He succeeded in crossing the Atlantic from Morocco to Barbados after a two-month voyage of 6, 100 km with Ra II in 1970, thus conclusively proving that boats such as the Ra could have sailed with the Canary Current across the Atlantic in prehistoric times.

* 1970 – Soviet submarine K-8, carrying four nuclear torpedoes, sinks in the Bay of Biscay four days after a fire on board.

However, after the cancellations of Apollo 18 and Apollo 19 were finalized in September 1970 it meant that this crew would not rotate to a lunar mission as planned.

Driven by deep personal and political convictions, Grothendieck left the Institut des Hautes Études Scientifiques, where he had been appointed professor and accomplished his greatest work, after a dispute over military funding in 1970.

He retired from scientific life around 1970, after having discovered the partly military funding of IHÉS ( see pp. xii and xiii of SGA1, Springer Lecture Notes 224 ).

In 1970, he purchased the Seattle Pilots in bankruptcy court and renamed them the Milwaukee Brewers after minor league team of the same name he had watched in his youth, which existed until the arrival of the Braves in Milwaukee in 1952.

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.

As early as the Church Committee Report ( 1975 ), publicly available documents have indicated that the CIA attempted to prevent Allende from taking office after he was elected in 1970 ; the CIA itself released documents in 2000 acknowledging this and that Pinochet was one of their favored alternatives to take power.

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 National Front system itself eventually began to be seen as a form of political repression by dissidents and even many mainstream voters, especially after wljhhat was apparently later confirmed as the fraudulent election of Conservative candidate Misael Pastrana in 1970, which resulted in the defeat of the relatively populist candidate Gustavo Rojas.

On the NASDAQ the identifying fifth letter " Q " at the end of a stock symbol indicates the company is in bankruptcy ( formerly the " Q " was placed in front of the pre-existing stock symbol ; a celebrated example was Penn Central, whose symbol was originally " PC " and became " QPC " after the company filed Chapter 11 in 1970 ).

Left out of the Italian starting eleven in the 1970 FIFA World Cup, Zoff resumed his success after signing for Juventus in 1972.

* 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.

Mahovlich was traded to Montreal in 1970, and Howe retired after the 1970 – 71 season.

Environmentalists became much more influential in American politics after the creation or strengthening of numerous U. S. environmental laws, including the Clean Air Act and Clean Water Act and the formation of the US Environmental Protection Agency, or EPA in 1970.

Hoshino Gakki used the Teisco and FujiGen Gakki guitar factories to manufacture Ibanez guitars after they stopped manufacturing their own guitars in 1966 and after the Teisco guitar factory closed down in 1969 / 1970 Hoshino Gakki used the FujiGen Gakki guitar factory to make most Ibanez guitars.

The nature of this rivalry is ironic because while the Colts and Patriots were division rivals from 1970 to 2001, it did not become prominent in league circles until after Indianapolis was relocated to the AFC South.

And, after 1970, the phrase began to be used by Libertarians to describe their belief in the primacy of economic freedom and minimal government.

The city hosted the American Football League All Star Game in 1967 and 1968, but after the AFL-NFL merger in 1970, Jacksonville was shut out.

* 1970 – Qaboos bin Said al Said becomes Sultan of Oman after overthrowing his father, Said bin Taimur initiating massive reforms ; modernization programs and end to a decade long civil war.

Brabham retired to Australia after the 1970 Formula One season, where he bought a farm and maintained various business interests, which included the Engine Developments racing engine manufacturer and several garages.

Kirlian's research first became known in the United States after Shelia Ostrander's and Lynn Schroeder's book " Psychic Discoveries Behind the Iron Curtain " was published in 1970.

Shortly after the release of Monty Python and the Holy Grail ( 1975 ), Eric Idle flippantly suggested that the title of the Pythons ' forthcoming feature would be Jesus Christ – Lust for Glory ( a play on the UK title for the 1970 American film Patton ).

The band maintained a five-year residency in the Afro-Shrine from 1970 to 1975 while afrobeat thrived among Nigerian youth.

Altogether, between 1965 and 1970, over 2 million homes had been constructed ( almost half of which were council properties ), more than in any other five-year period since 1918.

In 1970, he established the Ministry of Justice and inaugurated the country's first " five-year plan " for economic development.

" World conflicts made it impossible to hold to a strict five-year plan, but BWA has held 20 Congresses: London, 1905 ; Philadelphia, 1911 ; Stockholm, 1923 ; Toronto, 1928 ; Berlin, 1934 ; Atlanta, 1939 ; Copenhagen, 1947 ; Cleveland, 1950 ; London, 1955 ; Rio de Janeiro, 1960 ; Miami Beach, 1965 ; Tokyo, 1970 ; Stockholm, 1975 ; Toronto, 1980 ; Los Angeles, 1985 ; Seoul, 1990 ; Buenos Aires, 1995 ; Melbourne, 2000 ; Birmingham, England, 2005 ; and Honolulu, 2010.

