* 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 – Christopher Cuomo, American journalist

* 1970 – Thomas Lennon, American actor

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

* Waterloo ( 1970 film ), a 1970 film on the battle starring Christopher Plummer and Rod Steiger

This movie has been remade three times as Trader Horn ( 1934 ), the sexploitation film Trader Hornee ( 1970 ), and Trader Horn ( 1973 ) with Rod Taylor in the starring role.

In 1970, Serling was signed to host and narrate a 30-minute weekly series for Los Angeles television station KNXT, called Rod Serling's Wonderful World of ....

Professor Graeme Clark A. C., then Foundation Professor of the Department of Otolaryngology at the University of Melbourne in 1970, led the team that developed the Australian prototype bionic ear, which was implanted into the first patient, Rod Saunders, in 1978.

In addition, he was a regular cast member in the Rod Serling western series The Loner ( which lasted one season from 1965 to 1966 ; Bridges pulled out in disagreement over the violent content of the show ), and in the two NBC failures San Francisco International Airport ( 1970 / 71 ) and a Police Story spin-off Joe Forrester ( 1975 – 76 ).

Năstase became one of the best players in 1970, with many experts ranking him as the sixth best player in the world at that time after the Australians Rod Laver, Ken Rosewall, John Newcombe, and Roche and the American Ashe.

Besides Dick Enberg and Rod Hundley ( who worked with Merle Harmon on the January 7, 1973 contest between Kansas and Notre Dame ), other broadcast teams for TVS ' college basketball coverage included John Ferguson and Joe Dean ( who called the February 21, 1970 contest between Kentucky and LSU ), Monte Moore and Ed Macauley ( who called the January 2, 1971 contest between Dayton and UCLA ), Charlie Jones and Elgin Baylor ( who called the January 26, 1972 contest between Providence and USC ), Ray Scott and Bill O ' Donnell ( who called the January 14, 1973 contest between SW Louisiana and Oral Roberts ), Al Michaels and Tom Hawkins ( who called the January 26, 1974 contest between Notre Dame and UCLA ), and Jay Randolph and Billy Packer ( who called the November 17, 1979 contest between Duke and Kentucky and November 22, 1980 contest between DePaul and Louisville ).

In late June 1970, Green appeared at the Bath Festival of Blues and Progressive Music with John Mayall, Rod Mayall ( organ ) and Larry Taylor ( bass ).

Travis McGee has twice been translated to cinema and television ; Rod Taylor played McGee in Darker Than Amber ( 1970 ), and Sam Elliott played him in the television movie of The Empty Copper Sea, titled Travis McGee ( 1983 ).

Because it was sponsored by Dunlop in 1971, all the World Championship Tennis ( WCT ) players ( including the ancient National Tennis League players since spring 1970 ) entered ( John Newcombe, Rosewall, Rod Laver, Tony Roche, Tom Okker, Arthur Ashe ( a WCT player since the beginning of the year ) and so on ) and some independent pros also played.

Riff Raff was a UK progressive rock band formed by keyboardist Tommy Eyre in 1972. The band was a continuation on the back of drummers ( and Harrow School of Art friends ) Rod Coombes ( Juicy Lucy Strawbs and Stealers Wheel ) and Joe Czarnecki's ( Plainsmen ) aka Joe Peter's project originally called ' Crikey ' started in 1969 and completed in 1970 when Rod had to accept growing tour commitments with Juicy Lucy. These sessions comprise half of the Riff Raff album ' Outside Looking In ' in which Rod wrote half the songs. Rod says that " the concept of the band was based around two drummers and afro-jazz ( Rod and Joe were great fans of Ginger Baker and Miles Davis ) and fusion ( this album was one of the first true fusion albums to be recorded ). I had worked with Roger with singer Paul Williams ( Juicy Lucy ) and Tommy previously and clearly we all enjoyed doing what we do best-playing freely ".

He also enjoyed particular success in 1970, again reaching the semi-finals of Wimbledon, where he achieved a big upset win over defending champion Rod Laver en route, and the semi-finals of the Australian Open.

* Prix du Moulin de Longchamp-( 3 )-Habitat ( 1969 ), Gold Rod ( 1970 ), Sparkler ( 1973 )

* Waterloo ( 1970 ), Rod Steiger — A Soviet-Italian production produced by Dino De Laurentiis and Sergei Bondarchuk.

* Rod Smith ( American football ) ( born 1970 ), American football wide receiver

* Rod Smith ( defensive back ) ( born 1970 ), American football player

POP-2, often referred to as POP2 was a programming language developed around 1970 from the earlier language POP-1 ( originally named COWSEL ) by Robin Popplestone and Rod Burstall at the University of Edinburgh.

The principals and presidents of the College have been Dr. James M. Houston ( 1970 – 78 ), Dr. Carl Armerding ( 1978 – 88 ), Dr. Walter Wright, Jr. ( 1988-2000 ) and current president Dr. Rod Wilson.

Rod Price on guitar / slide guitar joined after he left the Black Cat Bones in December 1970.