Historical Events
The following events took place on . The list is arranged in chronological order.
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- Red Scare: General Electric announces that all communist employees will be discharged from the company.
- Trans-Canada Air Lines Flight 810, a Canadair North Star, crashes near Hope, British Columbia, Canada, killing all 62 people on board.
- The John Birch Society is founded in the United States.
- The first episode of Coronation Street, the world’s longest-running television soap opera, is broadcast in the United Kingdom.
- Tanganyika becomes independent from Britain.
- The Petrified Forest National Park is established in Arizona.
- Kecksburg UFO incident: A fireball is seen from Michigan to Pennsylvania; witnesses report something crashing in the woods near Pittsburgh. In 2005 NASA admits that it examined the object.
- A Charlie Brown Christmas, first in a series of Peanuts television specials, debuts on CBS.
- Barbados joins the United Nations.
- Douglas Engelbart gave what became known as “The Mother of All Demos”, publicly debuting the computer mouse, hypertext, and the bit-mapped graphical user interface using the oN-Line System (NLS).
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- U.S. Secretary of State William P. Rogers proposes his plan for a ceasefire in the War of Attrition; Egypt and Jordan accept it over the objections of the PLO, which leads to civil war in Jordan in September 1970.
- The United Arab Emirates join the United Nations.
- Indo-Pakistani War: The Indian Air Force executes an airdrop of Indian Army units, bypassing Pakistani defences.
- British and Irish authorities sign the Sunningdale Agreement in an attempt to establish a power-sharing Northern Ireland Executive and a cross-border Council of Ireland.
- The eradication of the smallpox virus is certified, making smallpox the first and to date only human disease driven to extinction.
- Israeli–Palestinian conflict: The First Intifada begins in the Gaza Strip and West Bank.
- The Michael Hughes Bridge in Sligo, Ireland, is officially opened.
- A blast in the center of Moscow kills six people and wounds several more.
- The Governor of Illinois, Rod Blagojevich, is arrested by federal officials for crimes including attempting to sell the U.S. Senate seat being vacated by President-elect Barack Obama’s election to the Presidency.
- At least seven are dead and 63 are injured following a train accident near Bintaro, Indonesia.
