* 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.

* 1970 – Chicano Moratorium against the Vietnam War, East Los Angeles, California.

His command positions included: commanding officer of a platoon and two rifle companies during two tours of duty in Vietnam ; commanding officer of Special Training Branch and Recruit Series at Marine Corps Recruit Depot San Diego, California ( 1966 – 1968 ); commanding officer of Counter-Guerilla Warfare School, Northern Training Area on Okinawa ( 1970 ), Company officer at the United States Naval Academy ( 1970 – 1973 ); commanding officer of the Marine Barracks at Naval Air Station North Island, California ( 1973 – 1976 ), and commanding officer, 3rd Battalion 3rd Marines ( 1983 – 1985 ).

Returning to the United States in December 1968, Jones was assigned to Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton, California, where he served as a company commander until May 1970.

In California, a nolo contendere plea is known as a West plea after a seminal case involving plea bargains, People v. West ( 1970 ) 3 Cal. 3d 595.

* 1970 – Genie, a 13-year-old feral child is found in Los Angeles, California having been locked in her bedroom for most of her life.

Merkle graduated from Livermore High School in 1970 and proceeded to study computer science at the University of California, Berkeley, obtaining his B. A.

In 1970, team also studied the same reaction with oxygen-18 and identified < sup > 261 </ sup > Rf with a half-life of 65 seconds ( later refined to 75 seconds ).< ref name = 70Gh01 > Later experiments at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory in California also revealed the formation of a short-lived isomer of < sup > 262 </ sup > Rf ( which undergoes spontaneous fission with a half-life of 47 ms ), and spontaneous fission activities with long lifetimes tentatively assigned to < sup > 263 </ sup > Rf.

Also in 1970, Sharp curated “ Body Works ,” an exhibition of video works by Vito Acconci, Terry Fox, Richard Serra, Keith Sonnier, Dennis Oppenheim and William Wegman which was presented at Tom Marioni's Museum of Conceptual Art, San Francisco, California.

* January 28 – A blow-out on Union Oil's Platform spills 80, 000 to 100, 000 barrels of crude oil into a channel and onto the beaches of Santa Barbara County in Southern California inspiring Wisconsin Senator Gaylord Nelson to organize the first Earth Day in 1970

* Liberation Army Revolutionary Group Organizations, a revolutionary group formed in California in 1970.

He joined the University of California, Berkeley, mathematics department in 1966 as an Assistant Professor, and stayed there until 1970 when he was denied reappointment.

In 1970 he left North American Aviation to start his own company, Statek, in Orange, California.

Prior to joining the BPP, Shakur had met several of its members on a 1970 trip to Oakland, California.

She was tried and acquitted of suspected involvement in the Soledad brothers ' August 1970 abduction and murder of Judge Harold Haley in Marin County, California.

On August 7, 1970 Jonathan Jackson, a heavily armed, 17-year-old African American high school student, gained control over a courtroom in Marin County, California.

D & RGW locomotive on the next to last run of the California Zephyr, March 21, 1970, at Salt Lake City.

The first emergency medicine residency program in the world was begun in 1970 at the University of Cincinnati and the first Department of Emergency Medicine at a U. S. medical school was founded in 1971 at the University of Southern California.

The first permanent HOV facility in California was the bypass lane at the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge toll plaza, opened to the public in April 1970.

* 1970 – In response to increasingly stringent federal emission standards that would ultimately lead to mandating of unleaded gasoline in 1975 and later-model cars and trucks, Texaco introduced Lead-free Texaco as the first regular-octane lead-free gasoline at stations in the Los Angeles area and throughout Southern California.

They divorced in 1929, after O ' Neill abandoned Boulton and the children for the actress Carlotta Monterey ( born San Francisco, California, December 28, 1888 ; died Westwood, New Jersey, November 18, 1970 ).

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" Yokum " was a combination of yokel and hokum, although Capp established a deeper meaning for the name during a series of visits around 1965 – 1970 with comics historians George E. Turner and Michael H. Price.

The army remained in power for 4 years ; on June 14, 1970, the Voltans ratified a new constitution that established a 4-year transition period toward complete civilian rule.

Many changes followed: the first full-time in house designer and publications officer were appointed in 1964, A Friends organization was set up in 1968, an Education Service established in 1970 and publishing house in 1973.

Category: States and territories established in 1970

In 1970, the College established Native American academic and social programs as part of a " new dedication to increasing Native American enrollment.

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The non-existence of such an algorithm, established by Yuri Matiyasevich in 1970, also implies a negative answer to the Entscheidungsproblem.

Other legislation included National Environmental Policy Act ( NEPA ), signed into law in 1970, which established a United States Environmental Protection Agency and a Council on Environmental Quality ; the Marine Protection, Research, and Sanctuaries Act of 1972 ; the Endangered Species Act of 1973, the Safe Drinking Water Act ( 1974 ), the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act ( 1976 ), the Water Pollution Control Act Amendments of 1977, which became known as the Clean Water Act, and the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act, commonly known as the Superfund Act ( 1980 ).

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The Sierra Club did not like this connection and in 1970 The Don't Make a Wave Committee was established for the protest.

In the Church of England, the General Synod, which was established in 1970 ( replacing the Church Assembly ), is the legislative body of the Church.

McCalla Field was established in 1931 and remained operational until 1970.

The other 15 regions were in practice established in 1970, even if their ideation had been a much earlier idea.

In 1970, Robinson established the Jackie Robinson Construction Company to build housing for low-income families.

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.

* 1970 – The Red Army Faction is established in Germany.

Greece established a diplomatic mission in Nigeria in 1970, and today has an embassy in Abuja and a consulate in Lagos.

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# Processing communications submitted to treaty bodies under optional procedures and communications under the procedures established by the Economic and Social Council in its resolution 1503 ( XLVIII ) of 27 May 1970 and ensuring follow-up.

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On 1 July 1970, the West-Pakistan was devolved and renamed as " Pakistan " under an executive order ( see: LFO Order No. 1970 ), whilst the order had no effects on East-Pakistan and retained its geographical position established in 1955 ( although both East and West contingent formed the federation of Pakistan ).

The four provinces and four administrative units retained their current status and local governments were constitutionally established in 1970 to manage and administer the provisional autonomy given to the provinces in 1970.