1970

World flags in 1970

1970 (MCMLXX) was a common year beginning on a Thursday according to the Gregorian calendar, declared International Year of Education by the United Nations Organization.

It is also used as a time reference in UNIX environments and in some programming languages such as Java Script, known as 'POSIX Time.'

Events

January

• January 1st: Mexico founded the Club Universidad de Guadalajara.
• January 5: U.S. television network ABC begins to broadcast the soap opera All My Childrenwhich would last until 2011.
  • A 7.1 earthquake shakes the Chinese county of Tonghai by killing 10,000 people.
• 7 January: first aerial kidnapping in Spain, carried out by an 18-year-old Mariano Ventura Rodríguez in Zaragoza.
• 12 January: in Umuhaia (Nigeria) the last two-year troops surrender. The Nigerian civil war is over.
• January 29: in Chile the first edition of the Huaso de Olmué Festival is held.

February

• 1 February: 236 people die in the collision between two trains near the Argentine town of Benavídez (Province of Buenos Aires). It's the country's greatest ferro-traged tragedy.
• 2 February: in a neurosurgical clinic in Munich (German Federal Republic) the first human nerve transplant in the history of medicine is successfully performed.
• February 3: U.S. Boxer Mohammed Ali (ex Cassius Clay), a world champion of heavyweights, announces his definitive withdrawal from boxing.
• February 3: In Rodesia the white minority of this British Crown colony proclaims the Republic and the new constitution.
• 4 February: the construction of the Soviet city of Prípiat begins, which in the future will be abandoned due to the Chernobyl accident.
• 5 February: In The Hague, the Permanent Court of International Justice rejects the demand of the Belgian government against that of Spain in the dispute they hold on the matter of the company ayuPower Company Limited.
• 9 February: In Russia, Palestinian leader Yasir Arafat visits Moscow.
• 10 February: in France, an alud reaches the winter sports center of Val d'Isère and causes 39 dead.
• 10 February: Spain purchases 30 Mirage III aircraft from France.
• 13 February: In Argentina a decree of the Ministry of the Interior submits all private radio and television stations to government control.
• February 13: British heavy metal band Black Sabbath launches its first album.
• February 18: The Spanish Supreme Court cancels the suspension file of the newspaper El Alcázar.
• February 20: Chile signs a trade agreement with Cuba, despite the OAS ban.
• 21 February: at Würenlingen, Switzerland, a Swissair company plane crashes near the nuclear power station, with a balance of 47 dead.
• February 23: in Georgetown, Guyana, the British Governor General proclaims the birth of the Cooperative Republic of Guyana, with Sir Edward Luckhoo as President.

March

• March 1: The Austrian Social Democratic Party wins a broad victory in the legislative elections.
• March 1st: In Chile, the news programme Teletrece, produced by Universidad Católica de Chile TV, began its broadcasts.
• 8 March: In Cyprus, a frustrated attack was committed against Archbishop Makarios, President of the Republic.
• March 15: Mexico is third in the Second Festival of Latin Song, by The sad, composed by Roberto Cantoral and interpreted by José José.
• March 10: the outstanding painter Pablo Picasso makes a donation (of ninety works of his) to the city of Barcelona.
• 21 March: in Amsterdam, the theme All Kinds of Everything of Dana gives victory to Ireland in the 15th Edition of Eurovision.
• March 23: In Cambodia, King Norodom Sihanouk (after being dismissed) asked his subjects to go to the resistance against the government of the Khmer Republic, led by Lon Nol.
• 28 March: in Turkey, an earthquake of 6.9 leaves a balance of more than 1,000 dead and 1,200 wounded.

April

• April 6: In Guatemala, the ambassador of Federal Germany Von Spreti is murdered.
• April 10: Paul McCartney announces the separation of The Beatles.
• April 11: United States launches Apollo 13. Subsequently, such a ship would suffer serious technical problems that forced its mission to abort and return to Earth.
• April 11: In Mexico City, the second Chapultepec-Juanacatlán section of Mexico City Metro Line 1 was opened, with the first expansion of the system to be opened.
• April 17: Paul McCartney launches a solo debut album entitled McCartney.
• April 19: In Colombia, elections are held that, in the face of a supposed fraud, will give rise to the 19 April Movement.
• April 20: Mexico founded the city of Cancun.
• 22 April: first time the day of the earth was celebrated.
• April 27: In Paris a patient is placed the first heart pacemaker that works with plutonium.
• April 30: American and South Vietnamese troops invade Cambodia.

May

• May 4: Massacre of Kent State University, Ohio.
• 8 May: in Costa Rica, José Figueres Ferrer assumes for the third time (second time democratically) the Presidency of the Republic.
  • in London (England) launches the Let it be album of The Beatles The last one after his separation in April of this same year
• 14 May: in Germany the Rote Armee Fraktion is established.
• May 16: In the Dominican Republic, Joaquín Balaguer is elected president for the third time.
• May 17: In the United States, for the first time in the history of the U.S. armed forces, two women are promoted to the rank of general by Richard Nixon.
• May 18: In Mexico, the Mexican army killed guerrilla leader Marco Antonio Yon Sosa after his capture.
• May 19: In Nepal, on the mountain range of the Himalayas, the Japanese alpineist Junko Tabei successfully reached the top of Annapurna III.
• May 31: Opening of the 9th Edition of the 1970 World Cup in Mexico City (for the first time in Mexico).
  • In Peru, there is an earthquake of 7.9 that burns the northern part of Áncash and causes floods in Yungay and Huaraz, leaving a balance of 70,000 dead.

