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

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Mar 16th - New English Bible published
Mar 16th - WNIN TV channel 9 in Evansville, IN (PBS) begins broadcasting
Mar 17th - Peter O'Malley becomes CEO of LA Dodgers
Mar 17th - US casts their 1st UN Security Council veto (Support England)
Mar 18th - -25) US Postal begins strike
Mar 18th - Cambodia military coup under Gen Lon Nol, prince Sihanuk flees
Mar 18th - KAEC TV channel 19 in Lufkin, TX (ABC) suspends broadcasting
Mar 18th - Mail service paralyzed by 1st major postal strike
Mar 18th - NFL selects Wilson as official football & scoreboard as official time
Mar 19th - W German chancellor & E German premier Willy Brandt meet
Mar 21st - 32nd NCAA Men's Basketball Championship: UCLA beats Jacksonville 80-69
Mar 21st - The first Earth Day proclamation is issued by San Francisco Mayor Joseph Alioto.
Mar 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.
Mar 22nd - "Blood Red Roses" opens & closes at John Golden Theater NYC
Mar 22nd - Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Orange Blossom Golf Classic
Mar 23rd - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
Mar 24th - Dutch cartoonist Frans Piet ends "Sjors & Sjimmie" strip
Mar 25th - Concorde makes its 1st supersonic flight (700 MPH/1,127 KPH)
Mar 26th - "Minnie's Boys" opens at Imperial Theater NYC for 80 performances
Mar 26th - 500th nuclear explosion announced by the US since 1945
Mar 26th - Golden Gate Park Conservatory made city landmark
Mar 26th - Peter Yarrow (Peter, Paul & Mary) plead guilty to "taking immoral liberties" with a 14 year old girl
Mar 27th - Ringo releases his 1st solo album "Sentimental Journey"
Mar 27th - USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
Mar 28th - 1,086 die when 7.4 quake destroys 254 villages (Gediz Turkey)
Mar 29th - "Look to the Lilies" opens at Lunt-Fontanne Theater NYC for 25 perfs
Mar 29th - Manchester City wins 10th Europe Cup II
Mar 30th - "Applause" opens at Palace Theater NYC for 900 performances
Mar 30th - Miles Davis Bitches Brew released
Mar 30th - Soap opera "Somerset" premieres
Mar 30th - Strouse, Adams, Comden & Green's musical "Applause," premieres in NYC
Mar 30th - USSR wins its 8th straight world hockey championship
Mar 31st - Federal bankruptcy court allows Seattle Pilots to be sold to Milwaukee
Mar 31st - Explorer 1 re-enters the Earth's atmosphere (after 12 years in orbit).
Apr 1st - Bud Selig becomes CEO of Milwaukee Brewers
Apr 1st - John & Yoko release hoax they are having dual sex change operations
Apr 1st - Milwaukee Brewers Baseball Club, headed by Bud Selig, purchases the Seattle Pilots for $10,800,000 Although negotiations were conducted over a period of months, it was not until March 13 when a federal bankruptcy referee declared the Pilots bankrupt
Apr 1st - Pres Nixon signs bill limiting cigarette advertisements on 1/1/71
Apr 2nd - Meghalaya becomes autonomous state within India's Assam state
Apr 2nd - Qatar gains independence from Britain
Apr 2nd - 2 men begin ascent of south face of Annapurna I, highest final stage in a wall climb in world
Apr 3rd - Miriam Hargrave of England passes her drivers test on 40th try
Apr 4th - Firestone World Tournament of Champions won by Don Johnson
Apr 5th - WSNS TV channel 44 in Chicago, IL (IND) begins broadcasting
Apr 7th - "Effects of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-moon Marigolds," premieres in NYC
Apr 7th - 42nd Academy Awards - "Midnight Cowboy," John Wayne & Maggie Smith win
Apr 7th - Milwaukee Brewers (former Seat Pilots) 1st game, lose to Angels 12-0
Apr 8th - "Cry for Us All" opens at Broadhurst Theater NYC for 8 performances
Apr 8th - Senate rejects Nixon's nomination of Carswell to Supreme Court
Apr 9th - Paul McCartney announces official split of Beatles
Apr 11th - Apollo 13 launched to Moon; unable to land, returns in 6 days
Apr 11th - Beatles' "Let It Be," single goes #1 & stays #1 for 2 weeks
