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

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Aug 16th - 52nd PGA Championship: Dave Stockton shoots 279 at Southern Hills OK
Aug 16th - Betsy Rawls wins LPGA Cincinnati Golf Open
Aug 17th - Venera 7 (US), 1st softlanding on Venus, launched
Aug 20th - -21] Hurricane Dorothy, kills 42 in Martinique
Aug 23rd - Kathy Ahern wins LPGA Southgate Ladies Golf Open
Aug 23rd - Roberto Clemente compiles his record 2nd straight 5-hit game
Aug 24th - Bomb kills 1 at U of Wisconsin's Army Math Research Center in Madison
Aug 25th - Elton John's 1st US appearance (Los Angeles)
Aug 28th - Phillies Larry Bowa steals home for 2nd time in 1970
Aug 29th - Black Panthers confront cops in Phila (1 cop killed)
Aug 31st - 59th Davis Cup: USA beats Germany in Cleveland (5-0)
Aug 31st - Lonnie McLucas, a Black Panther activist, convicted
Aug 31st - Molukkers occupy Indonesian ambassador's home in Wassenaar
Aug 31st - Peter Yarrow arrested for taking "immoral liberties" with girl, 14
Aug 31st - WKMJ TV channel 68 in Louisville, KY (PBS) begins broadcasting
Sep 1st - Failed assassination attempt on Jordanian king Hussain
Sep 1st - Jose Velasco Ibarra re-elected president of Ecuador
Sep 2nd - 1st tennis tie break at a Grand Slam (US Open) (9 pt sudden death)
Sep 3rd - After NL record 1,117 consec games, Billy Williams asks to sit out
Sep 3rd - Bill Halley & Comets reject $30,000 for 15 date tour of Australia
Sep 3rd - Indonesian president Suharto visits Netherlands
Sep 4th - -5) 29.0 cm rainfall at Workman Creek, Arizona (state record)
Sep 4th - George Harrison releases "My Sweet Lord" single
Sep 4th - Russian ballerina Natalia Makarova gets political asylum
Sep 4th - Salvador Allende wins presidential election in Chile
Sep 5th - Estimated 15 cm (6") of rainfall, Bug Point, Utah (state record)
Sep 6th - NY Met Tommy Agee hits for the cycle
Sep 6th - Palestinians seize 3 jetliners
Sep 6th - USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
Sep 7th - Jerry Lewis' 5th Muscular Dystrophy telethon
Sep 7th - PLO hijacks 4 planes
Sep 7th - White Sox use record 41 players in doubleheader & lose both games
Sep 7th - Donald Boyles sets record for highest parachute jump from a bridge, by leaping off of 1,053' Royal George Bridge in Colorado
Sep 7th - Fighting between Arabic guerillas and government forces in Amman, Jordan.
Sep 8th - Hijacking (and subsequent destruction) of three airliners to Jordan by Palestinians; the events to follow would later become known as Black September
Sep 9th - Bowie Kuhn suspends Denny McLain for carrying a gun
Sep 9th - Feyenoord wins soccer's World Cup
Sep 11th - 88 of the hostages from the Dawson's Field hijackings are released. The remaining hostages, mostly Jews and Israeli citizens, are held until September 25.
Sep 11th - The Ford Pinto is introduced.
Sep 12th - 1st Concorde lands at Heathrow airport
Sep 12th - Luna 16 Launch (Moon Sample Return)
Sep 12th - Phyllis Ann George (Texas), 21, crowned 43rd Miss America 1971
Sep 12th - Supersonic airliner Concorde lands for 1st time at Heathrow airport
Sep 12th - US LSD professor Timothy Leary escapes from Calif jail
Sep 12th - USSR launches Luna 16; returns samples from lunar Sea of Fertility
Sep 12th - Palestinian terrorists blow up three hijacked airliners in Jordan, continuing to hold the passengers hostage in various undisclosed locations in Amman.