June

• June 1st: In Argentina, the armed group Montoneros murders exdictator Pedro Eugenio Aramburu.
• 2 June: New Zealand pilot Bruce McLaren died in accident.
• June 4: El Salvador and Honduras sign an agreement in San José de Costa Rica that puts an end to the Football War.
• 4 June: Tonga is independent of the British Empire.
• June 8: In the United States, Abraham Maslow dies, the American psychologist known as one of the founders and principal exponents of humanistic psychology.
• June 19: In the UK, Edward Heath became prime minister.
• 21 June: in Mexico City (Mexico) Ends the 1970 World Cup Soccer, Brazil is Champion for the third time after winning Italy for a 4-1 score.
• June 26: in Buenos Aires (Argentina)—in the framework of the dictatorship of Alejandro Agustín Lanusse—the Viamonte Credit Cooperative enters into a fraudulent bankruptcy and scams all of its hangers.
• June 27: in City Hall of Truro, the Queen band performs its first concert.

July

• 3 July: in the Montseny mountain range, near Arbucias (Gerona, Spain), a DeHavilland Comet IV plane from the DAN-AIR company, coming from Manchester (United Kingdom) to Barcelona is crashed. All occupants die (105 passengers, 5 crew members and 2 pilots).
• July 5: Luis Echeverría Álvarez wins the 1970 presidential elections in Mexico.
• 21 July: in Granada, in a confrontation with the police, three construction workers die during a demonstration motivated by labour problems.
• July 31: Colombia has an earthquake of 8.0 that leaves a deceased and several wounded.

August

• August 1st: the first Tasqueña-Pino Suárez section of Mexico City Metro Line 2 is opened.
• August 7: In Colombia, Misael Pastrana takes office as president.
• August 12: in France, the Paris Saint Germain football club is created.
• August 14: In Arequipa (Peru), the Convent of Santa Catalina, which would become one of the main tourist attractions of that city, is open to the public after centuries.
• 16 August: in Panama City, at 6:40 a.m., an earthquake of 7.8 degrees occurs, leaving 9000 dead and 50 000 wounded.
• August 16: In the Dominican Republic, Joaquín Balaguer took office as president for the third time.
• August 19: in Italy the XXXI Exhibition of Venice dedicates a retrospective to the actor Harry Langdon (1884-1944).

• August 24: In Bangkok, Thailand, the VI Asian Games begin.
• August 29: On the island of Wight (in Great Britain) there is a pop festival that includes more than 250,000 people.
• August 31: in Peru, President Velasco Alvarado nationalizes the main banks.

September

• 4 September: in Chile, the politician Salvador Allende, candidate of the Popular Unity, wins the victory by a simple majority (36.3 %) in the presidential election.
• September 4th: In Bangkok, Thailand, the VI Asian Games culminate.
• September 5: in Monza, Italy, Jochen Rindt suffers a fatal accident during the trainings for the Italian Grand Prix. The pilot wins posthumously the Formula 1 World Championship.
• September 7th: Mexico's news show is broadcast for the first time 24 hours led by Jacobo Zabludovsky
• 13 September: in Jordan, a group of Arab guerrillas take over three passenger planes to New York (USA) and dynamite them one by one.
• September 13: In the United States, Australian Margaret Court-Smith won at the Open, ensuring her victory at the Grand Slam.
• 14 September: the second Pino Suárez-Tacuba stage of Line 2 of Mexico City Metro is opened.
• September 18: In London (United Kingdom) the American rock guitarist Jimi Hendrix (27) died because of an ethyl poisoning.

October

• 4 October: American folk singer Janis Joplin dies from drug overdose.
• October 7: in Bolivia, Juan José Torres González assumes the presidency of the country.
• October 10: Fiyi is independent of the British Empire.
• 10, 11 and 12 October: in Chile is the Festival Piedra Roja.
• October 14: The TV program Chespirito is inaugurated on the Mexican Telesystem channel.
• October 15: In Egypt, Anwar el Sadat became the new president as successor to the deceased Abd el Nasser.
• October 16: In Canada, Prime Minister Robert Bourassa declared the state of insurrection after two terrorist kidnappings in the events known as the October crisis.
• October 20: in Ecuador, President José María Velasco Ibarra opened the first Naval Liceo, supported by the Navy of Ecuador.
• October 22: The Metropolitan University is inaugurated in Venezuela.
• October 26: in three different holes, 118 meters underground, in the U3h area of the Nevada atomic testing site (about 100 km northwest of the city of Las Vegas), at 6:30 (local time) United States detonates its atomic bombs Truchas-Chacón (1), Truchas-Chamisal (2) and Truchas-Rodarte (3), of about 8 kt each. It is the bombs No. 709, 710 and 711 of the 1129 that the United States detonated between 1945 and 1992.

November

• November 3: in Santiago (Chile) the Socialist Salvador Allende is elected to the presidency through the popular vote
• 7 November: in Madrid, Spain, radioactive escape occurs from a civic-military nuclear research complex that contaminates the Manzanares, Jarama and Tajo rivers.
• 13 November: In Syria, after a coup, Hafez al-Asad assumes the presidency of the country.
• 13 November: in East Pakistan (now Bangladés), the tropical cyclone Bhola, with speeds of 193 km/h strikes the densely populated region of the Ganges Delta. It is estimated that it killed half a million people (considered the worst cyclonic disaster of the 20th century).
• November 14th: Near Tri-State Airport (United States) crashes the plane leading American football players from the University of Marshall, leaving a balance of 75 dead.
• November 20: In Mexico City, as part of the celebrations of the 60th anniversary of the Mexican Revolution, the third section of Line 1 of the Metro that now goes to the Tacubaya station and the first Tlolco-Hospital stretch of Line 3 of Mexico City Metro is launched.
• 25 November: In Japan, the writer Yukio Mishima committed suicide through the technique of seppuku.
• 26 November: Grand Cul-de-Sac Bay, on Saint Barts Island (San Bartolomé, Guadalupe) records the record of maximum rainfall in a single minute: 38 mm.

