1970 Jan 1, Jimi Hendrix and his Band of Gypsies, Billy Cox and
Buddy Miles, performed 4 shows on New Years Eve and Day at the Fillmore
East in NYC. The recording "Band of Gypsies" was released in April. In
1999 a 2-disk CD, "Live at the Fillmore East" was released.
(WSJ, 4/16/99, p.W13C)
1970 Jan 3, "Mame" closed at Winter Garden Theater in NYC after
1508 performances.
(MC, 1/3/02)
1970 Jan 5, Joseph A. Yablonski, an unsuccessful candidate for
the presidency of the United Mine Workers, was found murdered with his
wife and daughter at their Clarksville, Pa., home. Nine people were later
charged in the killing including UMW Pres. W.A. Boyle.
(AP, 1/5/98)(SFC, 11/8/99, p.C2)
1970 Jan 5, In China a 7.7 earthquake in Yunnan province killed
over 15,000 people and was covered up by authorities amid the chaos of
the cultural revolution.
(SFC, 1/8/00, p.A8)
1970 Jan 7, Woodstock, NY, farmers sued Max Yasgur for $35,000
for damages caused by the "Woodstock" rock festival.
(MC, 1/7/02)
1970 Jan 12, The Boeing 747 made its maiden voyage.
(MC, 1/12/02)
1970 Jan 12, In Biafra (Nigeria) the Ibos surrendered after nearly
a million died of starvation.
(HNQ, 5/9/00)
1970 Jan 14, Diana Ross and the Supremes performed their last
concert together, at the Frontier Hotel in Las Vegas.
(AP, 1/14/00)
1970 Jan 17, Silas Trim Bissell (d.2002) and his wife Judith,
Weathermen underground members, set a homemade bomb under the steps of
the ROTC building at Washington State Univ. It failed to go off and both
were caught. Bissel went underground but was caught and served 17 months
in Lompoc (1987-1988).
(SFC, 6/24/02, p.B6)
1970 Jan 18, Mormon president David McKay died at age 96.
(AP, 1/18/00)
1970 Jan 19, President Nixon nominated G. Harrold Carswell to
the Supreme Court, but the nomination was later defeated because of controversy
over Carswell's past racial views.
(AP, 1/19/98)
1970 Jan 21, The Boeing 747-100 made its 1st commercial transatlantic
flight from NY to London. The plane was 231 feet long with a wing span
of 195 feet. It could seat 400 people in a cabin 182 feet long.
(WSJ, 7/19/96, p.B5)(MC, 1/21/02)
1970 Jan 22, The first regularly scheduled commercial flight of
the Boeing 747 began in New York City and ended in London some 6 1/2 hours
later.
(AP, 1/22/98)
1970 Jan 25, Robert Altman's "M*A*S*H," premiered.
(MC, 1/25/02)
1970 Jan 27, Movie rating system modified "M" rating to "PG."
(MC, 1/27/02)
1970 Jan 28, Israeli fighter jets attacked the suburbs of Cairo.
(HN, 1/28/99)
1970 Jan, In Turkey the Islamic-oriented National Order Party
formed under leadership of Necmettin Erbakan.
(AP, 11/4/02)
1970 Feb 1, A train disaster killed 236 people in Buenos Aires,
Argentina.
(SFC, 6/4/98, p.A15)
1970 Feb 2, Bertrand Russell (B.1872), philosopher, social gadfly,
British MP, died in Merioneth. "Why is propaganda so much more successful
when it stirs up hatred than when it tries to stir up friendly feeling?"
He wrote "Pricipia Mathmatica." In 1996 "Bertrand Russel: The Spirit of
Solitude," 1871-1921 by Ray Monk was published.
(WSJ, 9/27/96, p.A16)(AP, 1/7/99)(HN, 5/18/99)(MC, 2/2/02)
1970 Feb 13, GM reportedly redesigned automobiles to run on unleaded
fuel.
(HN, 2/13/98)
1970 Feb 13, A man-eating tiger was reported to have killed 48
people 80 km. from New Delhi.
(MC, 2/13/02)
1970 Feb 15, Chicago defense attorney, William Kunstler, got a
four-year sentence on contempt charges.
(HN, 2/15/98)
1970 Feb 15, Nationalists disrupted a UN session on Congo.
(440 Int’l., 2/15/99)
1970 Feb 15, A Dominican DC-9 crashed into sea at Santo Domingo
and 102 people were killed.
(MC, 2/15/02)
1970 Feb 17, Robert Marasco's "Child's Play," premiered in NYC.
(MC, 2/17/02)
1970 Feb 17, Joni Mitchell's held her final concert at Royal
Albert Hall.
(MC, 2/17/02)
1970 Feb 17, Alfred Newman (69), US composer, died.
(MC, 2/17/02)
1970 Feb 18, US president Nixon launched the "Nixon doctrine."
(MC, 2/18/02)
1970 Feb 18, The Chicago Seven defendants were found innocent
of conspiring to incite riots at the 1968 Democratic national convention.
(AP, 2/18/98)
1970 Feb 20, Cheyenne Brando, daughter of Marlon, was born in
Papeete, Tahiti.
(MC, 2/20/02)
1970 Feb 21, Secret peace talks were held between US Sec. of State
Henry Kissinger and Le Duc Tho of North Vietnam.
(SFEC, 4/23/00, p.A19)
1970 Feb 21, Pathet Lao conquered Xieng Khuang and Muong Suy.
(MC, 2/21/02)
1970 Feb 23, Guyana became a republic.
(HFA, '96, p.22)
1970 Feb 24, 29 Swiss Army officers died in avalanche at Reckingen,
Switzerland.
(MC, 2/24/02)
1970 Feb 26, Beatles released "Beatles Again," aka the "Hey Jude"
album.
(SC, 2/26/02)
1970 Feb 26, "Georgy" opened at Winter Garden Theater in NYC
for 4 performances.
(SC, 2/26/02)
1970 Feb 26, Five Marines were arrested on charges of murdering
11 South Vietnamese women and children.
(HN, 2/26/98)
1970 Feb 27, NY Times (falsely) reported that the US army had
ended domestic surveillance.
(MC, 2/27/02)
1970 Feb 28, Bicycles were permitted to cross the Golden Gate
Bridge.
(MC, 2/28/02)
1970 Feb, At Fort Bragg, North Carolina, Dr. Jeffrey MacDonald’s
wife and 2 daughters were murdered. Dr. MacDonald was convicted of the
murders but claimed that drug-crazed assailants were responsible. The book
"Fatal Vision" by Joe McGinniss recounted the story.
(WSJ, 4/16/97, p.A1)
1970 Mar 1, Charles Manson's album "Lie" was released.
(SC, 3/1/02)
1970 Mar 1, End of US commercial whale hunting.
(SC, 3/1/02)
1970 Mar 1, Kreisky's social-democrats won the Austrian parliamentary
election.
(SC, 3/1/02)
1970 Mar 1, White government of Rhodesia declared independence
from Britain. [see Mar 2]
(SC, 3/1/02)
1970 Mar 2, Supreme Court ruled draft evaders can not be penalized
after 5 years.
(SC, 3/2/02)
1970 Mar 2, American Airlines' 1st flight of a Boeing 747.
(SC, 3/2/02)
1970 Mar 2, Rhodesia became an independent republic. [see Mar
1]
(SC, 3/2/02)
1970 Mar 4, Fifty-seven people were killed as the French sub Eurydice
sank in the Mediterranean.
(HN, 3/4/98)
1970 Mar 5, A nuclear non-proliferation treaty went into effect
after 43 nations ratified it.
(AP, 3/5/98)
1970 Mar 5, SDS Weathermen terrorist group bombed 18 West 11th
St. in NYC.
(MC, 3/5/02)
1970 Mar 6, Beatles released "Let it Be" in UK.
(MC, 3/6/02)
1970 Mar 8, The Nixon administration disclosed the deaths of 27
Americans in Laos.
(HN, 3/8/98)
1970 Mar 11, Iraq Ba’ath Party recognized the Kurd nation.
(MC, 3/12/02)
1970 Mar 12, US lowered the voting age from 21 to 18. [see Jun
22]
(MC, 3/12/02)
1970 Mar 13, Cambodia ordered Hanoi and Viet Cong troops to get
out.
(HN, 3/13/98)
1970 Mar 15, "Purlie" opened at Broadway Theater in NYC for 689
performances.
(MC, 3/15/02)
1970 Mar 17, The Army charged 14 officers with suppression of
facts in the My Lai massacre case.
(HN, 3/17/98)
1970 Mar 17, The United States cast its first veto in the U.N.
Security Council. The U.S. killed a resolution that would have condemned
Britain for failure to use force to overthrow the white-ruled government
of Rhodesia.
(AP, 3/17/00)
1970 Mar 18, The U.S. Postal Service was paralyzed by the first
postal strike. A walkout of letter carriers in Brooklyn and Manhattan set
off a strike that involved 210,000 of the nation’s 750,000 postal employees.
Pres. Nixon declared a state of national emergency and assigned military
units to NYC post offices.
(HN, 3/18/98)(SFC, 10/4/02, p.A17)
1970 Mar 18, Prince Sihanouk was overthrown by Gen’l. Lon Nol
in a right-wing coup. He joined the Khmer Rouge in a resistance war. The
US and Vietnamese forces invaded and drove the Viet Cong from border sanctuaries
deep into Cambodia where they joined with the weak and isolated Khmer Rouge.
A full scale civil war began. The next 8 years are covered in the 1988
book "Goodnight Cambodia, Forbidden History" by Vibol Ouk, who lived through
the horrors of Pol Pot.
(SFC, 6/14/97, p.A15)(SFEC, 1/11/98, BR p.3)
1970 Mar 19, Willy Brandt and Willi Stoph met for the first East-West
Germany summit in Berlin.
