1970 Calendar
What Happened In Year 1970?
- January 15, 1970 – Muammar al-Qaddafi is proclaimed premier of Libya.
- February 6, 1970 – New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Metal Dog in Chinese astrology.
- February 15, 1970 – A Dominican DC-9 crashes into the sea during takeoff from Santo Domingo, killing 102.
- March 4, 1970 – French submarine Eurydice explodes underwater, resulting in the loss of the entire 57-man crew.
- March 31, 1970 – Nine terrorists from the Japanese Red Army hijack Japan Airlines Flight 351 at Tokyo International Airport, wielding samurai swords and carrying a bomb.
- April 29, 1970 – Vietnam War: United States and South Vietnamese forces invade Cambodia to hunt Viet Cong.
- May 14, 1970 – The Red Army Faction is established in Germany.
- June 4, 1970 – Tonga gains independence from the United Kingdom.
- August 23, 1970 – Organized by Mexican American union leader César Chávez, the Salad Bowl strike, the largest farm worker strike in U.S. history, begins.
- September 7, 1970 – Fighting between Arab guerrillas and government forces in Amman, Jordan.
- September 16, 1970 – King Hussein of Jordan declares military rule following the hijacking of four civilian airliners by the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP). This results in the formation of the Black September Palestinian paramilitary unit.
- October 2, 1970 – A plane carrying the Wichita State University football team, administrators, and supporters crashes in Colorado killing 31 people.
- October 10, 1970 – Fiji becomes independent.
- October 13, 1970 – Fiji joins the United Nations.
- October 15, 1970 – Thirty-five construction workers are killed when a section of the new West Gate Bridge in Melbourne collapses.
- October 17, 1970 – Montreal, Quebec: Quebec Vice-Premier and Minister of Labour Pierre Laporte murdered by members of the FLQ terrorist group.
- November 9, 1970 – Vietnam War: The Supreme Court of the United States votes 6 to 3 against hearing a case to allow Massachusetts to enforce its law granting residents the right to refuse military service in an undeclared war.
- November 17, 1970 – Douglas Engelbart receives the patent for the first computer mouse.
- November 26, 1970 – In Basse-Terre, Guadeloupe, 1.5 inches (38.1 mm) of rain fall in a minute, the heaviest rainfall ever recorded.
- December 17, 1970 – Polish 1970 protests: In Gdynia soldiers fire at workers emerging from trains, killing dozens.
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