The temperature on April 30, 1970 was between 2.6 °C and 8.6 °C and averaged 5.4 °C. There was 2.9 mm of rain during 1.6 hours. There was 3.3 hours of sunshine (22%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the northwest. Source: KNMI
March 10 » Vietnam War: Captain Ernest Medina is charged by the U.S. military with My Lai war crimes.
April 1 » President Richard Nixon signs the Public Health Cigarette Smoking Act into law, requiring the Surgeon General's warnings on tobacco products and banning cigarette advertising on television and radio in the United States, effective 1 January 1971.
April 6 » Newhall massacre: Four California Highway Patrol officers are killed in a shootout.
April 24 » The Gambia becomes a republic within the Commonwealth of Nations, with Dawda Jawara as its first President.
September 28 » Egyptian President Gamal Abdel Nasser dies of a heart attack in Cairo.
November 12 » The 1970 Bhola cyclone makes landfall on the coast of East Pakistan becoming the deadliest tropical cyclone in history.
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