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1970 Calendar

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•  January 16, 1970 – Buckminster Fuller receives the Gold Medal award from the American Institute of Architects.
•  February 6, 1970 – New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Metal Dog in Chinese astrology.
•  April 21, 1970 – The Hutt River Province Principality secedes from Australia.
•  April 28, 1970 – Vietnam War: U.S. President Richard M. Nixon formally authorizes American combat troops to fight communist sanctuaries in Cambodia.
•  July 3, 1970 – A British Dan-Air De Havilland Comet chartered jetliner crashes into mountains north of Barcelona, Spain killing 113 people.
•  August 26, 1970 – The then new feminist movement, led by Betty Friedan, leads a nation-wide Women’s Strike for Equality.
•  September 2, 1970 – NASA announces the cancellation of two Apollo missions to the Moon, Apollo 15 (the designation is re-used by a later mission), and Apollo 19.
•  September 9, 1970 – A British airliner is hijacked by the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine and flown to Dawson’s Field in Jordan.
•  September 30, 1970 – Jordan makes a deal with the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) for the release of the remaining hostages from the Dawson’s Field hijackings.
•  November 1, 1970 – Club Cinq-Sept fire in Saint-Laurent-du-Pont, France kills 146 young people.

•  February 10, 1970 – Nobushige Kumakubo, Japanese racing driver
•  February 18, 1970 – Andy Williams, British musician (Doves)
•  February 24, 1970 – Jonathan Ward, American television and movie actor
•  April 18, 1970 – Esther Schweins, German actress and comedienne
•  May 6, 1970 – Tristán Ulloa, Spanish actor
•  May 19, 1970 – Mario Dumont, Canadian politician
•  June 3, 1970 – Julie Masse, French Canadian singer
•  June 29, 1970 – Mike Vallely, American skateboarder
•  September 3, 1970 – George Lynch, American basketball player
•  December 3, 1970 – Christian Karembeu, French footballer