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

Historical Events

Results 501 - 600 of 694

Sep 13th - Joanne Carner wins LPGA Wendell-West Golf Open
Sep 13th - Palestine guerillas conquer Irbid Jordania
Sep 14th - Stevie Miracle marries Rita Wright, [Syreeta]
Sep 15th - Decca awards Bing Crosby a 2nd platinum disc for selling 300 million
Sep 15th - PLO leader Arafat threatens to make a cemetery of Jordan
Sep 15th - Rotterdam harbor strikes end
Sep 16th - Jordan king Hussein forms military govt
Sep 17th - Jordan launches offensive against guerrilla army
Sep 17th - Jordanian King Hussein moves against PLO guerrillas
Sep 17th - WSWP TV channel 9 in Grandview, WV (PBS) begins broadcasting
Sep 19th - "Mary Tyler Moore" show premieres
Sep 20th - Jim Morrison found not guilty of "lewd" behavior
Sep 20th - Luna 16 lands on Moon's Mare Fecunditatis, drills core sample
Sep 21st - "Monday Night Football" premieres on ABC - Browns 31, Jets 21
Sep 21st - KAPP TV channel 35 in Yakima, WA (ABC) begins broadcasting
Sep 21st - Luna 16 leaves Moon
Sep 21st - Oakland A's Vida Blue no-hits Minn Twins, 6-0
Sep 21st - New York Times starts first modern op-ed page.
Sep 22nd - Pres Nixon requests 1,000 new FBI agents for college campuses
Sep 23rd - Abdul Razak bin Hussain becomes premier of Malaysia
Sep 23rd - Gary Muhrcke wins 1st NY Marathon
Sep 24th - 1st Automated return of lunar sample by Luna 16
Sep 24th - Soviet Luna 16 lands on earth after 1st unmanned round trip to moon
Sep 25th - Ringo releases his "Beaucoups of Blues" album
Sep 26th - Judy Rankin wins LPGA Lincoln-Mercury Golf Open
Sep 26th - The Laguna Fire starts in San Diego County, California, burning 175,425 acres (710 km²).
Sep 27th - Ken Boswell sets 2nd baseman record of 85 games without an error
Sep 28th - "Words & Music," debuts on NBC-TV
Sep 28th - Anwar Sadat replaces Egyptian President Nassar
Sep 28th - Intrepid (US) beats Gretel II (Aust) in 22nd America's Cup
Sep 28th - Ringo Starr released his "Beaccups of Blues" album
Sep 29th - "NET Festival," last aired
Sep 30th - New American Bible published
Oct 1st - 63 arrest in riot to buy Rolling Stone tickets in Milano Italy
Oct 1st - Last game at Philadelphia's Connie Mack Stadium, Phils-2 Expos-1
Oct 2nd - Billy Martin named manager of Det Tigers
Oct 2nd - Plane carrying Wichita State U football team crashes killing 30
Oct 3rd - "Coco" closes at Mark Hellinger Theater NYC after 333 performances
Oct 3rd - Baseball umpires call their 1st strike
Oct 3rd - WAPT TV channel 16 in Jackson, MS (ABC) begins broadcasting
Oct 4th - KC Chiefs Jan Stenerud kicks 55-yard field goal
Oct 4th - Umps return after 1-day walkout in quest of higher wages
Oct 4th - WFYI TV channel 20 in Indianapolis, IN (PBS) begins broadcasting
Oct 4th - Herbert Schmidtz makes highest parachute jump from a tower by leaping from a 1,984 ft TV mast in Tulsa, Oklahoma
Oct 5th - John Creach, joins Jefferson Airplane
Oct 5th - PBS becomes a network
Oct 5th - Quebec separatists kidnap British trade commissioner James Cross
Oct 5th - PBS became a television network.
Oct 8th - Soviet author Alexander I Solzhenitsyn wins Nobel Prize for Literature
Oct 9th - Khmer Republic (Cambodia) declares independence
