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

Results 1 - 60 of 60

1st - "The Epoch" (Time 0 for UNIX systems, Midnight GMT)
1st - Afro-American Historical Calendar Series Established
1st - Charles "Chub" Feeney becomes president of baseball's National League
1st - Neth Christian Workers Union (NCW) forms
1st - Revised calendar for Western (RC) Church goes into effect
2nd - Dutch premiere of musical "Hair" in Amsterdam
2nd - US population is 293,200,000; Black population: 22,600,000 (11.1%)
3rd - "Jimmy" closes at Winter Garden Theater NYC after 84 performances
3rd - "Mame" closes at Winter Garden Theater NYC after 1508 performances
3rd - Marxist government takes over in Congo
3rd - WHAG TV channel 25 in Hagerstown, MD (NBC) begins broadcasting
4th - Beatles last recording session at EMI studios
4th - KC Chiefs beat Oakland Raiders 17-7 in AFC championship game
4th - Minn Vikings beat Cleve Browns 27-7 in NFC championship game
4th - NYC transit fare rises from 20 cents to 30 cents, new larger tokens used
4th - Walter Cronkite ends hosting weekly documentary
5th - 23,000 Belgian mine workers strike
5th - KPTS TV channel 8 in Hutchinson-Wichita, KS (PBS) begins broadcasting
5th - Soap Opera "All My Children," premieres on ABC
7th - Farmers sue Max Yasgur for $35,000 in damages caused by "Woodstock"
9th - Constitution of Singapore enacted
10th - Preview Center Opens
11th - Superbowl IV: KC Chiefs beat Minn Vikings, 23-7 in New Orleans Superbowl MVP: Len Dawson, Kansas City, QB
12th - Biafran War ends, Biafra surrenders to Nigeria
12th - Boeing 747 makes its maiden voyage
12th - Biafra capitulates, ending the Nigerian civil war.
15th - Milwaukee Brewers make their 1st trade (with Oakland A's)
15th - Republic Biafra disbands/joins Nigeria
16th - Col Kadhaffi becomes premier of Libya
16th - Curt Flood files a civil lawsuit challenging baseball's reserve clause
16th - NFL realigns into 3 divisions (down from 4)
16th - AAU player Steve Myers makes a basketball field goal of 92'3½" from out of bounds, Tacoma-it shouldn't have counted, but was allowed
16th - Buckminster Fuller receives the Gold Medal award from the American Institute of Architects.
17th - 357 baseball players are available in the free-agent draft
17th - AFL Pro Bowl: West beats East 26-3
17th - John M Burgess installed as bishop of Protestant Episcopals (Mass)
17th - Sporting News names Willie Mays as Player of the Decade for the 1960s
18th - Hasse Borjes skates world record 500m in 38.9 sec
18th - NFL Pro Bowl: West beats East 16-13
19th - Dutch bishops says he is in favor of married priest
19th - Nixon nominates G Harold Carswell to Supreme Court (fails)
19th - UCLA fires Angela Davis for being a communist
20th - 20th NBA All-Star Game: East beats West 142-135 at Philadelphia
20th - 23rd NHL All-Star Game: East beat West 4-1 at St Louis
20th - Super Fight, computer mock championship between Ali & Marciano
21st - Panama Boeing 747 1st flight NY-London
22nd - 1st commercial Boeing 747 flight, NY to London in 6½ hours
22nd - Test debut of Barry Richards, S Africa v Australia, Cape Town
23rd - Australia's 1st amateur radio satellite (Oscar 5) launched (Calif)
23rd - Dolle Mina's burns her bra in Amsterdam
23rd - US launches 2nd generation weather satellite, ITOS 1
23rd - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
24th - 3rd ABA All-Star Game: West 128 beats East 98 at Indiana
24th - Valeri Muratov skates world record 500m (38.99 sec)
25th - Robert Altman's "M*A*S*H," premieres
26th - Pendleton, Ford & Cryer's "Last Sweet Days of Isaac," premieres in NYC
27th - Movie rating system modifies "M" rating to "PG"
28th - Lubomír Strougal succeeds Cernik as premier of Czechoslovakia
29th - USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
31st - Grateful Dead members busted on LSD charges