* 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 )

In 1970, he wrote a number of papers that outlined a new approach to database construction that eventually culminated in the groundbreaking A Relational Model of Data for Large Shared Data Banks.

* 1970 – After 11 years of construction, the Aswan High Dam in Egypt is completed.

* 1970 – The Hard Hat Riot occurs in the Wall Street area of New York City as blue-collar construction workers clash with demonstrators protesting the Vietnam War.

In 1962-70 negotiations took place between the Cambridge Electron Accelerator Laboratory ( shared by Harvard and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology ), the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center, and the US Atomic Energy Commission over the proposed 1970 construction of the Stanford Positron Electron Asymmetric Ring ( SPEAR ).

One of the S-IV test stages was shipped to McDonnell Douglas for the construction of a mock-up in January 1970.

* Increases in public housing subsidies, as characterised by a 36 % increase in the social housing budget in 1970 and by the introduction of a programme for the construction of 200, 000 public housing units ( 1971 ).

The elevator was closed to the public after the construction of the Roosevelt Island Bridge between the island and Astoria in 1955, and was finally demolished in 1970.

The Cosanti Foundation's major project is Arcosanti, a community planned for 5, 000 people, designed by Soleri ; Arcosanti has been in construction since 1970.

Since 1970, well over 6000 people have participated in Arcosanti's construction.

Lieutenant General Leslie Richard Groves, Jr. ( 17 August 1896 – 13 July 1970 ) was a United States Army Corps of Engineers officer who oversaw the construction of the Pentagon and directed the Manhattan Project that developed the atomic bomb during World War II.

On October 15, 1970, the West Gate Bridge in Melbourne, Australia collapsed, killing 35 construction workers.

** The map on page 522 of the 1969 / 1970 edition of JANE ' S shows a link between Cuevos and Zudañez as being " under construction ".

In 1970, the consortium formed by the companies IECO ( from the United States of America ) and ELC Electroconsult S. p. A. ( from Italy ) won the international competition for the realization of the viability studies and for the elaboration of the construction project.

In 1970 the shipyard presented itself in a new modern shape with giant cranes of 500 and 780 tons capacity, which span two slipways for the construction of ships up to 500, 000 tons deadweight.

Construction of a new four-lane bridge across the Raritan River ( now the John A. Lynch Memorial Bridge ) began in the 1960s, but in 1970, when the environment impact laws came out, construction froze with only three massive piers standing out of the river.

Large scale dam construction followed, with the Gezhouba Dam on the Yangtze River near Yichang started in 1970 and completed in 1988 ; the construction of the Three Gorges Dam, further upstream, began in 1993.

Yavapai County is home to Arcosanti, a prototype arcology, developed by Paolo Soleri, and under construction since 1970.

The construction of this signal box, completed in 1970, involved the demolition of almost half of the 1870s extension to Brunel's terminus and completely blocked rail access to the Old Station

The last Clameur recorded on Sark was raised in June 1970 to prevent the construction of a garden wall.

The abbreviated canal was used to ship soft wood for construction and even though the canal was drained and backfilled in 1970 Whitten's timber merchants still stands on the site of the canal head.

Around 1970, before construction of the Parks Highway, Willow had a population of 78 until land disposals, homestead subdivisions, and completion of the George Parks Highway in 1972 fueled growth in the area.

The construction of the new terminal began and was opened on October 15, 1970, by then-President Gustavo Diaz Ordaz.

Due to extensive rain and snow, the lake rose several feet and BBSO was surrounded by water at the time construction completed using makeshift barges in May 1970.