(HN, 3/19/98)
1970 Mar 23, Mafia "Boss" Carlo Gambino was arrested for plotting
to steal $3 million.
(HN, 3/23/98)
1970 Mar 23, US performed a nuclear test at Nevada Test Site.
(SS, 3/23/02)
1970 Mar 25, The Concorde made its first supersonic flight.
(HN, 3/24/98)
1970 Mar 26, "Minnie's Boys" opened at Imperial Theater in NYC
for 80 performances.
(SS, 3/26/02)
1970 Mar 26, 500th nuclear explosion since 1945 was announced
by the US.
(SS, 3/26/02)
1970 Mar 26, Golden Gate Park Conservatory was made city landmark.
(SS, 3/26/02)
1970 Mar 26, Peter Yarrow (Peter, Paul & Mary) pleaded guilty
to "taking immoral liberties" with a 14 year old girl.
(SS, 3/26/02)
1970 Mar 28, 1,086 died when 7.4 quake destroyed 254 villages
in Gediz, Turkey.
(MC, 3/28/02)
1970 Mar 30, Secretariat, race horse, triple crown (1973), was
born.
(MC, 3/30/02)
1970 Mar 30, The musical "Applause" with Lauren Bacall opened
on Broadway.
(AP, 3/30/97)(SFEC, 5/18/97, Par p.7)
1970 Mar 31, The U.S. forces in Vietnam downed a MIG-21, the first
since September 1968.
(HN, 3/31/98)
1970 Mar 31, Semjon Timoshenko (75), Russian marshal, inspector-general
(WW II), died.
(MC, 3/31/02)
1970 Mar, The US National Mobilization Committee to End the War
in Vietnam organized a trip to Hanoi to meet with the prime minister of
North Vietnam. Doug Down and Noam Chomsky were indirectly informed that
the US had invaded Cambodia. In 1997 Prof. Dowd published "Blues for America."
(SFC, 8/4/97, p.E5)
1970 Mar, In NYC’s Greenwich Village a townhouse exploded. Weathermen
members Diana Oughton, Ted Gold and Terry Robbins were killed at
the site where a bomb was being manufactured. Other members went underground
and became known as the Weather Underground. The 1988 film "Running on
Empty" was based on Bernardine Dohrn and Bill Ayers. In 2001 Bill Ayers,
former Weatherman, authored "Fugitive Days, A Memoir."
(SSFC, 9/9/01, DB p.67)(SFC, 7/21/03, p.D2)
1970 Apr 1, President Nixon signed a measure banning cigarette
advertising on radio and television, to take effect after Jan. 1, 1971.
(AP, 4/1/98)
1970 Apr 1, U.S. Army charged Captain Ernest Medina in My Lai
massacre.
(HN, 4/1/98)
1970 Apr 2, In Nepal 2 men began an ascent of south face of Annapurna
I, the highest final stage in a wall climb in world.
(MC, 4/2/02)
1970 Apr 7, "Effects of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-moon Marigolds,"
premiered in NYC.
(MC, 4/7/02)
1970 Apr 7, In the 42nd Academy Awards "Midnight Cowboy," John
Wayne and Maggie Smith won.
(MC, 4/7/02)
1970 Apr 8, The Senate rejected President Nixon's nomination of
G. Harold Carswell to the Supreme Court.
(AP, 4/8/97)
1970 Apr 10, In California grape grower Lionel Steinberg (d.1999
at 79) signed the initial contract with Cesar Chavez and the United Farm
Workers.
(SFC, 3/12/99, p.A23)
1970 Apr 11, Beatles' "Let It Be," single went #1 and stayed #1
for 2 weeks.
(MC, 4/11/02)
1970 Apr 11, Apollo 13 blasted off on a mission to the moon,
commanded by Jim Lovell, that was disrupted when an explosion crippled
the spacecraft; the astronauts managed to return safely.
(AP, 4/11/97)(AWAM, Dec. 94, p.79)(TMC, 1994, p.1970)
1970 Apr 11, John H. O'Hara (65), US journalist (Pal Joey, Rage
to Live), died.
(MC, 4/11/02)
1970 Apr 12, In Mississippi Rainey Pool, a black one-armed farmer,
was beaten and tortured by a mob in Belzoni and his body was dumped off
a bridge into the Sunflower River. In 1999 James "Doc" Caston (66), Charles
Caston (64) and Hal Crimm (50) were sentenced to 20 years in prison for
their part in the killing. Joe Watson pleaded guilty and testified in exchange
for a reduced sentence.
(USAT, 11/18/99, p.3A)
1970 Apr 13, Apollo 13, four-fifths of the way to the moon, was
crippled when a tank containing liquid oxygen burst: "Houston, we've got
a problem!" The incident preventing a planned moon landing. The three-man
crew managed to return safely.
(AP, 4/13/97)(HN, 4/13/98)(HN, 4/13/99)
1970 Apr 13, Greek composer Mikis Theodorakis was freed.
(MC, 4/13/02)
1970 Apr 14, "Boy Friend" opened at Ambassador Theater in NYC
for 119 performances.
(MC, 4/14/02)
1970 Apr 16, In Vermont a fire at Johnson’s Pasture Commune left
4 people dead.
(SFC, 8/10/98, p.A10)
1970 Apr 17, The Apollo 13 crew splashed down safely in the Pacific,
four days after a ruptured oxygen tank crippled their spacecraft. A film
was made in 1995 that depicted the mission.
(WSJ, 3/22/96, p.A-12)(SFEC, 11/10/96, Par p.5)(AP, 4/17/97)
1970 Apr 20, Bruno Kreisky became the 1st socialist chancellor
of Austria.
(MC, 4/20/02)
1970 Apr 20, Paul Celan (49), Romania born poet, drowned himself
in the Seine. English translations of his poems were published in 2001.
(SSFC, 4/1/01, BR p.5)
1970 Apr 22, The first Earth Day and Earth Week was celebrated
and millions protested pollution on Earth and their concern for the environment.
The event was organized by a 33-member committee in Philadelphia. Wisconsin
Senator Gaylord Nelson suggested Earth Day as a means to focus national
attention on ecological issues.
(TMC, 1994, p.1970)(WSJ, 4/22/96, p.A22)(AP, 4/22/97)(WSJ, 5/12/99,
p.A23)(HNQ, 6/2/99)
1970 Apr 24, The People's Republic of China launched its first
satellite, which kept transmitting a song, "The East is Red."
(AP, 4/24/97)
1970 Apr 25, Freda Payne released "Band of Gold."
(SS, 4/25/02)
1970 Apr 25, Melanie released "Lay Down."
(SS, 4/25/02)
1970 Apr 26, The musical, "Company," opened at the Alvin Theatre
on Broadway. It starred Elaine Stritch and ran for [690] 705 performances.
(440 Int’l. Internet, 4/26/97, p.2)(AP, 4/26/98)(MC, 4/26/02)
1970 Apr 26, Gypsy Rose Lee (56), stripper, actress (Pruitts
of S Hampton), died.
(MC, 4/26/02)
1970 Apr 29, Andre Agassi, tennis star (Oly-gold-96, US Open 1994),
was born in Las Vegas, Nev.
(MC, 4/29/02)
1970 Apr 29, Uma Thurman, actress (Baron Munchausen, Pulp Fiction),
was born in Boston, Mass.
(MC, 4/29/02)
1970 Apr 29, 50,000 US and South Vietnamese troops invaded Cambodia.
[see Apr 30]
(SFEC, 4/23/00, p.A19)(MC, 4/29/02)
1970 Apr 30, President Nixon announced to a national TV audience
that the United States was sending troops into Cambodia "to win the just
peace that we desire." The action that sparked widespread protest. U.S.
troops invaded Cambodia to disrupt North Vietnamese Army base areas and
to attack Communist border sanctuaries. Calling the joint U.S.-South Vietnamese
operation "indispensable," some 32,000 American and 48,000 South Vietnamese
troops captured large caches of supplies, but most Communist forces had
already been withdrawn. A storm of protest against expansion of the war
swept the United States and four days later four student protesters at
Ohio's Kent State University were shot dead by National Guardsmen.
(AP, 4/30/97)(TMC, 1994, p.1970)(HN, 4/30/98)(HNQ, 5/3/98)
1970 Apr, Miles Davis had his album "Bitches Brew" released.
(SFEC, 7/27/97, DB p.40)
1970 May 1, Students at Kent State University rioted in downtown
Kent, Ohio, in protest of the American invasion of Cambodia. Campus protests
broke out across the nation.
(HN, 5/1/98)
1970 May 2, Diane Crump became the 1st woman jockey at Kentucky
Derby.
(MC, 5/2/02)
1970 May 2, Student anti-war protesters at Ohio's Kent State
University burned down the campus ROTC building. Ohio Governor James A.
Rhodes ordered in the National Guard to take control of the campus.
(HN, 5/2/98)(HNPD, 5/4/99)
1970 May 3, James A. Rhodes, the governor of Ohio, in a press
conference in Kent, called anti-war protesters the "the worst type of people
we harbor in America, worse than the brownshirts and the communist element."
Rhodes had ordered the National Guard into Kent to quell anti-war demonstrations
that began after President Nixon announced the American incursion into
Cambodia on April 30.
(HNQ, 5/4/99)
1970 May 4, At Kent State Univ. on Monday, a peaceful noontime
rally of some 2,000 students was ordered to disburse by guardsmen. Tear
gas was fired and guardsmen charged into the crowd. At 12:20 p.m., a small
group of Guardsmen suddenly wheeled and unleashed a 13-second volley of
gunfire. They fired into a group of protesters, killing four and wounding
9-11 others. One wounded student was crippled for life with damage to his
spinal column. In the days that followed, hundreds of colleges were shut
down by student strikes and more than 100,000 demonstrators marched on
Washington, D.C. Twenty-five years after the event the National Guard insisted
that it was provoked into attacking the students contrary to eye-witnesses,
photographs, and later investigations. Renowned American sculptor George
Segal's bronze Abraham and Isaac was commissioned to commemorate the killing
of four Vietnam War protesters at Ohio's Kent State University. The finished
bronze is now part of Princeton University's modern sculpture garden.
