla]], American gang member and alleged terrorist *[[October 24]] - [[Jarkko Martikainen]], Finnish rock musician *[[October 25]] - [[Adam Goldberg]], American actor *[[October 27]] - [[Felix Bwalya]], a fighter *[[October 28]] - [[Alan Peter Cayetano]], Filipino politician and current senator *[[October 29]] - [[Philip Cocu]], Dutch footballer *[[October 29]] - [[Edwin van der Sar]], Dutch footballer *[[October 30]] - [[Nia Long]], American actress *[[October 31]] - [[Linn Berggren]], Swedish singer ([[Ace of Base]]) ===November-December=== <!--Link dates even if repeated, for date-format preferences. Preferred style: repeat dates, shorter than sub-bullets. --> *[[November 2]] - [[Sharmell Sullivan]], [[World Wrestling Entertainment]] (WWE) valet and former [[Nitro Girl]] *[[November 3]] - [[Dawn Marie Psaltis]], former [[Extreme Championship Wrestling]] (ECW) and WWE performer *[[November 5]] - [[Javy López]], American baseball player *[[November 6]] - [[Ethan Hawke]], American actor, writer, and film director *[[November 7]] - [[Neil Hannon]], Northern Irish musician ([[The Divine Comedy (band)|The Divine Comedy]]) *[[November 9]] - [[Chris Jericho]], Canadian pro wrestler *[[November 9]] - [[Susan Tedeschi]], American musician and singer *[[November 12]] - [[Tonya Harding]], American figure skater *[[November 12]] - [[Harvey Stephens]], British child actor *[[November 18]] - [[Peta Wilson]], Australian actress *[[November 20]] - [[Joe Zaso]], American actor and producer *[[November 22]] - [[Stel Pavlou]], British novelist and screenwriter *[[November 23]] - [[Zoë Ball]], British television and radio presenter *[[November 23]] - [[Oded Fehr]], American actor *[[November 26]] - [[Dave Hughes]], Australian comedian *[[November 26]] - [[Alex Taylor]], Latin porn star *[[November 30]] - [[Natalie Williams]], American basketball player *[[November 30]] - [[Walter Emanuel Jones]], American actor <!--DECEMBER--> *[[December 1]] - [[Sarah Silverman]], American comedian *[[December 2]] - [[Treach]], rapper for group [[Naughty by Nature]] *[[December 2]] - [[Joshua Seth]], American voice actor and hypnotist *[[December 6]] - [[Ulf Ekberg|Ulf "Buddha" Ekberg]], Swedish musician ([[Ace of Base]]) *[[December 9]] - [[Kara DioGuardi]], American songwriter *[[December 12]] - [[Jennifer Connelly]], American actress *[[December 15]] - [[Michael Shanks]], Canadian actor *[[December 16]] - [[Benjamin Kowalewicz]], Canadian musician *[[December 17]] - [[Craig Doyle]], Irish television presenter *[[December 18]] - [[DMX (rapper)|DMX]], American rapper *[[December 18]] - [[Miles Marshall Lewis]], American author *[[December 18]] - [[Cowboy Troy]], American singer and rapper *[[December 18]] - [[Rob Van Dam]], American pro wrestler *[[December 20]] - [[Nicole DeBoer]], Canadian actress *[[December 20]] - [[Massimo Ellul]], Maltese entrepreneur and philanthropist *[[December 24]] - [[Will Oldham]], American musician *[[December 26]] - [[Jared Leto]], American actor and musician ([[30 Seconds to Mars]]) *[[December 29]] - [[Aled Jones]], Welsh singer and television presenter *[[December 29]] - [[Kevin Weisman]], American actor *[[December 31]] - [[Bryon Russell]], Basketball player <!