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23 unusual facts about 1970


Arthur Goldberg

Initially considering a challenge to Charles Goodell's reelection to the United States Senate, he decided to run against New York Governor Nelson Rockefeller in 1970.

BBC Sessions 1968–1970

BBC Sessions 1968–1970 is a 2011 compilation album featuring performances by Deep Purple that were originally broadcast on various BBC Radio shows from 1968 through 1970.

Boy Child: The Best of Scott Walker 1967-1970

The album compiles music that Walker both wrote and recorded on five of his first six studio albums; Scott (1967), Scott 2 (1968), Scott 3 (1969), Scott 4 (1969) and 'Til the Band Comes In (1970).

Carwyn James

James stood as Plaid Cymru candidate in Llanelli in the 1970 General Election.

Chappaquiddick incident

After Kennedy's televised speech on July 25, 1969, regarding the incident, telephone calls and telegrams to newspapers and to the Kennedy family were heavily in favor of his remaining in office, and he won reelection the next year with 62% of the vote.

Cornerstones: 1967–1970

Billy Cox – bass on tracks 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, background vocals on track 12

District of Columbia's at-large congressional district

The seat was re-created almost a century later, shortly before the 1970 elections; Walter E. Fauntroy (D) won the 1971 special election the following March.

Doug La Follette

La Follette first ran for office in the 1970 U.S. House of Representatives election, losing to Les Aspin in the Democratic primary for Wisconsin's 1st congressional district.

Haji Amir Bux Junejo

In the General Election of 1970 He was highest vote achiever in numbers on MPA seat in East & West Pakistan, BBC broadcast that news.

Iftikhar Ahmad

Ahmad served multiple jail terms under the martial law governments for various violations of LFO.

Maine gubernatorial election, 1970

Another reason for Erwin's lose was attributed to Edmund Muskie's coattails, a popular candidate for United States Senator from Maine that year.

Mauritians in France

The first Mauritian migrant to France was a Tamil doctor who settled in Strasbourg, in 1970.

Metropolitan and non-metropolitan counties of England

They won the 1970 general election, and set to work defining their own scheme.

P. Dayaratna

At the 1970 General Election, Ampara was the citadel of leftist forces and Dayaratne who resigned from government service and contested the Ampara seat, lost to his rival, Somaratne Senarath, a staunch leftist from Ampara.

Political Process and the Development of the Black Insurgency 1930-1970

Political Process and the Development of the Black Insurgency 1930-1970 is a 1982 book by sociologist Doug McAdam (published by the University of Chicago Press).

Puerto Montt

The massacre of Puerto Montt and the public outcry that followed were major factors contributing to the defeat of Eduardo Frei's party in the Chilean presidential election of 1970 and was thus succeeded by Salvador Allende's Unidad Popular.

Roseller T. Lim

In 1970, Lim was elected to the 1971 constitutional convention.

Selsdon

It is also well known for the Selsdon Park Hotel, the venue of a 1970 meeting of the Conservative Shadow Cabinet to settle the party manifesto for the impending general election.

Teofisto Guingona, Jr.

Guingona was a delegate to the 1971 Constitutional Convention and when martial law was declared in 1972 by President Ferdinand Marcos, he resisted the abuses of the regime, serving as a human rights lawyer.

United States House of Representatives elections in California, 1970

The United States House of Representatives elections in California, 1970 was an election for California's delegation to the United States House of Representatives, which occurred as part of the general election of the House of Representatives on November 3, 1970.

Republicans won one open seat when John V. Tunney retired to run for Senate.

Vasudeva Nanayakkara

He was elected to parliament at the 1970 parliamentary election, representing Kiriella for the LSSP.

William Hall, 2nd Viscount Hall

When the Conservative Party won the 1970 general election, Christopher Chataway, the new Minister for Posts and Telecommunications, dismissed him from his post.


Abortion clinic

Center for Reproductive and Sexual Health, once the largest freestanding abortion clinic in the world, opened in New York City after New York legalized abortion in 1970.

Aleksey Belyakov

Aleksei Stepanovich Belyakov (born 1917) was a Soviet diplomat and ambassador to Finland 1970–71 and the leader of the European section of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.

Alfredo Escalera

Escalera had his first professional bout on September 4, 1970, against Bob Payzant, in Portland.

Baba Bujha Singh

Baba Bujha Singh was arrested on July 28, 1970 and killed in a police encounter near Phillaur.

Blaine Nye

He played right guard between Hall of Famer offensive tackle Rayfield Wright (1970–1976) and Dave Manders (1970–1972) or John Fitzgerald (1973–1976) at center and helped anchor a dominant offensive line that led the Cowboys to three Super Bowls in that time.

