August 1970 calendar

Events

• 01 Aug 1970 EAA Convention moves from Rockford Ill to Oshkosh, Wisconsin
• 02 Aug 1970 Baltimore defeats Kansas City 10-8, Orioles 23rd straight win over the Royals
• 03 Aug 1970 Mairiam Hargrave of Yorkshire, passes her driving test on 40th try
• 04 Aug 1970 Jim Morrison arrested for drunkenness
• 05 Aug 1970 US Black Panther leader Huey Newton let out of jail
• 07 Aug 1970 Christine Perfect (McVie) joins Fleetwood Mac
• 08 Aug 1970 New York Yankees honor Casey Stengel, retiring his number 37
• 09 Aug 1970 Jane Blalock wins LPGA Lady Carling Golf Open
• 10 Aug 1970 Jim Morrison is tried in Miami on lewd & lascivious behavior
• 11 Aug 1970 Tony Perez becomes the first to hit a home run in the red seats at Riverfront.
• 12 Aug 1970 Curt Flood loses his $41 million antitrust suit against baseball
• 14 Aug 1970 Steven Stills arrested for drug possession
• 15 Aug 1970 Patricia Palinkas becomes 1st woman pro football player
• 16 Aug 1970 52nd PGA Championship: Dave Stockton shoots 279 at Southern Hills, Oklahoma
• 17 Aug 1970 Venera 7 (US), 1st softlanding on Venus, launched
• 23 Aug 1970 Kathy Ahern wins LPGA Southgate Ladies Golf Open
• 24 Aug 1970 Bomb kills one at University of Wisconsin's Army Math Research Center in Madison.
• 26 Aug 1970 The then new feminist movement, led by Betty Friedan, leads a nation-wide Women's Strike for Equality.
• 29 Aug 1970 Black Panthers confront police in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (one policeman killed).
• 31 Aug 1970 59th Davis Cup: USA beats Germany in Cleveland

Famous Birthday

• River Phoenix

  American actor who had an impressive resume of films by the time he reached his 20s.

• Claudia Schiffer

  German model, considered by some to be the world's prettiest woman.

• Queen Rania of Jordan
• Thierry Neuvic
• Wendy Whoppers
• Melissa McCarthy

  Movie Actress.

• Fred Durst

  American singer (Limp Bizkit).

• Stacy Valentine

  American porno star whose life was documented in the film "The Girl Next Door," an intimate and humanizing look into the rise to fame of an...

• Giada de Laurentiis
• M Night Shyamalan
• Daniela Perez
• Kevin Smith

  Director.

• Malcolm-Jamal Warner

  American actor who became a familiar figure as teenager Theo Huxtable in the top-rated TV sitcom "The Cosby Show.

• Ness (TV host)
• Debbie Gibson

  American singer-songwriter producer and actress.

• Pascal Duquenne

  Belgian actor, winner of the Best Performer Prize at the Cannes Film Festival on 5/20/1996 for his role in "The Eighth Day," directed by...

• Anthony Anderson

  American comedian and actor.

• Andy Bell (musician)
• Lisa Dergan
• Alan Shearer

  British soccer player, the highest paid in the country.

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Famous Deaths

• Frances Farmer

  American actress, a leading lady known as "Miss Sex-Appeal of 1937.

• Jonathan Jackson

  instigator of the Marin County Civic Center shootout and brother of Black Panther George Jackson (Born 1953).

• James McClain

  US black activist, shot dead.

• Jonathan P Jackson

  US black activist, shot dead.

• William Christmas

  US black activist, shot dead.

• Bernd-Alois Zimmermann

  German Composer (Requiem), commits suicide at 52.

• Viktor Nikolayevich Trambitsky

  Composer, dies at 75.

• Karl August Andersen

  Composer, dies at 66.

• Timothy Mather Spelman

  Composer, dies at 79.

• Richard Frank Donovan

  Composer, dies at 78.

• Anna Casati

  Italian marchesa, murdered at 41.

• Mary Clare

  Dies at 76.

• Nel Rose

  Dancer, dies at 55.

• Pawe? Jasienica

  Polish historian (Born 1909).

• Nikos Tsiforos

  Greek screenwriter and film director (Born 1912).

• Tachu Naito

  Japanese architect (Born 1886).

• Hildo Krop

  Dutch architect specializing in bridges.

• Vladimir Propp

  Russian structuralist scholar (Born 1895).

• Del Moore

  Actor / announcer (Cal-Bachelor Father), dies at 53.

• Rattana Pestonji

  Thai director producer screenwriter and cinematographer (d. 1970).

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Top #5 songs in the USA

1. Carpenters - (They Long To Be) Close To You
2. Bread - Make It With You
3. Edwin Starr - War
4. Three Dog Night - Mama Told Me (Not To Come)
5. Stevie Wonder - Signed, Sealed, Delivered (I'm Yours)

Top #5 songs in the UK

1. Mungo Jerry - In The Summertime
2. Elvis Presley - The Wonder Of You
3. Free - All Right Now
4. Hotlegs - Neanderthal Man
5. Creedence Clearwater Revival - Up Around The Bend