• openly gay novelist Gordon Merrick's book The Lord Won't Mind spent 16 weeks on the New York Times best-seller list in 1970, at a time when most authors would not write about homosexual themes for a mass audience?
• the British Rail flying saucer was an unbuilt nuclear fusion powered space craft, proposed and patented in the 1970s by British Rail?
• the Sri Lanka National Pharmaceuticals Policy was established in the 1970s to ensure that Sri Lankans could get high-quality, reasonably priced medications at correct dosages, and later became a model for national drug policies worldwide?
• former National Hockey League rookie Michel Briere's career was tragically cut short following an automobile accident in 1970?
• former California representative Allan O. Hunter was appointed as the president and chairman of Fannie Mae by President Richard Nixon in 1970?
• Harold E. Martin, a newspaper publisher and editor, won a Pulitzer Prize for investigative reporting in 1970 and served for twenty years on the board of the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association?
• Typhoon Patsy (1970) was the deadliest tropical cyclone to strike Manila since the establishment of the Philippine Weather Bureau in 1865?
• despite wild differences in subject matter, 1970s Japanese science fiction television series Akumaizer 3 features frequent allusions to Alexander Dumas' famous novel The Three Musketeers?
• Dave Burrell's operatic live jazz album Windward Passages was his response to land development in Hawaii during the late 1970's?

Facts on topics related to 1970

1967

• conductor and Beethoven scholar Elliot Forbes led the Harvard Glee Club and Radcliffe Choral Society on a tour around the world in 1967?
• on Dagen H, or H Day, (Sunday September 3, 1967) at 5:00 am, Swedes switched from driving on the left to the right?
• the University Students' African Revolutionary Front was a political student group formed in 1967 at the University of Dar es Salaam in Tanzania?
• the song "Nights in White Satin," largely ignored on its first release in 1967, reached #2 on the Billboard Hot 100 when it was re-released in 1972?

1971

• motorcyclist Jo Siffert was killed in an end-of-season non-championship F1 race on October 24, 1971 at Brands Hatch?
• Chandra Prakash Mainali, who led an armed Maoist revolt in eastern Nepal in 1971, later served as Minister of Local Development in 1994-95?
• Sheffield Wednesday Ladies F.C. were formed at the Star Inn public house in Rotherham during 1971 following a charity match between men and women at the pub?
• Suhrawardy Udyan in Dhaka was the scene of Mujibur Rahman's historic speech on March 7, 1971 that eventually led to Bangladesh's Liberation War?
• the 1971 Harley-Davidson Super Glide, the first factory custom motorcycle, used an Electra Glide frame mated to Sportster forks?
• the Bangladeshi musician and composer Samar Das, who composed over 2,000 songs and was the music director of over 50 films, also played a prominent role in the Bangladesh Liberation War in 1971?
• the Turkish military coup of 1971 is known as the Coup by Memorandum?
• the Occupational Safety and Health Act went into effect in the United States on April 28, 1971, the same day as Workers' Memorial Day?
• the only international cricket in South Africa between 1971 and 1981 comprised 6 private tours and 1 women's test match, because no test match playing nation was willing to tour the country because of its apartheid policy?
• the upcoming British film Hippie Hippie Shake by Beeban Kidron, which follows the 1971 obscenity trial of the Australian editor Richard Neville of satirical magazine Oz, was in development hell for nearly ten years?

1966

• Phil Spector considered the song "River Deep - Mountain High", his 1966 production for Ike & Tina Turner, his best work, despite its commercial failure in the United States?
• Wite-Out correction fluid was invented in 1966?
• the Beaumont Children disappeared without a trace from a beach near Adelaide, Australia in 1966?

1972

• John Ritter made one of his first film appearances in the 1972 horror film The Other?
• soul singer Bettye Lavette's album Souvenirs was recorded in 1972, but was shelved by Atlantic Records until a French music collector discovered it and released it in 2000, sparking a continuing surge of interest in the singer?
• Arnold Miller defeated W.A. "Tony" Boyle in 1972 for the presidency of the United Mine Workers of America after Boyle murdered union reformer Joseph Yablonski?
• Frank Fulco, a Democratic member of the Louisiana House of Representatives between 1956 and 1972, was once honored on his House floor by the government of Italy for his long involvement in Italian American causes?
• Ralph Fasanella was pumping gas for money in 1972 when featured on the cover of New York Magazine as "...the best primitive painter since Grandma Moses"?
• C is for Cookie is a song by Joe Raposo, first performed on Sesame Street by Cookie Monster on March 28, 1972?
• in the 1972 census there were an estimated 580,000 Jamnapari goats in India?
• the 1972 case of Yvonne Wanrow, a Colville Indian, charged with the murder of a child molester, brought about changes in U.S. criminal law as it affects women and Native Americans?
• the University of Arkansas owns SEFOR, a highly contaminated experimental research nuclear reactor that was deactived in 1972?
• the founders of the Communist League in Denmark, had departed from the Left Socialists in 1972 even though they had been in majority in that party?

