* 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 – 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 )

* 1970 – Vietnam War: U. S. President Richard M. Nixon formally authorizes American combat troops to fight communist sanctuaries in Cambodia.

Frankston graduated in 1966 from Stuyvesant High School in New York City and in 1970 from M. I. T.

In 1970, the black comedies Catch 22 and M * A * S * H reflected the anti-war sentiment then prevalent, as well as treating the sensitive topic of suicide.

Parsons signed a solo deal with A & M Records and moved in with producer Terry Melcher in early 1970.

* 1970 – E. M. Forster, English author ( b. 1879 )

In 1970, the game was released in North America as S. A. M. I.

* Foote, Peter & Wilson, D. M. ( 1970 ).

Examples include Piet Mondrian's Dam and Ocean ( 1915 ), Joan Miró's Labyrinth ( 1923 ), Pablo Picasso's Minotauromachia ( 1935 ), M. C. Escher's Relativity ( 1953 ), Friedensreich Hundertwasser's Labyrinth ( 1957 ), Jean Dubuffet's Logological Cabinet ( 1970 ), Richard Long's Connemara sculpture ( 1971 ), Joe Tilson's Earth Maze ( 1975 ), Richard Fleischner's Chain Link Maze ( 1978 ), István Orosz's Atlantis Anamorphosis ( 2000 ), Dmitry Rakov's Labyrinth ( 2003 ), and Labyrinthine projection by contemporary American artist Mo Morales ( 2000 ).

* Bridge Over Troubled Water ( A & M / CTI, 1970 )

He won two Academy Awards for his screenplays — one before his imprisonment and blacklisting ( for Woman of the Year in 1942 ), and one after ( for M * A * S * H in 1970 ).

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

In 1970, a study published by Bigg M. A.

* M. F. Atiyah, R. Bott, L. Garding, " Lacunas for hyperbolic differential operators with constant coefficients I ", Acta Math., 124 ( 1970 ), 109 – 189.

* December 19 – Charles M. Cooke, Jr., American admiral ( d. 1970 )

* January 1 – E. M. Forster, English writer ( d. 1970 )

Ingo Preminger, who produced the 1970 M * A * S * H movie, was Otto Preminger's younger brother.

Cook recounted his move to the University of Toronto in 1970 and the reception of his work on NP-completeness, leading up to his A. M. Turing Award.

* Marsden George M. The Evangelical Mind and the New School Presbyterian Experience: A Case Study of Thought and Theology in Nineteenth-Century America ( 1970 ).

( Reprinted in 1969 by New York: Kraus Reprint Co .; in 1970 by New York ; in 1976 by Millwood, NY: Kraus Reprint Co .; & in 1994 under M. E. Opler, Morris by Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press.

In 1970, the game was released in North America as S. A. M. I.

His screen career ran from 1929 to 1985, and he is best remembered for his Academy Award – winning portrayal of an alcoholic writer in The Lost Weekend ( 1945 ), a sophisticated leading man opposite a corrupt John Wayne in Reap the Wild Wind ( 1942 ), the murder-plotting husband in Dial M for Murder ( 1954 ), and as Oliver Barrett III in Love Story ( 1970 ).

From 1968 up to the 1970s, she also recorded more contemporary material according to classic pop songs with her albums Liza Minnelli ( 1968 ), Come Saturday Morning and New Feelin ' ( both 1970 ) from A & M Records.

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.

* Ackerley, J. R., E. M. Forster: A Portrait ( Ian McKelvie, London, 1970 )