Oct 10th - Fiji gains independence from Britain (National Day)
Oct 10th - Fiji becomes independent.
Oct 12th - Rock Memorabilia Auction at Filmore East
Oct 13th - Angela Davis arrested in NYC
Oct 13th - USSR performs nuclear test at Sary Shagan USSR
Oct 14th - 4th Country Music Assn Award: Merle Haggard wins
Oct 14th - Cleve Cavaliers lose to Buffalo Braves in their 1st game 107-92
Oct 14th - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
Oct 14th - USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR
Oct 15th - Anwar Sadat elected president of Egypt
Oct 15th - Baltimore Orioles beat Cin Reds, 4 games to 1 in 67th World Series
Oct 15th - Bridge over Yarra River in Melbourne crashes; killing 35
Oct 15th - Russian passenger flight hijacked to Turkey
Oct 16th - Anwar Sadat elected president of Egypt, succeeding Gamal Abdel Nasser
Oct 17th - Anwar Sadat sworn in as president of Egypt
Oct 18th - Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Quality Chekd Golf Classic
Oct 18th - Sachio Kinugasa begins 2,215 cons game streak for Hiroshima Carp
Oct 19th - "Rothschilds" opens at Lunt-Fontanne Theater NYC for 505 performances
Oct 19th - Amdahl Corp forms at Sunnyvale Calif
Oct 19th - John Frazier kills Ohta's declares WW 3 has begun
Oct 20th - American Norman Borlaug awarded the Nobel Peace Prize
Oct 20th - Zond 8 Launch (Moon Orbit & Return)
Oct 21st - 777 Unification church couples wed in Korea
Oct 21st - Caledonian Airways takes over British United Airways
Oct 21st - Nobel prize of peace awarded to Norman E Borlaugh
Oct 23rd - Gary Gabelich sets auto speed record 622.4 mph (1,001 kph)
Oct 24th - Nancy Walker creates Ida Morgenstein role on Mary Tyler Moore Show
Oct 24th - Salvador Allende Gossens elected president of Chile
Oct 25th - Marilynn Smith wins LPGA Women's Golf Charities Open
Oct 26th - "Doonesbury" comic strip debuts in 28 newspapers
Oct 26th - Tanzania begins building railway Lusaka-Drone ash Salaam
Oct 27th - "Light, Lively & Yiddish" opens at Belasco Theater NYC for 87 perfs
Oct 28th - NBA Cleve Cavaliers 1st home game, lose to San Diego 110-99
Oct 28th - US/USSR sign an agreement to discuss joint space efforts
Oct 29th - WYEA (now WLTZ) TV channel 38 in Columbus, GA (NBC) 1st broadcast
Oct 30th - KVEW TV channel 42 in Kennewick, WA (ABC) begins broadcasting
Nov 1st - 1st regular season Giants-Jets game, Giants win 22-10 at Shea
Nov 1st - Discotheque in Grenoble France burns, all exits padlocked & 142 die
Nov 1st - Fire on Saint-Laurent-du-Pont, France, 144 die
Nov 1st - KGTF TV channel 12 in Agana, GU (PBS) begins broadcasting
Nov 2nd - Cleve Cavaliers lose by biggest margin-54 pts (Phila 141-87)
Nov 3rd - "President's Daughter" opens at Billy Rose Theater NYC for 72 perfs
Nov 3rd - Bob Gibson wins NL Cy Young Award
Nov 3rd - Pres Nixon promises gradual troop removal of Vietnam
Nov 3rd - Salvador Allende inaugurated as president of Chile
Nov 4th - Russian nuclear physicist Sacharov forms Human Rights Comittee
Nov 4th - Genie, a 13 year old feral child was found in Los Angeles, California having been locked in her bedroom for most of her life.
Nov 6th - Boog Powell wins AL MVP
Nov 6th - Twins Jim Perry wins AL Cy Young Award
Nov 7th - "Purlie" closes at Broadway Theater NYC after 689 performances

