3 January 1970The Madcap LaughsSyd Barrett
Barrett releases his first solo album with help from former Pink Floyd colleagues
Historical records for Great Britain in 1970, rendered directly from the World History Database and ordered by month, day and event.
Barrett releases his first solo album with help from former Pink Floyd colleagues
Andrew Murray Burnham is born in Aintree and later grows up in Culcheth.
The Government revises rules for pay increases & ends the statutory incomes policy
Marries Marc Bolan
Appointed Chairman of Housing, Lambeth Council
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
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"
Barrett releases solo album, "The Madcap Laughs"
Syd Barretts first solo album, "The Madcap Laughs" is released
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.
The Who record Live at Leeds at the University of Leeds.
Death of Hugh Caswall Tremenheere Dowding
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
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
Begins the bi-centenary Cook tour of Australia & New Zealand
Income and Corporation Taxes Act 1970 consolidates legislation governing income tax and corporation tax.
Performs the first of two celebrated Mad Dogs and Englishmen concert nights at the Fillmore East.
Releases First Step with Faces after the Small Faces evolve into a new band.
Launches the large-scale Mad Dogs and Englishmen tour with an ensemble assembled by Leon Russell.
"Instant Karma (We All Shine On)," credited to John Ono Lennon and produced by Phil Spector is released and becomes a huge hit
Roy Jenkins presents a cautious Budget after the balance of payments has moved into surplus.
Scores Arsenal's crucial away goal in the 3-1 first-leg defeat by Anderlecht in the Inter-Cities Fairs Cup final.
Manages Arsenal to the Inter-Cities Fairs Cup after a 4-3 aggregate victory over Anderlecht.
Scores the goal that completes Arsenal's 3-0 comeback victory over Anderlecht and secures the Fairs Cup.
Shagrat is formed (named after an Orc in The Lord of the Rings)
Receives production credit on Let It Be, although Phil Spector reshapes the final released album.
Release Live at Leeds.
Secures equal pay legislation influenced partly by European treaty obligations on equal pay.
"Relics" is released
"Relics" is released
"Relics" is released
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
Produces a celebrated reflex save from Pele's downward header against Brazil.
The Who's Tommy is performed at New York's Lincoln Center
Tommy is performed at New York's Lincoln Center.
Releases Gasoline Alley, strengthening his mixture of folk, rock and soul influences.
The Kinks release Lola.
Created a LIfe Peer
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
The Liberals return 6 Members of Parliament, despite standing in 332 seats. The Liberal Party win 7.5% of votes cast & 6 MPs
The Labour Party wins 43.1 percent of votes cast & 288 MPs. The Labour majority of 97 becomes a Conservative majority of 39
Retains Coventry East as Labour loses the general election.
Leaves the Treasury after Labour loses the general election.
Leads the Conservatives to victory in the 1970 general election.
Elected Member of Parliament
Elected Member of Parliament for Epping, majority of 2,575
Healey leaves the Defence Ministry after Labour loses the general election.
Is appointed Prime Minister after the Conservative victory over Labour.
Appointed Prime Minister of Great Britain, 47th Prime Minister of Great Britain. Appointed Prime Minister of Great Britain
Keeps Britain outside direct military participation in Vietnam after taking office
Forms a Conservative government with a programme of economic and industrial reform.
Appointed Chancellor of the Exchequer
Appointed Home Secretary
Healey returns immediately to Labour’s front bench as a shadow secretary of state.
Appointed Secretary for Education & Science, attains Cabinet rank for the first time
Healey becomes shadow defence spokesman after Labour loses the general election.
Becomes Shadow Chancellor after Labour loses the 1970 general election.
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
"Atom Heart Mother" is premiered at the Bath Festival
"Atom Heart Mother" is premiered at the Bath Festival
Removes restrictions on council house sales
A circular is issued to local Government urging the sale of council houses
Barrett releases solo album, "Barrett"
Advises the public to vote Labour
Campaigns against Harold Wilson on economic management prices and industrial relations.
Is returned for Wolverhampton South West with a majority of 14,467, the largest majority of his parliamentary career there.
End of the Butskellite consensus
Healey begins a five-year term on Labour’s National Executive Committee.
Healey begins service on Labour's National Executive Committee.
Records Ride A White Swan, later released in autumn and reaching number two in Britain.
Wins the Labour deputy leadership after the election defeat.
Pink Floyd play to 20,000 people at a free concert in London's Hyde Park
Pink Floyd play to 20,000 people at a free concert in London's Hyde Park
Appointed Chancellor of the Exchequer
Sings on Time and a Word, the second Yes album.
Plays keyboards on Time and a Word before the band expands its progressive ambitions.