Sep 13th - 1st NYC Marathon won by Gary Muhrcke in 2:31:38
Sep 13th - 84th US Womens Tennis: M Smith Court beats Rosemary Casals (62 26 61)
Sep 13th - 90th US Mens Tennis: Ken Rosewall beats Tony Roche (26 64 76 63)
Sep 13th - IBM announces System 370 computer
Sep 13th - Joanne Carner wins LPGA Wendell-West Golf Open
Sep 13th - Palestine guerillas conquer Irbid Jordania
Sep 14th - Stevie Miracle marries Rita Wright, [Syreeta]
Sep 15th - Decca awards Bing Crosby a 2nd platinum disc for selling 300 million
Sep 15th - PLO leader Arafat threatens to make a cemetery of Jordan
Sep 15th - Rotterdam harbor strikes end
Sep 16th - Jordan king Hussein forms military govt
Sep 17th - Jordan launches offensive against guerrilla army
Sep 17th - Jordanian King Hussein moves against PLO guerrillas
Sep 17th - WSWP TV channel 9 in Grandview, WV (PBS) begins broadcasting
Sep 19th - "Mary Tyler Moore" show premieres
Sep 20th - Jim Morrison found not guilty of "lewd" behavior
Sep 20th - Luna 16 lands on Moon's Mare Fecunditatis, drills core sample
Sep 21st - "Monday Night Football" premieres on ABC - Browns 31, Jets 21
Sep 21st - KAPP TV channel 35 in Yakima, WA (ABC) begins broadcasting
Sep 21st - Luna 16 leaves Moon
Sep 21st - Oakland A's Vida Blue no-hits Minn Twins, 6-0
Sep 21st - New York Times starts first modern op-ed page.
Sep 22nd - Pres Nixon requests 1,000 new FBI agents for college campuses
Sep 23rd - Abdul Razak bin Hussain becomes premier of Malaysia
Sep 23rd - Gary Muhrcke wins 1st NY Marathon
Sep 24th - 1st Automated return of lunar sample by Luna 16
Sep 24th - Soviet Luna 16 lands on earth after 1st unmanned round trip to moon
Sep 25th - Ringo releases his "Beaucoups of Blues" album
Sep 26th - Judy Rankin wins LPGA Lincoln-Mercury Golf Open
Sep 26th - The Laguna Fire starts in San Diego County, California, burning 175,425 acres (710 km²).
Sep 27th - Ken Boswell sets 2nd baseman record of 85 games without an error
Sep 28th - "Words & Music," debuts on NBC-TV
Sep 28th - Anwar Sadat replaces Egyptian President Nassar
Sep 28th - Intrepid (US) beats Gretel II (Aust) in 22nd America's Cup
Sep 28th - Ringo Starr released his "Beaccups of Blues" album
Sep 29th - "NET Festival," last aired
Sep 30th - New American Bible published
Oct 1st - 63 arrest in riot to buy Rolling Stone tickets in Milano Italy
Oct 1st - Last game at Philadelphia's Connie Mack Stadium, Phils-2 Expos-1
Oct 2nd - Billy Martin named manager of Det Tigers
Oct 2nd - Plane carrying Wichita State U football team crashes killing 30
Oct 3rd - "Coco" closes at Mark Hellinger Theater NYC after 333 performances
Oct 3rd - Baseball umpires call their 1st strike
Oct 3rd - WAPT TV channel 16 in Jackson, MS (ABC) begins broadcasting
Oct 4th - KC Chiefs Jan Stenerud kicks 55-yard field goal
Oct 4th - Umps return after 1-day walkout in quest of higher wages
Oct 4th - WFYI TV channel 20 in Indianapolis, IN (PBS) begins broadcasting
Oct 4th - Herbert Schmidtz makes highest parachute jump from a tower by leaping from a 1,984 ft TV mast in Tulsa, Oklahoma
Oct 5th - John Creach, joins Jefferson Airplane
Oct 5th - PBS becomes a network
Oct 5th - Quebec separatists kidnap British trade commissioner James Cross
Oct 5th - PBS became a television network.