Famous Birthdays

Results 501 - 600 of 1,482

May 12th - Mike Weir, Sarnia Ont, Canadian Tour golfer (Ontario Amateur-1990, 92)
May 12th - Stevie Anderson, NFL wide receiver (Arizona Cardinals)
May 12th - Todd Hallett, Shelburne Nova Scotia, rower (Olympics-7-92, 96)
May 12th - Samantha Mathis, American actress
May 13th - Doug Evans, NFL defensive back (Green Bay Packers-Superbowl 31)
May 13th - Giuseppe Busillo, hockey forward (Team Italy 1998)
May 13th - Mark Beaufait, Royal Oak Mich, US hockey forward (Olympics-1994)
May 13th - Mitch Lyons, NFL tight end (Atlanta Falcons, Pittsburgh Steelers)
May 13th - Selwyn Jones, NFL defensive back (Seahawks, Den Broncos-Superbowl 32)
May 14th - Natasha Ryan, LA Calif, actress (Amy-Ladies' Man)
May 14th - Sylvester Stanley, WLAF defensive tackle (Rhein Fire)
May 15th - Artie Smith, NFL defensive end (Cin Bengals)
May 15th - Cory Philpot, CFL running back (BC Lions)
May 15th - Desmond Howard, NFL receiver (Jacksonville Jaguars, Oakland Raiders)
May 15th - Frank de Boer, Dutch soccer star (Ajax)
May 15th - Keith Tower, NBA center (LA Clippers)
May 15th - Prince Be, rapper (PM Dawn)
May 15th - Rod Smith, NFL wide reciever (Denver Broncos-Superbowl 32)
May 15th - Ronald de Boer, Dutch soccer player (Ajax)
May 15th - Tony Brown, NFL cornerback (Seattle Seahawks)
May 15th - Martin Rossiter, Welsh Musician
May 15th - Rod Smith, American football player
May 16th - Eric Lynch, NFL running back (Detroit Lions)
May 16th - Gabriela Sabatini, Argentina, tennis player (Olympic-silver-1988)
May 17th - Alan Wetmore, CFL fullback (Montreal Alouettes)
May 17th - Derrick Deese, NFL guard (SF 49ers)
May 17th - Hubert Davis, NBA guard (Dallas Mavericks, NY Knicks)
May 17th - Jim Cummins, Dearborn, NHL right wing (Chicago Blackhawks)
May 17th - Jodie Rogers, Melbourne Victoria Australia, diver (Olympics-96)
May 17th - John Karelse, soccer player (NAC)
May 17th - Jordan Nathaniel M Knight, Mass, rocker (New Kids-Hangin' Tough)
May 17th - Renzo Furlan, Italy, tennis star
May 17th - Stefania Croce, Bergamo Italy, golfer (95 State Farm Rail Classic-11)
May 17th - Todd Mundt, NBA center (Atlanta Hawks)
May 17th - Matt Lindland, American mixed martial arts fighter
May 18th - Clemens Zwijnenberg, soccer player (FC Twente)
May 18th - Vicky Sunohara, ice hockey forward (Canada, Oly-98)
May 18th - Tina Fey, American writer/actress
May 19th - Choi Kyung-Ju, South Korean professional golfer
May 20th - Jason York, Nepean, NHL defenseman (Anaheim Mighty Ducks)
May 20th - Missy Cress, Burbank CA, female catcher (Colo Silver Bullets)
May 20th - Niklas Andersson, Kungalv SWE, NHL forward (Team Sweden, NY Islanders)
May 20th - Terrell Brandon, NBA guard (Cleveland Cavaliers, Milwaukee Bucks)
May 20th - Louis Theroux, British television presenter
May 21st - Dorsey Levens, NFL running back (Green Bay Packers-Superbowl 31)
May 21st - Roman Turek, Strakonice CZE, hockey goalie (Team Czech Rep, Oly-98)
May 21st - Scott "Munnster" Munn, Larkspur Calif, rower (Olympics-1996)
May 21st - Veronica Sanchez, Michoan Mexico, WPVA volleyballer (Hermosa-17-1994)
