Timeline 1970
Return to home
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 1, Pres. Nixon signed the
National Environmental Policy Act into law.
(WSJ, 2/25/97,
p.A22)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Environmental_Policy_Act)
1970 Jan 1, The Family Law Act
took effect in California. It included no-fault divorce.
(SFC, 7/20/07, p.B12)(www.jstor.org/pss/351519)
1970 Jan 1, In SF Officer Eric
Zelms was fatally shot when 2 burglars surprised him and gained control
of his gun. The burglars were later convicted of murder and sentenced 8
to 10 years.
(SFC, 1/27/07, p.A8)
1970 Jan 3, "Mame" closed at
Winter Garden Theater in NYC after 1508 performances.
(http://www.ibdb.com/production.php?id=3142)
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 (1919-1973) for $35,000 for damages caused by the
"Woodstock" rock festival.
(www.woodstockpreservation.org/pastpresent/maxtribute.html)
1970 Jan 10, Charles Olson
(b.1910), American poet, died in NYC. Volume Three of his Maximus Poems
appeared posthumously in 1975.
(SFC, 6/12/06,
p.D8)(www.english.uiuc.edu/maps/poets/m_r/olson/life.htm)
1970 Jan 12, In Nigeria the
30-month civil war ended. The Biafran forces surrendered after nearly a
million ethnic Igbos died mostly of hunger and disease. Emeka Ojukwu
had led some 40 million Igbos in secession. In 2008 Nigeria paid the
pension of Ojukwu and 63 other former rebels as part of efforts to heal
wounds. In 2007 Pres. Obasanjo declared Jan 15 as “Armed Forces
Remembrance Day" in honor of the soldiers that died in the war.
(HNQ, 5/9/00)(AFP, 1/15/07)
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 20, William T. Cahill
(1912-1996), began serving as the governor of New Jersey and continued
to 1974.
(SFC, 7/3/96,
p.C4)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_T._Cahill)
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)(www.boeing.com/commercial/747family/pf/pf_milestones.html)
1970 Jan 23, Evel Knievel made a
motorcycle jump over parked cars and trucks at the Cow Palace in Daly
City, Ca.
(www.stevemandich.com/evelincarnate/eveltimeline.htm)
1970 Jan 25, The Robert Altman
film "M*A*S*H" premiered in NYC.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MASH_(film))
1970 Jan 21, Timothy Leary
(1920-1996) was sentenced to 10 years in prison for possession of two
roaches of marijuana in 1968.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timothy_Leary)
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)(www.boeing.com/commercial/747family/pf/pf_milestones.html)
1970 Jan 27, Movie rating system
modified "M" rating to "PG."
(www.thedeal.com/dealscape/2006/01/)
1970 Jan 28, Israeli fighter jets
attacked the suburbs of Cairo.
(HN, 1/28/99)
1970 Jan, The Washington Monthly
reported that the US army had been closely watching civilian political
activity within the United States for the last 4 years.
(www.cmhpf.org/senator%20sam%20ervin.htm)
1970 Jan, In Turkey the
Islamic-oriented National Order Party formed under leadership of
Necmettin Erbakan.
(AP, 11/4/02)
1970 Feb 1, In Buenos Aires,
Argentina, an express train rammed stationary commuter train and 236
people were killed.
(SFC, 6/4/98, p.A15) (AP, 2/18/04)
1970 Feb 2, Bertrand Russell
(B.1872), philosopher, social gadfly and 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)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bertrand_Russell)
1970 Feb 11, Japan launched its
first satellite, Ohsumi-1. That launch made Japan the fourth nation
with a space rocket powerful enough to launch satellites to Earth
orbit, after the USSR, the US and France.
(www.spacetoday.org/Japan/Japan/History.html)
1970 Feb 12, Dean Arthur
Schwartzmiller (28) was convicted in Juneau, Alaska, of 2 charges of
lewd conduct after being accused of molesting 2 boys. Over the next 35
years he was arrested in 6 more states on molestation charges. In 2005
police in San Jose found notebooks at his home that documented over
36,000 sex acts with young boys. In 2006 a jury in Santa Clara, Ca.,
convicted Schwartzmiller (64) of molesting 2 San Jose boys. In 2007 he
was sentenced to 152 years to life in prison.
(SFC, 6/17/05, p.A1)(SFC, 9/19/06, p.A1)(SFC,
1/30/07, p.A1)
1970 Feb 13, GM reportedly
redesigned automobiles to run on unleaded fuel.
(HN, 2/13/98)
1970 Feb 15, William Kunstler,
Chicago defense attorney, got a four-year sentence on contempt charges
for his conduct during the Chicago Seven trial.
(www.accessmylibrary.com/coms2/summary_0286-28417105_ITM)
1970 Feb 15, A Dominican DC-9
crashed into sea at Santo Domingo and 102 people were killed.
(http://aviation-safety.net/database/record.php?id=19700215-0)
1970 Feb 16, In SF a homemade
bomb, placed outside the police Park Station on Waller St., exploded.
Sgt. Brian McDonnell (44) died 2 days later and 8 other officers were
injured. Black Panthers were suspected, but a later investigation
suggested it was the work of the Weather Underground.
(SFC, 1/27/07, p.A8)(SFC, 2/17/07, p.B1)
1970 Feb 17, Robert Marasco's
"Child's Play," opened at the Royal theater on Broadway.
(http://tinyurl.com/3thznf)
1970 Feb 17, Joni Mitchell
(b.1943) held a concert at London’s Royal Albert Hall.
(http://tinyurl.com/3etl9t)
1970 Feb 17, 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. In 2005 evidence was presented that Helena
Stoeckley (1953-1983), a defense witness, had admitted to a prosecutor
that she was at MacDonald’s house on the night of the murder.
(WSJ, 4/16/97, p.A1)(WSJ, 12/14/05,
p.A1)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeffrey_R._MacDonald)
1970 Feb 17, Alfred Newman
(b.1900), US composer, died.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred_Newman)
1970 Feb 17, S.Y. Agnon, Jewish
writer and Nobel Prize winner (1966) died in Jerusalem. His books
included “Days of Awe,” a compendium of Jewish practices, legends and
commentaries.
(WSJ, 9/22/07, p.W6)(www.kirjasto.sci.fi/agnon.htm)
1970 Feb 18, The Chicago Seven
defendants were found innocent of conspiring to incite riots at the
1968 Democratic national convention; five were convicted of violating
the Anti-Riot Act of 1968, but those convictions were later reversed.
In January reporter J. Anthony Lukas published "The Barnyard Epithet
and Other Obscenities: Notes on the Chicago Conspiracy Trial."
(AP, 2/18/08)(SFC, 6/7/97, p.A19)
1970 Feb 20, Cheyenne Brando
(d.1995), daughter of Marlon, was born in Papeete, Tahiti.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cheyenne_Brando)
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, The PFLP-GC planted a
time bomb on a Swissair jet that blew up on a flight from Zurich to Tel
Aviv. All 47 aboard were killed.
(SFC, 5/21/02,
p.A16)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swissair_Flight_330)
1970 Feb 23, Guyana became a
republic.
(HFA, '96, p.22)
1970 Feb 24, 29 Swiss Army
officers died in avalanche at Reckingen, Switzerland.
(http://library.thinkquest.org/C003603/english/avalanches/casestudies.shtml#54)
1970 Feb 25, Mark Rothko (b.1903),
painter, committed suicide in NYC. He was born in Dvinsk, Russia, which
is now Daugavpils, Latvia, and his family moved to Portland, Ore., in
1913. 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.
(WSJ, 6/4/98, p.A16)(SFEC, 6/7/98, BR p.4)(AP,
11/11/03)(http://slate.msn.com/?id=2923)
1970 Feb 26, Beatles released
"Beatles Again," aka the "Hey Jude" album.
(www.dmbeatles.com/disk.php?disk=54)
1970 Feb 26, "Georgy" opened at
Winter Garden Theater in NYC for 4 performances.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georgy)
1970 Feb 26, Five Marines were
arrested on charges of murdering 11 South Vietnamese women and
children.
(HN, 2/26/98)
1970 Feb 28, Bicycles were
permitted to cross the Golden Gate Bridge.
(www.goldengatebridge.org/research/dates.php)
1970 Mar 1, Kreisky's
social-democrats won the Austrian parliamentary election.
(http://tinyurl.com/3tv72y)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Austrian_legislative_election,_1970)
1950 Mar 1, Kim Soo-im (b.1911), a
former US-employed assistant and lover to provost marshal Col. John E.
Baird, was arrested by South Korean police, joining thousands of others
ensnared in President Syngman Rhee's roundups of leftists — workers and
writers, teachers, peasants and others with suspect politics. She was
soon tried and executed in June by South Korea as an alleged spy.
(AP, 8/17/08)
1970 Mar 1, The white government
of Rhodesia declared independence from Britain.
(http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/march/2/newsid_2514000/2514683.stm)
1970 Mar 2, The US Supreme Court
set age 23 as the cut-off for prosecuting men who fail to register for
the draft on their 18th birthday.
(http://tinyurl.com/4urpvk)
1970 Mar 3, Systems and Services
Company went public. John Baugh (1916-2007) created Sysco Corp. by
combining 9 regional companies, most of them frozen-food distributors
like his Zero Foods Co., founded right after WW II.
(WSJ, 3/17/07, p.A5)
1970 Mar 4, The French submarine
Eurydice exploded and sank in the Mediterranean off Cape Camarat
killing all 57 of its crew.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eurydice_(S644))
1970 Mar 5, A nuclear
non-proliferation treaty went into effect after 43 nations ratified it.
France and China only signed on in 1992.
(AP, 3/5/98)(Econ, 6/10/06, p.21)
1970 Mar 6, In NYC’s Greenwich
Village a townhouse at 18 West 11th St. exploded. SDS 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)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diana_Oughton)
1970 Mar 6, The Beatles released
"Let it Be" in UK.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Let_It_Be_(song))
1970 Mar 8, The Nixon
administration disclosed the deaths of 27 Americans in Laos.
