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1970

April 17, 1970: Apollo 13 astronauts safely return after near-catastrophe

April 24, 1970: China launches its first orbital satellite

April 30, 1970: U.S. President Nixon announces that 2,000 U.S. troops have crossed into Cambodia, says "This is not an invasion."

right: April 1, 1970: AMC introduces the Gremlin

The following events occurred in April 1970:

April 1, 1970 (Wednesday)

• Sixty-one of the 82 persons aboard a Royal Air Maroc Caravelle twin-jet were killed when the aircraft crashed on its approach to Nouasseur Airport near Casablanca . The passengers were returning from the vacation resort of Agadir on a one-stop flight to Paris .
• All 45 people on Aeroflot Flight 1661 were killed after the plane collided with a weather balloon at an altitude of 5,400 metres (17,700 ft), severing the nose section and sending the plane into an uncontrollable descent. The Antonov An-24B had departed Novosibirsk 25 minutes earlier, at 3:42 in the morning, and was bound for Krasnoyarsk
• U.S. President Richard M. Nixon signed the Public Health Cigarette Smoking Act into law, banning cigarette television and radio advertisements in the United States effective January 2, 1971. The "one, big last day" on January 1 was permitted by Congress to allow television networks to get tobacco revenue for the college football bowl games on New Year's Day
• American Motors Corporation introduced the Gremlin.
• The 1970 United States Census began to count on all persons residing in the U.S.; the final tally was that there were 203,392,031 United States residents on April 1, 1970.
• Died: U.S. Army Brigadier General William R. Bond, 51, was shot and killed by a Viet Cong sniper, moments after stepping off of a helicopter to inspect a patrol in the Bình Thủy District of South Vietnam . General Bond, the commander of the 199th Infantry Brigade, became the highest ranking American officer (and the only U.S. general) to be killed in combat on the ground. Four other generals had been killed in aircraft crashes.

April 2, 1970 (Thursday)

• Massachusetts declares Vietnam War unconstitutional http://todayinclh.com/?event=massachusetts-declares-vietnam-war-unconstitutional (Massachusetts v. Laird)
• https://www.gettyimages.com/detail/news-photo/actor-geoge-c-scott-at-the-premiere-of-patton-on-april-2-news-photo/171631304 PATTON

April 3, 1970 (Friday)

• In South Korea, the Japanese Red Army terrorist group accepted a proposal that Japan's Vice Minister for Transport, Shinjiro Yamamura, take the place of the remaining 100 passengers held captive on Japan Airlines Flight 351 . The Boeing 727 jet had been hijacked 79 hours earlier while enroute from Tokyo to Fukuoka, and the crew had landed at the Kimpo airfield outside of Seoul rather than acceding to the nine hijackers' demand that they be flown to North Korea. The jet then flew onward to the Pyongyang airport in North Korea with Yamamura and the crew of three . Yamamura and flight crew Shinji Isida, Teiichi Esaki and Toshio Aihara were allowed to fly the Boeing 727 from Pyongyang back to Tokyo the next day .
• Died: Faysal al-Shaabi, 31, Prime Minister of South Yemen during 1969 until being ousted in a coup, was "shot while trying to escape" a week after being transferred from house arrest to a government detention camp .

April 4, 1970 (Saturday)

• Fragments of burnt human remains believed to be those of Adolf Hitler, Eva Braun, Joseph Goebbels, Magda Goebbels and the Goebbels children were crushed and scattered in the Biederitz river at a KGB center in Magdeburg, East Germany. https://www.newsweek.com/tales-myth-file-183268

https://warfarehistorynetwork.com/daily/wwii/scattered-ashes-eva-brauns-final-resting-place/ https://books.google.com/books?id=gKbNF1BnCRgC&pg=PA238&lpg=PA238&dq=%22on+april+4,+1970%22+-newspapers+-born&source=bl&ots=09Y20o8lbY&sig=ACfU3U19GRvYIky3OgP8qGuztLhD4WkRUw&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjvn7jamc7jAhVHCc0KHVzGAWw4FBDoATABegQICRAB#v=onepage&q=%22on%20april%204%2C%201970%22%20-newspapers%20-born&f=false Michael R. Beschloss, The Conquerors: Roosevelt, Truman and the Destruction of Hitler's Germany, 1941-1945 (Simon and Schuster, 2002) p238

