WHAT ALL HAPPENED MARCH TO AUGUST 1970
Find out what all happened March to August 1970

Explorer 1 re-enters the Earth's atmosphere after 12 years in orbit. (31. March 1970)

California judge Harold Haley is taken hostage in his courtroom and killed during an effort to free George Jackson from police custody. (7. August 1970)

The then new feminist movement, led by Betty Friedan, leads a nation-wide Women's Strike for Equality. (26. August 1970)

Vietnam War: United States and South Vietnamese forces invade Cambodia to hunt Viet Cong. (29. April 1970)

President General Yahya Khan abolishes One-Unit of West Pakistan restoring the provinces. (1. July 1970)

After 11 years of construction, the Aswan High Dam in Egypt is completed. (21. July 1970)

"The Long and Winding Road" becomes the Beatles' last US Number 1 song. (13. June 1970)

The Ancash earthquake causes a landslide that buries the town of Yungay, Peru; more than 47,000 people are killed. (31. May 1970)

Philip Lafayette Gibbs and James Earl Green are killed at Jackson State University by police during student protests. (15. May 1970)

An oxygen tank aboard Apollo 13 explodes, putting the crew in great danger and causing major damage to the spacecraft while en route to the Moon. (13. April 1970)

The Red Army Faction is established in West Germany. (14. May 1970)

The Lubbock Tornado, a F5 tornado, hits Lubbock, Texas, killing 26 and causing $250 million in damage. (11. May 1970)

Vietnam War: Kent State shootings: the Ohio National Guard, sent to Kent State University after disturbances in the city of Kent the weekend before, opens fire killing four unarmed students and wounding nine others. The students were protesting the United States' invasion of Cambodia. (4. May 1970)

Venera program: Venera 7 launched. It will later become the first spacecraft to successfully transmit data from the surface of another planet (Venus). (17. August 1970)

The U.S. postal strike of 1970 begins, one of the largest wildcat strikes in U.S. history. (18. March 1970)

Bobby Orr scores "The Goal" to win the 1970 Stanley Cup Finals, for the Boston Bruins' fourth NHL championship in their history. (10. May 1970)

Lon Nol ousted Prince Norodom Sihanouk of Cambodia. (18. March 1970)

The Soviet Tupolev Tu-144 becomes the first commercial transport to exceed Mach 2. (26. May 1970)

President Richard Nixon appoints Anna Mae Hays and Elizabeth P. Hoisington the first female United States Army Generals. (15. May 1970)

Richard Nixon delivers a special congressional message enunciating Native American self-determination as official US Indian policy, leading to the Indian Self-Determination and Education Assistance Act of 1975. (8. July 1970)