October 1970 calendar

Events

• 01 Oct 1970 63 arrest in riot to buy Rolling Stone tickets in Milano Italy
• 02 Oct 1970 Plane carrying Wichita State University football team crashes killing 30.
• 03 Oct 1970 Coco closes at Mark Hellinger Theater NYC after 333 performances
• 04 Oct 1970 Kansas City Chiefs Jan Stenerud kicks 55-yard field goal
• 05 Oct 1970 John Creach, joins Jefferson Airplane
• 07 Oct 1970 General Juan José Torres becomes the new President of Bolivia.
• 08 Oct 1970 Soviet author Alexander I Solzhenitsyn awarded Nobel Prize for Literature.
• 09 Oct 1970 Khmer Republic (Cambodia) declares independence.
• 10 Oct 1970 Fiji gains independence from Britain (National Day).
• 11 Oct 1970 Eleven French soldiers are killed in a shootout with rebels in Chad.
• 12 Oct 1970 Rock Memorabilia Auction at Filmore East
• 13 Oct 1970 Angela Davis arrested in New York City
• 14 Oct 1970 4th Country Music Association Award: Merle Haggard wins
• 15 Oct 1970 Bridge over Yarra River in Melbourne crashes; killing 35
• 16 Oct 1970 In response to the October Crisis terrorist kidnapping, Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau of Canada invokes the War Measures Act.
• 17 Oct 1970 Anwar Sadat sworn in as President of Egypt
• 18 Oct 1970 Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Quality Chekd Golf Classic
• 19 Oct 1970 Rothschilds opens at Lunt-Fontanne Theater NYC for 505 performances
• 20 Oct 1970 American Norman Borlaug awarded the Nobel Peace Prize
• 21 Oct 1970 Nobel prize of peace awarded to Norman E Borlaugh
• 22 Oct 1970 Chilean army commander René Schneider is shot in Santiago the government declares a state of emergency. Schneider dies October 25.
• 23 Oct 1970 Gary Gabelich sets a land speed record in a rocket-powered automobile called the Blue Flame, fueled with natural gas.
• 24 Oct 1970 Nancy Walker creates Ida Morgenstein role on Mary Tyler Moore Show
• 25 Oct 1970 The wreck of the Confederate submarine ''Hunley'' is found off Charleston, South Carolina, by pioneer underwater archaeologist, Dr. E. Lee Spence, Cover Story: Time Capsule From The Sea ampndash ''U.S. News amp World Report'', July 2–9, 2007 then just 22 years old. ''Hunley'' was the first submarine in history to sink a ship in warfare.
• 26 Oct 1970 Doonesbury comic strip debuts in 28 newspapers.
• 27 Oct 1970 Light, Lively & Yiddish opens at Belasco Theater NYC for 87 performances
• 28 Oct 1970 US / USSR sign an agreement to discuss joint space efforts
• 29 Oct 1970 WYEA (now WLTZ) TV channel 38 in Columbus, Georgia (NBC) 1st broadcast
• 30 Oct 1970 KVEW TV channel 42 in Kennewick, WA (ABC) begins broadcasting

Famous Birthday

• Matt Damon

  American actor, the author of a movie script that he and his buddy, actor Ben Affleck, wrote for themselves, called "Good Will Hunting.

• Kelly Ripa

  American actress, talk show host and television producer.

• Savannah (pornographic actress)
• Nia Long

  Brooklyn, New York -- Actress (Guiding Light, Made in America, Soul Food).

• Linn Berggren

  Swedish singer-songwriter and producer (Ace of Base).

• Amy Jo Johnson

  American actress and singer.

• Kirk Cameron

  American actor, best known for his role as the wholesome son on the popular ABC sitcom, "Growing Pains.

• Soon-Yi Previn

  Korean American actress.

• Bibiana Perez

  Italian skier, competed in the Olympics at Albertville February 1992.

• Frédérique Courtadon
• Daniela Peštová

  Czech model and actress.

• Adam Goldberg

  American actor, director, producer, and musician.

• Chely Wright

  American singer-songwriter and actress.

• Frédéric Kowal
• Jasmin St Claire
• Chris Kattan

  American comedian and actor.

• Maribel Verdú

  Spanish actress and singer.

• Paul Potts

  British opera singer.

• Josie Bissett

  American actress.

• Louis Koo

  Hong Kong actor and singer.

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Famous Deaths

• Janis Joplin

  American singer and rock-star of the hippie years whose style of singing was a cross between blues and larynx-shredding, carefully rehearsed...

• Petar Konjovic

  Composer, dies at 87.

• Alfred Julius Swan

  Composer, dies at 79.

• Anders Bo Leif Linde

  Composer, dies at 37.

• George Frederick McKay

  Composer, dies at 71.

• Lucien Goldmann

  Romanian / French sociologist / philosopher.

• Adam Rapacki

  Polish Minister of Maritime (1956-68), dies at 60.

• Baby Huey [James Ramey]

  Vocalist (Baby Huey & Babysitters).

• Eduardo Lopez-Chavarri y Marco

  Composer, dies at 99.

• John T Scopes

  US teacher (Scopes "monkey trial" 1925), dies at 70.

• Patrick Wymark

  Actor (Skull, Tomb of Ligeia), dies at 44.

• Mustafa Zaidi

  Pakistani poet (Born 1930).

• Lazaro Cardenas

  President of Mexico (Born 1895).

• Baby Huey

  American soul singer (Born 1944).

• Julia Culp

  Dutch mezzo-soprano internationally-celebrated in the years 1901–1919 and known as the "Dutch nightingale.

• Edouard Daladier

  Premier of France (1933.

• Mitr Chaibancha

  Thai actor and producer (d. 1970).

• Raoul Riganti

  Argentinian race car driver (d. 1970).

• Pierre Laporte

  Canadian journalist lawyer and politician (d. 1970).

• Anis Fuleihan

  Cypriot-American pianist composer and conductor (d. 1970).

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Top #5 songs in the USA

1. Diana Ross - Ain't No Mountain High Enough
2. Neil Diamond - Cracklin' Rosie
3. Jackson 5 - I'll Be There
4. Creedence Clearwater Revival - Lookin' Out My Back Door
5. Carpenters - We've Only Just Begun

Top #5 songs in the UK

1. Smokey Robinson & The Miracles - Tears Of A Clown
2. Freda Payne - Band Of Gold
3. Deep Purple - Black Night
4. Elvis Presley - The Wonder Of You
5. Desmond Dekker - You Can Get It If You Really Want