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Heads Brazil into the lead against Italy in the World Cup final.

Publishes A Heritage of Stone after the Clay Shaw trial

Releases the live album Absolutely Live.

Accuses Russia of "fascist dictatorship"

Assumes presidential responsibilities after Gamal Abdel Nasser's death.

Hedi Nouira began serving as acting prime minister.

Releases After the Gold Rush, combining acoustic songs, electric rock and environmental imagery.

Releases After the Gold Rush

Tops the US singles chart with Ain't No Mountain High Enough

Purchases Air West, later renamed Hughes Airwest

George Harrison & Phil Spector begin work on the final mixing of the album, "All Things Must Pass"

Releases album, "All Things Must Pass" in the USA

Releases All Things Must Pass

Releases album, "All Things Must Pass" in Britain

Begins final mixing work with George Harrison on All Things Must Pass

Leads to civil war in Kampuchea & US bombing of Khmer Rouges strongholds

Receives expanded American military support for the new anti-communist regime

Uses galaxy rotation measurements to strengthen evidence for unseen mass

Neutralist rule is replaced by an anti-communist government aligned with the United States

Helps use improvised equipment that adapts command module carbon-dioxide canisters to the lunar module system.

Helps execute newly developed procedures to power Odyssey for reentry after days of minimal electrical use.

Helps reactivate Odyssey using emergency procedures developed by Mission Control.

Helps shut down Odyssey to conserve its batteries and consumables for reentry.

Is assigned to replace Ken Mattingly as Apollo 13 command module pilot one day before launch after measles exposure concerns.

Is assigned to replace Ken Mattingly as command module pilot shortly before launch.

Survives the Apollo 13 emergency after the lunar landing is aborted.

Leads the crew after Apollo 13 loses an oxygen tank.

Reports the oxygen tank failure aboard Apollo 13.

Commands a lunar module engine burn that restores Apollo 13 to a free-return trajectory around the Moon.

Launches as lunar module pilot on Apollo 13's planned Fra Mauro landing mission.

Commands Apollo 13 as it launches toward the Moon.

Launches with Lovell and Haise as command module pilot of Apollo 13.

Passes around the Moon with Lovell and Swigert during the emergency return to Earth.

Leads the crew as Apollo 13 swings around the Moon on its emergency return trajectory.

Helps activate Aquarius as the crew transfers into the lunar module after the oxygen tank failure.

Moves into Aquarius and helps activate the lunar module as an emergency lifeboat after the oxygen tank failure.

Reports spacecraft warnings after an oxygen tank explosion cripples Apollo 13’s service module.

Helps operate Aquarius during the long engine burn that speeds Apollo 13’s return to Earth.

Works in simulators on command module power-up procedures.

Coordinates teams developing emergency procedures for Apollo 13.

Leads Mission Control teams during Apollo 13 recovery.

Helps prepare the spacecraft and crew for separation from Aquarius and Earth reentry.

Heads NASA during Apollo 13 and orders review of the accident.

Chairs the review board examining the Apollo 13 accident.

Helps separate the damaged service module, allowing the crew to inspect the explosion damage before reentry.

Returns safely with Haise and Swigert after the aborted lunar landing mission.

Uses the Sun to verify lunar module guidance alignment when debris makes star sightings difficult.

Helps develop power-up procedures after being removed from the Apollo 13 crew.

Commands Apollo 13 as the Saturn V sends Odyssey and Aquarius toward the Moon.

Dupont becomes the first President of the Republic of Rhodesia.

Gaddafi assumes the office of Prime Minister while chairing the Revolutionary Command Council.

Checks lunar module Aquarius earlier than originally planned to assess its helium tank pressure.

Gaddafi seeks a wider Arab leadership role following the death of Gamal Abdel Nasser.

Rifai participates in arab summit connected with Jordanian political and historical developments.

Mobilizes forces as civil war spreads through the countryside

Ali Jansen and Ulrich Scholze are arrested after trying to steal a car. Jansen shoots at a cop; he later will get 10 years for attempted murder, Scholze is released the next day, leaving his terrorist days forever behind him

The leader of a "Red Army faction", arrested

Baader was arrested on 3 April 1970, Ensslin, Ulrike Meinhof, who was at that time a well-known leftist polemicist, and two other women freed him on 14 May 1970

Meinhof & Mahler shoot their way into the Social Affairs Institute & release Baader. In the conservative Springer Press a name is born: "the Baader-Meinhof Gang"

Baader was arrested on 3 April 1970, Ensslin, Ulrike Meinhof, who was at that time a well-known leftist polemicist, and two other women freed him on 14 May 1970

In the conservative Springer Press a name is born: "the Baader-Meinhof Gang". Baader was arrested on 3 April 1970, Ensslin, Ulrike Meinhof, who was at that time a well-known leftist polemicist, and two other women freed him on 14 May 1970

Arrested in New York on charges connected with the Marin County courthouse case

Acting on a tip, police stake out a Berlin apartment where they have been told that Baader, Ensslin, and Mahler will be meeting. Baader and Ensslin never show, but Mahler, Monika Berberich, Brigitte Asdonk and Irene Goergens are all captured

Acting on a tip, police stake out a Berlin apartment where they have been told that Baader, Ensslin, and Mahler will be meeting. Baader and Ensslin never show, but Mahler, Monika Berberich, Brigitte Asdonk and Irene Goergens are all captured

