Erfgoed Leiden eo: Overlijdensakten 1970, archiefnummer 1005, Archief van de ambtenaar van de Burgerlijke Stand van Leiden, 1929-1993, inventarisnummer 158, aktenummer 992 Gemeente Leiden
March 2 » The U.S. Congress passes the Platt Amendment limiting the autonomy of Cuba, as a condition of the withdrawal of American troops.
June 11 » The boundaries of the Colony of New Zealand are extended by the UK to include the Cook Islands.
July 24 » O. Henry is released from prison in Columbus, Ohio, after serving three years for embezzlement from a bank.
August 10 » The U.S. Steel recognition strike by the Amalgamated Association of Iron and Steel Workers begins.
November 8 » Gospel riots: Bloody clashes take place in Athens following the translation of the Gospels into demotic Greek.
November 27 » The U.S. Army War College is established.
Day of death August 2, 1970
The temperature on August 2, 1970 was between 15.7 °C and 27.0 °C and averaged 21.9 °C. There was 9.9 hours of sunshine (64%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the northeast. Source: KNMI
February 11 » Japan launches Ohsumi, becoming the fourth nation to put an object into orbit using its own booster.
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.
September 6 » Two passenger jets bound from Europe to New York are simultaneously hijacked by Palestinian terrorist members of the PFLP and taken to Dawson's Field, Jordan.
September 19 » Kostas Georgakis, a Greek student of geology, sets himself ablaze in Matteotti Square in Genoa, Italy, as a protest against the dictatorial regime of Georgios Papadopoulos.
October 8 » Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn wins the Nobel Prize in literature.
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