February 16 » Iceland's first football club, Knattspyrnufélag Reykjavíkur, is founded.
March 31 » Malolos, capital of the First Philippine Republic, is captured by American forces.
May 8 » The Irish Literary Theatre in Dublin produced its first play.
June 12 » New Richmond tornado: The eighth deadliest tornado in U.S. history kills 117 people and injures around 200.
October 11 » The Second Boer War erupts in South Africa between the British-ruled Cape Colony, and the Boer-ruled Transvaal and Orange Free State.
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
January 12 » Biafra capitulates, ending the Nigerian Civil War.
April 29 » Vietnam War: United States and South Vietnamese forces invade Cambodia to hunt Viet Cong.
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 4 » Vietnam War: Kent State shootings: The Ohio National Guard, sent to Kent State University after disturbances in the city of Kent the weekend before, opens fire killing four unarmed students and wounding nine others. The students were protesting the Cambodian Campaign of the United States and South Vietnam.
September 7 » Fighting begins between Arab guerrillas and government forces in Jordan.
November 13 » Bhola cyclone: A 150-mph tropical cyclone hits the densely populated Ganges Delta region of East Pakistan (now Bangladesh), killing an estimated 500,000 people in one night.
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