Begins policies aimed at reducing state intervention and changing industrial relations.
Appears in the film Performance, expanding his work beyond the Rolling Stones.
Internment without trial introduced in Northern Ireland
Perform at the 1970 Isle of Wight Festival.
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
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.
Creates the Central Policy Review Staff, "think tank" to advise the Cabinet
Releases the live album Mad Dogs and Englishmen, documenting the large touring ensemble.
Pink Floyd release Atom Heart Mother in the United Kingdom
Marries Norma Johnson
Releases Led Zeppelin III, broadening the band's acoustic side.
"Atom Heart Mother" is released
"Atom Heart Mother" is released
George Harrison & Phil Spector begin work on the final mixing of the album, "All Things Must Pass"
Drums on Trespass, Genesis's first album for the Charisma label.
Plays guitar on Trespass, his final Genesis studio album.
Cuts income tax, reduces subsidies, replaces industrial grants with tax incentives. Cuts income tax by 2 1/2 pence
Cuts income tax, reduces subsidies, replaces industrial grants with tax incentives. Cuts income tax by 2 1/2 pence
Britain begisns negotiating, Geoffrey Rippon reports back to the Cabinet
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
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.
Barrett releases his second solo album, produced with help from David Gilmour and Richard Wright
Releases the single, "My Sweet Lord"
Makes maiden speech on the 2nd reading of the Civil Aviation Bill
Releases album, "All Things Must Pass" in the USA
The Kinks release Lola Versus Powerman and the Moneygoround.
The Who reach the U.S. charts with See Me, Feel Me from Tommy.
The Who hit #12 in the US with See Me, Feel Me from Tommy
Releases album, "All Things Must Pass" in Britain
Syd Barret releases his second solo album, "Barrett"
Yoko Ono and John Lennon celebrate their honeymoon by staging a "bed-in" for peace in Amsterdam
Announced in Cabinet in the face of growing industrial unrest
John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band, Lennons debut album as a solo artist, enters the album charts
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
Paul McCartney files a suit to dissolve the Beatles
Appointed Chairman of the 1922 Committee
Heads Chelsea's extra-time winner against Leeds United in the final replay.
Releases album, 1st solo album
Produces A Beard of Stars, the final album issued under the Tyrannosaurus Rex name.
Sellers makes a small appearance in the drama A Day at the Beach.
Stars in, "Bartleby"
Appointed Bishop of St Albans, consecrated
Black Sabbath release the Album, "Paranoid". Black Sabbath releases a first album, "Black Sabbath"
Clapton releases his 1st solo album, named Eric Clapton, which included the Bramlett composition, "Bottle Of Red Wine", and one of Claptons best songs from this period, "Let It Rain"
Works on acoustic material at Bron-Yr-Aur cottage with Robert Plant.
Writes lyrics and acoustic ideas during the Bron-Yr-Aur retreat.
Receives the Bruce Medal of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific.
Roy Harris Jenkins presents the 1970 Budget to the House of Commons as Chancellor of the Exchequer.
The 1970 Budget under Roy Harris Jenkins sets out the Government's taxation, expenditure and borrowing plans.
Awarded a CBE
Appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE)
Sexton finishes the cup run with Chelsea defeating Leeds United 2-1.
Delivers the dramatic vocal performance on Child in Time, one of Deep Purple's defining early concert pieces.
Chronically Sick and Disabled Persons Act 1970 creates duties and rights for disabled people
Britain had to accept the Merger Treaty & all decisions taken since the 2nd application & resolve problems of adaptation, ie the Commonwealth
Appears in "Cromwell"
The Dave Clark Five split up
Death of Iain Norman MacLeod
Makes his senior debut for Birmingham City.
Helps drive the heavier guitar-led sound of Deep Purple in Rock, moving the band beyond its psychedelic beginnings.
Sings on Deep Purple in Rock, the album that firmly establishes the band as a hard rock force.
Combines distorted Hammond organ with Blackmore's guitar on Deep Purple in Rock, shaping the band's classic sound.
Healey cancels the proposed CVA-01 fleet carrier replacement and downgrades HMS Hermes in 1970 to a Commando Carrier.
Leaves Yes after the Time and a Word period, ending his time as original guitarist.
Leaves Genesis after recording Trespass, ending the band's first Charisma-era rhythm section.
Leaves Genesis after stage pressures and health concerns affect the early group.
