The temperature on January 21, 1970 was between -4.8 °C and -0.6 °C and averaged -3.1 °C. There was 0.1 mm of rain. There was 3.3 hours of sunshine (39%). The almost cloudless was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south east. Source: KNMI
March 4 » French submarine Eurydice explodes underwater, resulting in the loss of the entire 57-man crew.
March 10 » Vietnam War: Captain Ernest Medina is charged by the U.S. military with My Lai war crimes.
August 23 » Organized by Mexican American labor union leader César Chávez, the Salad Bowl strike, the largest farm worker strike in U.S. history, begins.
August 24 » Vietnam War protesters bomb Sterling Hall at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, leading to an international manhunt for the perpetrators.
October 9 » The Khmer Republic is proclaimed in Cambodia.
November 1 » Club Cinq-Sept fire in Saint-Laurent-du-Pont, France kills 146 young people.
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