(NPR interview with the crippled survivor 5/4/95)(HFA, '96, p.30)(AP,
5/4/97)(HN, 5/4/98)(HNQ, 8/24/98)(HNPD, 5/4/99)
1970 May 6, Yuchiro Miura of Japan skied down Mt. Everest.
(MC, 5/6/02)
1970 May 7, "Long & Winding Road" became the Beatles' last
American release.
(MC, 5/7/02)
1970 May 7, Carlos Estrada (60), composer, died.
(MC, 5/7/02)
1970 May 8, Beatles released their "Let it Be" album. [see Mar
6]
(MC, 5/8/02)
1970 May 8, Construction workers broke up an anti-war protest
on New York City's Wall Street.
(AP, 5/8/97)
1970 May 9, Hundreds of thousands demonstrated against the Vietnam
War.
(MC, 5/9/02)
1970 May 9, Walter P. Reuther, US worker's union leader, president
(CIO), died.
(MC, 5/9/02)
1970 May 12, The Senate voted unanimously to confirm Harry A.
Blackmun as a Supreme Court justice.
(AP, 10/12/97)(SC, Internet, 10/12/97)
1970 May 12, In Augusta, Georgia, 6 blacks were killed, 5 of
them by the police.
(SC, Internet, 10/12/97)
1970 May 13, Beatles movie "Let it Be" premiered.
(SS, Internet, 5/13/97)
1970 May 14, Harry A. Blackmun appointed to Supreme Court.
(MC, 5/14/02)
1970 May 15, Beatles' last LP, "Let It Be," was released in US.
(MC, 5/15/02)
1970 May 15, Phillip Lafayette Gibbs and James Earl Green, two
black students at Jackson State University in Mississippi, were killed
when police opened fire during student protests.
(AP, 5/15/97)
1970 May 15, South Africa was excluded from Olympic play.
(MC, 5/15/02)
1970 May 17, Thor Heyerdahl (d.2002), Norwegian anthropologist,
sailed Ra II, a papyrus reed boat, 3,270 nautical miles across the Atlantic
from Morocco to Barbados in 57 days.
(SFC, 4/19/02, p.A2)(MC, 5/17/02)
1970 May 20, Some 100,000 people demonstrated in New York's Wall
Street district in support of U.S. policy in Vietnam and Cambodia.
(AP, 5/20/97)(HN, 5/20/98)
1970 May 21, The National Guard was mobilized to quell disturbances
at Ohio State University. [see May 4]
(HN, 5/21/98)
1970 May 22, Joseph W. Krutch (76), US writer (Measure of Man),
died.
(MC, 5/22/02)
1970 May 25, [Rachel] Lindsay Greenbush and Sidney [Robin] Greenbush,
twin actresses (Carrie-Little House on Prairie), were born in Hollywood,
CA.
(SC, 5/25/02)
1970 May 25, Michael B. Enyaer, writer (Pilot One), was born.
(SC, 5/25/02)
1970 May 27, A British expedition climbed the south face of Annapurna
I.
(MC, 5/27/02)
1970 May 29, USSR performs an underground nuclear test.
(SC, 5/29/02)
1970 May 29, John Gunther (68), author, host (John Gunther's
High Road), died.
(SC, 5/29/02)
1970 May 29, Eva Hesse, artist (34), died in NYC. She is one
of 3 artists covered by Anne Middleton Wagner in "Three Artists (Three
Women): Modernism in the Art of Hesse, Krasner and O’Keefe."
(HFA, '96, p.42)(SFC, 5/12/96, p.T-7)(SSFC, 2/3/02, p.D3)
1970 May 31, Tens of thousands of people died in an earthquake
in Peru. The 7.7 earthquake killed 67,000, injured 50,000 and destroyed
186,000 buildings.
(AP, 5/31/97)(SFC, 11/29/97, p.C3)
1970 May, The government shut off power and stopped fresh water
supplies from the Native American Indians on Alcatraz Island. A fire broke
out and each side blamed the other.
(G, Summer ‘97, p.5)
1970 Jun 3, The 1st artificial gene was synthesized.
(MC, 6/3/02)
1970 Jun 3, Hjalmar Horace Greeley Schacht, pres Germany Reichsbank,
minister of Eco, died.
(MC, 6/3/02)
1970 Jun 4, Hjalmar Schacht [Horace Greeley], Nazi minister, died.
(MC, 6/4/02)
1970 Jun 7, The Who's Tommy was performed at NY's Lincoln Center.
(SC, 6/7/02)
1970 Jun 9, Harry A. Blackmun, was sworn in as Supreme Court Justice.
(MC, 6/9/02)
1970 Jun 10, A fifteen-man group of special forces troops began
training for Operation Kingpin, a POW rescue mission in North Vietnam.
Almost flawless in execution, the daring rescue raid at the Son Tay prison
camp deep within North Vietnam lacked only one essential ingredient--POWs.
(HN, 6/10/98)
1970 Jun 11, The United States presence in Libya came to an end
as the last detachment left Wheelus Air Base.
(AP, 6/11/00)
1970 Jun 11, Frank Laubach, taught reading through phonetics,
died.
(SC, 6/11/02)
1970 Jun 11, Frank Silvera (55), actor (High Chaparral), died.
(SC, 6/11/02)
1970 Jun 11, Palestinian guerrillas and King Hussein's army signed
a truce in Jordan after week of heavy clashes.
(AP, 6/11/03)
1970 Jun 13, Beatles' "Let It Be," album went #1 & stayed
#1 for 4 weeks.
(MC, 6/13/02)
1970 Jun 16, Kenneth A. Gibson of Newark, N.J., became the first
black to win a mayoral election in a major Northeast city.
(AP, 6/16/98)
1970 Jun 16, Race riots took place in Miami.
(MC, 6/16/02)
1970 Jun 17, North Vietnamese troops cut the last operating rail
line in Cambodia.
(HN, 6/17/98)
1970 Jun 19, Jim Bouton's controversial "Ball Four" was published.
(MC, 6/19/02)
1970 Jun 19, "The Tim Conway Show", TV Comedy; last aired on
CBS.
(DTnet, 6/19/97)
1970 Jun 19, A Nikolayev and V Sevastyanov return after 18 days
in Russians' Soyuz 9.
(DTnet, 6/19/97)
1970 Jun 21, Tony Jacklin became the first British golfer to win
the US Open for 50 years, and with his British Open victory eleven months
earlier, he became only the third golfer to accomplish this double within
a 12-month period.
(Camelot, 6/21/99)
1970 Jun 22, President Nixon signed the 26th amendment, a measure
lowering the voting age to 18.
(AP, 6/22/97) (HN, 6/22/98)
1970 Jun 24, "Catch 22" opened in movie theaters.
(MC, 6/24/02)
1970 Jun 24, The U.S. Senate voted overwhelmingly to repeal the
Gulf of Tonkin Resolution. With fresh evidence now available, claims that
the Tonkin Gulf incident was deliberately provoked gain new plausibility.
(HN, 6/24/98)
1970 Jun 28, Muhammed Ali, formerly Cassius Clay, stood before
the Supreme Court regarding his refusal of induction into the Army during
the Vietnam War.
(HN, 6/28/99)
1970 Jun 29, U.S. troops pulled out of Cambodia.
(HN, 6/29/98)
1970 Jul 2, Jessie Street, Australian civil rights activist, died.
(SC, 7/2/02)
1970 Jul 3, A British aircraft crashed at Barcelona and 112 were
killed.
(MC, 7/3/02)
1970 Jul 4, 100 were injured in race rioting in Asbury Park NJ.
(Maggio)
1970 Jul 4, Casey Kasem's "American Top 40" debuted on LA radio.
(Maggio)
1970 Jul 6, California passed the 1st "no fault" divorce law.
(MC, 7/6/02)
1970 Jul 23, Sultan Qaboos bin Al Said deposed his father, Sultan
Said bin Taimur, and took over rule in Oman.
(NG, 5/95, p.120)(AP, 7/23/97)
1970 Jul 24, In Laos Capt. Donald Bloodworth and his pilot were
lost on a night reconnaissance mission in a F-4D fighter-bomber. Bloodworth’s
remains were returned to the US in 1998.
(SFEC, 2/1/98, p.A14)
1970 Aug 1, W. Lain Guthrie (d.1997 at 84), a commercial airline
pilot, refused to dump kerosene into the atmosphere as had been common
practice. He kept his DC-8 on the ground and ordered the ground crew to
drain the waste fuel from the previous flight. He was fired but other pilots
supported him and he was reinstated and the industry stopped its dumping.
(SFC, 3/28/97, p.D2)
1970 Aug 7, At a hearing for the "Soledad Brothers," Jonathon
P. Jackson (17), the younger brother of George L. Jackson, attempted an
armed rescue attempt at the Marin Civic Center. A shootout in the parking
lot followed and 4 people were killed and 5 injured. Among the dead were
Jackson, Judge Harold Haley, Black Panther James McClain, and convict William
A. Christmas. Angela Davis was charged with murder, kidnapping and conspiracy,
but was acquitted in 1972 after spending a year in jail. An attempt by
black militant James David McClain to escape his trial in Marin County,
California, ended in a shootout with police that claimed the lives of McClain,
two of three cohorts, and Judge Harold J. Daley, one of several hostages.
(SFEC, 3/1/98, p.W21)(SFC, 8/19/98, p.A18)(AP, 8/7/00)
1970 Aug 24, A bomb planted by anti-war extremists exploded at
the University of Wisconsin's Army Math Research Center in Madison, killing
33-year-old researcher Robert Fassnacht.
