January 18 » An X-ray generating machine is exhibited for the first time by H. L. Smith.
February 21 » An Englishman raised in Australia, Bob Fitzsimmons, fought an Irishman, Peter Maher, in an American promoted event which technically took place in Mexico, winning the 1896 World Heavyweight Championship in boxing.
May 26 » Nicholas II becomes the last Tsar of Imperial Russia.
June 15 » The deadliest tsunami in Japan's history kills more than 22,000 people.
December 17 » Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania's Schenley Park Casino, which was the first multi-purpose arena with the technology to create an artificial ice surface in North America, is destroyed in a fire.
December 30 » Canadian ice hockey player Ernie McLea scores the first hat-trick in Stanley Cup play, and the Cup-winning goal as the Montreal Victorias defeat the Winnipeg Victorias 6–5.
Day of death September 11, 1970
The temperature on September 11, 1970 was between 11.0 °C and 15.6 °C and averaged 13.2 °C. There was 1.1 mm of rain during 1.3 hours. There was 0.9 hours of sunshine (7%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the southwest. Source: KNMI
January 12 » Biafra capitulates, ending the Nigerian Civil War.
April 13 » An oxygen tank aboard the Apollo 13 Service Module explodes, putting the crew in great danger and causing major damage to the Apollo command and service module (codenamed "Odyssey") while en route to the Moon.
August 15 » Patricia Palinkas becomes the first woman to play professionally in an American football game.
August 17 » Venera program: Venera 7 launched. It will later become the first spacecraft to successfully transmit data from the surface of another planet (Venus).
November 1 » Club Cinq-Sept fire in Saint-Laurent-du-Pont, France kills 146 young people.
November 12 » The 1970 Bhola cyclone makes landfall on the coast of East Pakistan becoming the deadliest tropical cyclone in history.
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