December 1970 calendar

Events

• 01 Dec 1970 Luis Echeverria Alvarez sworn in as President of MTxico.
• 02 Dec 1970 Tippetts Opera Knot Garden, premieres in London
• 03 Dec 1970 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site.
• 04 Dec 1970 Unemployment in US increases to 5.8 percent.
• 05 Dec 1970 Stanley Cup, Conn Smythe Trophy, and Bill Masterson trophy stolen from NHL hall of fame.
• 06 Dec 1970 Cleveland Cavaliers' first NBA home victory, beating Buffalo Braves 108-106.
• 07 Dec 1970 Taizan Maezumi Roshi, head of LA Zen Center, receives dharma
• 09 Dec 1970 Dutch Antilles: Government of Petronia falls.
• 10 Dec 1970 North American Soccer League awards New York and Toronto franchises.
• 11 Dec 1970 John Lennon releases an album that contains songs with word fuck
• 12 Dec 1970 Small Astronomy Satellite Explorer 42 launched to study X-rays.
• 13 Dec 1970 Greg Chappell scores 108 on Test debut versus England at the WACA.
• 15 Dec 1970 Ferryboat capsized in Korean Strait drowning 261
• 16 Dec 1970 1st successful landing on Venus
• 17 Dec 1970 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site.
• 18 Dec 1970 Me Nobody Knows opens at Helen Hayes Theater NYC for 587 performances
• 21 Dec 1970 WUTV TV channel 29 in Buffalo, New York (IND) begins broadcasting
• 22 Dec 1970 Treblinka SS commander Franz Stangl sentenced to life imprisonment
• 23 Dec 1970 New York World Trade Center reaches highest point (411 m).
• 24 Dec 1970 Buena Vista releases the animated feature film The Aristocats to theatres. It cost US$4 million to make. It is Disney's first animated feature film completed without Walt Disney.
• 25 Dec 1970 The ETA releases Eugen Beihl.
• 27 Dec 1970 Hello, Dolly! closes at Saint James Theater in New York City after 2,844 performances.
• 28 Dec 1970 Lovely Ladies, Kind Gentlemen opens at Majestic NYC for 19 performances
• 29 Dec 1970 U.S. President Richard Nixon signs into law the Occupational Safety and Health Act.
• 30 Dec 1970 Paul McCartney sues his bandmates to dissolve the Beatles
• 31 Dec 1970 Congress authorizes Eisenhower dollar coin

Famous Birthday

• Jennifer Connelly

  Movie Actress.

• Sarah Silverman

  American stand-up comedian, writer, producer, and actress.

• DMX (rapper)
• Ted Cruz

  United States Senator from Texas.

• Sandrine Quétier

  French TV host on TF1 private channel, co-presenting "50 minutes Inside" with Nikos Aliagas.

• Tyson Beckford

  Model.

• Olivier Sitruk
• Mädchen Amick

  American actress.

• Christian Karembeu

  French football player, he won the World Cup (1998) for France.

• Grégory Anquetil

  French team handball player, who competed at the 1996 Summer Olympics, where the French team placed 4th, and also at the 2000 and 2004...

• Regina Hall

  American actress.

• Bart De Wever
• Grégori Baquet
• Luciana Vendramini
• Fauziah Latiff
• Amaury Nolasco

  American actor.

• Joumana Haddad
• Michael Shanks

  Canadian actor.

• Nicole de Boer

  Canadian actress.

• Michaël Cohen
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Famous Deaths

• Sonny Liston

  American boxer (Born 1932).

• Sonny Liston

  American boxer (Born 1932).

• Thomas S Power

  US Air Force-General (Raid on Tokyo-March 1945), dies at age 65.

• Christopher K Ingold

  English chemist, dies at age 77.

• Artem Mikoyan

  Russian aircraft designer (MIG), dies at age 65.

• Louis Zimmer Flem

  clock maker (Jubelklok, Wonder Clock), dies at age 82.

• L Mendel Rivers

  American politician (Representative-Democrat-South Carolina), dies at age 65.

• Cyril M Scott

  English composer/author (Alchemist), dies at age 91.

• Charles "Sonny" Liston

  Heavyweight boxer champ (1962-64).

• Charlie Ruggles

  Actor (Ruggles, Aesop-Bullwinkle Show), dies at 84.

• Marie Menken

  American experimental filmmaker and socialite (Born 1909).

• Doris Blackburn

  Australian activist and politician (d. 1970).

• Franz Schlegelberger

  German judge and politician Reich Ministry of Justice (d. 1970).

• Lillian Board

  England, United Kingdom -- 400m (1968 Olympics - Silver Medalist).

• Charles Ruggles

  American actor (Born 1886).

• Rube Goldberg

  Ameican cartoonist (Mike and Ike, Pulitzer 1948), dies at age 87.

• Sir Feroz Khan Noon

  Pakistani politician (Born 1893).

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Top #5 songs in the USA

1. The Partridge Family - I Think I Love You
2. Smokey Robinson - The Tears Of A Clown
3. George Harrison - My Sweet Lord
4. The 5th Dimension - One Less Bell To Answer
5. Brian Hyland - Gypsy Woman

Top #5 songs in the UK

1. Matthew's Southern Comfort - Woodstock
2. Dave Edmunds - I Hear You Knocking
3. Clive Dunn - Grandad
4. Jimi Hendrix Experience - Voodoo Chile
5. McGuinness Flint - When I'm Dead And Gone