Oct 8th - Soviet author Alexander I Solzhenitsyn wins Nobel Prize for Literature
Oct 9th - Khmer Republic (Cambodia) declares independence
Oct 10th - Fiji gains independence from Britain (National Day)
Oct 10th - Fiji becomes independent.
Oct 12th - Rock Memorabilia Auction at Filmore East
Oct 13th - Angela Davis arrested in NYC
Oct 13th - USSR performs nuclear test at Sary Shagan USSR
Oct 14th - 4th Country Music Assn Award: Merle Haggard wins
Oct 14th - Cleve Cavaliers lose to Buffalo Braves in their 1st game 107-92
Oct 14th - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
Oct 14th - USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR
Oct 15th - Anwar Sadat elected president of Egypt
Oct 15th - Baltimore Orioles beat Cin Reds, 4 games to 1 in 67th World Series
Oct 15th - Bridge over Yarra River in Melbourne crashes; killing 35
Oct 15th - Russian passenger flight hijacked to Turkey
Oct 16th - Anwar Sadat elected president of Egypt, succeeding Gamal Abdel Nasser
Oct 17th - Anwar Sadat sworn in as president of Egypt
Oct 18th - Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Quality Chekd Golf Classic
Oct 18th - Sachio Kinugasa begins 2,215 cons game streak for Hiroshima Carp
Oct 19th - "Rothschilds" opens at Lunt-Fontanne Theater NYC for 505 performances
Oct 19th - Amdahl Corp forms at Sunnyvale Calif
Oct 19th - John Frazier kills Ohta's declares WW 3 has begun
Oct 20th - American Norman Borlaug awarded the Nobel Peace Prize
Oct 20th - Zond 8 Launch (Moon Orbit & Return)
Oct 21st - 777 Unification church couples wed in Korea
Oct 21st - Caledonian Airways takes over British United Airways
Oct 21st - Nobel prize of peace awarded to Norman E Borlaugh
Oct 23rd - Gary Gabelich sets auto speed record 622.4 mph (1,001 kph)
Oct 24th - Nancy Walker creates Ida Morgenstein role on Mary Tyler Moore Show
Oct 24th - Salvador Allende Gossens elected president of Chile
Oct 25th - Marilynn Smith wins LPGA Women's Golf Charities Open
Oct 26th - "Doonesbury" comic strip debuts in 28 newspapers
Oct 26th - Tanzania begins building railway Lusaka-Drone ash Salaam
Oct 27th - "Light, Lively & Yiddish" opens at Belasco Theater NYC for 87 perfs
Oct 28th - NBA Cleve Cavaliers 1st home game, lose to San Diego 110-99
Oct 28th - US/USSR sign an agreement to discuss joint space efforts
Oct 29th - WYEA (now WLTZ) TV channel 38 in Columbus, GA (NBC) 1st broadcast
Oct 30th - KVEW TV channel 42 in Kennewick, WA (ABC) begins broadcasting
Nov 1st - 1st regular season Giants-Jets game, Giants win 22-10 at Shea
Nov 1st - Discotheque in Grenoble France burns, all exits padlocked & 142 die
Nov 1st - Fire on Saint-Laurent-du-Pont, France, 144 die
Nov 1st - KGTF TV channel 12 in Agana, GU (PBS) begins broadcasting
Nov 2nd - Cleve Cavaliers lose by biggest margin-54 pts (Phila 141-87)
Nov 3rd - "President's Daughter" opens at Billy Rose Theater NYC for 72 perfs
Nov 3rd - Bob Gibson wins NL Cy Young Award
Nov 3rd - Pres Nixon promises gradual troop removal of Vietnam
Nov 3rd - Salvador Allende inaugurated as president of Chile
Nov 4th - Russian nuclear physicist Sacharov forms Human Rights Comittee
Nov 4th - Genie, a 13 year old feral child was found in Los Angeles, California having been locked in her bedroom for most of her life.
Nov 6th - Boog Powell wins AL MVP
Nov 6th - Twins Jim Perry wins AL Cy Young Award
Nov 7th - "Purlie" closes at Broadway Theater NYC after 689 performances