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.

By 1970 the national census registered 8. 5 million people, about a 27 percent increase, while the most recent official census in 1984 recorded a figure of 12. 3 million — almost double the 1960 figure ( see table 2, Appendix ).

In August 1970, Gödel told Oskar Morgenstern that he was " satisfied " with the proof, but Morgenstern recorded in his diary entry for 29 August 1970, that Gödel would not publish because he was afraid that others might think " that he actually believes in God, whereas he is only engaged in a logical investigation ( that is, in showing that such a proof with classical assumptions ( completeness, etc.

He recorded Gettin ' Down To It ( 1969 ) and Soul on Top ( 1970 ), two albums consisting mostly of romantic ballads and jazz standards, with the Dee Felice Trio and the Louie Bellson Orchestra respectively.

Moğollar recorded Ternek / Haliç ' te Gün Batışı ( Ternek / Sunset on the Golden Horn ) 45 rpm, and left for Paris in August 1970.

* 1970 – In Basse-Terre, Guadeloupe, 1. 5 inches ( 38. 1 mm ) of rain fall in a minute, the heaviest rainfall ever recorded.

Among the most successful were The Easybeats, formed in Sydney but who recorded their international hit " Friday on My Mind " ( 1966 ) in London and remained there for their forays into psychedelic-tinged pop until they disbanded in 1970.

Unitas played inconsistently during the 1970 regular season ; he threw for 2, 213 yards, but recorded more interceptions than touchdowns.

Stage Fright ( 1970 ) was engineered by musician / engineer / producer Todd Rundgren and recorded on a theatre stage in Woodstock, New York, but the fraying of the group's once-fabled unity was beginning to show.

When the show returned in 1970, it was recorded the same way only in colour in PAL 576i ( using 625 lines ).

" Poor Tom " is from sessions for Led Zeppelin III, having been recorded at Olympic Studios in June 1970.

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 ).

The title track, written by Bob Dylan and previously recorded by ex-Beatle George Harrison for his 1970 album All Things Must Pass, was her first international hit ( No. 25 Pop, No. 1 Adult Contemporary (" AC ")).

Denver recorded two more albums in 1970, Take Me to Tomorrow and Whose Garden Was This, including a mix of songs he had written and cover versions of other artists ' compositions.

From 1968 up to the 1970s, she also recorded more contemporary material according to classic pop songs with her albums Liza Minnelli ( 1968 ), Come Saturday Morning and New Feelin ' ( both 1970 ) from A & M Records.

He is recorded as an MP member of the Conservative Monday Club in 1970.

The Unidad Popular government had enormous support among Nueva canción musicians who composed the campaign song Poder Popular for the presidential election of 1970 and recorded El pueblo unido jamás será vencido in June 1973.

During late 1969 Casady and Kaukonen recorded an all-acoustic blues album, which was released in the spring of 1970.

" After alleged opposition to the dark lyrics of one of his contributions, the autobiographical "' Til I Die " ( a song demoed in 1969 and largely recorded in 1970 ), Wilson was reported to have lost interest in the group once more, conceding leadership of the sessions to his youngest brother.

Beginning in 1970, Webb recorded six original albums of his own songs: Words and Music ( 1970 ), And So: On ( 1971 ), Letters ( 1972 ), Land's End ( 1974 ), El Mirage ( 1977 ), and Angel Heart ( 1982 ).

He recorded the album with members of Classics IV and released it through Cotillion Records in 1970.

The musician Exuma recorded a song " Dambala " for the album " Exuma I " in 1970.