(AP, 8/24/97)
1970 Aug 31, Peter Yarrow (of Peter, Paul & Mary) was arrested
for taking "immoral liberties" with girl, 14.
(MC, 8/31/01)
1970 Sep 1, Dr. Hugh Scott of Washington, D.C. became the first
African-American superintendent of schools in a major U.S. city.
(HN, 9/1/99)
1970 Sep 3, Vince Lombardi (57), Green Bay Packers and Washington
Redskins football coach, died in Washington, D.C. In 1999 David Maraniss
authored "When Pride Still Mattered: A Life of Vince Lombardi."
(AP, 9/3/97)(WSJ, 10/7/99, p.A28)(MC, 9/3/01)
1970 Sep 4, George Harrison released "My Sweet Lord" single.
(MC, 9/4/01)
1970 Sep 4, Salvador Allende Gossens won the presidential election
in Chile. A week later in Washington Henry Kissinger discussed a "covert
action program" to oust Allende.
(MC, 9/4/01)(SSFC, 4/21/02, p.D1)
1970 Sep 6, Palestinian guerrillas of the Popular Front for the
Liberation of Palestine seized control of three jetliners which were later
blown up on the ground in Jordan after the passengers and crews were evacuated.
This triggered a civil war in and the expulsion of Palestinians from Jordan.
(SFC, 12/13/96, p.B4)(AP, 9/6/97)
1970 Sep 7, Donald Boyles set a record for the highest parachute
jump from a bridge by leaping off of 1,053 ft Royal George Bridge in Colorado.
(MC, 9/7/01)
1970 Sep 9, U.S. Marines launched Operation Dubois Square, a 10-day
search for North Vietnamese troops near DaNang. Marine pilots in their
diminutive Douglas A-4 Skyhawks provided vital close air support for ground
forces in Vietnam.
(HN, 9/9/98)
1970 Sep 12, US professor Timothy Leary, LSD proponent, escaped
from a California jail. Leary escaped from the State Men’s Colony in San
Luis Obispo with the help of his third wife, Rosemary and the Weather Underground.
He went to Algiers and joined Black Panther leader Eldridge Cleaver, who
kidnapped the Learys after a political disagreement. They soon escaped
and made their way to Afghanistan. In 1974 he was caught and revealed his
collaborators to the FBI.
(SFC, 6/1/96, p.A7)(SFC, 7/1/99, p.A9)(MC, 9/12/01)
1970 Sep 12, Supersonic airliner Concorde landed for 1st time
at Heathrow airport.
(MC, 9/12/01)
1970 Sep 13, IBM announced the System 370 computer.
(MC, 9/13/01)
1970 Sep 15, Pres. Nixon authorized a US-backed coup in Chile.
(SSFC, 6/9/02, p.F7)
1970 Sep 15, PLO leader Arafat threatened to make a cemetery
of Jordan.
(MC, 9/15/01)
1970 Sep 17, Jordanian King Hussein moved against PLO guerrillas.
The PLO was driven out of Jordan and forced to move to Lebanon.
(SFC, 2/8/99, p.A6)(MC, 9/17/01)
1970 Sep 18, Jimi Hendrix, rock star guitarist, died in London
of drug overdose at age 27. Hendrix had behind the Isley Brothers and Little
Richard and briefly as an opening act for the Monkeys.
(TMC,1994, p.1970)(SFC, 6/4/96, p.E1)(WSJ, 1/9/97, p.A8)(AP,
9/18/97)(WSJ, 4/16/99, p.W13C)
1970 Sep 19, "The Mary Tyler Moore Show" with Ed Asner debuted
on CBS TV and ran to 1977. Mary Richards threw her hat at 7th St. and Nicollet
Ave. in Minneapolis for the opening credits. In 2001 the city planned a
$150,000 statue of Mary to be made by Gwendolyn Gillen of Wisconsin.
(SFEC, 5/24/98, DB p.39)(AP, 9/19/00)(WSJ, 6/19/01, p.A1)
1970 Sep 20, Pres. Nixon’s aide, Charles W. Colson, stated in
a memo to Chief of staff H.R. Haldeman: "(the networks) are very much afraid
of us and are trying hard to prove they are ‘good guys.’"
(SFC, 12/1/97, p.A7)
1970 Sep 20, Luna 16 landed on Moon’s Mare Fecunditatis and drilled
a core sample.
(MC, 9/20/01)
1970 Sep 21, "NFL Monday Night Football" made its debut on ABC
TV as the Cleveland Browns defeated the visiting New York Jets, 31-to-21.
(SFC, 12/7/96, p.A1)(AP, 9/21/00)
1970 Sep 21, In Jordan King Hussein sent a plea to Israel for
air support via the British embassy. Israel did not respond. The Black
September crises left 2,000 people dead in 13 days of fighting.
(SFC, 1/3/01, p.A12)
1970 Sep 22, President Richard M. Nixon signed a bill giving the
District of Columbia representation in the U.S. Congress. Pres Nixon requested
1,000 new FBI agents for college campuses.
(HN, 9/22/98)(MC, 9/22/01)
1970 Sep 24, The Soviet Luna 16 landed, completing the first unmanned
round trip to the moon.
(HN, 9/24/98)
1970 Sep 25, Erich M. Remarque, German writer (Im West Nichts
Neues), died at 72.
(MC, 9/25/01)
1970 Sep 26, The President’s Commission on Campus Unrest, also
referred to as the Scranton Commission, investigated the Kent killings
and found "The indiscriminate firing of rifles into a crowd of students
and the deaths that followed were unnecessary, unwarranted, and inexcusable."
The commission, directed by former Pennsylvania Governor William Scranton,
was appointed by President Richard Nixon shortly after the Kent State shootings
and relied heavily on a massive FBI investigation. The Scranton report
also found student conduct prior to the shootings partly responsible.
(HNQ, 5/4/98)
1970 Sep 28, John Roderigo Dos Passos, US writer (Manhattan Transfer),
died at 74.
(MC, 9/28/01)
1970 Sep 28, In Egypt Pres. Gamal' Abdul Nasser died of a heart
attack at 52. He became president in 1953. Anwar Sadat replaced Nasser.
(MC, 9/28/01)
1970 Sep 30, Vince Lombardi, one of Fordham University‘s stalwart
linemen known as the "Seven Blocks of Granite" during his college days,
succumbed to cancer. He had recently coached the Washington Redskins to
their first winning season in 14 years. Lombardi had previously coached
the Green Bay Packers to five NFL championships and victories in the first
two Super Bowls. He went to the Washington Redskins in 1969 as head coach,
general manager, and part owner. The team wound up with a 7-5-2 record
for the season. [see Sep 3]
(HNQ, 11/24/00)
1970 Sep, In Jordan during "Black September" army troops loyal
to King Hussein put down a revolt by Palestinian guerrillas, who demanded
the ouster of the King. Cmdr. Habes al-Majali (d.2001 at 87) crushed the
rebellion led by followers of Yasser Arafat.
(SFC, 2/6/99, p.A13)(SFC, 4/24/01, p.B2)
1970 Oct 2, A plane carrying the Wichita State U football team
crashed killing 30.
(MC, 10/2/01)
1970 Oct 3, Baseball umpires called their 1st strike.
(MC, 10/3/01)
1970 Oct 4, Janis Joplin (b.1943) died of drug overdose at age
27. Janis Joplin died of a heroin overdose in a seedy Hollywood motel.
Her classic songs included: "Down on Me," "Ball and Chain," and "Piece
of My Heart."
(SFC, 6/4/96, p.E1)(WSJ, 1/9/97, p.A8)(SFEC, 3/16/97, z1 p.4)
1970 Oct 5, PBS became a network.
(MC, 10/5/01)
1970 Oct 5, British trade commissioner James Richard Cross was
kidnapped in Canada by militant Quebec separatists; he was released the
following December.
(AP, 10/5/00)
1970 Oct 7, Pres. Nixon proposed a cease-fire-in-place in a televised
speech.
(WSJ, 2/5/96, p.A-19)
1970 Oct 8, Soviet author Alexander Solzhenitsyn was named winner
of the Nobel Prize for literature.
(AP, 10/8/97)
1970 Oct 9, Khmer Republic (Cambodia) declared independence.
(MC, 10/9/01)
1970 Oct 10, In the October Crisis Quebec Provincial Labor Minister
Pierre Laporte and the British trade commissioner James Cross were kidnapped
by the left-wing, nationalist Front de Liberation du Quebec, Quebec Liberation
Front (FLQ), a militant separatist group. Laporte's body was found about
a week later. Mr. Cross was released but Mr. LaPorte was found dead strangled
in the trunk of a car. The Canadian government refused to pay a ransom.
Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau responded by suspending civil liberties in
Quebec and invoking the War Measures Act, and sending over 1,000 troops
to the French-Canadian province.
(SFC, 10/3/96, p.C6)(SFC, 11/22/96, p.A20)(AP, 10/10/97)(MC,
10/10/01)
1970 Oct 10, The South Pacific island of Fiji became independent
after nearly a century of British rule.
(SFC, 7/1/97, p.A9)(AP, 10/10/97)
1970 Oct 10, Edouard Daladier, premier of France (1933-40), died
at 86.
(MC, 10/10/01)
1970 Oct 12, President Richard Nixon announced the pullout of
40,000 more American troops in Vietnam by Christmas.
(HN, 10/12/98)
1970 cOct 12, In Quebec, Canada, the "October Crises" developed.
Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau imposed martial law in Quebec and sent troops
into Montreal because of bombings and killings by the Quebec Liberation
Front.