December

• December 1st: in Mexico, Luis Echeverría Álvarez takes office as president. To his inauguration in the National Auditorium are attended by former members Miguel Alemán, Emilio Portes Gil and Adolfo Ruiz Cortines.
• 3 December: in two separate tunnels (490 meters from each other) 241 meters deep, in the U3hr and U3ha areas of the Nevada atomic testing site (about 110 km northwest of the city of Las Vegas), at 7:07 (local time), the United States simultaneously detonates its Carrizozo atomic bombs (with less than 20 kt) and Heart (from 0.1 kt). It is the 714 and 715 of the 1129 bombs that the United States detonated between 1945 and 1992.
• 7 December: The Warsaw Treaty with the German Federal Republic is signed in Poland.
• 9 December: on the border between Ecuador and Peru an earthquake of 7.1 leaves 81 dead.
• 10 December: In Stockholm, Sweden, researchers of nuclear fusion and ferromagnetic Hannes Olof Gösta Alfvén from Sweden and Louis Néel from France receive the Nobel Prize in Physics.
• December 10: In Norway, Argentine Luis Leloir is awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for research on the interconversion of simple carbohydrates into complexes. American acronym researcher Norman Borlaug receives the Nobel Peace Prize for development in high productivity wheat variations.
• December 11: John Lennon launches his first solo album: John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band
• December 16: The film Love Story of the Canadian Arthur Hiller is released.
• December 23: In Peru, the military government of General Velasco grants a total amnesty for prisoners for crimes qualified as political and social.
• December 23: The construction of the North Tower (WTC 1) of the World Trade Center in New York, United States.

Births

January

• January 2: Sanda Ladoşi, Romanian singer.
• January 5: Mauricio Barcelata, Mexican actor and presenter.
• 6 January:
  • Leonardo Astrada, Argentine coach and former footballer.
  • Gerald Chadfeau, New Zealand Yudoca.
• 7 January:
  • Rogelio Frigerio, an Argentine economist and politician.
  • João Ricardo, Angolan footballer.
• January 9: Tonino Carotone, Spanish singer.
• January 10: Eduardo Cabito Massa Alcántara, Argentine humorist.
• January 13: Marco Pantani, Italian cyclist (f. 2004).
• January 14: Fazıl Say, pianist and Turkish composer.
• January 15: Shane McMahon, American professional fighter.

Silvia Giorguli Saucedo

• January 18: Silvia Giorguli Saucedo, a Mexican sociologist and academic.
• 21 January: Alen Bokšić, Croatian footballer.
• January 22: Abraham Olano, Spanish cyclist.
• 24 January:
  • Matthew Lillard, American actor.
  • Roberto Bonano, footballer and Argentine coach.
• January 25: Stephen Chbosky, American writer, screenwriter and director.
• 29 January:
  • Heather Graham, American actress.
  • Janice Kawaye, American voice actress.
  • Paul Ryan, American politician.
• January 31: Minnie Driver, British actress.

February

• 1 February:
  • Diego Pérez, driver and Argentine actor.
  • Raúl Díaz Arce, a soccer player and a Salvadoran coach.
• February 2: Aitor Gorosabel, Basque singer and guitarist, from the heavy group Su Ta Gar.
• 3 February:
  • Warwick Davis, British actor.
  • Óscar Córdoba, Colombian footballer.
• February 7: Antonio Méndez Méndez, footballer and Spanish coach.
• February 10: Myrea Pettit, British illustrator.
• 11 February:
  • Juan Aguirre, Spanish musician, component of the Amaral Duo.
  • Fredrik Thordendal, Swedish guitarist of Meshuggah.
• 13 February:
  • Gloria María Solari, singer-songwriter, actress and Peruvian director of infantile theatre.
  • Sussan Taunton, Mexican actress of Chilean origin and English ancestry.
• 14 February:
  • Simon Pegg, actor, comedian, screenwriter and British producer.
  • Tana Schémbori, producer and Paraguayan filmmaker.

Nailea Norvind

• 16 February:
  • Angelo Peruzzi, Italian footballer.
  • Nailea Norvind, Mexican actress.
• February 17: Dominic Purcell, an Australian actor.
• February 19: Hiroko Kasahara, seiyū and Japanese singer.
• February 24: Luciano Galende, TV presenter and Argentine journalist.
• February 25: Tania Fálquez, Colombian actress.
• 27 February:
  • Roberto Caballero, Argentine journalist and essayist.
  • Matthias Lechner, German film designer.
• February 28: Daniel Handler, American writer.

March

• 1 March:
  • Manuel García, Chilean singer.
  • Carlos María Morales, Uruguayan soccer player and coach.
  • Maria Fernanda Heredia, Ecuadorian writer.
• 2 March:
  • Alexander Armstrong, actor, comedian and British host.
  • María Antonieta Duque, Venezuelan actress and comedian.

Rachel Weisz

• March 5: John Frusciante, American guitarist, Red Hot Chilli Peppers.
• 7 March:
  • Petra Mede, Swedish presenter and comedian.
  • Rachel Weisz, British actress.
• March 8: Devon Michaels, American porn actress.
• 9 March:
  • Martin Johnson, British former wart.
  • Shannon Leto, American drummer, band 30 Seconds to Mars.
  • Claudia López Hernández, politician, politicologist and Colombian mayor.
• March 12: Rene García Miranda, film actor, theater and television of Mexican bent.
• March 16: Paul Oscar, Icelandic singer.
• 17 March:
  • Yanic Truesdale, Canadian actor.
  • Gene Ween, American guitarist.
• March 18: Queen Latifah, American singer.
• March 19: Abelardo Fernández Antuña, Spanish footballer.
• March 20: Linda Larkin, American film and television actress.
• 21 March: Shiho Niiyama, Japanese Seiyū (f. 2000).
• March 23: Gianni Infantino, italo-Swiss sports leader, president of FIFA since 2016.
• 24 March:
  • Sharon Corr, Irish violinist, The Corrs band.
  • Lara Flynn Boyle, American actress.
  • Wilson Alvarez, Venezuelan baseball player.
• March 26: Martin McDonagh, English playwright.
• March 27: Nico Abad, Spanish TV presenter.
• 28 March:
  • Vince Vaughn, American actor.
  • Ana María Trujillo, actress, journalist, presenter and Colombian designer.

