What Happened In August 1970 In History

Historical Events for August, 1970

• 7th » California judge Harold Haley is taken hostage in his courtroom and killed during an effort to free George Jackson (Black Panther) or George Jackson from police custody.
• 15th » Patricia Palinkas becomes the first woman to play professionally in an American football game.
• 17th » Venera program: 'Venera 7' launched. It will later become the first spacecraft to successfully transmit data from the surface of another planet (Venus).
• 23rd » Organized by Mexican American trade union named labor union leader César Chávez, the Salad Bowl strike, the largest farm worker strike action e.g strike in U.S. history, begins.
• 29th » Chicano Moratorium against the Vietnam War, East Los Angeles, California. Police riot kills three people, including journalist Rubén Salazar.

Famous Birthdays on August in 1970

• 1st » Quentin Coryatt, American football player
• 1st » David James (footballer) named David James, English footballer and manager
• 1st » Elon Lindenstrauss, Israeli mathematician and academic
• 2nd » Tony Amonte, American ice hockey player and coach
• 2nd » Kevin Smith, American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter
• 2nd » Philo Wallace, Barbadian cricketer
• 3rd » Stephen Carpenter, American guitarist and songwriter (Deftones, Sol Invicto, and Kush (band) known as Kush)
• 3rd » Gina G, Australian singer
• 3rd » Masahiro Sakurai, Japanese video game designer, created 'Super Smash Bros. (series) e.g Super Smash Bros' and 'Kirby (series) or Kirby'
• 4th » John August, American director and screenwriter
• 4th » Bret Baier, American journalist
• 4th » Steve House, American mountaineer
• 4th » Steven Jack, South African cricketer
• 4th » Ron Lester, American actor
• 4th » Kate Silverton, English journalist
• 5th » James Gunn (filmmaker) called James Gunn, American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter
• 5th » Leonid Stadnyk, Ukrainian giant (d. 2014)
• 6th » M. Night Shyamalan, Indian-American director, producer, and screenwriter
• 6th » Erwin Thijs, Belgian cyclist
• 7th » Eric Namesnik, American swimmer (d. 2006)
• 8th » Trev Alberts, American football player and journalist
• 8th » Pascal Duquenne, Belgian actor
• 9th » Chris Cuomo, American journalist
• 9th » Thomas Lennon (actor) called Thomas Lennon, American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter
• 10th » Bret Hedican, American ice hockey player and sportscaster
• 10th » Brendon Julian, New Zealand-Australian cricketer and journalist
• 10th » Steve Mautone, Australian footballer and coach
• 11th » Dirk Hannemann, German footballer and manager
• 11th » Ali Shaheed Muhammad, American rapper and producer (A Tribe Called Quest, The Ummah, and Lucy Pearl)
• 11th » Teresa Pavlinek, Canadian actress, producer, and screenwriter
• 12th » Charles Mesure, English-Australian actor and screenwriter
• 12th » Toby Perkins, English politician
• 12th » Jim Schlossnagle, American baseball player and coach
• 12th » Anthony Swofford, American soldier and author
• 13th » Will Clarke (novelist) named Will Clarke, American author
• 13th » Spike Dudley, American wrestler
• 13th » Elvis Grbac, American football player
• 13th » Alan Shearer, English footballer and manager
• 14th » Kevin Cadogan, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer (Third Eye Blind)
• 15th » Anthony Anderson, American comedian and actor
• 15th » Maddie Corman, American actress
• 15th » Ben Silverman, American actor, producer, and screenwriter, founded Electus called Electus Studios
• 15th » Maya Soetoro-Ng, Indonesian-American educator
• 16th » Bonnie Bernstein, American journalist
• 16th » Fabio Casartelli, Italian cyclist (d. 1995)
• 16th » Saif Ali Khan, Indian actor, singer, and producer
• 16th » Manisha Koirala, Nepalese-Indian actress
• 17th » Jim Courier, American tennis player
• 17th » Rupert Degas, English actor and producer
• 17th » Andrus Kivirähk, Estonian author
• 17th » Øyvind Leonhardsen, Norwegian footballer
