Botswana and the Soviet Union initiated diplomatic relations on March 6, 1970.

The island had 22 municipalities until March 1970, of which 6 were market cities and 16 parish municipalities.

In 1972, the Blue Angels were awarded the Navy's Meritorious Unit Commendation for the two-year period from 1 March 1970 – 31 December 1971.

This upset the United States greatly and contributed to there view that of Prince Sihanouk as a North Vietnamese sympathizer and a thorn on the United States. However, declassified documents indicate that, as late as March 1970, the Nixon administration was hoping to garner " friendly relations " with Sihanouk.

While visiting Beijing in 1970 Sihanouk was ousted by a military coup led by Prime Minister General Lon Nol and Prince Sisowath Sirik Matak in the early hours of March 18, 1970.

However, as early as March 12, 1970, the CIA Station Chief told Washington that based on communications from Sirik Matak, Lon Nol's cousin, that " the ( Cambodian ) army was ready for a coup ".

Next came a North Vietnamese attempt to overrun the entire country in March – April 1970, to which U. S. and South Vietnamese forces responded by a limited ground incursion at the end of April ... The outcome in Indochina was not foreordained.

On 19 March 1970 the East and West German Chancellors Willi Stoph and Willy Brandt met in Erfurt, the first such meeting since the division of Germany.

On March 6, 1970, however, their safehouse was destroyed when an explosive they were constructing was accidentally detonated, killing three Weathermen ( Ted Gold, Terry Robbins, and Diana Oughton ).

In March 1970 he became the first of the scientist-astronauts to be assigned to space flight, joining Richard F. Gordon, Jr. ( Commander ) and Vance Brand ( Command Module Pilot ) on the Apollo 15 backup crew.

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.

They had two children, Tammy Sue " Sissy " Bakker Chapman ( born March 2, 1970 ) and Jamie Charles " Jay " Bakker ( born December 18, 1975 ).

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.

* John Robert Cartwright ( 22 December 1949 – 23 March 1970 )

Lev Vladimirovich Kuleshov (; – 29 March 1970 ) was a Soviet filmmaker and film theorist who taught at and helped establish the world's first film school, the Moscow Film School.

His 1970s films included Monte Walsh ( 1970 ) with Jeanne Moreau, the violent Prime Cut ( 1972 ) with Gene Hackman, Pocket Money ( 1972 ) with Paul Newman, Emperor of the North Pole ( 1973 ) opposite Ernest Borgnine, as Hickey in The Iceman Cometh ( 1973 ) with Fredric March and Robert Ryan, The Spikes Gang ( 1974 ) with Noah Beery, Jr., The Klansman ( 1974 ) with Richard Burton, Shout at the Devil ( 1976 ) with Roger Moore, The Great Scout and Cathouse Thursday ( 1976 ) with Oliver Reed, and Avalanche Express ( 1978 ) with Robert Shaw.

Norman Hackerman ( March 2, 1912 – June 16, 2007 ) was an American chemist, internationally known as an expert in metal corrosion, and a former president of both the University of Texas at Austin ( 1967 – 1970 ) and Rice University ( 1970 – 1985 ).

" The first known use of the phrase punk rock appeared in the Chicago Tribune on March 22, 1970, attributed to Ed Sanders, cofounder of New York's anarcho-prankster band The Fugs.

After a trial that lasted a few months, he was convicted and hanged On 29 March 1970 in Freetown.

In March 1970, Deputy Inspector Seymour Pine raided the Zodiac and 17 Barrow Street.

However, the 2010 census figures released in March 2011 showed the population as of April 1, 2010 at 287, 208, indicating a 25 % loss of population since its zenith in 1970.

Operation Searchlight ordered by Yahya was a planned military pacification carried out by the Pakistan Army to curb the Bengali nationalist movement in erstwhile East Pakistan in March 1971 Ordered by the government in West Pakistan, this was seen as the sequel to Operation Blitz which had been launched in November 1970.