• https://www.rivertowns.net/sports/other/4560493-one-ages-ritger-part-pbas-no-1-greatest-moment "One for the ages: Ritger part of PBA's No. 1 Greatest Moment" Don Johnson collapsed on the alley after leaving the 10-pin standing to finish with a 299 in the finals of the 1970 Firestone Tournament of Champions... Johnson meanwhile rammed in 11 straight strikes to clinch the title. Waiting for him was a $10,000 bonus and a brand new Lincoln Mercury Cougar if he could register a perfect game. But after throwing what appeared to be another perfect ball on his last delivery, the 10 pin stood,
• https://blogs.weta.org/boundarystones/2017/03/02/silent-majority-storm-national-mall "The Silent Majority Storm The National Mall", WETA.org The March for Victory on April 4, 1970 marked the era’s largest pro-war demonstration, attracting about 50,000 protesters.
• Burbank, Illinois https://www.lib.niu.edu/1990/im900807.html "Burbank, "New Kid on the Block"

Marks 20th Year" citizens voted 4,071 to 1,552 on April 4, 1970 to form the City of Burbank.

• Born: Barry Pepper, Canadian film and Emmy-award winning television actor; in Campbell River, British Columbia

April 5, 1970 (Sunday)

• Newhall incident https://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-newhall-massacre-20160709-snap-story.html

https://scvhistory.com/scvhistory/chp-newhall-incident.htm http://archive.signalscv.com/archives/11568/  https://www.officer.com/home/article/10249630/april-6-1970

• Twenty-seven people were treated at the Memorial Hospital of California in Los Angeles for food poisoning after ingesting the hallucinogen LSD on potato chips served at a private party . The 27, eight of whom were admitted, were among 40 who were taken by the Los Angeles County sheriff's department after being called to the festivities at the South Bay Club, a "singles apartment" complex for unmarried persons in Playa Del Rey, California, where 200 guests were attending a party for a departing tenant. One of the people identified as a guest would later be arrested and sentenced to six years to life in prison after pleading guilty
• Died:
  • Alfred Sturtevant, 78, American genetecist known as the discoverer of genetic mapping
  • Karl von Spreti, 63, West Germany's ambassador to Guatemala, was murdered five days after he was kidnapped by the terrorist group Fuerzas Armadas Rebeldes ("Rebel Armed Forces"). The Guatemalan government refused FAR's demand that 22 FAR members be released from prison, along with the payment of USD $700,000 in cash, and Spreti was killed by a single gunshot to his head .

April 6, 1970 (Monday)

The King and his Bentley

• BBC Radio 4 broadcast the first edition of PM.
• King Frederik IX of Denmark overturned his Bentley convertible automobile while driving on a Copenhagen street, but was not seriously injured. After climbing out of his car, which skidded on a slippery street.. hit the curb and landed on its side", the King rode part of the way back to the Amalienberg Palace in an ambulance, then asked the driver to stop, got out, and walked the rest of the way, "apparently wary that his arrival by ambulance might cause alarm."
• Died:
  • Dr. Sam Sheppard, 46, American neurosurgeon who had served 12 years in prison after being wrongfully convicted of murdering his wife; from encephalopathy associated with his consumption of alcohol.
  • El Deif Ahmed, 33, Egyptian comedian and film actor and part of the film trio Tholathy Adwa'a El Masrah; from a heart attack

April 7, 1970 (Tuesday)

• The Academy Awards were presented, and Midnight Cowboy became the first (and to date, the only) X-rated film to receive the Oscar for Best Picture, and its director John Schlesinger was voted the award for Best Director. Screen legend John Wayne received his first and only Oscar for Best Actor, for his performance as Rooster Cogburn in the Western True Grit https://www.latimes.com/visuals/framework/la-me-fw-archives-oscars-manufacture-20170209-story.html
• Major League Baseball returned to Milwaukee, and the Milwaukee Brewers played their first game, only seven days after existing as the Seattle Pilots. Milwaukee's previous major team, the Milwaukee Braves, had played their final game on September 12, 1965, before relocating to Atlanta

https://www.ballparksofbaseball.com/ballparks/milwaukee-county-stadium/ The Brewers lost to the California Angels, 12 to 0, before a crowd of 36,107 at Milwaukee County Stadium.

