Historical Events for December 1970
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Months in 1970: January February March April May June July August September October November
Results 1 - 53 of 53
1st - Luis Echeverria Alvarez sworn in as president of Mexico
1st - NHL takes control of Pittsburgh Penguins
1st - Independent People's Republic of South Yemen becomes People Democratic Republic of Yemen
2nd - Environmental Protection Agency begins (Dir: William Ruckelshaus)
2nd - Tippetts Opera "Knot Garden," premieres in London
3rd - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
4th - Unemployment in US increases to 5.8%
5th - LA Rams Willie Ellison sets NFL record of 247 yards rushing
5th - Stanley Cup, Conn Smythe Trophy & Bill Masterson trophy stolen from NHL hall of fame
5th - Premiere of Dario Fo's Morte accidentale di un anarchico.
6th - Cleve Cavaliers 1st NBA home victory, beating Buffalo Braves 108-106
7th - Taizan Maezumi Roshi, head of LA Zen Center, receives dharma
7th - West Germany & Poland normalize relations
9th - Dutch Antilles: govt of Petronia falls
10th - North American Soccer League awards NY & Toronto franchises
11th - John Lennon releases an album that contains songs with word "fuck"
11th - Start of the 1st Test match at the WACA, v England
11th - Test Cricket debut of Gregory Stephen Chappell
12th - Polish government proclaims price rise
12th - Small Astronomy Satellite Explorer 42 launched to study X-rays
12th - USSR performs underground nuclear test
13th - Greg Chappell scores 108 on Test debut v England at the WACA
13th - Neil Simon's "Gingerbread Lady," premieres in NYC
15th - Ferryboat capsized in Korean Strait drowning 261
15th - S Korean ferry Namyong-Ho sinks in Strait of Korea, 308 killed
15th - Soviet Venera 7 is 1st spacecraft to land on another planet (Venus)
15th - Illinois State Constitution is adopted at a special election.
16th - 1st successful landing on Venus (USSR)
16th - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
17th - Gdansk, Poland shipworkers strike
17th - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
17th - USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
17th - Polish 1970 protests: In Gdynia, soldiers fire at workers emerging from trains, killing dozens.
18th - "Me Nobody Knows" opens at Helen Hayes Theater NYC for 587 perfs
18th - Polish uprising fails
18th - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
20th - Edward Gierek succeeds Wladyslaw Gomulka as Poland's party leader
21st - WUTV TV channel 29 in Buffalo, NY (IND) begins broadcasting
22nd - Treblinka SS commander Franz Stangl sentenced to life imprisonment
23rd - 7,511th performance of Agatha Christie's "Mousetrap" (record)
23rd - French author Régis Debray freed in Bolivia
23rd - NY World Trade Center reaches highest point (411 m)
23rd - USSR performs nuclear test
24th - 9 Jews are convicted in Leningrad of hijacking a plane
24th - Walt Disney's "Aristocats" is released
27th - "Hello, Dolly!" closes at St James Theater NYC after 2844 performances
28th - "Lovely Ladies, Kind Gentlemen" opens at Majestic NYC for 19 perfs
28th - Yemen Arab Republic (North Yemen) adopts constitution
30th - Paul McCartney sues his bandmates to dissolve the Beatles
31st - Congress authorizes Eisenhower dollar coin
31st - Paul McCartney files a lawsuit to disolve Beatles
31st - President Allende nationalizes Chilean coal mines
31st - Would have been start of Aust/Eng Test Cricket at MCG, washed out