(SFC, 10/3/96, p.C6)(SFC, 11/22/96, p.A20)(SFC,12/27/97, p.A12)
1970 Oct 15, Anwar Sadat was elected president of Egypt. [see
Oct 16]
(MC, 10/15/01)
1970 Oct 16, Anwar Sadat was elected president of Egypt, succeeding
the late Gamal Abdel Nasser. Sadat had worked with Nasser to overthrow
Egypt‘s monarchy and was imprisoned during World War II for his ties to
the Germans. After the revolution in 1952, he held key posts under Nasser
including that of vice president (1964-66 and 1969-70). In 1973, he led
Egypt into a war with Israel, but five years later negotiated the Camp
David Accords with Israeli premier Menachem Begin for which both men received
the 1978 Nobel Peace Prize. He was assassinated by Muslim extremists in
1981. [see Oct 15]
(SFC, 4/14/97, p.A19)(AP, 10/16/97)(HNQ, 7/30/00)
1970 Oct 18, In the October Crisis in Canada, Pierre Laporte,
the Quebec minister of labor, was found strangled to death eight days after
his kidnapping by the Quebec Liberation Front (FLQ).
(MC, 10/18/01)
1970 Oct 19, Amdahl Corp. formed at Sunnyvale Calif.
(MC, 10/19/01)
1970 Oct 21, John T. Scopes, the US teacher in the 1925
Scopes "monkey trial," died at 70.
(MC, 10/21/01)
1970 Oct 21, 777 Unification church couples were wed in Korea.
(MC, 10/21/01)
1970 Oct 24, Richard Hofstadter, US historian, died at 54.
(MC, 10/24/01)
1970 Oct 26, Gary Trudeau's comic strip "Doonesbury" first appeared.
The SF Chronicle began to carry the "Doonesbury" cartoon of Garry Trudeau
under editor George Stanleigh Arnold (d.1997 at 78).
(SFC, 5/30/97, p.A26)(HN, 10/26/00)
1970 Oct, David Baltimore (37) of MIT won a Nobel Prize for discovering
the reverse transcriptase enzyme. In 2001 Shane Crotty authored "Ahead
of the Curve," an account of Baltimore’s work and ten year defense over
a 1986 controversy over scientific data and the work of junior colleague
Thereza Imanishi-Kari.
(WSJ, 8/1/01, p.A12)
1970 Oct, The Nobel Peace Prize was won by Norman Borlaug for
his development of high-yield wheat varieties for which he was dubbed father
of the "Green Revolution."
(SFC, 10/15/97, p.A15)(WSJ, 12/3/02, p.A1)
1970 Oct, The Nobel Prize for Physics was won by Louis Neel (d.2000
at 95) of France for discoveries about magnetic fields and Hanes Alfven
of Sweden for work on interactions between plasmas and magnetic fields.
(SFC, 11/25/00, p.A23)
1970 Nov 1, A discotheque in Grenoble, France, burned. All exits
were padlocked and 142 died.
(MC, 11/1/01)
1970 Nov 3, President Nixon promised gradual troop removal from
Vietnam.
(MC, 11/3/01)
1970 Nov 3, California Gov. Reagan won a 2nd term. He defeated
Jesse Unruh.
(SSFC, 6/9/02, p.F7)
1970 Nov 3, Salvador Allende was inaugurated as president of
Chile. He was elected with 36% of the vote, only 40,000 ahead of the candidate
of the right.
(AP, 11/3/97)(WSJ, 10/30/98, p.A19)
1970 Nov 4, Andre Sakharov, Russian nuclear physicist, formed
a Human Rights Committee.
(MC, 11/4/01)
1970 Nov 4, King Peter II of Yugoslavia died in a hospital in
Denver, Colorado. He had been forced into exile three weeks after his country
was invaded by Nazi Germany. He was buried in the Liberty Easter Serbian
Orthodox Monastery in Liberty, Illinois. He was the 1st European king or
queen to die and be buried in the US.
(MC, 11/4/01)
1970 Nov 7, "Purlie" closed at Broadway Theater in NYC after 689
performances.
(MC, 11/7/01)
1970 Nov 7, Race riots took place in Daytona Beach, Florida.
(MC, 11/7/01)
1970 Nov 9, Former French president Charles De Gaulle died at
age 79. In 1996 Daniel Mahoney published "De Gaulle: Statesmanship, Grandeur,
and Modern Democracy."
(AP, 11/9/97)(WSJ, 1/19/98, p.A20)
1970 Nov 11, U.S. Army Special Forces raided the Son Tay prison
camp in North Vietnam but found no Prisoners.
(HN, 11/11/98)
1970 Nov 12, Scientists performed the 1st artificial synthesis
of a live cell.
(MC, 11/12/01)
1970 Nov 12, 240 KPH cyclone hit East Pakistan (Bangladesh);
3-500,000 die.
(MC, 11/12/01)
1970 Nov 13, VP Spiro Agnew called TV executives "impudent snobs."
(MC, 11/13/01)
1970 Nov 13, Cyclone killed an estimated 300,000 in Chittagong,
Bangladesh.
(MC, 11/13/01)
1970 Nov 13, Flooding ravaged the Ganges delta and 200,000-1
million killed.
(MC, 11/13/01)
1970 Nov 14, The Marshall Univ. football team was wiped out in
air crash at Kenova, WV.
(MC, 11/14/01)
1970 Nov 17, The Soviet Union landed an unmanned, remote-controlled
vehicle on the moon, the Lunokhod 1. Soviet unmanned Luna 17 touched down
on the moon.
(AP, 11/17/97)(HN, 11/17/98)
1970 Nov 18, Linus Pauling declared that large doses of Vitamin
C could ward off colds.
(MC, 11/18/01)
1970 Nov 18, Warren Harding (d.2002 at 77) and Dean Caldwell
scaled a new route up El Capitan in Yosemite Valley after a 27 days effort.
Harding 1st scaled El Capitan in 1958.
(SFC, 3/9/02, p.A24)
1970 Nov 20, UN General Assembly accepted membership of the People’s
Republic of China.
(MC, 11/20/01)
1970 Nov 21, U.S. planes conduct widespread bombing raids in North
Vietnam.
(HN, 11/21/99)
1970 Nov 25, Yukio Mishima (45), Japanese author and nationalist
(Hara-kiri), died. Mishima (45), a writer, invaded military headquarters
in Tokyo and committed ritual suicide samurai-style. His death was an act
of protest after he failed to persuade the country's Self Defense Force
to stage a coup and renounce the US-imposed postwar constitution that banned
Japanese aggressive military action. His books included "The Sound of Waves"
and "The Temple and the Golden Pavilion." In 1998 Jiro Fukushima published
a memoir that contained 15 letters from Mishima and descriptions of a sexual
liaison with Mishima. A lawsuit soon halted book sales.
(SFEC, 1/25/98, Z1 p.2)(SFC, 10/21/99, p.B7)(MC, 11/25/01)
1970 Nov 26, A Bolivian painter, disguised as a priest, tried
to kill Pope Paul VI in Manila, Philippines, but he escaped injury. [see
Nov 27]
(AP, 11/26/02)
1970 Nov 27, Syria joined the pact linking Libya, Egypt and Sudan.
(HN, 11/27/98)
1970 Nov 27, Pope Paul VI, visiting the Philippines, was slightly
wounded at the Manila airport by a dagger-wielding Bolivian painter disguised
as a priest. [see Nov 26]
(AP, 11/27/02)
1970 Nov 28, "I Hear You Knocking" by Dave Edmunds" peaked at
#1 on the U.K. pop singles chart and stayed there for seven weeks.
(DTnet, 11/28/97)
1970 Nov 28, "Montego Bay" by Bobby Bloom peaked at #8 on the
pop singles chart.
(DTnet, 11/28/97)
1970 Nov 28, "You Don't Have To Say You Love Me" by Elvis Presley
peaked at #11 on the pop singles chart.
(DTnet, 11/28/97)
1970 Nov 28, "See Me, Feel Me" by The Who peaked at #12 on the
pop singles chart.
(DTnet, 11/28/97)
1970 Nov 28, "Heaven Help Us All" by Stevie Wonder peaked at
#9 on the pop singles chart.
(DTnet, 11/28/97)
1970 Nov 28, "Engine Number 9" by Wilson Pickett peaked at #14
on the pop singles chart.
(DTnet, 11/28/97)
1970 Nov 28, "Let's Work Together" by Canned Heat peaked at #26
on the pop singles chart.
(DTnet, 11/28/97)
1970 Nov 29, Charles Ives' "Yale-Princeton," premiered.
(MC, 11/29/01)
1970 Nov, Hafez al-Assad, the Syrian defense minister, became
president in a bloodless coup.
(WSJ, 1/9/96, p.A-1)(SFEC, 6/11/00, p.A12)
1970 Dec 2, The U.S. Senate voted to give 48,000 acres of New
Mexico back to the Taos Indians.
(HN, 12/2/98)
1970 Dec 2, The Environmental Protection Agency began operating
under director William Ruckelshaus. Pres. Nixon appointed a 3-member Council
on Environmental Quality that included journalist Robert Cahn (d.1997 at
80). It was the first centralized White House office to advise the president
on environmental matters. Cahn served to 1972. President Nixon created
the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). The EPA took over certain functions
previously handled by the departments of the Interior, Agriculture and
Health, Education and Welfare in an effort to set and enforce national
pollution-control standards. The first task it was given was the administration
of the Clean Air Act, passed that same year. Currently, the EPA enforces
12 federal statutes ranging from safe drinking water to pesticide use.
(SFC,11/1/97, p.A17)(AP, 12/2/97)(HNQ, 4/16/01)
1970 Dec 7, Rube Goldberg (87), US cartoonist (Mike & Ike,
Pulitzer 1948), died.
(MC, 12/7/01)
1970 Dec 7, Poland and West Germany signed a pact renouncing
use of force to settle disputes, recognizing the Oder-Neisse River as Poland's
western frontier, and acknowledging transfer to Poland of 40,000 square
miles of former German territory.
(HN, 12/7/98)
1970 Dec 13, In Poland Gen. Jaruzelski imposed martial law.
(SFC, 5/16/01, p.D3)
1970 Dec 17, In Poland riot police under orders from defense minister
Gen'l. Wojciech Jaruzelski opened fire on workers protesting food price
increases and 44 people were killed in Gdansk, Gdynia, Szczecin, and Elblag.
