* 1942 – Jochen Rindt, German-Austrian race car driver ( d. 1970 )

* 1970 ( Jochen Rindt )

Championships were clinched by the Brabham team in 1966, Jochen Rindt ( posthumously ) and Lotus in 1970, Lotus in 1973, Emerson Fittipaldi and McLaren in 1974, Niki Lauda and Ferrari in 1976, and Lauda in 1977.

Jochen Rindt driving a Formula 2 Lotus in 1970 at the Nürburgring

* 1970 Jochen Rindt ( Team Lotus )

Jochen Rindt, whose first career victory came at Watkins Glen in 1969, took charge of the 1970 Driver's Championship with five wins, including four in a row at mid-season in the revolutionary Lotus 72.

The following year, Gregory teamed up with 1970 Formula One World Champion, Austrian Jochen Rindt, and the pair won the race in a North American Racing Team Ferrari 250 LM.

He was a school friend of Jochen Rindt, who was to become Formula One world champion in 1970.

In the 1970 United States Grand Prix in Watkins Glen, Wisell raced for Lotus who made their return in the championship after Jochen Rindt's death at Monza.

Miles was promoted to number two Lotus F1 driver behind Jochen Rindt for the 1970 Formula One season.

Brabham was about to hold off the onrushing Rindt ( the eventual 1970 F1 champion ) when his front wheels locked in a skid on the sharp right turn only yards from the finish and he ended up second.

* 1970 – Newhall Incident: Four California Highway Patrol officers are killed in a shootout.

* 1970 – California judge Harold Haley is taken hostage in his courtroom and killed during in an effort to free George Jackson from police custody.

The crew of the Apollo 13 mission survived despite an explosion caused by a faulty oxygen tank ( 1970 ); the crews of Soyuz 11 ( 1971 ), the Space Shuttles Challenger ( 1986 ) and Columbia ( 2003 ) were killed by malfunctions of their vessels ' components.

* 1970 – Philip Lafayette Gibbs and James Earl Green are killed at Jackson State University by police during student protests.

* 1970 – Thirty-five construction workers are killed when a section of the new West Gate Bridge in Melbourne collapses.

After initial military gains, the Biafran forces were pushed back and in 1970 Biafra was reabsorbed into Nigeria after an estimated population of 3 million Biafrans including women and children had been killed through the war starvation policy of the Nigerian Government.

In 1970, radical Quebec nationalist and Marxist militants of the Front de libération du Québec ( FLQ ) kidnap the Quebec labour minister Pierre Laporte and British Trade Commissioner James Cross during the October Crisis, resulting in Laporte being killed, and the enactment of martial law in Canada under the War Measures Act, resulting in a campaign by the Canadian government which arrests suspected FLQ supporters.

* On January 5, 1970 an earthquake ( Richter Scale 7. 7 magnitude ) at Yunnan, China killed at least 15, 621.

* On May 31, 1970 the 1970 Ancash earthquake caused a landslide that buried the town of Yungay, Peru ; more than 47, 000 people were killed.

** The 1970 Ancash earthquake causes a landslide that buries the town of Yungay, Peru ; more than 47, 000 people are killed.

, 1970 a protester was killed by the police.

Ossa would win four Grand Prix races with the monocoque bike before their rider was killed during the 1970 Isle of Man TT, causing the Ossa factory to withdraw from Grand Prix competition.

In 1970, he killed a man in a street of Stockholm, seemingly without any provocation, in what the Swedish press dubbed the " bayonet murder ".

The journalist De Mauro was subsequently killed in 1970, because his investigation on Mattei's death was getting close to the truth.

* 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.

In August 1970, further conflict erupted when a black woman was killed by police as she tried to prevent the arrest of a juvenile.

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 journalist Rubén Salazar was killed in Los Angeles in 1970 by an errant CS gas canister during the Chicano riots.

** We Are Marshall, a 2006 movie about the aftermath of the 1970 plane crash that killed most of the Marshall University football team and coaching staff

After he was killed on an expedition to the Himalayan mountain Annapurna in 1970, Ian Clough Hall, a meeting-place and arts venue, was established in Baildon in his memory.