(HN, 3/8/98)
1970 Mar 11, Iraq’s Ba’ath Party
agreed to an autonomy accord with the Kurd nation.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iraqi_Kurdistan)
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. In December it moved to the Winter Garden
Theater and in March 1971 to the ANTA Playhouse where it closed in
November after a total of 688 performances.
(www.ibdb.com/production.php?id=3514)
1970 Mar 15, Expo '70, promoting
"Progress and Harmony for Mankind," opened in Osaka, Japan. The ‘70
Expo featured the Multiscreen Corporation production of the film Tiger
Child.
(Jap. Enc., BLDM, p. 216)(Hem., 3/97, p.81)(AP,
3/15/08)
1970 Mar 17, The US 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 UN Security Council. The US 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 US 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 21, Marlen Haushofer
(b.1920), Austrian writer died. Her 1962 novel “The Wall” was her only
work translated into English.
(WSJ, 4/25/09,
p.W8)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marlen_Haushofer)
1970 Mar 23, Mafia "Boss" Carlo
Gambino was arrested for plotting to steal $3 million.
(HN, 3/23/98)
1970 Mar 23, US performed the
Shaper nuclear test in Nevada.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Mandrel)
1970 Mar 25, The Concorde, an
Anglo-French airplane, made its first supersonic flight.
(HN, 3/24/98)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Concorde)
1970 Mar 26, "Minnie's Boys"
opened at Imperial Theater in NYC for 80 performances.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minnie%27s_Boys)
1970 Mar 26, The US conducted the
Handley nuclear test in Nevada.
(http://tinyurl.com/3urgtw)
1970 Mar 26, Peter Yarrow
(b.1938), of the singing trio Peter, Paul & Mary, pleaded guilty to
taking "immoral liberties" with a minor, referring to an incident
between Mr. Yarrow and a 14-year old. He served 3 months in jail;
11 years later he was pardoned by President Carter.
(http://theawarenesscenter.org/yarrow_peter.html)
1970 Mar 28, Over 1,000 people
were killed when a major earthquake damaged 254 villages in Gediz,
Turkey. Estimates of the magnitude varied from 6.9 to 7.3.
(http://earthquake.usgs.gov/regional/world/events/1970_03_28.php)
1970 Mar 30, Secretariat (d.1989),
triple crown race horse (1973), was born in Virginia.
(http://espn.go.com/sportscentury/features/00016464.html)
1970 Mar 30, The musical
"Applause" with Lauren Bacall opened on Broadway. It was based on the
movie "All About Eve."
(SFEC, 5/18/97, Par p.7)(AP, 3/30/07)
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.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semyon_Timoshenko)
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 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 1, American Motors Corp.
(AMC) introduced the compact Gremlin for $1879. It was designed by
Richard Teague on the back of a Northwest Airlines sickness bag. The
last Gremlin was made in 1978.
(www.allpar.com/amc/gremlin.html)(SFC, 3/14/05,
p.A10)
1970 Apr 2, The US registered 1967
UN amendments on the 1946 convention for the regulation of whaling.
(http://tinyurl.com/4wpco8)
1970 Apr 5, Six Nepalese Sherpas
died in an avalanche during a Japanese skiing expedition on Everest.
(SFC, 5/15/96,
A-10)(www.everestsummiteersassociation.org/listofdeadoneverst.htm)
1970 Apr 7, "Effects of Gamma Rays
on Man-in-the-moon Marigolds," premiered in NYC. The play was written
in 1964 by Paul Zindel, playwright and science teacher. Zindel received
the 1971 Pulitzer Prize for Drama for the work.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Effect_of_Gamma_Rays_on_Man-in-the-Moon_Marigolds)
1970 Apr 7, In the 42nd Academy
Awards in Los Angeles "Midnight Cowboy" won for best picture, John
Wayne for best actor (True Grit) and Maggie Smith for best actress (The
Prime of Miss Jean Brodie).
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/42nd_Academy_Awards)
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, The Beatles' "Let It
Be" single was released in the US and quickly went to #1.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Let_It_Be_(song))
1970 Apr 11, Apollo 13 blasted off
on a mission to the moon, commanded by Jim Lovell, that was disrupted
on April 13, when an explosion crippled the spacecraft. The astronauts
managed to return safely on April 17.
(AP, 4/11/97)(AWAM, Dec. 94, p.79)(TMC, 1994, p.1970)
1970 Apr 11, John H. O'Hara
(b.1905), US journalist and novelist (Pal Joey, Rage to Live), died. In
2003 Geoffrey Wolff authored "The Art of Burning Bridges: The Life of
John O'Hara."
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_O%27Hara)(SSFC,
8/31/03, p.M2)
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 (b.1925) was allowed to go into exile. His music included
the film score for Zorba the Greek (1964).
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mikis_Theodorakis)
1970 Apr 14, The Sandy Wilson
musical "Boy Friend" opened at Ambassador Theater in NYC for 119
performances. The original London production was in 1954.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Boy_Friend)
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 21, Bruno Kreisky
(1911-1990) became the 1st socialist chancellor of Austria.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruno_Kreisky)
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. Gaylord selected Pete McCloskey as co-chairman.
Organizers later identified 12 anti-environment members of the US House
and Senate, 7 of whom son lost their seats.
(TMC, 1994, p.1970)(WSJ, 4/22/96, p.A22)(AP,
4/22/97)(WSJ, 5/12/99, p.A23)(HNQ, 6/2/99)(SSFC, 4/18/04, p.E3)
1970 Apr 24, Operation Patio was a
covert aerial interdiction effort conducted by the United States
Seventh Air Force in Cambodia from 24-29 April 1970 during the Vietnam
Conflict. It served as a tactical adjunct to the heavier B-52 bombing
missions being carried out in Operation Menu.
(www.nationmaster.com/encyclopedia/Operation-Patio)
1970 Apr 24, China launched its
1st satellite, known as China 1 or Mao 1, to orbit on a Long March
rocket. It kept transmitting a song, "The East is Red." China became
the fifth country to launch a satellite into space, sending up the
Dongfanghong-1, which means "The East is Red."
(www.spacetoday.org/Satellites/Iran/IranianSat.html)(AP, 4/24/97)
1970 Apr 26, The musical,
"Company," opened at the Alvin Theatre on Broadway. It starred Elaine
Stritch and ran for [690] 705 performances. It was directed by Hal
Prince. George Furth wrote the book and Stephen Sondheim (b.1930) wrote
the score.
(AP, 4/26/98)(http://www.sondheim.com/works/company/)
1970 Apr 26, Gypsy Rose Lee
(b.1911), stripper and actress, died. Her 1957 memoir, written as a
monument to her mother, was made into the stage musical and film Gypsy.
In 2009 Rachel Shteir authored “Gypsy: The Art of the Tease.”
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gypsy_Rose_Lee)(SSFC,
3/22/09, Books p.J3)
1970 Apr 29, Andre Agassi, tennis
star and winner of an Olympic gold medal in 1996, was born in Las
Vegas, Nev.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andre_Agassi)
1970 Apr 29, Uma Thurman, actress,
was born in Boston, Mass. Her films included “The Adventures of Baron
Munchausen” (1988) and “Pulp Fiction” (1994).
(http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000235/)
1970 Apr 29, In Australia a large
wooden log was placed on the winding track in front of a royal train
carrying Queen Elizabeth and her husband Prince Philip to the town of
Orange. The train did not derail as it was traveling too slowly. The
incident was only revealed in 2009 by a retired detective.
(AFP, 1/28/09)
1970 Apr 29, 50,000 US and South
Vietnamese troops invaded Cambodia [see Apr 30].
(SFEC, 4/23/00,
p.A19)(www.democraticcentral.com/showDiary.do?diaryId=1972)
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 30, Inger Stevens
(b.1934, Stockholm-born star of TV’s “The Farmer’s Daughter,” died of
an overdose. For all intents and purposes, Ms. Stevens' death was a
suicide but following her death, it came out in the tabloids that she
had been secretly married to African-American Ike Jones since 1961. The
couple was estranged at the time of her death.
(www.imdb.com/name/nm0828447/bio)
1970 Apr 30, Yoshimi Tanaka and a
group of students of the Red Army Faction, including Shiro Akagi,
seized a Japan Airlines jet and flew to Pyongyang, N. Korea, in Japan's
first ever case of air piracy. In 1996 Tanaka was sentenced to 12 years
in prison.
(http://tinyurl.com/3c4bk7)(AP,
6/5/07)(www.tkb.org/KeyLeader.jsp?memID=102)
1970 Apr, Melanie Safka (b.1947)
made a hit with her song "Lay Down.” It became part of her Candles in
the Rain album released in May 1970.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melanie_Safka)
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 the Kentucky Derby.
(www.accessmylibrary.com/coms2/summary_0286-8312437_ITM)
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 4, The US FCC adopted the
prime time access rule (PTAR), to be fully effective as of October 1,
1971. Four months after its adoption, however, the Commission on August
7, 1970, significantly amended the rule, delaying until October 1,
1972, the effective date of the off-network and feature films
provisions.
(http://tinyurl.com/5lefgv)
1970 May 4, A dispatch filed from
Saigon described looting by US soldiers at the Cambodian town of Snuol.
The mention of looting was removed by an editor in New York before the
story was transmitted to newspapers in the United States.
(AP, 7/11/07)
1970 May 6, Yuichiro Miura
(b.1932) of Japan skied down Mt. Everest.
(http://vault.sportsillustrated.cnn.com/vault/article/magazine/MAG1090978/index.htm)
1970 May 7, Carlos Estrada
(b.1909), Uruguayan composer, died.
