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Date	Event
January 1, 1970	The defined beginning of Unix time, at 00:00:00.
January 5, 1970	The 7.1 Mw  Tonghai earthquake shakes Tonghai County, Yunnan province, China, with a maximum Mercalli intensity of X (Extreme). Between 10,000 and 15,000 people are known to have been killed and about another 26,000 are injured.
January 12, 1970	Biafra capitulates, ending the Nigerian Civil War.
January 15, 1970	Nigerian Civil War: Biafran rebels surrender following an unsuccessful 32-month fight for independence from Nigeria.
January 15, 1970	Muammar Gaddafi is proclaimed premier of Libya.
January 22, 1970	The Boeing 747, the world's first "jumbo jet", enters commercial service for launch customer Pan American Airways with its maiden voyage from New York's John F. Kennedy International Airport to London Heathrow Airport.
February 11, 1970	Japan launches Ohsumi, becoming the fourth nation to put an object into orbit using its own booster.
February 17, 1970	Jeffrey R. MacDonald, United States Army captain, is charged with murder of his pregnant wife and two daughters.
February 18, 1970	The Chicago Seven are found not guilty of conspiring to incite riots at the 1968 Democratic National Convention.
March 2, 1970	Rhodesia declares itself a republic, breaking its last links with the British crown.
March 4, 1970	French submarine Eurydice explodes underwater, resulting in the loss of the entire 57-man crew.
March 5, 1970	The Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons goes into effect after ratification by 43 nations.
March 6, 1970	An explosion at the Weather Underground safe house in Greenwich Village kills three.
March 10, 1970	Vietnam War: Captain Ernest Medina is charged by the U.S. military with My Lai war crimes.
March 18, 1970	Lon Nol ousts Prince Norodom Sihanouk of Cambodia.
March 21, 1970	The first Earth Day proclamation is issued by Joseph Alioto, Mayor of San Francisco.
March 21, 1970	San Diego Comic-Con, the largest pop and culture festival in the world, hosts its inaugural event.
March 26, 1970	South Vietnamese President Nguyễn Văn Thiệu implements a land reform program to solve the problem of land tenancy.
March 28, 1970	An earthquake strikes western Turkey at about 23:05 local time, killing 1,086 and injuring at least 1,200.
March 31, 1970	Explorer 1 re-enters the Earth's atmosphere after 12 years in orbit.
April 1, 1970	President Richard Nixon signs the Public Health Cigarette Smoking Act into law.
April 6, 1970	Newhall massacre: Four California Highway Patrol officers are killed in a shootout.
April 8, 1970	Bahr El-Baqar primary school bombing: Israeli bombers accidentally strike an Egyptian school. Forty-six children are killed.
April 10, 1970	Paul McCartney announces that he is leaving The Beatles for personal and professional reasons.
April 11, 1970	Apollo Program: Apollo 13 is launched.
April 12, 1970	Soviet submarine K-8, carrying four nuclear torpedoes, sinks in the Bay of Biscay four days after a fire on board.
April 13, 1970	An oxygen tank aboard the Apollo 13 Service Module explodes, putting the crew in great danger and causing major damage to the Apollo command and service module (codenamed "Odyssey") while en route to the Moon.
April 15, 1970	During the Cambodian Civil War, massacre of the Vietnamese minority results in 800 bodies flowing down the Mekong river into South Vietnam.
April 17, 1970	Apollo program: The ill-fated Apollo 13 spacecraft returns to Earth safely.
April 22, 1970	The first Earth Day is celebrated.
April 24, 1970	China launches Dong Fang Hong I, becoming the fifth nation to put an object into orbit using its own booster.
April 24, 1970	The Gambia becomes a republic within the Commonwealth of Nations, with Dawda Jawara as its first President.
April 26, 1970	The Convention Establishing the World Intellectual Property Organization enters into force.
April 28, 1970	Vietnam War: U.S. President Richard Nixon formally authorizes American combat troops to take part in the Cambodian campaign.
April 29, 1970	Vietnam War: United States and South Vietnamese forces invade Cambodia to hunt Viet Cong.
May 1, 1970	Vietnam War: Protests erupt following the announcement by Richard Nixon that the U.S. and South Vietnamese forces would attack Vietnamese communists in a Cambodian Campaign.
May 2, 1970	ALM Flight 980 ditches in the Caribbean Sea near Saint Croix, killing 23.
May 4, 1970	Vietnam War: Kent State shootings: The Ohio National Guard, sent to Kent State University after disturbances in the city of Kent the weekend before, opens fire killing four unarmed students and wounding nine others. The students were protesting the Cambodian Campaign of the United States and South Vietnam.
May 8, 1970	The Beatles release their 12th and final studio album Let It Be.
May 11, 1970	The 1970 Lubbock tornado kills 26 and causes $250 million in damage.