Upon his return from Jordan, Mahler is arrested with fellow RAF members Ingrid Schubert, Brigitte Asdonk, and Irene Goergens

Karl-Heinz Ruhland is arrested by the police and begins talking (he only knew the gangs code names), Ruhland becomes a star witness at many of the Baader-Meinhof trials

Acting on a tip, police stake out a Berlin apartment where they have been told that Baader, Ensslin, and Mahler will be meeting. Baader and Ensslin never show, but Mahler, Monika Berberich, Brigitte Asdonk and Irene Goergens are all captured

Ali Jansen and Ulrich Scholze are arrested after trying to steal a car. Jansen shoots at a cop; he later will get 10 years for attempted murder, Scholze is released the next day, leaving his terrorist days forever behind him

Ulrike Meinhof bolts at a police check point, leaving an ID card with a very recent picture of her newly-peroxided hair style

Manages Arsenal to the Inter-Cities Fairs Cup after a 4-3 aggregate victory over Anderlecht.

A group of Greek Cypriots attempt to assassinate Makarios

Pink Floyd release Atom Heart Mother in the United Kingdom

Faces riots after the death of Charles Oatman in jail

In the conservative Springer Press a name is born: "the Baader-Meinhof Gang"

Receives her bachelor's degree in political science from the University of Denver

Operation Baneberry releases radioactive material after an underground nuclear test

Heads Treasury as the Bank Secrecy Act becomes law

Signs the Bank Secrecy Act

Barrett releases solo album, "Barrett"

Barrett releases his second solo album, produced with help from David Gilmour and Richard Wright

Syd Barret releases his second solo album, "Barrett"

Publicly signals the breakup of the Beatles

Paul McCartney files a suit to dissolve the Beatles

Publishes Bech: A Book

Begins the bi-centenary Cook tour of Australia & New Zealand

Writes dark lyrical themes for the debut album, adding occult and anti-war imagery to the band's music.

Records the debut album with heavy riffs that help define the emerging heavy metal style.

Sings on Black Sabbath's debut album, released on Friday the thirteenth in February 1970.

Drums on the debut album Black Sabbath, helping establish the band's slow, heavy power.

Osbourne sings on Black Sabbath's debut album, released during the band's Birmingham breakthrough.

Black September is named after the conflict known as Black September when.

King Hussein of Jordan declares military rule in response to an attempt by the Fedayeen to seize his kingdom, resulting in the deaths or expulsion of thousands.

The BSO begins as a small cell of Fatah men determined to take revenge on King Hussein and the Jordanian army, recruits from the PFLP, as-Saiqa, and other groups also join.

Israeli fighter jets attack the suburbs of Cairo

The PFLP-GC plant a time bomb on a Swissair jet that blows up on a flight from Zurich to Tel Aviv, all 47 aboard are killed

Orders airports and borders closed against Vietnamese communist movement

Returns to boxing after receiving a license in Georgia

Links midfield and attack throughout the championship campaign.

Lifts the Jules Rimet Trophy after victory over Italy.

Provides creativity and powerful shooting from the left side.

Simon and Garfunkel release the album Bridge Over Troubled Water

Simon and Garfunkel release the album Bridge Over Troubled Water

Cuts income tax, reduces subsidies, replaces industrial grants with tax incentives. Cuts income tax by 2 1/2 pence

Roy Jenkins presents a cautious Budget after the balance of payments has moved into surplus.

Buried at Greenwood Cemetery in Renton, Washington

Releases Burnt Weeny Sandwich, combining live material, studio editing, instrumental composition and doo-wop influences.

Publishes Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee

Forms a Conservative government with a programme of economic and industrial reform.

Helps manage secret bombing and diplomatic strategy connected with Cambodia and Vietnam

Commands US forces during the Cambodia campaign

Leads South Vietnamese forces in operations in Cambodia

Announces US & South Vietnamese forces have attacked communist sanctuaries in Kampuchea

Announces US and South Vietnamese operations into Cambodia

Announces that US and South Vietnamese forces are entering Cambodia

Decides to expand US ground operations into Cambodia

Supports South Vietnamese operations into Cambodia against communist sanctuaries

United States and South Vietnamese forces enter Cambodia against communist base areas

Responds to allied incursions against communist base areas in Cambodia

Leads the government as the National Assembly removes Sihanouk while abroad

Appointed to chair the President's Commission on Campus Unrest

Directs the film adaptation of Catch-22

The war ends after a direct confrontation between Israeli and Soviet forces, in which Israel downed six Soviet aircraft. The terms of the agreement call for the Egyptians not to install any new surface-to-air missiles close to the Suez Canal, within weeks of the ceasefire, the Egyptians violate the agreement

Appointed Chairman of Housing, Lambeth Council

The SPO forms a minority Government with Bruno Kreisky as Chancellor

Appointed Chancellor of the Exchequer

Appointed Chancellor of the Exchequer

Cheng Heng becomes provisional head of state while Lon Nol keeps executive control

Becomes Chief Minister after William Henry Bramble leaves office

Participates in Nixon administration efforts to prevent Salvador Allende taking office in Chile

Helps organize the first Christopher Street Liberation Day march

Participates in early post-Stonewall gay liberation activism

Helps organize the first anniversary march after Stonewall

Releases Chunga's Revenge, linking late Mothers material with the musical direction of his early 1970s bands.