• The town of McIntosh, Alabama, was incorporated https://mcintoshal.com/

April 8, 1970 (Wednesday)

• A huge gas explosion at a subway construction site in Osaka, Japan killed 79 people and injured over 400. The explosions took place at about 5:30 p.m. during the evening rush hour .
• Israeli Air Force F-4 Phantom II fighter bombers killed 47 Egyptian school children at an elementary school in what is known as Bahr el-Baqar massacre. The single-floor school was hit by five bombs and two air-to-ground missiles.
• By a vote of 51 against and 45 in favor, the United States Senate rejected the nomination of G. Harold Carswell to become a justice on the United States Supreme Court .
• Born: Andrej Plenković, Prime Minister of Croatia since 2016; in Zagreb, SR Croatia, Yugoslavia
• Died:
  • Prince Felix of Bourbon-Parma, 76, Prince Consort of Luxembourg as the husband of the European nation's ruler, Grand Duchess Charlotte, from 1919 until her abdication in 1964
  • Julius Pokorny, 82, Austro-Hungarian born Swiss linguist; from injuries sustained after being struck by a train

April 9, 1970 (Thursday)

• Only two days before the scheduled liftoff of the Apollo 13 lunar mission, command module pilot Thomas K. Mattingly was removed from the crew and replaced by the backup CM pilot, John L. Swigert Jr. . The alternative, to liftoff on April 11 with a replacement crew member would have been to postpone the launch to the next favorable launch date, May 9. A pre-launch physical examination showed that Mattingly had contracted rubella (also called German measles) after exposure to the disease from another member of the backup crew, Charles M. Duke Jr. (who, in turn, had contracted the disease from one of his children).

April 10, 1970 (Friday)

• In a press release written in mock-interview style, included in promotional copies of his first solo album, Paul McCartney announced that he had left The Beatles.
• Born: Q-tip (stage name for Kamaal ibn John Fareed), American hip-hop rapper and producer; as Jonathan William Davis, in Harlem, New York City

April 11, 1970 (Saturday)

• Apollo 13, carrying astronauts Jim Lovell, Fred Haise and Jack Swigert, was launched from Cape Kennedy at 2:13 in the afternoon local time (19:13 UTC), with plans to make the third manned landing on the Moon, and what would have been the first to explore the lunar highlands.
• Born: Trevor Linden, Canadian ice hockey player who had a 19-season career in the NHL; in Medicine Hat, Alberta
• Died: Cathy O'Donnell (stage name for Ann Steely), 46, American film actress; from cancer

April 12, 1970 (Sunday)

• , Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, April 13, 1970, p1

April 13, 1970 (Monday)

• At 10:07 in the evening EST (April 14 03:07 UTC), an oxygen tank in the Apollo 13 spacecraft exploded on the third day of the mission, forcing the crew to abort the mission and to attempt a safe return to Earth . Astronaut Lovell reported that two of the power-producing cells were failing; after 93 minutes, astronaut Haise reported that oxygen pressure in the command module was dropping, and by 11:59 p.m., Mission Control determined that the three LM fuel cells had failed, that only 15 minutes of electrical power remained, and that the crew should transfer immediately to the lunar module
• Born:
  • Ricky Schroder, American film and television child actor known for Silver Spoons; later at age 28 (as Rick Schroder), on NYPD Blue; in Brooklyn
  • Eduardo Capetillo, Mexican telenovela actor and pop singer; in Mexico City
• Died: Merriman Smith, 57, American journalist and senior White House correspondent for United Press International, shot himself at his home

