Historical Events In 1970

Sep 29   Edward Everett Horton, actor/narrator (Bulwinkle Show), dies at 84 in the year 1970.  

Sep 30   On this day in history patrick Aherne, actor (Bwana Devil, Botany Bay), dies at 69  

Oct 01   Hans Poser, composer, dies at 52 on this day in history.  

Oct 02   On this day in history alfred Julius Swan, composer, dies at 79  

Oct 02   In the year 1970 plane carrying Wichita State U football team crashes killing 30  

Oct 04   George Frederick McKay, composer, dies at 71 on this day in history.  

Oct 04   On this day in history herbert Schmidtz makes highest parachute jump from a tower by leaping from a 1,984 ft TV mast in Tulsa, Oklahoma  

Oct 04   Jan Stenerud of Kansas City Chiefs kicks 55-yard field goal in the year 1970.  

Oct 04   Janis Joplin died from a drug overdose. She was 27 in the year 1970.  

Oct 05   On this day in history pBS becomes a network  

Oct 05   In the year 1970 quebec seperatists kidnap British trade commissioner James Cross  

Oct 08   On this day in history jean Giono, French writer (Hussard Sur le Toit), dies at 75  

Oct 08   Soviet author Alexander I Solzhenitsyn awarded Nobel Prize for Lit in the year 1970.  

Oct 09   In the year 1970 cambodia becomes the Khmer Republic.  

Oct 09   In the year 1970 jean Giono, writer, dies  

Oct 09   In the year 1970 khmer Republic (Cambodia) declares independence  

Oct 10   Adam Rapacki, Polish minister of Maritime (1956-68), dies at 60 on this day in history.  

Oct 10   Fiji gains independence from Britain (National Day) in the year 1970.  

Oct 10   The October Crisis in Canada in the year 1970.  

Oct 11   Anis Fuleihan, composer, dies at 69 in the year 1970.  

Oct 13   In the year 1970 angela Davis arrested in NYC  

Oct 13   On this day in history julia Culp, mezzo-soprano, dies at 90  

Oct 15   Collapse of Westgate Bridge, Melbourne kills 35 and injures 17 on this day in history.  

Oct 16   Anwar Sadat elected president of Egypt, succeeding Nasser in the year 1970.  

Oct 19   Unica Zorn, writer, dies at 54 in the year 1970.  

Oct 20   On this day in history patrick Wymark, actor (Skull, Tomb of Ligeia), dies at 44  

Oct 21   777 Unification church couples wed in Korea in the year 1970.  

Oct 21   Caledonian Airways takes over British United Airways on this day in history.  

Oct 21   On this day in history john T Scopes, US teacher (Scopes "monkey trial" 1925), dies at 70  

Oct 22   On this day in history rené Schneider, Chilean general/supreme commander, murdered  

Oct 23   In the year 1970 gary Gabelich sets auto speed record 622.4 mph (1,002 kph)  

Oct 24   Nancy Walker creates Ida Morgenstein role on Mary Tyler Moore Show in the year 1970.  

Oct 24   On this day in history richard Hofstadter, US historian, dies at 54  

Oct 24   Salvador Allende Gossens elected president of Chile on this day in history.  

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Jan 02   Aleksandr Shimin, hockey goaltender (Team Kazakhstan Oly-1998) was born on this day in history.  

Jan 02   Anthony Stuart, cricketer (Australian ODI pace bowler, hat trick 1997) was born in the year 1970.  

Jan 02   In the year 1970 birth of glenn Cadrez, NFL linebacker (Denver Broncos-Superbowl 32)  

Jan 02   Royce Clayton, Burbank CA, infielder (SF Giants, St Louis Cardinals) was born in the year 1970.  

Jan 02   Robert Fertitta, American opera singer was born on this day in history.  

Jan 02   Sanda Ladoşi, Romanian singer was born in the year 1970.  

Jan 03   In the year 1970 birth of james Brown, NFL tackle (NY Jets)  

Jan 03   Tony Farmer, NBA forward (Charlotte Hornets) was born in the year 1970.  

Jan 02   On this day in history piotr Rytel, composer, dies at 85  

Jan 03   In the year 1970 death of gladys Aylward, British missionary in China; portrayed by Ingrid Bergman in The Inn of the Sixth Happiness (b. 1902)  

Jan 04   Jean-Étienne Valluy, French general (b. 1899) died in the year 1970.  

Jan 05   On this day in history death of joseph A Yablonski, candidate for United Mine Workers pres, murdered  

Jan 07   In the year 1970 robert [Harriot] Barrat, actor (Bad Lands, Go West), dies at 81  

Jan 08   Georges Guibourg, French performer (b. 1891) died on this day in history.  

Jan 10   Pavel Ivanovich Belyayev, USSR, cosmonaut (Voskhod II), dies at 44 in the year 1970.  

Jan 12   In the year 1970 blanche Stuart Scott, US pilot, dies at 84