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1 ________ – Slim Harpo, American singer (b.

2 November 17 – Vietnam War: Lieutenant William Calley goes on trial for the ________.

3 ________ – Super Bowl IV: The Kansas City Chiefs beat the heavily favored Minnesota Vikings 23–7.

4 ________ – Mari Blanchard, American actress (b.

5 ________ – Q-Tip, American musician and actor

6 ________ – Will Arnett, Canadian actor

7 ________ – Yoshiharu Habu, Japanese professional shogi player

8 January 21 – Five lifeboatmen are killed when the ________ lifeboat Duchess of Kent capsizes during a rescue off Kinnaird's Head, Aberdeenshire.

9 ________ – Andi Peters, British TV presenter and producer

10 Sharon Corr, Irish musician (________)

💡 Interesting Facts

  • openly gay novelist Gordon Merrick's book The Lord Won't Mind spent 16 weeks on the New York Times best-seller list in 1970, at a time when most authors would not write about homosexual themes for a mass audience?
  • the British Rail flying saucer was an unbuilt nuclear fusion powered space craft, proposed and patented in the 1970s by British Rail?
  • the Sri Lanka National Pharmaceuticals Policy was established in the 1970s to ensure that Sri Lankans could get high-quality, reasonably priced medications at correct dosages, and later became a model for national drug policies worldwide?
  • former National Hockey League rookie Michel Briere's career was tragically cut short following an automobile accident in 1970?
  • former California representative Allan O. Hunter was appointed as the president and chairman of Fannie Mae by President Richard Nixon in 1970?
  • Harold E. Martin, a newspaper publisher and editor, won a Pulitzer Prize for investigative reporting in 1970 and served for twenty years on the board of the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association?
  • Typhoon Patsy (1970) was the deadliest tropical cyclone to strike Manila since the establishment of the Philippine Weather Bureau in 1865?
  • despite wild differences in subject matter, 1970s Japanese science fiction television series Akumaizer 3 features frequent allusions to Alexander Dumas' famous novel The Three Musketeers?
  • Dave Burrell's operatic live jazz album Windward Passages was his response to land development in Hawaii during the late 1970's?
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