* 1970 – Peter Ebdon, English snooker player

* 1970 – Mark Ilott, English cricketer

* 1891 – William Slim, 1st Viscount Slim, English general, 13th Governor-General of Australia ( d. 1970 )

* 1970 – Alan Shearer, English footballer

* 1970 – David James, English footballer

* 1909 – Syd Buller, English cricketer ( d. 1970 )

* 1970 – Kelly Holmes, English athlete

* 1882 – Hugh Dowding, 1st Baron Dowding, English officer in the Royal Air Force and commander in RAF Fighter Command ( d. 1970 )

Engelbart applied for a patent in 1967 and received it in 1970, for the wooden shell with two metal wheels ( computer mouse-), which he had developed with Bill English, his lead engineer, a few years earlier.

* 1970 – Beth Orton, English singer-songwriter

in English from Wabash College in 1970, and, in 1971, a Masters in Education from Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri.

The Oxford English Dictionary credits Robin Morgan with coining the term in her 1970 book, Sisterhood is Powerful.

* 1970 – E. M. Forster, English author ( b. 1879 )

* 1970 – Jason Orange, English singer-songwriter and dancer ( Take That )

* 1970 – John Simm, English actor

* 1970 – Younus AlGohar, English spiritualist, author, poet, and humanitarian

* 1970 – Suzi Perry, English model and columnist

* 1872 – Bertrand Russell, 3rd Earl Russell, English mathematician, writer, and philosopher, Nobel laureate ( d. 1970 )

* 1970 – Glenn Hugill, English television presenter and producer

* 1970 – Mark Foster, English swimmer

* 1970 – Jimi Goodwin, English singer-songwriter and musician ( Doves and Sub Sub )

* 1970 – Ian Cashmore, English paranormal investigator and actor

* 1970 – Paul Sinha, English comedian and broadcaster

* In Die Erde is nah: die Marsexpedition ( 1970 ), by Ludek Pesek, published in English as The Earth is Near ( 1973 ), a crew of twenty men undertake the first manned mission to Mars, and after landing in the wrong area due to computer malfunction and / or human error, have to cope with vicious sand storms, and a long trek undertaken in vehicles to their original intended area of exploration.

* 1970 – Matthew Pinsent, English rower

Loglan ’ s inventor, James Cooke Brown, also wrote a utopian science fiction novel The Troika Incident ( 1970 ) that uses Loglan phrases but calls the language a different name, " Panlan ".

* 1970 – Soviet Union enters ICAO, making Russian the fourth official language of organization.

Pascal is an influential imperative and procedural programming language, designed in 1968 – 1969 and published in 1970 by Niklaus Wirth as a small and efficient language intended to encourage good programming practices using structured programming and data structuring.

Two long-running series began around this time, Steptoe and Son ( 1962 – 65, 1970 – 74 ) and Till Death Us Do Part ( 1965 – 68, 1972 – 75 ), the latter criticised by Clean-Up TV campaigner Mary Whitehouse for its bad language.

Under colonial policy, Portuguese citizenship was available to men who assimilated Portuguese language, literacy, and religion ; by 1970, 1, 200 East Timorese, largely drawn from the aristocracy, Dili residents, or larger towns, had obtained Portuguese citizenship.

# His 1970 Princeton lectures Naming and Necessity ( published in 1972 and 1980 ), that significantly restructured philosophy of language.

They finally accomplished this on June 20, 1970 when they fired Davis on account of the “ inflammatory language ” she had used on four different speeches.

Haley actually recorded this song on five occasions ( a Spanish language version for Orfeón of Mexico City and an English version for the US label Newtown Records ( both in 1964 ), two live versions for Buddah Records recorded in New York in 1969 ( neither of which were released for 25 years ), and once more in Nashville, Tennessee for the Swedish Sonet Records label in 1970 ).

In 1970, Swiss dramatist Friedrich Dürrenmatt adapted the play into a German language comedy entitled Titus Andronicus: Komödie nach Shakespeare ( Titus Andronicus: A Comedy After Shakespeare ).

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The language was first used at the Humanities Summer Training Institute held in 1970 at the University of Kansas in Lawrence, Kansas.

In March 2005, Minister for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs Éamon Ó Cuív announced that the government of Ireland would begin listing only the Irish language versions of place names in the Gaeltachtaí as the official names, stripping the official Ordnance Survey of their English equivalents, to bring them up to date with roadsigns in the Gaeltacht, which have been in Irish only since 1970.

Sir Ifor Williams offered a date prior to 1100, based on linguistic and historical arguments, while later Saunders Lewis set forth a number of arguments for a date between 1170 and 1190 ; Thomas Charles-Edwards, in a paper published in 1970, discussed the strengths and weaknesses of both viewpoints, and while critical of the arguments of both scholars, noted that the language of the stories best fits the 11th century, although much more work is needed.

In 1970, the first language of 6. 1 percent was Spanish ; by 1980 that number had climbed to 13. 4 percent.

The division into language areas was included in the Belgian Constitution in 1970.

According to the Soviet census statistics from 1970 to 1989, the Dungan maintained the use of their ethnic language much more successfully than other minority ethnic groups in Central Asia ; however, in the post-Soviet period, the proportion of Dungans speaking the Dungan language as their mother tongue appears to have fallen sharply.

# Tillamook ( a Salishan language ): ( 1970 )

First elected in 1970, Robert Bourassa instituted Bill 22 to introduce French language as the official language in Quebec, and pushed Canadian Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau for constitutional concessions.

On paper, the Autonomy Agreement of March 11, 1970, recognized the legitimacy of Kurdish participation in government and Kurdish language teaching in schools.

An influential technique for deriving compiled code from interpretation was pioneered by Mitchell in 1970, which he implemented for the experimental language LC².

A lack of proficiency in English tended to limit these roles, although he also appeared in other English language films including The Virgin and the Gypsy ( 1970 ), Force 10 from Navarone ( 1978 ), Enter the Ninja ( 1981 ) and Die Hard 2 ( 1990 ).

The first programming language with tree-based pattern matching features was Fred McBride's extension of LISP, in 1970.