April

• 6 April:

Luis Miguel

• • Amairani, Mexican actress and television.
  • Roy Mayorga, drummer and American producer.
• April 8: Care Santos, Spanish writer.
• April 13: Eduardo Capetillo, Mexican singer and actor.
• April 14: Martin Sabbatella, Argentine politician.
• April 18: Jorge Zabaleta, Chilean actor.
• April 19: Luis Miguel, Mexican singer.
• April 20: Shemar Moore, American actor.
• April 25: Jason Lee, American actor.
• April 26: Melania Trump, Slovenian model, the first lady of the United States.
• April 28: Diego Simeone, Argentine coach and former footballer.

Uma Thurman

• 29 April:
  • Andre Agassi, American tennis player.
  • Uma Thurman, American actress.
  • Ernesto Villegas, journalist, politician and Venezuelan writer.
• April 30: Halit Ergenç, Turkish actor.

May

• 1 May:
  • Ana María Sánchez, Colombian actress.
  • Salvador del Solar, Peruvian actor.
• May 3: Guillermo Prieto La Rotta, Colombian presenter.
• May 6: Tristan Ulloa, Spanish actor.
• May 7: Gregorio Pernía, Colombian actor.
• 8 May:
  • Luis Enrique, Spanish coach and ex-futbolist.
  • Naomi Klein, journalist, writer and Canadian activist.
• May 9: Ghostface Killah, American rapper, Wu-Tang Clan band.
• 15 May:
  • Frank de Boer, Dutch coach and ex-futbolist.
  • Ronald de Boer, Dutch footballer.
  • Adriana Ricardo, Colombian actress.
• 16 May:
  • Silvia Wheeler, German actress.
  • Miguel de la Torre, Colombian designer (f. 2006).
• May 18: Tina Fey, American actress and screenwriter.
• May 21: Gerardo Hemmer, Mexican actor (f. 1995).

Naomi Campbell

• 22 May:
  • Naomi Campbell, British model.
  • Pedro Diniz, Brazilian Formula 1 pilot.
  • Willy Toledo, Spanish actor.
• May 23: Yigal Amir, Israeli murderer.
• 25 May:
  • Jamie Kennedy, American actor and comedian.
  • Lindsay and Sidney Greenbush, American actresses.
  • Satsuki Yukino, voice actress and Japanese singer.
• May 26: Nobuhiro Watsuki, Japanese mangaka cartoonist.
• 27 May:
  • Joseph Fiennes, British actor.
  • José Rafael Briceño, comediante, locutor and Venezuelan university professor.
• May 30: Pilar Uribe, Colombian actress.
• 31 May:
  • Mariana Baraj, singer, percussionist and Argentine composer.

June

• 1 June:
  • Alexi Lalas, American footballer.
  • Marley, Argentine television presenter.
• June 3: Peter Tägtgren, Swedish singer, Hypocrisy band.
• June 4: El Barrio (José Luis Figuereo Franco), Spanish flamenco singer.
• 6 June:
  • James Munky Shaffer, American guitarist, of the band nu metal Ko0.00n.
  • Albert Ferrer, football player and Spanish coach.
• June 7: Cafu, Brazilian footballer.

Ramiro Meneses

• June 9: Ramiro Meneses, actor and Colombian director.
• June 10: Miguel Ángel Rodríguez "El Sevilla", a Spanish musician from the Mojinos Escozíos band.
• 13 June:
  • Rivers Cuomo, American musician, leader of the Weezer band.
  • Julián Gil, actor, model and Argentine animator.
• June 15: Jorge Rausch, Colombian chef.
• 16 June:
  • Cobi Jones, American footballer.
  • Phil Mickelson, American golfer.
• 17 June:
  • Sasha Sokol, Mexican actress and singer.
  • Ana García Armada, a telecommunications engineer and a Spanish researcher.
• June 18: Gerardo Rozín, journalist and Argentine radio and television presenter.
• 19 June:
  • Rahul Gandhi, Indian politician.
  • Quincy Watts, American athlete.
  • Brian Welch, American guitarist.
• June 20: Moulay Rachid, the Moroccan prince.
• June 21: Rey Ruiz, Cuban singer.
• June 23: Christian Meier, Peruvian actor and singer.
• June 24: David Fernández Ortiz, Spanish humorist and singer.
• 26 June:
  • Chris O'Donnell, American actor.
  • Paul Thomas Anderson, American filmmaker.
• 30 June:
  • Leonardo Sbaraglia, an Argentine actor.
  • Antonio Chimenti, Italian footballer.

July

• July 1st: Luciano Cruz-Coke, Chilean actor.
• July 3: Isabel Menéndez, narrator, writer, educator, excantante and Peruvian ex-compository.
• July 3: Yūko Nagashima, Japanese seiyū.
• July 4th: Tony Vidmar, footballer and Australian coach.
• July 8: Beck Hansen, American musician.
• 10 July:
  • Jason Orange, British singer and dancer of the Take That group.
  • Helen Sjöholm, Swedish singer.

