1 January 1970National Environmental Policy ActHenry Jackson
NEPA bears the imprint of legislation championed by Senator Henry Jackson
Historical records for United States in 1970, rendered directly from the World History Database and ordered by month, day and event.
NEPA bears the imprint of legislation championed by Senator Henry Jackson
Signs the National Environmental Policy Act
Delivers a State of the Union address emphasizing environment and domestic policy
Directs MASH
Stars as Hawkeye Pierce in MASH
Simon and Garfunkel release the album Bridge Over Troubled Water
Simon and Garfunkel release the album Bridge Over Troubled Water
Performs with Band of Gypsys at Madison Square Garden
Becomes chair of the Federal Reserve Board
Directs Patton
Stars as George S. Patton in Patton
Releases Burnt Weeny Sandwich, combining live material, studio editing, instrumental composition and doo-wop influences.
Releases Morrison Hotel.
Loses the WBA heavyweight title fight to Joe Frazier
Defeats Jimmy Ellis at Madison Square Garden to become recognized world heavyweight champion
Conducts secret talks with Le Duc Tho
Begins secret talks in Paris with Le Duc Tho
The Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty enters into force after required ratifications are deposited.
The Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty enters into force during Nixon's presidency.
The Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty enters into force
Publicly addresses US policy and involvement in Laos
Sombrotto helps lead New York letter carriers as the illegal postal strike spreads nationally.
Publicly alleges that the United States is fighting a secret tribal war in Laos
Orders federal troops to assist mail delivery during the postal strike
Directs the documentary Woodstock
Releases Roadhouse Blues as a single.
Purchases Air West, later renamed Hughes Airwest
Network broadcasters prepare for the end of cigarette advertising on radio and television
Signs legislation banning cigarette advertising on radio and television
Serves as Surgeon General as cigarette broadcast advertising is phased out
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.
Publicly signals the breakup of the Beatles
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.
Commands Apollo 13 as the Saturn V sends Odyssey and Aquarius toward the Moon.
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.
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 develop power-up procedures after being removed from the Apollo 13 crew.
Checks lunar module Aquarius earlier than originally planned to assess its helium tank pressure.
Reports that Apollo 13 has had a problem.
Helps shut down Odyssey to conserve its batteries and consumables for reentry.
Commands a lunar module engine burn that restores Apollo 13 to a free-return trajectory around the Moon.
Coordinates teams developing emergency procedures for Apollo 13.
Nominates Harry Blackmun to the Supreme Court
Uses Aquarius as a lifeboat after Apollo 13 is damaged.
Helps shut down command module Odyssey to preserve power for Earth re-entry.
Helps use improvised equipment that adapts command module carbon-dioxide canisters to the lunar module system.
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 operate Aquarius during the long engine burn that speeds Apollo 13’s return to Earth.
Uses the Sun to verify lunar module guidance alignment when debris makes star sightings difficult.
Works in simulators on command module power-up procedures.
The main round of Strategic Arms Limitation Talks opens in Vienna
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.
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.
Helps power up the cold command module using emergency procedures developed by Mission Control.
Announces further US troop withdrawals from Vietnam
Commands US forces during the Cambodia campaign
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
Hunt voluntarily retired from CIA after more than twenty years of Agency service and later entered private public-relations work.
US forces begin operations against North Vietnamese sanctuaries in the Fishhook area
Retires from the CIA
Sends the Ohio National Guard to Kent during antiwar protests
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
Dies in a county jail, triggering unrest in Augusta
Visits the Lincoln Memorial early in the morning and speaks with antiwar protesters
Faces riots after the death of Charles Oatman in jail
Killed by police gunfire during protests at Jackson State College
Killed by police gunfire near Jackson State College
Publishes the relational model for database management
Releases Signed Sealed Delivered I'm Yours
Releases the controversial double album Self Portrait.
Appointed to chair the President's Commission on Campus Unrest
Signs the Voting Rights Act Amendments of 1970
Directs the film adaptation of Catch-22
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
Wins his final fight by technical knockout against Chuck Wepner
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
Becomes chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff
Ends service as chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff
Sends Congress Reorganization Plan No. 3 creating the Environmental Protection Agency
Releases the live album Absolutely Live.
Approves then rescinds a plan to expand domestic intelligence gathering
Releases Weasels Ripped My Flesh, assembling experimental studio and live performances from the Mothers.
