Oct 08 Soviet author Alexander I Solzhenitsyn awarded Nobel Prize for Lit

Oct 10 Fiji gains independence from Britain (National Day)

Oct 10 The October Crisis in Canada

Jul 07 Louise Harrison mother of Beatle George, dies

Jul 14 Preston Foster actor (Waterfront, Gunslinger), dies at 69

Jul 30 30,000 attend Powder Ridge Rock Festival, Middlefield Ct

Jul 02 Jessie Street Australian civil rights activist, dies

Jul 04 100 injured in race rioting in Asbury Park NJ

Jul 15 Denmark beats Italy 2-0 in first world female soccer championship

Jul 04 Harold Vanderbilt America Cup winner (1930, 34, 37), dies at 85

Jul 18 Willie Mays hits # 3,000

Jul 19 Barry Wood singer (Your Hit Parade), dies at 61

Jul 29 6 days of race rioting in Hartford Ct

Jul 04 Chartered Dan-Air Comet crashes into mountains north of Barcelona, Spain killing 112 vacationing Britons

Jul 18 Arthur Brown arrested for stripping on stage in Palemo Sicily

Jul 31 Chet Huntley retires from NBC, ends "Huntley-Brinkley Report"

Jul 17 30,000 attend Randall's Island Rock Festival, NYC

Jul 07 Sylvester Wiere comedian (Wiere Brothers-Ford Festival), dies at 60

Jul 18 Ron Hunt gets hit by a pitch for a record 119th time

Jul 30 Smirnova discover asteroid 1835 Gajdariya, 2032 Ethel & 2349 Kurchenko

Jul 03 200,000 attend Atlanta Pop Festival

Jul 05 An Air Canada DC-8 en route from Montreal to Los Angeles makes a heavy landing at Malton AIrport, bounces and loses one starboard engine; in the pilot's attempt to take off and land again the other starboard engine falls off and the aircraft crashes 10 km west of Malton (Pearson International Airport) ; all 109 aboard killed.

Jul 20 The first baby born on Alcatraz Island

Jul 05 Air Canada DC-8 crashes 7 miles from Toronto's airport killing 109

Jul 03 L Chernykh discovers asteroid #3702

Jul 07 Marjorie Rambeau actress (Primrose Path, Torch Song), dies at 80

Jul 12 Janis Joplin debuts in Kentucky

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

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