(www.answers.com/topic/carlos-estrada)
1970 May 8, Anti-war protests took
place across the United States and around the world. Construction
workers broke up an anti-war protest on New York City's Wall Street.
(AP, 5/8/07)
1970 May 9, 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)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_Reuther)
1970 May 11, The song "Long &
Winding Road" by the Beatles was released in the US. It was their last
American release.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Long_and_Winding_Road)
1970 May 12, The US Senate voted
unanimously to confirm Harry A. Blackmun as a Supreme Court justice.
Blackmun (1908-1999) was nominated to the US Supreme Court by Richard
Nixon on April 14, 1970.
(AP,
5/12/97)(www.law.cornell.edu/supct/justices/blackmun.bio.html)
1970 May 12, In Augusta, Georgia,
an overnight riot left 6 black men dead. Autopsies confirmed that the
six men killed were all shot in the back with police-issued shotguns.
(www.socyberty.com/History/Augusta-Georgia-Riot-of-1970.237549)
1970 May 12, Premier Robert
Bourassa (1933-1996) began serving his first term as the Liberal
Premier of the province of Quebec. This term ended in 1976. He then
served a 2nd term from 1985-1994.
(SFC, 10/3/96,
p.C6)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Bourassa)
1970 May 14, In West Germany
Andreas Baader, a rabid opponent of the Vietnam War, broke out of
prison with the help of gang members including Ulrike Meinhof.
(WSJ, 4/3/09,
p.A15)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ulrike_Meinhof)
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.
(http://tinyurl.com/4p3x2n)
1970 May 17, Thor Heyerdahl
(1914-2002), Norwegian anthropologist, left Morocco aboard Ra II, a
papyrus reed boat, and sailed 3,270 nautical miles across the Atlantic
to Barbados in 57 days [see Jul 12].
(SFC, 4/19/02,
p.A2)(www.spiritus-temporis.com/thor-heyerdahl/)
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 20, The Beatles movie
"Let it Be" premiered in Britain. The documentary film was about a
Beatles’ recording session.
(SFEC, 3/8/98, DB
p.47)(www.imdb.com/title/tt0065976/)
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
(b.1893), US writer, died. His books included “Measure of Man” (1954).
(www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/323961/Joseph-Wood-Krutch)
1970 May 25, Rachel Lindsay
Greenbush and Sidney Robin Greenbush, twin actresses, were born
in Hollywood, CA. From 1974 to 1982 the identical twins played
the character of Carrie Ingalls on Little House on the Prairie under
the credit “Lindsay Sidney Greenbush.”
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lindsay_and_Sidney_Greenbush)
1970 May 25, Michael Benyaer,
actor and writer, was born in Vancouver, BC.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Benyaer)
1970 May 27, Dougal Haston and Don
Whillans, members of a British expedition, climbed the south face of
Nepal’s Annapurna I, the 10th highest summit in the world.
(www.trentofestival.it/en/info/honorary%20members/SIR%20CHRIS%20BONINGTON.htm)
1970 May 27, USSR performs an
underground nuclear test.
(www.ldeo.columbia.edu/res/pi/Monitoring/Arch/sts-table/sts-table.html)
1970 May 29, John Gunther
(b.1901), American journalist and author, died.
(www.hwwilson.com/Print/14gunther.html)
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 29, In Sri Lanka Sirimavo
Bandaranaike began serving as the country’s 9th prime minister for a
2nd term and continued to 1977. His first term as the 7th PM of Ceylon
was from 1960-1965.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sirimavo_Bandaranaike)
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 US 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)(www.nps.gov/alca/historyculture/we-hold-the-rock.htm)
1970 May, Leonard Woodcock
(1911-2001) was named head of the UAW following the death of Walter
Reuther. He was elected to a full term at the union's 23rd
Constitutional Convention in April, 1972, and re-elected in 1974. He
retired in May 1977 and then served as US ambassador to China from
1979-1981.
(SFC, 1/18/01, p.C2)
1970 Jun 2, Har Gobind Khorana
(1922-1993), Indian-American chemist at the Univ. of Wisconsin,
announced the synthesis of the 1st artificial gene.
(www.super70s.com/Super70s/Timeline/1970/)(www.answers.com/topic/har-gobind-khorana)
1970 Jun 3, Hjalmar Horace Greeley
Schacht (b.1877), President of Germany’s Reichsbank (1933-1939),
minister of Economics (1934-1936), died. Schacht was tried for crimes
against peace in Nuremberg in 1946. His defense was that he was only a
banker and economist.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hjalmar_Schacht)
1970 Jun 7, The Who's Tommy was
performed at NY's Lincoln Center.
(www.bigozine2.com/archive/ARrarities/ARwhoortommy.html)
1970 Jun 7, E.M. Forster (b.1879
as Edward Morgan Forster), English novelist, died.
(SFC,12/26/97,
p.C22)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E._M._Forster)
1970 Jun 9, Harry A. Blackmun
(1908-1999), was sworn in as Supreme Court Justice.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry_Blackmun)
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,
Christian Evangelical missionary, died. In 1935, while working at a
remote location in the Philippines, he developed the "Each One Teach
One" literacy program. It has since been used to teach about 60 million
people to read in their own language.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Laubach)
1970 Jun 11, Frank Silvera
(b.1914), actor, died. He was accidentally electrocuted in his home. At
the time he was appearing on the TV series “High Chaparral.”
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Silvera)
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 11, Alexander F. Kerensky
(b.1881), Russian premier (1917), died.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Kerensky)
1970 Jun 13, Beatles' "Let It Be,"
album went #1 & stayed #1 for 4 weeks.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Let_It_Be)
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 17, North Vietnamese
troops cut the last operating rail line in Cambodia.
(HN, 6/17/98)
1970 Jun 19, "The Tim Conway
Show", TV Comedy, last aired on CBS after 13 episodes.
(www.tvrage.com/The_Tim_Conway_Show_1970)
1970 Jun 19, In SF police officer
Richard Radetich (25) was shot 3 times by a gunman as wrote a ticket in
a parked patrol car. Radetich died 15 hours later leaving behind a wife
and 8-month-old daughter.
(SFC, 1/27/07, p.A1)
1970 Jun 19, Edward Heath
(1916-2005) began serving as Britain’s prime minister and continued to
1974. Derek George Rayner (d.1998 at 72), later Lord Rayner, soon
joined the government to centralize defense procurement for PM Edward
Heath.
(Econ, 3/19/05, p.32)(SFC, 7/18/05,
p.B6)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Heath)
1970 Jun 19, A. Nikolayev and V.
Sevastyanov returned after 18 days in Russia’s Soyuz 9.
(www.astronautix.com/flights/soyuz9.htm)
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 21, Penn Central was
forced into bankruptcy. The default caught the market by surprise,
largely because commercial paper ratings were in their infancy. Fed
chairman Arthur Burns reacted by making discount window loans to banks
that lent to CP issuers.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Penn_Central_Transportation)(WSJ,
8/30/07, p.A3)
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 22, In Vietnam surgeon
Dang Thuy Tram (27) died after refusing to surrender to US troops
during a skirmish. Officer Frederick Whitehurst retrieved her the
diaries from her gutted field hospital, and decided at his translator's
urging not to burn them. The work was translated and published in 2006.
(AP,
4/3/06)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dang_Thuy_Tram)
1970 Jun 24, The film "Catch-22,"
directed by Mike Nichols, opened. It was based on the novel by Joseph
Heller.
(SFEC, 7/5/98, DB
p.44)(www.imdb.com/title/tt0065528/)
1970 Jun 24, The US Senate voted
overwhelmingly to repeal the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution. With fresh
evidence later available, claims that the Tonkin Gulf incident was
deliberately provoked gained new plausibility.
(HN, 6/24/98)(http://tinyurl.com/4x8keb)
1970 Jun 28-1970 Jun 29, Reinhold
and Gunther Messner of Tyrol, Italy, reached the 26,650-foot peak of
Nanga Parbat in northern Pakistan. Gunther (24) died during the
descent. In 2005 Reinhold retrieved his brother’s remains.
(WSJ, 12/10/03, p.A1)(SFC, 9/5/05, p.A2)
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 Jun 30, IBM announced the
System 370 computer.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/System_370)
1970 Jun, The Israeli government
passed its initial decision to establish settlements in Gaza.
(AP, 8/15/05)
1970 Jul 1, In Guatemala Gen.
Carlos Arana Osorio (1918-2003), a hard-line conservative of the
National Liberation Movement, began serving as president and continued
to 1974. He expanded efforts to bring armed rebels under control and
prosecuted student radicals. He declared a state of siege in his 1st
year.
(AP, 12/6/03)(SFC, 12/8/03,
p.A20)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carlos_Manuel_Arana_Osorio)
1970 Jul 2, Jessie Street
(b.1889), Australian civil rights activist, died.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jessie_Street)
1970 Jul 3, A British Dan-Air
charter, flying a Comet 4 turbojet, crashed near Barcelona and 112 were
killed.
(www.history.com/this-day-in-history.do?action=Article&id=834)
1970 Jul 4, Some 100 people were
injured in race rioting in Asbury Park, NJ. In 2005 Daniel Wolff
authored “Fourth of July, Asbury Park: A History of the Promised Land.”
(SSFC, 7/3/05, p.E1)
1970 Jul 4, Casey Kasem (b.1932)
debuted his "American Top 40" on LA radio.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Casey_Kasem)
1970 Jul 4, Barnett Newman
(b.1905), American 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 Jul 12, Thor Heyerdahl,
Norwegian ethnographer, crossed the Atlantic Ocean in "Ra" and docked
in Barbados.
(www.shipsonstamps.org/Topics/html/kontiki.htm)
1970 Jul 18, Arthur Brown
(b.1942), English rock singer, was arrested for stripping on stage in
Palermo, Sicily.
