May 17 » The children's novel The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, by L. Frank Baum, is first published in the United States. The first copy is given to the author's sister.
June 9 » Indian nationalist Birsa Munda dies of cholera in a British prison.
June 25 » The Taoist monk Wang Yuanlu discovers the Dunhuang manuscripts, a cache of ancient texts that are of great historical and religious significance, in the Mogao Caves of Dunhuang, China.
August 3 » The Firestone Tire and Rubber Company is founded.
October 9 » The Cook Islands become a territory of the United Kingdom.
October 19 » Max Planck discovers Planck's law of black-body radiation.
Day of death July 22, 1970
The temperature on July 22, 1970 was between 7.7 °C and 18.4 °C and averaged 13.9 °C. There was 2.1 mm of rain during 0.3 hours. There was 7.1 hours of sunshine (44%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the west-southwest. Source: KNMI
April 15 » During the Cambodian Civil War, massacre of the Vietnamese minority results in 800 bodies flowing down the Mekong river into South Vietnam.
September 4 » Salvador Allende is elected President of Chile.
September 7 » Bill Shoemaker beats Johnny Longden's record to become the winningest jockey in horse racing history at Del Mar racetrack
September 8 » Trans International Airlines Flight 863 crashes during takeoff from John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York City, killing all 11 aboard.
September 9 » A British airliner is hijacked by the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine and flown to Dawson's Field in Jordan.
September 19 » Michael Eavis hosts the first Glastonbury Festival.
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