Today in History for Year 1970 (Part 4)

Months in Year 1970: January February March April May June July August September October November December

Historical Events

Events 301 - 400 of 688

May 30th - "Minnie's Boys" closes at Imperial Theater NYC after 80 performances
May 30th - Baseball All-Star voting is returned to fans
May 31st - At 03:23 PM, Yungay Peru levelled by 7.75 earthquake (50-70,000 die)
May 31st - KDUB TV channel 40 in Dubuque, IA (ABC) begins broadcasting
May 31st - Shirley Englehorn wins LPGA O'Sullivan Ladies' Golf Open
Jun 1st - "Everything Is Beautiful" by Ray Stevens hits #1
Jun 1st - Com Bowie Kuhn reprimands Astro Jim Bouton for writing "Ball Four"
Jun 1st - Soyuz 9 launched into Earth orbit for 18 days
Jun 1st - Tigers Al Kaline collides with another player & swallows his tongue
Jun 3rd - 1st artificial gene synthesized
Jun 3rd - Ray Davies of Kinks travels round trip NY-London to change 1 word in "Lola," (Coca-Cola to Cherry Cola) because of BBC coml reference ban
Jun 4th - 43rd National Spelling Bee: Libby Childress wins spelling croissant
Jun 4th - SD Padres draft Mike Ivie #1
Jun 4th - Tonga (formerly Friendly Islands) declares independence from UK
Jun 4th - WSMW TV channel 27 in Worcester, MA (IND) begins broadcasting
Jun 4th - Yanks Horace Clarke breaks up a no-hitter in the 9th for the 1st of 3 times in 28 days
Jun 5th - KPAX TV channel 8 in Missoula, MT (CBS) begins broadcasting
Jun 5th - Chile becomes a member of the Berne Convention copyright treaty.
Jun 6th - 102nd Belmont: John Rotz aboard High Echelon wins in 2:34
Jun 7th - 22nd Emmy Awards: Marcus Welby, Robert Young & Susan Hampshire
Jun 7th - Jockey Willie Shoemaker passes Johnny Longden with his 6,033 win
Jun 7th - Shirley Englehorn wins LPGA Lady Carling Golf Open
Jun 7th - The Who's "Tommy" is performed at NY's Lincoln Center
Jun 8th - Players & management end labor dispute up min salary to $12,000
Jun 9th - Argentine milt junta under lt-gen Lanusse drives out pres Ongania
Singer-Songwriter Bob Dylan Jun 9th - Bob Dylan given honorary Doctorate of Music at Princeton University
Jun 9th - Harry A Blackmun, sworn in as Supreme Court Justice
Jun 11th - US leaves Wheelus AFB Libya
Jun 12th - Pitts Pirate Doc Ellis no-hits San Diego Padres, 2-0
Jun 13th - "In The Summertime" by Mungo Jerry hit #1 in UK
Jun 13th - Beatles' "Let It Be," album goes #1 & stays #1 for 4 weeks
Jun 13th - Beatles' "Long & Winding Road," single goes #1 & stays #1 for 2 weeks
Jun 14th - Cincinnati Red Stockings loses 1st game after winning 130 straight
Jun 15th - 16th LPGA Championship won by Shirley Englehorn
Jun 16th - Kenneth A Gibson elected 1st black mayor of Newark, NJ
Jun 16th - Race riots in Miami Florida
Jun 17th - Edwin Land patents Polaroid camera
Jun 17th - Led Zeppelin begins their last European tour
Jun 19th - A Nikolayev & V Sevastyanov return after 18 days in Soyuz 9
Jun 19th - Conservatives win British parliamentary election
Jun 19th - Jim Bouton's controversial "Ball Four" is published
Jun 19th - Yanks Horace Clarke breaks up a no-hitter in the 9th for the 2nd of 3 times in 28 days
Jun 19th - The Patent Cooperation Treaty is signed.
Jun 20th - "Ray Stevens Show," debuts on NBC-TV
British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher Jun 20th - British government of Edward Heath forms (with Margaret Thatcher)
Jun 20th - Oriole's Brooks Robinson get his 2,000 career hit, a 3 run HR
Jun 21st - 70th US Golf Open: Tony Jacklin shoots a 281 at Hazeltine Natl Minn
Jun 21st - Brazil beats Italy, 4-1, to win soccer's World Cup (in Mexico City)