Muriel Santa Ana

• 13 July:
  • Muriel Santa Ana, Argentinean actress and singer.
  • María José Barraza, journalist, model, entrepreneur and Colombian presenter.
• July 15: John Alex Toro, Colombian actor.
• 19 July:
  • Nicola Sturgeon, Scottish politics.
  • Rita Bendeck, Colombian actress and model.
• 25 July:
  • Ernesto Alterio, a Spanish-Argentine actor.
  • Jorge Javier Vázquez, TV presenter, actor, theatrical entrepreneur and Spanish writer.
• July 27: Nikolaj Coster-Waldau, Danish actor.
• July 30: Christopher Nolan, British director, screenwriter and producer.
• 31 July:
  • Maxi Trusso, Argentine singer.
  • Kinoko Yamada, Japanese voice actress.

August

• August 1st: David James, British footballer.
• 3 August:
  • Gina G, Australian singer.
  • Laura Oliva, actress, conductor and Argentine humorist.
  • Masahiro Sakurai, designer and videogame director.
• August 5: Leonid Stadnyk, a Ukrainian character (f. 2014).
• August 6: Michelle Early, Spanish nationalized American singer and psychologist.
• August 8: José Francisco Molina, footballer and Spanish coach.
• August 9: Chiyako Shibahara, Japanese voice actress.
• August 11: Ali Shaheed Muhammad, Arab-American hiphop dj.
• August 13: Alan Shearer, British footballer.
• August 14: Fasg Saf, Canadian actor (f. 2010).
• August 16: Manisha Koirala, a Nepalese actress.

River Phoenix

• 17 August:
  • Gianmarco Zignago, Peruvian singer and composer.
  • Jim Courier, American tennis player.
• August 20: Fred Durst, American vocalist, leader of the Limp Bizkit band.
• August 22: Giada De Laurentiis, American chef.
• August 23: River Phoenix, American actor (f. 1993).
• August 24: Juan Merino, footballer and Spanish coach.
• August 25: Claudia Schiffer, German model.
• August 27: Jim Thome, American baseball player.
• August 30: Paulo Sousa, Portuguese footballer.
• 31 August:
  • Debbie Gibson, American singer.
  • Rania of Jordan.

September

Maria Fernanda Beigel

• September 3: Gareth Southgate, British footballer.
• September 5 Lee Lai Shan, Olympic Regatist Hongkonesa.
• September 6th Maria Fernanda Beigel, sociologist and Argentine scientist.
• 7 September:
  • Leonardo Villalobos, TV presenter, animator, actor, announcer, theatre writer and Venezuelan producer.
  • Gao Min, Chinese jumper
• 8 September:
  • Patricia Hernández Arencibia, Spanish basketball player.
  • Benny Ibarra, Mexican singer.
  • Motoko Kumai, Japanese seiyū.
• September 9: Natalia Streignard, actress, model and Venezuelan host.
• September 11: Taraji P. Henson, American actress.
• 12 September:
  • Lizy Tagliani, actress, comedian and Argentine driver.
  • José Fernando Santa, Colombian soccer player and coach.
• September 13: Susumu Chiba, Japanese seiyū.
• September 15: Yola Berrocal, actress, dancer and Spanish model.
• September 18: Julia Vaquero, Spanish exatleta.
• 19 September:
  • Sonny Anderson, Brazilian football player.
  • Yuka Imai, Japanese seiyū.
• September 20: Ernesto Pimentel, presenter and drag queen Peruvian.
• September 21: Unique Priscilla, an Indonesian actress and model.
• 22 September:
  • Emmanuel Petit, French footballer.
  • Orlando Valenzuela, Colombian actor.
• September 23: Toto Vega, Colombian actor (f. 2022).
• 26 September:
  • Marco Etcheverry, Bolivian footballer.
  • Vicente Luis Mora, Spanish writer.
• September 27: Tamara Taylor, Canadian actress.
• September 28: Kimiko Date-Krumm, Japanese tennis player.
• 30 September:
  • Lorena Meritano, Argentine actress.
  • Pilar Ovalle Vergara, Chilean sculptor.

October

Maribel Verdú

• 2 October: Maribel Verdú, Spanish actress.
• October 6: Amy Jo Johnson, American actress and singer.
• 7 October:
  • Lisardo Guarinos, Spanish actor and singer.
  • Tulio Zuloaga, Colombian singer and actor.

Matt Damon

• 8 October:
  • Matt Damon, American actor and screenwriter.
  • Angel Ruiz, Spanish actor.
  • Mayrín Villanueva, Mexican actress.
• October 9: Marcela Gallego, Colombian actress.
• 11 October:
  • Fabiana Medina, Colombian actress.
  • Constance Zimmer, American actress.
  • MC Lyte, rapper and American actress.
• October 12: Kirk Cameron, American actor.
• October 14: Jon Seda, American actor.
• October 15: Ginuwine, American singer.
• October 16: Mehmet Scholl, German footballer.
• 18 October:
  • Alex Barros, Brazilian bike rider.
  • Mario Ramírez, creator and founder Radio Policía Nacional Cúcuta 88.7 F.M.
• October 19: Mariana Garza, Mexican actress, singer and driver.
• 22 October:
  • Javier Milei, an Argentine economist.
  • Winston Bogarde, Dutch footballer.
• 23 October:
  • Kenji Nomura, Japanese voice actor.
  • Lolita Cortés, Mexican singer and musical comedian.
• October 27: Jorge Ornelas, Mexican bent actor.
• 29 October:
  • Edwin van der Sar, Dutch footballer.
  • Phillip Cocu, Dutch coach and ex-futbolist.
• 30 October:
  • Nia Long, American actress.
  • Salvatore "Tory" Belleci, filmmaker and modeler (pod-racers and Star Wars cruises) American.
• 31 October:
  • Malin Berggren, Swedish singer.
  • Nolan North, American actor and voice actor.

