* 1970 – Newhall Incident: Four California Highway Patrol officers are killed in a shootout.

* 1970 – Olaf Kölzig, African-German hockey player

* 1970 – Roy Mayorga, American drummer ( Stone Sour, Soulfly, Amebix, Black President, and Nausea )

* 1970 – Huang Xiaomin, Chinese swimmer

* 1970 – Soviet submarine K-8, carrying four nuclear torpedoes, sinks in the Bay of Biscay four days after a fire on board.

* 1970 – Sylvain Bouchard, Canadian speed skater

* 1908 – Bjarni Benediktsson, Icelandic politician, Prime Minister of Iceland ( d. 1970 )

* 1899 – Byron Foulger, American actor ( d. 1970 )

* 1970 – Andy Bichel, Australian cricketer

* 1970 – Peter Ebdon, English snooker player

* 1970 – Mark Ilott, English cricketer

* 1970 – Tony Kanal, English-American bass player, songwriter, and producer ( No Doubt )

* 1970 – Jeff Kenna, Irish footballer

* 1970 – Park Myeong-su, South Korean comedian and singer

* 1970 – Jim Thome, American baseball player

* 1970 – Karl Unterkircher, Italian mountaineer ( d. 2008 )

* 1891 – William Slim, 1st Viscount Slim, English general, 13th Governor-General of Australia ( d. 1970 )

* 1904 – Jean Dessès, Greek-Egyptian fashion designer ( d. 1970 )

* 1916 – Richard Hofstadter, American historian ( d. 1970 )

* 1970 – M. Night Shyamalan, Indian-American director, screenwriter, and producer

* 1970 – Erwin Thijs, Belgian cyclist

* 1970 – Rod Brind ' Amour, Canadian ice hockey player

* 1970 – Christopher Cuomo, American journalist

* 1970 – Thomas Lennon, American actor

* 1914 – Luis Mariano, Spanish tenor ( d. 1970 )

* McKeeman, William Marshall ; Horning, James J .; Wortman, David B., A Compiler Generator, Englewood Cliffs, N. J.: Prentice-Hall, 1970.

1, No. 2, July 1970, A Charlton Publication ) attributes this song to Susan Heather ( a pseudonym used by Marian B. Yarneall ), ( c ) 1952, 1965 by Mamy Music Corp out of Paoli, Pa. Later references show copyrights held by Gaylord Program Services, Inc. out of Nashville, TN, but this may be because Gaylord holds the copyrights for " Hee Haw.

* Kit ( film ), 1970 Bulgarian satirical movie directed by Petar B. Vasilev

* 1895 – B. H. Liddell Hart, British military historian ( d. 1970 )

* Punch and Judy by Peter Fraser ( 1970 ) B. T.

Merkle graduated from Livermore High School in 1970 and proceeded to study computer science at the University of California, Berkeley, obtaining his B. A.

Sakamoto entered the Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music in 1970, earning a B. A.

: Extension of the Gliese catalogue ( 1970, R. Woolley, E. A. Epps, M. J. Penston and S. B. Pocock ).

In 1970, Crawford was presented with the Cecil B. DeMille Award by John Wayne at the Golden Globes, which was telecast from the Coconut Grove at The Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles.

* 1964-Gulf of Tonkin Resolution gives President Lyndon B. Johnson Congressional approval to act in Vietnam ; repealed in 1970.

Initially the army was welcomed by Catholic nationalists in preference to the RUC and in particular the B Specials ( who were stood down on 30 April 1970 ).

In 1970, several years after his retirement, songwriters Richard M. and Robert B. Sherman got him to sing the title song of the Disney film The Aristocats, which ended up being his final contribution to the film industry.

One developmental milestone occurred when the team from Northwestern University, which was responsible for the Chess series of programs and won the first three ACM Computer Chess Championships ( 1970 – 72 ), abandoned type B searching in 1973.

* McKeeman, William Marshall ; Horning, James J .; Wortman, David B., CS. toronto. edu, A Compiler Generator, Englewood Cliffs, N. J .: Prentice-Hall, 1970.

In " Toads Of The Short Forest " ( from the album Weasels Ripped My Flesh ), composer Frank Zappa explains: " At this very moment on stage we have drummer A playing in 7 / 8, drummer B playing in 3 / 4, the bass playing in 3 / 4, the organ playing in 5 / 8, the tambourine playing in 3 / 4, and the alto sax blowing his nose " ( Mothers of Invention 1970 ).

* The Western Jewish History Center, of the Judah L. Magnes Museum, in Berkeley, California has librettos for Milhaud's opera, David, as well as a program for its American premiere, in Los Angeles, at the Hollywood Bowl, and photocopies of newspaper coverage in the B ' nai B ' rith Messenger of Los Angeles, of this event ( 1956 ) Collection Number 1970. 002.

The late State Representative Ashton B. Collier, who served from 1956 – 1960 and again from 1964 – 1970, resided in Atlanta.

* Jean Terrell, R & B and jazz singer, replaced Diana Ross in The Supremes in 1970.

In 1970 Robinson violated probation by moving back to Chicago without his probation officer's permission ( or knowledge ), and took a job as an insurance salesman at R. B.

Also buried there on March 20, 1970, is 1960s Motown Soul / R & B singer Tammi Terrell.

In 1965 a new Academy ( B Block ) was built alongside a new High School ( A Block ) and in 1970 the schools amalgamated.

The lead station, Dungeness B was ordered in 1965 with a target completion date of 1970.

* January 14-Maxwell Davis, R & B musician ( d. 1970 )