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April 4, 1970Born on Sunday April 5, 1970
- Kenneth Derek Mott, Belleville, ON (CA) († 1987)
- Ellen, Henrieke Koldeweij, Arnhem, Gelderland, Nederland
- Alexander James Mosley († 2009)
- Patricia Margaretha Schaefers, Amsterdam,Amsterdam,Noord Holland,Nederland
- Alexandre Mosley († 2009)
Died on Sunday April 5, 1970
- Andries Johannes van der Wijk (56)
- Berend Jan Veldhuis (71), Sioux City, Woodbury, Iowa
- Andries van der Wijk (56), -
- Augusta Margaretha Kienstra (56), Nes, Nederland
- Cornelis Johannes Vermeij (69), Dordrecht, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
- Charel VERNIERS (66), Beringen
- Eduard Coenraad Andriessen (70), Rotterdam
- Alice SIMONTS (50), Merksem, Antwerpen, Province of Antwerp (Middle Brabant), Belgium
- Arie Ketting (75), Vlaardingen, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
- Adrianus Van Kooten (72), Rhenen, Utrecht, Nederland
Born on April 5
- 1969 » Dinos Angelidis, Greek basketball player
- 1969 » Pontus Kåmark, Swedish footballer
- 1969 » Viatcheslav Djavanian, Russian cyclist
- 1970 » Diamond D, American hip hop producer
- 1970 » Irina Timofeyeva, Russian long-distance runner
- 1970 » Miho Hatori, Japanese singer-songwriter
- 1970 » Petar Genov, Bulgarian chess grandmaster
- 1970 » Soheil Ayari, French race car driver
- 1970 » Thea Gill, Canadian actress
- 1970 » Valérie Bonneton, French actress
Died on April 5
- 1968 » Félix Couchoro, Togolese writer (b. 1900)
- 1968 » Giuseppe Paris, Italian gymnast (b. 1895)
- 1968 » Lajos Csordás, Hungarian footballer
- 1969 » Ain-Ervin Mere, Estonian SS officer (b. 1903)
- 1969 » Alberto Bonucci, Italian actor and director (b. 1918)
- 1969 » Rómulo Gallegos, Venezuelan novelist and politician (b. 1917)
- 1970 » Alfred Sturtevant, American geneticist and academic (b. 1891)
- 1970 » Karl von Spreti, German diplomat (b. 1907)
- 1970 » Louisa Bolus, South African botanist and taxonomist (b. 1877)
- 1971 » José Cubiles, Spanish pianist and conductor (b. 1894)
Names that were popular for boys in 1970
- Jan
- Johannes
- Peter
- Robert
- Richard
- David
- Jeroen
- Marcel
- Pieter
- Michael
- Hendrik
- Patrick
- Marco
- Mark
- Willem
- Edwin
Names that were popular for girls in 1970
- Maria
- Sandra
- Monique
- Karin
- Johanna
- Esther
- Ingrid
- Linda
- Petra
- Anna
- Yvonne
- Patricia
- Astrid
- Jolanda
- Nathalie
- Saskia
Source: Wikipedia Historical events 1970
- 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.
- April 15 » During the Cambodian Civil War, massacre of the Vietnamese minority results in 800 bodies flowing down the Mekong river into South Vietnam.
- July 21 » After 11 years of construction, the Aswan High Dam in Egypt is completed.
- August 26 » A new feminist movement leads a nationwide Women's Strike for Equality.
- October 16 » Canadian Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau invokes the War Measures Act during the October Crisis.
- November 17 » Luna programme: The Soviet Union lands Lunokhod 1 on Mare Imbrium (Sea of Rains) on the Moon. This is the first roving remote-controlled robot to land on another world and is released by the orbiting Luna 17 spacecraft.
- November 21 » Vietnam War: Operation Ivory Coast: A joint United States Air Force and Army team raids the Sơn Tây prisoner-of-war camp in an attempt to free American prisoners of war thought to be held there.
Weather April 5, 1970
The temperature on April 5, 1970 was between -0.8 °C and 6.5 °C and averaged 2.3 °C. There was 0.7 mm of rain during 0.7 hours. There was 2.4 hours of sunshine (18%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-northwest.