
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
- Floppy disk
- 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
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