Apr 11th - SF beats Cincinnati 2-1, only day Reds aren't in 1st place in 1970
Apr 12th - Yankees dedicate plaques to Mickey Mantle & Joe DiMaggio
Apr 13th - 34th Golf Masters Championship: Billy Casper wins, shooting a 279
Apr 13th - Greek composer Mikis Theordorakis freed
Apr 13th - Apollo 13 announces "Houston, we've got a problem!" as Beech-built oxygen tank explodes en route to Moon
Apr 13th - Oakland uses gold-colored bases during the club's home opener Rules Committee subsequently bans this innovation
Apr 14th - "Boy Friend" opens at Ambassador Theater NYC for 119 performances
Apr 15th - "Cry for Us All" closes at Broadhurst Theater NYC after 8 performances
Apr 15th - Libyan leader Gadaffi launches "Green Revolution"
Apr 15th - WMGZ TV channel 16 in Mayaguez, PR ([M]) begins broadcasting
Apr 15th - WPSJ TV channel 14 in Ponce, PR ([P]) begins broadcasting
Apr 16th - 70 die in a snow crush (France)
Apr 17th - Apollo 13 limps back safely, Beech-built oxygen tank no help
Apr 17th - Paul McCartney's 1st solo album "McCartney" is released
Apr 19th - "Look to the Lilies" closes at Lunt-Fontanne NYC after 25 perfs
Apr 19th - 24th Tony Awards: Borstal Boy & Applause win
Apr 19th - Sandra Haynie wins LPGA Raleigh Ladies Golf Invitational
Apr 20th - 74th Boston Marathon won by Ron Hill of Great Britain in 2:10:30
Apr 20th - Bruno Kreisky becomes 1st socialist chancellor of Austria
Apr 20th - Ron Hill's 2:10:30 at Boston, sets new US marathon record
Apr 21st - Reds clout 7 HRs by 6 batters, Braves counter with 3 HRs, 6 for one team & 9 different batters for two teams, all tie or set records
Apr 21st - The Hutt River Province Principality secedes from Australia.
Apr 22nd - "Park" opens at John Golden Theater NYC for 5 performances
Apr 22nd - 1st Earth Day held internationally to conserve natural resources
Apr 22nd - Flat Earth celebrated
Apr 22nd - NY Met Jerry Grote sets record of 20 put outs by a catcher
Apr 22nd - NY Met Tom Seaver strikes out last 10 Padres, for a total of 19
Apr 22nd - Senators beat Yankees 2-1 in 18 innings
Apr 24th - China PR launches its 1st satellite transmitting song "East is Red"
Apr 24th - Gambia becomes a republic within Commonwealth
Apr 24th - Senegal adopts constitution
Apr 25th - "Park" closes at John Golden Theater NYC after 5 performances
Apr 25th - Freda Payne releases "Band of Gold"
Apr 25th - Melanie releases "Lay Down"
Apr 26th - "Company" opens at Alvin Theater NYC for 690 performances
Apr 29th - 50,000 US & South Vietnamese troops invade Cambodia
Apr 30th - Cubs Billy Williams is 1st NLer to play in 1,000 consecutive games
Apr 30th - US troops invade Cambodia
May 2nd - 1st woman jockey at Kentucky Derby (Diane Crump)
May 2nd - 96th Kentucky Derby: Mike Manganello on Dust Commander wins 2:03.4
May 2nd - KOAI (now KNAZ) TV channel 2 in Flagstaff, AZ (NBC) 1st broadcast
May 3rd - 24th NBA Championship: NY Knicks beat LA Lakers, 4 games to 3
May 3rd - Sandra Haynie wins LPGA Shreveport Kiwanis Golf Invitational
May 4th - National Guard kills 4 at Kent State in Ohio
May 4th - Premier Kosygin affirms existence Russian military advisors in Egypt
May 4th - Pulitzer prize awarded to Erik H Erikson (Gandhi's Truth)
May 5th - US performs nuclear test at Nevada test Site
May 6th - Yuchiro Miura of Japan skies down Mt Everest
May 7th - "Long & Winding Road" becomes Beatles' last American release
May 8th - Beatles release "Let it Be" album
May 8th - Construction workers break up an anti-war rally in NYC's Wall Street
May 8th - NBA championship: Knicks beat Lakers, 113-99
May 9th - 100,000s demonstrate against Vietnam War
May 10th - Betsy Rawls wins LPGA Dallas Civitan Golf Open
May 10th - Brave's Hoyt Wilhelm pitches in his 1,000th game, loses to Cards 6-5
May 10th - Stanley Cup: Boston Bruins sweep St Louis Blues in 4 games
May 11th - Sammy Davis Jr weds Altovise
May 11th - Henry Marrow is murdered in a violent racially-motivated crime in Oxford, North Carolina.