A case against Jaruzelski was opened in 1996 and in 1999 a court ruled
that medical reasons would not exempt him from trial. The Jaruzelski trial
began in 2001.
(SFC, 8/28/99, p.A14)(SFC, 5/16/01, p.D3)
1970 Dec 18, "Me Nobody Knows" opened at Helen Hayes Theater in
NYC for 587 performances.
(MC, 12/18/01)
1970 Dec 18, An atomic leak in Nevada forced hundreds to flee
the test site.
(HN, 12/18/98)
1970 Dec 18, A Polish uprising failed.
(MC, 12/18/01)
1970 Dec 22, Treblinka SS commander Franz Stangl was sentenced
to life in prison.
(MC, 12/22/01)
1970 Dec 23, Agatha Christie's "Mousetrap" was performed
a record 7,511th time.
(MC, 12/23/01)
1970 Dec 23, The NY World Trade Center reached its highest point.
The World Trade Center was completed at a cost of $350 million. The twin
110-story towers housed 55,000 employees working for 350 firms. [see 1973]
(SFC, 9/12/01, p.A6)(MC, 12/23/01)
1970 Dec 23, French journalist Regis Debray was freed in Bolivia.
(MC, 12/23/01)
1970 Dec 24, Walt Disney's "Aristocats" was released.
(MC, 12/24/01)
1970 Dec 24, Nine GIs were killed and nine wounded by friendly
fire in Vietnam.
(HN, 12/24/98)
1970 Dec 27, "Hello, Dolly!" closed at the St. James Theater on
Broadway after a run of 2,844 performances.
(AP, 12/27/97)(MC, 12/26/01)
1970 Dec 31, Congress authorized the Eisenhower dollar coin.
(MC, 12/31/01)
1970 Dec 31, President Allende nationalized the Chilean coal
mines.
(MC, 12/31/01)
1970 Theodore Geisel (aka Dr. Seuss) painted "A Plethora of Cats."
(Hem., 2/97, p.13)
1970 Roy Lichtenstein created his color lithograph, screen print:
"Peace Through Chemistry II."
(SFEC, 10/1/00, DB p.42)
c1970 George L. Mosse (d.1999 at 80), a Univ. of Wisconsin historian,
published "Germans and Jews: The Right, the Left, and the Search for a
'Third Force' in Pre-Nazi Germany."
(SFEC, 1/31/99, p.D8)
1970 Lewis Mumford published "The Myth of the Machine."
(Wired, 8/96, p.168)
1970 Charles A. Reich, a professor at Yale Univ. Law School, published
his "Greening of America" first in the New Yorker and then as a book. In
this work Reich predicted that "something called Consciousness III would
soon create a social revolution by wiping out its ugly forbear, Consciousness
II." In 1995 he published a new book, "Opposing the System," wherein
he explained why the greening of America never took place. In 2000 Roger
Kimball followed the thread with "The Long March." "…everything is sucked
through the sieve of politics and the ideology of victimhood."
(WSJ, 10/3/95, p.A-18)(WSJ, 6/28/00, p.A20)
1970 Yasundo Takahash (1912-1996) wrote his textbook "Control
- A Dynamic System." It became a standard reference in the field of control
engineering, the study of how machines work.
(SFC, 11/2/96, p.A21)
1970 Richard Bach authored his novel "Jonathan Livingston Seagull."
(SFC, 6/27/00, p.A23)
1970 J. Desmond Clark (d.2002), professor at UC Berkeley authored
"The Pre-history of Africa."
(SFC, 2/16/02, p.A25)
1970 James Dickey (1923-1997) published his novel "Deliverance."
(SFC,1/21/97, p.A20)
1970 Germaine Greer published "The Female Eunuch." The work insisted
on women's right to free sexuality and vaginal pleasure. In 1999 Christine
Wallace published the biography: "Germaine Greer: Untamed Shrew."
(SFEC, 7/4/99, BR p.5)
1970 Joseph Lieberman authored "The Scorpion and the Tarantula:
The Struggle to Control Atomic Weapons 1945-1969." Lieberman stood as the
Democratic candidate for vice-president with Al Gore in 2000.
(WSJ, 8/30/00, p.A26)
1970 Malachi Martin (d.1999 at 78), an Irish-born former Jesuit,
published "The Encounter," a study of Judaism, Christianity and Islam.
(SFC, 7/30/99, p.D8)
1970 James Michener (d.1997 at 90) wrote "The Quality of Life."
(SFC,10/17/97, p.A17)
1970 Michael Ondaatje authored his novel "The Collected Works
of Billy the Kid."
(SSFC, 9/9/01, DB p.70)
1970 Richard Scammon (d.2001 at 85) and Ben J. Wattenberg authored
"The Real Majority," and argued that the Democratic Party needed to focus
on social issues in order to survive.
(SSFC, 4/29/01, p.A27)
1970 Alvin Toffler (b.1928) "Future Shock," and argued that technology
was changing so rapidly that individuals could find themselves strangers
in their own cultures.
(HN, 10/4/00)(NW, 9/16/02, p.34D)
1970 "Slag," the first major play by David Hare, had its premier.
(WSJ, 7/16/97, p.A20)
1970 Harold Pinter wrote his play "Old Times."
(SFC, 6/16/98, p.D1)
1970 Twyla Tharp created her dance piece "The Fugue."
(WSJ, 10/17/96, p.A20)
1970 Carlisle Floyd composed an operatic version of John Steinbeck’s
"Of Mice and Men." The world premiere was done by the Seattle Opera.
(WSJ, 7/15/97, p.A16)(WSJ, 11/18/98, p.A20)
1970 Stephen Sondheim wrote the score for "Company."
(SFEC, 5/31/98, BR p.1)
1970 The Shostakovich 13th symphony "Babi Yar," smuggled on microfilm
to the US, was premiered in the US by the Philadelphia Orchestra.
(WSJ, 6/29/99, p.A12)
1970 The first issue of the Smithsonian Mag. was published and
sent to 160,000 readers. It was the creation of S. Dillon Ripley, then
Sec. of the Smithsonian Inst., and Edward K. Thompson (1907-1996), former
managing editor of Life. Thompson was editor and publisher of the Smithsonian
from 1969-1981.
(Smith., 4/95, p.27)(SFC, 10/10/96, p.C6)
1970 The TV news show "Agronsky & Company," WTOP-TV, was the
first to feature news reporters talking among themselves. Martin Zama Agronsky
(b.1915) died in 1999 at age 84.
(SFC, 7/26/99, p.A22)
1970 The TV show "Wall Street Week" started with Louis Rukeyser.
The last program was scheduled for June 28, 2002.
(SFC, 3/22/02, p.B5)
1970 Virginia Graham (d.1998) led "The Virginia Graham Show" on
TV until 1972.
(SFC, 12/25/98, p.B6)
1970 The Flip Wilson Show began on TV. It ran to 1974. Wilson
died in 1998 at age 64.
(SFC, 11/26/98, p.B9)
1970 "The Phil Donohue Show" began on TV. It ran to 1996.
(SFEC, 5/24/98, DB p.39)
1970 In Cuba Jesus (Chucho) Valdez formed his jazz group Irakere.
(SFC, 6/16/96, BR p.42)
1970 Wayne Shorter and keyboardist Joe Zawinful formed the pioneering
fusion band Weather Report.
(SFEC, 8/31/97, DB p.35)
1970 Jerry Garcia expressed his musical credo in "The Wheel":
The Wheel is turning - And you can't slow it down
You can't let go
- And you can't hold on
You can't go back - And you can't
stand still
If the thunder don't get you - Then the lightning will
The members of the Grateful Dead were pictured in a photo: Bill
Kreutzmann, Ron Mckernan, Jerry Garcia, Bob Weir, Mickey Hart, and Phil
Lesh. The Dead song "Friend of the Devil" was on the "American Beauty Album."
(WSJ, 1/30/96, p.A-12)(SFC, 5/26/96, DB p.31)(SFC, 10/23/00,
p.F3)
1970 Johnny and June Carter Cash won a Grammy for the song "If
I Were a Carpenter" written by Tim Hardin.
(SFC, 5/16/03, p.A24)
1970 The rock group Blood, Sweat & Tears made a historic tour
of eastern Europe. They began playing in Greenwich Village from a group
composed of the best players in town. Their first album was "Child Is Father
to the Man." Their 2nd album included the hit "Spinning Wheel."
(SFEC, 8/25/96, DB p.66)
1970 Marvin Gaye recorded "What’s Going On," a tale of confusion
about the state of America prompted by his brother’s return from Vietnam.
(WSJ, 5/8/01, p.A24)
1970 George Harrison released his solo album "All Things Must
Pass." He became the 1st Beatle to have a solo No. 1 hit with "My Sweet
Lord."
(SFC, 12/1/01, p.D1)
1970 Elvis Presley recorded the Eddie Rabbit song "Kentucky Rain."
(SFC, 5/9/98, p.A21)
1970 T. Rex initiated the glam-rock, aka glitter rock, period
with their hit single "Ride a White Swan." The 1998 film "Velvet Goldmine"
chronicled the era.
(SFC, 11/3/98, p.B1)
1970 Bill Monroe was named to the Country Music Hall of Fame.
(SFC, 9/10/96, p.A17)
1970 Paolo Soleri led the ground breaking at Arcosanti, a model
ecocity in the high Arizona desert. It was a prototype arcology designed
for 5,000 residents, combining compact buildings with huge solar greenhouses
on a 4,000 acre preserve about 60 miles north of Phoenix. Soleri projected
a people density of 215 per acre vs. 72 in Delhi and 33 per acre in New
York City.