(www.godofhellfire.co.uk/60s.htm)
1970 Jul 21, The Aswan Dam opened
in Egypt. Over the years the giant dam caused the disruption of the
Nile's flow and destroyed vital mineral deposits. Fishing industries
have been linked to the spread of disease. Formal opening ceremonies
were held Jan 15, 1971.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aswan_High_Dam)
1970 Jul 21, Libya ordered the
confiscation of all Jewish property.
(http://tinyurl.com/48p4fy)
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, Freddie Mac (Federal
Home Loan Mortgage Corp.), a stockholder-owned corporation, was
chartered by Congress to keep money flowing to mortgage lenders in
support of homeownership and rental housing. Preston Martin (1923-2007)
helped spearhead its creation. It was listed as a public company in
1989.
(WSJ, 6/2/07,
p.A5)(www.freddiemac.com/investors/faq.html)(Econ, 7/19/08, p.80)
1970 Jul 24, Robert B. Choate
(d.2009 at 84), an engineer turned consumer advocate, testified on
nutrition information for consumers at a Senate subcommittee hearing
and used data supplied by cereal manufacturers. He ranked 60 cereals,
including Sugar Smacks, Froot Loops, and Lucky charms, by their
nutritive value, showing that 40 products offered such poor nourishment
that they were essentially “empty calories.”
(SFC, 5/22/09, p.B6)(http://tinyurl.com/qy7rgb)
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 Jul 26, The SF Chronicle
received a letter from the Zodiac killer with an unsubstantiated claim
of killing 13 people.
(SFC, 10/2/00, p.A19)
1970 Jul 27, Antonio de Oliveira
Salazar (b.1889), former dictator of Portugal (1932-68), died.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ant%C3%B3nio_de_Oliveira_Salazar)
1970 Jul 29, Six days of race
rioting began in Hartford, Ct.
(www.fsmitha.com/time1970.htm)
1970 Jul 29, John G.B. Barbirolli
(b.1899), English conductor, composer, died.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Barbirolli)
1970 Jul 29, Jonel Perlea (69),
Romania-born composer, died in NY. In 1957 he became the principal
conductor of the Connecticut Symphony and continued there for ten years.
(http://soundfountain.org/rem/remperlea.html)
1970 Jul 30, George Szell
(b.1897)), Hungarian-US conductor, died in Cleveland, Ohio. He had
served as the music director of the Cleveland Orchestra since 1946.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Szell)
1970 Aug 1, The dance piece "The
Fugue," created by Twyla Tharp (b.1941), premiered at the Univ. of
Massachusetts in Amherst.
(WSJ, 10/17/96,
p.A20)(www.abt.org/education/archive/ballets/fugue.html)
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 3, A 4-day NFL strike
ended when the owners agreed to put $4.5 million into the players'
pension fund and insurance benefits annually. The players also received
increased preseason and per diem payments.
(www.buffalobills.com/team/history/important-dates-august.html)
1970 Aug 3, Hurricane "Celia"
reached its peak as it made landfall near Corpus Christi, Texas, as a
strong Category Three hurricane.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hurricane_Celia)
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 7, In Colombia Misael
Pastrana (1923-1997), a member of the Conservative Party, began serving
as the country’s 31st president. He was elected 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)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Misael_Pastrana_Borrero)
1970 Aug 7, Israel, Jordan and
Egypt agreed to a ceasefire under the terms of the US proposed Roger
Plan. The Roger Plan was originally proposed in a December 9, 1969,
speech at an Adult Education conference. The plan was formally
announced on 19 June 1970.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_of_Attrition)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rogers_Plan)
1970 Aug 12, Curt Flood lost his
$41 million antitrust suit against baseball. On June 18, 1972, the US
Supreme Court upheld the lower court's rulings on Flood's case.
Baseball continued to be exempt from antitrust laws and its reserve
clause was upheld.
(www.scripophily.net/cuflasmi19.html)
1970 Aug 14, City University of NY
inaugurated open admissions.
(www.kipnotes.com/Colleges.htm)
1970 Aug 16, Benny Bufano
(b.1898), California-based Italian-American sculptor, died. He was
known for his late-career bullet-shaped public sculptures.
(SFC, 12/8/00,
p.C1)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benny_Bufano)
1970 Aug 17, Venera 7 was launched
by USSR for a soft landing on Venus.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venera_7)
1970 Aug 20, Ronald Tsukamoto
(b.1942), a Berkeley, Ca., rookie police officer, was shot and killed.
In 2004 Don Juan Warren Graphenreed (54) was arrested as a suspect in
the murder, but was released without being charged. In 2005 police
arrested Styles Price (56), a retired Oakland schoolteacher for the
killing. Graphenreed was again arrested at Corcoran State Prison, where
he was held on a drug charge. Price was soon freed and the case against
Graphenreed was dropped due to “insufficient corroborating
evidence.”(SSFC, 4/19/08, p.)
(SFC, 5/26/04, p.B3)(SFC, 6/16/04, p.B5)(SFC,
8/11/05, p.B1)(SFC, 8/13/05, p.B1)
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 25, Claudia Schiffer,
German fashion model, was born.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claudia_Schiffer)
1970 Aug 29, Ruben Salazar (42), a
Latino journalist for KMEX, was killed by a tear gas canister fired by
a sheriff’s deputy following an anti-war demonstration in East Los
Angeles. In 2008 a US postage stamp was issued in his honor.
(SFC, 4/21/08, p.A1)
1970 Aug, The first all-computer
championship was held in New York and won by CHESS 3.0 (CDC 6400), a
program written by Slate, Atkin and Gorlen at Northwestern University.
Six programs had entered the first Association for Computing Machinery
(ACM) North American Computer Championships. The event was organized by
Monty Newborn. The other programs were DALY CP, J Brit, COKO III,
SCHACH, and the Marsland CP.
(http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Lab/7378/comphis.htm)
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),
one of Fordham University‘s stalwart linemen known as the "Seven Blocks
of Granite" during his college days, succumbed to cancer in Washington,
D.C. 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. In 1999 David Maraniss authored "When Pride Still
Mattered: A Life of Vince Lombardi."
(AP, 9/3/97)(WSJ, 10/7/99, p.A28)
1970 Sep 4, Natalia Makarova
(b.1940), Russian ballet dancer, requested asylum while on tour in
Britain.
(WSJ, 10/1/98,
p.A20)(www.abt.org/education/archive/choreographers/makarova_n.html)
1970 Sep 4, Salvador Allende
Gossens (1908-1973) won the presidential election in Chile. A week
later in Washington Henry Kissinger discussed a "covert action program"
to oust Allende.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salvador_Allende)(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.
(www.baseclimb.com/BASE_history.htm)
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 11, In Laos the US
Operation Tailwind began with the objectives of reconnaissance,
intelligence collection, and a diversion for a larger operation to the
north. In 1998 it was reported that the 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 (1912-2004), the chairman of the Joint
Chiefs of Staff at the time (1970-1974), confirmed in 1998 that nerve
gas was used. CNN and Time magazine later recanted the story due to
insufficient evidence.
(www.scarface-usmc.org/tailwind.htm)(SFC, 6/8/98,
p.A3)(WSJ, 6/26/98, p.W13)(SFC, 7/3/98, p.A1)(SFC, 2/7/04, p.A21)
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.
(http://tinyurl.com/4ncp8t)(SFC, 6/1/96, p.A7)(SFC,
7/1/99, p.A9)
1970 Sep 12, The Univ. of Alabama
under coach Bear Bryant football team played against an integrated
opponent for the 1st time losing to the Univ. of Southern California
42-21.
(WSJ, 9/8/05, p.D10)
1970 Sep 12, The Soviet Union
launched its unmanned Soviet Luna 16. It was the first robotic probe to
land on the Moon and return a sample to Earth.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luna_16)
1970 Sep 13, The supersonic
airliner Concorde landed for the 1st time at Heathrow airport.
(www.aviation-news.co.uk/concordeChronology.html)
1970 Sep 15, Pres. Nixon
authorized a US-backed coup in Chile.
(SSFC, 6/9/02, p.F7)
1970 Sep 15, The Jordanian army
attacked Palestinian positions and expelled PLO officials and commandos
from Jordan. The PLO was driven out of Jordan and forced to move to
Lebanon.
(www.nmhschool.org/tthornton/mehistorydatabase/arabisraeliwars.php)(SFC,
2/8/99, p.A6)
1970 Sep 16, The American TV show
"McCloud" was released. It starred Dennis Weaver (1924-2006) and was
written and produced by Leslie Stevens (d.1998). The series continued
to 1977.
(SFC, 4/29/98, p.C2)(www.imdb.com/title/tt0065317/)
1970 Sep 18, Jimi Hendrix (27),
rock star guitarist, died in London of drug overdose. Hendrix had
performed briefly as an opening act for the Monkeys as well as behind
the Isley Brothers and Little Richard. In 1978 David Henderson authored
the biography “Scuse me While I Kiss the Sky.” In 2005 Charles R. Cross
authored “Room Full of Mirrors: A Biography of Jimi Hendrix.”
(WSJ, 1/9/97, p.A8)(AP, 9/18/97)(WSJ, 4/16/99,
p.W13C)(SSFC, 8/21/05, p.F1)
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. In 1989 Robert S. Alley and
Irby B. Brown authored “Love Is All Around,” a complete documentary of
the show.
(SFEC, 5/24/98, DB p.39)(AP, 9/19/00)(WSJ, 6/19/01,
p.A1)(WSJ, 11/12/05, p.P14)
1970 Sep, 19, The 1st Glastonbury
Fair attracted some 1,500 revelers. The first festival at Worthy Farm
was the Pilton Festival, mounted by Michael Eavis, and attended by
1,500 people. The first act to perform was the group Stackridge; the
headline act was T.Rex. The larger free festival at the summer solstice
in June the next year was the first to attract nationwide interest, and
the event became an important precursor of the later Glastonbury
Festivals. In 2004 some 115,000 were expected for what had become
Britain’s biggest pop festival.