Hunt voluntarily retired from CIA after more than twenty years of Agency service and later entered private public-relations work.

Network broadcasters prepare for the end of cigarette advertising on radio and television

Helps lead congressional work on the Clean Air Act Amendments of 1970

Signs the Clean Air Act Amendments of 1970

France accepted arrangements giving the European Communities an independent system of budgetary own resources.

Nasser oversees completion of the main High Dam construction project.

Is confirmed as President-elect by the full Congress after winning a plurality.

Wins confirmation by the full Congress after obtaining a plurality in the popular election.

Black September is King Hussein of Jordan declares military rule in response to an attempt by the Fedayeen to seize his kingdom, resulting in the deaths or expulsion of thousands

Co-sponsors Senate action to restrict funds for US ground troops in Cambodia

Co-sponsors Senate action to restrict funds for US ground troops in Cambodia

Studies how small early fluctuations could grow into galaxies after the Big Bang

Wins election to New Castle County Council.

Assumes power in Libya, age 27

Gaddafi is announced to the Libyan people as the new Commander in Chief of the Libyan Armed Forces

It was announced to the public that Gaddafi is the Chairman of the RCC

Sihanouk is held responsible for the North Vietnamese taking refuge in Kampuchea. A Coup overthrows Prince Sihanouk while the Prince is out of the country

Lon Nol leads the political takeover that removes Sihanouk during his absence abroad

Creates the Central Policy Review Staff, "think tank" to advise the Cabinet

Supports adoption of the Davignon Report establishing a framework for European Political Cooperation among the member states.

Stopped by Muhammad Ali after three rounds because of a cut

Loses the WBA heavyweight title fight to Joe Frazier

Releases Deja Vu with Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young during the supergroup's peak period.

Healey leaves the Defence Ministry after Labour loses the general election.

Paul McCartney files a suit to dissolve the Beatles

Paul McCartney files a suit to dissolve the Beatles

Paul McCartney files a suit to dissolve the Beatles

Becomes a founding member of the Doobie Brothers

Becomes a founding member of the Doobie Brothers

Becomes a founding member of the Doobie Brothers

Becomes a founding member of the Doobie Brothers

Begins policies aimed at reducing state intervention and changing industrial relations.

Charles studies history, earning a 2:2 (lower second class) Bachelor of Arts (BA) degree making him the third member of the Royal Family to earn a university degree

Bhuttos Pakistan Peoples Party emerges as the single largest party from Punjab and Sindh and manages to win 81 National Assembly seats, all from the Western Wing

The Selsdon meeting, a radical free market agenda, condemned by the then Labour Prime Minister, Harold Wilson, as the work of "Selsdon Man". Heath held a brainstorming session of the shadow cabinet at The Selsdon Park Hotel near Croydon, Surrey, the aim of the meeting was to formulate policies for the 1970 General Election manifesto

The Selsdon metting, a radical free market agenda, condemned by the then Labour Prime Minister, Harold Wilson, as the work of "Selsdon Man". Heath held a brainstorming session of the shadow cabinet at The Selsdon Park Hotel near Croydon, Surrey, the aim of the meeting was to formulate policies for the 1970 General Election manifesto

Wins a Conservative majority of 37. The Conservative victory is the biggest upset since 1945. The Conservative Party win 46.4% of votes cast & 330 MPs. Conservatives 330, Labour 287, Liberals 6 & others 7

Leads the Conservatives to victory in the general election.

Defeated at Northampton during the general election

Advises the public to vote Labour

In Eastern Pakistan, the Awami League, led by Mujibur Rahman, wins 160 out of 162 seats in the Parliament

The Liberals return 6 Members of Parliament, despite standing in 332 seats. The Liberal Party win 7.5% of votes cast & 6 MPs

Loses 8 seats to rival parties

The Labour Party wins 43.1 percent of votes cast & 288 MPs. The Labour majority of 97 becomes a Conservative majority of 39

The Legal Framework Order sets representation and constitutional rules for the election.

Sheikh Mujibur Rahman's Awami League wins an absolute National Assembly majority.

Electric Lady Studios opens in New York

Anti-Vietnamese demonstrations increase pressure on Sihanouk's neutral policy

Lon Nol receives emergency powers after Sihanouk is removed

The Bjarni Benediktsson Government ends, concluding this term as Prime Minister of Iceland.

The Third Cernik Government ends in Prague, concluding this term as Prime Minister of Czechoslovakia.

Farren and Took headhunted guitarist Larry (or "Lazza") Wallis and bassist Tim Taylor from their underground band, the Entire Sioux Nation

Farren and Took headhunted guitarist Larry (or "Lazza") Wallis and bassist Tim Taylor from their underground band, the Entire Sioux Nation

Farren and Took headhunt guitarist Larry (or "Lazza") Wallis and bassist Tim Taylor from their underground band, the Entire Sioux Nation

Farren and Took headhunted guitarist Larry (or "Lazza") Wallis and bassist Tim Taylor from their underground band, the Entire Sioux Nation

Appointed personal representative of the President to the Vatican

Becomes the first administrator as the Environmental Protection Agency begins operations

Sends Congress Reorganization Plan No. 3 creating the Environmental Protection Agency

Secures equal pay legislation influenced partly by European treaty obligations on equal pay.

Begins his term as President of the European Commission, giving Italy a leading role in Community administration.