Jun 21st - Detroit's Cesar Gutierrez goes 7-for-7 to tie a record set in 1892
Jun 21st - Judy Rankin wins LPGA George Washington Golf Classic
Jun 22nd - Pres Nixon signs 26th amendment (voting age lowered to 18)
Jun 22nd - Supreme Court ruled juries of less than 12 are constitutional
Jun 22nd - WSWO TV channel 26 in Springfield, OH (ABC) suspends broadcasting
Jun 23rd - "Red Skelton Show," last airs on CBS-TV, moved to NBC-TV
Jun 23rd - Charles Rangel defeats Adam Clayton Powell in Democratic primary
Jun 23rd - Rocker Chubby Checker arrested for marijuana possession
Jun 24th - "Catch 22" opens in movie theaters
Jun 24th - Bobby Murcer ties record of 4 consecutive HRs
Jun 24th - Reds play final game at Cincinnati's Crosley Field, beat Giants 5-4
Jun 24th - Senate votes overwhelmingly to repeal Gulf of Tonkin Resolution
Jun 26th - Frank Robinson hits 2 grand slams as Orioles beat Senators 12-2
Jun 28th - Mary Mills wins LPGA Len Immke Buick Golf Open
Jun 29th - US ends 2 month military offensive into Cambodia
Jun 30th - Brazil beats Italy 4-1 in soccer's 9th World Cup at Mexico City
Jun 30th - Cincinnati's Riverfront Stadium opens, Braves beat Reds 8-2
Jul 1st - Denny McLain returns, (leaves trailiing) Tigers beat Yankees in 11
Jul 1st - FC Utrecht soccer team forms in Utrecht
Rock Guitarist Jimi Hendrix Jul 1st - Jimi Hendrix 1st recording session (NYC)
Jul 2nd - 1st Boeing 747 to land in Amsterdam & Brussels
Jul 2nd - NY Yankees Horace Clarke breaks up a no-hitter in the 9th for 3rd time in 28 days
Jul 3rd - 200,000 attend Atlanta Pop Festival
Jul 3rd - 77th Wimbledon Womens Tennis: Margaret Smith beats King (14-12 11-9)
Jul 3rd - British aircraft crashes at Barcelona, 112 killed
Jul 3rd - California Angels Clyde Wright no-hits Oakland A's, 8-0
Jul 4th - 100 injured in race rioting in Asbury Park NJ
Jul 4th - 84th Wimbledon Mens Tennis: Newcombe beats K Rosewall (57 63 62 36 61)
Jul 4th - Casey Kasem's "American Top 40" debuts on LA radio
Jul 4th - Chartered Dan-Air Comet crashes into mountains north of Barcelona, Spain killing 112 vacationing Britons
Jul 5th - 25th US Women's Open Golf Championship won by Donna Caponi Young
Jul 5th - Air Canada DC-8 crashes 7 miles from Toronto's airport killing 109
Jul 6th - California passes 1st "no fault" divorce law
Jul 6th - Italian Rumor government resigns
Jul 8th - SF Giant Jim Ray Hart is 8th to get 6 RBIs in an inning (5th)
Jul 9th - In Atlanta, Chief-No-ka-homa is joined by cousin Chief Round-the-Horn
Jul 12th - 99th British Golf Open: Jack Nicklaus shoots a 283 at St Andrews
Jul 12th - Blues-Rock singer Janis Joplin debuts in Kentucky
Jul 12th - Tanzania signs contract with China for building Tanzam-railway
Jul 12th - Thor Heyerdahl crosses Atl Ocean in "Ra" docks in Barbados
Jul 13th - Building begins of Amsterdam metro
Jul 14th - 41st All Star Baseball Game: NL wins 5-4 at Riverfront Stadium, Cin
Jul 14th - All star MVP: Carl Yastremski (Boston Red Sox)
Jul 15th - Denmark beats Italy 2-0 in 1st world female soccer championship
Jul 16th - Iraq's constitution goes into effect
Jul 16th - Reds spoil Pirates debut in Pittsburgh's Three Rivers Stadium, 3-2
Jul 17th - 30,000 attend Randall's Island Rock Festival, NYC
Jul 18th - "Boy Friend" closes at Ambassador Theater NYC after 119 performances
Jul 18th - Arthur Brown arrested for stripping on stage in Palemo Sicily
Jul 18th - Ron Hunt gets hit by a pitch for a record 119th time
Jul 18th - WJCL TV channel 22 in Savannah, GA (ABC) begins broadcasting
Jul 18th - Willie Mays becomes 10th baseball player to get 3,000 hits

