1970
Centuries: 19th century - 20th century - 21st century
Decades: 1920s 1930s 1940s 1950s 1960s - 1970s - 1980s 1990s 2000s
Years: 1965 1966 1967 1968 1969 - 1970 - 1971 1972 1973 1974 1975
Births
- February 11 - Alistair Brown, English cricket player.
- February 11 - Jason Allyn Scott, US rower.
- March 27 - Mariah Carey, singer
Deaths
- February 2 - Bertrand Russell, logician and philosopher
- February 11 - Emil Abranyi, composer.
- September 3 - Vince Lombardi, American football coach
- September 18 - Jimi Hendrix, rock musician
- September 28 - Gamal Abdal Nasser, first president of Egypt.
- October 4 - Janis Joplin, blues and rock and roll singer
Events
- January 1: Unix epoch begins at 00:00:00 UTC.
- January 15 - After a 32-month fight for independence from Nigeria, Biafra surrenders.
- February 11 - John Lennon pays £1,344 in fines for 96 people who had protested against the South African rugby team playing in Scotland.
- February 11 - Japan becomes the fourth country to launch a satellite into orbit.
- March 1 - Rhodesia severs its last tie with the British crown and declares itself a racially segregated republic.
- March 31 - Explorer I reentry (after 12 years in orbit)
- May 1 - U.S. troops invade Cambodia.
- May 4 Four students at Kent State University in Ohio are killed by National Guardsmen at a demonstration protesting incursion into Cambodia.
- June 24 - The United States Senate repeals the Gulf of Tonkin resolution.
- October - the Front de Libération du Québec (FLQ) kidnap James Cross and murder Pierre Laporte, provoking Quebec's October Crisis
Sport
- January 11 - Super Bowl IV Kansas City Chiefs (23) def. Minnesota Vikings (7)
- Brazil wins Football World Cup in Mexico
- British Commonwealth Games held in Edinburgh, United Kingdom
- Physics - Hannes Olof Gösta Alfvén, Louis Eugène Félix Néel
- Chemistry - Luis F Leloir
- Medicine - Sir Bernard Katz, Ulf von Euler, Julius Axelrod
- Literature - Aleksandr Isaevich Solzhenitsyn
- Peace - Norman E. Borlaug
- Economics - Paul Samuelson
Books