Publishes Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex

Escapes to Jordan and trains in guerrilla tactics with the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine

The government orders remaining Italian settlers to leave and confiscates their property.

Syd Barrett plays his first gig since leaving Pink Floyd, the occasion is "Extravaganza 70", staged at London's Olympia, he is assisted by Dave Gilmour and Jerry Shirley

Syd Barrett plays his first gig since leaving Pink Floyd, the occasion is "Extravaganza 70", staged at London's Olympia, he is assisted by Dave Gilmour and Jerry Shirley

Scores Arsenal's crucial away goal in the 3-1 first-leg defeat by Anderlecht in the Inter-Cities Fairs Cup final.

Scores the goal that completes Arsenal's 3-0 comeback victory over Anderlecht and secures the Fairs Cup.

Signs the Family Planning Services and Population Research Act

Supports federal family-planning legislation before becoming UN ambassador

Expands the Khmer National Armed Forces after the coup

Accuses Russia of "fascist dictatorship"

Black September is King Hussein of Jordan declares military rule in response to an attempt by the Fedayeen to seize his kingdom, resulting in the deaths or expulsion of thousands

Becomes chair of the Federal Reserve Board

Appointed Federal Vice Chancellor

Performs the first of two celebrated Mad Dogs and Englishmen concert nights at the Fillmore East.

Appears in Love Story in his first feature film role

Performs his final concert at the Isle of Fehmarn Festival

Wins his final fight by technical knockout against Chuck Wepner

Becomes the first person winning the tournament as player and manager.

The achievement marks first remote lunar rover as an important Russian scientific milestone.

Releases First Step with Faces after the Small Faces evolve into a new band.

Begins the First Strougal Government in Prague and serves as Prime Minister of Czechoslovakia.

US forces begin operations against North Vietnamese sanctuaries in the Fishhook area

Stars as Bobby Dupea in Five Easy Pieces

Directs Five Easy Pieces

Proposes a standstill ceasefire and a five point peace plan for Indochina

Leaves Cambodia for a foreign tour before the political crisis in Phnom Penh

Scores Brazil's fourth goal in the World Cup final.

Announces a resistance front against the Lon Nol government

Publishes Future Shock

Scores Italy's decisive extra-time goal in the 4-3 semi-final victory over West Germany.

Releases Gasoline Alley, strengthening his mixture of folk, rock and soul influences.

Retains Coventry East as Labour loses the general election.

Pakistan holds its first nationwide direct general election.

Voters elect members of the National Assembly in Pakistan's first direct national poll.

Pakistan holds its first nationwide direct general election.

Campaigns against Harold Wilson on economic management prices and industrial relations.

Leaves the Treasury after Labour loses the general election.

General election outcome recorded for Agha Muhammad Yahya Khan: Pakistan holds its first nationwide direct general election.

Government context for this general election: Pakistan holds its first nationwide direct general election.

Leads the Conservatives to victory in the 1970 general election.

His government ends in Helsinki, concluding this term as Prime Minister of Finland.

His government ends in Helsinki, concluding this term as Prime Minister of Finland.

Diouf begins leading the government under President Senghor

Forms the Royal Government of National Union of Kampuchea in exile

Publishes Hard Times

Nominates Harry Blackmun to the Supreme Court

The principal High Dam construction works are declared complete under Nasser.

Appointed Home Secretary

Reports that Apollo 13 has had a problem.

Approves then rescinds a plan to expand domestic intelligence gathering

In Moscow asks Russia to press North Vietnam to remove troops from Kampuchea

Income and Corporation Taxes Act 1970 consolidates legislation governing income tax and corporation tax.

Cuts income tax, reduces subsidies, replaces industrial grants with tax incentives. Cuts income tax by 2 1/2 pence

Urges coordination among Indochinese movements against US-backed governments

The International Nuclear Information System distributes its first output to participating Member States.

"Instant Karma (We All Shine On)," credited to John Ono Lennon and produced by Phil Spector is released and becomes a huge hit

Contributes to development and commercialization of the Intel 1103 DRAM chip

Leads Intel as the 1103 memory chip becomes a major product

Traditionalists led by Se n Mac Stiof in and Ruairi Br daigh split from the IRA and Sinn F‚in to form the Provisional IRA and its political wing Provisional Sinn Fein

Traditionalists led by Se n Mac Stiof in and Ruairi Br daigh split from the IRA and Sinn F‚in to form the Provisional IRA and its political wing Provisional Sinn Fein

Perform at the 1970 Isle of Wight Festival.

Killed by police gunfire during protests at Jackson State College

Killed by police gunfire near Jackson State College

Begins the Johann Hafstein Government and serves as Prime Minister of Iceland.

John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band, Lennons debut album as a solo artist, enters the album charts

Becomes chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff

The Kampuchean National Assembly votes to depose Sihanouk by 92 votes to 0

Kent State shootings follow nationwide protests over the Cambodia incursion

Killed by Ohio National Guard gunfire at Kent State University

Killed by Ohio National Guard gunfire at Kent State University

Killed by Ohio National Guard gunfire at Kent State University

Killed by Ohio National Guard gunfire at Kent State University

His memoirs are published abroad as Khrushchev Remembers despite official Soviet disapproval.

Releases the debut Kraftwerk album during the group's early experimental period.

Contributes flute, electronics and experimental textures to the first Kraftwerk album.

