January 5 » Dreyfus affair: French army officer Alfred Dreyfus is stripped of his rank and sentenced to life imprisonment on Devil's Island.
January 13 » First Italo-Ethiopian War: the war's opening battle, the Battle of Coatit, occurs; it is an Italian victory.
April 17 » The Treaty of Shimonoseki between China and Japan is signed. This marks the end of the First Sino-Japanese War, and the defeated Qing Empire is forced to renounce its claims on Korea and to concede the southern portion of the Fengtien province, Taiwan and the Pescadores Islands to Japan.
May 7 » In Saint Petersburg, Russian scientist Alexander Stepanovich Popov demonstrates to the Russian Physical and Chemical Society his invention, the Popov lightning detector—a primitive radio receiver. In some parts of the former Soviet Union the anniversary of this day is celebrated as Radio Day.
June 28 » The United States Court of Private Land Claims rules James Reavis’s claim to Barony of Arizona is "wholly fictitious and fraudulent."
October 21 » The Republic of Formosa collapses as Japanese forces invade.
Day of death November 2, 1970
The temperature on November 2, 1970 was between 8.8 °C and 14.8 °C and averaged 12.8 °C. There was 15.6 mm of rain during 7.0 hours. The almost completely overcast was. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-southwest. Source: KNMI
April 10 » Paul McCartney announces that he is leaving The Beatles for personal and professional reasons.
May 1 » Vietnam War: Protests erupt following the announcement by Richard Nixon that the U.S. and South Vietnamese forces would attack Vietnamese communists in a Cambodian Campaign.
May 26 » The Soviet Tupolev Tu-144 becomes the first commercial transport to exceed Mach 2.
September 16 » King Hussein of Jordan declares war against the Palestine Liberation Organization, the conflict which became to be known as Black September.
October 9 » The Khmer Republic is proclaimed in Cambodia.
December 23 » The Democratic Republic of the Congo officially becomes a one-party state.
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