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Toggle Events subsection. 1.1 January. 1.2 February. 1.3 March. ... 1970 was a common year ... Hunley is the first submarine in history to sink a ship in warfare ...
June 22 – U.S. President Richard Nixon signs the Voting Rights Act Amendments of 1970, a measure lowering the voting age to 18. June 23 – Kelly's Heroes is released in the US. June 24 – The United States Senate repeals the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution. June 28 U.S. ground troops withdraw from Cambodia. First pride parade in history ...
The 1970s (pronounced "nineteen-seventies"; commonly shortened to the "Seventies" or the "' 70s") was the decade that began on January 1, 1970, and ended on December 31, 1979. In the 21st century, historians have increasingly portrayed the 1970s as a "pivot of change" in world history, focusing especially on the economic upheavals [ 1 ] that ...
The Miss World 1970 beauty pageant, hosted by Bob Hope at the Royal Albert Hall, London is disrupted by Women's Liberation protesters. Earlier on the same evening a bomb is placed under a BBC outside broadcast vehicle by The Angry Brigade anarchist group in protest at the entry of separate black and white contestants by South Africa .
Fault Lines: A History of the United States Since 1974 (WW Norton, 2019), scholarly history. excerpt; Olson, James S. ed. Historical Dictionary of the 1970s (1999) excerpt; Richards, Marlee. America in the 1970s (Twenty-First Century Books, 2010) online. Sandbrook, Dominic. Mad as Hell: The Crisis of the 1970s and the Rise of the Populist Right ...
1970 in sports describes the year's events in world ... Art Ross Trophy – Bobby Orr becomes the first defenseman in the history of the National Hockey League to ...
1970 events in the United States by month (12 C) / 1970 disestablishments in the United States (39 C, 15 P) 1970 establishments in the United States (58 C, 84 P) A.
October 1970 events in the United States (1 C, 3 P) November 1970 events in the United States (2 C, 42 P) December 1970 events in the United States (2 C, 1 P)