-- Do not add yourself, or anyone else who does not already have a Wikipedia article, to this list. --> *''date unknown'' - [[Tomoki Kyoda]], Japanese animation director *''date unknown'' - [[Seagram Miller|Seagram]], American rapper (d. [[1996]]) ==Deaths== ===January-March=== <!--Link dates even if repeated, for date-format preferences. Preferred style is to repeat dates, shorter than sub-bullets, and helps search-engines to display death dates. --> * [[January 4]] - [[Jean-Etienne Valluy]], French general (b. [[1899]]) * [[January 5]] - [[Max Born]], German physicist, [[Nobel Prize in Physics|Nobel Prize]] laureate (b. [[1882]]) * [[January 10]] - [[Pavel Belyayev]], cosmonaut (b. [[1925]]) * [[January 18]] - [[David O. McKay]], ninth president of [[The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints]] (b. [[1873]]) * [[January 25]] - [[Jane Bathori]], French mezzo-soprano (b. [[1877]]) * [[January 25]] - [[Eiji Tsuburaya]], Japanese film director and special effects designer, creator of [[Godzilla]] and [[Ultraman]] (b. [[1901]]) *[[January 27]] - [[Rita Angus]], New Zealand painter (b. [[1908]]) *[[January 29]] - [[Basil Liddell Hart]], British military historian (b. [[1895]]) *[[January 29]] - [[Thelma Morgan]], American socialite (b. [[1904]]) * [[January 31]] - [[Slim Harpo]], American singer (b. [[1924]]) * [[February 2]] - [[Bertrand Russell]], English logician and philosopher, recipient of the [[Nobel Prize in Literature]] (b. [[1872]]) *[[February 2]] - [[Lawrence Gray]], American actor (b. [[1898]]) * [[February 5]] - [[Rudy York]], baseball player (b. [[1913]]) * [[February 14]] - [[Herbert Strudwick]], English cricketer (b. [[1880]]) *[[February 16]] - [[Francis Peyton Rous]], American pathologist, recipient of the [[Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine]] (b. [[1879]]) * [[February 17]] - [[Shmuel Yosef Agnon]], Israeli writer, [[Nobel Prize in Literature|Nobel Prize]] laureate (b. [[1888]]) *[[February 17]] - [[Alfred Newman]], American film composer (b. [[1901]]) * [[February 20]] - [[Sophie Treadwell]], American playwright and journalist (b. [[1885]]) * [[February 25]] - [[Mark Rothko]], Latvian-born painter (b. [[1903]]) * [[March 11]] - [[Erle Stanley Gardner]], American author (b. [[1889]]) *[[March 11]] - [[Lucille Hegamin]], American singer and entertainer (b. [[1894]]) * [[March 16]] - [[Tammi Terrell]], American singer (b. [[1945]]) * [[March 23]] - [[Del Lord]], Canadian film director (b. [[1894]]) * [[March 30]] - [[Heinrich Brüning]], [[Chancellor of Germany]] (b. [[1885]]) ===April-June=== <!--Link dates even if repeated, for date-format preferences. Preferred style is to repeat dates, shorter than sub-bullets, and helps search-engines to display death dates. --> * [[April 5]] - [[Alfred Henry Sturtevant]], American geneticist (b. [[1891]]) * [[April 6]] - [[Maurice Stokes]], American basketball player (b. [[1933]]) * [[April 25]] - [[Anita Louise]], American actress (b. [[1915]]) * [[April 26]] - [[Gypsy Rose Lee]], American actress (b. [[1911]]) * [[April 30]] - [[Inger Stevens]], Swedish-born actress (b. [[1934]]) * [[May 1]] - [[Ralph Hartley]], American inventor (b. [[1888]]) * [[May 1]] - [[Yi Un|Yi, Eun]], Crown Prince of Korea (b. [[1897]]) * [[May 9]] - [[Andrew Watson Myles]], Canadian politician (b. [[1884]]) * [[May 9]] - [[Walter Reuther]], American labor union leader (b. [[1907]]) * [[May 14]] - [[Billie