(Econ, 6/26/04,
p.61)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glastonbury_Festival#1970s)
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, The Soviet Luna 16
landed on Moon’s Mare Fecunditatis and drilled a core sample.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luna_16)
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)(http://tinyurl.com/5qrct8)
1970 Sep 22, Abdul Razak
(1922-1976) became Malaysia’s 2nd prime minister.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tun_Abdul_Razak)
1970 Sep 24, The Soviet Luna 16
returned to Earth, completing the first unmanned round trip to the moon.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luna_16)
1970 Sep 25, Erich M. Remarque
(b.1898), German writer, died. His books included “Im West Nichts
Neues” (All Quiet on the Western Front), 1929.
(http://kirjasto.sci.fi/remarque.htm)
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 27, A cease-fire accord
was signed in Cairo between the Jordanian army and Palestinian
guerrillas by King Hussein and Yasser Arafat brokered by the Arab peace
committee headed by Bahi Ladgham of Tunisia.
(SFC, 4/16/98, p.B4)(http://tinyurl.com/6e3v9s)
1970 Sep 28, John Roderigo Dos
Passos (b.1896), US writer (Manhattan Transfer), died.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Dos_Passos)
1970 Sep 28, In Egypt Pres. Gamal
Abdul Nasser (b.1918) died of a heart attack. He became president in
1953. Anwar Sadat replaced Nasser.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gamal_Abdel_Nasser)
1970 Sep, Ford introduced the
compact 1971 Pinto. The car became infamous for its lethally exploding
gas tank. The car lasted to 1980.
(www.allpar.com/amc/gremlin.html)(SFC, 3/14/05,
p.A10)
1970 Sep, GM introduced the
compact 1971 Chevrolet Vega. The car was released in 1971 and lasted to
1977. The aluminum and cast-iron engine kept breaking.
(www.allpar.com/amc/gremlin.html)(SFC, 3/14/05,
p.A10)(WSJ, 12/22/08, p.B2)
1970 Sep, The Who, an English rock
band, released "See Me, Feel Me," the finale of its Tommy album, as a
single in the US.
(www.connollyco.com/discography/who/)
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 Univ. football team crashed near Silver Plume,
Colorado, killing 29 passengers as well as the Captain and Flight
Attendant.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wichita_State_University_Crash)
1970 Oct 3, "Coco" closed at Mark
Hellinger Theater NYC after 333 performances.
(www.playbill.com/news/article/117071.html)
1970 Oct 3, Baseball umpires
called their 1st strike. A one-day strike of the first game of the
championship playoffs, the first by umpires in major league history,
prompted the league presidents to recognize the Association and
negotiate a labor contract that set a minimum salary of $11,000 and
raised the average salary to $21,000.
(www.sdabu.com/history_main.htm)
1970 Oct 4, Janis Joplin (b.1943)
was found dead in a seedy Hollywood motel of a heroin overdose at age
27. Her classic songs included: "Down on Me," "Ball and Chain," and
"Piece of My Heart." In 1992 Laura Joplin authored “Love, Janis.”
(WSJ, 1/9/97, p.A8)(SFEC, 3/16/97, Z1 p.4)(SSFC,
8/21/05, p.F1)
1970 Oct 5, National Educational
Television (NET), the forerunner of Public Broadcasting Service (PBS),
commenced broadcasting following its merger with station WNDT Newark,
New Jersey, to form WNET. In 1973 it merged with Educational Television
Stations.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PBS)
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 6, Elvis Presley recorded
"You Don't Have To Say You Love Me."
(http://oldies.about.com/od/elvispresleyhistory/a/elvis1970.htm)
1970 Oct 7, Pres. Nixon in a
televised speech proposed a cease-fire-in-place for Indochina and the
negotiated withdrawal of US troops from Vietnam.
(WSJ, 2/5/96,
p.A-19)(http://millercenter.org/academic/americanpresident/keyevents/Nixon)
1970 Oct 8, Soviet author
Alexander Solzhenitsyn was named winner of the Nobel Prize for
literature.
(AP, 10/8/97)
1970 Oct 9, The Khmer Republic
(Cambodia) declared independence.
(http://flagspot.net/flags/kh_hstry.html)
1970 Oct 10, Former Illinois
Secretary of State Paul Powell (b.1902) died. Investigators soon found
nearly half a million dollars in cash and checks, from unsuspecting
drivers paying for their license plates, crammed into shoe boxes inside
his hotel room.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Powell_(politician))
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)
1970 Oct 10, The South Pacific
island of Fiji became independent after nearly a century of British
rule. Ratu Sir Kamisese Mara (d.2004) became Fiji's first prime
minister. Fiji’s military at this time numbered about 200.
(SFC, 7/1/97, p.A9)(AP, 10/10/97)(AP, 4/19/04)(WSJ,
9/29/07, p.A6)
1970 Oct 10, Edouard Daladier
(b.1884), 3 time premier of France (1933, 1934, 1938-40), died.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%89douard_Daladier)
1970 Oct 12, President Richard
Nixon announced the pullout of 40,000 more American troops in Vietnam
by Christmas.
(HN, 10/12/98)
1970 Oct 12, In Quebec, Canada,
the "October Crises" continued. PM 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 13, Canada established
diplomatic relations with China.
(http://geo.international.gc.ca/asia/china/political_economic/diplomatic_relations-en.asp)
1970 Oct 14, San Francisco’s
Golden Gate Park Conservatory was added to the National Register of
Historic Places.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Register_of_Historic_Places)
1970 Oct 15, Anwar Sadat
(1918-1981) succeeded the late Gamal Abdel Nasser as president of
Egypt. 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.
(SFC, 4/14/97, p.A19)(HNQ,
7/30/00)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anwar_Sadat)
1970 Oct 17, Pierre Laporte
(b.1921), the Quebec minister of labor, was found strangled to death 7
days after his kidnapping by the Quebec Liberation Front (FLQ).
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pierre_Laporte)
1970 Oct 19, Amdahl Corp.,
a manufacturer of IBM mainframe compatible products, was formed at
Sunnyvale, California by Dr. Gene Amdahl, a former IBM employee. In
1997 it became a wholly owned subsidiary of Fujitsu.
(www.wordiq.com/definition/Amdahl)
1970 Oct 19, John Linley Frazier
murdered Dr. Victor Ohta, his wife, 2 children and secretary in Santa
Cruz, Ca. He was convicted in Nov. 1970, and sentenced to life in
prison.
(SFC, 1/27/05,
p.B7)(www.francesfarmersrevenge.com/stuff/serialkillers/frazier.htm)
1970 Oct 19, In SF police officer
Harold Hamilton was killed after responding to a bank robbery at the
Wells Fargo branch at Seventh and Clement Street. Later several
officers were wounded when a bomb exploded outside Hamilton’s funeral
at St. Brendan Church.
(SFC, 1/27/07, p.A8)
1970 Oct 21, John T. Scopes
(b.1900), US teacher in the 1925 Scopes "monkey trial," died.
(www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=3526)
1970 Oct 21, In South Korea 777
Unification church couples were wed.
(www.ultralingua.com/eureka/index.php/Category:Unification_Church)
1970 Oct 24, The X24A lifting body
exceeded Mach 1. The X-24A was the Martin Corporation's subsonic test
version of the US Air Force's preferred manned lifting body
configuration. The lifting bodies were used to demonstrate the ability
of pilots to maneuver and safely land wingless vehicles designed to fly
back to Earth from space and be landed like an airplane at a
predetermined site.
(NPub, 2002,
p.22)(www.dfrc.nasa.gov/Gallery/Movie/X-24A/index.html)
1970 Oct 24, Richard Hofstadter,
US historian, died at 54. In 2006 David S. Brown authored “Richard
Hofstadter: An Intellectual Biography.”
(http://tinyurl.com/f9ty4)(WSJ, 5/13/06, p.P8)
1970 Oct 25, 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)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ren%C3%A9_Schneider)
1970 Oct 26, Pres. Nixon signed
Executive Order 11566 ordered the establishment of the Consumer
Information Center (CIC).
(WSJ, 1/8/97,
p.A18)(www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/index.php?pid=59087)
1970 Oct 26, Congress passed
Public Law 91-508, the US Bank Secrecy Act, which 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)(www.irs.gov/irm/part4/ch24s05.html)
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 27, The US Controlled
Substance Act became effective. It classified marijuana, heroin and LSD
as “schedule I,” drugs with no accepted medical use. People arrested
for drug offences then rose from an initial 416,000 per year to
1,890,000 per year in 2007.
(WSJ, 2/8/05,
p.D7)(www.deadiversion.usdoj.gov/21cfr/21usc/812.htm)(Econ, 12/15/07,
p.38)
1970 Oct 28, In Canada Gerald
Regan (b.1928) became premier of Nova Scotia and continued to 1978. 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)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerald_Regan)
1970 Oct, "Engine Number 9" by
Wilson Pickett (d.2006) peaked at #14 on the pop singles chart.
(www.superseventies.com/singlesbymonth70.html)
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 (b.1914) for his development of high-yield
wheat varieties for which he was dubbed father of the "Green
Revolution." In 2006 Leon Hesser authored ”The Man Who Fed the World,”
a biography of Borlaug.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norman_Borlaug)(WSJ,
9/5/06, p.D8)
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 Oct, China began construction
of the 1,160 mile Tazara Railway between Lusaka, Zambia and the
Tanzanian port of Dar es Salaam. China brought in its own workers for
the project, which in 1976 finished ahead of schedule.
(www.fmprc.gov.cn/eng/ziliao/3602/3604/t18009.htm)(Econ, 10/28/06, p.54)
1970 Nov 1, A discotheque near
Grenoble, France, burned. All exits were padlocked and 142 people died.
