November 1970 calendar

Events

• 01 Nov 1970 1st regular season Giants-Jets game, Giants win 22-10 at Shea
• 02 Nov 1970 Cleveland Cavaliers lose by biggest margin-54 points (Philadelphia 76ers 141-87).
• 03 Nov 1970 Bob Gibson wins NL Cy Young Award
• 04 Nov 1970 Russian nuclear physicist Sacharov forms Human Rights Comittee
• 05 Nov 1970 Vietnam War: The United States Military Assistance Command in Vietnam reports the lowest weekly American soldier death toll in five years (24).
• 06 Nov 1970 Boog Powell wins AL MVP
• 07 Nov 1970 Purlie closes at Broadway Theater NYC after 689 performances
• 08 Nov 1970 Tom Dempsey of New Orleans Saints kicks NFL record 63-yard field goal.
• 09 Nov 1970 Trial of Seattle 8 anti-war protesters begins
• 10 Nov 1970 2 by 2 opens at Imperial Theater NYC for 343 performances
• 11 Nov 1970 Baltimore Oriole Boog Powell wins AL MVP
• 12 Nov 1970 240 km/h cyclone hits East Pakistan (Bangladesh); 3-500,000 die
• 13 Nov 1970 Flooding ravages Ganges delta, 200,000-1 million killed
• 14 Nov 1970 DC-9 crashes in West Virginia, 75 killed
• 16 Nov 1970 The Lockheed L-1011 Tristar flies for the first time.
• 17 Nov 1970 British newspaper Sun puts 1st pinup girl on pg 3
• 18 Nov 1970 Joe Frazier KOs Bob Foster in 2 for heavyweight boxing title
• 19 Nov 1970 Golden Gate Park Conservatory becomes a California state historical landmark.
• 20 Nov 1970 UN General Assembly accepts membership of China PR
• 21 Nov 1970 New York Knicks' first game against Cleveland Cavaliers, Knicks win 102-94 at Madison Square Gardens, New York.
• 22 Nov 1970 Guinean president Sekou Toure accuses Portugal of an attack when hundreds of mercenaries land near the capital Conakry.
• 23 Nov 1970 KNCT TV channel 46 in Belton / Killeen, TX (PBS) begins broadcasting
• 24 Nov 1970 36th Heisman Trophy Award: Jim Plunkett, Stanford
• 25 Nov 1970 Yankees catcher Thurman Munson wins AL Rookie of Year
• 26 Nov 1970 B O Davis Sr, first American black general, dies at age 93 in Chicago, Illinois.
• 27 Nov 1970 Carl Morton (18-11 for last-place Expos), receives NL Rookie of Year
• 28 Nov 1970 58th CFL Grey Cup: Montreal Alouettes defeat Calgary Stampeders, 23-10
• 30 Nov 1970 George Harrison releases his triple album set All Things Must Pass

Famous Birthday

• Ylenia Carrisi

  Italian noted family, the first daughter of Romina Power and her husband Al Bano.

• Ethan Hawke

  Movie Actor.

• Bethenny Frankel

  American chef and television personality.

• Édouard Philippe
• Megyn Kelly

  American television news anchor.

• Tonya Harding

  American noted competition skater from age seven, winning her first national championship with a daring triple axel in 1991.

• Peta Wilson

  Australian model and actress.

• Isabelle Bouysse
• Chris Jericho

  Wrestler.

• Brooke Langton

  American actress.

• Tamzin Outhwaite

  English actress.

• John Amaechi

  American-British basketball player, a one-time guard for the Cleveland Cavaliers.

• Lorissa McComas

  Columbus, Ohio -- Actress (Lap Dancing, Vamp).

• Angelica Bridges
• Oded Fehr

  Israeli-American actor.

• Sabrina Lloyd

  American actress.

• Erik Menendez

  American homicide; the son of a wealthy video distributor with one older brother, Lyle.

• Julie Caignault
• Mirjam van Breeschooten
• Julieta Venegas

  Mexican singer.

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Famous Deaths

• Charles de Gaulle

  French military commander, politician, President of France (Born 1890).

• Yukio Mishima

  Japanese writer whose prolific output includes novels, short stories, plays and essays.

• Charles DeGaulle

  General / President France (Free French), dies at 79.

• Yusuf Bin Ishak

  President of Singapore 1965-70, dies at about 60.

• Evgeny Karlovich Tikotsky

  Composer, dies at 76.

• B O Davis Sr

  1st black General, dies at 93 in Chicago.

• Fritz v Unruh

  Writer, dies at 85.

• Jan Drda

  Czech Author (Nema Barikada), dies at 55.

• Robert Ruthenfranz

  Composer, dies at 65.

• William L Dawson

  American politician (Representative-Democrat-Illinois) dies at age 84.

• Hal Dickinson

  singer (Modernaires), dies at age 56.

• Agustin Lara

  Mexican composer and poet (Born 1897).

• Huw Thomas Edwards

  Welsh trade unionist and politician (Born 1892).

• Peter II

  Peter II of Portugal (d. 1706).

• Yusof bin Ishak

  Singaporean journalist and politician 1st President of Singapore (d. 1970).

• Richard Cushing

  cardinal and archbishop of Boston (Born 1895).

• Newsy Lalonde

  Canadian ice hockey player and lacrosse player (d. 1970).

• Naunton Wayne

  Actor (Dead of Night), dies at 69.

• Peter II Karadjordjevic

  Last King of Yugoslavia (1934-45), dies at 57.

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Top #5 songs in the USA

1. Jackson 5 - I'll Be There
2. The Partridge Family - I Think I Love You
3. Carpenters - We've Only Just Begun
4. Smokey Robinson - The Tears Of A Clown
5. James Taylor - Fire And Rain

Top #5 songs in the UK

1. Freda Payne - Band Of Gold
2. Jimi Hendrix Experience - Voodoo Chile
3. Matthew's Southern Comfort - Woodstock
4. Deep Purple - Black Night
5. Desmond Dekker - You Can Get It If You Really Want