Co-produces L.A. Woman with The Doors.

Adds rhythm guitar during L.A. Woman sessions.

Records sessions for L.A. Woman, his final studio album with the band.

Plays bass during L.A. Woman sessions.

Wins the Labour deputy leadership after the election defeat.

Presses for scrutiny of secret US involvement in Laos

Publicly alleges that the United States is fighting a secret tribal war in Laos

Is returned for Wolverhampton South West with a majority of 14,467, the largest majority of his parliamentary career there.

Releases Led Zeppelin III, broadening the band's acoustic side.

Yahya Khan issues the Legal Framework Order governing the forthcoming general election.

Yahya Khan's order requires the elected assembly to draft a constitution within a fixed period.

Uses the centenary of Lenin's birth to reaffirm Communist Party leadership and Soviet international priorities.

Receives production credit on Let It Be, although Phil Spector reshapes the final released album.

Libya orders the confiscation of all Jewish property

Visits the Lincoln Memorial early in the morning and speaks with antiwar protesters

Stars in Little Big Man

Directs Little Big Man

The Who record Live at Leeds at the University of Leeds.

Release Live at Leeds.

Leaves the Velvet Underground before Loaded is released, ending his first period with the band.

The Lok Sabha is dissolved early, paving the way for the 1971 general election.

The Kinks release Lola.

The Kinks release Lola Versus Powerman and the Moneygoround.

Directs Love Story

Stars as Jenny Cavalleri in Love Story

Leads the programme returning lunar soil to Earth without a crew.

Uses Aquarius as a lifeboat after Apollo 13 is damaged.

Designs the mobility system used by Lunokhod 1 on the lunar surface.

Lin Biao's faction clashes with Mao's allies over state chairmanship and succession issues

Chen Boda is criticised at the Lushan Conference and loses Mao's confidence

Heads the German government when the Luxembourg Treaty expands the European Parliament's budgetary powers.

Heads the Italian government when the Luxembourg Treaty expands the European Parliament's budgetary powers.

Releases the live album Mad Dogs and Englishmen, documenting the large touring ensemble.

Launches the large-scale Mad Dogs and Englishmen tour with an ensemble assembled by Leon Russell.

Is recognized for discoveries concerning plasma and magnetic-field interactions.

Marries Marc Bolan

Yoko Ono and John Lennon celebrate their honeymoon by staging a "bed-in" for peace in Amsterdam

Marries Norma Johnson

Yoko Ono and John Lennon celebrate their honeymoon by staging a "bed-in" for peace in Amsterdam

Stars in The Mary Tyler Moore Show as it premieres

Co-founds MTM Enterprises as The Mary Tyler Moore Show premieres

Directs MASH

Stars as Hawkeye Pierce in MASH

Co-sponsors an amendment calling for US withdrawal from Vietnam

Co-sponsors an amendment calling for US withdrawal from Vietnam

Elected Member of Parliament

Elected Member of Parliament for Epping, majority of 2,575

Releases Morrison Hotel.

Receives a patent for the X-Y position indicator for a display system

Voters select National Assembly members from a single ruling-party list.

Publishes Mr Sammler's Planet

Goes on trial for charges connected with the My Lai massacre

Releases the single, "My Sweet Lord"

Bhuttos Pakistan Peoples Party emerges as the single largest party from Punjab and Sindh and manages to win 81 National Assembly seats, all from the Western Wing

The Awami League emerges as the largest party in the new National Assembly.

The Kampuchean National Assembly votes to depose Sihanouk by 92 votes to 0

National Assembly votes unanimously to withdraw confidence from Sihanouk

Helps organize the National Chicano Moratorium against the Vietnam War

NEPA bears the imprint of legislation championed by Senator Henry Jackson

Signs the National Environmental Policy Act

Healey begins a five-year term on Labour’s National Executive Committee.

Healey begins service on Labour's National Executive Committee.

Sends the Ohio National Guard to Kent during antiwar protests

Le Duc Tho & Kissinger meet in Paris for 3rd round of talks

Britain begisns negotiating, Geoffrey Rippon reports back to the Cabinet

Receives recognition for work on noradrenaline storage and release.

Releases New Morning.

Receives the Nobel Peace Prize for work associated with the Green Revolution

Shares the medicine prize for discoveries concerning nerve transmitters.

Shares the physics prize for foundational work in magnetohydrodynamics.

The Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty enters into force after required ratifications are deposited.

The Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty enters into force, giving the IAEA major verification responsibilities.

The Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty enters into force during Nixon's presidency.

The Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty enters into force

The Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty enters into force during Brezhnev's leadership.

Chinas first underground atomic explosion takes place

Supports the new federal workplace safety framework created by OSHA

The Act establishes federal workplace-safety standards and enforcement institutions.

Signs the Occupational Safety and Health Act

Invokes the War Measures Act during the October Crisis.

Helps power up the cold command module using emergency procedures developed by Mission Control.

Helps shut down command module Odyssey to preserve power for Earth re-entry.

Publishes Of a Fire on the Moon

Gaddafi's government secures higher prices and improved revenue terms from foreign oil companies.

Publishes On Violence

Healey returns immediately to Labour’s front bench as a shadow secretary of state.