Signs the Postal Reorganization Act
Releases the album Spirit in the Dark
Electric Lady Studios opens in New York
Participates in the Women's Strike for Equality movement
Helps lead the Women's Strike for Equality
Supports the Women's Strike for Equality
Killed by a tear gas projectile during the National Chicano Moratorium
Helps organize the National Chicano Moratorium against the Vietnam War
Co-sponsors an amendment calling for US withdrawal from Vietnam
Co-sponsors an amendment calling for US withdrawal from Vietnam
Performs his final concert at the Isle of Fehmarn Festival
Stars as Bobby Dupea in Five Easy Pieces
Directs Five Easy Pieces
Dies in London after taking sleeping pills and asphyxiating
Releases After the Gold Rush
Tops the US singles chart with Ain't No Mountain High Enough
Stars in The Mary Tyler Moore Show as it premieres
Co-founds MTM Enterprises as The Mary Tyler Moore Show premieres
Proposes legislation requiring withdrawal of US troops from Vietnam by the end of the year
Chairs the commission reporting that divisions over campus unrest are deep and dangerous
Buried at Greenwood Cemetery in Renton, Washington
Contributes to development and commercialization of the Intel 1103 DRAM chip
Leads Intel as the 1103 memory chip becomes a major product
Records material for Pearl shortly before her death
Dies of a heroin overdose in Los Angeles
Proposes a standstill ceasefire and a five point peace plan for Indochina
Arrested in New York on charges connected with the Marin County courthouse case
Begins final mixing work with George Harrison on All Things Must Pass
Sponsors organized-crime legislation that includes RICO provisions
Signs the Organized Crime Control Act, including RICO provisions
Releases New Morning.
Releases Chunga's Revenge, linking late Mothers material with the musical direction of his early 1970s bands.
Heads Treasury as the Bank Secrecy Act becomes law
Signs the Bank Secrecy Act
Returns to boxing after receiving a license in Georgia
Stopped by Muhammad Ali after three rounds because of a cut
Defeats Jerry Quarry in his first fight after exile
Signs the Rail Passenger Service Act creating Amtrak
Administers transportation policy as Congress creates Amtrak
Wins election to New Castle County Council.
Produces David Bowie's album The Man Who Sold the World
Goes on trial for charges connected with the My Lai massacre
Leaves the Velvet Underground before Loaded is released, ending his first period with the band.
Receives a patent for the X-Y position indicator for a display system
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
Releases All Things Must Pass
Leaves the L.A. Woman sessions after rejecting the material.
Becomes the first administrator as the Environmental Protection Agency begins operations
Stops Oscar Bonavena in the fifteenth round
Receives the Nobel Peace Prize for work associated with the Green Revolution
Nominated as United States ambassador to the United Nations
Appears in Love Story in his first feature film role
Directs Love Story
Stars as Jenny Cavalleri in Love Story
Operation Baneberry releases radioactive material after an underground nuclear test
The Supreme Court decides the 1970 voting-age case Oregon v Mitchell
Announces the controlling opinion in Oregon v Mitchell
Stars in Little Big Man
Directs Little Big Man
Signs the Family Planning Services and Population Research Act
Supports federal family-planning legislation before becoming UN ambassador
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
Dies in Las Vegas, with the death commonly dated to late December 1970
Helps lead congressional work on the Clean Air Act Amendments of 1970
Signs the Clean Air Act Amendments of 1970
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.
Publishes A Heritage of Stone after the Clay Shaw trial
Uses galaxy rotation measurements to strengthen evidence for unseen mass
Receives her bachelor's degree in political science from the University of Denver
Publishes Bech: A Book
Publishes Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee
Helps manage secret bombing and diplomatic strategy connected with Cambodia and Vietnam
Studies how small early fluctuations could grow into galaxies after the Big Bang
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
Appointed personal representative of the President to the Vatican
Publishes Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex
Publishes Future Shock
Publishes Hard Times
Publishes Mr Sammler's Planet
Publishes Of a Fire on the Moon
Publishes On Violence
Tries to persuade sympathetic senators to release the Pentagon Papers
Is approached by Daniel Ellsberg about releasing the Pentagon Papers
Islands in the Stream is published posthumously
Independently reports discovery of reverse transcriptase
Reports discovery of reverse transcriptase
Moves toward a major 1970s television career after nightclub and recording success
Publishes Sexual Politics
Publishes her first novel The Bluest Eye
Publishes The Greening of America
Works on early Unix development at Bell Labs
Continues development of Unix at Bell Labs
Chairs the Senate Foreign Relations Committee during Vietnam War debates
Commands US forces in Vietnam during Vietnamization and the Cambodia campaign
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
Enrolls at Yale Law School
Presses for scrutiny of secret US involvement in Laos
Participates in Nixon administration efforts to prevent Salvador Allende taking office in Chile
A faint dwarf spheroidal companion designated Andromeda I is identified as part of the growing satellite system surrounding M31.
The dwarf spheroidal galaxy Andromeda II is recognized as another satellite member of the M31 system.
Andromeda III is identified as a faint dwarf spheroidal companion, expanding the known population of galaxies gravitationally associated with M31.
Oversees US embassy coordination of the war in Laos
Portrays Mark Antony in the 1970 film version of Shakespeare's Julius Caesar
Stars in Kellys Heroes, a Second World War caper film with an ensemble cast.
Represents blues influence on the band's 1970 sound.
After leaving CIA, Hunt joined the Robert R. Mullen Company, a Washington public-relations firm that maintained a relationship with the Agency.
The Thrill Is Gone becomes a major crossover hit
Stars with Shirley MacLaine in Don Siegel's western Two Mules for Sister Sara.
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