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Decades: 1920s 1930s 1940s 1950s 1960s - 1970s - 1980s 1990s 2000s

Years: 1965 1966 1967 1968 1969 - 1970 - 1971 1972 1973 1974 1975

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Events

January 1 - Unix epoch begins at 00:00:00 UTC.
January 12 - Biafra capitulates, ending the Nigerian civil war[?].
January 15 - After a 32-month fight for independence from Nigeria, Biafra surrenders.
January 15 - Muammar al-Qaddafi is proclaimed premier of Libya
January 16 - Buckminster Fuller receives the Gold Medal award from the American Institute of Architects[?].
February 11 - John Lennon pays £1,344 in fines for 96 people who had protested against the South African rugby team playing in Scotland.
February 11 - Japan becomes the fourth country to launch a satellite into orbit.
February 18 - The Chicago Eight[?] are found not guilty of conspiring to incite riots at the 1968 United States Democratic Party national convention.
March 1 - Rhodesia severs its last tie with the British crown and declares itself a racially segregated republic.
March 5 - A nuclear non-proliferation treaty[?] goes into effect after ratification by 43 nations.
March 17 - My Lai massacre: The United States Army charges 14 officers with suppressing information related to the incident.
March 23 - Del Lord, pioneer Hollywood director
March 31 - Explorer I reentry (after 12 years in orbit)
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 11 - Apollo 13 ill-fated space mission launched
April 17 - Apollo 13 returns safely to earth
April 22 - First Earth Day celebrated
March 18 - Lon Nol ousts Prince Norodom Sihanouk of Cambodia
April 29 - U.S. invades Cambodia to hunt out Viet Cong
May 4 Four students at Kent State University in Ohio are killed by National Guardsmen at a demonstration protesting incursion into Cambodia.
May 17 - Thor Heyerdahl sets sail from Morocco on the papyrus boat Ra II[?] to sail the Atlantic Ocean.
May 26 - The Soviet Tupolev Tu-144 becomes the first commercial transport to exceed Mach 2.
June 24 - The United States Senate repeals the Gulf of Tonkin resolution[?].
July 21 - - Aswan High Dam in Egypt completed.
August 17 - Venera 7[?] was launched and became the first spacecraft to successfully land on another planet.
September 11 - The Ford Pinto is introduced
September 13 - First running of the New York City Marathon[?]
October - the Front de Libération du Québec (FLQ) kidnap James Cross and murder Pierre Laporte, provoking Quebec's October Crisis
October 15 - 35 construction workers are killed when a section of the new West Gate Bridge in Melbourne collapses into the river below.
October 17 - Anwar Sadat becomes president of Egypt

Art, Culture & Fashion

1970 in film
- Patton
- Love Story
- M*A*S*H
1970 in literature
- Deliverance by James Dickey (in 2001, named as one of the 100 best English-language novels of the 20th century, as chosen by the editorial board of the Modern Library.)
- I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou [?]
1970 in music
1970 in sports
1970 in television
- January 5 - Soap opera: All My Children premieres.

Births

January 12 - Zack de la Rocha, singer
January 29 - Heather Graham, actress
January 31 - Minnie Driver, actress
February 4 - Gabrielle Anwar[?], actress
February 11 - Alistair Brown[?], English cricket player.
February 11 - Jason Allyn Scott[?], US rower.
February 14 - Simon Pegg, comedian, writer and actor
March 18 - Queen Latifah, singer, actress
March 24 - Lara Flynn Boyle, actress
March 27 - Mariah Carey, singer
March 27 - Princess Leila of Iran
March 28 - Vince Vaughn[?], actor
April 4 - Barry Pepper[?], actor
April 13 - Ricky Schroeder, actor
April 29 - Andre Agassi, tennis player
April 29 - Uma Thurman, actress
May 12 - Mike Weir, Canadian, professional golfer
May 16 - Gabriela Sabatini[?], tennis player
May 18 - Tina Fey, writer, comedienne, actress
May 22 - Naomi Campbell[?], model, actress
May 24 - Jeff Zgonina[?], football player
May 24 - Tommy Page[?], singer
May 27 - Joseph Fiennes, actor
June 26 - Chris O'Donell[?], actor
July 8 - Beck, rock and roll singer
July 24 - Jennifer Lopez, actress, singer
August 6 - M. Night Shyamalan, film director, writer, producer, actor
August 13 - Alan Shearer, England and Newcastle soccer player
August 18 - Malcolm-Jamal Warner[?], actor
August 23 - Jay Mohr[?], actor, comedian
August 25 - Claudia Schiffer, model
August 31 - Debbie Gibson, singer
September 9 - Macy Gray, singer
September 23 - Ani Difranco, musician
September 28 - Isabelle Brasseur[?], figure skating champion
October 2 - Kelly Ripa, actress, television host
October 8 - Matt Damon, actor
October 15 - Eric Benet[?], singer
November 5 - Jen Besemer, surrealist poet and painter

Deaths

January 5 - Max Born, physicist and recipient of the Nobel Prize in physics 1954
January 5 - Jock Yablonski[?], President of the United Mine Workers, death discovered of he and family)
January 10 - Pavel Belyayev, cosmonaut
January 25 - Jane Bathori, opera singer
January 31 - Slim Harpo[?], blues singer
February 2 - Bertrand Russell, logician and philosopher
February 11 - Emil Abranyi[?], composer
February 25 - Mark Rothko, painter
March 11 - Erle Stanley Gardner, author
March 16 - Tammi Terrell[?], singer
March 23 - Del Lord, pioneer Hollywood director
March 30 - Heinrich Brüning, German Reichskanzler[?] 1930-1932
April 5 - Alfred Henry Sturtevant[?] geneticist (+ 1891)
April 26 - Gypsy Rose Lee, actress
April 26 - John Knittel[?], dramatist
April 27 - Gypsy Rose Lee, burlesque entertainer
May 9 - Walter Reuther[?], labor union leader
May 14 - Billie Burke[?], actress, The Wizard of Oz
May 12 - Nelly Sachs[?], writer and recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature 1966
June 16 - Brian Piccolo[?], American football star
June 21 - Sukarno, Indonesian President
July 4 - Barnett Newman, painter
July 13 - Arthur Miller, writer
July 19 - Egon Eiermann[?], architect
July 22 - Fritz Kortner[?], director
July 22 - Grete Wiesenthal[?], dancer and choreographer
July 29 - John Barbirolli, conductor
August 1 - Frances Farmer[?], actress
September 1 - Francois Mauriac, author
September 3 - Vince Lombardi, American football coach
September 5 - Jochen Rindt, Austrian racing driver
September 11 - Ernst May[?], architect
September 18 - Jimi Hendrix, rock musician
September 25 - Erich Maria Remarque, author
September 28 - Gamal Abdal Nasser, first president of Egypt
September 28 - John Dos Passos, novelist
September 29 - Edward Everett Horton, actor
October 4 - Janis Joplin, blues and rock and roll singer
October 10 - Grethe Weiser[?], actress
October 17 - Pierre Laporte, statesman, murdered by FLQ terrorists
October 24 - Richard Hofstadter[?], historian
November 9 - Charles de Gaulle, French general, statesman
December 7 - Rube Goldberg, cartoonist

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