(http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/november/1/newsid_2537000/2537937.stm)
1970 Nov 3, President Nixon
delivered a speech to explain why American troops in Vietnam had
invaded the neutral country of Cambodia.
(www.amazon.com/Speeches-Richard-M-Nixon/dp/6301666453)
1970 Nov 3, California Gov. Reagan
won a 2nd term. He defeated Jesse Unruh.
(SSFC, 6/9/02, p.F7)
1970 Nov 3, Rev. Robert Drinan
(1920-2007), a Jesuit priest, was elected US congressman from
Massachusetts. He later became the 1st member of Congress to call for
the impeachment of Pres. Nixon due to the administration’s undeclared
war in Cambodia.
(SFC, 1/30/07,
p.B5)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Drinan)
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 3, 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.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_II_of_Yugoslavia)
1970 Nov 3, An Australian bomber
crashed in Vietnam near the Laos border. The bodies of Flying Officer
Michael Herbert (24) and navigator, Pilot Officer Robert Carver (24),
were listed as missing until their remains were discovered in 2009.
They were the last of Australia’s Vietnam era MIAs.
(AP, 7/30/09)
1970 Nov 4, Andre Sakharov,
Russian nuclear physicist, formed a Human Rights Committee.
(http://tinyurl.com/58dqt4)
1970 Nov 9, Charles De Gaulle
(b.1890), former French president (1959-1969), died. In 1996 Daniel
Mahoney published "De Gaulle: Statesmanship, Grandeur, and Modern
Democracy." Michel Droit (d.2000 at 77) authored the 5-volume
“Man of Destiny” (1972), widely regarded as the most thorough
examination of de Gaulle’s life and work.
(AP, 11/9/97)(WSJ, 1/19/98,
p.A20)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_de_Gaulle)(SFC, 6/23/00,
p.D5)
1970 Nov 10, The Soviet Union
launched Luna 17, an unmanned space mission of the Luna program,
towards the moon.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luna_17)
1970 Nov 11, Stevie Wonder sang
"Heaven Help Us All" on the Johnny Cash show.
(www.imdb.com/title/tt0063919/episodes)
1970 Nov 12, A 240 KPH cyclone hit
East Pakistan (Bangladesh) [see Nov 13].
(SSFC, 9/5/04,
p.9)(www.emergency-management.net/cyclone.htm)
1970 Nov 12, Hafez al-Assad
(1930-2000), Syrian defense minister, had his opponents arrested and
took full control of Syria.
(http://lexicorient.com/e.o/assad_hafiz.htm)
1970 Nov 13, The Bhola Cyclone
killed an estimated 300,000 in East Pakistan (Bangladesh). The highest
loss of life and destruction occurred on the low lying islands of the
Ganges Delta south of Dhaka. In particular the island and district of
Bhola, where casualties may have exceeded 100,000 alone, with the towns
of Charfasson and Tazumuddin being devastated. The city of Chittagong
was also badly affected. The official death toll was put at 150,000,
with 100,000 people missing. However many estimates put the true figure
as high as 500,000.
(SFEC, 9/5/04,
p.6)(http://banglapedia.search.com.bd/HT/C_0397.htm)
1970 Nov 14, The Marshall
Univ. football team of Huntington, West Virginia, was wiped out in air
crash of a Southern Airways DC-9 at Kenova, WV. All 75 people on board
were killed.
(www.super70s.com/Super70s/Tech/Aviation/Disasters/70-11-14(SouthernAir).asp)
1970 Nov 17, The Soviet Union
landed an unmanned, remote-controlled vehicle on the moon, the Lunokhod
1. The spacecraft which carried Lunokhod 1 was named Luna 17.
(AP,
11/17/97)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lunokhod_1)
1970 Nov 18, US President Richard
Nixon requested Congress to approve $155 million in supplemental aid
for the Cambodian government. $85 million was later allocated for
military assistance. Cambodia’s PM Lon Nol (1913-1985) had 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)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lon_Nol)
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.
(www.un.org/documents/ga/res/25/ares25.htm)
1970 Nov 21, US Army Special
Forces raided the Son Tay prison camp in North Vietnam but found no
prisoners. It would be later learned that the POWs had been relocated
to Dong Hoi, on July 14. The POWs were moved because the well in the
compound had dried up and the nearby Song Con River had begun to
overflow its banks. This flooding problem, not a security leak,
resulted in the prisoners being transported to Dong Hoi to a new prison
nicknamed "Camp Faith." US planes conduct widespread bombing raids in
North Vietnam.
(www.psywarrior.com/sontay.html)(HN, 11/21/99)
1970 Nov 23, George Harrison
released "My Sweet Lord" in the US.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/My_Sweet_Lord)
1970 Nov 25, Yukio Mishima (45),
Japanese author and nationalist (Hara-kiri), 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)
1970 Nov 27, 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)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/All_Things_Must_Pass)
1970 Nov 27, Syria joined a 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
Benjamin Mendoza, a dagger-wielding Bolivian painter disguised as a
priest.
(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.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_Hear_You_Knocking)
1970 Nov 28, "Montego Bay" by
Bobby Bloom peaked at #8 on the pop singles chart.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_1970s_one-hit_wonders_in_the_United_States)
1970 Nov 29, The orchestral work
"Yale-Princeton" by Charles Ives premiered in NYC.
(http://tinyurl.com/6agvou)
1970 Dec 1, In Mexico Pres. Luis
Echeverria succeeded Gustav Diaz Ortaz and continued to 1976. He began
with populist approach and later devalued the peso, starting a
tradition of currency instability and economic crises.
(WSJ, 12/5/95, p.A-14)(WSJ, 8/13/97, p.A12)
1970 Dec 2, The US 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.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rube_Goldberg)
1970 Dec 7, In Pakistan polling
began for 300 seats in the National Assembly. The Awami League emerged
as the single largest party in the National Assembly by winning 160
seats. It was also able to win 288 out of 300 seats in the East
Pakistan Assembly. However, the party failed to win even a single seat
in the four Provincial Assemblies of West Pakistan. The Pakistan
People’s Party, led by landlord Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto, won a majority in
West Pakistan. Mr. Bhutto and military leader, Gen. Yahya Khan, refused
to honor the results.
(www.storyofpakistan.com/articletext.asp?artid=A140&Pg=2)
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 10, Ford elected Lee
Iacocca (b.1924) as president.
(www.stfrancis.edu/ba/ghkickul/stuwebs/bbios/biograph/leeic.htm)
1970 Dec 11, Walt Disney's
"Aristocats" was released.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Aristocats)
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.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Me_Nobody_Knows)
1970 Dec 18, An atomic leak in
Nevada forced hundreds to flee the test site.
(HN, 12/18/98)
1970 Dec 18, In Poland rioting
continued. Troops and tanks patrolled Polish streets. 20 people were
killed in the riots as they protested increased. food prices.
(http://openweb.tvnews.vanderbilt.edu/1970-12/1970-12-18-NBC-2.html)
1970 Dec 21, A meeting took place
between Elvis Presley and President Nixon as Elvis sought to get the
credentials of a Federal Agent to help Nixon fight drugs. The meeting
remained secret until The Washington Post broke the story on Jan. 27,
1972.
(AP, 1/8/07)
1970 Dec 22, Treblinka SS
commander Franz Stangl (b.1908) was sentenced to life in prison. He was
responsible for the murder of approximately 900,000 people in the
period 1941-1943.
(www.simon-wiesenthal-archiv.at/02_dokuzentrum/02_faelle/e02_stangl.html)
1970 Dec 23, French journalist
Regis Debray (b.1940), arrested in 1967, was freed in Bolivia.
(www.indopedia.org/1970.html)(www.lrb.co.uk/v30/n03/hard01_.html)
1970 Dec 24, A US Animal Welfare
Act was passed expanding the list of animals covered by the 1966 Animal
Welfare Act. It included guidelines for the use and care of laboratory
animals.
(www.nal.usda.gov/awic/legislat/usdaleg1.htm)
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)(www.nodanw.com/shows_h/hello_dolly.htm)
1970 Dec 31, Pres. Nixon signed US
Public Law 91-604 amending the Clean Air Act 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)(http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/index.php?pid=2874)
1970 Dec 31, Congress authorized
the Eisenhower dollar coin.
(http://eisenhowerdollarguide.com/)
1970 Dec 31, Congress amended the
Bank Holding Act to tighten the Fed’s authority to supervise bank
expansion.
(WSJ, 4/10/98, p.A6)(http://tinyurl.com/6ykabd)
1970 Dec 31, Lorine Niedecker
(b.1903), died. She was a Wisconsin-born objectivist-influenced poet.
(SFEC, 4/23/00, BR
p.6)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lorine_Niedecker)
1970 Dec 31, Paul McCartney filed
a lawsuit to dissolve the Beatles’ partnership.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_McCartney)
1970 Dec 31, President Allende
nationalized the Chilean coal mines.
(www.historyorb.com/countries/chile)
1970 Dec, Derek and the Dominos,
featuring Eric Clapton, released their “Layla” album.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Layla)
1970 Dec, The US Institute of
Medicine was formed as a component of the National Academy of Sciences.
Dr. John Hogness (1922-2007) served as its first president.
(http://www7.nationalacademies.org/archives/Board_on_Medicine.html)(SFC,
7/16/07, p.C6)
1970 Theodore Geisel (aka Dr.
Seuss) painted "A Plethora of Cats."
(www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/12/09/AR2005120902175_pf.html)
1970 Roy Lichtenstein (1923-1997),
American pop artist, created his color lithograph, screen print: "Peace
Through Chemistry II."
(SFEC, 10/1/00, DB
p.42)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roy_Lichtenstein)
1970 Frank Stella (b.1936),
American painter, created his abstract acrylic painting “Firuzabad.”
(SFC, 6/17/04, p.E1)
1970 Robert Smithson (1938-1973),
American minimalist land artist, created his “Spiral Jetty,” a 1,500
foot coil of rock extending from the shore of Utah’s Great Salt Lake.
