* 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 )

She continued her tenure in the 1990s with Woody Allen's musical Everyone Says I Love You ( 1996 ) and reuniting with Steve Martin for the comedy The Out-of-Towners ( 1999 ), a remake of the 1970 Neil Simon hit.

The duo split up in 1970 at the height of their popularity, and Simon began a successful solo career, recording three highly acclaimed albums over the next five years.

After Simon and Garfunkel split in 1970 ( two years later, their Greatest Hits album was released with Paul wearing a moustache in the photo ), Simon began to write and record solo material.

In 1970, after recording his " Bridge Over Troubled Water ," at the invitation of the NYU School of the Arts, Simon held auditions for a young songwriter's workshop.

* My Crowd ( 1970 ), eighth anthology of drawings ( Simon & Schuster )

In “ The Year of the Burn Up ”, the Time Barrier returns Simon and Liz to 1970.

Returning to 1970, Liz and Simon discover the real Traynor, locked up in a secret room in R1 since 1965.

* Simon Lindley 1970 – 75

Another album recorded in 1974 that was rejected by Word Records was Streams of White Light Into Darkened Corners, a documentary album that took " a satirical look at the early 1970s ' religious pop music ' trend from 1970 to 1974 ", written by celebrities who had " jumped on the ` 70s spiritual bandwagon ", and featured Norman singing covers of religious songs by Norman Greenbaum, Paul Simon, George Harrison, Eric Clapton, The Beatles, Randy Newman, Leon Russell, Jackson Browne, and the Rolling Stones, and was not released until 1977 by AB Records.

Simon Pegg ( born Simon John Beckingham ; 14 February 1970 ) is an English actor, comedian, writer, film producer, and director.

Royer left the group after three albums, although he would continue to write with Griffin, and was replaced by Larry Knechtel, a leading Los Angeles session musician who had played piano on Simon & Garfunkel's " Bridge Over Troubled Water " single in 1970.

* August 6, 1970 at Shea Stadium in New York, NY with Paul Simon, Janis Joplin & Johnny Winter

* BAFTA Film Award, Best Sound Track ( Don Challis and Simon Kaye ) 1970

After their brief liaison during 1970 – 1971 ended amicably, Stevens wrote his song " Sweet Scarlet " about Simon, who also had highly publicized relationships with Warren Beatty, Mick Jagger, Kris Kristofferson and James Taylor during this period.

* Simon Johnson ( 1874 – 1970 ), Norwegian-American author

A return to the stage and a nude scene with Keith Michell during Abelard and Heloise in 1970 led to a notorious description of her as ' built like a brick basilica with insufficient flying buttresses ', by the acerbic critic John Simon.

: The Decline of the WASP ( NY: Simon and Schuster, 1970 )

A second edition followed in 1970, edited by Nicholas G. L. Hammond and H. H. Scullard, and a third edition in 1996, edited by Simon Hornblower and Antony Spawforth, which in its revised form ( 2003 ) is the current edition in print ( 2011 ).

Minor recurring characters include educator Herbert Birdsfoot ( 1970 – 1973 ), the sound-mimicking Simon Soundman ( 1971 – 1992 ), the more frightening-looking monster Frazzle ( 1971 – 2012 ), Grover's customer Mr. Johnson ( 1971 – 2012 ), Little Jerry of the band " Little Jerry and the Monotones " ( 1970 – 2000 ) and most of the announcers that appear in Sesame Street sketches ( 1970 – 2012 ).

* Run, Simon, Run ( 1970 )