Burke]], American actress (b. [[1885]]) * [[May 12]] - [[Nelly Sachs]], German writer, [[Nobel Prize in Literature|Nobel Prize]] laureate (b. [[1891]]) * [[May 21]] - [[E. L. Grant Watson]], Australian scientist and writer (b. [[1885]]) * [[May 29]] - [[John Gunther]], American writer (b. [[1901]]) * [[May 29]] - [[Eva Hesse]], German-born American sculptor (b. [[1936]]) * [[May 31]] - [[Terry Sawchuk]], Canadian hockey player (b. [[1929]]) * [[June 1]] - [[George Watkins (baseball player)|George Watkins]], owner of [[rookie]] [[Major League Baseball|MLB]] [[batting average]] record (b. [[1900]]) * [[June 7]] - [[E. M. Forster]], English writer (b. [[1879]]) * [[June 8]] - [[Abraham Maslow]], American psychologist (b. [[1908]]) * [[June 11]] - [[William Devino|William 'Billy Batts' Devino]], mobster (b. [[1921]]) * [[June 16]] - [[Brian Piccolo]], American football star (b. [[1943]]) * [[June 21]] - [[Sukarno]], [[President of Indonesia]] (b. [[1901]]) * [[June 27]] - [[Daniel Kinsey]], American hurdler (b. [[1902]]) ===July-September=== <!--DEATHS--> <!--Link dates even if repeated, for date-format preferences. Preferred style: repeat dates, shorter than sub-bullets. --> * [[July 10]] - [[Bjarni Benediktsson]], Icelandic foreign and later prime minister (b. [[1908]]) * [[July 19]] - [[Egon Eiermann]], German architect (b. [[1904]]) * [[July 21]] - [[Bob Kalsu]], American football player (b. [[1945]]) * [[July 22]] - [[Fritz Kortner]], Austrian-born director (b. [[1892]]) * [[July 24]] - [[Peter de Noronha]], Indian businessman (b. [[1897]]) * [[July 27]] - [[António de Oliveira Salazar]], Prime Minister of Portugal (de facto dictator) (b. [[1889]]) * [[July 29]] - [[John Barbirolli]], English conductor (b. [[1899]]) *[[July 29]] - [[George Szell]], Hungarian conductor (b. [[1897]]) * [[August 1]] - [[Frances Farmer]], American actress (b. [[1913]]) *[[August 1]] - [[Otto Heinrich Warburg]], German physician and physiologist, [[Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine]] laureate (b. [[1883]]) * [[August 18]] - [[Soledad Miranda]], Spanish actress (b. [[1943]]) * [[August 19]] - [[Pawel Jasienica|Paweł Jasienica]], Polish historian (b. [[1909]]) * [[September 1]] - [[Francois Mauriac]], French writer, [[Nobel Prize in Literature|Nobel Prize]] laureate (b. [[1885]]) * [[September 2]] - [[Marie Pierre Koenig]], French general and politician (b. [[1898]]) * [[September 3]] - [[Vince Lombardi]], American football coach (b. [[1913]]) * [[September 5]] - [[Jesse Pennington]], English footballer (b. [[1883]]) * [[September 5]] - [[Jochen Rindt]], Austrian race car driver (b. [[1942]]) * [[September 11]] - [[Ernst May]], German architect (b. [[1886]]) * [[September 18]] - [[Jimi Hendrix]], American musician (b. [[1942]]) * [[September 25]] - [[Erich Maria Remarque]], German author (b. [[1898]]) * [[September 28]] - [[Gamal Abdal Nasser]], first [[President of Egypt]] (b. [[1918]]) * [[September 28]] - [[John Dos Passos]], American novelist (b. [[1896]]) * [[September 29]] - [[Edward Everett Horton]], American actor (b. [[1895]]) ===October-December=== <!--DEATHS--> <!