May 14, 1970	Andreas Baader is freed from custody by Ulrike Meinhof, Gudrun Ensslin and others, a pivotal moment in the formation of the Red Army Faction.
May 15, 1970	President Richard Nixon appoints Anna Mae Hays and Elizabeth P. Hoisington the first female United States Army generals.
May 26, 1970	The Soviet Tupolev Tu-144 becomes the first commercial transport to exceed Mach 2.
May 31, 1970	The 7.9 Mw  Ancash earthquake shakes Peru with a maximum Mercalli intensity of VIII (Severe) and a landslide buries the town of Yungay, Peru. Between 66,794 and 70,000 were killed and 50,000 were injured.
June 4, 1970	Tonga gains independence from the British Empire.
June 11, 1970	After being appointed on May 15, Anna Mae Hays and Elizabeth P. Hoisington officially receive their ranks as U.S. Army Generals, becoming the first women to do so.
June 15, 1970	Charles Manson goes on trial for the Sharon Tate murders.
June 21, 1970	Penn Central declares Section 77 bankruptcy in what was the largest U.S. corporate bankruptcy to date.
July 3, 1970	The Troubles: The "Falls Curfew" begins in Belfast, Northern Ireland.
July 3, 1970	Dan-Air Flight 1903 crashes into the Les Agudes mountain in the Montseny Massif near the village of Arbúcies in Catalonia, Spain, killing all 112 people aboard.
July 5, 1970	Air Canada Flight 621 crashes in Brampton, Ontario, Canada, killing all 109 people on board.
July 8, 1970	Richard Nixon delivers a special congressional message enunciating Native American self-determination as official US Indian policy, leading to the Indian Self-Determination and Education Assistance Act of 1975.
July 21, 1970	After 11 years of construction, the Aswan High Dam in Egypt is completed.
July 23, 1970	Qaboos bin Said al Said becomes Sultan of Oman after overthrowing his father, Said bin Taimur initiating massive reforms, modernization programs and end to a decade long civil war.
July 31, 1970	Black Tot Day: The last day of the officially sanctioned rum ration in the Royal Navy.
August 7, 1970	California judge Harold Haley is taken hostage in his courtroom and killed during an effort to free George Jackson from police custody.
August 9, 1970	LANSA Flight 502 crashes after takeoff from Alejandro Velasco Astete International Airport in Cusco, Peru, killing 99 of the 100 people on board, as well as two people on the ground.
August 15, 1970	Patricia Palinkas becomes the first woman to play professionally in an American football game.
August 17, 1970	Venera program: Venera 7 launched. It will later become the first spacecraft to successfully transmit data from the surface of another planet (Venus).
August 23, 1970	Organized by Mexican American labor union leader César Chávez, the Salad Bowl strike, the largest farm worker strike in U.S. history, begins.
August 24, 1970	Vietnam War protesters bomb Sterling Hall at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, leading to an international manhunt for the perpetrators.
August 26, 1970	The fiftieth anniversary of American women being able to vote is marked by a nationwide Women's Strike for Equality.
August 29, 1970	Chicano Moratorium against the Vietnam War, East Los Angeles, California. Police riot kills three people, including journalist Rubén Salazar.
September 2, 1970	NASA announces the cancellation of two Apollo missions to the Moon, Apollo 15 (the designation is re-used by a later mission), and Apollo 19.
September 4, 1970	Salvador Allende is elected President of Chile.
September 5, 1970	Vietnam War: Operation Jefferson Glenn begins: The United States 101st Airborne Division and the South Vietnamese 1st Infantry Division initiate a new operation in Thừa Thiên–Huế Province.
September 5, 1970	Jochen Rindt becomes the only driver to posthumously win the Formula One World Drivers' Championship (in 1970), after being killed in practice for the Italian Grand Prix.
September 6, 1970	Two passenger jets bound from Europe to New York are simultaneously hijacked by Palestinian terrorist members of the PFLP and taken to Dawson's Field, Jordan.
September 7, 1970	Fighting begins between Arab guerrillas and government forces in Jordan.
September 7, 1970	Vietnam Television was established.[6]
September 8, 1970	Trans International Airlines Flight 863 crashes during takeoff from John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York City, killing all 11 aboard.
September 9, 1970	A British airliner is hijacked by the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine and flown to Dawson's Field in Jordan.
September 11, 1970	The Dawson's Field hijackers release 88 of their hostages. The remaining hostages, mostly Jews and Israeli citizens, are held until September 25.
September 12, 1970	Dawson's Field hijackings: Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine terrorists blow up three hijacked airliners in Zarqa, Jordan, continuing to hold the passengers hostage in various undisclosed locations in Amman.
September 16, 1970	King Hussein of Jordan declares war against the Palestine Liberation Organization, the conflict came to be known as Black September.
September 19, 1970	Michael Eavis hosts the first Glastonbury Festival.
