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The Premier International Online Directory of Musicians & Entertainers   music minder Search For:    In Table: Albums Birthdates Businesses Entertainers Hits Lyrics Memorials On This Day   Home Entertainers Businesses About Contact Albums Birthdates Hits Instruments Lyrics Memorials On This Day Home > On This Day Menu > List On This Day Events ON THIS DAY Search Results for Year: 1970 Click on an event title in the list to view more information about that event. Click on a date in the list to view a list of other events on the same date.   Number of Records Matching Query: 96   1970 EVENT   Event Date: 1st January 1970 Description: What happened in the year 1970   Summary: What Happened in 1970. In 1970, the world was a different place. There was no Google yet. Or Yahoo. In 1970, the year of your birth, the top selling movie was Love Story. People buying the popcorn in the cinema lobby had glazing eyes when looking at the poster. Remember, that was before there were DVDs. Heck, even before there was VHS. People were indeed watching movies in the cinema, and not downloading them online. Imagine the packed seats, the laughter, the excitement, the novelty. And mostly all of that without 3D computer effects. Do you know who won the Oscars that year? The academy award for the best movie went to Patton. The Oscar for best foreign movie that year went to Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion. The top actor was George C. Scott for his role as Gen. George S. Patton Jr. in Patton. The top actress was Glenda Jackson for her role as Gudrun Brangwen in Women in Love. The best director? Franklin J. Schaffner for Patton. In the year 1970, the time when you arrived on this planet, books were still popularly read on paper, not on digital devices. Trees were felled to get the word out. The number one US bestseller of the time was Love Story by Erich Segal. Oh, that's many years ago. Have you read that book? Have you heard of it? Look at the cover! In 1970... The first episode of All My Children is broadcast on the ABC television network. Biafra capitulates, ending the Nigerian civil war. The Boeing 747, the world's first "jumbo jet", enters commercial service for launch customer Pan American Airways with its maiden voyage from John F Kennedy International Airport to London Heathrow Airport. Mick Jagger is fined Ł200 for possession of cannabis. The complete New English Bible is published. The Expo '70 World's Fair opens in Suita, Osaka, Japan. Citroën introduces the SM at the Geneva Auto Salon. Teenagers in the United Kingdom vote for the first time, in a by-election in Bridgwater. Three Rivers Stadium in Pittsburgh opens. The 1970 FIFA World Cup is inaugurated in Mexico. An assassination attempt against King Hussein of Jordan precipitates the Black September crisis. The U.S. Foreign Office announces that renewal of arms sales to Pakistan. Democrats sweep the U.S. Congressional midterm elections; Ronald Reagan is reelected governor of California; Jimmy Carter is elected governor of Georgia. Paul McCartney sues in Great Britain to dissolve the Beatles' legal partnership. That was the world you were born into. Since then, you and others have changed it. The Nobel prize for Literature that year went to Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn. The Nobel Peace prize went to Norman E. Borlaug. The Nobel prize for physics went to Hannes Olof Gösta Alfvén from Sweden for fundamental work and discoveries in magneto-hydrodynamics with fruitful applications in different parts of plasma physics. The sensation this created was big. But it didn't stop the planets from spinning, on and on, year by year. Years in which you would grow bigger, older, smarter, and, if you were lucky, sometimes wiser. Years in which you also lost some things. Possessions got misplaced. Memories faded. Friends parted ways. The best friends, you tried to hold on. This is what counts in life, isn't it? The 1970s were indeed a special decade. Women's liberation