Events Date 1970 P 4 | History by KabAstro

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Test Cricket's Leading Run Scorer

Nov 29 England cricket batsman Colin Cowdrey reaches 22 on Day 3 of the drawn 1st Test against Australia in Brisbane to become Test Cricket's leading run scorer; passes countryman Wally Hammond's world Test-record aggregate of 7,249 runs

Yale-Princeton Football Game

Nov 29 Modernist composer Charles Ives' "Yale-Princeton Football Game", a two-minute piece written in 1897 premieres

Dec 1 Independent People's Republic of South Yemen renames itself as People's Democratic Republic of Yemen
Dec 1 Luis Echeverria Alvarez sworn in as president of Mexico
Dec 2 British composer Michael Tippett's opera "The Knot Garden" premieres at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, London, England
Dec 2 Environmental Protection Agency begins in the US under Director William Ruckelshaus
Dec 3 Claude Ruel resigns as coach of the NHL Montreal Canadiens; replacement Al MacNeil leads Habs to a Stanley Cup championship 5 months later
Dec 3 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
Dec 4 Unemployment in US increases to 5.8%
Dec 5 NFL Los Angeles Rams running back Willie Ellison sets NFL record of 247 yards rushing
Dec 5 Premiere of Dario Fo's Morte accidentale di un anarchico
Dec 5 Stanley Cup, Conn Smythe Trophy & Bill Masterson Trophy stolen from Hockey Hall of Fame
Dec 6 Cleveland Cavaliers 1st NBA home victory, beating Buffalo Braves 108-106
Dec 7 Taizan Maezumi Roshi, head of LA Zen Center, receives dharma
Dec 7 West Germany & Poland normalize relations
Dec 8 Head of the Catholic Church in Ireland Cardinal William Conway publishes a pamphlet on the topic of segregation in education in Northern Ireland
Dec 9 Dutch Antilles: government of Petronia falls
Dec 9 OPEC meeting in Caracas establishes 55 percent as minimum tax rate and demands that posted prices be changed to reflect changes in foreign exchange rates
Dec 10 North American Soccer League awards NY & Toronto franchises

Solzhenitsyn Doesn't Claim Nobel

Dec 10 Soviet novelist Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn chooses not to claim his Nobel Prize in Literature for fear that the USSR would prevent his return afterwards. Accepts in 1974 after he was deported.

Writer and Nobel Laureate Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Dec 11 Start of the 1st Test match at the WACA, Australia v England
Dec 12 Polish government proclaims price rise
Dec 12 Small Astronomy Satellite Explorer 42 launched to study X-rays
Dec 12 USSR performs underground nuclear test

Chappell's Debut Century

Dec 13 Greg Chappell scores 108 on Test debut v England at the WACA

Gingerbread Lady

Dec 13 Neil Simon's play "Gingerbread Lady" starring Maureen Stapleton (Tony Award Best Actress), premieres on Broadway in NYC

Dec 15 Illinois State Constitution is adopted at a special election
Dec 15 Robert Wilson and Alan Lloyd's musical theatre work "Deafman Glance" first performance at Center for New Performing Arts in Iowa City, Iowa
Dec 15 South Korean ferry Namyong-Ho sinks in Strait of Korea, 308 killed
Dec 15 Soviet Venera 7 is 1st spacecraft to land on another planet (Venus)

Smith Wins Inaugural Season

Dec 15 Stan Smith and Rod Laver finish with 4-1 records atop inaugural season ending ATP Masters Grand Prix tennis standings in Tokyo, Japan; Smith wins event after beating Laver 4–6, 6–3, 6–4 in the rounds

Dec 15 Striking shipyard workers in Gdańsk, Poland set ablaze the ruling Provincial Committee's building; responding soldiers kill 8
Dec 16 "Love Story" film based on the novel by Erich Segal, directed by Arthur Hiller and starring Ryan O'Neal and Ali McGraw is released
Dec 16 Polish Vice-Prime Minister Stanisław Kociołek, condemns labor protesters and calls for the workers to get back to work, in a televised speech
Dec 16 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
Dec 17 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
Dec 17 USSR performs nuclear test at the Semipalatinsk Test Site in northeast Kazakhstan
Dec 17 Workers returning to shipyard in Gdynia, Poland are met by soldiers who shoot at the crowd, killing at least 18, wounding hundreds
Dec 18 Polish uprising fails
Dec 18 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
Dec 20 Edward Gierek succeeds Wladyslaw Gomulka as Poland's communist party leader

Elvis Meets Nixon

Dec 21 Elvis Presley meets US President Richard Nixon in the White House - the image of this meeting is the most requested photo from the entire National Archives

Richad Nixon meets Elvis Presley at the White House, December 21, 1970

Dec 21 Oregon v. Mitchell Supreme Court case was decided, lowering the minimum voting age in U.S. federal elections to 18. The voting age for state and local elections was left to states discretion
Dec 21 WUTV TV channel 29 in Buffalo, NY (IND) begins broadcasting
Dec 22 Treblinka SS commander Franz Stangl sentenced to life imprisonment

Mousetrap Sets Record

Dec 23 7,511th performance of Agatha Christie's play "The Mousetrap" (record) in London's West End

Dec 23 A Protestant man is shot dead at his home in Belfast, North Ireland
Dec 23 French author Régis Debray freed in Bolivia
Dec 23 NYC World Trade Center reaches highest point (411 m)
Dec 23 USSR performs nuclear test
Dec 24 9 Jews are convicted in Leningrad of hijacking a plane
Dec 24 Walt Disney releases animated musical "The Aristocats" featuring voices of Phil Harris, Eva Gabor, Hermione Baddeley, Sterling Holloway, and Scatman Crothers
Dec 28 Yemen Arab Republic (North Yemen) adopts constitution

Award to Gerd Müller

Dec 29 Ballon d'Or: Bayern Munich striker Gerd Müller wins award for best European football player ahead of West Ham United defender Bobby Moore and Cagliari forward Luigi Riva

Dec 29 Occupational Safety and Health Act (United States) signed into law by President Richard M. Nixon
Dec 30 The financial cost of the disturbances and riots in Northern Ireland during 1969 and 1970 are today estimated to be £5.5 million