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Significant Events and Birthdays of 1970

Test your knowledge of significant events and notable figures from the year 1970 with this engaging quiz. Explore cultural milestones, historic trials, and birth anniversaries that shaped the year.

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1 ________ – Slim Harpo, American singer (b.

2 November 17 – Vietnam War: Lieutenant William Calley goes on trial for the ________.

3 ________ – Super Bowl IV: The Kansas City Chiefs beat the heavily favored Minnesota Vikings 23–7.

4 ________ – Mari Blanchard, American actress (b.

5 ________ – Q-Tip, American musician and actor

6 ________ – Will Arnett, Canadian actor

7 ________ – Yoshiharu Habu, Japanese professional shogi player

8 January 21 – Five lifeboatmen are killed when the ________ lifeboat Duchess of Kent capsizes during a rescue off Kinnaird's Head, Aberdeenshire.

9 ________ – Andi Peters, British TV presenter and producer

10 Sharon Corr, Irish musician (________)

💡 Interesting Facts

  • openly gay novelist Gordon Merrick's book The Lord Won't Mind spent 16 weeks on the New York Times best-seller list in 1970, at a time when most authors would not write about homosexual themes for a mass audience.
  • the British Rail flying saucer was an unbuilt nuclear fusion powered space craft, proposed and patented in the 1970s by British Rail.
  • the Sri Lanka National Pharmaceuticals Policy was established in the 1970s to ensure that Sri Lankans could get high-quality, reasonably priced medications at correct dosages, and later became a model for national drug policies worldwide.
  • former National Hockey League rookie Michel Briere's career was tragically cut short following an automobile accident in 1970.
  • former California representative Allan O. Hunter was appointed as the president and chairman of Fannie Mae by President Richard Nixon in 1970.
  • Harold E. Martin, a newspaper publisher and editor, won a Pulitzer Prize for investigative reporting in 1970 and served for twenty years on the board of the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association.
  • Typhoon Patsy (1970) was the deadliest tropical cyclone to strike Manila since the establishment of the Philippine Weather Bureau in 1865.
  • despite wild differences in subject matter, 1970s Japanese science fiction television series Akumaizer 3 features frequent allusions to Alexander Dumas' famous novel The Three Musketeers.
  • Dave Burrell's operatic live jazz album Windward Passages was his response to land development in Hawaii during the late 1970's.
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