(WSJ, 10/29/05,
p.P16)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Smithson)
1970 Richard Bach (b.1936),
American writer, authored his novel "Jonathan Livingston Seagull."
(SFC, 6/27/00,
p.A23)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Bach)
1970 Jim Bouton (b.1939) published
his controversial "Ball Four."
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ball_Four)
1970 Dee Brown (1908-2002),
American writer, published "Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee," a
history of Native Americans in the American West in the late nineteenth
century and their displacement and slaughter by the United States
federal government.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bury_My_Heart_at_Wounded_Knee)
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),
American author, published his novel "Deliverance."
(SFC,1/21/97, p.A20)
1970 Germaine Greer (b.1939),
Australian academic writer, 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)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Germaine_Greer)
1970 Tony Hillerman (1925-2008),
American writer, introduced Lt. Joe Leaphorn in his first detective
novel "The Blessing Way," as an experienced police officer who
understood, but did not share his people's traditional belief in a rich
spirit world. Officer Jim Chee, introduced in "People of Darkness"
(1978), was a younger officer studying to become a "hathaali" — Navajo
for "shaman."
(AP, 10/27/08)
1970 Dr. Arthur Janov authored his
int’l. bestseller “The Primal Scream,” a book that revolutionized the
world of psychotherapy.
(www.primaltherapy.com/SEO/items_books.shtml)
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 Susan Lydon (1943-2005)
authored the feminist essay “The Politics of Orgasm” in the Rolling
Stone rock magazine.
(SSFC, 7/24/05, p.A19)
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 George L. Mosse (1918-1999),
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)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Mosse)
1970 Lewis Mumford (1895-1990),
American historian of technology and science, published "The Myth of
the Machine."
(Wired, 8/96,
p.168)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lewis_Mumford)
1970 Michael Ondaatje, Sri
Lanka-born writer, authored his novel "The Collected Works of Billy the
Kid."
(SSFC, 9/9/01, DB p.70)
1970 Linus Pauling (1901-1994)
authored “Vitamin C and the Common Cold” in which he declared that
large doses of Vitamin C could ward off colds.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linus_Pauling)
1970 Robert Peterson (1906-2006)
authored “Only the Ball Was White,” the first history of baseball’s US
Negro Leagues.
(SFC, 2/21/06, p.B5)
1970 Charles A. Reich (b.1928), 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)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_A._Reich)
1970 Richard Scammon (1915-2001)
and Ben J. Wattenberg (b.1933) authored "The Real Majority." They
argued that the Democratic Party needed to focus on social issues in
order to survive.
(SSFC, 4/29/01, p.A27)
1970 Yasundo Takahashi
(1912-1996), professor at UC Berkeley, wrote his textbook "Control and
Dynamic Systems." It became a standard reference in the field of
control engineering, the study of how machines work.
(http://tinyurl.com/6qjaoo)(http://catalog.library.ksu.edu.sa/digital/153142.html)
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 English dramatist David Hare (b.1947), had its premier.
(WSJ, 7/16/97, p.A20)
1970 Harold Pinter wrote his play
"Old Times."
(SFC, 6/16/98, p.D1)
1970 Gill Scott-Heron authored his
lyric “The Revolution Will Not be Televised,” a diatribe against the
mass media’s trivialization of social upheaval.
(www.interlog.com/~mushroom/gil.html)
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 Freda Payne (b.1942) made a
smash hit with the song "Band of Gold."
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freda_Payne)
1970 The Shostakovich (1906-1975)
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)(http://tinyurl.com/69xuxx)
1970 Edwin Starr (d.2003 at 61),
Nashville-born soul singer, hit No. 1 with "War."
(SSFC, 12/28/03,
p.E5)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_(Edwin_Starr_song))
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 (1912-1998),
American daytime television talk show host, began "The Virginia Graham
Show" on TV and continued to 1972.
(SFC, 12/25/98,
p.B6)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virginia_Graham)
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 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 T. Rex, a British rock band,
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 Santana made a hit with "Oye
Como Va." It was written and composed by Latin jazz and mambo musician
Tito Puente in 1963 and popularized by Santana's cover of the song on
their album Abraxas.
(SFC, 11/30/02,
p.D1)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oye_Como_Va)
1970 Paolo Soleri (b.1919),
Italian-American architect, 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. Since then some 6,000
architectural students have come to help with the building and learning
about its design. The site attracted some 50,000 visitors every year.
(PacDis, Spring/'94, p. 28)(AP,
10/15/05)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paolo_Soleri)
1970 Orville Redenbacker’s Gourmet
Popping corn was launched at Chicago’s Marshall Field’s. Partners
Charlie Bowman (1919-2009) and Orville Redenbacker (1907-1995) sold the
popular brand in 1976 to Hunt-Wessen Foods Inc. The company was later
acquired by ConAgra Foods.
(WSJ, 4/18/09, p.A4)
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 (1912-2002),
former Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare under President
Lyndon Johnson, founded Common Cause, a citizen’s lobby for the
well-being of the nation.
(SFC, 2/18/02,
p.A6)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_W._Gardner)
1970 Bill Griffith (b.1944)
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)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Griffith)
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 finalist in the Miss America beauty
pageant.
(www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/missamerica/peopleevents/e_inclusion.html)
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 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 Robert Lee Vesco (1935-2007),
head of Int’l. Controls Corp., bought Investment Overseas Services
(IOS) for under $5 million gaining control of an estimated $400 million
in funds, which he then plundered. Vesco fled the US in 1971.
(SFC, 5/3/08, p.A6)
1970 Bruce Bent (b.1937) created
The Reserve Fund, the first money fund. In 2008 the Reserve Primary
Fund, in the wake of the Lehman Brothers failure, became the 2nd money
fund to fall below $1. The first fund to fall below $1 was Community
Bancshares in 1994. It was liquidated with a loss of 4 cents on the
dollar.
(Econ, 6/14/08,
p.87)(www.antonnews.com/manhassetpress/2001/02/23/news/)(SFC, 9/17/08,
p.C1)
1970 Chester Bowles (1901-1986),
former governor of Connecticut and US ambassador to India and Nepal
(1951-1953), wrote a piece in the NY Times titled “Will We Ever Learn
in Asia.” Here he outlined America’s alliance with Pakistan and
prophesied that contradictions underlying the alliance would harm vital
American interests.
(SSFC, 1/6/08, p.E1)
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 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 Warren Winiarski and
investors purchased an orchard next to Nathan Fay’s vineyard in Napa
County, Ca., and began planting what would become Stag’s Leap Wine
Cellars. His 1973 grapes became the Cabernet Sauvignon that won the
famous 1976 tasting in Paris.
(SFC, 1/5/06, p.F5)(SFC, 3/28/08, p.F4)
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 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 AT&T introduced customer
dialing of int’l. long distance calls, initially between Manhattan and
London.
(WSJ, 2/2/05, p.A12)
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 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 Kirk Kerkorian opened his
International Hotel in Las Vegas, Nevada, the largest hotel in the
world. It later became the Las Vegas Hilton.
(WSJ, 4/21/07,
p.A6)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Hotel_%28Las_Vegas%29)
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 Ted Turner (b.1938) bought an
Atlanta UHF station and built it into the Turner Broadcasting System.
He had inherited his father’s billboard business in 1962.
(WSJ, 10/21/04,
p.D8)(www.wordiq.com/definition/Ted_Turner)
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 Palo Alto Research Center
(PARC) of Xerox opened on the outskirts of Palo Alto. George Pake
(1924-2004) ran the center until 1978. It was founded by Dr. Jacob
Goldman.
(www.mit-forum.org.il/2000events/tenyears_eng.htm)(SFC, 10/25/00,
p.D1)(SFC, 3/11/04, p.C5)
1970 The first electronic editing
terminals were used by newspapers.
(SFC, 1/29/00, p.E3)
1970 Intel Corp. brought out the
1103 DRAM, the world's first commercially produced memory chip and
launched the personal-computer revolution.
(SFEC,10/26/97, BR
p.3)(http://inventors.about.com/library/weekly/aa100898.htm)
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 Tom and Kate Chappell began
producing a phosphate-free laundry detergent called Clearlake. Tom’s of
Maine expanded to produce a natural toothpaste and in 2006 sold an 84%
stake to Colgate-Palmolive for $100 million in cash.
(SFC, 3/22/06, p.C3)
1970 Arthur Jones (1927-2007)
invented the Nautilus exercise equipment.
(SFC, 8/29/07, p.B7)
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 US 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 The Natural Resources Defense
Council (NRDC) was founded in the US to protect public health and the
environment.
(www.nrdc.org/about/)(Econ, 2/18/06, p.32)
1970 US consumer prices climbed at
an annual 6%.
(WSJ, 12/12/03, p.A12)
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 Mister Ed (b.1949) the
talking horse, star of the 1961 TV sitcom, died. By the time Mister Ed
reached the age of 19 he was suffering from a broken leg and a variety
of health problems, and was quietly put to death with no publicity.
However, in an interview on Los Angeles station KECT's program "Life
and Times", Alan Young stated that Mr. Ed died from an inadvertent
tranquilizer administered while he was "in retirement" in a stable in
Burbank, California.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mr._Ed)
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 In Argentina the Montonero
Peronist Movement formed about this time as a radical terrorist,
leftist, nationalist, and catholic guerrilla group. The Movimiento
Peronista Montonero was active during the 1970s. Its motto was
venceremos ("we'll win"). Their activity provided a pretext for the
1976 military coup.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Montoneros)
1970 In Australia the last laws
granting authorities wide powers to take Aboriginal children away from
their families were abolished. Many Aborigines said statistics show the
government is still far more likely to take Aboriginal children into
foster care for reasons such as abuse than white children. Estimates
put the number of children taken since 1910 at 55,000.
