June 16 » Roald Amundsen leaves Oslo, Norway, to commence the first east–west navigation of the Northwest Passage.
June 16 » The Ford Motor Company is incorporated.
July 4 » The Philippine–American War is officially concluded.
August 29 » The Slava, the last of the five Borodino-class battleships, is launched.
September 27 » The Wreck of the Old 97, an American rail disaster that became the subject of a popular ballad.
December 17 » The Wright brothers make the first controlled powered, heavier-than-air flight in the Wright Flyer at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina.
Day of death May 29, 1970
The temperature on May 29, 1970 was between 8.5 °C and 18.9 °C and averaged 12.9 °C. There was 6.7 mm of rain during 2.4 hours. There was -0.1 hours of sunshine (0%). The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 1 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the ??. Source: KNMI
January 12 » Biafra capitulates, ending the Nigerian Civil War.
February 11 » Japan launches Ohsumi, becoming the fourth nation to put an object into orbit using its own booster.
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 22 » The first Earth Day is celebrated.
August 26 » A new feminist movement leads a nationwide Women's Strike for Equality.
November 17 » Vietnam War: Lieutenant William Calley goes on trial for the My Lai Massacre.
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