March 19 –
Ostpolitik: The leaders of
West Germany and
East Germany meet at a summit for the first time since Germany's division into two republics. West German Chancellor
Willy Brandt is greeted by cheering East German crowds as he arrives in
Erfurt for a summit with his counterpart, East German MinisterpräsidentWilli Stoph.
March 20 – The Agency for Cultural and Technical Co-operation (
ACCT) (Agence de Coopération Culturelle et Technique) is founded.
A huge gas explosion at a
subway construction site in
Osaka, Japan, kills 79 and injures over 400.
Israeli Air Force
F-4 Phantom II fighter bombers kill 47 Egyptian school children at an elementary school in what is known as
Bahr el-Baqar massacre. The single-floor school is hit by five bombs and two air-to-ground missiles.
The French Army detonates a 914 kiloton thermonuclear device in the
Mururoa Atoll. It is the fifth in a series that started on June 15 in their program to perfect a
hydrogen bomb small enough to be delivered by a missile.
August 17 –
Venera program: Venera 7 is launched toward
Venus. It later becomes the first spacecraft successfully to transmit data from the surface of another planet.
October 5 – The
Front de libération du Québec (FLQ) kidnaps British trade commissioner
James Cross in Montreal and demands release of all imprisoned FLQ members, beginning
Quebec's
October Crisis. The next day the Canadian government announces that it will not meet the demand.
October 30 – In
Vietnam, the worst
monsoon to hit the area in six years causes large
floods, kills 293, leaves 200,000 homeless and virtually halts the
Vietnam War.
The
1970 Bhola cyclone makes landfall in modern-day Bangladesh around high tide, causing $86.4 million in damage (1970
USD, $576 million 2020 USD) and becomes the world's deadliest storm killing over 500,000 people.
November 5 – Vietnam War: The United States Military Assistance Command in
Vietnam reports the lowest weekly American soldier death toll in five years (24 soldiers die this week, which is the fifth consecutive week the death toll is below 50; 431 are reported wounded in the week, however).
Vietnam War: The
Supreme Court of the United States votes 6–3 not to hear a case by the state of
Massachusetts about the constitutionality of a state law granting Massachusetts residents the right to refuse military service in an undeclared war.
The Soviet Union enters the
International Civil Aviation Organization, after having resisted joining the UN Agency for more than 25 years.
Russian becomes the fourth official language of the ICAO.
November 20 – 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, in protest at the entry of separate black and white contestants by
South Africa.
Vietnam War –
Operation Ivory Coast: A joint
Air Force and Army team raids the
Sơn Tây prison camp in an attempt to free American
POWs thought to be held there (no Americans are killed, but the prisoners have already moved to another camp; all U.S. POWs are moved to a handful of central prison complexes as a result of this raid).
November 22 –
Guinean president
Ahmed Sékou Touré accuses Portugal of an
attack when hundreds of mercenaries land near the capital
Conakry. The Guinean army repels the landing attempts over the next three days.
November 25–
29 – A U.N. delegation arrives to investigate the Guinea situation.
November 25 – In Tokyo, author and
Tatenokai militia leader
Yukio Mishima and his followers take over the headquarters of the
Japan Self-Defense Forces in an attempted
coup d'état. After Mishima's speech fails to sway public opinion towards his right-wing political beliefs, including restoration of the powers of the
Emperor, he commits
seppuku (public ritual suicide).
October Crisis: In
Montreal, kidnapped British trade commissioner
James Cross is released by the
Front de libération du Québec terrorist group after being held hostage for 60 days. Police negotiate his release and in return the Government of Canada grants 5 terrorists from the FLQ's Chenier Cell their request for safe passage to
Cuba.
Burgos Trial: In
Burgos, Spain, the trial of 16
Basque terrorism suspects begins.
^John A. Drobnicki, "Sawchuk, Terrance Gordon ('Terry')," in The Scribner Encyclopedia of American Lives, Thematic Series: Sports Figures (Scribner's, 2002), Vol. 2, pp. 335-336.
^Roswitha Schmid; Hans Adolf Krebs (1981). Otto Warburg: Cell Physiologist, Biochemist, and Eccentric. Clarendon Press. p. v.
^Davis, Rebecca (2013). Blind Owl Blues: The Mysterious Life and Death of Blues Legend Alan Wilson. Blind Owl Blues. pp. 229, 243.
ISBN978-0-615-79298-9.
^Dean Hayes (2006). England: The Football Facts. Michael O'Mara. p. 43.