May 21st - Carl Veart, Australian former footballer
May 22nd - Clyde Johnson, cornerback (KC Chiefs)
May 22nd - Eric Wunderlich, US, 200m breaststroke (Olympics-7th-96)
May 22nd - Marcus Dowdell, NFL wide receiver/kick returner (Arizona Cardinals)
May 22nd - Naomi Campbell, London England, model/actress (Cool as Ice, Unzipped)
May 22nd - Pedro Diniz, Brazilian Formula One driver
May 23rd - Grahae Hick, cricketer
May 23rd - Ricky Gutierrez, Miami FL, infielder (Houston Astros)
May 23rd - Yigal Amir, Israeli assassin of Yitzhak Rabin
May 23rd - Nanette Burstein, American director/producer
May 23rd - Bryan Herta, American race car driver
May 23rd - Blake Schwendiman, American author
May 24th - Jeff Zgonina, NFL defensive tackle (Carolina Panthers, Packers, Rams)
May 24th - Nick Castaneda, Birmingham Ala, pairs skater (& Dawn Piepenbrink)
May 24th - Thomas Alden Page, Glenridge NJ, rocker (New Kids-Hangin' Tough)
May 24th - Tommy Page, American singer
May 25th - Danni Roche, Melbourne VIC Australia, field hockey midfielder (Oly-96)
May 25th - Heather Simmons-Carrasco, Mt View Ca, synchro swimmer (Oly-alt-96)
May 25th - Joey Eischen, West Covina CA, pitcher (LA Dodgers)
May 25th - Lindsay Greenbush, LA, twin actress (Carrie-Little House on Prairie)
May 25th - Michael B Enyaer, writer (Pilot One)
May 25th - Robert Croft, cricketer (Glamorgan off-spinner, England 1996-)
May 25th - Sandra Dopfer, Lustenau Austria, tennis star (1995 Futures-Lerida)
May 25th - Sidney Greenbush, LA, twin actress (Carrie-Little House on Prairie)
May 25th - Satsuki Yukino, Seiyuu
May 26th - Sam Mack, NBA forward/guard (Houston Rockets, Vancouver Grizzlies)
May 26th - Sebastian Barrie, NFL defensive tackle (SD Chargers)
May 26th - Nobuhiro Watsuki, Japanese cartoonist
May 27th - Liz Earley, St Catharines Ontario, LPGA golfer (1995 Thailand Open)
May 27th - Michael Blackburn, Australian laser yachter (Olympics-96)
May 27th - Todd Collins, linebacker (New England Patriots)
May 27th - Tim Farron, British politician
May 27th - Joseph Fiennes, English actor
May 27th - Michele Bartoli, Italian cyclist
May 28th - Ben Williams, WLAF defensive end (London Monarchs)
May 28th - David Roberts, Alameda Calif, US hockey forward (Olympics-1994)
May 28th - Jason Belser, NFL cornerback (Indianapolis Colts)
May 28th - Morgan Fox, Prince George BC, playmate (Dec, 1990)
May 28th - Ian Cashmore, English actor and paranormal investigator
May 28th - Glenn Quinn, Irish actor (d. 2002)
May 29th - Natarsha Belling, Australian news presenter
May 30th - Audrey Wooding, LPGA golfer
May 30th - Sam Rogers, NFL linebacker (Buffalo Bills)
May 30th - Ness Wadia, Indian industrialist
May 31st - Cory Mantyka, CFL guard (BC Lions)
Jun 1st - Joshua Compston, art impressario
Jun 1st - Raylee Johnson, NFL defensive end (SD Chargers)
Jun 1st - Scott Couper, WLAF receiver (Scottish Claymores)
Jun 1st - Shane Matthews, NFL quarterback (Chic Bears)
Jun 1st - Alexi Lalas, American soccer player
Jun 1st - Karen Mulder, Dutch supermodel
Jun 1st - R. Madhavan, Indian actor

Famous Deaths

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