* March 17 – Alfred Newman, American film composer ( died 1970 )

In practice, the Articles were in use beginning in 1777 ; the final draft of the Articles served as the de facto system of government used by the Congress (" the United States in Congress assembled ") until it became de jure by final ratification on March 1, 1781 ; at which point Congress became the Congress of the Confederation.

Johnson again organized a convention for January 1865 which in turn made provisions for the abolishment of slavery and an election in March for state government offices.

In March 1880, a report reached India that Abdur Rahman was in northern Afghanistan ; and the governor-general, Lord Lytton, opened communications with him to the effect that the British government were prepared to withdraw their troops, and to recognize Abdur Rahman as Amir of Afghanistan, with the exception of Kandahar and some districts adjacent to it.

On March 18, 1992 the parliament passed resolution " On the Armed Forces of the Republic of Belarus " that bound the government " to start the formation of the Armed Forces of the Republic of Belarus as of March 20, 1992 " and " to submit to the Supreme Soviet for approval the suggested structure of the Armed Forces, their size and order of their material and technical supplies ".

Following Lisette's fall in February 1959 the opposition leaders Gontchome Sahoulba and Ahmed Koulamallah could not form a stable government, so the PPT was again asked to form an administration-which it did under the leadership of François Tombalbaye on 26 March 1959.

Although a 1990 law authorizes private radio and television stations, the government has not granted any licenses as of March 1998.

The government was deposed in 15 March 2003 by forces under the rebel leader François Bozizé, who promised elections in 18 to 30 months.

In December 2004, the EU leaders announced that accession negotiations with Croatia would start on March 17, 2005 provided that Croatian government cooperates fully with the ICTY.

The provisional government of the Republic of China was formed in Nanjing on 12 March 1912.

On 23 March 2009, the government of Mirek Topolánek lost a vote of no-confidence.

In March 1996, following presidential elections, Mohamed Taki Abdoulkarim, a member of the civilian government that Denard had tried to set up in October 1995, became president.

Chiang moved the government to Taipei, Taiwan, where he formally resumed duties as President of the Republic of China on March 1, 1950.

In Stanleyville, those loyal to the deposed Lumumba set up a rival government under Antoine Gizenga which lasted from 31 March 1961 until it was reintegrated on 5 August 1961.

The 14th Dalai Lama remained the head of state for the Central Tibetan Administration (" Tibetan government in exile ") until his retirement on March 14, 2011.

* In the March 1971 issue of the magazine Shogaku 4-nensei: Because visitors from the future were causing too much trouble, the government in the 22nd Century passed a bill to ban time-travelling altogether, meaning Doraemon would have to return to his time era.

In June 1992 the OLF withdrew from the government ; in March 1993, members of the Southern Ethiopia Peoples ' Democratic Coalition left the government.

In his first hundred days in office, which began March 4, 1933, Roosevelt spearheaded major legislation and issued a profusion of executive orders that instituted the New Deal — a variety of programs designed to produce relief ( government jobs for the unemployed ), recovery ( economic growth ), and reform ( through regulation of Wall Street, banks and transportation ).

Lowry, currently an independent TD, supported the Fianna Fáil – Green Party government in Dáil Éireann until March 2011.

Though officially disbanded in 1920, many Freikorps attempted, unsuccessfully, to overthrow the government in the Kapp Putsch in March 1920.

Since the formation of the first Fianna Fáil government on 9 March 1932, the party has been in power for 61 of the last 79 years.

During the Revolutionary disturbances of 1848 ( March Revolution ), he appointed liberal ministers in the government, lifted censorship, and remitted a liberal electoral law.

Fedon and his troops controlled all of Grenada except the parish of St George's, the seat of government, between March 1795 and June 1796.

This split in the NNP resulted in the formation of a minority government until constitutionally scheduled elections in March 1990.