Appointed Deputy Leader of the Labour Party
Takes Derby to fourth place in Division one but due to financial irregularities, the club are banned from Europe that season and fined œ10,000
Attends the Old College, part of the University of Wales, Aberystwyth, where he studies the Welsh language and Welsh History
Education Handicapped Children Act 1970 transfers responsibility for disabled childrens education to education authorities
Pete Townshend founds Eel Pie Records
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
Elected member of Parliament for the North Antrim constituency, which he has retained since then and is now the longest serving Member of Parliament from Northern Ireland
Shore is retained in the Cabinet as a Minister without Portfolio and Deputy Leader of the House of Commons
Lynne, Roy Wood and Bev Bevan establish Electric Light Orchestra in Birmingham.
Equal Pay Act 1970 creates legal rights to equal pay between men and women
Plays the title role in Ingmar Bergmans London production of the Ibsen play Hedda Gabler, winning her second Evening Standard award for Best Actress
Delivers his final Budget before the June general election.
Joins up with Fleetwood Mac
Appointed Foreign Minister, 2nd term
Leaves Labour's front bench after six continuous years as a Cabinet minister.
Releases "Gasoline Alley"
Joins Genesis as drummer after auditioning during the search for a new rhythm section.
Produces Gentle Giant's debut album, adding progressive rock to his expanding production work.
Buys a vintage Gibson Les Paul guitar, helping set the musical direction of the T. Rex sound.
Pretty Things guitarist Dick Taylor is brought in to produce the 1970 debut album Hawkwind
Plays the title role in Ingmar Bergmans London production of the Ibsen play Hedda Gabler, winning her second Evening Standard award for Best Actress
Sellers takes the title role of Benjamin Hoffman in the dark comedy-drama Hoffman.
Awarded the OBE
Speaks occasionally from the Lords as a former Conservative prime minister
Sings Immigrant Song, inspired by the band's northern European travels.
Issues Is It Love as part of the Ride A White Swan single release.
Releases Album, "Joe Cocker"
Ayer is knighted
Stein leads Celtic to a League and League Cup double; they also finish runners-up in the Scottish Cup
Puts through the Equal Pay Act 1970
Clapton releases his 1st solo album, named Eric Clapton, which included the Bramlett composition, "Bottle Of Red Wine", and one of Claptons best songs from this period, "Let It Rain"
"Lifehouse" is never completed in its intended form, although it is reconstructed as a radio play for the BBC in 2000, and most of the material was released on a 6-CD album from Pete Townshends website
Hoyle, Hubert Reeves, and Fowler examined cosmic-ray production of lithium, beryllium, and boron in stars.
Local Authority Social Services Act 1970 creates social services departments in local authorities
Bernice Rubens becomes the first woman to win the Booker Prize, for The Elected Member
Plays Mary, Queen of Scots in Mary, Queen of Scots
Elected Member of Parliament for Rushcliffe
Unsuccessfully challenges for the Deputy Leadership of the Labour Party
1st elected Member of Parliament, age 28
Elected member of Parliament for the North Antrim constituency, which he has retained since then and is now the longest serving Member of Parliament from Northern Ireland
Elected Member of Parliament for Hull East
Elected Member of Parliament for Bolsover
Elected Member of Parliament for North Lanarkshire
Appointed Minister of Housing
Becomes editor of the New Statesman after leaving ministerial office.
Winner of the Nobel Prize for Medicine
Awarded the OBE
Awarded the OBE
Awarded an OBE for services to football
Releases Oh Baby as Dib Cochran And The Earwigs.
Butler contributes bass and lyrics to Black Sabbath's album Paranoid.
Appointed Parliamentary Private Secretary to Tony Crossland
Mick Jagger appears in the film, "Performance". Mick Jagger appears in the film, "Ned Kelly"
Twink and the other ex-Deviants form a new band called the Pink Fairies (mark 2), without Took or Farren
Waters collaborates with British composer Ron Geesin, who co-wrote Pink Floyd's title suite from Atom Heart Mother, on a soundtrack album, Music from "The Body", which consisted mostly of instrumentals interspersed with songs composed by Waters
"Relics" is released. Waters collaborates with British composer Ron Geesin, who co-wrote Pink Floyd's title suite from Atom Heart Mother, on a soundtrack album, Music from "The Body", which consisted mostly of instrumentals interspersed with songs composed by Waters
Release of, "John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band and Yoko Ono/Plastic Ono Band". Following the Beatles split in 1970, Lennon releases the Plastic Ono Band album, a raw, honest record, heavily influenced by Arthur Janovs Primal therapy, which Lennon had undergone previously
Appointed Member of Privy Council
Appointed Member of Privy Council
Publishes Immigration and Enoch Powell, a collection edited by Tom Stacey dealing with his arguments on immigration policy.
Publishes Income Tax at 4s/3d in the Pound, edited by Anthony Lejeune, setting out arguments for substantial tax reduction.
Hoyle and Geoffrey Burbidge studied radio-galaxy source counts and redshift distributions as cosmological tests.
