In history, year 1970 has its own importance and known for many memorable events like famous birthdays, inventions, natural disaster, treaties, change of rulers, special days etc. Find below a list of important historical events which happened during the year 1970.
| Date/Month | Event / Incidence / Incident |
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| 04 january | A magnitude 7.5 Msd earthquake struck Tonghai County, China, killing at least 15, 000 people and spurring the creation of the nation's largest earthquake monitoring system. |
| 13 february | The English rock band Black Sabbath released their eponymousdebut album, which is recognised as the first major album to be creditedwith the development of the heavy metal genre. |
| 18 february | An American jury acquitted the 'Chicago Seven' of conspiracyand inciting riots stemming from protests during the 1968 DemocraticNational Convention. |
| 18 march | United States postal workers began a two-week strike afterCongress raised its own wages by 41% but only raised the wages of postalworkers by 4%. |
| 01 april | The first of over 670,000 gremlins were released into North America to crush imported machines. |
| 10 april | In the midst of business disagreements with his bandmates, Paul Mc Cartney announced his departure from The Beatles. |
| 21 april | In response to a long-running dispute over wheat production quotas, the Principality of Hutt River proclaimed its secession from Western Australia. |
| 22 april | 1st Earth Day was held internationally to conserve Natural Resources. |
| 26 april | The World Intellectual Property Organization came into beingwhen its charter entered into force. |
| 29 april | Vietnam War-The South Vietnamese Army launched incursions into Cambodia to attack communist jungle bases. |
| 04 may | The Ohio National Guard opened fire at Kent State University Students protesting the United States invasion of Cambodia, killing fourand injuring nine. |
| 08 may | Construction workers in New York City attacked students andothers protesting the Kent State shootings. |
| 14 may | The Red Army Faction, West German militant group, was founded on May 14, 1970 by Andreas Baader, Gudrun Ensslin, Horst Mahler and Ulrike Meinhof. The group was considered as terrorist organization which caused national crisis in late 1977 that is also known as ‘German Autumn’. |
| 15 may | Anna Mae Hays became the first women in the U.S. Military to be promoted to a general officer rank ‘brigadier general’ by President Richard Nixon on May 15, 1970. On the same day, just after a few minutes Elizabeth P. Hoisington was also promoted to rank of brigadier general. |
| 24 may | The drilling of the Kola Super deep Borehole began in the Soviet Union. The Kola Superdeep Borehole is the result of a scientific drilling project of the Soviet Union. The project attempted to drill as deep as possible into the Earth's crust. A number of boreholes were drilled by branching from a central hole. The deepest, reached 12,262 metres in 1989 and still is the deepest artificial point on Earth. |
| 24 may | On the Kola Peninsula in Russia, drilling began on the Kola Superdeep Borehole, eventually reaching 12,262 metres (40,230 ft),making it the deepest hole ever drilled and the deepest artificial pointon the earth. |
| 26 may | The Soviet Tupolev Tu-144 became the first commercial transport to exceed Mach 2. The Tupolev Tu-144 is a retired jet airliner, which was the world's first commercial supersonic transport aircraft (SST). It is one of only two SSTs to enter commercial service, the other being the Anglo-French Concorde. |
| 31 may | Indira Gandhi called for international help as the civil war in Bangladesh, or East Pakistan, had turned two million people into refugees. Many of them were suffering from cholera and smallpox. The authorities of West Pakistan refused to care for them, and India couldn't afford to. |
| 13 june | The Long and Winding Road became The Beatles' twentieth andfinal number one single in the United States. |
| 19 june | The Patent Cooperation Treaty, an international law treaty, was signed, providing a unified procedure for filing patent applications to protect inventions. |
| 03 july | The Troubles: The British Army imposed the Falls Curfew on Belfast, Northern Ireland, which only resulted in greater Irish republican resistance. |
| 21 july | The Aswan High Dam in Egypt was completed after 11 years ofconstruction. |
| 23 july | Qaboos overthrew his father Said bin Taimur to become Sultan ofOman. |
| 07 august | Jonathan Jackson kidnapped California Superior Court judgeHarold Haley in an attempt to free Jackson's brother George from prison. |
| 26 august | Betty Friedan and the National Organization for Women organizedthe Women's Strike for Equality in New York City, in which 20,000 womenprotested the continuing lack of gender equality. |
| 06 september | The Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) have hijacked four aircraft from airports in Europe. |
| 06 september | Members of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestinehijacked four jet aircraft en route from Europe to New York City,landing two of them at Dawson's Field in Zerqa, Jordan, and one plane inBeirut. |
| 19 september | The first Glastonbury Festival, the largest greenfield festivalin the world, was held at Michael Eavis's farm in Glastonbury, England. |
| 19 september | Greek student Kostas Georgakis set himself on fire in Genoa,Italy, as a protest against the Greek military junta of GeorgiosPapadopoulos. |
| 05 october | Members of the Front de Libération du Québec kidnappedBritish diplomat James Cross, sparking the October Crisis in Montreal. |
| Date/Month | Name / Profession / Country |
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| 01 January | Sergei Kiriakov / Fooballer / Russia |
| 02 February | Jennifer Westfeldt / Actress / United States of America |
| 03 July | Audra McDonald / Actress / United States of America |
| 05 July | Valentí Massana / Race Walker / Spain |
| 05 December | Michel'le / Writer / United States of America |
| 06 December | Ulf Ekberg / Singer / Sweden |
| 08 September | John Welborn / Rugby Player / Australia |
| 10 August | Steve Mautone / Footballer / Australia |
| 11 August | Teresa Pavlinek / Actress / Canada |
| 12 October | Tanyon Sturtze / Baseball Player / United States of America |
| 17 September | Mark Brunell / Footballer / United States of America |
| 18 November | Peta Wilson / Model / Australia |
| 19 July | Bill Chen / Poker Player / United States of America |
| 19 April | Kelly Holmes / Runner / United Kingdom |
| 24 October | Rob Leslie-Carter / Hockey Player / United Kingdom |
| 24 November | Julieta Venegas / Writer / United States of America |
| 25 October | Adam Pascal / Actor / United States of America |
| 28 September | Mike DeJean / Baseball Player / United States of America |
| 28 July | Michael Amott / Writer / Sweden |
| 31 July | Ben Chaplin / Actor / United Kingdom |
| Year | Name / Profession / Country |
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| 10 March | Omar Abdullah / Politician / India |
| 06 June | Sunil Joshi / Cricketer / India |
| 19 June | Rahul Gandhi / Politician / India |
| 17 October | Anil Kumble / Cricketer / India |
| 15 September | Ramya Krishnan / Actress / India |
| 30 November | Mehr Jessia / Model / India |
| 24 June | Atul Agnihotri / Actor / India |
| 22 July | Devendra Fadnavis / Politician / India |
| 09 March | Naveen Jindal / Politician / India |
| 22 July | Devendra Fadnavis / Politician / India |
| 17 October | Anil Kumble / Player / India |
| 21 October | Kamal Sadanah / Actor / India |
| 30 November | Mukul Dev / Actor / India |
| 03 December | Jimmy Shergill / Actor / India |
| 21 March | Shobhana / Actress / India |