July 1970 calendar

Events

• 01 Jul 1970 Denny McLain returns, (leaves trailiing) Tigers beat Yankees in 11
• 02 Jul 1970 1st Boeing 747 to land in Amsterdam and Brussels
• 03 Jul 1970 77th Wimbledon Womens Tennis: Margaret Smith beats King
• 04 Jul 1970 84th Wimbledon Mens Tennis: Newcombe beats K Rosewall
• 05 Jul 1970 Air Canada Flight 621 crashes near Toronto International Airport killing 109 people.
• 06 Jul 1970 California passes 1st no fault divorce law
• 08 Jul 1970 Richard Nixon delivers a special congressional message enunciating Native American Self-Determination as official US Indian policy, leading to the Indian Self-Determination Act.
• 09 Jul 1970 In Atlanta, Chief-No-ka-homa is joined by cousin Chief Round-the-Horn
• 11 Jul 1970 The first tunnel under the Pyrenees links the towns of Aragnouet (France) and Bielsa (Spain).
• 12 Jul 1970 99th British Golf Open: Jack Nicklaus shoots a 283 at St. Andrews
• 13 Jul 1970 Building begins of Amsterdam metro
• 14 Jul 1970 41st All Star Baseball Game: NL wins 5-4 at Riverfront Stadium, Cin
• 15 Jul 1970 Denmark beats Italy 2-0 in first world female soccer championship.
• 16 Jul 1970 Three Rivers Stadium in Pittsburgh opens.
• 17 Jul 1970 Ralph Baer demonstrates his television video game system to Magnavox. Despite a lack of interest from most Magnavox engineers, Bill Enders negotiates an exclusive license to manufacture and distribute the system, and sublicense Sanders Associates' patents on the technology.
• 18 Jul 1970 Boy Friend closes at Ambassador Theater NYC after 119 performances
• 19 Jul 1970 Judy Rankin wins LPGA Springfield Jaycee Golf Open
• 20 Jul 1970 Dodgers Bill Singer no-hits the Phillies 5-0, giving up no walks
• 21 Jul 1970 Clay Kirby has a no-hitter going for 8 inn, but is lifted for a pinch hitter, Reliever Jack Baldschun gives up 3 hits and Padres lose, 3-0
• 23 Jul 1970 Qaboos ibn Sa'id becomes Sultan of Oman after overthrowing his father, Sa'id ibn Taimur initiating massive reforms ;modernisation programs and end to a decade long civil war.
• 24 Jul 1970 International Law Tennis Association institutes 9 point tie break rule
• 25 Jul 1970 (They Long to Be) Close to You reaches #1
• 26 Jul 1970 Reds Johnny Bench hits 3 consecutive HRs of Phillies Steve Carlton
• 27 Jul 1970 Expos beat White Sox 10-6 in the annual Hall of Fame game
• 29 Jul 1970 Six days of race rioting in Hartford, Connecticut.
• 30 Jul 1970 30,000 attend Powder Ridge Rock Festival, Middlefield, Connecticut, USA.
• 31 Jul 1970 37th NFL Chicago All Star Game: Kansas City 24, All Stars 3

Famous Birthday

• Christopher Nolan

  English film director.

• Beck (musician)
• Jason Orange

  UK pop singer and dancer (Take That).

• Charisma Carpenter

  American actress.

• Nikolaj Coster-Waldau

  TV Actor.

• Sinclair (singer)
• Bruno Salomone

  French actor and humourist of Sicilian and Belgian descent, he began in a troup ("Nous C Nous") with Jean Dujardin and other young...

• Justin Chambers

  American actor.

• Aure Atika

  Portuguese-French actress director and screenwriter.

• Mandy Smith
• Jonathan Zaccaï

  Belgian actor and recently film director, son of painter Sarah Kalisky.

• Anne-Elisabeth Lemoine
• Patrick Labbé
• Axelle Laffont
• Yancy Butler

  American actress.

• Sylvain Mirouf
• Ben Chaplin

  English actor.

• Teemu Selänne

  Finnish-American ice hockey player.

• John Simm

  British actor.

• Lee Byung-hun

  South Korean actor singer and dancer.

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Famous Deaths

• Barnett Newman

  American painter and etcher (d. 1970).

• Allen Lane [Williams]

  English publisher (Penguin Books), dies at 67.

• Antonio de Oliveira Salazar

  Portuguese statesman (Born 1889).

• John G B Barbirolli

  English conductor / composer, dies at 70.

• Claud Allister

  Actor (Kiss Me Kate, Quartet), dies at 81.

• Mikhail Gerasimov

  Russian anthropologist and sculptor (Born 1907).

• John Barbirolli

  English conductor (Born 1899).

• Sylvester Wiere

  comedian (Wiere Brothers-Ford Festival), dies at age 60.

• Louise Harrison

  mother of The Beatles' George Harrison, dies.

• Barry Wood

  singer (Your Hit Parade), dies at age 61.

• Harold Stirling Vanderbilt

  American industrialist (Born 1884).

• Iain Macleod

  English politician (Born 1913).

• Walter Briggs

  Jr.

• Bob Kalsu

  American football player and lieutenant (d. 1970).

• Jessie Street

  Australian civil rights activist, dies.

• Peter de Noronha

  Indian businessman and philanthropist (d. 1970).

• Bjarni Benediktsson

  Icelandic journalist and politician 13th Prime Minister of Iceland (d. 1970).

• George Szell

  Hungarian / US conductor (Cleveland Orch), dies at 73.

• Harold Vanderbilt

  America's Cup winner (1930, 1934, 1937), dies at age 85.

• George Johnston

  Australian journalist and novelist (Born 1912).

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Top #5 songs in the USA

1. The Jackson 5 - The Love You Save
2. Three Dog Night - Mama Told Me (Not To Come)
3. Carpenters - (They Long To Be) Close To You
4. Bread - Make It With You
5. The Temptations - Ball Of Confusion (That's What The World Is Today)

Top #5 songs in the UK

1. Mungo Jerry - In The Summertime
2. Christie - Yellow River
3. Free - All Right Now
4. Mr Bloe - Groovin' With Mr Bloe
5. Creedence Clearwater Revival - Up Around The Bend