About the day » Tuesday May 5, 1970Calender converter

• Rodney Mike Hazenberg († 1991)
• Leon Suntjens, Roermond,, Limburg, Nederland († 1980)
• johannes (johan) stammen, helden-beringe
• Angela Margaret HAMPTON, Tasmania, Australia († 1970)
• Eddy de Weert, Bergen op Zoom, Noord-Brabant, Nederland († 2012)
• Lambertus Lunshof, Detmold († 1971)
• Teunis Koenen, Baarn († 1972)
• Willy van Tatenhove, Oosterend († 1970)
• Bregje KRIJNEN, Purmerend
• Martinus Pier(Martin) Santema († 2002)

• Christopher Archibald McCalla (48), Kingston Public Hospital, Kingston, Jamaica
• Antonia Maria Meiberg (75), Mariënheem
• Annie Maude Singer (80)
• Cornelis Jan Gerritsen (62), Woerden
• Anna Hortensia DE BILDE (83), Dendermonde,9200,Flandre Orientale,Flandre,BELGIQUE
• Arthur Sebastian Kamerman(s) (52)
• Barend Bernardus Steevels (66), Connecticut, VS
• Adolphine Plu (67), Averbode, Vlaams Brabant, Belgium
• Antonette Gerarda Oosterbaan (81), Vleuten-De Meern
• Anna Maria Brockman, Broekman (74), Weiteveen, Drenthe, Netherlands

• 1967 » Adam Hughes, American author and illustrator
• 1967 » Alexis Sinduhije, Burundian journalist and politician
• 1969 » Pieter Muller, South African rugby player
• 1970 » Kyan Douglas, American television host and author
• 1970 » Todd Newton, American game show host
• 1971 » Harold Miner, American basketball player
• 1971 » Mike Redmond, American baseball player and manager
• 1972 » Žigmund Pálffy, Slovakian ice hockey player
• 1972 » James Cracknell, English rower
• 1972 » Mikael Renberg, Swedish ice hockey player

• 1957 » Leopold Löwenheim, German mathematician and logician (b. 1878)
• 1959 » Carlos Saavedra Lamas, Argentinian academic and politician, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1878)
• 1962 » Ernest Tyldesley, English cricketer (b. 1889)
• 1965 » John Waters, American director and screenwriter (b. 1893)
• 1965 » Nikos Gounaris, Greek tenor and composer (b. 1915)
• 1971 » Violet Jessop, Argentinean-English nurse (b. 1887)
• 1973 » Zekai Özger, Turkish poet and academic (b. 1948)
• 1977 » Ludwig Erhard, German economist and politician, Chancellor of Germany (b. 1897)
• 1981 » Bobby Sands, PIRA volunteer and hunger striker (b. 1954)
• 1983 » Horst Schumann, German physician (b. 1901)

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.
• March 31 » Explorer 1 re-enters the Earth's atmosphere after 12 years in orbit.
• April 8 » Bahr El-Baqar primary school bombing: Israeli bombers strike an Egyptian school. Forty-six children are killed.
• September 8 » Trans International Airlines Flight 863 crashes during takeoff from John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York City, killing all 11 aboard.
• October 10 » Fiji becomes independent.
• 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 5 » The Military Assistance Command, Vietnam reports the lowest weekly American soldier death toll in five years (24).

The temperature on May 5, 1970 was between 8.7 °C and 20.4 °C and averaged 15.0 °C. There was 12.0 hours of sunshine (79%). The almost cloudless was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the east.