September 19, 1970	Kostas Georgakis, a Greek student of geology, sets himself ablaze in Matteotti Square in Genoa, Italy, as a protest against the dictatorial regime of Georgios Papadopoulos.
September 28, 1970	Egyptian President Gamal Abdel Nasser dies of a heart attack in Cairo.
September 30, 1970	Jordan makes a deal with the PFLP for the release of the remaining hostages from the Dawson's Field hijackings.
October 2, 1970	An aircraft carrying the Wichita State University football team, administrators, and supporters crashes in Colorado, killing 31 people.
October 5, 1970	The Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) is founded.
October 5, 1970	The British Trade Commissioner, James Cross, is kidnapped by members of the Front de libération du Québec, triggering the October Crisis in Canada.
October 8, 1970	Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn wins the Nobel Prize in literature.
October 9, 1970	The Khmer Republic is proclaimed in Cambodia.
October 10, 1970	Fiji becomes independent.
October 10, 1970	Canada's October Crisis escalates when Quebec Vice Premier Pierre Laporte is kidnapped by members of the Front de libération du Québec.
October 12, 1970	Vietnam War: Vietnamization continues as President Richard Nixon announces that the United States will withdraw 40,000 more troops before Christmas.
October 15, 1970	During the construction of Australia's West Gate Bridge, a span of the bridge falls and kills 35 workers. The incident is the country's worst industrial accident to this day.
October 16, 1970	Canadian Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau invokes the War Measures Act during the October Crisis.
October 17, 1970	FLQ terrorists murder Quebec Vice-Premier and Minister of Labour Pierre Laporte.
October 23, 1970	Gary Gabelich sets a land speed record in a rocket-powered automobile called the Blue Flame, fueled with natural gas.
November 1, 1970	Club Cinq-Sept fire in Saint-Laurent-du-Pont, France kills 146 young people.
November 4, 1970	Vietnam War: The United States turns over control of the air base at Bình Thủy in the Mekong Delta to South Vietnam.
November 4, 1970	Salvador Allende takes office as President of Chile, the first Marxist to become president of a Latin American country through open elections.
November 5, 1970	The Military Assistance Command, Vietnam reports the lowest weekly American soldier death toll in five years (24).
November 9, 1970	Vietnam War: The Supreme Court of the United States votes 6–3 against hearing a case to allow Massachusetts to enforce its law granting residents the right to refuse military service in an undeclared war.
November 10, 1970	Vietnam War: Vietnamization: For the first time in five years, an entire week ends with no reports of American combat fatalities in Southeast Asia.
November 10, 1970	Luna 17: unmanned space mission launched by the Soviet Union.
November 12, 1970	The Oregon Highway Division attempts to destroy a rotting beached sperm whale with explosives, leading to the now infamous "exploding whale" incident.
November 12, 1970	The 1970 Bhola cyclone makes landfall on the coast of East Pakistan, becoming the deadliest tropical cyclone in history.
November 13, 1970	Bhola cyclone: A 240 km/h (150 mph) tropical cyclone hits the densely populated Ganges Delta region of East Pakistan (now Bangladesh), killing an estimated 500,000 people in one night.
November 14, 1970	Soviet Union enters ICAO, making Russian the fourth official language of organization.
November 14, 1970	Southern Airways Flight 932 crashes in the mountains near Huntington, West Virginia, killing 75, including almost all of the Marshall University football team.
November 17, 1970	Vietnam War: Lieutenant William Calley goes on trial for the My Lai Massacre.
November 17, 1970	Luna programme: The Soviet Union lands Lunokhod 1 on Mare Imbrium (Sea of Rains) on the Moon. This is the first roving remote-controlled robot to land on another world and is released by the orbiting Luna 17 spacecraft.
November 18, 1970	U.S. President Richard Nixon asks the U.S. Congress for $155 million in supplemental aid for the Cambodian government.
November 21, 1970	Vietnam War: Operation Ivory Coast: A joint United States Air Force and Army team raids the Sơn Tây prisoner-of-war camp in an attempt to free American prisoners of war thought to be held there.
November 25, 1970	In Japan, author Yukio Mishima and one compatriot commit ritualistic seppuku after an unsuccessful coup attempt.
November 26, 1970	In Basse-Terre, Guadeloupe, 38 millimetres (1.5 in) of rain fall in a minute, the heaviest rainfall ever recorded.
December 2, 1970	The United States Environmental Protection Agency begins operations.
December 15, 1970	Soviet spacecraft Venera 7 successfully lands on Venus. It is the first successful soft landing on another planet.
December 17, 1970	Polish protests: In Gdynia, soldiers fire at workers emerging from trains, killing dozens.
December 21, 1970	First flight of F-14 multi-role combat aircraft.
December 23, 1970	The North Tower of the World Trade Center in Manhattan, New York, New York is topped out at 417 metres (1,368 ft), making it the tallest building in the world.
December 23, 1970	The Democratic Republic of the Congo officially becomes a one-party state.