November

• November 3: Jeanette J. Epps, an aerospace engineer and an Afro-descendant astronaut.
• November 6: Ethan Hawke, American actor.
• November 8: Johann Mühlegg, Spanish skier.
• 9 November:
  • Chris Jericho, American professional fighter.
  • Lady Noriega, Colombian actress and singer.
  • María Isabel Henao, Colombian actress and social communicator.
• 12 November:
  • Héctor Arredondo, Mexican actor (f. 2014).
  • Tonya Harding, American skater.
• 18 November:
  • Lorna Cepeda, Colombian actress.
  • Chao, singer, actor and Spanish-Mexican dancer.

Julieta Venegas

• 24 November:
  • Julieta Venegas, Mexican composer and singer.
  • Alonso Caparrós, Spanish TV presenter.
• November 27: Jorge Cárdenas, actor and Colombian singer.
• November 29: Paola Turbay, actress, model, presenter and exreina of Colombian beauty.
• 30 November:
  • Perrey Reeves, American actress.
  • Walter Emanuel Jones, American actor.

December

Sarah Silverman

• 1 December:
  • Sarah Silverman, American actress and screenwriter.
  • Bibiana Navas, Colombian television actress and producer.
• December 3: Felipe Braun, Chilean actor.
• December 6: Duncan Jones, British film director.
• December 7: Damien Rice, Irish singer.
• 10 December:
  • Ricardo Álamo, actor, model, director and producer of Venezuela.
  • Alexandra Restrepo, Colombian actress and humorist.
• 12 December:
  • Jennifer Connelly, American actress.
  • Wilson Kipketer, a Danish athlete of Kenyan origin.
• 13 December:
  • Gerlinde Kaltenbrunner, Austrian mountaineer.
  • Bart Johnson, American actor.
• 14 December: Anna Maria Jopek, Polish singer.
• December 16: Niko Eeckhout, Belgian cyclist.
• 18 December:
  • Rob Van Dam, American professional fighter.
  • DMX (Earl Simmons), American rapper (f. 2021).
• December 24: Adam Haslett, American writer.
• December 25: Yūko Satō, Japanese seiyū.
• December 26: Linda Lucía Callejas, actress, singer and Colombian model.
• December 28: Francesca Le, American pornographic actress.
• December 29: Enrico Chiesa, Italian footballer.

Unknown dates

• Sonia Contera, physics and Spanish nanotechnologist.
• Lina Meruane, Chilean writer and teacher.
• Ugía Pedreira, Spanish singer.
• Eduardo Sanabria, Venezuelan cartoonist.

Deaths

Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman

January

• January 5: Max Born, German physicist, nobel prize of physics (n. 1882).
• January 5: Roberto Gerhard, Spanish composer (n. 1896).
• January 31: Slim Harpo, American musician.

February

• February 2: Bertrand Russell, British philosopher and mathematician.
• February 4: Manuel Hedilla, Spanish politician.
• February 9: Roger Martin du Gard, French writer.
• February 14: Marcelo Chávez, Mexican actor and comic.
• February 17: Joseph Agnon, Israeli writer, Nobel Prize in Literature in 1966.
• February 17: Alfred Newman, American composer.
• February 26: Angel María de Rosa, Argentine sculptor.

March

Die the engineer creator of the Moka Cafetera

• 4 March: Alfonso Bialetti, Italian Engineer (n.1888).
• March 11: Erle Stanley Gardner, American writer.
• March 14: Fritz Perls, neuropsychiatrist and psychoanalyst physician, creator of Gestalt therapy.
• March 17: Jesús Álvarez, a Spanish journalist.
• March 20: Paul Celan, German poet.

April

• April 28: Ed Begley, American actor.

June

• June 2: Bruce McLaren, New Zealand pilot.
• June 7: Prudencia Griffel, Mexican film actress (n. 1879).
• June 8: Manuel de Castro, Uruguayan writer (n. 1896).
• June 9: Rafael Ángel Calderón Guardia, Costa Rican politician.
• June 21: Ria Bartok, French pop yeyé singer.
• June 21: Achmed Sukarno, an Indonesian politician.
• June 26: Leopoldo Marechal, Argentine poet (n. 1900).

May

• May 3: Candelario Huizar, Mexican composer (n.1883).

July

• July 4th: Barnett Newman, American painter (n. 1905).
• July 10: Augusto Meyer, writer, journalist, essayist, poet, memorialist and Brazilian folklorist (n. 1902).
• July 15: Luis Mariano, Spanish singer.
• July 27: António de Oliveira Salazar, Portuguese dictator.
• July 29: George Szell, director of Hungarian-American orchestra and musician.
• July 29: John Barbirolli, British orchestra director and musician.

August

• 1 August: María Tereza Montoya, theatrical entrepreneur and Mexican actress (n. 1900).
• August 1st: Otto Heinrich Warburg, German physiologist, nobel medical prize in 1931.
• August 10: Bernd Alois Zimmermann, German composer.
• August 30: Abraham Zapruder, an American citizen who filmed the assassination of President Kennedy (n. 1905).

September

• September 1: François Mauriac, French writer.
• September 2: Pierre Kœning, French politician and military.
• September 2nd Margarete Depner, painter, sculptor and Romanian patrons (n. 1885).
• September 5: Jochen Rindt, Austrian pilot.

Jimi Hendrix

• September 18: Jimi Hendrix (27), American rock musician.
• September 25: Erich Maria Remarque, German writer.
• September 25th Forum Inez Haynes Irwin American feminist author. (n.1873)
• 28 September: Gamal Abdel Nasser, Egyptian politician, president between 1954 and 1970 (n. 1918).
• September 28: John Dos Passos, American novelist and plastic artist.

