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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]].
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==Events of 1970==
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===January===
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* [[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 mph/1127 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===
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* [[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===
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* [[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 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===
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* [[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 mph (1,001.452863 km/h) on the dry lake bed of the [[Bonneville Salt Flats]] in Utah. The record, the first above 1,000 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===
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* [[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===
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* [[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===
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*[[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
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*[[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===
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*[[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
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*[[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===
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*[[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]]
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*[[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===
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*[[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
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*[[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===
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*[[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
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*[[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
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*''date unknown'' - [[Tomoki Kyoda]], Japanese animation director
*''date unknown'' - [[Seagram Miller|Seagram]], American rapper (d. [[1996]])
==Deaths==
===January-March===
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* [[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===
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* [[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-->
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* [[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]])
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* [[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==
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