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July 23 - Two CS gas canisters are thrown into the chamber of the British House of Commons.

July 30 - Damages totalling £485,528 are awarded to 28 Thalidomide victims.

July 31 - NBC anchor Chet Huntley retires from full-time broadcasting.

August 7 - Harold Haley, Marin County Superior Court Judge, is taken hostage and murdered, in an effort to free George Jackson from police custody.

August 17 - August 18 - The U.S. sinks 418 containers of nerve gas into the Gulf Stream near the Bahamas.

August 17 - Venera program: Venera 7 is launched. It will later becomes the first spacecraft to successfully transmit data from another planet.

August 26 - The Women's Strike For Equality takes place down Fifth Avenue in New York City.

August 26-August 30 - The Isle of Wight Festival 1970 takes place on East Afton Farm off the coast of England. Some 600,000 people attend the largest rock festival of all time. Artists include Jimi Hendrix, The Who, The Doors, Chicago, Richie Havens, John Sebastian, Joan Baez, Ten Years After, Emerson, Lake & Palmer and Jethro Tull.

August 29 - Ruben Salazar shot during rally in East L.A.

September 1 - An assassination attempt against King Hussein of Jordan precipitates the Black September crisis.