Historical Events for October 1970
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Months in 1970: January February March April May June July August September November December
Results 1 - 53 of 53
1st - 63 arrest in riot to buy Rolling Stone tickets in Milano Italy
1st - Last game at Philadelphia's Connie Mack Stadium, Phils-2 Expos-1
2nd - Billy Martin named manager of Det Tigers
2nd - Plane carrying Wichita State U football team crashes killing 30
3rd - "Coco" closes at Mark Hellinger Theater NYC after 333 performances
3rd - Baseball umpires call their 1st strike
3rd - WAPT TV channel 16 in Jackson, MS (ABC) begins broadcasting
4th - KC Chiefs Jan Stenerud kicks 55-yard field goal
4th - Umps return after 1-day walkout in quest of higher wages
4th - WFYI TV channel 20 in Indianapolis, IN (PBS) begins broadcasting
4th - Herbert Schmidtz makes highest parachute jump from a tower by leaping from a 1,984 ft TV mast in Tulsa, Oklahoma
5th - John Creach, joins Jefferson Airplane
5th - PBS becomes a network
5th - Quebec separatists kidnap British trade commissioner James Cross
5th - PBS became a television network.
8th - Soviet author Alexander I Solzhenitsyn wins Nobel Prize for Literature
9th - Khmer Republic (Cambodia) declares independence
10th - Fiji gains independence from Britain (National Day)
10th - Fiji becomes independent.
12th - Rock Memorabilia Auction at Filmore East
13th - Angela Davis arrested in NYC
13th - USSR performs nuclear test at Sary Shagan USSR
14th - 4th Country Music Assn Award: Merle Haggard wins
14th - Cleve Cavaliers lose to Buffalo Braves in their 1st game 107-92
14th - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
14th - USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR
15th - Anwar Sadat elected president of Egypt
15th - Baltimore Orioles beat Cin Reds, 4 games to 1 in 67th World Series
15th - Bridge over Yarra River in Melbourne crashes; killing 35
15th - Russian passenger flight hijacked to Turkey
16th - Anwar Sadat elected president of Egypt, succeeding Gamal Abdel Nasser
17th - Anwar Sadat sworn in as president of Egypt
18th - Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Quality Chekd Golf Classic
18th - Sachio Kinugasa begins 2,215 cons game streak for Hiroshima Carp
19th - "Rothschilds" opens at Lunt-Fontanne Theater NYC for 505 performances
19th - Amdahl Corp forms at Sunnyvale Calif
19th - John Frazier kills Ohta's declares WW 3 has begun
20th - American Norman Borlaug awarded the Nobel Peace Prize
20th - Zond 8 Launch (Moon Orbit & Return)
21st - 777 Unification church couples wed in Korea
21st - Caledonian Airways takes over British United Airways
21st - Nobel prize of peace awarded to Norman E Borlaugh
23rd - Gary Gabelich sets auto speed record 622.4 mph (1,001 kph)
24th - Nancy Walker creates Ida Morgenstein role on Mary Tyler Moore Show
24th - Salvador Allende Gossens elected president of Chile
25th - Marilynn Smith wins LPGA Women's Golf Charities Open
26th - "Doonesbury" comic strip debuts in 28 newspapers
26th - Tanzania begins building railway Lusaka-Drone ash Salaam
27th - "Light, Lively & Yiddish" opens at Belasco Theater NYC for 87 perfs
28th - NBA Cleve Cavaliers 1st home game, lose to San Diego 110-99
28th - US/USSR sign an agreement to discuss joint space efforts
29th - WYEA (now WLTZ) TV channel 38 in Columbus, GA (NBC) 1st broadcast
30th - KVEW TV channel 42 in Kennewick, WA (ABC) begins broadcasting
