He also managed to score in every British Home Championship tournament he played in except 1963 in an association with the tournament which lasted from 1958 to 1970 and included 16 goals and ten tournament victories ( five shared ).

* The British Hammer Film Productions also produced a fairly faithful adaptation of " Carmilla " titled The Vampire Lovers ( 1970 ) with Ingrid Pitt in the lead role and Madeline Smith as her victim / lover.

* 1970 – October Crisis: In Montreal, Quebec, kidnapped British Trade Commissioner James Cross is released by the Front de libération du Québec terrorist group after being held hostage for 60 days.

* 1899 – John Barbirolli, British conductor ( d. 1970 )

* 1948 – Lillian Board, British track and field athlete ( d. 1970 )

Edinburgh has also hosted various national and international sports events including the World Student Games, the 1970 British Commonwealth Games, the 1986 Commonwealth Games and the inaugural 2000 Commonwealth Youth Games.

In 1970 and 1971 three 504cc Cheney Triumphs were used by the British team in the ISDT, in which Cheney won a manufacturer's prize.

* 1970 – Simon Pegg, British comedian and actor

He was appointed a member of the British Academy in 1970 and CBE in 1993.

* 1970 – Diane Youdale, British television personality

* 1970 – Andy Williams, British musician ( Doves and Sub Sub )

* 1970 – Jez Williams, British musician ( Doves and Sub Sub )

* British Home Championship ( 8, 2 shared ): 1964 ( shared ), 1965, 1966, 1968, 1969, 1970 ( shared ), 1971 and 1972

* Officer of the Order of the British Empire: 1970

From 1670 to 1970 the HBC Governors were British and based in London, United Kingdom.

* 1970 – B. H. Liddell Hart, British historian ( b. 1895 )

* 1878 – Dame Adeline Genée, Danish-born British ballerina ( d. 1970 )

* Graham Chapman ( as " Ron Vibbentrop ") in the 1970 British television comedy Monty Python's Flying Circus: The Naked Ant

In 1970, he attended the British Commonwealth Games in Edinburgh, where he was presented to Queen Elizabeth II.

Category: 1970 in British television

* 1970 – Rhodesia declares itself a republic, breaking its last links with the British crown.

* 1970 – Alexander Armstrong, British comedian, actor and TV presenter

In 1967, the people of Nauru purchased the assets of the British Phosphate Commissioners, and in June 1970, control passed to the locally owned Nauru Phosphate Corporation.

* 1970 – Ashley Ward, British footballer

* 1970 – Stel Pavlou, British novelist

The area of responsibility was reduced to that of the Greater London administrative area in 1970 when the Greater London Council, and then London Regional Transport took over responsibility.

The Greater London Council was the transport authority from 1 January 1970 to 28 June 1984 and the executive agency was called the London Transport Executive.

The GLC did not take control of public transport from the London Transport Board until 1970 and lost control to London Regional Transport in 1984.

In 1970 the Merseyside Passenger Transport Executive ( which operates today under the Merseytravel brand ) was set up, covering the Liverpool and Wirral conurbations, but excluding Southport and St. Helens.

* A DC-3 registered OO-AUX ( which SABENA had leased from Delta Air Transport ) was damaged beyond repair in a ground accident at Amsterdam Airport Schiphol on 9 May 1970.

Nakasone rose through the LDP's ranks, becoming Minister of Science in 1959 under the government of Nobusuke Kishi, then Minister of Transport in 1967, head of the Agency of Defense in 1970, Minister of International Trade and Industry in 1972 and Minister of Administration in 1981.

In 1970, the field was transferred to the United States Navy, which operated it as US Naval Air Station, Bermuda until 1995 when the US Navy terminated its 99-year lease and the field was transferred to the Bermuda Government, which now operates the airport as part of the Ministry of Tourism & Transport.

Although the plan was approved by Metropolitan Toronto and the Government of Ontario, the Government of Canada ruled out the waterfront site for a major airport early in 1970, although Transport Minister Donald Jamieson suggested there would be some sort of expanded airport serving " short-hop, inter-city " flights created.

Transport Statistics shows BN operated 23609 miles of line and 34691 miles of track at the end of 1970 ; it shows 4547 SLSF miles of line not including QA & P and AT & N.

* On 20 February 1970, Douglas DC-3 B-243 of Far Eastern Air Transport crashed into a mountain shortly after take-off.

Following establishment of British Air Services as BEA's new holding company for its two loss-making regional airline subsidiaries, BKS Air Transport and Cambrian Airways, in March 1970, the corporation acquired a two-thirds majority shareholding in British Air Services in the autumn of that year to ensure its regional partners ' survival.

This was created by Edward Heath as a combination of the Ministry of Housing and Local Government, the Ministry of Transport and the Ministry of Public Building and Works on 15 October 1970.

In 1997, when Labour came to power, the DoE was merged with the Department of Transport to form the Department of the Environment, Transport and the Regions ( DETR ), thus, essentially, restoring the DoE to its initial 1970 portfolio.

* Walsall Corporation Transport 862 – A Sunbeam ( of Wolverhampton ) F4A with a Willowbrook Body, it was built in 1955 and retired from Walsall in 1970 on the closure of the trolleybus network.

He was first elected as an MP at the 1970 general election as a member of the Labour Party, and served as a Parliamentary secretary in the Department of Transport under Bill Rodgers in the Callaghan government.

Following the 1969 Melbourne Transportation Plan, the Melbourne Underground Rail Loop Act 1970 was brought forward by Transport Minister Vernon Wilcox, with the Melbourne Underground Rail Loop Authority ( MURLA ) created in 1 January 1971 to oversee the construction and operation of the Loop.

* 1959 – 1970: Ministry of Transport

Jean Chamant succeeds Mondon ( d. 31 December 1970 ) as Minister of Transport.

Until 21 January 1970, London Transport bus route 134 showed PIMLICO Dolphin Square as a destination and actually terminated in Chichester Street.

The preferred organisational structure in the 1970s was for the BRB to form wholly owned subsidiaries which were run at an arm's-length relationship, e. g. the railway engineering works became British Rail Engineering Limited ( BREL ) in 1970 ; the ferry operations to Ireland, France, Belgium and the Netherlands were run by Sealink ( U. K .) Ltd, part of the Sealink consortium, which also used ferries owned by the French national railway SNCF, the Belgian Maritime Transport Authority Regie voor maritiem transport / Regie des transports maritimes ( RMT / RTM ), and the Dutch Zeeland Steamship Company.

Ownership of the station was not transferred to London Transport until 1 January 1970.

He was Parliamentary Private Secretary to Barbara Castle at the Ministry of Transport and after 1970 was frontbench spokesman on industrial relations.