Historical Events for March 1970
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Months in 1970: January February April May June July August September October November December
Results 1 - 67 of 67
1st - Atje Keulen-Deelstra becomes world champion all-round ladies skater
1st - Charles Manson's album "Lie" is released
1st - End of US coml whale hunting
1st - Kreisky's soc-democrats win Austrian parliamentary election
1st - White govt of Rhodesia declares independence from Britain
2nd - American Airlines' 1st flight of a Boeing 747
2nd - Rhodesia becomes independent republic
2nd - Supreme Court ruled draft evaders can not be penalized after 5 years
4th - French submarine "Eurydice" explodes
4th - Jacksonville is 1st college basketball team to avg 100+ pts per game
4th - NY Rangers set then NHL record of 126 games without being shut-out
5th - Edison Theater opens at 240 W 47th St NYC
5th - Nuclear non-proliferation treaty goes into effect
5th - SDS Weathermen terrorist group bomb 18 West 11th St in NYC
5th - Dubnium atoms are first detected conclusively.
6th - Beatles release "Let it Be" in UK
7th - Ice Dance Championship at Ljubljana won by Pakhomova & Gorshkov (URS)
7th - Ice Pairs Championship at Ljubljana won by Rodnina & Ulanov (URS)
7th - Ladies Figure Skating Champ in Ljubljana won by Gabriele Seyfert (GDR)
7th - Men's Figure Skating Championship in Ljubljana won by Tim Wood (USA)
7th - WXOW TV channel 19 in La Crosse, WI (ABC) begins broadcasting
8th - WTCI TV channel 45 in Chattanooga, TN (PBS) begins broadcasting
10th - Barbra Streisand records "The Singer" & "I Can Do It"
10th - South Africa complete 4-0 series drubbing of Australia
11th - 12th Grammy Awards: Aquarius, Crosby Stills & Nash, Peggy Lee win
11th - Iraq Ba'th Party recognizes Kurd nation
12th - US lowers voting age from 21 to 18
13th - 100 year Beehive anniversary ends in brawl in Amsterdam
13th - Digital Equipment Corp introduces PDP-11 minicomputer
13th - SF city employees begin 4-day strike
15th - "Purlie" opens at Broadway Theater NYC for 689 performances
15th - Expo '70 opens in Osaka, Japan
15th - Gary Geld & Peter Udell's "Purlie," premieres in NYC
16th - New English Bible published
16th - WNIN TV channel 9 in Evansville, IN (PBS) begins broadcasting
17th - Peter O'Malley becomes CEO of LA Dodgers
17th - US casts their 1st UN Security Council veto (Support England)
18th - -25) US Postal begins strike
18th - Cambodia military coup under Gen Lon Nol, prince Sihanuk flees
18th - KAEC TV channel 19 in Lufkin, TX (ABC) suspends broadcasting
18th - Mail service paralyzed by 1st major postal strike
18th - NFL selects Wilson as official football & scoreboard as official time
19th - W German chancellor & E German premier Willy Brandt meet
21st - 32nd NCAA Men's Basketball Championship: UCLA beats Jacksonville 80-69
21st - The first Earth Day proclamation is issued by San Francisco Mayor Joseph Alioto.
21st - Vinko Bogataj crashes during a ski-jumping championship in Germany; his image becomes that of the "agony of defeat guy" in the opening credits of ABC's Wide World of Sports.
22nd - "Blood Red Roses" opens & closes at John Golden Theater NYC
22nd - Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Orange Blossom Golf Classic
23rd - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
24th - Dutch cartoonist Frans Piet ends "Sjors & Sjimmie" strip
25th - Concorde makes its 1st supersonic flight (700 MPH/1,127 KPH)
26th - "Minnie's Boys" opens at Imperial Theater NYC for 80 performances
26th - 500th nuclear explosion announced by the US since 1945
26th - Golden Gate Park Conservatory made city landmark
26th - Peter Yarrow (Peter, Paul & Mary) plead guilty to "taking immoral liberties" with a 14 year old girl
27th - Ringo releases his 1st solo album "Sentimental Journey"
27th - USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
28th - 1,086 die when 7.4 quake destroys 254 villages (Gediz Turkey)
29th - "Look to the Lilies" opens at Lunt-Fontanne Theater NYC for 25 perfs
29th - Manchester City wins 10th Europe Cup II
30th - "Applause" opens at Palace Theater NYC for 900 performances
30th - Miles Davis Bitches Brew released
30th - Soap opera "Somerset" premieres
30th - Strouse, Adams, Comden & Green's musical "Applause," premieres in NYC
30th - USSR wins its 8th straight world hockey championship
31st - Federal bankruptcy court allows Seattle Pilots to be sold to Milwaukee
31st - Explorer 1 re-enters the Earth's atmosphere (after 12 years in orbit).
