The temperature on May 21, 1970 was between 7.6 °C and 13.9 °C and averaged 10.3 °C. There was 1.6 mm of rain during 1.6 hours. There was 4.1 hours of sunshine (26%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-southwest. Source: KNMI
April 6 » Newhall massacre: Four California Highway Patrol officers are killed in a shootout.
April 15 » During the Cambodian Civil War, massacre of the Vietnamese minority results in 800 bodies flowing down the Mekong river into South Vietnam.
April 17 » Apollo program: The ill-fated Apollo 13 spacecraft returns to Earth safely.
August 15 » Patricia Palinkas becomes the first woman to play professionally in an American football game.
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.
November 5 » The Military Assistance Command, Vietnam reports the lowest weekly American soldier death toll in five years (24).
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