January 12 » The National Trust is founded in the United Kingdom.
February 9 » William G. Morgan creates a game called Mintonette, which soon comes to be referred to as volleyball.
March 22 » Before the Société pour L'Encouragement à l'Industrie, brothers Auguste and Louis Lumière demonstrate movie film technology publicly for the first time.
May 25 » Playwright, poet and novelist Oscar Wilde is convicted of "committing acts of gross indecency with other male persons" and sentenced to serve two years in prison.
June 11 » Paris–Bordeaux–Paris, sometimes called the first automobile race in history or the "first motor race", takes place.
October 22 » In Paris an express train derails after overrunning the buffer stop, crossing almost 30 metres (100ft) of concourse before crashing through a wall and falling 10 metres (33ft) to the road below.
Day of death August 24, 1970
The temperature on August 24, 1970 was between 12.7 °C and 23.4 °C and averaged 17.7 °C. There was 0.2 mm of rain. There was 10.8 hours of sunshine (76%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the north-northeast. Source: KNMI
March 10 » Vietnam War: Captain Ernest Medina is charged by the U.S. military with My Lai war crimes.
April 12 » Soviet submarine K-8, carrying four nuclear torpedoes, sinks in the Bay of Biscay four days after a fire on board.
July 8 » Richard Nixon delivers a special congressional message enunciating Native American self-determination as official US Indian policy, leading to the Indian Self-Determination and Education Assistance Act of 1975.
July 21 » After 11 years of construction, the Aswan High Dam in Egypt is completed.
November 5 » The Military Assistance Command, Vietnam reports the lowest weekly American soldier death toll in five years (24).
December 15 » Soviet spacecraft Venera 7 successfully lands on Venus. It is the first successful soft landing on another planet.
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