* 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 )

* Look to the Lilies ( 1970 )

The series sought to illustrate the cruelty of bigotry against: Asians (" The Fear Merchants ", episode # 27, 1960 ; " The Lonely Man ", episode # 404, 1971 ), African-Americans (" Enter Thomas Bowers ", episode # 164, 1964 ; " The Wish ", episode # 326, 1968 ; " Child ", episode # 305, 1969 ), Native Americans (" The Underdog ", episode # 180, 1964 ; " Terror at 2: 00 ", episode # 384, 1970 ), Jews, (" Look to the Stars ", episode # 90, 1962 ); the disabled (" Tommy ", episode # 249, 1966 ) and " little people " (" It's A Small World ", episode # 347, 1968 ).

* 1970 The Look of Love

* The Long Lavender Look ( 1970 )

*" Memory and Prophecy, Illusion and Reality Are Mixed and Made to Look the Same " by The New York Times, March 8, 1970

* Melanie's " Lay Down ( Candles in the Rain )" and " Look What They've Done to My Song, Ma " ( 1970 )

Look magazine incorporated the symbol into a flag in their April 21, 1970 issue.

These included the million-seller, " Love On A Two-Way Street " in 1970 (# 1 R & B, # 3 pop ) and another R & B chart-topper, " Look At Me ( I'm In Love )", which also reached # 39 on the pop chart in 1975.

" You Know My Name ( Look Up the Number )" is a song by The Beatles originally released as the B-side of the single " Let It Be " on 6 March 1970.

* More Than Beauty: A Behind-the-Scenes Look at the Modeling World, Harper and Row, 1970

So on 26 November 1969, he and wife Yoko Ono recorded further overdubs with plans for it to be issued as a single by Plastic Ono Band alongside another unreleased song at the time, " You Know My Name ( Look Up the Number )", which was eventually issued as the B-side of The Beatles ' " Let It Be " single in 1970.

Other notable works include the Henry Bech novels ( 1970 – 98 ), The Witches of Eastwick ( 1984 ), Roger's Version ( 1986 ) and In the Beauty of the Lilies ( 1996 ), which literary critic Michiko Kakutani called " arguably his finest.

In the UK, it charted 8 times between 1970 and 1972, peaking at number 5 and spending a total of 75 weeks on popular music charts.

* A chamber opera version of Carmilla appeared in 1970 ( Carmilla: A Vampire Tale, music by Ben Johnston, script by Wilford Leach ).

From the visit to Bron-Yur-Aur in 1970, the songwriting partnership between Page and Plant became predominant, with Page supplying the music, largely via his acoustic guitar, and Plant emerging as the band's chief lyricist.

" Rainbow Chaser " was one of the few Nirvana recordings that had any connection with " psychedelic " music, although " Orange and Blue " ( 1970 ) was acknowledged to have been written under the influence of LSD according to the liner notes of the eponymous album.

* 1970 – Domino, American music producer

* 1970 – Chely Wright, American country music artist

* 1970 – Steve Jablonsky, American music composer

Psychedelic music also contributed to the origins of glam rock, with Marc Bolan changing his psychedelic folk duo into rock band T. Rex and becoming the first glam rock star from 1970.

They have done so in every decade since the 1970 breakup, most famously for 1981's " The Concert in Central Park ", which attracted more than 500, 000 people, making it the 7th-most attended concert in the history of music.

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By the 2000s, Rap and Hip Hop had reached their commercial peaks, and the genre continued to dominate the music scene of the decade The best-selling artist of the decade was the American rapper Eminem, who sold 32 million albums, followed by The Beatles ( who split in 1970 but have stayed extremely popular since ).

** " All Kinds of Everything ", sung by Dana ( music and text by Derry Lindsay and Jackie Smith ), wins the Eurovision Song Contest 1970 for Ireland.

In 1970 Appleton also was influenced by the work of the " father " of computer music, Max V. Mathews and by French composers Francois Bayle, Beatriz Ferreyra and Michel Redolfi.

* 1971: Harold C. Schonberg, New York Times, " for his music criticism during 1970.

The following year he collaborated with producer John Longenecker as co-writer, film editor and music composer for The Resurrection of Broncho Billy ( 1970 ), which won an Academy Award for Best Live Action Short Film.

The more recent Glastonbury Festival of Performing Arts, founded in 1970, is now the largest open-air music and performing arts festival in the world.

However, the term “ bluegrass ” did not appear formally to describe the music until the late 1950s, and did not appear in Music Index until 1965 ( Kretzschmar, 1970 ).

The first entry in Music Index mentioning “ bluegrass music ” directed the reader to “ see Country Music ; Hillbilly Music ” ( Kretzschmar, 1970, p. 91 ).

African " Afrobeat " big bands have existed from 1970 to the present when Fela Kuti of Nigeria, fused big band jazz with Yoruba tribal rhythms, highlife, and American James Brown funk music.

* The 1970 Tim Buckley song " Venice Beach " includes the lyrics " White heat of swaying day / Dark slap of conga cries / ' Come out and breathe as one '/ Salt sea and fiddles drone / Out on the dancing stone / While the Santanas blow / Sing the music boats in the bay.

In a February 5, 1971 feature on Glass Harp in Cleveland's The Plain Dealer, the paper's rock music critic Jane Scott cited unnamed " record people " who told a story of Hendrix saying ( in 1970 ) " That guy ( Phil Keaggy ) is the upcoming guitar player in the Midwest ".

In June 1970, after Stonehill graduated from Leigh High School, in San Jose, California, he moved to Los Angeles where he stayed with pioneer Christian Rock singer, Larry Norman in an attempt to launch his professional music career.

In February 1970, two months after Upon This Rock was released, Capitol dropped Norman from their label, as the album was deemed a " commercial flop " as it had failed to reach the sales target Capitol expected, telling Norman that " there is no market for your music.

In March 1970 Norman performed at the Youth for Christ-sponsored Faith Festival, the first major Jesus music festival, at Evansville, Indiana, which attracted 6, 000 people to hear him, Pat Boone and his family, Christian folk singer Gene Cotton, and Jesus rock artists Danny Taylor, Crimson Bridge, and e, a band that included Greg X. Volz.