October

• 4 October: Janis Joplin (27), American singer-songwriter.
• 10 October: Édouard Daladier, a French politician (n. 1884).
• 11 October: César Falcón, journalist, politician and Peruvian writer (n. 1892).
• 13 October: Alberto Prebisch, Argentine architect (n. 1899)
• October 19: Lazaro Cárdenas del Río, militar, politician and Mexican president.

November

• 4 November: Peter II, the Yugoslav aristocrat, the last king of his country.
• 5 November: Agustín Lara, Mexican composer.
• 9 November: Charles de Gaulle, French politician and military.
• November 19: Mariya Yúdina, a Soviet pianist.
• 21 November: Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman, Indian physicist, nobel prize of physics in 1930.
• November 25: Yukio Mishima, Japanese writer.
• November 30: Nina Ricci, a French fashion designer of Italian origin (n. 1883).

December

• December 16: Friedrich Pollock, German economist and sociologist (n. 1894).
• December 17: Oscar Lewis, American writer.
• December 29: Liliana Gelin, Argentinian guerrilla (n. 1949).

Art and literature

• January 6: Jesús Fernández Santos gets the Nadal Award for his novel Book of memories of things.
• Thomas Bernhard: The pot..
• Agatha Christie: Passenger to Frankfurt.
• Juan Goytisolo: Reivindication of Count Don Julián.
• Roger Zelazny: The Nine Princes of Amber.
• Roald Dahl: The Super Fox.
• Dario Fo: Accidental death of an anarchist.
• Theodor Adorno: Theory aesthetic (posthumously published).

Science and technology

• January 22: Jumbo's first commercial flight, with capacity for 300 people.
• February 24: In London it is announced that Silvia Allen will be the first woman in the world to have a child conceived in the laboratory test tube.
• 4 July: France explodes a nuclear bomb in the Mururoa atoll.

Astronautics

• April 11: launch Apollo 13 towards the Moon, with James A. Lovell, Fred Haise and John Swigert aboard.
• 1 June: the Soviet Union orbits the Soyuz 9 by the cosmonauts Andrián Nikoláyev and Vitaliy Sevastyanov.
• 17 August: launch of the Soviet space probe Venera 7 towards Venus, landing and transmitting data from its surface.

Cinema

Most relevant films by year of production

• Airport, American film led by George Seaton, winner of 1 Oscar Awards.
• Red circle, French film directed by Jean-Pierre Melville.
• Cuadecuc, vampir Spanish documentary film directed by Pere Portabella.
• Dodes'ka-den Japanese film directed by Akira Kurosawa.
• conjugal residence French film directed by François Truffaut.
• Don erect Spanish film directed by José Luis Sáenz de Heredia.
• Two mules for Sister Sara American film directed by Don Siegel.
• The Wolf Forest Spanish film directed by Pedro Olea.
• The butcher French film directed by Claude Chabrol.
• The conformist, Italian film directed by Bernardo Bertolucci.
• The day of the cheatersAmerican film directed by Joseph L. Mankiewicz.
• The garden of delights Spanish film directed by Carlos Saura
• The little savageFrench film directed by François Truffaut.
• The mole Mexican film directed by Alejandro Jodorowsky.
• Research on a citizen free of suspicion Italian film directed by Elio Petri.
• The Hogue Cable BalladAmerican film directed by Sam Peckinpah.
• Confession, French film directed by Costa-Gavras.
• Ryan's daughterBritish film directed by David Lean, winner of 2 Oscar Awards.
• The girl in the public bathroom or deep area German-British film directed by Jerzy Skolimowski.
• Clara's knee, French film directed by Éric Rohmer.
• The fool of the boat Spanish film directed by Juan de Orduña.
• Sherlock Holmes' private life British film directed by Billy Wilder.
• They called him Trinidad. Italian film directed by Enzo Barboni.
• The aristogates American animation film directed by Wolfgang Reitherman.
• Sunflowers, Italian film directed by Vittorio De Sica.
• Kelly's violentAmerican film directed by Brian G. Hutton.
• Love Story American film directed by Arthur Hiller, winner of 1 Oscar Awards.
• Hammer for witchesCzechoslovak film directed by Otakar Vávra.
• M.A.S.H. American film directed by Robert Altman, winner of 1 Oscar Prize.
• Patton American film directed by Franklin J. Schaffner, winner of 7 Oscar Awards.
• Little big man American film directed by Arthur Penn.
• Back to the planet of apes American film directed by Ted Post.
• Rio Lobo American film directed by Howard Hawks.
• Second Mortadelo and Philemon Festival Spanish animation film directed by Rafael Vara.
• Tora! American film directed by Richard Fleischer, Kinji Fukasaku, and Toshio Masuda, winner of 1 Oscar Awards.
• Tristana, Spanish film directed by Luis Buñuel.
• A man named Horse American film directed by Elliot Silverstein.
• Live boyfriends! Spanish film directed by Luis García Berlanga.
• Wanda American film directed by Barbara Loden.
• I watch the way American film directed by John Frankenheimer.

Awards and Festivals

• 42nd edition of the Oscar Awards held on 7 April 1970.
  • Best Movie: Midnight Cowboy.
  • Best address: John Schlesinger by Midnight Cowboy.
  • Best actress: Maggie Smith for Miss Brodie's best years.
  • Best actor: John Wayne for True Grit.

• 23rd edition of Cannes International Film Festival held from 3 to 18 May 1970.
  • Palma de Oro to the best film MASH by Robert Altman.

• 18th edition of the San Sebastian International Film Festival Held from 5 to 14 July 1970.
  • Gold shell to the best film Ondata di calore, by Nelo Risi.

• 10th edition of Mar del Plata International Film Festival.
  • Gold Astor to the best Macunaima movie by Joaquim Pedro de Andrade.

Sports

Motor Racing

• May 10: Austrian Jochen Rindt wins the Monaco Motor Vehicle Award.

