Historical Events In 1970

Mar 15 Expo '70 opens in Osaka, Japan

Mar 01 Kreisky's social-democrats win Austrian parliamentary election

Mar 13 San Francisco city employees begin 4-day strike

Mar 18 Mail service paralyzed by first major postal strike

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

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

Mar 19 West German chancellor &East German premier Willy Brandt meet

Mar 04 French submarine "Eurydice" explodes

Mar 13 100 year Beehive anniversary ends in brawl in Amsterdam

Mar 01 End of US commercial whale hunting

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

Mar 01 Charles Manson's album "Lie" is released

Mar 29 Manchester City wins 10th Europe Cup II

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

Mar 07 World Ladies Figure Skating Championship in Ljubljana won by Gabriele Seyfert (German Democratic Republic)

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

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

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

Mar 05 Nuclear non-proliferation treaty went into effect

Mar 02 Ottawa stops foreign takeover of Denison Mines, Canada's largest uranium mining company, by US interests

Mar 27 Ringo releases his first solo album "Sentimental Journey"

Mar 06 Beatles release "Let it Be" in UK

Mar 12 US lowers voting age from 21 to 18

Mar 13 Digital Equipment Corp introduces PDP-11 minicomputer

Mar 01 White government of Rhodesia declares independence from Britain

Mar 07 World Ice Dance Championship in Ljubljana won by Liudmila Pakhomova &Alexandr Gorshkov (USSR)

Mar 07 World Men's Figure Skating Championship in Ljubljana won by Tim Wood (USA)

Mar 11 Iraq Ba'th Party recognizes Kurd nation

Mar 28 1,086 die when 7.3 earthquake destroys 254 villages (Gediz Turkey)

Mar 30 Miles Davis Bitches Brew released

Mar 05 3 SDS Weathermen terrorist group bomb 18 West 11th St in New York NY

Mar 26 Golden Gate Park Conservatory made city landmark

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

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

Mar 02 American Airlines' first flight of a Boeing 747

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