September 1970 calendar

Events

• 01 Sep 1970 Failed assassination attempt on Jordanian King Hussain
• 02 Sep 1970 1st tennis tie break at a Grand Slam
• 03 Sep 1970 After NL record 1,117 consecutive games, Billy Williams asks to sit out
• 04 Sep 1970 Russian ballerina Natalia Makarova gets political asylum
• 05 Sep 1970 Estimated 15 cm (6 inches) of rainfall, Bug Point, Utah (state record).
• 06 Sep 1970 New York Met Tommy Agee hits for the cycle
• 07 Sep 1970 PLO hijacks 4 planes
• 08 Sep 1970 Hijacking (and subsequent destruction) of three airliners to Jordan by Palestinians; the events to follow would later become known as Black September
• 09 Sep 1970 Bowie Kuhn suspends Denny McLain for carrying a gun
• 11 Sep 1970 The Ford Pinto automobile is introduced.
• 12 Sep 1970 1st Concorde lands at Heathrow airport
• 13 Sep 1970 1st NYC Marathon won by Gary Muhrcke in 2:31:38
• 14 Sep 1970 Stevie Miracle marries Rita Wright, [Syreeta]
• 15 Sep 1970 PLO leader Arafat threatens to make a cemetery of Jordan
• 16 Sep 1970 Jordan King Hussein forms military government
• 17 Sep 1970 Jordan launches offensive against guerrilla army
• 18 Sep 1970 Jimi Hendrix dies in London of drug related complications.
• 19 Sep 1970 Mary Tyler Moore show premieres
• 20 Sep 1970 Jim Morrison found not guilty of lewd behavior
• 21 Sep 1970 Monday Night Football premieres on ABC - Browns 31, Jets 21
• 22 Sep 1970 US President Richard Nixon requests 1,000 new FBI agents for college campuses.
• 23 Sep 1970 Abdul Razak bin Hussain becomes Premier of Malaysia
• 24 Sep 1970 Soviet Luna 16 lands on earth after 1st unmanned round trip to moon
• 25 Sep 1970 Ringo releases his Beaucoups of Blues album
• 26 Sep 1970 Judy Rankin wins LPGA Lincoln-Mercury Golf Open
• 27 Sep 1970 Ken Boswell sets second baseman record of 85 games without an error.
• 28 Sep 1970 Words & Music, debuts on NBC-TV
• 29 Sep 1970 NET Festival, last aired
• 30 Sep 1970 New American Bible published

Famous Birthday

• Cécile de Ménibus
• Anne Le Nen
• Taraji P Henson

  American actress and singer.

• Kushboo (actress)
• Ninel Conde
• Emmanuel Petit

  French soccer player, a super champ with his scoring of the third goal in the World Cup final on 7/12/1998, St. Denis, France.

• Ani Difranco
• Aisha Tyler

  American actress and comedian.

• Ione Skye

  British-born American actress, she was born to unwed parents.

• Padma Lakshmi

  Indian-American actress and author.

• Ulrika Ericsson
• Michela Rocco di Torrepadula
• Stéphane Guivarc'h
• Sheri Moon
• Tamara Taylor

  American actress.

• Jean-François Piège

  French chef, two stars at the Guide Michelin.

• Russell Peters

  Canadian comedian, he has toured internationally giving sold-out performances.

• Eric Sadin
• Natasha Gregson Wagner

  American actress and noted family, the daughter of actress Natalie Wood and her second husband, producer Richard Gregson.

• Thomas Jouannet
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Famous Deaths

• Jimi Hendrix

  American musician, singer and guitarist who became a rock superstar.

• Bourvil

  French actor and singer best known for his roles in comedy films, most notably in his collaboration with Louis de Funès in the films Le...

• Vince Lombardi

  Football coach (Packers), dies at 57 in Washington, DC.

• Jochen Rindt

  German-Austrian race car driver (Born 1942).

• Al Wilson

  "Blind Owl", guitarist / vocalist (Canned Heat), dies at 27.

• Erich M Remarque

  German writer (Im West Nichts Neues), dies at 72.

• John Roderigo Dos Passos

  US writer (Manhattan Transfer), dies at 74.

• Patrick Aherne

  Actor (Bwana Devil, Botany Bay), dies at 69.

• Alan ''Blind Owl'' Wilson

  American singer and gutarist (Canned Heat) (Born 1943).

• Percy Spencer

  inventor of the microwave oven, (Born 1894).

• Gamal Abdel Nasser

  Egyptian statesman (Born 1918).

• Jochen Rindt

  German race car driver.

• Francois Mauriac

  French writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b.

• Allan Walker

  Actor / writer (Red Buttons Show), dies at 64.

• John Dos Passos

  American novelist (Born 1896).

• Edward Everett Horton

  Actor / narrator (Bulwinkle Show), dies at 84.

• Cornelis L "Kees" van Baaren

  Dutch Composer (Hollow Men), dies at 63.

• Chester Morris

  Actor (Diagnosis: Unknown), dies at 69.

• James M Taylor

  USAF / Astronaut, dies at 39.

• Rudolph Carnap

  German philosopher / mathematician, dies at 79.

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Top #5 songs in the USA

1. Edwin Starr - War
2. Diana Ross - Ain't No Mountain High Enough
3. Creedence Clearwater Revival - Lookin' Out My Back Door
4. Bread - Make It With You
5. Mungo Jerry - In The Summertime

Top #5 songs in the UK

1. Elvis Presley - The Wonder Of You
2. Smokey Robinson & The Miracles - Tears Of A Clown
3. Hotlegs - Neanderthal Man
4. Freda Payne - Band Of Gold
5. The Kinks - Lola