April 14, 1970 (Tuesday)

• U.S. President Nixon made his third nomination to replace the vacancy on the United States Supreme Court that had existed since the resignation of Abe Fortas. The new nominee, in the wake of the failure of Clement Haynsworth and G. Harrold Carswell to receive confirmation, was Judge Harry A. Blackmun
• NASA canceled the scheduled landing of Apollo 13 on the Moon and began new calculations for a course that could swing the spacecraft around the Moon and then bring the command module and lunar module back to Earth; by 9:30 p.m., the ship had completed its circuit of the Moon and fired the engines to speed the spacecraft back toward the Earth .
• Born: Shizuka Kudo, Japanese actress and pop music singer with 11 number one hits on the Oricon Singles Chart; in Hamura, Tokyo

April 15, 1970 (Wednesday)

• https://www.scienceabc.com/nature/universe/farthest-humans-have-gone-space-apollo-13-moon-254-km.html "In order to return to Earth safely, the support team (back at Houston) advised the team to pilot the shuttle into a free return trajectory, using the Moon’s gravity as a slingshot to return to Earth. To achieve this, the shuttle passed over the far, or “dark” side of the Moon at an altitude of 254 kilometers (158 miles) from the lunar surface, making it the farthest that humans have ever traversed into the vast expanse of space. This landmark was attained on April 15, 1970 at 0:21 UTC. It has been more than 4 decades since that historic moment of 1970, and we haven’t been able to surpass that record yet."
• https://www.spaceline.org/flightchron/apollo13.html The S-IVB impacted the Moon on April 15, 1970 at a point about 85 miles from the seismometer planted on the lunar surface by the Apollo 12 astronauts. Unfortunately, the S-IVB would be the only Apollo 13 spacecraft to reach the lunar surface in what became the most dramatic flight in the history of the U.S. space program.
• http://inthesetimes.com/article/3803/war_crimes_hunter Liberation Press Agency – the communications wing of the Provisional Revolutionary Government (PRG) – reported that U.S. Marines “shot 38 persons[,] mostly women and children[,] in Le Bac hamlet, Quang Nam Province on April 15, 1970.”
• https://www.bcca.com/canvention-history/ Denver Wright, Jr., placed an ad in the St. Louis Globe Democrat asking anyone who collected beer cans to contact him. Six collectors in the area responded. After they had toured each others’ collections, the group decided to form the Beer Can Collectors of America at Denver’s residence on April 15, 1970. Brewery Collectibles Club of America
• Born: Flex Alexander, American actor and comedian; as Mark Alexander Knox in Harlem, New York City
• Died: Roger Hagberg, 31, American pro football player and running back for the Oakland Raiders since 1965, was killed after being struck by a car in Lafayette, California.

April 16, 1970 (Thursday)

• At 1:10 in the morning local time, an avalanche buried a tuberculosis sanatorium in the French Alps near Sallanches, killing 74 people. The avalanche, 600 feet (180 m) wide, swept down the Plateau d'Assy and struck the children's wing of the hospital and two nursing dormitories, with a 60 feet (18 m) wide wall of snow . Most of the dead were boys under the age of 15, who were asleep when the disaster struck
• Two Protestant ministers with extremist views regarding majority rule in Northern Ireland, were elected to the Stormont, the House of Commons of Northern Ireland . Reverend Ian Paisley and his assistant, Reverend William Beattie, both of the Unionist Party, defeated Labour candidates in a by-election to fill the vacancies.
• The National Westminster Bank began operations in the United Kingdom.
• Died: Richard Neutra, 78, Austrian-American architect

April 17, 1970 (Friday)

• Apollo 13 splashed down safely in the South Pacific Ocean near American Samoa, and was recovered by the amphibious assault ship USS Iwo Jima . Astronauts Jim Lovell, Jack Swigert and Fred Haise reported that they were exhausted because the intense cold during the return trip had prevented them from sleeping.
• Born: Redman (stage name for Reginald Noble), American rap artist; in Newark, New Jersey
• Died: Alexius I, Patriarch of Moscow and all of Russia, 92, Russian Orthodox cleric and the highest ranking religious leader authorized by the Soviet Union from 1945 until his death.