March 19 –
Ostpolitik: The leaders of
West Germany and
East Germany meet at a summit for the first time since Germany's division into two republics. West German Chancellor
Willy Brandt is greeted by cheering East German crowds as he arrives in
Erfurt for a summit with his counterpart, East German MinisterpräsidentWilli Stoph.
March 20 – The Agency for Cultural and Technical Co-operation (
ACCT) (Agence de Coopération Culturelle et Technique) is founded.
A huge gas explosion at a
subway construction site in
Osaka, Japan, kills 79 and injures over 400.
Israeli Air Force
F-4 Phantom II fighter bombers kill 47 Egyptian school children at an elementary school in what is known as
Bahr el-Baqar massacre. The single-floor school is hit by five bombs and two air-to-ground missiles.
The French Army detonates a 914 kiloton thermonuclear device in the
Mururoa Atoll. It is the fifth in a series that started on June 15 in their program to perfect a
hydrogen bomb small enough to be delivered by a missile.
August 17 –
Venera program: Venera 7 is launched toward
Venus. It later becomes the first spacecraft successfully to transmit data from the surface of another planet.
October 5 – The
Front de libération du Québec (FLQ) kidnaps British trade commissioner
James Cross in Montreal and demands release of all imprisoned FLQ members, beginning
Quebec's
October Crisis. The next day the Canadian government announces that it will not meet the demand.
October 30 – In
Vietnam, the worst
monsoon to hit the area in six years causes large
floods, kills 293, leaves 200,000 homeless and virtually halts the
Vietnam War.
The
1970 Bhola cyclone makes landfall in modern-day Bangladesh around high tide, causing $86.4 million in damage (1970
USD, $576 million 2020 USD) and becomes the world's deadliest storm killing over 500,000 people.
November 5 – Vietnam War: The United States Military Assistance Command in
Vietnam reports the lowest weekly American soldier death toll in five years (24 soldiers die this week, which is the fifth consecutive week the death toll is below 50; 431 are reported wounded in the week, however).
Vietnam War: The
Supreme Court of the United States votes 6–3 not to hear a case by the state of
Massachusetts about the constitutionality of a state law granting Massachusetts residents the right to refuse military service in an undeclared war.
The Soviet Union enters the
International Civil Aviation Organization, after having resisted joining the UN Agency for more than 25 years.
Russian becomes the fourth official language of the ICAO.
November 20 – 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, in protest at the entry of separate black and white contestants by
South Africa.
Vietnam War –
Operation Ivory Coast: A joint
Air Force and Army team raids the
Sơn Tây prison camp in an attempt to free American
POWs thought to be held there (no Americans are killed, but the prisoners have already moved to another camp; all U.S. POWs are moved to a handful of central prison complexes as a result of this raid).
November 22 –
Guinean president
Ahmed Sékou Touré accuses Portugal of an
attack when hundreds of mercenaries land near the capital
Conakry. The Guinean army repels the landing attempts over the next three days.
November 25–
29 – A U.N. delegation arrives to investigate the Guinea situation.
November 25 – In Tokyo, author and
Tatenokai militia leader
Yukio Mishima and his followers take over the headquarters of the
Japan Self-Defense Forces in an attempted
coup d'état. After Mishima's speech fails to sway public opinion towards his right-wing political beliefs, including restoration of the powers of the
Emperor, he commits
seppuku (public ritual suicide).
October Crisis: In
Montreal, kidnapped British trade commissioner
James Cross is released by the
Front de libération du Québec terrorist group after being held hostage for 60 days. Police negotiate his release and in return the Government of Canada grants 5 terrorists from the FLQ's Chenier Cell their request for safe passage to
Cuba.
Burgos Trial: In
Burgos, Spain, the trial of 16
Basque terrorism suspects begins.
^John A. Drobnicki, "Sawchuk, Terrance Gordon ('Terry')," in The Scribner Encyclopedia of American Lives, Thematic Series: Sports Figures (Scribner's, 2002), Vol. 2, pp. 335-336.
^Roswitha Schmid; Hans Adolf Krebs (1981). Otto Warburg: Cell Physiologist, Biochemist, and Eccentric. Clarendon Press. p. v.
^Davis, Rebecca (2013). Blind Owl Blues: The Mysterious Life and Death of Blues Legend Alan Wilson. Blind Owl Blues. pp. 229, 243.
ISBN978-0-615-79298-9.
^Dean Hayes (2006). England: The Football Facts. Michael O'Mara. p. 43.