Events Date 1970 October | History by KabAstro

Contract of Interest

Oct 2 Detroit general manager Jim Campbell gives controversial Billy Martin a 2-year deal (1971-72) to manage the Tigers at a well above MLB average annual salary of $65,000

Baseball Player and Manager Billy Martin

Coco

Oct 3 André Previn and Alan Jay Lerner's musical "Coco", inspired by the life of Coco Chanel, and starring Katharine Hepburn, closes at Mark Hellinger Theatre, NYC, after 329 performances, and 2 Tony Awards

Oct 3 First umpires strike in MLB history lasts one day during League Championship Series; AL and NL presidents recognise newly-formed MLB Umpires Association; negotiate labor contract
Oct 3 WAPT TV channel 16 in Jackson, MS (ABC) begins broadcasting
Oct 4 Herbert Schmidtz makes highest parachute jump from a tower by leaping from a 1,984 ft TV mast in Tulsa, Oklahoma
Oct 4 Jochen Rindt of Austria posthumously clinches Formula 1 World Drivers Championship at the US Grand Prix at Watkins Glen when contender Jacky Ickx finishes 4th; Rindt killed in a practice accident at the Italian GP at Monza 5/9/70
Oct 4 Umps return after 1-day walkout in quest of higher wages
Oct 4 WFYI TV channel 20 in Indianapolis, IN (PBS) begins broadcasting
Oct 5 American fiddle player "Papa" John Creach joins Jefferson Airplane
Oct 5 MLB Championship Series both end on the same day with same score; (AL) Baltimore Orioles beat Minnesota Twins, 3-0; (NL) Cincinnati Reds down Pittsburgh Pirates, 3-0; Orioles win WS, 4-1
Oct 5 PBS becomes a US television network.
Oct 5 Quebec separatists kidnap British trade commissioner James Cross

Nobel Prize in Literature

Oct 8 Soviet author Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn wins the Nobel Prize for Literature

Writer and Nobel Laureate Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Oct 8 The Social Democratic and Labour Party (SDLP) propose that a system of Proportional Representation (PR) should be used in elections in Northern Ireland
Oct 9 Khmer Republic (Cambodia) declares independence
Oct 10 Fiji gains independence from Britain (National Day)
Oct 12 Rock Memorabilia Auction at Filmore East

Sports History

Oct 13 2 future Basketball Hall of Famers debut; guard Calvin Murphy for San Diego Rockets in 111-96 loss in Chicago; forward Dave Cowens for Boston Celtics in 114-107 loss in New York

Oct 13 A man dies in a premature bomb explosion in Dublin, Ireland
Oct 13 Angela Davis arrested in NYC
Oct 13 USSR performs nuclear test at Sary Shagan USSR

Country Music Association Awards

Oct 14 4th Country Music Association Awards: Merle Haggard wins

Country Music Singer and Songwriter Merle Haggard

Oct 14 Cleveland Cavaliers lose to Buffalo Braves in their 1st game 107-92
Oct 14 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
Oct 14 USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR

Election of Interest

Oct 15 Anwar Sadat elected 3rd President of Egypt, succeeding the late Gamal Abdel Nasser

President of Egypt and Nobel Laureate Anwar Sadat

World Series

Oct 15 Baseball World Series: Baltimore Orioles beat Cincinnati Reds, 9-3 at Memorial Stadium to claim series, 4-1; MVP: Orioles 3B Brooks Robinson

Baseball Hall of Fame Third Baseman Brooks Robinson

Oct 15 Bridge over Yarra River in Melbourne crashes; killing 35
Oct 15 Russian passenger flight hijacked to Turkey

Event of Interest

Oct 16 Pierre Trudeau invokes the War Measures Act as a response to the October Crisis, the only peacetime use of the War Measures Act in Canadian history.

Oct 17 Anwar Sadat sworn in as the 3rd President of Egypt
Oct 18 Sachio Kinugasa begins 2,215 cons game streak for Hiroshima Carp
Oct 19 Amdahl Corp forms at Sunnyvale, California
Oct 19 John Frazier kills Ohta's declares WW 3 has begun
Oct 20 American agronomist Norman Borlaug awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for his contribution to world food supply
Oct 20 Zond 8 Launches to orbit the Moon
Oct 21 777 Unification church couples wed in Korea
Oct 21 Bernadette Devlin is released from prison having served four months of her six month sentence for riotous behaviour
Oct 21 Caledonian Airways takes over British United Airways
Oct 21 Nobel prize of peace awarded to Norman E Borlaugh
Oct 23 Charles Haughey and two others are found not guilty of illegal arms importation by a Dublin jury; the 'Arms Trial' began on 28 May 1970
Oct 23 Gary Gabelich sets auto speed record 622.4 mph (1,001 kph)

Election of Interest

Oct 24 Marxist Salvador Allende elected President of Chile by the Chilean Congress

Marxist and President of Chile Salvador Allende

Oct 24 Nancy Walker creates Ida Morgenstein role on "The Mary Tyler Moore Show"
Oct 25 Austrian driver Jochen Rindt wins F1 World Drivers Championship by 5 points from Jacky Ickx after Mexican GP; only season World Championship awarded posthumously, after Rindt's death in Italian GP practice at Monza
Oct 26 "Doonesbury" comic strip debuts in 28 newspapers
Oct 26 Tanzania begins building railway Lusaka-Drone ash Salaam
Oct 27 Musical "Light, Lively & Yiddish" opens at Belasco Theater, NYC; runs for 87 performances
Oct 28 NBA Cleveland Cavaliers 1st home game, lose to San Diego 110-99
Oct 28 US/USSR sign an agreement to discuss joint space efforts
Oct 29 The Electoral Reform Society calls for the introduction of Proportional Representation (PR) in elections in Northern Ireland
Oct 29 WYEA (now WLTZ) TV channel 38 in Columbus, GA (NBC) 1st broadcast
Oct 30 KVEW TV channel 42 in Kennewick, WA (ABC) begins broadcasting

Meeting of Interest

Oct 30 Northern Ireland Prime Minister James Chichester-Clark meets with British Home Secretary Reginald Maulling to discuss matters related to reforms and security

Prime Minister of Northern Ireland James Chichester-Clark

Oct 30 There are serious riots in the Catholic Ardoyne area of Belfast which last for three nights

Music History

Oct 31 Jim Morrison is sentenced to six months in jail and a $500 fine for indecent exposure and open profanity, though remains free on a $50,000 bond pending appeal