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1970 Calendar
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1970 Historical Event(s)
- February 6, 1970 – New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Metal Dog in Chinese astrology.
- February 13, 1970 – Black Sabbath, arguably the very first heavy metal album, is released.
- February 21, 1970 – Swissair Flight 330: A mid-air bomb explosion and subsequent crash kills 38 passengers and nine crew members near Zürich, Switzerland.
- March 5, 1970 – The Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty goes into effect after ratification by 43 nations.
- March 10, 1970 – Vietnam War: Captain Ernest Medina is charged by the U.S. Military with My Lai war crimes.
- May 31, 1970 – The Ancash earthquake causes a landslide that buries the town of Yungay, Peru; more than 47,000 people are killed.
- July 3, 1970 – A British Dan-Air De Havilland Comet chartered jetliner crashes into mountains north of Barcelona, Spain killing 113 people.
- July 5, 1970 – Air Canada Flight 621 crashes near Toronto International Airport killing 109 people.
- August 23, 1970 – Organized by Mexican American union leader César Chávez, the Salad Bowl strike, the largest farm worker strike in U.S. history, begins.
- December 17, 1970 – Polish 1970 protests: In Gdynia soldiers fire at workers emerging from trains, killing dozens.
Who Were Born On 1970?
- March 26, 1970 – Paul Bosvelt, Dutch football player
- June 17, 1970 – Jason Hanson, American football player
- August 3, 1970 – Masahiro Sakurai, Japanese video game developer
- September 13, 1970 – Martín Herrera, former Argentine footballer
- September 22, 1970 – Emmanuel Petit, French footballer
- October 10, 1970 – Mohammed Mourhit, Belgian athlete
- November 4, 1970 – Bethenny Frankel, American chef and television personality
- December 18, 1970 – Miles Marshall Lewis, American author
- December 31, 1970 – Jorjão, Brazilian footballer