February 11 » Anton Bruckner's 9th Symphony receives its first performance in Vienna, Austria.
March 14 » Pelican Island National Wildlife Refuge, the first national wildlife refuge in the US, is established by President Theodore Roosevelt.
August 18 » German engineer Karl Jatho allegedly flies his self-made, motored gliding airplane four months before the first flight of the Wright brothers.
October 1 » Baseball: The Boston Americans play the Pittsburgh Pirates in the first game of the modern World Series.
November 3 » With the encouragement of the United States, Panama separates from Colombia.
December 16 » Taj Mahal Palace & Tower hotel in Bombay first opens its doors to guests.
Day of death December 24, 1970
The temperature on December 24, 1970 was between -6.9 °C and -0.9 °C and averaged -3.7 °C. There was 0.2 mm of rain. There was 3.5 hours of sunshine (45%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the northeast. Source: KNMI
April 12 » Soviet submarine K-8, carrying four nuclear torpedoes, sinks in the Bay of Biscay four days after a fire on board.
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.
October 9 » The Khmer Republic is proclaimed in Cambodia.
October 10 » Canada's October Crisis escalates when Quebec's vice-premier is kidnapped by members of the FLQ.
November 4 » Salvador Allende takes office as President of Chile, the first Marxist to become president of a Latin American country through open elections.
November 14 » Soviet Union enters ICAO, making Russian the fourth official language of organization.
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