1965

• Bob Dylan's infamous performance of "Maggie's Farm" at the 1965 Newport Folk Festival was seen by his band's organist Al Kooper as "sort of a disaster"?
• Indonesian women's rights organisation Gerwani was banned when General Suharto became President in 1965?
• Democrats Abroad began with two small committees in London and Paris in 1965, and has grown to be a large international organization?
• Teatro Campesino or "farmworkers theater" began perfoming in 1965 on flat bed trucks in the fields with the United Farm Workers in Delano, California and still puts on performances today?
• American activist Nelson Cruikshank is considered the most important non-legislator responsible for the enactment of the U.S. Social Security Disability Insurance in 1956 and Medicare in 1965?
• the Havengore is a ceremonial vessel that was used to carry the body of Winston Churchill during his state funeral on 30 January 1965?
• when the Toledo Harbor Lighthouse was automated with solar cells by the United States Coast Guard in 1965, it was staffed by a uniformed mannequin officer in order to prevent vandalism?

1969

• Boston Red Sox pitcher Mike Nagy was selected as American League rookie pitcher of the year in 1969, but never pitched another full season due to injury?
• Prince Charles was created Prince of Wales and Earl of Chester in 1958, though his actual investiture did not take place until 1 July 1969?
• "I Want You Back", the 1969 debut single by The Jackson 5, was originally intended for both Gladys Knight & the Pips and Diana Ross, and has been sampled by Blackstreet, Jay-Z, and Lil' Romeo?
• American Zoetrope was originally housed in a warehouse in San Francisco in 1969?
• capital punishment in the Vatican City was legal (but not carried out) between 1929 and 1969?
• Charles S. Joelson resigned from the United States House of Representatives on September 4, 1969 in order to become a judge in the New Jersey Superior Court?
• in 1969 noted writer Norman Mailer ran for Mayor of New York City advocating New York City secession?
• on Christmas Eve 1969, when California lawyer and noted political activist Ricardo Cruz was a law student at Loyola Law School, he was arrested for leading a march of several hundred demonstrators protesting the newly constructed, $4 million St. Basil's Cathedral?
• on December 26 and 27, 1969 during the War of Attrition the elite special forces unit Sayeret Matkal kidnapped a whole Egyptian P-12 radar system in a mission called Operation Rooster 53?

1973

• Benjamin Franklin's letter Advice to a Friend on Choosing a Mistress was cited in a 1973 United States Supreme Court opinion by justice William O. Douglas?
• Harley Parker, in 1973, was selected to be the first William A. Kern Institute Professor of Communications at the Rochester Institute of Technology, in Rochester, New York?
• Dr. Ibrahim Oweiss, Georgetown University economics professor, coined the term "petrodollars" to describe the US dollar income of oil-producing countries in 1973?
• Noah W. Cross, sheriff of Concordia Parish, Louisiana, from 1944–1973, was forced to resign upon a perjury conviction in U.S. District Court in Alexandria?
• Tropical Storm Larry caused five deaths and US$53.6 million in damage when it struck the Tabasco state of Mexico, the first landfall in the state since 1973?
• The Mississippi Rag has been reporting on traditional jazz and ragtime music since 1973?
• in 1973, an experiment successfully demonstrated that spiders can spin webs in space?
• on December 17, 1973 Pan Am Flight 110 was attacked by six gunmen of the Abu Nidal Organization at Leonardo Da Vinci International Airport in Rome?
• the Busette, in 1973, was the first successful small school bus to be built on a cutaway van chassis with a low center of gravity and dual rear wheels?
• the Leo J. Ryan Federal Building, which opened in 1973, was named in honor of Congressman Leo J. Ryan, the first and only United States Congressman to die in the line of duty?

