About the day » Friday August 14, 1970Calender converter

• Geertien Anna (Erna) Bakker, Geesbrug, Oosterhesselen, Drenthe, Nederland
• Thomas Craig Halvorson, hosp., Blue Earth, Faribault Co., MN († 1970)

• Abraham Knoop (81), Oosterbeek
• Anna van der Wel (86)
• Elsie Schuler (76), Kern, California, Verenigde Staten
• Christina Johanna Geitenbeek (87), Utrecht
• Bonne de Boer (66), Emmen Drenthe Nederland
• Caroline Hannah Hamblett BOYNS (88), Napier, New Zealand
• Dallas Earle Steenis (57), Kansas City, Wyandotte, Kansas (USA)
• Cornelis Breg (60)
• Celesta Leona Westendorf (75), Davenport
• Albertus Adrianus van Soelen (81), Geldermalsen

• 1968 » Catherine Bell, English-American actress and producer
• 1968 » Darren Clarke, Northern Irish golfer
• 1968 » Jason Leonard, English rugby player
• 1968 » Pravin Amre, Indian cricketer and coach
• 1969 » Stig Tøfting, Danish footballer and manager
• 1969 » Tracy Caldwell Dyson, American chemist and astronaut
• 1970 » Kevin Cadogan, American rock singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer
• 1971 » Mark Loretta, American baseball player and coach
• 1971 » Pramodya Wickramasinghe, Sri Lankan cricketer
• 1971 » Raoul Bova, Italian actor, producer, and screenwriter

• 1963 » Clifford Odets, American director, playwright, and screenwriter (b. 1906)
• 1964 » Johnny Burnette, American singer-songwriter (b. 1934)
• 1965 » Vello Kaaristo, Estonian skier (b. 1911)
• 1966 » Tip Snooke, South African cricketer (b. 1881)
• 1967 » Bob Anderson, English motorcycle racer and race car driver (b. 1931)
• 1972 » Jules Romains, French author and poet (b. 1885)
• 1972 » Oscar Levant, American actor, pianist, and composer (b. 1906)
• 1973 » Fred Gipson, American journalist and author (b. 1908)
• 1978 » Nicolas Bentley, English author and illustrator (b. 1907)
• 1980 » Dorothy Stratten, Canadian-American model and actress (b. 1960)

1. Jan
2. Johannes
3. Peter
4. Robert
5. Richard
6. David
7. Marcel
8. Jeroen
9. Pieter
10. Michael
11. Hendrik
12. Patrick
13. Marco
14. Mark
15. Willem
16. Edwin

1. Maria
2. Monique
3. Sandra
4. Karin
5. Johanna
6. Esther
7. Linda
8. Ingrid
9. Petra
10. Anna
11. Yvonne
12. Patricia
13. Astrid
14. Jolanda
15. Nathalie
16. Elisabeth

• Koningin Juliana (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from September 4, 1948 till April 30, 1980 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
• In The Netherlands , there was from April 5, 1967 to Tuesday, July 6, 1971 the cabinet De Jong, with P.J.S. de Jong (KVP) as prime minister.
• The Netherlands had about 13.0 million citizens.
• January 15 » Nigerian Civil War: Biafran rebels surrender following an unsuccessful 32-month fight for independence from Nigeria.
• February 11 » Japan launches Ohsumi, becoming the fourth nation to put an object into orbit using its own booster.
• May 4 » Vietnam War: Kent State shootings: The Ohio National Guard, sent to Kent State University after disturbances in the city of Kent the weekend before, opens fire killing four unarmed students and wounding nine others. The students were protesting the Cambodian Campaign of the United States and South Vietnam.
• May 15 » Philip Lafayette Gibbs and James Earl Green are killed at Jackson State University by police during student protests.
• November 10 » Vietnam War: Vietnamization: For the first time in five years, an entire week ends with no reports of American combat fatalities in Southeast Asia.
• November 14 » Soviet Union enters ICAO, making Russian the fourth official language of organization.

The temperature on August 14, 1970 was between 8.7 °C and 21.0 °C and averaged 16.5 °C. There was 0.5 mm of rain during 0.1 hours. There was 6.2 hours of sunshine (42%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the west-northwest.