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1970 Calendar Trivia

The next time you can reuse this calendar will be on year 2026. Both calendars will be exactly the same! This is assuming you are not interested in the dates for Easter and other irregular holidays that are based on a solar cycle.

April 4 (4/4), June 6 (6/6), August 8 (8/8), October 10 (10/10), December 12 (12/12), and the last day of February always fall on the same day of the week in any given year. This is called the ‘Doomsday rule’. Check these dates using the full 12-month calendar below to verify.

1970 Calendar

Historical Events Of 1970

• February 6, 1970 – New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Metal Dog in Chinese astrology.
• March 18, 1970 – The U.S. postal strike of 1970 begins, one of the largest wildcat strikes in U.S. history.
• April 1, 1970 – President Richard Nixon signs the Public Health Cigarette Smoking Act into law, requiring the Surgeon General’s warnings on tobacco products and banning cigarette advertising on television and radio in the United States, starting on January 1, 1971.
• May 11, 1970 – The Lubbock tornado, a F5 tornado, hits Lubbock, Texas, killing 26 and causing $250 million in damage.
• May 15, 1970 – Philip Lafayette Gibbs and James Earl Green are killed at Jackson State University by police during student protests.
• May 24, 1970 – The drilling of the Kola Superdeep Borehole begins in the Soviet Union.
• July 12, 1970 – A fire consumes the wooden home of Norwegian composer Geirr Tveitt and irretrievably destroys about 90 percent of his output.
• September 2, 1970 – NASA announces the cancellation of two Apollo missions to the Moon, Apollo 15 (the designation is re-used by a later mission), and Apollo 19.
• September 30, 1970 – Jordan makes a deal with the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) for the release of the remaining hostages from the Dawson’s Field hijackings.
• November 1, 1970 – Club Cinq-Sept fire in Saint-Laurent-du-Pont, France kills 146 young people.

Who Were Born On 1970?

• April 22, 1970 – Erkki Bahovski, Estonian journalist
• May 11, 1970 – Nicky Katt, American actor
• May 22, 1970 – Naomi Campbell, English model and actress
• June 12, 1970 – Gordon Michael Woolvett, Canadian actor, director, and screenwriter
• June 20, 1970 – Jason Robert Brown, American playwright and composer
• July 16, 1970 – Raimonds Miglinieks, Latvian basketball player and coach
• July 23, 1970 – Charisma Carpenter, American actress
• September 10, 1970 – Paula Kelley, American singer-songwriter (Drop Nineteens)
• November 14, 1970 – David Wesley, American basketball player and sportscaster