April 18, 1970 (Saturday)

• Born:
  • Saad Hariri, Prime Minister of Lebanon from 2009 to 2011 and again from 2016 to present; as the son of Lebanese politician (and later Prime Minister) Rafic Hariri in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
  • Heike Friedrich, East German swimmer who held the women's record for the 200m freestyle from 1986 to 1994; winner of two gold medals in the 1988 Summer Olympics and four in the 1986 world championships
• Died: Michał Kalecki, 70, Polish economist and neo-Marxian economics theorist

April 19, 1970 (Sunday)

• "Rojas Claim Met By Martial Law", Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, April 22, 1970, p1
• Born: Luis Miguel (stage name for Luis Miguel Gallego), U.S.-born Mexican pop singer and one of the most successful recording artists in Latin American history; in San Juan, Puerto Rico

April 20, 1970 (Monday)

• Elections were held in Colombia for a new President and for the Senate and the Chamber of Representatives. Pursuant to an agreement that Colombia's Conservative Party and Liberal Party would alternate control of the presidency, all four of the candidates were from factions of the Conservative Party, and none won a majority. Misael Pastrana Borrero, formerly Colombia's ambassador to the United States, received 1,625,025 votes (40.7%) of those cast. His closest challenger, former President Gustavo Rojas Pinilla of the ANAPO (Alianza Nacional Popular, the National Popular Alliance) faction, had 1,561,468 or 39.1 % of the votes. Charging fraud, Rojas Pinilla threatened to capture the presidency by force (as he had done in a 1953 military coup) and President Carlos Lleras Restrepo placed the country under martial law the next day
• Born:
  • Adriano Moraes, Brazilian professional bull rider with four world titles in professional rodeo; in Quintana, São Paulo
  • Shemar Moore, American television actor known for The Young and the Restless; in Oakland

April 21, 1970 (Tuesday)

• All 36 people on Philippine Airlines Flight 215 were killed in a crash caused by a bomb explosion in the in the aircraft's restroom at an altitude of 10,500 feet (3,200 m) . The Hawker Siddeley HS-748 had departed from Cauayan on a 174 miles (280 km) to Manila .
• The Principality of Hutt River "seceded" from Australia. The micronation would go unrecognized by Australia and by every other nation on Earth.
• Born:
  • Rob Riggle, American comedian known for Saturday Night Live; also a Lieutenant Colonel in the U.S. Marines reserve; in Louisville, Kentucky
  • Nicole Sullivan, American comedian and actress known for MADtv and for 'The King of Queens; in Los Angeles

April 22, 1970 (Wednesday)

• Earth Day was celebrated in the United States for the first time. The Associated Press reported the next day, "Across the nation, trash was gathered, streets swept, ponds and parks cleaned, trees and flowers planted" as "youth joined hands with age across the generation gap".
• Born: Regine Velasquez, best-selling Philippine singer and award winning actress; in Manila

April 23, 1970 (Thursday)

• U.S. President Nixon issued an Executive Order ending any future deferment from the military draft based on occupation, agriculture or fatherhood.

April 24, 1970 (Friday)

• The People's Republic of China became the sixth nation to launch a satellite into Earth orbit, as the spacecraft Dong Fang Hong 1 was sent up using the Changzheng-1 (CZ-1) rocket (named for the Long March) . The 346 pounds (157 kg) spacecraft, named for China's national anthem "The East Is Red", transmitted the song continuously as it made an orbit of the Earth every 114 minutes.
• The West African nation of Gambia became a republic shortly before midnight, after certification of the results of a four day long referendum; Gambian voters approved the measure by more than the required two-thirds needed under the former British colony's constitution, with 84,968 in favor and 35,638 against
• The 452nd and final episode of the American western anthology series Death Valley Days was shown on syndicated television, bringing an end to the program after 18 seasons . The series had been broadcast at different times by American television stations since October 1, 1952.

