January 13 » First Italo-Ethiopian War: the war's opening battle, the Battle of Coatit, occurs; it is an Italian victory.
April 6 » Oscar Wilde is arrested in the Cadogan Hotel, London, after losing a libel case against the Marquess of Queensberry.
June 11 » Paris–Bordeaux–Paris, sometimes called the first automobile race in history or the "first motor race", takes place.
August 31 » German Count Ferdinand von Zeppelin patents his navigable balloon.
September 3 » John Brallier becomes the first openly professional American football player, when he was paid US$10 by David Berry, to play for the Latrobe Athletic Association in a 12-0 win over the Jeanette Athletic Association.
October 4 » Horace Rawlins wins the first U.S. Open Men's Golf Championship.
Day of death August 4, 1970
The temperature on August 4, 1970 was between 15.8 °C and 25.5 °C and averaged 20.2 °C. There was 10.8 hours of sunshine (70%). The almost cloudless was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the northeast. 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.
May 14 » Andreas Baader is freed from custody by Ulrike Meinhof, Gudrun Ensslin and others, a pivotal moment in the formation of the Red Army Faction.
July 21 » After 11 years of construction, the Aswan High Dam in Egypt is completed.
September 5 » Jochen Rindt becomes the only driver to posthumously win the Formula One World Drivers' Championship (in 1970), after being killed in practice for the Italian Grand Prix.
September 19 » Michael Eavis hosts the first Glastonbury Festival.
December 17 » Polish protests: In Gdynia, soldiers fire at workers emerging from trains, killing dozens.
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