February 2 » The Australian Premiers' Conference held in Melbourne decides to locate Australia's capital city, Canberra, between Sydney and Melbourne.
February 14 » Voting machines are approved by the U.S. Congress for use in federal elections.
February 16 » Iceland's first football club, Knattspyrnufélag Reykjavíkur, is founded.
February 22 » Filipino forces led by General Antonio Luna launch counterattacks for the first time against the American forces during the Philippine–American War. The Filipinos fail to regain Manila from the Americans.
July 29 » The First Hague Convention is signed.
Day of death August 24, 1970
The temperature on August 24, 1970 was between 12.7 °C and 23.4 °C and averaged 17.7 °C. There was 0.2 mm of rain. There was 10.8 hours of sunshine (76%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the north-northeast. Source: KNMI
January 1 » The defined beginning of Unix time, at 00:00:00.
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.
June 4 » Tonga gains independence from the United Kingdom.
September 30 » Jordan makes a deal with the PFLP for the release of the remaining hostages from the Dawson's Field hijackings.
November 5 » The Military Assistance Command, Vietnam reports the lowest weekly American soldier death toll in five years (24).
December 23 » The North Tower of the World Trade Center in Manhattan, New York, New York is topped out at 1,368 feet (417m), making it the tallest building in the world.
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