April 25, 1970 (Saturday)

• Born: Jason Lee, American TV and film actor, known as the star of My Name Is Earl; in Santa Ana, California

April 26, 1970 (Sunday)

• The Convention Establishing the World Intellectual Property Organization" went into effect, a little less than three years after it had been adopted at Stockholm on July 14, 1967.
• Company, a Broadway musical with music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim, began the first of 706 performances at the Alvin Theatre. It would win six Tony Awards, including best musical, best music and best lyrics.
• Born:
  • Melania Trump, Yugoslavian-born model and First Lady of the United States, since 2017, as the wife of U.S. President Donald Trump; as Melanija Knavs in Novo Mesto, SR Slovenia
  • T-Boz (stage name for Tionne Watkins), Grammy Award winning American R & B singer; in Des Moines, Iowa
• Died:
  • Gypsy Rose Lee (stage name for Rose Hovick), 59, American striptease artist and mystery novelist; from lung cancer. In one obituary, she was celebrated as being an artist who "kept the crowd entertained and titillated without removing much more than her gloves" She was the inspiration for the Broadway musical Gypsy, her novel The G-String Murders was made into a film of the same name.
  • Francisco Cunha Leal, 81, Prime Minister of Portugal for seven weeks in 1920 and 1921

April 27, 1970 (Monday)

https://www.submerged.co.uk/the-glen-strathallen/ Glen Strathallan

April 28, 1970 (Tuesday)

• Born:
  • Nicklas Lidström, Swedish ice hockey defense man, seven-time winner of the NHL Norris Trophy over a 20 year career for the Detroit Red Wings, and Olympic gold medalist for Sweden in 2006; in Krylbo, Avesta Municipality
  • Diego Simeone, Argentine soccer football midfielder with 106 appearances for the national team in 14 years, later the manager for Spain's Atletico Madrid team; in Buenos Aires
• Died: Ed Begley, 69, American film actor and winner of the 1962 Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor; father of film and TV star Ed Begley Jr.

April 29, 1970 (Wednesday)

• U.S. President Nixon announced that the U.S. was expanding the Vietnam War into neighboring Cambodia, with aerial bombardment of suspected Viet Cong and North Vietnamese Army units, providing military support to South Vietnamese troop invasion, and sending American military advisers . The decision led to massive antiwar protests across the United States.
• http://www.nbcnews.com/id/28889514/ns/world_news-europe/t/did-australians-try-kill-uk-queen-crash/#.XTiqjvJKhph Did Australians try to kill U.K. queen in crash? Ex-cop claims log was deliberately placed across train tracks during '70 visit

(updated 1/28/2009 6:02:10 AM ET Print Font: SYDNEY, Australia — Britain's Queen Elizabeth II narrowly escaped disaster in 1970 when a large wooden)

• Born:
  • Andre Agassi, American professional tennis player, winner of eight men's Grand Slam event titles, and ATP-ranked #1 in the world six tiems between 1995 and 2003; in Las Vegas
  • Uma Thurman, American film actress and model; in Boston
• Died: Charles R. Chickering, 78, American freelance artist whose designs included many of the postage stamps issued by the U.S. Department of the Post Office.

April 30, 1970 (Thursday)

• In a nationally televised address to the nation, U.S. President Nixon announced that he had sent 2,000 American combat troops into Cambodia and ordering U.S. B-52 bombers to begin airstrikes. Despite appearances, Nixon told viewers "This is not an invasion of Cambodia." Instead, Nixon explained, the attacks were upon territory in Cambodia that were "completely occupied and controlled by North Vietnamese forces." By the time the President's speech started at 9:00 in the evening Washington time, the U.S. operations in Cambodia had already been underway for two hours .
• Born: Halit Ergenç, Turkish TV, film and stage actor; in Istanbul
• Died: Inger Stevens, 35, Swedish-born American film and TV actress; of suicide by barbiturate overdose