February 27 » Second Boer War: In South Africa, British military leaders receive an unconditional notice of surrender from Boer General Piet Cronjé at the Battle of Paardeberg.
March 24 » Mayor of New York City Robert Anderson Van Wyck breaks ground for a new underground "Rapid Transit Railroad" that would link Manhattan and Brooklyn.
April 5 » Archaeologists in Knossos, Crete, discover a large cache of clay tablets with hieroglyphic writing in a script they call Linear B.
April 14 » The Exposition Universelle begins.
May 22 » The Associated Press is formed in New York City as a non-profit news cooperative.
July 19 » The first line of the Paris Métro opens for operation.
Day of death September 26, 1970
The temperature on September 26, 1970 was between 10.9 °C and 22.2 °C and averaged 15.6 °C. There was 2.3 hours of sunshine (19%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 1 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the east-southeast. Source: KNMI
January 15 » Muammar Gaddafi is proclaimed premier of Libya.
April 15 » During the Cambodian Civil War, massacre of the Vietnamese minority results in 800 bodies flowing down the Mekong river into South Vietnam.
August 15 » Patricia Palinkas becomes the first woman to play professionally in an American football game.
August 17 » Venera program: Venera 7 launched. It will later become the first spacecraft to successfully transmit data from the surface of another planet (Venus).
October 2 » An aircraft carrying the Wichita State University football team, administrators, and supporters crashes in Colorado, killing 31 people.
November 14 » Soviet Union enters ICAO, making Russian the fourth official language of organization.
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