continued. The hippie culture faded. There was an opposition to the Vietnam war, and nuclear weapons. The environmentalist movement began. Tom Wolfe coined the decade the "Me decade" due to a new self-awareness. Mao Zedong died and the market began to liberate in China. There was an oil crisis. After the first oil shock, gasoline was rationed in many countries. In Eastern Europe, Soviet-style command economies begin showing signs of stagnation. The Summer Olympics in Munich, Germany, witness the kidnapping and murder of Israeli athletes by Palestinian Arab terrorists. The Soviet Union invaded Afghanistan. The Who, Pink Floyd, The Eagles, Bee Gees, Abba and others play their music. Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin and Jim Morrison all die at the age of 27. The space mission Apollo 13 nearly ends in disaster. Egypt signed the Egyptian-Israeli peace treaty. There was a revolution in Iran. The world sees its first general microprocessor. The C programming language makes its debut. Consumer video games show up on the scene. Microwave ovens become commercially available. Margaret Thatcher was victorious in the UK elections. Do you know what was on the cover of Life that year? Do you remember the movie that was all the rage when you were 15? Rocky IV. Do you still remember the songs playing on the radio when you were 15? Maybe it was Everybody Wants to Rule the World by Tears for Fears. Were you in love? Who were you in love with, do you remember? In 1970, 15 years earlier, a long time ago, the year when you were born, the song I'll Be There by The Jackson 5 topped the US charts. Do you know the lyrics? Do you know the tune? Sing along. You and I must make a pact, we must bring salvation back Where there is love, I'll be there I'll reach out my hand to you, I'll have faith in all you do Just call my name and I'll be there ... There's a kid outside, shouting, playing. It doesn't care about time. It doesn't know about time. It shouts and it plays and thinks time is forever. You were once that kid. When you were 9, the movie The Fish That Saved Pittsburgh was playing. When you were 8, there was The Cat from Outer Space. When you were 7, there was a Disney movie out called The Rescuers. Does this ring a bell? 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1... it's 1970. There's TV noise coming from the second floor. Someone turned up the volume way too high. The sun is burning from above. These were different times. The show playing on TV is Josie and the Pussycats. The sun goes down. Someone switches channels. There's The Partridge Family on now. That's the world you were born in. Progress, year after year. Do you wonder where the world is heading towards? The technology available today would have blown your mind in 1970. Do you know what was invented in the year you were born? The Pocket Calculator. The Relational Database Management System. Cup Noodles. It's 2003 and where do you wanna be? In '42 or 1970? And maybe we should take a good lock around I don't get why the planet is so upset And don't do something you might regret I'm telling you it's starting to get in the way ... That's from the song Fun by Smash Mouth. In 1970, a new character entered the world of comic books: Aquarius. Bang! Boom! But that's just fiction, right? In the real world, in 1970, Beck was born. And Matt Damon. Uma Thurman, too. And you, of course. Everyone an individual. Everyone special. Everyone taking a different path through life. It's 2012. The world is a different place. What path have you taken?     JANUARY 1ST 1970 EVENT   Event Date: 1st January 1970 Description: What Happened in 1970.   Summary: In 1970, the year of your birth, the top selling movie was Love Story. Remember, that was before there were DVDs. People were indeed watching movies in the cinema, and not downloading them online. Do you know who won the Oscars that year? The academy award for the best movie went to Patton. The Oscar for best foreign movie that year went to Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion. The top actor was George C. Scott for his role as Gen. George S. Patton Jr. in Patton. The top actress was Glenda Jackson for her role as Gudrun Brangwen in Women in Love. Mick Jagger is fined Ł200 for possession of cannabis. Paul McCartney sues in Great Britain to dissolve the Beatles' legal partnership. Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin and Jim Morrison all die at the age of 27. The space mission Apollo 13 nearly ends in disaster. Do you know what was invented in the year you were born? The Pocket Calculator.     POPULAR TV SHOWS 1970 EVENT   Event Date: 1st January 1970 Description: TOP TV SHOWS OF 1970   Summary: 1970-71 1 Marcus Welby, M.D. ABC 2 The Flip Wilson Show NBC 3 Here's Lucy CBS 4 Ironside NBC 5 Gunsmoke CBS 6 The ABC Movie of the Week ABC 7 Hawaii Five-O CBS 8 Medical Center CBS 9 Bonanza NBC 10 The F.B.I. ABC 11 The Mod Squad ABC 12 Adam-12 NBC 13 Rowan and Martin's Laugh-In (tie) NBC 13 The Wonderful World of Disney (tie) NBC 15 Mayberry F.F.D. CBS 16 Hee Haw CBS 17 Mannix CBS 18 The Man from Shiloh NBC 19 My Three Sons CBS 20 The Doris Day Show CBS     THE BEATLES - ABBEY ROAD - UK ALBUM 1970 EVENT   Event Date: 12th January 1970 Description: The Beatles last Album together.   Summary: The Beatles Abbey Road is the 11th studio album released by the English rock band the Beatles. It is their last recorded album, although Let It Be was the last album released before the band's dissolution in 1970.     DIANA ROSS LEAVES THE SUPREMES EVENT   Event Date: 14th January 1970 Description: Ross made her final appearance with the Supremes   Summary: Motown initially conceived of a solo career for Diana Ross in 1966, but did not act on it until 1968. Ross made her final appearance with the Supremes at the Frontier Hotel in Las Vegas on January 14, 1970.     BILLY STEWART EVENT   Event Date: 17th January 1970   BILLY STEWART DIED   Sub Title: Musician Event Date: 17th January 1970 Description: Vocalist, USA   RICO HIGHTOWER DIED   Sub Title: Musician Event Date: 17th January 1970 Description: Vocalist, USA   JAMES SHEPPARD DIED   Sub Title: Musician Event Date: 24th January 1970 Description: Vocalist, USA   KIRK FRANKLIN BORN   Sub Title: Musician Event Date: 26th January 1970 Description: Vocalist, USA   SLIM HARPO DIED   Event Date: 31st January 1970 Description: He died following a heart attack at the age of 46, His solo debut was the Grammy Hall of Fame.   SLIM HARPO DIED   Sub Title: Musician Event Date: 31st January 1970 Description: Vocalist, USA   NUMBER 1 USA SINGLE 1970 EVENT   Event Date: 7th February 1970   Summary: SHOCKING BLUE. "VENUS"     NUMBER 1 USA SINGLE 1970 EVENT   Event Date: 14th February 1970 Description: The title is a unique way of writing what would otherwise be "thank you for letting me be myself again."   Summary: Thank You (Falettinme Be Mice Elf Agin)is a 1969 hit single recorded by Sly and the Family Stone, recognized as one of the greatest and most influential funk songs of all time. Rolling Stone ranked the song #402 on their list of the "500 Greatest Songs of All Time".     ALFRED NEWMAN DIED   Sub Title: Musician Event Date: 17th February 1970 Description: Composer, arranger, and conductor of music for films.   NUMBER 1 UK SINGLE 1970 EVENT   Event Date: 21st February 1970   Summary: SIMON AND GARFUNKEL "BRIDGE OVER TROUBLED WATER"     CHARLES MANSON EVENT   Event Date: 6th March 1970   Summary: RELEASES ALBUM. 1970. "LIE"     CHRIS BRODERICK BORN   Sub Title: Musician Event Date: 6th March 1970 Description: Vocalist, Composer, Guitarist   TAMMI TERRELL DIED   Sub Title: Musician Event Date: 16th March 1970 Description: Vocalist, US   QUEEN LATIFAH BORN   Sub Title: Musician Event Date: 18th March 1970 Description: Vocalist, producer, rapper, model, USA   SHARON CORR BORN   Sub Title: Musician Event Date: 24th March 1970 Description: Violinist, Vocals, Piano, Ireland   OTIS SPANN DIED   Sub Title: Musician Event Date: 25th March 1970 Description: Pianist, USA   MARIAH CAREY BORN   Sub Title: Musician Event Date: 27th March 1970 