1970

Soviet population 241.7 million
Soviet cosmonauts spend a record 17 days in orbit
Egyptian President Nasser dies, succeeded by Anwar Sadat
Muammar Khadafy becomes Premier of Libya
Fiji gains independence from Great Britain
Thor Heyerdahl sails the Ra II across the Atlantic
The Beatles "dis-band"

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U.S. Environmental Protection Agency created
U.S. troops invade Cambodia
Four students at Kent State University in Ohio killed during a demonstration protesting
Senate repeals Gulf of Tonkin resolution
Cigarette advertising banned from radio and television in US
Muhammed Ali returns to the ring
Neil Simon's "Last of the Red Hot Lovers"
Richard Bach's Jonathan Livingston Seagull
1st computer chess tournament
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Waterbeds
Songs - "Bridge Over Troubled Water", "Let it Be", "The Tears of a Clown", "My Sweet Lord"
Broadway - "Company", "Applause"
Films - "True Grit", "Catch-22", "Woodstock"
TV - "The Mary Tyler Moore Show", "The Odd Couple"
Mariah Carey, Jim Courier, Alonzo Mourning, River Phoenix, Gabriela Sabatini, Jennifer Lopez, and Andre Agassi born
Bertrand Russell, E.M. Forster, Vince Lombardi, Erich Maria Remarque, Charles deGaulle, Gypsy Rose Lee, Jimi Hendrix and Janice Joplin die