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

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Nov 7th - Race riots in Daytona Beach Florida
Nov 8th - Tom Dempsey of New Orleans Saints kicks NFL record 63 yard field goal
Nov 9th - Trial of Seattle 8 anti-war protesters begins
Nov 10th - "2 by 2" opens at Imperial Theater NYC for 343 performances
Nov 10th - Luna 17, with unmanned self-propelled Lunokhod 1, is launched
Nov 10th - R Rodgers/M Charnins musical "Two by Two," premieres in NYC
Nov 11th - Balt Oriole Boog Powell wins AL MVP
Nov 12th - 240 KPH cyclone hits East Pakistan (Bangladesh); 3-500,000 die
Nov 12th - Cleve Cavaliers 1st NBA victory (11th game), beating Portland 105-103
Nov 12th - Scientists perform 1st artificial synthesis of a live cell
Nov 13th - Cyclone kills estimated 300,000 in Chittagong Bangladesh
Nov 13th - Flooding ravages Ganges delta, 200,000-1 million killed
Nov 13th - Lt Gen Hafez al-Assad becomes PM of Syria following military coup
Nov 13th - VP Spiro Agnew calls TV executives "impudent snobs"
Nov 14th - DC-9 crashes in West Virginia, 75 killed
Nov 14th - Marshall U football team wiped out in air crash at Kenova WV
Nov 17th - British newspaper Sun puts 1st pinup girl on pg 3 (Stephanie Rahn)
Nov 17th - Russia lands Lunokhod 1 unmanned remote-controlled vehicle on Moon
Nov 17th - Douglas Engelbart receives the patent for the first computer mouse.
Nov 18th - Joe Frazier KOs Bob Foster in 2 for heavyweight boxing title
Nov 18th - Johnny Bench wins NL MVP
Nov 18th - Linus Pauling declares large doses of Vitamin C could ward off colds
Nov 18th - Netherlands & Albania form diplomatic relations
Nov 18th - Russia lands self propelled rover on Moon
Nov 19th - Golden Gate Park Conservatory becomes a Cal state historical landmark
Nov 19th - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
Nov 20th - UN General Assembly accepts membership of China PR
Nov 21st - NY Knicks 1st game against Cleve Cavalier, Knicks win 102-94 at MSG
Nov 23rd - KNCT TV channel 46 in Belton/Killeen, TX (PBS) begins broadcasting
Nov 24th - 36th Heisman Trophy Award: Jim Plunkett, Stanford (QB)
Nov 25th - Yankees catcher Thurman Munson wins AL Rookie of Year
Nov 25th - In Japan, author Yukio Mishima and two compatriots commit ritualistic suicide after an unsuccessful coup attempt.
Nov 26th - In Basse-Terre, Guadeloupe, 1.5 inches (38.1mm) of rain fall in a minute, the heaviest rainfall ever on record.
Nov 27th - Carl Morton (18-11 for last-place Expos), receives NL Rookie of Year
Nov 27th - George Harrison releases 3 album set "All Things Must Pass"
Nov 27th - Pope Paul VI wounded in chest during a visit to Philippines by a dagger-wielding Bolivian painter disguised as a priest
Nov 27th - Test Cricket debut of Rodney "Iron Gloves" Marsh v England, Brisbane
Nov 28th - 58th CFL Grey Cup: Montreal Alouettes defeat Calgary Stampeders, 23-10
Nov 29th - Charles Ives' "Yale-Princeton," premieres
Nov 29th - Colin Cowdrey becomes Test Crickets' leading run scorer (7,250)
Nov 30th - George Harrison releases his triple album set "All Things Must Pass"
Dec 1st - Luis Echeverria Alvarez sworn in as president of Mexico
Dec 1st - NHL takes control of Pittsburgh Penguins
Dec 1st - Independent People's Republic of South Yemen becomes People Democratic Republic of Yemen
Dec 2nd - Environmental Protection Agency begins (Dir: William Ruckelshaus)
Dec 2nd - Tippetts Opera "Knot Garden," premieres in London
Dec 3rd - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
Dec 4th - Unemployment in US increases to 5.8%
Dec 5th - LA Rams Willie Ellison sets NFL record of 247 yards rushing
Dec 5th - Stanley Cup, Conn Smythe Trophy & Bill Masterson trophy stolen from NHL hall of fame
Dec 5th - Premiere of Dario Fo's Morte accidentale di un anarchico.
Dec 6th - Cleve Cavaliers 1st NBA home victory, beating Buffalo Braves 108-106
Dec 7th - Taizan Maezumi Roshi, head of LA Zen Center, receives dharma
Dec 7th - West Germany & Poland normalize relations
Dec 9th - Dutch Antilles: govt of Petronia falls
Dec 10th - North American Soccer League awards NY & Toronto franchises
Dec 11th - John Lennon releases an album that contains songs with word "fuck"
Dec 11th - Start of the 1st Test match at the WACA, v England
Dec 11th - Test Cricket debut of Gregory Stephen Chappell
Dec 12th - Polish government proclaims price rise
Dec 12th - Small Astronomy Satellite Explorer 42 launched to study X-rays
Dec 12th - USSR performs underground nuclear test
Dec 13th - Greg Chappell scores 108 on Test debut v England at the WACA
Dec 13th - Neil Simon's "Gingerbread Lady," premieres in NYC
Dec 15th - Ferryboat capsized in Korean Strait drowning 261
Dec 15th - S Korean ferry Namyong-Ho sinks in Strait of Korea, 308 killed
Dec 15th - Soviet Venera 7 is 1st spacecraft to land on another planet (Venus)
Dec 15th - Illinois State Constitution is adopted at a special election.
Dec 16th - 1st successful landing on Venus (USSR)
Dec 16th - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
Dec 17th - Gdansk, Poland shipworkers strike
Dec 17th - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
Dec 17th - USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
Dec 17th - Polish 1970 protests: In Gdynia, soldiers fire at workers emerging from trains, killing dozens.
Dec 18th - "Me Nobody Knows" opens at Helen Hayes Theater NYC for 587 perfs
Dec 18th - Polish uprising fails
Dec 18th - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
Dec 20th - Edward Gierek succeeds Wladyslaw Gomulka as Poland's party leader
Dec 21st - WUTV TV channel 29 in Buffalo, NY (IND) begins broadcasting
Dec 22nd - Treblinka SS commander Franz Stangl sentenced to life imprisonment
Dec 23rd - 7,511th performance of Agatha Christie's "Mousetrap" (record)
Dec 23rd - French author Régis Debray freed in Bolivia
Dec 23rd - NY World Trade Center reaches highest point (411 m)
Dec 23rd - USSR performs nuclear test
Dec 24th - 9 Jews are convicted in Leningrad of hijacking a plane
Dec 24th - Walt Disney's "Aristocats" is released
Dec 27th - "Hello, Dolly!" closes at St James Theater NYC after 2844 performances
Dec 28th - "Lovely Ladies, Kind Gentlemen" opens at Majestic NYC for 19 perfs
Dec 28th - Yemen Arab Republic (North Yemen) adopts constitution
Dec 30th - Paul McCartney sues his bandmates to dissolve the Beatles
Dec 31st - Congress authorizes Eisenhower dollar coin
Dec 31st - Paul McCartney files a lawsuit to disolve Beatles
Dec 31st - President Allende nationalizes Chilean coal mines
Dec 31st - Would have been start of Aust/Eng Test Cricket at MCG, washed out