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* [[June 10]] – U.S. President [[Richard Nixon]] signs a measure lowering the voting age to 18.
* [[June 10]] – U.S. President [[Richard Nixon]] signs a measure lowering the voting age to 18.
* [[June 11]] – The United States gets its first female generals: [[Anna Mae Hays]] and [[Elizabeth P. Hoisington]].
* [[June 11]] – The United States gets its first female generals: [[Anna Mae Hays]] and [[Elizabeth P. Hoisington]].
* [[June 11]] – [[Thomas DeSimone]] kills [[William Devino]], starting the whole "Billy Batts situation".
* [[June 12]] – [[NDFLOAG|N.D.F.L.O.A.G.]] guerrillas attack military garrisons at [[Izki]] and [[Nizwa]] in [[Oman]].
* [[June 12]] – [[NDFLOAG|N.D.F.L.O.A.G.]] guerrillas attack military garrisons at [[Izki]] and [[Nizwa]] in [[Oman]].
* [[June 18]] &ndash; [[United Kingdom general election, 1970]]: the [[Conservative Party (UK)|Conservative Party]] wins and [[Edward Heath]] becomes Prime Minister, ousting the [[Labour Party (UK)|Labour]] government of [[Harold Wilson]] after nearly six years in power. The election result was something of a surprise, as most of the opinion polls had predicted a third successive Labour win.<ref>[http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/june/19/newsid_3829000/3829819.stm]</ref>
* [[June 18]] &ndash; [[United Kingdom general election, 1970]]: the [[Conservative Party (UK)|Conservative Party]] wins and [[Edward Heath]] becomes Prime Minister, ousting the [[Labour Party (UK)|Labour]] government of [[Harold Wilson]] after nearly six years in power. The election result was something of a surprise, as most of the opinion polls had predicted a third successive Labour win.<ref>[http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/june/19/newsid_3829000/3829819.stm]</ref>

Revision as of 07:05, 2 October 2011

Millennium: 2nd millennium
Centuries:
Decades:
Years:
1970 in various calendars
Gregorian calendar1970
MCMLXX
Ab urbe condita2723
Armenian calendar1419
ԹՎ ՌՆԺԹ
Assyrian calendar6720
Baháʼí calendar126–127
Balinese saka calendar1891–1892
Bengali calendar1377
Berber calendar2920
British Regnal year18 Eliz. 2 – 19 Eliz. 2
Buddhist calendar2514
Burmese calendar1332
Byzantine calendar7478–7479
Chinese calendar己酉年 (Earth Rooster)
4667 or 4460
    — to —
庚戌年 (Metal Dog)
4668 or 4461
Coptic calendar1686–1687
Discordian calendar3136
Ethiopian calendar1962–1963
Hebrew calendar5730–5731
Hindu calendars
 - Vikram Samvat2026–2027
 - Shaka Samvat1891–1892
 - Kali Yuga5070–5071
Holocene calendar11970
Igbo calendar970–971
Iranian calendar1348–1349
Islamic calendar1389–1390
Japanese calendarShōwa 45
(昭和45年)
Javanese calendar1901–1902
Juche calendar59
Julian calendarGregorian minus 13 days
Korean calendar4303
Minguo calendarROC 59
民國59年
Nanakshahi calendar502
Thai solar calendar2513
Tibetan calendar阴土鸡年
(female Earth-Rooster)
2096 or 1715 or 943
    — to —
阳金狗年
(male Iron-Dog)
2097 or 1716 or 944
Unix time0 – 31535999

Year 1970 (MCMLXX) was a common year starting on Thursday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. It is the Unix epoch time and it was also the first year of the 1970s.

Events

January

January 20: Thames Barrier is planned.

February

March

April 17: Apollo 13 crew after splashdown.

April

April 1: New car: AMC Gremlin.

May

June

July

August

September

October

November

December

Date unknown

World population

World population
1970 1965 1975
World 3,692,492,000 3,334,874,000 357,618,000 4,068,109,000 375,617,000
Africa 357,283,000 313,744,000 43,539,000 408,160,000 50,877,000
Asia 2,143,118,000 1,899,424,000 243,694,000 2,397,512,000 254,394,000
Europe 655,855,000 634,026,000 21,829,000 675,542,000 19,687,000
Latin-America 284,856,000 250,452,000 34,404,000 321,906,000 37,050,000
North America 231,937,000 219,570,000 12,367,000 243,425,000 11,488,000
Oceania 19,443,000 17,657,000 1,786,000 21,564,000 2,121,000

Births

January–February

March–April

May–June

July–August

September–October

November–December

Deaths

January–March

April–June

July–September

Jimi Hendrix

October–December

Nobel Prizes

References