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Famous Birthdays

Birthdays 301 - 400 of 1,479

Mar 18th - Sarah Thorsett, Winona Minn, 1.5k runner
Mar 19th - Errol Refos, soccer player (Feyenoord)
Mar 19th - Janne Laukenen, Lahti FIN, NHL defenseman (Finland Oly-B-98, Senators)
Mar 19th - Rick Mirer, NFL quarterback (Seattle Seahawks, Chicago Bears)
Mar 19th - Sean Fleming, CFL kicker (Edmonton Eskimos)
Mar 20th - Kristin Klein, Santa Monica California, volleyball outside hitter (Oly-96)
Mar 20th - Ralph Dawkins, NFL running back (NO Saints)
Mar 20th - Ron George, NFL linebacker (Atlanta Falcons)
Mar 20th - Todd Burger, NFL guard (Chic Bears)
Mar 22nd - Jason Rouser, Tucson Arizona, 200m/400m runner
Mar 22nd - Travis Richards, Crystal Minn, US hockey defenseman (Olympics-1994)
Mar 22nd - Andreas Johnson, Swedish singer
Mar 22nd - Leontien van Moorsel, Dutch cyclist
Mar 23rd - Carl Pickens, NFL wide receiver (Cin Bengals)
Mar 23rd - Turhon O'Bannon, CFL receiver (Winnipeg Blue Bombers)
Mar 24th - Lara Flynn Boyle, Davenport Iowa, actress (Donna Hayward-Twin Peaks)
Mar 24th - Marques Bragg, NBA forward (Minnesota Timberwolves)
Mar 24th - Mike Vanderjagt, CFL kicker (Toronto Argonauts)
Mar 24th - Shannon Lemora, Baton Rouge Louisiana, 1.5k runner
Mar 24th - Judith Draxler, Austrian swimmer
Mar 25th - Magnus Larsson, Sweden, tennis star
Mar 25th - Shawn Antoski, Brantford, NHL left wing (Phila Flyers)
Mar 26th - Evan Richards, LA California, actor (Frankie-Mama Malone)
Mar 26th - Paul Bosvelt, soccer player (Go Ahead Eagles/FC Twente)
Mar 26th - Martin McDonagh, Anglo-Irish playwright and film director
Mar 27th - Anthony Prior, NFL cornerback/safety (NY Jets, Minnesota Vikings)
Mar 27th - Corey Page, actor (Richard Wilkins-Loving/City)
Mar 27th - Ed Philion, NFL nose tackle (Buffalo Bills)
Mar 27th - Brendan Hill, British drummer (Blues Traveler)
Mar 27th - Princess Leila of Iran (d. 2001)
Mar 27th - Elizabeth Mitchell, American actress
Mar 28th - James Johnson, NFL/WLAF running back (Tampa Bucs, Frankfurt Galaxy)
Mar 28th - Jason B Gailes, Taunton Mass, rower (Olympics-silver-1996)
Mar 28th - Shawn Price, NFL defensive end (GB Packers, Car Panthers, Buf Bills)
Actor Vince Vaughn (Mar 28th) Mar 28th - Vince Vaughn, Minneapolis, Minnesota, American actor (Swingers, Wedding Crashers)
Mar 28th - Michelle Gildernew, Irish republican politician
Mar 30th - George Coghill, WLAF safety (Scottish Claymores)
Mar 30th - Mark Consuelos, Zaragosa Spain, actor (Mateo Santos-All My Children)
Mar 30th - Secreteriat, race horse, triple crown (1973)
Mar 30th - Shane Bertsch, Denver CO, Nike golfer (1994 Permina Basin Open-14th)
Mar 30th - Secretariat, American racehorse (d. 1989)
Mar 31st - Derek Brown, NFL tight end (Jacksonville Jaguars)
Mar 31st - Oleg Romanov, NHL defenseman (Belarus, Olympics-98)
Mar 31st - Stuart Carruthers, Australian field hockey fullback (Olympics-96)
Apr 1st - Mark Wheeler, NFL defensive tackle (Tampa Bay Bucs, NE Patriots)
Apr 1st - Wes Barnett, St Joseph MO, 238lb (108kg) weightlifter (Oly-6th-92, 96)
Apr 1st - Wyatt Jones, Honolulu Hawaii, kayak (alt-Olympics-96)