Brian Flanagan

The FBI surveillance files on Weatherman reported that on October 20, 1970 Flanagan was in Algeria meeting with Eldridge Cleaver, exiled Black Panther Party leader.

Bryan Keith-Lucas

In 1965 he was appointed professor of government at the new University of Kent at Canterbury, and from 1970 to 1974 he was Master of Darwin College, Kent.

Cho-yun Hsu

He is an Emeritus Professor of History and Sociology at the University of Pittsburgh where he taught from 1970 until his retirement in 1998, and has served in honorary positions in several universities including Duke University, Nanjing University, and Chinese University of Hong Kong.

Craig Montoya

Craig Aloysius Montoya (born September 14, 1970) is the American bassist of Castella and Tri-Polar and former bassist of Everclear.

David Ede

He started his teaching career as an instructor at Augsburg College in Minneapolis and McGill University in Montreal before moving to the Western Michigan University Department of Comparative Religion where he taught Islamic Studies from 1970 to 2008 and served as departement head at the time of his death in 2008.

David Willis

Dave Willis (born 1970), American voice actor, writer, and producer

DB Class 210

Since the DB V 169-001 (DB 219 001) had already proven sufficiently that a locomotive of this type would work the Class 210 went into normal operations fairly quickly - between the end of 1970 and the beginning of 1971 the locomotives began operations, by the end of 1971 all eight locomotives had been introduced to the railway centre (Bahnbetriebswerk or Bw.) at Kempten and were in scheduled operation.

Denis Sanders

He won two Academy Awards, the first for Best Short Subject in 1955 for A Time Out of War that had served as his master's degree thesis at U.C.L.A. and which he co-scripted with his brother Terry Sanders; and the second for Best Documentary in 1970 for Czechoslovakia 1968.

Dixie Network

Marston also was elected to the National Association of Broadcasters Board of Directors in 1970 Edward B. Fritts, who began his broadcast career at WENK, Union City, Tennessee, was elected President of The National Association of Broadcasters, Washington, D.C., where he led the national trade association with distinction.

Donald Ford

His only honours were runners-up medals: for the League in 1964–65, for the 1967–68 Scottish Cup and the 1970–71 Texaco Cup.

Ellen Wood

Ellen Thelma Wood (1901–1970), artist, model for Robin Vote in Djuna Barnes's novel Nightwood

Felix Bwalya

Felix Bwalya (born October 27, 1970 in Chingola – died December 23, 1997 in Lusaka) was a boxer from Zambia, who competed for his native country at the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona, Spain.

Fikadu

Abebe Fekadu (born 1970), Ethiopian-Australian Paralympic weightlifter

Ford Motor Company Philippines

In the late 1970`s and early 1980`s, the company introduced the Laser, Telstar, Econovan and Courier into the local market.

Frederick Blackburn

Fred Blackburn (1902–1990), British Labour politician, Member of Parliament for Stalybridge and Hyde 1951–1970

Ģirts

Ģirts Līcis (born 1970), a Latvian entrepreneur and television presenter

Hans Pässler

From 1969 to 1970, Paessler completed a one year fellowship in cardiovascular surgery with Prof. Michael E. DeBakey.

Islam in Libya

The Jihad Fund, supported by a payroll tax, was established in 1970 to aid the Palestinians in their struggle with Israel.

James Gillogly

Gillogly wrote a chess-playing program in the Fortran programming language in 1970, and in 1977 he ported the code for "Colossal Cave" from Fortran to C.

Julie Heldman

In 1970, she was a member of the "Houston Nine" who left the United States Tennis Association (USTA) to play in the Virginia Slims tournament in Houston.

Keith Chegwin

Born in Bootle, Lancashire, Chegwin's early roles were in works of the Children's Film Foundation, appearing as Egghead Wentworth in The Troublesome Double (1967) and Egghead's Robot (1970).

Ladislav Kubík

He graduated from the Prague Academy of Music, receiving his Master's Degree in 1970 and the title "Aspirante", a degree considered equivalent to the Doctor of Musical Arts.

Ladislav Móder

He was born in Tvrdošovce and spent most of his playing career with ŠK Slovan Bratislava, winning the Czechoslovak league in 1970 and the Czechoslovak Cup in 1968.

Liz Tilberis

Beatrix Miller, then editor-in-chief, noticed how nice and enthusiastic Liz was, and was promoted to fashion assistant in 1970.