Puts through the Equal Pay Act 1970
Proves first of many singularity theorems; a set of sufficient conditions for the existence of a singularity in space-time showing that, far from being mathematical curiosities singularities are a fairly generic feature of general relativity.
Aston Villa falls into the third tier for the first time.
Charlton plays his 35th and final England game in the 1-0 group win over Czechoslovakia
Releases Ride A White Swan as T. Rex, creating the new pop-oriented breakthrough sound.
Produces Ride a White Swan, the single that launches T. Rex into mainstream British success.
Rolling Stones release the album, "Get Yer Ya-Yas Out"
Appointed President of the Royal Society
For his role as the village idiot in Ryans Daughter, Mills wins an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor
Issues a circular to local Government to sell council houses with up to 20% reductions
In 1969-1970 Astle is the leading scorer in Division One with 25 goals
Appears in "Scrooge"
Starts in "Scrooge". Starts in "Cromwell"
Appointed Employment Secretary
Establishes the Select Committee on National Expenditure
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
Appointed Shadow Foreign Secretary
Healey becomes Shadow Foreign Secretary after Labour returns to opposition.
Appointed Shadow Secretary of Employment
Took and Wallis continue with drummer Dave Bidwell, rehearsing with various bass players and eventually forming an acoustic trio of Took on vocals and guitar, Wallis on acoustic bass and Bidwell on tambourine
With the addition of drummer Phil Lenoir, Shagrat is formed (named after an Orc in The Lord of the Rings)
Shagrat is formed (named after an Orc in The Lord of the Rings). With the addition of drummer Phil Lenoir, Shagrat is formed (named after an Orc in The Lord of the Rings). Took and Wallis continue with drummer Dave Bidwell, rehearsing with various bass players and eventually forming an acoustic trio of Took on vocals and guitar, Wallis on acoustic bass and Bidwell on tambourine
Took and Wallis continue with drummer Dave Bidwell, rehearsing with various bass players and eventually forming an acoustic trio of Took on vocals and guitar, Wallis on acoustic bass and Bidwell on tambourine
Sellers appears in the short comedy Simon, Simon.
Proves first of many singularity theorems; a set of sufficient conditions for the existence of a singularity in space-time showing that, far from being mathematical curiosities singularities are a fairly generic feature of general relativity. Hawking provides the first of many singularity theorems; such theorems provide a set of sufficient conditions for the existence of a singularity in space-time
Hawking proves singularity theorems showing that spacetime singularities are generic in general relativity
Appointed Solicitor General
The Government withdraws Upper Clyde Shipbuilder support
Issues Summertime Blues as part of the Ride A White Swan single release.
Founder Member of Supertramp
Produces the self-titled T. Rex album as Marc Bolan shifts from folk duo to electric pop rock.
Moves T. Rex toward a more pop-oriented sound after the acoustic Tyrannosaurus Rex period.
Original T.Rex drummer, 1970-1974
Joins T.Rex, Bolan suggested Legends stage name, which derived from the name of band he had been playing in with Micky Jupp, Legend played drums for T.Rex on four albums, "Electric Warrior", "The Slider", "Tanx" and "Zinc Alloy"
Taxes Management Act 1970 consolidates tax administration and collection law
Publication of "The Day of the Jackal"
Publication of "The Elected Member"
Plays bass in Bowie's short-lived band The Hype alongside Mick Ronson and John Cambridge.
Sings The Knife, a dramatic early concert favourite from Trespass.
Scores his first United States top-ten single with a cover of The Letter.
Stars in The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes. Stars in Taste the Blood of Dracula
Sellers plays television cook and womaniser Robert Danvers in There's a Girl in My Soup.
Appointed Under Secretary of State for Trade & Industry
Issues Universal Love as the B-side to Oh Baby.
Writes lyrics for War Pigs, attacking war makers and military hypocrisy.
Publication of "What Became of Jane Austen?"
CCS record a version of Whole Lotta Love later used as the Top of the Pops theme.
Plays for defending champions England at Mexico 1970, where West Germany overturn a two-goal deficit in the quarter-final.
Selected for Alf Ramseys squad for the summers World Cup in Mexico, coming on as a substitute in the 3-2 defeat by West Germany.
Named as captain for the 1970 World Cup but there was heavy disruption to preparations when an attempt was made to implicate Moore in the theft of a bracelet from a jeweller in Bogot , Colombia.
Loses to the Germans 3-2 in the quarter-finals, after having been in the lead 2-0 with only twenty minutes remaining, the blame was put partly on Sir Alfs cautious tactics.
Joins Yes as guitarist, replacing Peter Banks and transforming the band's instrumental range.
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