The Supreme Court decides the 1970 voting-age case Oregon v Mitchell

Announces the controlling opinion in Oregon v Mitchell

Sponsors organized-crime legislation that includes RICO provisions

Signs the Organized Crime Control Act, including RICO provisions

Removed from power by the Cambodian National Assembly while abroad

Creates the guitar riffs for Paranoid, Iron Man and War Pigs during the band's breakthrough year.

Sings on Paranoid, the album that gives Black Sabbath its early commercial breakthrough.

Drums on Paranoid, anchoring one of heavy metal's foundational albums.

Conducts secret talks with Le Duc Tho

Meets Henry Kissinger in secret negotiations

Directs Patton

Stars as George S. Patton in Patton

Accepts the American Rogers Plan and extends the ceasefire during the War of Attrition.

Records material for Pearl shortly before her death

Created a LIfe Peer

Tries to persuade sympathetic senators to release the Pentagon Papers

Is approached by Daniel Ellsberg about releasing the Pentagon Papers

Appears in the film Performance, expanding his work beyond the Rolling Stones.

The BSO begins as a small cell of Fatah men determined to take revenge on King Hussein and the Jordanian army, recruits from the PFLP, as-Saiqa, and other groups also join

"Relics" is released

"Relics" is released

"Atom Heart Mother" is premiered at the Bath Festival

Pink Floyd play to 20,000 people at a free concert in London's Hyde Park

"Atom Heart Mother" is released

"Relics" is released

"Atom Heart Mother" is premiered at the Bath Festival

Pink Floyd play to 20,000 people at a free concert in London's Hyde Park

"Atom Heart Mother" is released

The RAF learn how to shoot guns, throw grenades, and thoroughly annoy their Palestinian hosts, after two months the Palestinians are sick of their disrespectful German guests and send them on a plane out of Jordan, they return to Berlin

Escapes to Jordan and trains in guerrilla tactics with the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine

The PLO is driven out of Jordan and forced to move to Lebanon

A man with a knife attempts to injure Pope Paul VI at Manila Airport

The Government revises rules for pay increases & ends the statutory incomes policy

Signs the Postal Reorganization Act

Sombrotto helps lead New York letter carriers as the illegal postal strike spreads nationally.

Orders federal troops to assist mail delivery during the postal strike

Islands in the Stream is published posthumously

Begins the championship campaign with one of his trademark strikes.

Appointed de facto President of Argentina after Juan Carlos Ongania

Appointed President of the National Council

Takes office as President of Chile after congressional confirmation of the election result.

Becomes President of Egypt after Nasser's death and confirmation by referendum.

Gaddafi is announced to the Libyan people as the new Commander in Chief of the Libyan Armed Forces

Appointed President of Poland

Mobutu is confirmed as president in a single-candidate national election.

Begins his single constitutional term as President of Chile.

Takes office as Prime Minister of Finland and forms a government in Helsinki.

Is appointed Prime Minister after the Conservative victory over Labour.

Takes office as Prime Minister of Finland and forms a government in Helsinki.

Appointed Prime Minister of Great Britain, 47th Prime Minister of Great Britain. Appointed Prime Minister of Great Britain

Appointed Prime Minister of Japan, 3rd term

Hedi Nouira became prime minister and led a long period of economic liberalization.

Abdou Diouf becomes Prime Minister when the office is restored

Leaves the L.A. Woman sessions after rejecting the material.

Pakistan holds provincial assembly elections after the national poll.

Signs legislation banning cigarette advertising on radio and television

Publicly addresses US policy and involvement in Laos

Signs the Rail Passenger Service Act creating Amtrak

Administers transportation policy as Congress creates Amtrak

Most countries in Africa support the central Government since all feare a similar breakup in their own countries, the British, Italians and the Soviet Union supplied the central Government with arms, while the French supplied the Biafrans. Biafra capitulates, ending Civil War Civil war in Nigeria that had lasted for three years. Accepts the surrender of the Biafran commanders

The RAF is formally founded in 1970 by Andreas Baader, Gudrun Ensslin, Horst Mahler, Ulrike Meinhof, Irmgard Muller and others. Foundation of the Baader-Meinhof Group

The RAF learn how to shoot guns, throw grenades, and thoroughly annoy their Palestinian hosts, after two months the Palestinians are sick of their disrespectful German guests and send them on a plane out of Jordan, they return to Berlin

The surviving groups members meet up, and with Mahler under arrest, there is little doubt that Baader is in control

One person was shot is shot during baaders release, this is the beginning of the gangs violent crimes, and the RAF, Ensslin becomes one of the most wanted people in Germany

The RAF is formally founded in 1970 by Andreas Baader, Gudrun Ensslin, Horst Mahler, Ulrike Meinhof, Irmgard Muller and others

Upon his return from Jordan, Mahler is arrested with fellow RAF members Ingrid Schubert, Brigitte Asdonk, and Irene Goergens. Acting on a tip, police stake out a Berlin apartment where they have been told that Baader, Ensslin, and Mahler will be meeting. Baader and Ensslin never show, but Mahler, Monika Berberich, Brigitte Asdonk and Irene Goergens are all captured

Eric Grusdat is arrested

Jan-Carl Raspe and his girlfriend Marianne Herzog join, as does Ali Jansen

Jan-Carl Raspe and his girlfriend Marianne Herzog join, as does Ali Jansen

The RAF is formally founded in 1970 by Andreas Baader, Gudrun Ensslin, Horst Mahler, Ulrike Meinhof, Irmgard Muller and others