With this one film completed, Ruddy co-created Hogan's Heroes ( CBS, 1965 – 1971 ), and when the show's five-year run was over, Ruddy produced his second film, Making It ( 1970 ), about a sexually triumphant high school student who beds the gerontophobic wife of his gym teacher.

( 1957, 1970, 2001, 2007 ) The Heavens ( 1970 ), Cartographic Division of the National Geographic Society ( NGS ), Washington, D. C., U. S. A., two sided large map chart depicting the constellations of the heavens ; as special supplement to the August 1970 issue of National Geographic.

By 1970, both Parton and Wagoner had grown frustrated by her lack of solo chart success, and Porter had her record Jimmie Rodgers ' " Mule Skinner Blues ", a gimmick that worked.

" Alone Again Or " initially peaked at No. 123 in 1968 in an edited version, while the longer, original album version spent three weeks on the singles chart in 1970 before peaking at No. 99, according to Whitburn's " Top Pop Singles: 1955-2010.

It reached number four in the Billboard chart in January 1970, selling over one million copies and helping to cement the band's popularity.

The album's opening track, " Immigrant Song ", was released in November 1970 as a single in the US against the band's wishes, reaching the top twenty on the Billboard chart.

Later songs-including " Hello Darkness " ( 1970 ), " Shocking You ", " Blossom Lady " and " Out of Sight, Out of Mind " ( 1971 ), " Inkpot ", " Rock in the Sea " and " Eve and the Apple " ( 1972 ) and " Oh Lord " ( 1973 ) were successful in Europe, Latin America and Asia, but failed to chart in the U. S ..

Jefferson Airplane ended 1970 with their traditional Thanksgiving Day engagement at the Fillmore East ( the final performance of the short-lived Kantner / Balin / Slick / Kaukonen / Casady / Creach / Covington line-up ) and the release of their first compilation album, The Worst of Jefferson Airplane, which continued their unbroken run of chart success, reaching No. 12 on the Billboard album chart.

Nevertheless, the album was a commercial failure in the United States, peaking at 151 during a four-week Billboard chart stay in October 1970.

They placed 13 songs on the Billboard Hot 100 chart between 1970 and 1977 and were a prime example of what later was labeled soft rock.

She continued to chart in the R & B Top 40 in the early 1970s with singles such as " Losers Weepers " ( 1970 ) and " I Found a Love " ( 1972 ).

The single also peaked at # 5 on the R & B chart and remained there for five weeks, while also remaining at # 1 on the Pop chart for two weeks in the spring of 1970, before selling over a million copies.

In 1970, the group issued Motown's first protest single, the controversial anti-war song, " I Should Be Proud ", which peaked at a modest forty-five on the R & B singles chart.

She had a series of singles that would chart low on the Hot 100 between 1970 and 1975.

Outside her chart career, Dana had remained a popular personality since her 1970 Eurovision win.

In January 1970, it became a number-six hit on the Billboard Hot 100 singles chart for Dionne Warwick.

In 1970, the band shortened their name to Slade and released a new single, a cover of Shape of Things to Come which despite a performance on United Kingdom music show Top of the Pops, failed to chart.

The instrumental " Genesis " from the band's debut album, had lyrics added and was released as " Know Who You Are ," but again, the single failed to make any impression on the UK chart as did the album Play It Loud, released in late 1970 and produced by Chandler himself.

In the UK the title-track, released well-ahead of the album and the band's first UK picture-sleeve single, reached # 21 in the chart and gave the band its first Top Of The Pops appearances since 1970.

During the early 1970s, Clark had chart singles on both sides of the Atlantic with: " Melody Man " ( 1970 ); " The Song Of My Life " ( 1971 ); " I Don't Know How To Love Him " ( 1972 ), " The Wedding Song ( There Is Love )" ( 1972 ) and " Loving Arms " ( 1974 ).

The chart below displays the original vote count for the 69th IOC meeting at Amsterdam, Netherlands, in 1970, before the Denver rejection and the installation of Innsbruck, Austria, as alternate host.

Four singles were lifted from the album: " Jeremiah Peabody's Poly Unsaturated Quick Dissolving Fast Acting Pleasant Tasting Green and Purple Pills " ( his first Top 40 hit ), " Scratch My Back ( I Love It )" ( which failed to chart ), " Ahab the Arab " ( his major breakthrough hit and his biggest until his 1970 hit " Everything Is Beautiful "), and " Further More.