January 9 » Hallam Tennyson, 2nd Baron Tennyson, son of the poet Alfred Tennyson, becomes the second Governor-General of Australia.
June 19 » Benito Mussolini, at the time a radical Socialist, is arrested by Bern police for advocating a violent general strike.
July 20 » The Ford Motor Company ships its first automobile.
October 10 » The Women's Social and Political Union is founded in support of the enfranchisement of British women.
December 17 » The Wright brothers make the first controlled powered, heavier-than-air flight in the Wright Flyer at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina.
December 30 » A fire at the Iroquois Theater in Chicago, Illinois kills at least 605.
Day of death May 16, 1970
The temperature on May 16, 1970 was between 11.4 °C and 17.4 °C and averaged 14.0 °C. There was 3.2 hours of sunshine (20%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the east-southeast. Source: KNMI
January 12 » Biafra capitulates, ending the Nigerian Civil War.
June 15 » Charles Manson goes on trial for the Sharon Tate murders.
August 7 » California judge Harold Haley is taken hostage in his courtroom and killed during an effort to free George Jackson from police custody.
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.
November 25 » In Japan, author Yukio Mishima and one compatriot commit ritualistic seppuku after an unsuccessful coup attempt.
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