May 12th - Ernie Banks hits his 500th home run
May 12th - Harry A Blackmun is confirmed as a justice on Supreme Court
May 12th - KTVM TV channel 6 in Butte, MT (NBC/ABC) begins broadcasting
May 12th - Race riots in Augusta Georgia; 6 blacks killed (5 by cops)
May 12th - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
May 13th - Beatles movie "Let it Be" premieres
May 14th - Cops kill 2 students in racial disturbance (Jackson State U, Miss)
May 14th - Harry A Blackmun appointed to Supreme Court
May 14th - NYC local newspaper "Our Town" begins publishing
May 14th - RAF-leader Andreas Baader freed after serving 2 years in West Berlin
May 14th - The Red Army Faction is established in Germany.
May 15th - Beatles' last LP, "Let It Be," is released in US
May 15th - Elizabeth Hoisington & Anna Mae Mays named 1st female US generals
May 15th - France performs nuclear test at Muruora Island
May 15th - Mississippi Highway Patrol kills 2 at Jackson State College
May 15th - South-Africa excluded from Olympic play
May 16th - 96th Preakness: Eddie Belmonte aboard Personality wins in 1:56.2
May 16th - Grover Henson Feels Forgotten by Bill Cosby hits #70
May 17th - Hank Aaron becomes 9th player to get 3,000 hits
May 17th - Shirley Englehorn wins LPGA Johnny Londoff Chevrolet Golf Tournament
May 17th - Thor Heyerdahl crosses Atlantic on reed raft Ra
May 20th - 100,000 march in NY supporting US policies in Vietnam
May 20th - 2 die in a NYC subway accident
May 20th - Beatles' "Let it Be" movie premieres in UK
May 21st - National Guard mobilizes to quell disturbances at Ohio State U
May 21st - USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR
May 22nd - Arab terrorists kill 9 children & 3 adults on a school bus
May 22nd - France performs nuclear test at Muruora Island
May 22nd - Mel Stottlemyre sets record by walking 11, but wins 2-0
May 23rd - Grateful Dead's 1st performance outside of US (England)
May 23rd - SD Padres beat SF Giants 17-16 in 15 innings
May 23rd - USSR performs nuclear test (underground)
May 23rd - A fire breaks out in the Britannia Bridge over the Menai Straits in north Wales contributing to its partial destruction and causing approximately £1,000,000 worth of fire damage.
May 24th - Donna Caponi Young wins LPGA Bluegrass Golf Invitational
May 24th - Peter Queen quits Fleetwood Mac to join a religious cult
May 24th - The drilling of the Kola Superdeep Borehole begins in the Soviet Union.
May 25th - 3rd ABA Championship: Indiana Pacers beat LA Stars, 4 games to 2
May 26th - The Soviet Tupolev Tu-144 becomes the first commercial transport to exceed Mach 2.
May 27th - British expedition climbs south face of Annapurna I
May 27th - USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR