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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.

September 4 - Salaheddin Ali Nader Shah Angha receives the official leadership of the Oveyssi Sufi order and receives the "Robe of Faghr" by Shah Maghsoud Sadegh Angha.

September 3-September 6 - Israeli forces fight Palestinian guerillas in southern Lebanon.

September 5 - Vietnam War: Operation Jefferson Glenn begins - The United States 101st Airborne Division and the South Vietnamese 1st Infantry Division initiate a new operation in Thua Thien Province (the operation ends in October 1971).

# September 6 - The Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine hijacks 4 passenger aircraft from Pan Am, TWA and Swissair on flights to New York from Brussels, Frankfurt and Zürich.

September 7 - An anti-war rally is held at Valley Forge, Pennsylvania, attended by John Kerry, Jane Fonda and Donald Sutherland.

September 7 - Fighting breaks out between Arab guerillas and government forces in Amman, Jordan.

September 9 - Guinea recognizes East Germany.

September 9 - Elvis Presley begins his first concert tour since 1958 in Phoenix, Arizona at the Veterans Memorial Coliseum.

September 10 - Cambodian government forces break the siege of Kompong Tho after 3 months.

September 11 - The Ford Pinto is introduced.

September 13 - The first New York City Marathon begins.

September 15 - King Hussein of Jordan forms a military government with Muhammad Daoud as the prime minister.

September 18 - Jimi Hendrix dies from choking on his own vomit while unconscious due to a barbiturate overdose in London.

# September 19 - Kostas Georgakis sets himself ablaze in Genoa, Italy as a protest against the Greek military junta of 1967-1974.

September 20 - Syrian armored forces cross the Jordanian border.

September 20 - Luna 16 lands on the Moon and lifts off the next day with samples. It lands on Earth September 24.

September 21 - Palestinian armored forces reinforce Palestinian guerillas in Irbidi, Jordan.

September 22 - Tunku Abdul Rahman resigns as prime minister of Malaysia, and is succeeded by his deputy Tun Abdul Razak.

September 26 - The Laguna Fire starts in San Diego County, burning 175,425 acres (710 km²).

September 27 - Richard Nixon begins a tour of Europe, visiting Italy, Yugoslavia, Spain, the United Kingdom and Ireland.

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September 29 - The U.S. Congress gives President Richard Nixon authority to sell arms to Israel.

September 29 - In Berlin, Baader-Meinhof Gang members rob 3 banks, with loot totaling over DM200,000.

October 2 - The Wichita State University football team's "Gold" plane crashes in Colorado, killing most of the players. They were on their way (along with administrators and fans) to a game with Utah State University.

October 3 - In Lebanon, the government of Prime Minister Rashid Karami resigns.

October 4 - In Bolivia, Army Commander General Rogelio Miranda and a group of officers rebel and demand the resignation of President Alfredo Ovando CandÃ*a, who fires him.

October 4 - Janis Joplin dies of a heroin overdose in Los Angeles, California, at the age of 27.

damn music lost Joplin and Hendrix in the same yr. wow .

October 5 - U.S. President Richard Nixon's European tour ends.

October 5 - The Front de Liberation du Quebec (FLQ) kidnaps James Cross in Montreal and demands release of all its imprisoned members. The next day the Canadian government announces it won't meet the demand, beginning Quebec's October Crisis.

October 5 - The Public Broadcasting Service begins broadcasting.

October 6 - Bolivian President Alfredo Ovando CandÃ*a resigns; General Rogelio Miranda takes over but resigns soon after.

October 6 - French President Georges Pompidou visits the Soviet Union.

October 7 - General Juan José Torres becomes the new President of Bolivia.

October 8 - The U.S. Foreign Office announces that renewal of arms sales to Pakistan.

October 8 - Soviet author Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn is awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature.

# October 8 - Vietnam War: In Paris, a Communist delegation rejects U.S. President Richard Nixon's October 7 peace proposal as "a maneuver to deceive world opinion."

# October 9 - The Khmer Republic is proclaimed in Cambodia.

October 10 - Fiji becomes independent.

October 10 - October Crisis: In Montreal, Quebec, a national crisis hits Canada when Quebec Vice-Premier and Minister of Labour Pierre Laporte becomes the second statesman kidnapped by members of the FLQ terrorist group.

October 11 - Eleven French soldiers are killed in a shootout with rebels in Chad.

October 12 - Vietnam War: U.S. President Richard Nixon announces that the United States will withdraw 40,000 more troops before Christmas.

# October 13 - Canada and the People's Republic of China establish diplomatic relations.

October 13 - Saeb Salam forms a government in Lebanon.

October 14 - A Chinese nuclear test is conducted in Lop Nor.

October 15 - In Egypt, a referendum supports Anwar Sadat 90.04%.

October 15 - A section of the new West Gate Bridge in Melbourne collapses into the river below, killing 35 construction workers.

October 15 - The Baltimore Orioles defeat the Cincinnati Reds in Games 5 of the World Series, 9-3, to win the series 4 games to 1 for their 2nd World Championship.

# October 16 - October Crisis: The Canadian government declares a state of emergency and outlaws the Quebec Liberation Front.

October 17 - October Crisis: Pierre Laporte is found killed in south Montreal.

October 17 - A cholera epidemic breaks out in Istanbul.