--Link dates even if repeated, for date-format preferences. Preferred style is to repeat dates, shorter than sub-bullets, and helps search-engines to display death dates. --> * [[October 4]] - [[Janis Joplin]], American singer (b. [[1943]]) * [[October 17]] - [[Pierre Laporte]], Canadian statesman (assassinated) (b. [[1921]]) * [[October 21]] - [[John T. Scopes]], American [[Scopes Trial|Scopes Monkey Trial]] defendant (b. [[1900]]) * [[October 24]] - [[Richard Hofstadter]], American historian (b. [[1916]]) * [[November 7]] - [[Eddie Peabody]], American musician (b. [[1902]]) * [[November 9]] - [[Charles de Gaulle]], [[President of France]] (b. [[1890]]) * [[November 14]] - [[Louis Rich]], American Entrepreneur (b. [[1896]]) * [[November 23]] - [[Yusof bin Ishak]], first President of Singapore (b. [[1910]]) * [[December 12]] - [[Doris Blackburn]], Australian politician (b. [[1889]]) *''date unknown'' - [[Paul Celan]], Romanian-born German-language poet (body found on [[May 1]]) (b. [[1920]]) ==Nobel prizes== * [[Nobel Prize in Physics|Physics]] - [[Hannes Alfvén]], [[Louis Eugene Felix Neel|Louis Eugène Félix Néel]] * [[Nobel Prize in Chemistry|Chemistry]] - [[Luis Federico Leloir]] * [[Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine|Medicine]] - [[Sir Bernard Katz]], [[Ulf von Euler]], [[Julius Axelrod]] * [[Nobel Prize in Literature|Literature]] - [[Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn|Aleksandr Isaevich Solzhenitsyn]] * [[Nobel Peace Prize|Peace]] - [[Norman Borlaug|Norman E. Borlaug]] * [[Nobel Prize in Economics|Economics]] - [[Paul Samuelson]] ==Fields Medalists== *[[Alan Baker]], [[Heisuke Hironaka]], [[Sergei Petrovich Novikov]], [[John Griggs Thompson]] ==See also== * [[20th century]] ==Notes== {{reflist}} ==External links== {{commonscat_left|1970}} [[Category:1970| ]] [[af:1970]] [[als:1970er#1970]] [[am:1970 እ.ኤ.አ.]] [[ar:1970]] [[an:1970]] [[frp:1970]] [[ast:1970]] [[av:1970]] [[ay:1970]] [[az:1970]] [[bn:১৯৭০]] [[zh-min-nan:1970 nî]] [[map-bms:1970]] [[be:1970]] [[be-x-old:1970]] [[bh:१९७०]] [[bs:1970]] [[br:1970]] [[bg:1970]] [[ca:1970]] [[cv:1970]] [[cs:1970]] [[co:1970]] [[cy:1970]] [[da:1970]] [[pdc:1970]] [[de:1970]] [[et:1970]] [[el:1970]] [[es:1970]] [[eo:1970]] [[eu:1970]] [[fa:۱۹۷۰ (میلادی)]] [[fo:1970]] [[fr:1970]] [[fy:1970]] [[fur:1970]] [[ga:1970]] [[gv:1970]] [[gd:1970]] [[gl:1970]] [[gan:1970年]] [[ko:1970년]] [[hy:1970]] [[hi:1970]] [[hif:1970]] [[hr:1970.]] [[io:1970]] [[ilo:1970]] [[bpy:মারি ১৯৭০]] [[id:1970]] [[ia:1970]] [[os:1970]] [[is:1970]] [[it:1970]] [[he:1970]] [[jv:1970]] [[pam:1970]] [[kn:೧೯೭೦]] [[ka:1970]] [[csb:1970]] [[kk:1970]] [[kw:1970]] [[sw:1970]] [[ht:1970 (almanak gregoryen)]] [[ku:1970]] [[la:1970]] [[lb:1970]] [[lt:1970 m.]] [[lij:1970]] [[ln:1970]] [[lmo:1970]] [[hu:1970]] [[mk:1970]] [[mi:1970]] [[mr:इ.स. १९७०]] [[ms:1970]] [[nah:1970]] [[nl:1970]] [[ja:1970年]] [[nap:1970]] [[no:1970]] [[nn:1970]] [[nrm:1970]] [[nov:1970]] [[oc:1970]] [[uz:1970]] [[pi:१९७०]] [[km:១៩៧០]] [[nds:1970]] [[pl:1970]] [[pt:1970]] [[ty:1970]] [[ksh:Joohr 1970]] [[ro:1970]] [[qu:1970]] [[ru:1970 год]] [[se:1970]] [[sq:1970]] [[scn:1970]] [[simple:1970]] [[sk:1970]] [[sl:1970]] [[so:1970]] [[sr:1970]] [[sh:1970]] [[su:1970]] [[fi:1970]] [[sv:1970]] [[tl:1970]] [[ta:1970]] [[tt:1970]] [[te:1970]] [[tet:1970]] [[th:พ.ศ. 2513]] [[vi:1970]] [[tr:1970]] [[tk:1970]] [[uk:1970]] [[ur:1970ء]] [[vec:1970]] [[wa:1970]] [[vls:1970]] [[wuu:公元1970年]] [[yo:1970]] [[zh-yue:1970年]] [[cbk-zam:1970]] [[bat-smg:1970]] [[zh:1970年]]