Once Baader escaped, the three, along with Ulrike Meinhof, commit a series of bank robberies. Mahler conceives of an audacious plan to rob four Berlin banks simultaneously

Upon his return from Jordan, Mahler is arrested with fellow RAF members Ingrid Schubert, Brigitte Asdonk, and Irene Goergens

The surviving groups members meet up, and with Mahler under arrest, there is little doubt that Baader is in control

Escapes to Jordan and trains in guerrilla tactics with the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine

Tried and convicted for bank robberies and for assisting Baaders prison escape

The RAF is formally founded in 1970 by Andreas Baader, Gudrun Ensslin, Horst Mahler, Ulrike Meinhof, Irmgard Muller and others

The German Press Agency receive a communique claiming credit for securing Baaders release from prison written by Ulrike Meinhof, the communique is the first time that the group uses the term "Red Army," which becomes "Red Army Faction"

Half of the group sneaks into East Berlin, and then heads to the Jordan desert to a Palestinian training camp, to be followed by the rest of the group a week later.

The RAF learn how to shoot guns, throw grenades, and thoroughly annoy their Palestinian hosts.

after two months the Palestinians are sick of their disrespectful German guests and send them on a plane out of Jordan, they return to Berlin.

Jan-Carl Raspe and his girlfriend Marianne Herzog join, as does Ali Jansen

Karl-Heinz Ruhland is arrested by the police and begins talking (he only knew the gangs code names), Ruhland becomes a star witness at many of the Baader-Meinhof trials

Upon his return from Jordan, Mahler is arrested with fellow RAF members Ingrid Schubert, Brigitte Asdonk, and Irene Goergens

Internment without trial introduced in Northern Ireland

Removes restrictions on council house sales

A circular is issued to local Government urging the sale of council houses

Publishes the relational model for database management

Smith's government proclaims Rhodesia a republic outside the Commonwealth.

Proclaims the Khmer Republic and abolishes the monarchy

Retires from the CIA

Ends service as chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff

Independently reports discovery of reverse transcriptase

Reports discovery of reverse transcriptase

Kerensky continues political activity connected with revolution studies.

It was announced to the public that Gaddafi is the Chairman of the RCC

Records Ride A White Swan, later released in autumn and reaching number two in Britain.

Releases Roadhouse Blues as a single.

The achievement marks robotic lunar sample mission as an important Russian scientific milestone.

Biafra capitulates, ending Civil War Civil war in Nigeria that had lasted for three years

The Israeli Government passes its initial decision to establish settlements in Gaza

The main round of Strategic Arms Limitation Talks opens in Vienna

Moves toward a major 1970s television career after nightclub and recording success

Produces a celebrated reflex save from Pele's downward header against Brazil.

Chairs the commission reporting that divisions over campus unrest are deep and dangerous

Begins secret talks in Paris with Le Duc Tho

Appointed Secretary for Education & Science, attains Cabinet rank for the first time

The Who reach the U.S. charts with See Me, Feel Me from Tommy.

Releases the controversial double album Self Portrait.

The Selsdon meeting, a radical free market agenda, condemned by the then Labour Prime Minister, Harold Wilson, as the work of "Selsdon Man"

The Selsdon metting, a radical free market agenda, condemned by the then Labour Prime Minister, Harold Wilson, as the work of "Selsdon Man"

Completes the semi-final against Italy with his injured shoulder strapped to his body.

Publishes Sexual Politics

Healey becomes shadow defence spokesman after Labour loses the general election.

Becomes Shadow Chancellor after Labour loses the 1970 general election.

Shagrat is formed (named after an Orc in The Lord of the Rings)

Releases Signed Sealed Delivered I'm Yours

Acts while Sihanouk is outside Cambodia during the decisive National Assembly session

Premier Lon Nol supports the National Assembly vote removing Sihanouk

Closes Sihanoukville to North Vietnamese military supply routes and requests modern weapons

Traditionalists led by Se n Mac Stiof in and Ruairi Br daigh split from the IRA and Sinn F‚in to form the Provisional IRA and its political wing Provisional Sinn Fein

Traditionalists led by Se n Mac Stiof in and Ruairi Br daigh split from the IRA and Sinn F‚in to form the Provisional IRA and its political wing Provisional Sinn Fein

Serves as Surgeon General as cigarette broadcast advertising is phased out

Founded when six Stormont MPs and one Senator former members of the Republican Labour Party (a party with ties to the Irish Labour Party) the National Democratic Party (NDP

The SDLP initially rejected the Nationalist Party's policy of abstentionism and sought to fight for civil rights within the Stormont system but the SDLP quickly comes to that Stormont is unreformable, and withdraws from Parliamentary involvement.

a small nationalist party that dissolved itself after the foundation of the SDLP) individual nationalists former members of the Nationalist Party and members of the Northern Ireland Labour Party join to form a new party

Commands the joint task force for the Son Tay raid

US forces raid Son Tay prison camp in North Vietnam to rescue prisoners of war

US forces raid Son Tay prison camp to rescue prisoners of war

Commands the ground assault force during the Son Tay raid

Commands the ground assault force in the Son Tay prisoner rescue raid

End of the Butskellite consensus

Makes maiden speech on the 2nd reading of the Civil Aviation Bill

Releases the album Spirit in the Dark

Receives US Vice President Spiro Agnew during an official visit to Taiwan.