Description: Vocalist, Actress, Composer, USA   DAVE SWARBRICK BORN   Sub Title: Musician Event Date: 5th April 1970 Description: Singer-songwriter, musician, arranger   KENNY LATTIMORE BORN   Sub Title: Kenneth Lee Lattimore Event Date: 10th April 1970 Description: Vocalist, Composer, USA   RICK SCHRODER BORN   Sub Title: Acting Event Date: 13th April 1970 Description: Actor, USA   MCCARTNEY - FIRST SOLO ALBUM EVENT   Event Date: 17th April 1970 Description: McCartney (album) first solo album by Paul McCartney   Summary: After releasing his solo album McCartney in 1970. It is notable for the fact that McCartney, a multi-instrumentalist, performed the entire album (all instruments and voices) by himself     EARL HOOKER DIED   Sub Title: Musician Event Date: 21st April 1970 Description: Guitarist, USA   EARL HOOKER (BLUES GUITARIST) DIES EVENT   Event Date: 21st April 1970   NOCOLE SULLIVAN BORN   Sub Title: Acting Event Date: 21st April 1970 Description: Actress, Vocalist, Comedian and Voice artist. USA   OTIS SPAN (BLUES SINGER) DIES EVENT   Event Date: 25th April 1970   ANDRE AGASSI BORN   Event Date: 29th April 1970 Description: Tennis - U.S.A.   Summary: Born in Las Vegas, Nevada.One of Americas greats of tennis.     UMA THURMAN BORN   Sub Title: Actor Event Date: 29th April 1970 Description: Actress, US   ALLMAN BROTHERS BAND EVENT   Event Date: 30th April 1970   Summary: THEIR ROAD MANAGER ARRESTED FOR MURDER STABBING A CLUB MANAGER FOR A BREACH OF CONTRACT. 1970     JACK FINA DIED   Sub Title: Musician Event Date: 14th May 1970 Description: Bandleader, Songwriter, Pianist.   STUART CABLE BORN   Sub Title: Musician Event Date: 19th May 1970 Description: Drummer, UK   CLIFF JACKSON DIED   Sub Title: Musician Event Date: 24th May 1970 Description: Pianist, USA   TOMMY PAGE BORN   Sub Title: Musician Event Date: 24th May 1970 Description: Vocalist, Songwriter, USA   TOMMY THE OPERA EVENT   Event Date: 7th June 1970   Summary: PERFORMANCE BY "THE WHO "1970. NEW YORK CITY.     AIR FORCE EVENT   Event Date: 11th June 1970   Summary: GINGER BAKERS GROUP, AIFORCE TOUR USA IN 1970.     EARL GRANT DIED   Sub Title: Musician Event Date: 11th June 1970 Description: Vocalist , Actor , Keyboardist   ERIC CLAPTON EVENT   Event Date: 14th June 1970   LEAH REMINI BORN   Sub Title: Acting Event Date: 15th June 1970 Description: Actress, USA   LONNIE JOHNNSON EVENT   Event Date: 16th June 1970   Summary: DIED IN 1970 AT 81. BLUES SINGER.     LONNIE JOHNSON DIED   Sub Title: Musician Event Date: 16th June 1970 Description: Guitarist, Vocalist, Composer, USA   JASON ROBERT BROWN BORN   Sub Title: Musician Event Date: 20th June 1970 Description: Composer, Playright, Lyricist, Pianist, USA   JESSICA ROWE BORN   Sub Title: Non Entertainer Event Date: 22nd June 1970 Description: News presenter, Australia   BERNARDO SASSETTI BORN   Sub Title: Musician Event Date: 24th June 1970 Description: Film producer, Composer film scores, Portugal   SHAWNEE SMITH BORN   Sub Title: Acting, Musician Event Date: 3rd July 1970 Description: Actress, Vocalist, US   CHARLES TOBIAS DIED   Sub Title: Musician Event Date: 7th July 1970 Description: Composers of songs. USA   ADAM HILLS BORN   Sub Title: Comedian Event Date: 10th July 1970 Description: Comedian and television presenter. Australia   CHI CHENG BORN   Sub Title: Musician Event Date: 15th July 1970 Description: Bassist, USA   JENNIFER LOPEZ BORN   Sub Title: Musician Event Date: 24th July 1970 Description: Actress, Singer, Composer, Record producer, USA   NUMBER 1 USA SINGLE 1970 EVENT   Event Date: 25th July 1970   Summary: THE CARPENTERS. "CLOSE TO YOU"     MICK JAGGER EVENT   Event Date: 28th July 1970   THE ROLLING STONES EVENT   Event Date: 31st July 1970   FRANCES FARMER DIED   Sub Title: Acting Event Date: 1st August 1970 Description: Actress, USA   JANIS JOPLIN EVENT   Event Date: 12th August 1970   BRAD MEHLDAU BORN   Sub Title: Musician Event Date: 23rd August 1970 Description: Pianist, USA   LOU REED EVENT   Event Date: 23rd August 1970   RIVER PHOENIX BORN   Sub Title: