The Year 1970
History and Politics
Biafra capitulates to ferderal Nigerian government; end of civil war which began 2.5 years ago.
Albania and the People's Republic of China conclude a trade agreement.
Dubeck becomes Czechoslavak ambassador to Turkey; later suspended from
Communist Party membership and dismissed from his post.
Gambia proclaimed a republic within British Commonwealth.
General Election in Britian won by Conservative Party; Edward Heath
succeeds Jarold Wilson as prime minister.
Isreal and the U.A.R. agree to a 99-day truce along Suez Canal.
USSR and W. Germany sign a friendship treaty in Moscow.
King Hussein of Jordan escapes assassination attempt in Amman.
Arab commandos hijack three jets bound for New York from Europe.
US strength in Vietnam is reduced to below 400,000 men.
Student protests against Vietnam War result in killing of 4 by the
National Guard at Kent State Univ. in Ohio.
Yugoslav president Tito announces that he will be succeeded by a collective leardership.
Gamal Abdel Nassar dies.
De Gaulle dies.
Assassination attempt on Pope Paul VI in the Phillippines.
Gomulka, Pol. Communist Party First Secretry, resigns after 14 years in office.
Paris peace talks end their second full year without progress toward peace in Vietnam.
Salvador Allende, a Marxist, is elected President of Chile.
President Nixon appoints Harry A. Blackmun to Supreme Court.
Science, Technology, Growth
Apollo 13 launched from Cape Kennedy.
448 US universities and colleges are closed or on strike.
The first complete synthesis of a gene announced by scientists at the Univ. of Wisconsin.
Luna 16, unmanned Soviet spacecraft, returns from moon with rock samples,
Luna 17 lands a self-propelled eight-wheeled vehicle on the moon.
Venera 7, unmanned Soviet spacecraft, lands on Venus.
James Finley of St. Paul, Minn., sues federal government for $500,000 in damages after
treatment in a veterans' hospital changes his skin color from black to white.
In France and Britian nuclear powered heart pacemakers are successfully
implanted in 3 patients to correct a condition called "heart block".
The 150 inch reflecting telescope at Kitt Peak Observatory, Tucson, Az., and the 150
inch instrument at the Inter-American Observatory, Cerro Tolo, Chile, are completed.
Daily Life
Price of gold on the free market falls below official price of $35 an ounce.
Japan World Exhibition, Expo 70, opens in Osaka.
Brazil defeats Italy, 4-1 and wins 9th World Cup soccer championship in Mexico City.
Baltimore Orioles (AL) defeats Cincinnati Reds (NL) to win World Series, 4-1.
Joe Frazier becomes official world heavyweight boxing champion.
Hugh Porter (Great Britian) wins World cycling championship race.
Dance hall fire in Saint-Laurent-du-Pont, France, kills 146 young people.
Tony Jackson becomes the first British golfer to win US Open in 50 years.
World crude steel production in 1970 reaches 595 million metric tons.
World's most valuable stamp, the 1856 British Guiana one
cent, sold at New York auction for $280,000.
The world bear market in the US in 8 years touches bottom;
Dow-Jones industrial average drops to 631.
TV sets in use throughout the world estimated at 231 million.
US Open Tennis Championships at Forest Hills, N.Y., awards
a record $160,000 in prize money; Margaret Smith (Au)
Court wins Grand Slam of Women's tennis.
US census shows smallest number of men (94.8) in ratio to women (100) in history.
Cyclones and floods kill 500,000 in E. Pakistan; 30,000 die in
earthquake, floods, and landslides in Peru.
US tennis team defeats W. Germany 5-0 to win the Davis Cup.
US Lawn Tennis Assc. Singles won by Ken Rosewall (Au).
Billy Casper wins the Masters.
The Boston Bruins win the Stanley Cup hockey championship.
S. California defeats Michigan, 10-3 to win Rose Bowl.
World populations: People's Republic of China, 760 million; India, 500 million;
USSR, 243 million; US, 205 million. Us has population of 85 people per sq. mi.;
China, 305/sq. mi.; India, 655/sq. mi.; Japan, 1,083/sq. mi.
Hospital care costs in US reach average of $81 per patient
per day, $664.28 per average patient stay.
US yacht "Intrepid" defeats Austrakian "Gretel II" 4-1 to win America's Cup.
At Great Bear Lake, Canada, L. Daunis catches a 65 lb. lake trout; DR White lands
a 42 lb. 2 oz. rainbow trout at Bell Island, Alas.; JB Penwarden lands a mako shark
weighing 1,061 lbs at mayor Island, New Zealand; a record bluefin tuna weighing
1,065 lbs. is caught off Cape Breton, Nova Scotia, by RG Gibson.
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