(PacDis, Spring/'94, p. 28)
1970 Dr. Robert Schuller, minister of the Reformed Church of America,
began his Sunday TV show "Hour of Power."
(SFEC, 4/20/97, Par p.18)
1970 William Pierce (d.2002), a former American Nazi Party officer,
joined the neo-Nazi National Alliance and began to restructure the organization.
He later wrote "the Turner Diaries." The Alliance had begun as a youth
organization to support the presidential campaign of Gov. George Wallace.
It chronicled the "liberation" of America from the Jews, and described
the bombing of the FBI headquarters and a mortar attack on the Capitol.
(SFC, 9/24/98, p.C6)(WSJ, 12/6/99, p.A32)(WSJ, 7/24/02, p.A1)
1970 Robert Earl Burton, aka "The Teacher," founded the Fellowship
of Friends while living in Berkeley. The group incorporated in 1971 and
moved to Yuba County, Ca., where they bought and cleared land with donations
and volunteer labor on an estate called Apollo. The group’s philosophy
was based on the teachings of George Gurdjieff and Peter Ouspensky. The
group has been charged with brainwashing and sexual exploitation.
(SFC, 10/12/97, p.A10)
1970 John W. Gardner (d.2002 at 89) founded Common Cause, a citizen’s
lobby for the well-being of the nation.
(SFC, 2/18/02, p.A6)
1970 Bill Griffith created the cartoon character "Zippy the Pinhead."
In 1985 he began a daily strip of "Zippy" for the SF Chronicle.
(SFC, 10/12/97, p.B7)
1970 The American Lung Association began its "Kick the Habit"
antismoking campaign.
(WSJ, 4/14/99, p.A1)
1970 Essence Magazine, marketed to African Americans, was founded.
(WSJ, 6/9/99, p.B10)
1970 Cheryl Brown, Miss Iowa, became the first African-American
contestant in the Miss America beauty pageant.
(HNQ, 3/29/02)
1970 A NY Times Magazine article quoted Milton Friedman, economist,
as follows: There is one and only one social responsibility of business,
to use its resources and engage in activities designed to increase its
profits." The only qualification being that it engage "in open and free
competition without deception or fraud." Friedman held that an exchange
rate is a price and that it was an infringement on human freedom to peg
it. This was opposed to the view of economist Robert Mundell who held that
an exchange rate is a promise and that to change it is to default on a
commitment.
(WSJ, 6/21/96, p.A12)(WSJ, 10/16/98, p.A10)
1970 Natalia Makarova, Russian ballet dancer, defected to the
West.
(WSJ, 10/1/98, p.A20)
1970 Pres. Nixon ordered the establishment of the Consumer Information
Center (CIC).
(WSJ, 1/8/97, p.A18)
1970 The Clean Air Act was designed to control smog but not global
warning. Catalytic converters designed to reduce smog were produced by
the automobile companies. In 1998 it was reported that the nitrous oxide
comprised 7.2% of the gases in global warming. Catalytic converters produced
nearly half of this nitrous oxide.
(SFC, 5/29/98, p.A2)
1970 The US census categorized the population as "White, Negro
or Black, Chinese, Japanese, Filipino, American Indian, Hawaiian, Korean
and other.
(SFC,12/26/97, p.A21)
1970 Senate hearings on Agent Orange were conducted following
articles in the New Yorker magazine by Thomas Whiteside. By the end of
the hearings the surgeon general announced restrictions on the herbicide
and shortly after the Defense Dept. stopped using it in Vietnam.
(SFC, 10/13/97, p.A23)
1970 The US sent a 5-dolphin team to Vietnam to guard the Army
munitions pier at Cam Ranh Bay.
(SFC, 4/11/03, p.D1)
1970 The Bank Secrecy Act required that banks maintain records
of wire transfers of more than $3000 and report cash transactions of more
than $10,000.
(SFC, 6/28/97, p.A2)
1970 Congress amended the Bank Holding Act to tighten the Fed’s
authority to supervise bank expansion.
(WSJ, 4/10/98, p.A6)
1970 An AP story of looting and raping by American soldiers in
Cambodia was killed by Wes Gallagher (d.1997 at 86), general manager of
the new service.
(SFC, 10/12/97, p.B5)
1970 In 1998 it was reported that a secret raid called Operation
Tailwind by a Special Forces unit called the Studies and Observations Group
(SOG) used the nerve gas sarin in Laos to kill American armed service members
who had defected. A report in 1998 allegedly confirmed that over 100 people
were killed including up to 20 American military defectors. Adm. Thomas
Moorer, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff at the time, confirmed
in 1998 that nerve gas was used. CNN and Time magazine later recanted the
story due to insufficient evidence.
(SFC, 6/8/98, p.A3)(WSJ, 6/26/98, p.W13)(SFC, 7/3/98, p.A1)
1970 The California Welfare Reform Act allowed women to receive
public funding for abortions.
(WSJ, 1/30/97, p.A16)
1970 The California Environmental Quality Act was passed. It required
developers to produce an environmental impact report on any new project.
(PacDis, Summer ’97, p.13)
1970 Courtroom trials began for the Chicago 7, the Charlie Manson
family, and the Black Panthers Bobby Seale and Huey Newton. Reporter J.
Anthony Lukas wrote "The Barnyard Epithet and Other Obscenities: Notes
on the Chicago Conspiracy Trial."
(TMC, 1994, p.1970)(SFC, 6/7/97, p.A19)
1970 The Bob Jones Univ. in Greenville S.C., lost its federal
tax exempt status due to its ban on interracial dating and marriage.
(SFC, 10/24/98, p.A3)
1970 Native American Indians occupied Alcatraz Island. [see 11/69]
(TMC, 1994, p.1970)
1970 Leonard Woodcock (d.2001 at 89) was named head of the UAW
following the death of Walter Reuther. He led the UAW until 1977 and then
served as US ambassador to China from 1979-1981.
(SFC, 1/18/01, p.C2)
1970 American Sugar Company changed its name to Amstar Corp. and
distributed its products under the Domino brand name.
(WSJ, 5/28/96, p. R-45)
1970 Dr. Hale E. Dougherty (d.2002) began marketing a Spiro Agnew
wristwatch. It was a result of the current joke: "Did you know that Mickey
Mouse wears a Spiro Agnew watch.
(SFC, 1/3/03, p.A28)
1970 Royal Dutch/Shell Oil Co. had Norwegian crews install the
huge (14,500 ton) Brent Spar oil rig in the North Sea. In 1995, after three
years of controversy over dumping the rig in the deep sea, Shell agreed
to tote it ashore someplace for dismantling.
(WSJ, 6/22/95, p.A-14)
1970 Ford elected Lee Iacocca as president.
(WSJ, 6/19/96, Adv. Supl)
1970 Chrysler imported vehicles built by Mitsubishi Motors under
the Dodge and Plymouth names.
(WSJ, 6/19/96, Adv. Supl)
1970 Honda discontinued the S800 2-seater after this model year.
A new S2000 was introduced to the US in 1999.
(USAT, 9/17/99, p.8D)
1970 Lou Menk (d.1999 at 81) merged the Great Northern, the Northern
Pacific and the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy railroads to create the
giant Burlington Northern Railroad.
(SFC, 11/27/99, p.C4)
1970 The over-the-counter stock market exchange was transformed
into the NASDAQ, or National Association of Securities Dealers Automated
Quotation market. It is an electronic network of some 500 dealers who trade
a list of about 4,800 stocks.
(Hem, 8/95, p.78)
1970 Geographic Information Systems (GIS) were developed to record
environmental changes over large geographic areas and time. By 1995 electronic
mapmaking software and demographics could be put on the desk top computer
for $2000.
(Hem., Oct. '95, p.57)
1970 The first electronic editing terminals were used by newspapers.
(SFC, 1/29/00, p.E3)
1970 Intel Corp. brought out the world’s first commercially produced
memory chip and launched the personal-computer revolution.
(SFEC,10/26/97, BR p.3)
1970 Intel Corp. created the first microprocessor, computer on
a chip. It used 2,300 transistors.
(SFC, 10/11/00, p.A6)
1970 Pan American World Airways offered reservations for a flight
to the moon and 93,000 people sign up.
(Hem, Dec. 94, p.71)
1970 Dr. John D. Anderson announced that radio signals bounced
off of the Mariner VI spacecraft had returned with a time lag of 204 microseconds.
At this time the spacecraft had reached a distance of about 2 1/2
times earth's average distance from the sun. It was a delay that fell within
the error limits of Einstein’s theory and attributed to the effect of the
sun's gravitation on the radio waves.
(TNG, Klein, p.176)
1970 The new antibiotic vancomycin was introduced. It was regarded
as a silver bullet against Staphylococcus aureus until some organisms began
showing resistance in 1997.
(SFC, 5/29/97, p.A4)
1970 The FDA approved lithium medication for manic depressives.
(MT, Spg. ‘99, p.21)
1970 A vaccine against anthrax began to be used.
(SFC, 1/22/99, p.A19)
1970 Geerat "Gary" Vermeij, a blind scientist, while studying
mollusks in Guam, discovered that predators play a major role in determining
how and why species change. In 1992 he was awarded a MacArthur Fellowship
and in 1996 published "Privileged Hands: A Scientific Life."
(SFC, 7/7/96, Par, p.15)
1970 An oil barge owned by Irving Oil Co. of St. John, Canada,
sank in the Gulf of the St. Lawrence about 40 miles north of Prince Edward
Island. It contained 4,200 tons of oil and 7.5 tons of PCB heating fluid.
In 1996 a salvage effort was attempted.
(SFC, 7/21/96, p.A19)
1970 Benny Bufano (b.1898), sculptor, died. He was known for his
late-career bullet-shaped public sculptures.
(SFC, 12/8/00, p.C1)
1970 E.M. Forster (b.1879 as Edward Morgan Forster), English novelist,
died.