Having been killed off in the last episode of the original series, at his request, Powell became a pin-up and a household name, following up with starring roles in several BBC serials, including television adaptations of the novels Sentimental Education ( 1970 ) and Jude the Obscure ( 1971 ).

* A 1970 crash in Colorado that killed a group of American football players from Wichita State University.

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

A seventh landing mission, the 1970 Apollo 13 flight, failed in transit to the Moon when an oxygen tank explosion disabled the command spacecraft's propulsion and life support, forcing the crew to use the Lunar Module as a " lifeboat " for these functions to return to Earth safely.

Signed at The Hague on 16 December 1970, the Convention for the Suppression of Unlawful Seizure of Aircraft contains 14 articles relating to what constitutes hijacking as well as guidelines for what is expected of governments when dealing with hijackings.

It was not presented in the United States until 1970, when a short-lived April production at the Phyllis Anderson Theatre off Broadway starred Barbara Harris as Jenny and Estelle Parsons as Begbick.

Chaplin was also given a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 1970, after having been excluded due to his political beliefs when the project was initially started in 1958.

Trends after 1965 ( like the fall of OZNA and UDBA chief Aleksandar Ranković from power in 1966 ), however, led to the Croatian Spring of 1970 – 71, when students in Zagreb organized demonstrations for greater civil liberties and greater Croatian autonomy.

The Bengals have worn their black uniforms at home throughout their history, with some exceptions such as the 1970 season when the Bengals wore white at home for the entire season, and most of the 1971 season.

In October 1970 a technician's dispute turned into a work-to-rule when sound staff were denied a pay rise given to camera staff the year before for working with colour recording equipment.

( 1970 ), but his main focus during this time was producing the feature film The Phantom Tollbooth, which did lukewarm business when MGM released it in 1970.

* from 1970 – 1973 when the " TV " numbers were moved from the shoulders to the sleeves above the stripes

As described by Ronald Bayer, a psychiatrist and gay rights activist, specific protests by gay rights activists against the APA began in 1970 when the organization held its convention in San Francisco.

The end came suddenly, between approximately 1960 and 1970, when the shipping industry adopted the newly invented container system of cargo transportation.

The support for state autonomy grew when Awami League introduced the Six point movement in 1966, and participated with full force in the 1970 general elections in which the Awami League had won and secured the exclusive mandate of East-Pakistan.

The tense diplomatic relations between East and West Pakistan reached a climax in 1970 when the Awami League, the largest East Pakistani political party, led by Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, ( Mujib ), won a landslide victory in the national elections in East Pakistan.

In January 1970, when Carl Wayne left The Move, Lynne accepted Wood's second invitation to join the band on the condition that they focus their energy on the new project.

On 12 July 1970, when Wood added multiple cellos to a Lynne-penned song intended to be a Move B-side, the new concept became a reality and " 10538 Overture " became the first Electric Light Orchestra song.

Gödel is not known to have told anyone about his work on the proof until 1970, when he thought he was dying.

On March 6, 1970, however, their safehouse was destroyed when an explosive they were constructing was accidentally detonated, killing three Weathermen ( Ted Gold, Terry Robbins, and Diana Oughton ).

The discovery of the giant Forties oilfield in October 1970 signalled that Scotland was about to become a major oil producing nation, a view confirmed when Shell Expro discovered the giant Brent oilfield in the northern North Sea east of Shetland in 1971.

Greenberg was one of the few baseball people to testify on behalf of Curt Flood in 1970 when the outfielder challenged the reserve clause.

Albanian-Chinese relations had stagnated by 1970, and when the Asian giant began to reemerge from isolation in the early 1970s, Mao and the other Communist Chinese leaders reassessed their commitment to tiny Albania.

Lawrence was honored as an artist, teacher, and humanitarian when the NAACP awarded him the Spingarn Medal in 1970 for his outstanding achievements.

The movement gained strength and support in the northeastern jungles and established firm footing when Cambodia's leader Prince Sihanouk was removed from office during a military coup in 1970.

Their work was virtually unknown until 1970, when two Americans, Lynn Schroeder and Sheila Ostrander published a book, Psychic Discoveries Behind the Iron Curtain.