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1970 Calendar

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•  February 6, 1970 – New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Metal Dog in Chinese astrology.
•  March 18, 1970 – Lon Nol ousts Prince Norodom Sihanouk of Cambodia.
•  April 24, 1970 – The first Chinese satellite, Dong Fang Hong I, is launched.
•  July 8, 1970 – Richard Nixon delivers a special congressional message enunciating Native American Self-Determination as official US Indian policy, leading to the Indian Self-Determination Act.
•  July 23, 1970 – Qaboos ibn Sa’id becomes Sultan of Oman after overthrowing his father, Sa’id ibn Taimur initiating massive reforms ;modernisation programs and end to a decade long civil war.
•  September 1, 1970 – Attempted assassination of King Hussein of Jordan by Palestinian guerrillas, who attacked his motorcade.
•  September 5, 1970 – Vietnam War: Operation Jefferson Glenn begins: the United States 101st Airborne Division and the South Vietnamese 1st Infantry Division initiate a new operation in Thừa Thiên-Huế Province.
•  November 1, 1970 – Club Cinq-Sept fire in Saint-Laurent-du-Pont, France kills 146 young people.
•  November 9, 1970 – Vietnam War: The Supreme Court of the United States votes 6 to 3 against hearing a case to allow Massachusetts to enforce its law granting residents the right to refuse military service in an undeclared war.
•  November 21, 1970 – Vietnam War: Operation Ivory Coast – A joint Air Force and Army team raids the Son Tay prison camp in an attempt to free American prisoners of war thought to be held there.

•  May 27, 1970 – Tim Farron, British politician
•  June 20, 1970 – Andrea Nahles, German politician
•  June 26, 1970 – Paul Thomas Anderson, American filmmaker
•  August 27, 1970 – Karl Unterkircher, Italian mountaineer (d. 2008)
•  August 30, 1970 – Michael Wong, Malaysia-born Chinese singer
•  September 17, 1970 – Mark Brunell, American football player
•  October 2, 1970 – Patricia O'Callaghan, Canadian singer
•  December 4, 1970 – John L. Adams, American actor