Madrid Chamartín railway station

Positioned on the north side of the city, it was built prior to the time of the 1982 FIFA World Cup, between 1970 and 1975, although subsequent work would be carried on into the early 1980s.

Max Rayne

Rayne and his wife divorced in 1960 and on 2 June 1965, he married Lady Jane Vane-Tempest-Stewart (a daughter of the 8th Marquess of Londonderry and sister of Lady Annabel Goldsmith) and they had four children: Natasha Deborah (b. 1966), Nicholas Alexander (b. 1969), Tamara Annabel (b. 1970) and Alexander Philip (b. 1973).

Néstor Isasi

Néstor Isasi (born 9 April 1970 in Encarnación, Paraguay) is a former Paraguayan footballer who played in clubs of Paraguay, Brazil, Chile and Peru.

Noholme

In that first crop was champion handicap horse Nodouble, an outstanding runner who was voted American Co-Champion Older Male Horse honours in 1969 and 1970 and was the Leading sire in North America in 1981.

Pádraig Mac Fhearghusa

He graduated from University College Dublin in 1970 with a BA in Irish, history and philosophy and obtained a Higher Diploma in Education from Trinity College, Dublin, in 1971.

Phil Spitalny

Phil Spitalny (November 7, 1890, Tetiev, Ukraine (territory of Russian Empire) – October 11, 1970, Miami Beach, Florida) was a musician, music critic, composer and bandleader heard often on radio during the 1930s and 1940s.

Project Learning Tree

Project Learning Tree (PLT) was created in 1976, after passage of the first National Environmental Education Act in 1970 and celebration of the first Earth Day in 1970, raised the profile of environmental education in the United States.

Robertson Ridge

It was named by the Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names (US-ACAN) for James D. Robertson, United States Antarctic Research Program (USARP) geophysicist at Byrd Station, 1970-71 season; he participated in the geophysical survey of the Ross Ice Shelf in the 1973-74 and 1974-75 seasons.

Royal Malta Yacht Club

In 1970 the club moved from Hay Wharf, Floriana, to Fort Manoel, Manoel Island.

Ruth Mott

Mott continued in her catering and office work until 1970 when she was offered a full-time role as cook-housekeeper at Basildon Park near Pangbourne for Lord and Lady Iliffe.

Shandar

Shandar was a French record label specializing in avant-garde material that did seminal work during the 1970 releasing, among others, recordings by Albert Ayler, Karlheinz Stockhausen, Steve Reich, Sunny Murray, Philip Glass, Richard Horowitz, Charlemagne Palestine, La Monte Young, Alan Silva, Pandit Pran Nath, Terry Riley, Cecil Taylor and Sun Ra.

Someday We'll Be Together

"Someday We'll Be Together" was the final number at Diana Ross & the Supremes' farewell concert on January 14, 1970 at the Frontier Hotel in Las Vegas.

Tamás Artner

Tamás Artner (born 25 April 1970) is a Hungarian football manager and former player, who is currently the manager of Szombathelyi Haladás.

The Twelve Chairs

Mel Brooks later made a film, more closely based on the novel, titled The Twelve Chairs (1970), but with a sanitized "happier" ending; the story also served as the basis for the film The Thirteen Chairs (1969) starring Sharon Tate.

The Yes Album

According to Alice Cooper on his radio show Nights with Alice Cooper, Anderson claimed to have written the first two movements of "Starship Trooper" alone, though the "Disillusion" movement (which evolved from an earlier song "For Everyone", heard on Something's Coming: The BBC Recordings 1969–1970 and The Word Is Live) is credited to Chris Squire.

Tom Lubensky

He was an NSF Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Paris in Orsay (1969–70) and a postdoctoral Research Associate at Brown University (1970–71).

Trans-Am Series

In 1970, all of the American pony car manufacturers were represented with a factory team and top driving talent: Chevrolet had the Chaparral Team Camaro Z28 driven by Jim Hall, Ed Leslie, and Vic Elford.

Volvelle

The rock band Led Zeppelin employed a volvelle in the sleeve design for the album Led Zeppelin III (1970).

West Town, Peterborough

Also transferred were Thorpe Hall (maternity 1943–1970), The Gables (maternity 1947–1970), the Smallpox Hospital (1884–1970), Isolation Hospital (1901–1981), and St. John's Close (mentally ill c.1930–1971).

William G. Sebold

William G. Sebold (Wilhelm Georg Debrowski; 10 March 1899 in Mülheim, Germany – February 1970 in Walnut Creek, California) was a German spy in the United States during World War II, who became a double agent for the FBI.