1968

• Robert L. Howard received his Congressional Medal of Honor while part of a Hatchet Force operating near the Laos–Cambodia border during the Vietnam War in 1968?
• labor leader Victor Kamber created playing cards with public figures in 1968 and the "Rappin' Ronnie" music video depicting a rapping Ronald Reagan in 1984?
• John Brown's Fort in Harpers Ferry, West Virginia, was built there in 1848, moved to Chicago in 1891, and then returned to its original site in 1968?
• Pat "Gravy" Patterson, the head coach of the Louisiana Tech University from 1968 to 1990, was the winningest baseball coach in the state's history?
• a Jacksnipe is a two-man racing sailing dinghy created in 1968 by prolific boat designer Jack Holt?
• on September 29, 1968 a global horizontal sounding technique superpressure balloon became the first balloon to fly for a full year?
• on 28 November 1968 the Finnish ferries MS Ilmatar and MS Botnia collided in the Åland archipelago, resulting in the death of six people?
• the largest earthquake ever recorded in the U.S. state of Illinois took place at approximately 11:02 a.m. on November 9, 1968?
• the Florida Education Association led the first statewide teachers' strike in American history in 1968?
• the National Black Law Students Association was formed to serve the needs and goals of black law students in 1968 and is one of the the largest student organizations in the United States?

1975

• footballer Alan Taylor scored two goals in the quarter final, two goals in the semi final and two goals in the final of the 1975 FA Cup as his club West Ham United won the competition?
• public broadcasting in New Zealand of color television began in 1975?
• J.M. Legard's 2006 novel Giraffe is based on the real-life mass killing of giraffes at the zoo in the Czechoslovakian town of Dvůr Králové nad Labem on the night of 30 April 1975?
• in 1975 a freak Typhoon caused the Banqiao Dam in China's Henan Province to fail, killing over 200,000 people?
• in 1975 a freak typhoon caused the Banqiao Dam in China's Henan Province to fail, killing over 200,000 people?
• the 1975 U.S. Supreme Court case NLRB v. J. Weingarten, Inc. allowed all workers in unionized workplaces to have a union representative present during management inquiries that might result in discipline?
• the Angolan War of Independence lasted from 1961 until 1989, even though Portugal left Angola in 1975?
• the Satellite Instructional Television Experiment, launched in 1975, was one of the first demonstrations that showed the potential of satellite technology as an effective mass communication media?

2004

• 1985's only super typhoon, Super Typhoon Dot, is the sixth-most intense tropical cyclone in terms of wind speed to affect Bicol Region, Philippines between 1947 and 2004?
• Foreigner vocalist Lou Gramm survived a brain tumor in 1997 and completed a tour with his new band in 2004?
• Evan Taubenfeld was Avril Lavigne's lead guitarist from Spring 2002 to September 2004?
• Hubie Brown resigned as coach from the Memphis Grizzlies on Thanksgiving Day 2004?
• Rumaisa Rahman, born prematurely in Chicago on September 19, 2004, was 8 inches (20 cm) long and weighed 8½ oz. (244 g) at birth?
• Bend It Like Beckham was a crowd favorite at the ninth Pyongyang Film Festival in 2004?
• a Fairchild C-119 Flying Boxcar was used in the 2004 movie The Flight of the Phoenix?
  
• an Ivorian air attack in 2004 which killed 9 and wounded 37 French soldiers on a UN peacekeeping mission in Côte d'Ivoire prompted a retaliation that annihilated the Air Force of Côte d'Ivoire on the same day?
• at 67 years old, Elias Syriani was the oldest person executed in the United States since James Hubbard was executed by Alabama at the age of 74 in 2004?
• in 2004, the world spent US$896,235 million on military expenditures and the U.S. military budget constituted 41 percent of this, placing the nation at the top of the list of countries by military expenditures?

1976

• Leonid Kadeniuk, the first astronaut of the independent Ukraine, made his first space flight on NASA's space shuttle Columbia in 1997, and had been training for such a mission since 1976?
• The Springboro Star Press is a weekly newspaper in southwestern Ohio published since 1976?
• former New Jersey Representative Henry Helstoski was charged with receiving bribes from illegal aliens in 1976?
• land under cultivation has grown from under 400,000 acres in 1976 to more than eight million acres in 1993 thanks to the irrigation in Saudi Arabia?
• the state of emergency, enforced by the enactment of Emergency Powers Act 1939 to help maintain Irish neutrality during World War II, was not rescinded until 1 September 1976?
• the Zagreb mid-air collision over Croatia in 1976 was one of the deadliest mid-air collisions?
• the Argo Merchant, a derelict oil tanker, ran aground only 25 miles off Nantucket Island in 1976, causing one of the largest oil spills in history?
• the world's longest lasting lightbulb is 105 years old and has burnt continuously since 1976?