March 2 » The Battle of Adwa: The Italian Army defeated by the Ethiopian Army in Adwa, Tigray, Ethiopia.
May 26 » Charles Dow publishes the first edition of the Dow Jones Industrial Average.
May 26 » Nicholas II becomes the last Tsar of Imperial Russia.
September 22 » Queen Victoria surpasses her grandfather King George III as the longest reigning monarch in British history.
December 10 » Alfred Jarry's Ubu Roi premieres in Paris. A riot breaks out at the end of the performance.
December 30 » Filipino patriot and reform advocate José Rizal is executed by a Spanish firing squad in Manila.
Day of death February 18, 1970
The average temperature on February 18, 1970 was -3.2 °C. There was 0.6 mm of rain during 0.5 hours. There was 6.1 hours of sunshine (60%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the north-northwest. Source: KNMI
March 18 » Lon Nol ousts Prince Norodom Sihanouk of Cambodia.
March 26 » South Vietnamese President Nguyễn Văn Thiệu implements a land reform program to solve the problem of land tenancy.
April 10 » Paul McCartney announces that he is leaving The Beatles for personal and professional reasons.
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.
May 15 » Philip Lafayette Gibbs and James Earl Green are killed at Jackson State University by police during student protests.
November 17 » Luna programme: The Soviet Union lands Lunokhod 1 on Mare Imbrium (Sea of Rains) on the Moon. This is the first roving remote-controlled robot to land on another world and is released by the orbiting Luna 17 spacecraft.
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