October 17 - Anwar Sadat officially becomes President of Egypt.

# October 20 - The Soviet Union launches the Zond 8 lunar probe.

October 20 - Egyptian president Anwar Sadat names Mahmoud Fawzi as his prime minister.

# October 21 - A U.S. Air Force plane makes an emergency landing near Leninakan, Soviet Union. The Soviets release the American officers, including 2 generals, November 10.

October 22 - Chilean army commander Rene Schneider is shot in Santiago; the government declares a state of emergency. Schneider dies October 25.

October 24 - Salvador Allende is elected President of Chile.

October 25 - The wreck of Confederate submarine Hunley is found off Charleston, South Carolina, by pioneer underwater archaeologist, Dr. E. Lee Spence,[1] then just 22 years old. Hunley was the first submarine in history to sink a ship in warfare.

October 26 - Garry Trudeau's comic strip Doonesbury debuts in approximately two dozen newspapers in the United States.

October 28 - In Jordan, the government of Ahmed Toukan resigns; the next prime minister is Wasfi Al-Tal.

October 28 - A cholera outbreak in eastern Slovakia causes Hungary to close its border with Czechoslovakia.

October 28 - Gary Gabelich drives the rocket-powered Blue Flame to an official world land speed record of 622.287 mph (1,001.452863 km/h) on the dry lake bed of the Bonneville Salt Flats in Utah. The record, the first above 1,000 km/h, stands for nearly 13 years.

October 30 - In Vietnam, the worst monsoon to hit the area in 6 years causes large floods, kills 293, leaves 200,000 homeless and virtually halts the Vietnam War.

November 1 - Fire destroys the Le Cinq Sept dance hall in St. Laurent Du Pont, France; 144 dead.

November 3 - Democrats sweep the U.S. Congressional midterm elections; Ronald Reagan is reelected governor of California; Jimmy Carter is elected governor of Georgia.

November 4 - Vietnam War: Vietnamization - The United States turns control of the air base in the Mekong Delta to South Vietnam.

November 4 - Social workers in Los Angeles, California take custody of Genie, a girl who had been kept in solitary confinement since her birth.

# November 5 - Vietnam War: The United States Military Assistance Command in Vietnam reports the lowest weekly American soldier death toll in 5 years (24 soldiers died that week, which was the fifth consecutive week the death toll was below 50; 431 were reported wounded that week, however).

November 8 - Egypt, Libya and Sudan announce their intentions to form a federation.

November 9 - The Soviet Union launches Luna 17.

November 9 - Vietnam War: The Supreme Court of the United States votes 6-3 not to hear a case by the state of Massachusetts, about the constitutionality of a state law granting Massachusetts residents the right to refuse military service in an undeclared war.

November 10 - Vietnam War: Vietnamization - For the first time in 5 years, an entire week ends with no reports of United States combat fatalities in Southeast Asia.

November 12 - Soviet author Andrei Amalrik is sentenced to 3 years for 'anti-Soviet' writings.

November 13 - Hafez al-Assad comes to power in Syria, following a military coup.

November 13 - 1970 Bhola cyclone: A 120-mph tropical cyclone hits the densely populated Ganges Delta region of East Pakistan (now Bangladesh), killing an estimated 500,000 people (considered the 20th century's worst cyclone disaster).

November 14 - A fatal airplane accident in Wayne County, West Virginia, Southern Airlines Flight 932, claims the lives of all 75 onboard, including 37 players and 5 coaches from the Marshall University football team.

November 17 - Vietnam War: Lieutenant William Calley goes on trial for the My Lai massacre.

November 18 - U.S. President Richard Nixon asks the U.S. Congress for US$155 million in supplemental aid for the Cambodian government (US$85 million is for military assistance to prevent the overthrow of the government of Premier Lon Nol by the Khmer Rouge and North Vietnam).

November 18 - The United Nations Security Council demands that no government recognize Rhodesia.

November 19 - European Economic Community prime ministers meet in Munich.

November 21 - Syrian Prime Minister Hafez al-Assad forms a new government but retains the post of defense minister.

November 21 - In Ethiopia, the Eritrean Liberation Front kills an Ethiopian general.

November 21 - Vietnam War: Operation Ivory Coast - A joint Air Force and Army team raids the Son Tay prison camp in an attempt to free American POWs thought to be held there (no Americans are killed, but the prisoners have already moved to another camp; all U.S. POWs are moved to a handful of central prison complexes as a result of this raid).

November 22 - Guinean president Sekou Toure accuses Portugal of an attack when hundreds of mercenaries land near the capital Conakry.

November 23-November 24 - The Guinean army repels the landing attempts.

November 23 - Rodgers and Hammerstein's Oklahoma! makes its network TV debut, when CBS telecasts the 1955 film version as a three-hour Thanksgiving special.

November 25-November 29 - A UN delegation arrives to investigate the Guinea situation.

November 25 - In Tokyo, author and Tatenokai militia leader Yukio Mishima and his followers take over the headquarters of the Japan Self-Defense Forces. When Mishima's speech fails to sway public opinion towards his right-wing political beliefs, he commits seppuku.

November 26 - East Pakistan leader Sheik Mujibur Rahman accuses the central government of negligence in catastrophe relief.

November 26 - Pope Paul VI begins an Asian tour.