In the conservative Springer Press a name is born: "the Baader-Meinhof Gang"

Announced in Cabinet in the face of growing industrial unrest

Emergency powers are invoked as Lon Nol becomes effective head of government

Delivers a State of the Union address emphasizing environment and domestic policy

The terms of the agreement call for the Egyptians not to install any new surface-to-air missiles close to the Suez Canal, within weeks of the ceasefire, the Egyptians violate the agreement

Scores ten goals for West Germany to finish as the leading scorer in Mexico.

Directs The American Soldier.

Publishes her first novel The Bluest Eye

Publishes The Greening of America

Barrett releases solo album, "The Madcap Laughs"

Barrett releases his first solo album with help from former Pink Floyd colleagues

Syd Barretts first solo album, "The Madcap Laughs" is released

Releases The Man Who Sold the World in the United States, introducing a heavier rock sound with Mick Ronson.

Produces The Man Who Sold the World and plays bass during Bowie's heavy rock period.

Produces David Bowie's album The Man Who Sold the World

The Who's Tommy is performed at New York's Lincoln Center

Completes a tournament in which he scores seven goals.

Sings on Time and a Word, the second Yes album.

Plays keyboards on Time and a Word before the band expands its progressive ambitions.

Tommy is performed at New York's Lincoln Center.

The Who hit #12 in the US with See Me, Feel Me from Tommy

Torres takes power and begins a left-nationalist phase of military government.

Receives South Vietnamese Prime Minister Tran Thien Khiem as Taipei and Saigon maintain close anti-Communist relations.

Drums on Trespass, Genesis's first album for the Charisma label.

Plays guitar on Trespass, his final Genesis studio album.

Tried and convicted for bank robberies and for assisting Baaders prison escape

Announces further US troop withdrawals from Vietnam

Scores twice as Belgium defeat El Salvador 3-0 at the World Cup.

Scores twice as Brazil defeat Peru in the quarter-final.

Demands Vietnamese communist forces leave Cambodian territory

Nominated as United States ambassador to the United Nations

Works on early Unix development at Bell Labs

Continues development of Unix at Bell Labs

Seeks closer military and diplomatic support from the United States

Requests American support against Vietnamese communist forces in Cambodia

Venera 7 makes the first successful soft landing on Venus and the first survivable landing on another planet.

Venera 7 launches with a reinforced descent capsule intended to survive the extreme pressure and temperature at Venus's surface.

Venera 7 continues transmitting after touchdown, returning the first data directly from the surface of another planet.

Stops Oscar Bonavena in the fifteenth round

Defeats Jerry Quarry in his first fight after exile

Chairs the Senate Foreign Relations Committee during Vietnam War debates

Keeps Britain outside direct military participation in Vietnam after taking office

Proposes legislation requiring withdrawal of US troops from Vietnam by the end of the year

Commands US forces in Vietnam during Vietnamization and the Cambodia campaign

Vorster pays an official visit to Malawi

Signs the Voting Rights Act Amendments of 1970

Releases Weasels Ripped My Flesh, assembling experimental studio and live performances from the Mothers.

Joins Weather Report in its early formation period

Serves as original drummer of Weather Report

Co-founds Weather Report

Co-founds Weather Report

Co-founds Weather Report

The last United States forces leave Wheelus Air Base under the revolutionary government.

Performs with Band of Gypsys at Madison Square Garden

Participates in the Women's Strike for Equality movement

Helps lead the Women's Strike for Equality

Supports the Women's Strike for Equality

Directs the documentary Woodstock

Captains Brazil to its third FIFA World Cup championship.

Scores Brazil's third goal during the World Cup final.

Scores a powerful free kick during Brazil's opening victory.

Manages Brazil to victory in the 1970 World Cup.

Helps Brazil advance with intelligent movement and combination play.

Helps Brazil win its third World Cup championship.

Helps Brazil defeat Italy in the World Cup final.

Defeats Jimmy Ellis at Madison Square Garden to become recognized world heavyweight champion

Enrolls at Yale Law School

Andrew Murray Burnham is born in Aintree and later grows up in Culcheth.

Birth of Karis Jagger, Marsha Hunt, gives birth to Mick Jaggers daughter Karis Jagger

Birth of Karis Jagger, Marsha Hunt, gives birth to Mick Jagger's daughter Karis Jagger

Dies in a county jail, triggering unrest in Augusta

Dies aged 81 & is succeeded by Premier Marcello Caetano

Death of Charles de Gaulle

Death of Charles Andre Marie Joseph de Gaulle, aged 79 at Colombey

Gamal Abdel Nasser dies in Cairo and is succeeded by Anwar Sadat.

Death of Gamal Abdel Nasser

Death of Hugh Caswall Tremenheere Dowding

Dies of a heroin overdose in Los Angeles

Dies in London after taking sleeping pills and asphyxiating

Death of Alexander Fedorovich Kerensky

A group of Greek Cypriots attempt to assassinate Makarios

Death of Pedro Eugenio Aramburu Cilveti

Killed by a tear gas projectile during the National Chicano Moratorium

Dies in Las Vegas, with the death commonly dated to late December 1970

Fights communists until "victory or death" against "stooges of American imperialism"

At a memorial service at Westminster Abbey, his ashes were laid to rest below the Battle of Britain Memorial Window in the Royal Air Force chapel