January 1 » The first American college football bowl game, the Rose Bowl between Michigan and Stanford, is held in Pasadena, California.
April 20 » Pierre and Marie Curie refine radium chloride.
May 31 » Second Boer War: The Treaty of Vereeniging ends the war and ensures British control of South Africa.
August 9 » Edward VII and Alexandra of Denmark are crowned King and Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland.
August 22 » Theodore Roosevelt becomes the first President of the United States to make a public appearance in an automobile.
December 10 » The opening of the reservoir of the Aswan Dam in Egypt.
Day of death October 23, 1970
The temperature on October 23, 1970 was between 4.8 °C and 12.5 °C and averaged 8.9 °C. There was 0.3 mm of rain during 0.5 hours. There was 5.3 hours of sunshine (52%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the north-northwest. Source: KNMI
June 15 » Charles Manson goes on trial for the Sharon Tate murders.
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).
August 29 » Chicano Moratorium against the Vietnam War, East Los Angeles, California. Police riot kills three people, including journalist Rubén Salazar.
September 7 » Bill Shoemaker beats Johnny Longden's record to become the winningest jockey in horse racing history at Del Mar racetrack
October 9 » The Khmer Republic is proclaimed in Cambodia.
November 13 » Bhola cyclone: A 150-mph tropical cyclone hits the densely populated Ganges Delta region of East Pakistan (now Bangladesh), killing an estimated 500,000 people in one night.
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