In the Dymshits – Kuznetsov hijacking affair on 15 June 1970, a group of Soviet refuseniks attempted to hijack a civilian aircraft in order to escape to the West, were caught and spent many years in Soviet prisons.

By 1974, another challenge to the state's authority and legitimacy had come from 19 April Movement ( M-19 ), a mostly urban guerrilla group founded allegedly in response to an electoral fraud during the final National Front election of Misael Pastrana ( 1970 – 1974 ) and the defeat of former dictator Gustavo Rojas.

* 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.

For example a group at MIT concluded that the planet Mesklin in Hal Clement's 1953 novel Mission of Gravity would have had a sharp edge at the equator, and a Florida high-school class calculated that in Larry Niven's 1970 novel Ringworld the topsoil would have slid into the seas in a few thousand years.

In March 1970, most of the members of Brown's mid-to-late 1960s road band walked out on him due to money disputes, and The Famous Flames singing group had disbanded ( for the same reason ), with original and founding member Bobby Byrd the only one remaining with Brown.

* 1970 – Montreal, Quebec: Quebec Vice-Premier and Minister of Labour Pierre Laporte murdered by members of the FLQ terrorist group.

* 1970 – In Montreal, Quebec, a national crisis hits Canada when Quebec Vice-Premier and Minister of Labour Pierre Laporte becomes the second statesman kidnapped by members of the FLQ terrorist group.

In 1970, a Japanese layman, Yukio Nemoto ( 1925 – 1988 ), created a sedevacantist group called Seibo No Mikuni.

The group began performing officially as The Band in 1970, and went on to release ten studio albums.

The Angry Brigade was a small British militant group responsible for a series of bomb attacks in Britain between 1970 and 1972.

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

In a defence debate in March 1970, he claimed that " the whole theory of the tactical nuclear weapon, or the tactical use of nuclear weapons, is an unmitigated absurdity " and that it was " remotely improbable " that any group of nations engaged in war would " decide upon general and mutual suicide ", and advocated enlargement of Britain's continental army.

In 1970, a group of engineers started a company in Glenrothes, Scotland called Pico Electronics.

Franke joined Tangerine Dream in 1970 from the group Agitation Free to replace Schulze as the drummer.

The 1998 film Velvet Goldmine, which chronicles a fictional retelling of the rise and fall of glam rock, contains a flashback to 1970 in which a group of characters converse in Polari, while their words are humorously subtitled below.

The Centre for Policy Studies, a Conservative group closely involved with the 1970 Selsdon document, began to formulate a new monetarist and free-market policy, initially led by Sir Keith Joseph.

In 1970, the group starred in a " science fiction musical " film and recorded an accompanying soundtrack album both named after the group.

In 1970, conflict between Portuguese forces and the PAIGC in neighbouring Portuguese Guinea ( now Guinea-Bissau ) spilled into the Republic of Guinea when a group of 350 Portuguese troops and Guinean dissidents landed near Conakry, attacked the city, and freed 26 Portuguese prisoners of war held by the PAIGC before retreating, failing to overthrow the government or kill the PAIGC leadership.

In 1970 and 1971, Wakeman was part of the folk rock group Strawbs.

The city's most populous ethnic group, non-Hispanic white, declined from 75. 8 % in 1970 to 55. 1 % by 2010.

Fonda went to Seattle, Washington, in 1970 to support a group of Native Americans who were led by Bernie Whitebear.

A third party, the Bermuda Democratic Alliance ( BDA ), was formed in the summer of 1967 with a splinter group from the PLP as a nucleus ; it disbanded in 1970.

Their biggest hit, " Venus ", went to # 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 in February 1970, and the band had sold 13. 5 million discs by 1973, but the group disbanded in 1974.

After Mariska Veres took over the vocals, the group charted a world-wide hit with the song " Venus ", which reached # 1 on the U. S. Billboard Hot 100 in February 1970.

Interpol on 4 March 2011 issued a security alert concerning the " possible movement of dangerous individuals and assets " based on United Nations Security Council Resolution 1970, which imposed a travel ban and asset freeze.

* 1970 – The first Earth Day proclamation is issued by Mayor of San Francisco Joseph Alioto.

* " Frequency-Shift Teletypewriter " – filed August 1966, issued April 1970

** Name: 70th birthday of President Kekkonen, issued: 03. 09. 1970, designed by Eeva Oivo

Finally on July 1, 1970, President General Yahya Khan issued the LFO Order No. 1970 that abolished the status of West Pakistan, dissolving the " One Unit ", and removing the term " West ", and simply establishing as " Pakistan ".

President General Yahya Khan issued the decree, simply removing the " West ", and adding the word " Pakistan " on July 1, 1970.

# 1 was issued in July 1987, then reissued in substantially revised form later that year by Rip Off Press ( who had published the original 4th edition of the Principia Discordia in 1970 ).

There have been many sets of metal figures, the majority of them being soldiers, issued since late 1970.

Hours after the judge issued the warrant on August 14, 1970 a massive attempt to arrest Angela Davis began.

On August 18, 1970, four days after the initial warrant was issued, the FBI director J. Edgar Hoover made Angela Davis the third woman and the 309th person to appear on the FBI ’ s Ten Most Wanted Fugitive List.

Although the Rail Passenger Service Act of 1970, which established Amtrak, specifically states that " The Corporation will not be an agency or establishment of the United States Government ," the federal government ( through the United States Department of Transportation ) does own all issued and outstanding preferred stock in the company.

* Thermal Printer, filed October 1965, issued February 1970

Two earlier typical editions of the revised Missal were issued in 1970 ( promulgated in 1969 ) and 1975.

A heavily edited first edition was published in 1959 ; a fuller version compiled by Langdon Jones from Peake's early drafts was issued in 1970 and forms the basis for all subsequent editions.

Keble also issued a College stamp in 1970 to mark its 100th anniversary.

The company's fortunes declined slightly during the 1970s, and it had few major commercial successes ; among those were Dana's 1970 two-million selling single, " All Kinds of Everything ", issued on their subsidiary label, Rex Records.

The song was the opening track of the compilation album 1967 – 1970, released in 1973, and also appears on the Imagine soundtrack issued in 1988.

The first Earth Day proclamation was issued by San Francisco Mayor Joseph Alioto on March 21, 1970.

In addition, Arbus's Box of Ten Photographs was a portfolio of selected 1963 – 1970 photographs in a clear Plexiglas box / frame that was designed by Marvin Israel and that was to have been issued in a limited edition of 50.

Between 1970 and 1993, an image of Scheemakers's Shakespeare statue appeared on the reverse of Series D £ 20 notes issued by the Bank of England.

" All Kinds of Everything "-composed by Derry Lindsay and Jackie Smith-had been issued as a single on 14 March 1970 following its winning the Irish National Song Contest.

A six-and-a-half-minute edit of " Turn On Your Lovelight " was issued first on Warner / Reprise Loss Leader album The Big Ball in 1970, and later on Skeletons from the Closet: The Best of Grateful Dead.

Trapeze issued its self-titled debut album Trapeze in 1970, but early that year Jones and Rowley returned to Montanas.