(SFC,12/26/97, p.C22)
1970 Lorine Niedecker (b.1903), died. She was a Wisconsin-born
objectivist-influenced poet.
(SFEC, 4/23/00, BR p.6)
1970 Barnett Newman (b.1905), an artist of the abstract expressionist
movement, died. His "zips" consisted of fields of flat color punctuated
by vertical stripes.
(SFC,11/22/97, p.D5)(SFC, 3/30/02, p.D1)(NW, 4/22/02, p.66)
1970 Walter Reuther (1907-1970) died in a plane crash. He was
a die maker who pioneered the establishment of the United Automobile Workers
union and served as the UAW president from 1946 for 24 years.
(WSJ, 6/19/96, Adv. Supl)
1970 Mark Rothko (b.1903), painter, committed suicide. His work
moved to abstraction in the 1940s. The execution of his will provoked a
long drawn out court case. His daughter charged the executors and the owner
of Rothko’s gallery with conspiracy and conflict of interest, and won.
A 1998 show was accompanied by the book "Mark Rothko" by Jeffrey Weiss
with contributions by John Cage, Carol-Mancusi-Ungaro, Barbara Novak, Brian
O’Doherty, Mark Rosenthal and Jessica Stewart.
(V.D.-H.K.p.362)(WSJ, 6/4/98, p.A16)(SFEC, 6/7/98, BR p.4)
1970 Eight Nepalese climbers died after being swept off of Mt.
Everest by fierce winds.
(SFC, 5/15/96, A-10)
1970 Cambodia's Prince Norodom Sihanouk fled to China and began
compiling his Bulletin Mensuel de Documentation (Monthly Documentation
Bulletin). The bulletin continued on an off thru 2003.
(WSJ, 5/15/03, p.A1)
1970 In Chile a US CIA-backed kidnapping attempt was botched and
left Gen. Rene Schneider dead. Schneider had opposed a US plan for a military
coup. In 2001 his widow and 3 sons filed a suit against Henry Kissinger,
Richard Helms and several other former US bureaucrats.
(SFC, 9/12/01, p.C4)
1970 In Colombia Misael Pastrana (d.1997 at 73), a member of the
Conservative Party, was elected president by a margin of 63,000 votes.
Some who favored his opponent, Gen’l. Gustavo Rojas Pinilla, formed the
M-19 rebel group and waged war for almost 2 decades before they disarmed
in 1989.
(SFC, 8/23/97, p.A20)
1970 The shooting of tigers was banned in India.
(NG, 12/97, p.13)
1970 In Italy divorce became legal.
(SFC, 1/29/00, p.E3)
1970 A world exposition was held in Osaka, Japan.
(Jap. Enc., BLDM, p. 216)
1970 In Japan Yoshimi Tanaka and a group of students of the Red
Army Faction seized a Japan Airlines jet and flew to Pyongyang, N. Korea.
(SFC, 6/16/96, p.A10)
1970 In Osaka, Japan, the ‘70 Expo featured the Multiscreen Corporation
production of the film Tiger Child.
(Hem., 3/97, p.81)
1970 In Mexico work began in Cancun to develop a tourist attraction.
(SFEC, 5/17/98, p.T10)
1970 In Northern Ireland Ian Paisley founded the uncompromising
Democratic Unionist Party. He was virulently anti-Catholic and sought the
military defeat of the IRA.
(SFC, 4/11/98, p.A8)
1970 In Portuguese Angola the father of Michael Durney bought
the Mampeza Industrial SARL, a cannery in Benguela. By 1997 under Michael
it was processing 5 tons of tuna a day and one tone of sardines and mackerel.
(WSJ, 11/10/97, p.A17)
1970 The South Pacific islands of Tonga gained independence from
Britain.
(SFC, 7/1/97, p.A9)
1970 The UNESCO Convention on the Means of Prohibiting and Preventing
the Illicit Import, Export and Transfer of Ownership of Cultural Property
was set up to protect cultural heritage.
(AM, 5/01, p.20)
1970s In 1999 Stephen Paul Miller authored "The Seventies Now:
Culture as Surveillance."
(SFEC, 8/29/99, BR p.2)
1970s "Retro Hell: Life in the ‘70s and ‘80’s, from Afros to Zotz"
was edited by editors of Ben Is Dead magazine in 1997.
(SFC,11/27/97, p.C9)
1970s Armistead Maupin wrote the newspaper serial "Tales of the
City," about the romantic ups and downs of gays and straights in San Francisco.
(SFEC, 3/30/97, DB. p.35)
1970s Linda Lovelace, aka Linda Boreman, made a hit with her film
"Deep Throat," the first movie to score a 100 from Screw Magazine. She
signed for the film after a performance in which she was mounted by a German
shepherd.
(WSJ, 4/10/97, p.A12)
1970s "The Six Million Dollar Man" ran as a TV series with Lee
Majors. It was based on the book Cyborg by Martin Caidin (d.1997 at 69).
(SFC, 3/26/97, p.C3)
1970s The Electric Light Orchestra (ELO) was one of the most innovative
bands of the era.
(SFC, 7/7/96, DB p.50)
1970s In the late 70s Washington signed a covenant whereby Saipan
became the capital of the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands.
The 34,000 permanent residents became US citizens but could not in US presidential
elections. The CNMI was allowed to set its own tax, immigration and labor
policies.
(WSJ, 2/20/97, p.A20)
1970s Antitrust laws forced the breakup of the United Shoe Company
in Mass.
(WSJ, 10/2/97, p.A16)
1970s The army confirmed the presence of weapons at the Oregon
Umatilla Munitions depot.
(SFEC, 4/27/97, p.A18)
1970s The Pez Pall Bride and Groom candy containers were produced.
(SFC, 6/25/97, Z1 p.6)
1970s Dr. Clyde Wiegand (1915-1996) opened a field called keonic
physics, wherein subatomic called k-mesons take the place of electrons
in atoms.
(SFC, 7/9/96, p.20)
1970s Lawrence E. Crooks and Jerome Singer, professors at UC in
SF and Berkeley, invented Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) technology along
with about 20 other univ. employees.
(SFC, 12/2/97, p.A18)
1970s On the island of Bonaire, Netherland Antilles, spearfishing
was outlawed off the island.
(SFEC, 10/6/96, T8)
1970s In Ceylon, the Tamil rebellion began and thousands were
killed in the ultra-leftist campaign. Suicide bombers of the Tamil Tigers
later killed Pres. Ranasinghe Premadasa and former Indian Prime Minister
Rajiv Gandhi.
(SFC, 6/20/96, p.A8)
1970s Late, In Colombia three of the largest holding companies
in the country bought stock from each other in order to protect themselves
from hostile takeovers. The newly formed Antioquean Syndicate was composed
of: Suramericana de Seguros, Nacional de Chocolates, and Cementos Argos.
(WSJ, 1/16/97, p.A12)
1970s In Greece in the mid 1970s the November 17 terrorist group
began a series of killings and bombings.
(SFC, 1/14/98, p.C3)
1970s In Mexico the government expropriated thousands of acres
of ejido (collective) land nationwide to promote tourism and other development.
(SFC, 1/31/97, p.A14)
1970s In New Zealand Matiu Rata (d.1997 at 63) set up the Waitangi
Tribunal to resolve Maori claims to land lost to white settlement.
(SFC, 7/26/97, p.A24)
1970s In South Korea conservative politician Kim Jong Pil, the
father of the secret police agency, led the kidnapping and near assassination
of politician Kim Dae Jung.
(SFC,12/15/97, p.B1)
1970s-1998 In Brazil gold miners worked in the Yanomani reservation
near Venezuela and introduced disease that cut the Indian population by
more than half.
(WSJ, 1/15/98, p.A1)
1970-1971 Marcus Welby, M.D. was the top ranking network show on television
with a ranking of 29.6%. Robert Young (d.1998 at 91) played his TV role
"Marcus Welby, M.D." until 1976.
(WSJ, 4/24/95, p.R-5)(SFC, 7/23/98, p.C4)
1970-1972 Lord Geoffrey Ripon of Hexham (d. 1997 at 72), a member of
Prime Minister Heath’s cabinet negotiated favorable terms for Britain’s
entry into the European Economic Community.
(SFC, 1/30/97, p.C2)
1970-1974 William T. Cahill (1912-1996), was the governor of New Jersey.
(SFC, 7/3/96, p.C4)
1970-1975 Lon Nol was officially backed by the US as leader of Cambodia.
He officially invited the US to extend the war in Vietnam into Cambodia
to wreck the Ho Chi Minh supply trail.
(SFC, 8/14/97, p.A25)
1970-1976 Premier Robert Bourassa led the province of Quebec.
(SFC, 10/3/96, p.C6)
1970-1976 Mexico was ruled by Luis Echeverria with a populist
approach. He devalued the peso and started a tradition of currency instability
and economic crises.
(WSJ, 12/5/95, p.A-14)(WSJ, 8/13/97, p.A12)
1970-1977 The TV show "McCloud" with Dennis Weaver was written and produced
by Leslie Stevens (d.1998).
(SFC, 4/29/98, p.C2)
1970-1977 In Sri Lanka Sirimavo Bandaranaike served as prime minister
for a 2nd term.
(HNQ, 5/23/98)
1970-1978 In Canada Gerald Regan served as the premier of Nova Scotia.
In 1995 charges were filed that he sexually assaulted 2 girls (14) in 1956
and another young woman (18) in 1969. He was tried in 1998 at age 70. He
was acquitted by a jury as 19 other women came forward with charges of
sexual assault.
(SFC, 12/17/98, p.C9)(SFEC, 12/20/98, p.A35)
1970-1980 CAT Scan (Computer Assisted Tomography) technology was developed.
(MT, 10/94, p.9)
1970-1998 The history of Cambodia over this period was covered by Henry
Kamm of the NY Times: "Cambodia: Report from a Stricken Land."
(SFEC, 10/18/98, BR p.2)