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1970
Events * January 1 - Unix epoch begins at 00:00:00 UTC. * January 12 - Biafra capitulates, ending the Nigerian civil war. * January 15 - After a 32-month fight for independence from Nigeria, Biafra surrenders. * January 15 - Muammar al-Qaddafi is proclaimed premier of Libya * January 16 - Buckminster Fuller receives the Gold Medal award from the American Institute of Architects. * February 11 - John Lennon pays £1,344 in fines for 96 people who had protested against the South African rugby team playing in Scotland. * February 11 - Japan becomes the fourth country to launch a satellite into orbit. * February 18 - The Chicago Eight are found not guilty of conspiring to incite riots at the 1968 United States Democratic Party national convention. * February 26 - National Public Radio incorporates as a non-profit corporation * March 1 - Rhodesia severs its last tie with the British crown and declares itself a racially segregated republic. * March 5 - A nuclear non-proliferation treaty goes into effect after ratification by 43 nations. * March 17 - My Lai massacre: The United States Army charges 14 officers with suppressing information related to the incident. * March 23 - Del Lord, pioneer Hollywood director * March 31 - Explorer I reentry (after 12 years in orbit) * April 1 - President Richard Nixon signs the Public Health Cigarette Smoking Act into law banning cigarette television advertisements in the United States starting on January 1, 1971. * April 11 - Apollo 13 ill-fated space mission launched * April 17 - Apollo 13 returns safely to earth * April 22 - First Earth Day celebrated * March 18 - Lon Nol ousts Prince Norodom Sihanouk of Cambodia * April 29 - U.S. invades Cambodia to hunt out Viet Cong * May 4 Four students at Kent State University in Ohio are killed by National Guardsmen at a demonstration protesting incursion into Cambodia. * May 17 - Thor Heyerdahl sets sail from Morocco on the papyrus boat Ra II to sail the Atlantic Ocean. * May 26 - The Soviet Tupolev Tu-144 becomes the first commercial transport to exceed Mach 2. * June 24 - The United States Senate repeals the Gulf of Tonkin resolution. * July 21 - - Aswan High Dam in Egypt completed. * August 17 - Venera program: Venera 7 is launched. It will later becomes the first spacecraft to successfully transmit data from another planet. * September 5 - Vietnam War: Operation Jefferson Glenn begins - The United States 101st Airborne Division and the South Vietnamese 1st Infantry Division initiate a new operation in Thua Thien Province (operation ends in October 1971). * September 11 - The Ford Pinto is introduced * September 13 - First running of the New York City Marathon * October - the Front de Libration du Qubec (FLQ) kidnap James Cross and murder Pierre Laporte, provoking Quebec's October Crisis * October 8 - Vietnam War: In Paris, a Communist delegation rejects US President Richard Nixon's October 7 peace proposal as "a maneuver to deceive world opinion." * October 9 - The Khmer Republic is proclaimed in Cambodia. * October 10 - Fiji becomes independent. * October 10 - October Crisis: In Montreal, Quebec, a national crisis hits Canada when Quebec Vice-Premier and Minister of Labour Pierre Laporte becomes the second statesman kidnapped by members of the FLQ terrorist group. * October 12 - Vietnam War: US President Richard Nixon announces that the United States will withdraw 40,000 more troops before Christmas. * October 15 - 35 construction workers are killed when a section of the new West Gate Bridge in Melbourne collapses into the river below. * October 17 - Anwar Sadat becomes president of Egypt * October 30 - In Vietnam, the worst monsoon to hit the area in six years causes large floods, kills 293, leaves 200,000 homeless and virtually halts the Vietnam War. Births * January 13 - Keith Coogan, actor * January 31 - Minnie Driver, actress * March 18 - Queen Latifah, rapper, record producer, actress * March 27 - Mariah Carey, singer * March 28 - Vince Vaughn, actor, writer, producer * March 30 - Secretariat, 1973 Triple Crown winner, two-time Horse of the Year (+ 1989) * April 4 - Barry Pepper, actor * April 13 - Rick Schroeder, actor * April 29 - Andre Agassi, professional tennis star * April 29 - Uma Thurman, actress * May 12 - Mike Weir, Canadian professional golfer * May 16 - Gabriela Sabatini, tennis player * May 18 - Tina Fey, writer, comedienne, actress * May 22 - Naomi Campbell, model, actress * May 24 - Jeff Zgonina, football player * May 24 - Tommy Page, singer * May 27 - Joseph Fiennes, actor * June 26 - Chris O'Donell, actor * July 8 - Beck, rock and roll singer * July 24 - Jennifer Lopez, actress, singer * August 6 - M. Night Shyamalan, film director, writer, producer, actor * August 13 - Alan Shearer, England and Newcastle soccer player * August 18 - Malcolm-Jamal Warner, actor * August 23 - Jay Mohr, actor, comedian * August 25 - Claudia Schiffer, model * August 31 - Debbie Gibson, singer * September 9 - Macy Gray, singer * September 23 - Ani DiFranco, musician * September 28 - Isabelle Brasseur, figure skating champion * October 2 - Kelly Ripa, actress, television host * October 8 - Matt Damon, actor * October 9 - Annika Srenstam, Swedish golfer * October 15 - Eric Benet, singer * November 5 - Jen Besemer, surrealist poet and painter Deaths * January 5 - Max Born, physicist and recipient of the Nobel Prize in physics 1954 * January 5 - Jock Yablonski, President of the United Mine Workers, death discovered of he and family) * January 10 - Pavel Belyayev, cosmonaut * January 25 - Jane Bathori, opera singer * January 31 - Slim Harpo, blues singer * February 2 - Bertrand Russell, logician and philosopher * February 11 - Emil Abranyi, composer * February 25 - Mark Rothko, painter * March 11 - Erle Stanley Gardner, author * March 16 - Tammi Terrell, singer * March 23 - Del Lord, pioneer Hollywood director * March 30 - Heinrich Brning, German Reichskanzler 1930-1932 * April 5 - Alfred Henry Sturtevant geneticist (+ 1891) * April 26 - Gypsy Rose Lee, actress * April 26 - John Knittel, dramatist * April 27 - Gypsy Rose Lee, burlesque entertainer * April 30 - Inger Stevens, actress * May 6 - George Rivas, ringleader of the Texas 7 * May 9 - Walter Reuther, labor union leader * May 14 - Billie Burke, actress, The Wizard of Oz * May 12 - Nelly Sachs, writer and recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature 1966 * June 16 - Brian Piccolo, American football star * June 21 - Sukarno, Indonesian President * July 4 - Barnett Newman, painter * July 13 - Arthur Miller, writer * July 19 - Egon Eiermann, architect * July 22 - Fritz Kortner, director * July 22 - Grete Wiesenthal, dancer and choreographer * July 29 - John Barbirolli, conductor * August 1 - Frances Farmer, actress * September 1 - Francois Mauriac, author * September 3 - Vince Lombardi, American football coach * September 5 - Jochen Rindt, Austrian racing driver * September 11 - Ernst May, architect * September 18 - Jimi Hendrix, rock musician * September 25 - Erich Maria Remarque, author * September 28 - Gamal Abdal Nasser, first president of Egypt * September 28 - John Dos Passos, novelist * September 29 - Edward Everett Horton, actor * October 4 - Janis Joplin, blues and rock and roll singer * October 10 - Grethe Weiser, actress * October 17 - Pierre Laporte, statesman, murdered by FLQ terrorists * October 24 - Richard Hofstadter, historian * November 9 - Charles de Gaulle, French general, statesman * December 7 - Rube Goldberg, cartoonist Nobel Prizes * Physics - Hannes Olof Gsta Alfvn, Louis Eugne Flix Nel * Chemistry - Luis F Leloir * Medicine - Sir Bernard Katz, Ulf von Euler, Julius Axelrod * Literature - Aleksandr Isaevich Solzhenitsyn * Peace - Norman E. Borlaug * Economics - Paul Samuelson
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