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1970 (MCMLXX) was a common year starting on Thursday (the link is to a full 1970 calendar). 1970 is the Unix epoch time. more...
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Events
January
January 1 - Construction begins on Arcosanti, by Paolo Soleri, in Mayer, Arizona, 65 miles north of Phoenix, Arizona.;
January 1 - The Unix epoch begins at 00:00:00 UTC.;
January 5 - The first episode of All My Children is broadcast on the ABC television network.;
January 12 - Biafra capitulates, ending the Nigerian civil war.;
January 15 - After a 32-month fight for independence from Nigeria, Biafran forces under Philip Effiong formally surrender to General Yakubu Gowon.;
January 20 - The Greater London Council announced its plans for the Thames Barrier at Woolwich to prevent flooding. The barrier opened in 1981.;
January 21 - Five lifeboatmen were killed when the Fraserburgh lifeboat Duchess of Kent capsized during a rescue off Kinnaird's Head, Aberdeenshire.;
January 26 - Mick Jagger was fined £200 for possession of cannabis.;
February
February 1 - A train collision near Buenos Aires, Argentina kills 142.;
February 10 - 39 tourists are killed by an avalanche at Val d'Isère, France.;
February 11 - Osumi, Japan's first satellite, is launched on a Lamba-4 rocket.;
February 17 - MacDonald family massacre: Jeffrey R. MacDonald kills his wife and children at Fort Bragg, North Carolina, claiming that drugged-out "hippies" did it.;
February 17 - Author David Irving was ordered to pay £40,000 libel damages to Capt. John Broome over his book "The Destruction of Convoy PQ17".;
February 18 - A jury finds the Chicago Seven defendants not guilty of conspiring to incite a riot, in charges stemming from the violence at the 1968 Democratic National Convention. Five of the defendants are found guilty on the lesser charge of crossing state lines to incite a riot.;
February 20 - Construction begins on the Bogazici Bridge crossing the Bosphorus in Istanbul.;
February 22 - Guyana became a Republic within the Commonwealth of Nations.;
March
March 1 - Rhodesia severs its last tie with the United Kingdom, declaring itself a racially-segregated republic.;
March 5 - The Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty goes into effect, after ratification by 43 nations.;
March 11 - Henry Marrow is murdered in a violent hate crime in Oxford, North Carolina.;
March 12 - Teenagers in the United Kingdom vote for the first time, in a by-election in Bridgwater.;
March 15 - The Expo '70 World's Fair opens in Suita, Osaka, Japan.;
March 16 - The complete New English Bible is published.;
March 17 - My Lai massacre: The United States Army charges 14 officers with suppressing information related to the incident.;
March 18 - General Lon Nol ousts Prince Norodom Sihanouk of Cambodia.;
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