Athletics

• On May 14th and 15th, the I European Championship is held in Covered Track, whose medarello is won by the USSR.
• Mariano Haro wins for the second time the European Cup of the country nations through.

Boxing

• April 3: the Spanish Pugile Urtain is proclaimed European champion of the heavyweights by defeating in Madrid the German Weiland.

Cycling

• May 12: Luis Ocaña wins the Cycling Tour to Spain.
• June 7: Eddy Merckx wins the Giro de Italia
• July 19: Eddy Merckx wins Tour de France
• From August 13th to 16th the World Cycling Championship is held on Route, whose victory is:
  • Champion online: Jean-Pierre Monseré, by Belgium.
  • Online champion: Anna Konkina, by the USSR.

Formula 1

• Jochen Rindt is the world champion of Formula 1.

Football

• From 31 May to 21 June the dispute is World Cup Soccer in Mexico.
  • Brazil (with Pelé) is raised with the title by winning in the final to Italy by 4-1.

• Copa Libertadores: The Argentine team Club Students of La Plata: May 21, 1970, wins its third Copa Libertadores de América in a consecutive way, after winning the final to Peñarol de Montevideo.
• European Champions Cup: The Dutch team Feyenoord of Rotterdam conquers the 15th Cup of Champions of Europe on May 6, when he beats 2-1 in the final to the Celtic de Glasgow.

• Spanish League of Male Football: The Club Atlético de Madrid stands with the title.
• Spanish Soccer Cup Real Madrid proclaims itself a champion by winning 3-1 to Valencia.

• First division of the Peruvian Football League. The Sporting Crystal is crowned champion for the fourth time.

• Uruguay Soccer Championship: The National Consecrates Champion for the Vigesimonovena time.

• Colombian First Division Soccer Championship: Deportivo Cali (4th time).

• Ecuadorian Football Championship: Barcelona is dedicated champion for the fourth time.

• The first edition of the New Zealand National LeagueThe Blockhouse Bay gets the title. It would be the first division of the country until its replacement in 2004 by the New Zealand Football Championship

• August 12: The Paris Saint-Germain Football Club is created in Paris, France.

Roller Hockey

• From April 22nd to May 2nd is held in San Juan, Argentina XIX World Championship A Men’s Skateboards. Spain is proclaimed champion by defeating Argentina by 6-2.

Skydiving

• In September, in Bled (Yugoslavia) the World Parachutism Championship is held; for the first time a Peruvian team participates, and wins a bronze medal.

Tennis

• From 29 to 31 August the 59th edition of the Davis Cup. The United States proclaims itself a champion in the finals before Germany.

• Open from Australia:
  • Individual winner: Margaret Court by Australia.
  • Individual winner: Arthur Ashe by United States.

• Universidad de Estados Unidos:
  • Individual winner: Margaret Smith by Australia.
  • Individual winner: Ken Rosewall by Australia.

• Wimbledon Championship:
  • Individual winner: Margaret Smith by Australia.
  • Individual Winner: John Newcombe by Australia.

• French Championship:
  • Individual winner: Margaret Smith by Australia.
  • Individual winner: Jan Kodeš by Czechoslovakia.

Music

News

• In London, UK, the Beatles band is separated.
• The Queen band is formed in London.
• The Aerosmith band is formed in Boston (United States).
• The Kraftwerk band is formed in Düsseldorf (Germany).

Albums

• Bee Gees: Cucumber Castle
• Black Sabbath: Black Sabbath
• Black Sabbath: Paranoid
• Bob Dylan: Self Portrait and New Morning
• Camilo Sexto: The summer/no direction will come
• Charles Manson: Lie: The Love and Terror Cult
• Chicago: Chicago II
• David Bowie: The Man Who Sold the World
• Deep Purple: In Rock
• Genesis: Threepasses
• George Harrison: All Things Must Pass
• Frank Sinatra: "Watertown". «Album published in March by the Reprise Records record label».
• Jethro Tull: Benefit
• John Lennon: John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band
• José Feliciano: Merry Christmas
• José: The sad
• Julio Iglesias: Gwendolyne
• King Crimson: In the Wake of Poseidon
• King Crimson: Lizard (album)
• Kraftwerk: Kraftwerk
• Led Zeppelin: Led Zeppelin III
• Black Angels: And I'll be back
• Manal: Manal
• Modules: You're gone., I can't be without you. (note 3.o)
• Modules: Reality (LP 1.o)
• Nazareth: Nazareth
• Paul McCartney: McCartney
• Pink Floyd: Atom Heart Mother
• Roberto Luti: Simply
• Robin Gibb: Robin's Reign
• Santana: Abraxas
• Supertramp: Supertramp
• Syd Barrett: The Madcap Laughs
• The Beach Boys: Sunflower
• The Beatles: Let it be
• The Carpenters: Close to You
• The Doors: Morrison Hotel
• Storm: Storm
• Uriah Heep: Very 'Eavy, Very 'Umble
• Ringo Starr: Sentimental Journey

Festivals

• On 21 March the XV edition of the Eurovision Song Festival in Amsterdam NetherlandsNetherlands.
  • Winner: The Dana singer with the song “All kinds of everything” representing Ireland .

Television

Possible year of dubbing of the Japanese series Señorita Cometa which would be lost after the 1985 earthquake in Mexico Surviving only episodes 11,12,13,11,20 and a fragment of 66 whose whereabouts are currently unknown

Nobel laureates

• Physics: Hannes Olof Gösta Alfvén and Louis Eugène Félix Néel.
• Chemistry: Luis Federico Leloir.
• Medicine: Sir Bernard Katz, Ulf von Euler and Julius Axelrod.
• Literature: Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn.
• Peace: Norman E. Borlaug.
• Economy: Paul Samuelson.