* 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 )

* On 6 September 1970, the PFLP ( including Leila Khaled ) hijacked four passenger aircraft from Pan Am, TWA and Swissair on flights to New York from Brussels, Frankfurt and Zürich, and failed in an attempt to hijack an El Al aircraft which landed safely in London after one hijacker was killed and the other overpowered ; and on 9 September 1970, hijacked a BOAC flight from Bahrain to London via Beirut.

He faced the first terrorist attack on a Swissair plane in Zarqa, Jordan in 1970.

* 1970 – Air Canada Flight 621 crashes near Toronto International Airport killing 109 people.

* 1970 – Nine terrorists from the Japanese Red Army hijack Japan Airlines Flight 351 at Tokyo International Airport, wielding samurai swords and carrying a bomb.

* 1970 – Southern Airways Flight 932 crashes in the mountains near Huntington, West Virginia, killing 75, including members of the Marshall University football team.

* 1970 – The domestic Soviet Aeroflot Flight 244 is hijacked and diverted to Turkey.

* 1970 – Jeremy Glick, American businessman, passenger United Airlines Flight 93 ( d. 2001 )

* 1970 – Yuji Nishizawa, Japanese hijacker of All Nippon Airways Flight 61

* He — A planet sent out of its orbit by spindizzys in James Blish's novels Earthman Come Home ( 1955 ) and The Triumph of Time ( 1958 ); collected in Cities in Flight ( 1970 )

* On September 6, 1970, El Al Flight 219 from Tel Aviv to New York, with a stopover in Amsterdam, was the target of an attempted hijacking by Leila Khaled and Patrick Argüello after taking off from Amsterdam.

* March 31, 1970: Nine members of the JRA's predecessor, the Red Army Faction ( whose leaders had been a part, but were thrown out of the Communist League ), conducted Japan's most infamous hijacking, that of Japan Airlines Flight 351, a domestic Japan Airlines Boeing 727 carrying 129 people at Tokyo International Airport.

* Jeremy Glick ( 1970 – 2001 ), passenger / hero of United Flight 93 on September 11, 2001.

He later died in the Southern Airlines Flight 932 airplane crash, that killed most of Marshall University's football team, on November 14, 1970

* The 1970 crash of Southern Airways Flight 932 that killed a group of American football players from Marshall University.

Requirements for the new site included the availability of water transport and an all-weather airport, proximity to a major telecommunications network, availability of established industrial workers and contractor support, an available supply of water, a mild climate permitting year-round outdoor work, and a culturally attractive community. Flight controllers celebrate the Apollo 13 splashdown April 17, 1970 ; Gerry Griffin ( l ) became JSC director in 1982.

* John Ferruggio, led the evacuation of Pan Am Flight 93 in 1970

* The Rolling Stones: organ on " Time Is on My Side " ( 1964 ), " You Can Make It If You Try " ( 1964 ), " Empty Heart " ( 1964 ), " If You Need Me " ( 1964 ), " Stupid Girl " ( 1966 ), and " It's Not Easy " ( 1966 ); piano on " Stoned " ( 1963 ), " Around and Around " ( 1964 ), " Confessin ' the Blues " ( 1964 ), " Down the Road Apiece " ( 1965 ), " That's How Strong My Love Is " ( 1965 ), " Flight 505 " ( 1966 ), " Connection " ( 1967 ), " My Obsession " ( 1967 ), " Honky Tonk Women " ( 1969 ), " Let It Bleed " ( 1969 ), " Little Queenie " ( live ) ( 1970 ), " Brown Sugar " ( 1971 ), " Dead Flowers " ( 1971 ), " Sweet Virginia " ( 1972 ), " Silver Train " ( 1973 ), " Star Star " ( 1973 ), " It's Only Rock ' n Roll ( But I Like It )" ( 1974 ), " Short and Curlies " ( 1974 ), " Summer Romance " ( 1980 ), " Black Limousine " ( 1981 ), and " Twenty Flight Rock " ( live ) ( 1982 ).

Roosa's honors include the NASA Distinguished Service Medal ; the Johnson Space Center Superior Achievement Award ( 1970 ); the Air Force Command Pilot Astronaut Wings ; the Air Force Distinguished Service Medal ; the Arnold Air Society's John F. Kennedy Award ( 1971 ); the City of New York Gold Medal ( 1971 ); the American Astronautical Society's Flight Achievement Award ( 1971 ); the Order of Tehad ( 1973 ); and the Order of the Central African Empire ( 1973 ).

Two fatal accidents ( See Southern Airways Flight 932 November 14, 1970 and Southern Airways Flight 242 April 4, 1977 ) blighted the airline's otherwise excellent safety record.

* " Light Flight "/" Cold Mountain " ( 1970 ) Transatlantic BIG128 UK No. 43

* " Light Flight "/" Cold Mountain " ( 1970 ) UK No. 45 — re-entry

* Air Training Command Outstanding Flight Safety Award ( 1970 );

The Flight Academy operated under the supervision of Olympic Aviation, and was created in 1970, by Alexander Onassis.

He also appeared in We Are Marshall as Marshall University head coach Rick Tolley, who lost his life when Southern Airways Flight 932 crashed 4, 219 feet short of Huntington Tri-State Airport's runway in 1970.