Acting Event Date: 23rd August 1970 Description: Actor, USA   JO DEE MESSINA BORN   Sub Title: Musician Event Date: 25th August 1970 Description: Vocalist, Composer, USA   ISLE OF WIGHT POP FESTIVAL EVENT   Event Date: 26th August 1970   Summary: BEGINS IN 1970     SHERRIE AUSTIN BORN   Sub Title: Musician Event Date: 28th August 1970 Description: Vocalist, Actress, Australian   THE NUMBER 1 USA SINGLE 1970 EVENT   Event Date: 29th August 1970   Summary: EDWIN STARR. "WAR"     DEBBIE GIBSON BORN   Sub Title: Musician Event Date: 31st August 1970 Description: Vocalist, Composer, Actress, USA   AL WILSON DIED   Sub Title: Musician Event Date: 3rd September 1970 Description: Vocalist, Guitarist, USA   ELVIS PRESLEY EVENT   Event Date: 9th September 1970   Summary: STARTS HIS FIRST TOUR IN 1970 THE LAST TOUR WAS IN 1958     NO 1 UK SINGLE 1970 EVENT   Event Date: 12th September 1970   Summary: TEARS OF A CLOWN BY SMOKEY ROBINSON AND THE MIRACLES.     WOODY GUTHRIE MEMORIAL CONCERT EVENT   Event Date: 12th September 1970   Summary: HELD IN 1970     JIMI HENDRIX EVENT   Event Date: 18th September 1970   Summary: DIES, LONDON 1970 HE WAS AGED, ONLY 28.     JIMI HENDRIX DIED   Sub Title: Musician Event Date: 18th September 1970 Description: Vocalist, Guitarist   ANI DIFRANKO BORN   Sub Title: Musician Event Date: 23rd September 1970 Description: Vocalist , Composer, USA   EDWARD EVERETT HORTON DIED   Sub Title: Acting Event Date: 29th September 1970 Description: Actor, USA   JANIS JOPLIN EVENT   Event Date: 4th October 1970   JANIS JOPLIN DIED   Sub Title: Musician Event Date: 4th October 1970 Description: Vocalist, USA   CAL WILSON BORN   Sub Title: Entertainer Event Date: 5th October 1970 Description: Comedien, NZ   JANIS JOPLIN EVENT   Event Date: 7th October 1970   MATT DAMON BORN   Sub Title: Acting Event Date: 8th October 1970 Description: Actor, screenwriter, producer, USA   KIRK CAMERON BORN   Sub Title: Acting Event Date: 12th October 1970 Description: Actor, USA   PAUL POTTS BORN   Sub Title: Musician Event Date: 13th October 1970 Description: Vocalsit, UK   JESUS CHRIST SUPERSTAR EVENT   Event Date: 27th October 1970   Summary: THE ALBUM RELEASE IN 1970. NEW YORK.     SUSAN TEDESCHI BORN   Sub Title: Musician Event Date: 9th November 1970 Description: Vocalist,Guitar, Composer USA   MARK GILLESPIE BORN   Sub Title: Musician Event Date: 17th November 1970 Description: Vocalist, Composer, UK   CHARLES DE GAULLE DIED   Event Date: 19th November 1970 Description: French President - born in Lille France.1890. Led the Free French Forces during World War II.   Summary: .Charles André Joseph Marie de Gaulle (1890–1970) was a French general and statesman who led the Free French Forces during World War II. He later founded the French Fifth Republic in 1958     ALBERT AYLER EVENT   Event Date: 25th November 1970   DAVE HUGHES BORN   Sub Title: Musican Event Date: 26th November 1970 Description: Comedian, Actor, Television personality, Australia   BARNEY RAPP DIED   Sub Title: Musician Event Date: 12th December 1970 Description: Drummer, Band Leader, USA   NUMBER 1 USA SINGLE 1970 EVENT   Event Date: 13th December 1970   Summary: SMOKEY ROBINSON AND THE MIRACLES. "TEARS OF A CLOWN".     BETH ORTON BORN   Sub Title: Musician Event Date: 14th December 1970 Description: Vocalist , Composer, UK   GEORGE "SMITTY" SMITH DIED   Sub Title: Musician Event Date: 16th December 1970 Description: Vocalist, USA   NORMAN BROWN BORN   Sub Title: Musician Event Date: 18th December 1970 Description: Vocalist, Guitarist, USA   NUMBER 1 USA SINGLE 1970 EVENT   Event Date: 26th December 1970   Summary: GEORGE HARRISON. "MY SWEET LORD".     GLEN PHILLIPS BORN   Sub Title: Musician Event Date: 29th December 1970 Description: Vocalist, Guitarist, Songwriter. USA   PAUL MCCARTNEY EVENT   Event Date: 30th December 1970   RAY HENDERSON DIED   Sub Title: Musician Event Date: 31st December 1970 Description: Composer, USA     © Music Minder All rights reserved: Prosecution rights will be exercised for any breaches of copyright.