(AP, 1/30/08)(Econ, 2/2/08, p.50)
1970 The film "Walkabout" by
Nicolas Roeg was produced. It was about the Australian aborigines.
(SFC, 12/29/96, DB p.8)
1970 Leonard Casley, a wheat
farmer in Western Australia, declared his property independent and
styled himself as Prince Leonard I.
(Econ, 12/24/05, p.85)
1970 The Graz Academy of Music
and Drama became the University of Music and Drama.
(StuAus, April '95, p.62)
1970 The Univ. of Klagenfurt in
the Carinthia province of Austria was founded.
(StuAus, April '95, p.73)
1970 The British Monty Python film
"And Now for Something Completely Different" was produced.
(SFC, 6/3/98, p.E3)
1970 The thriller play "Sleuth" by
Anthony Shaffer (d.2001 at 75) opened in London and ran for 2,359
performances.
(SFC, 11/8/01, p.A25)
1970 Lord Geoffrey Rippon of
Hexham (1924-1997), a member of PM Heath’s cabinet, was given the
responsibility for negotiating favorable terms for Britain’s entry into
the European Economic Community.
(SFC, 1/30/97,
p.C2)(www.onpedia.com/encyclopedia/Geoffrey-Rippon)
1970 Britain put together a
classified “War Book,” featuring a doomsday scenario, with a
step-by-step guide for dealing with a crisis, from the first stages of
conflict to "R hour," the designation for the release of all Britain's
nuclear weapons. The 1970 version was declassified in 2009. A 1964
version printed just 96 copies.
(AP, 6/23/09)
1970 Development of the English
town of Milton Keynes was begun.
(Econ, 8/7/04, p.45)
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 The infant gorilla later
named King was captured about this time in Cameroon and shipped to the
US where he performed in Las Vegas and traveled with a circus
until age 10. He spent his next 20 years at Monkey Jungle in Dade
County, Fla.
(SFC, 6/12/99, p.A8)
1970 The Don't Make a Wave
Committee of Winnipeg, Canada, was renamed Greenpeace and Ben Metcalfe
became the 1st chairman.
(SSFC, 10/19/03, p.A31)
1970 West Kildonan, a suburb of
Winnipeg, Canada, was incorporated into Winnipeg. Mayor Daniel Abraham
Yanofsky (d.2000 at 74), a chess grandmaster, transferred to the City
Council and served to 1986.
(SFC, 3/11/00, p.A17)
1970 Canada’s government set aside
the Pacific Rim National Park Reserve to protect the coastal
environment.
(SFEC, 10/8/00, p.T9)
1970 In Cuba Jesus (Chucho) Valdez
formed his jazz group Irakere.
(SFC, 6/16/96, BR p.42)
1970 The Plastic People of the
Universe band lost their Czechoslovak government license due to
nonconformity and went underground with support from Vaclav Havel.
(SFC, 1/8/01, p.A19)
1970 Hubert Maga became premier
(1970-1972) of Dahomey (later Benin).
(http://tinyurl.com/9ryq5)
1970 The Finchaa Dam was built in
Ethiopia.
(WSJ, 8/22/97, p.A9)
1970 China established relations
with Ethiopia.
(WSJ, 3/29/05, p.A2)
1970 Wang Jinxi (47), icon of
Chinese communism, died. Known as the “iron man,” he helped turn Daqing
into China’s biggest oil production center.
(Econ, 1/10/04, p.60)
1970 The first radioactive
pacemaker was put into a patient in France.
(Econ, 3/7/09, TQ p.26)
1970 Airbus Industrie was formally
set up following an agreement between Aerospatiale (France) and
Deutsche Aerospace (Germany). In 1971 it was joined by CASA (Spain).
The name "Airbus" was taken from a nonproprietary term used by the
airline industry in the 1960s to refer to a commercial aircraft of a
certain size and range, as term was acceptable to the French
linguistically.
(www.absoluteastronomy.com/reference/airbus)
1970 The population of
Accra, capital of Ghana, was about 338,000.
(AHD, 1971, p.9)
1970 India introduced “process”
patents which allowed innovators to protect the way they made drugs,
rather than the molecules themselves.
(Econ, 6/18/05, Survey p.17)
1970 Ahmedabad, the largest city
in India’s state of Gujarat, was the capital of Gujarat from 1960 to
1970; the capital was shifted to Gandhinagar thereafter.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ahmedabad)
1970 The shooting of tigers was
banned in India.
(NG, 12/97, p.13)
1970 In Iran velayet el-faqih, the
idea of guardianship as rule, was advanced by the Ayatollah Ruhollah
Khomeini in a series of lectures and later formed the basis of the
constitution of the Islamic Republic of Iran.
(Econ, 3/21/09,
p.46)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guardianship_of_the_Islamic_Jurists)
1970 Benjamin Weiss, an
Israeli-American mathematician, first posed the "Road Coloring
Problem," which essentially assumed it's possible to create a
"universal map" that can direct people to arrive at a certain
destination, at the same time, regardless of starting point. In 2008
Avraham Trahtman (63), immigrant mathematician from Russia, provided an
8-page solution.
(AP, 3/20/08)(www.msnbc.msn.com/id/23729600/)
1970 In Italy divorce became legal.
(SFC, 1/29/00, p.E3)
1970 In northern Italy radicals
linked up to form the Red Brigades, led by sociology students Renato
Curcio and Margherita Cagol.
(WSJ, 12/13/07, p.A18)
1970 The Japanese film "Dodes
ka-den" was directed by Akira Kurosawa.
(SFC, 9/7/98, p.A21)
1970 In Japan the Kigenkai sect
was founded based on the indigenous Shinto religion. Members sold
expensive purified water to cure diseases. In 2007 police arrested 20
women of the 400-member sect, for beating a member to death for failing
to carry out religious rites.
(SFC, 10/16/07, p.A3)
1970 In Laos the introduction of
Soviet-made long-range 130mm artillery pieces onto the battlefield
allowed the Pathet Lao and North Vietnamese to neutralize to some
extent the Royal Lao Army's advantage of air superiority.
(www.onwar.com/aced/data/lima/laos1962.htm)
1970 Colonel Qaddafi expelled
20,000 Italians from Libya.
(Econ, 8/2/08,
p.54)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Libyan_Italians)
1970 In Mexico work began in
Cancun to develop a tourist attraction.
(SFEC, 5/17/98, p.T10)
1970 In Mexico under the rule of
Luis Echeverria the military launched the so-called "Friendship
Operation" in Guerrero. A 2006 report said there was evidence the army
conducted "illegal searches, arbitrary detentions, torture, the raping
of women in the presence of their husbands, and the possible
extrajudicial executions of groups of people."
(AP, 2/27/06)
1970 In Northern Ireland the Irish
Republican Army (IRA) split between more Marxist officials and
soon-to-be dominant Provisionals.
(SSFC, 9/14/03,
p.M3)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irish_Republicanism_in_Northern_Ireland)
1970 Black guerrillas fighting
white rule attempted unsuccessfully to blast the body of Cecil Rhodes
from his granite tomb in the Matopos Hills, Rhodesia (later Zimbabwe).
(WSJ, 12/9/98, p.A1)
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)
1970 Venezuelan oil production
peaked in this year.
(http://reference.allrefer.com/country-guide-study/venezuela/venezuela51.html)
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)
1970-1976 In Poland a government informant known as
Bolek operated during this period. In 2008 2 historians alleged that
Lech Walesa was Bolek. Walesa denied the allegations.
(Econ, 6/28/08, p.58)
1970-1979 In 1999 Stephen Paul Miller authored "The
Seventies Now: Culture as Surveillance."
(SFEC, 8/29/99, BR p.2)
1970-1979 In 2000 David Frum authored: "How We Got
Here--The 70s: The Decade that Brought You Modern Life (For Better or
Worse)."
(WSJ, 1/27/00, p.A20)
1970-1979 In the 1970s Bill Hewlett and David Packard
championed a management style called “Management by Walking Around”
(MBWA).
(www.michaellorenzen.com/mbwa.html)(Econ, 1/21/06,
Surveyp.15)
1970-1979 CAT Scan (Computer Assisted Tomography)
technology was developed.
(MT, 10/94, p.9)
1970-1979 In the 1970s the Australian government took
over the Ghan rail line, running from Adelaide to Alice Springs, and
upgraded the tracks to standard gauge. The last Ghan steam engine was
replaced in 1982.
(SFEC, 10/10/99, p.T9)
1970-1979 The Mexican government expropriated
thousands of acres of ejido (collective) land nationwide in the 1970s
to promote tourism and other development.
(SFC, 1/31/97, p.A14)
1970-1980 Some 94% of China's villagers were covered
by cooperative medical schemes. But the collectives were disbanded
during market reforms of the 1980s which ended cradle-to-grave welfare
for the masses.
(Reuters, 11/18/05)
1970-1988 Lubomir Strougal served as prime minister
of Czechoslovakia.
(SFC, 8/1/01, p.A9)(www.charta77.org/strougal.htm)
1970-1989 In 1997 the editors of “Ben Is Dead”
magazine edited "Retro Hell: Life in the ‘70s and ‘80’s: from Afros to
Zotz."
(SFC,11/27/97, p.C9)
1970-1997 The IRA killed 1,775 people and wounded
more than 20,000 others during this period in hopes of forcing Northern
Ireland out of the United Kingdom and into the Irish Republic.
(AP, 4/26/07)
1970-1998 Brazilian Gold miners worked in the
Yanomani reservation near Venezuela beginning in the 1970s and during
this period introduced diseases that cut the Indian population by more
than half.
(WSJ, 1/15/98, p.A1)
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)
1970-2000 This period in Irish history was later
covered by 2007 R.F. Foster in his “Luck & the Irish: A Brief
History of Change 1970-2000.”
(Econ, 10/20/07, p.116)
Go to 1971