Apr 1st - Sung Hi Lee, Korean-born model
Apr 2nd - Jerry Reynolds, NFL guard/tackle (NY Giants)
Apr 2nd - Jon Lieber, Council Bluffs IA, pitcher (Pittsburgh Pirates)
Apr 2nd - Marcus Christensen, Toronto Ontario, figure skater (1995 Canadian-2nd)
Apr 2nd - Tammi Reiss, WNBA guard (Utah Starzz)
Apr 2nd - Roselyn Sanchez, Puerto Rican actress
Apr 3rd - Keith Franklin, WLAF linebacker (Amsterdam Admirals)
Apr 3rd - Matt Gay, WLAF safety (Rhein Fire)
Apr 4th - Barry van Galen, Dutch soccer player (Roda JC)
Apr 4th - Jason Stoltenberg, Australia, tennis star
Apr 4th - Barry Pepper, Canadian actor
Apr 4th - Michael Schwartz, American turntablist, known as Mix Master Mike, DJ for the Beastie Boys
Apr 5th - Erlan Sagymbayev, hockey forward (Team Kazakhstan Oly-1998)
Apr 5th - Tim Jacobs, NFL running back (Cleveland Browns, Miami Dolphins)
Apr 5th - Thea Gill, Canadian actress
Apr 5th - Miho Hatori, Japanese singer and songwriter (Cibo Matto)
Apr 6th - Olaf Kolzig, Johannesbourg Saf, NHL goalie (Washington Capitals)
Apr 6th - Oliver Miller, NBA forward/center (Toronto Raptors)
Apr 6th - Huang Xiaomin, Chinese swimmer
Apr 7th - Alexander Karpovtsev, Moscow Russia, NHL defenseman (NY Rangers)
Apr 7th - Kevin Smith, NFL cornerback (Dallas Cowboys)
Apr 7th - Leif Ove Andsnes, Norwegian pianist
Apr 8th - Derek D Brown, Wash DC, team handball right wing (Olympics-1996)
Apr 8th - Gerald Vaughn, CFL defensive back (Hamilton Tiger Cats)
Apr 8th - Harold Bishop, NFL tight end (Cleveland Browns)
Apr 9th - Chuck Bradley, CFL/WLAF tackle (BC Lions, Barcelona Dragons)
Apr 9th - Neal Caloia, Torrance California, free pistol (Olympics-1996)
Apr 9th - Olaf Kolzig, Johannesburg SAF, NHL goalie (Team Germany, Washington)
Apr 9th - Mike Barz, American meteorologist and TV anchor
Apr 10th - Enrico Ciccone, Montreal, NHL defenseman (Chicago Blackhawks)
Apr 10th - J J McCleskey, NFL safety (NO Saints, Arizona Cardinals)
Apr 10th - Sean Gilbert, defensive tackle (Washington Redskins)
Apr 10th - Wesley Barnett, St Joseph Mo, Oly weightlifter (Pan Am-silver-1987)
Apr 10th - Matt Barlow, American musician
Apr 10th - Kenny Lattimore, American singer
Apr 10th - Mike Mushok, American musician
Apr 10th - Q-Tip, American musician
Apr 11th - Delroy Pearson, rock vocalist (Five Star-Between the Lines)
Apr 11th - Joe Vitiello, Cambridge MA, infielder (KC Royals)
Apr 11th - Sean Bergman, Joliet IL, pitcher (San Diego Padres)
Apr 11th - Trevor Linden, Medicine Hat, NHL right wing (Canucks, NY Islanders)
Apr 11th - Johnny Messner, American actor
Apr 12th - Patrick Brugnoli, hockey forward (Team Italy 1998)
Apr 12th - Nick Hexum, American musician
Apr 13th - Eddie Robinson, NFL linebacker (Houston Oilers, Jacksonville Jaguars)
Apr 13th - Monty Brown, NFL linebacker (Buffalo Bills)
Apr 13th - Ramona Reuter, Miss USA-NY (1997)
Apr 13th - Rick Schroder, SI NY, actor (Ricky-Silver Spoons, Champ, Earthling)
Apr 13th - Gerry Creaney, Scottish footballer
Apr 14th - Brian Stablein, NFL wide receiver (Indianapolis Colts)
Apr 14th - Jan Siemerink, Neth, tennis star
Apr 14th - Steve Avery, Trenton MI, pitcher (Atlanta Braves)
Apr 14th - Shizuka Kudō, Japanese singer