• 17th » Bob Golding, English actor
• 18th » Jason Furman, American economist
• 18th » Jessica Hsuan, Hong Kong actress
• 18th » Malcolm-Jamal Warner, American actor and producer
• 19th » Jeff Tam, American baseball player
• 20th » Els Callens, Belgian tennis player
• 20th » Adrian Bower, English actor
• 20th » John D. Carmack, American game programmer, co-founded Id Software
• 20th » Fred Durst, American singer-songwriter, actor, and director (Limp Bizkit)
• 21st » Craig Counsell, American baseball player and coach
• 21st » Erik Dekker, Dutch cyclist
• 21st » Nathan Jones (wrestler) called Nathan Jones, Australian wrestler and actor
• 21st » Cathy Weseluck, Canadian voice actress
• 22nd » George Canyon, Canadian singer, guitarist, and actor
• 22nd » Charlie Connelly, English-Irish author and journalist
• 22nd » Giada De Laurentiis, Italian-American chef and author
• 22nd » Tímea Nagy, Hungarian fencer
• 22nd » Shaun Steels, English drummer and bass player (My Dying Bride and Anathema (band) called Anathema)
• 23rd » KK (singer) named KK, Indian singer-songwriter
• 23rd » Lawrence Frank, American basketball player and coach
• 23rd » Brad Mehldau, American pianist and composer
• 23rd » Jay Mohr, American actor
• 23rd » River Phoenix, American actor and singer (d. 1993)
• 23rd » Philip Mackenzie, British Conductor
• 23rd » Lee Sung-jae, South Korean actor
• 24th » David Gregory (journalist) named David Gregory, American journalist
• 24th » Dan Henderson, American wrestler and mixed martial artist
• 24th » Tugay Kerimoğlu, Turkish footballer and manager
• 25th » Doug Glanville, American baseball player and sportscaster
• 25th » Debbie Graham, American tennis player
• 25th » Robert Horry, American basketball player and sportscaster
• 25th » Jo Dee Messina, American singer-songwriter
• 25th » Claudia Schiffer, German model and fashion designer
• 25th » Helena Seger, Swedish model and actress
• 26th » Olimpiada Ivanova, Russian race walker
• 26th » Melissa McCarthy, American actress, producer, and screenwriter
• 26th » Brett Schultz, South African cricketer
• 27th » Andy Bichel, Australian cricketer and coach
• 27th » Peter Ebdon, English snooker player
• 27th » Mark Ilott, English cricketer
• 27th » Tony Kanal, English-American bass player, songwriter, and producer (No Doubt)
• 27th » Jeff Kenna, Irish footballer and manager
• 27th » Park Myeong-su, South Korean singer-songwriter and television host
• 27th » Jim Thome, American baseball player and manager
• 27th » Karl Unterkircher, Italian mountaineer (d. 2008)
• 28th » Melina Aslanidou, German-Greek singer-songwriter
• 28th » Sherrié Austin, Australian-American actress and singer
• 28th » Rick Recht, American singer-songwriter
• 31st » Debbie Gibson, American singer-songwriter, producer, and actress
• 31st » Nikola Gruevski, Macedonian economist and politician, 6th Prime Minister of the Republic of Macedonia
• 31st » Kristina Cook, English horse rider
• 31st » Greg Mulholland, English politician
• 31st » Queen Rania of Jordan
• 31st » Amy Stein, American photographer and educator
• 31st » Arie van Lent, Dutch-German footballer and manager
• 31st » Zack Ward, Canadian actor and producer

Famous Deaths for August 1970

• 1st » Frances Farmer, American actress and singer (b. 1913)
• 1st » Otto Heinrich Warburg, German physician and physiologist, Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine named Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1883)
• 6th » Nikos Tsiforos, Greek director and screenwriter (b. 1912)
• 7th » Harold Haley, American judge (b. 1904)
• 7th » Jonathan P. Jackson, American bodyguard (b. 1953)
• 17th » Rattana Pestonji, Thai director and producer (b. 1908)
• 18th » Soledad Miranda, Spanish actress (b. 1943)
• 19th » Paweł Jasienica, Polish soldier and historian (b. 1909)
• 22nd » Vladimir Propp, Russian philologist and scholar (b. 1895)
• 25th » Tachū Naitō, Japanese architect and engineer, designed the Tokyo Tower (b. 1886)
• 28th » Theophanis Lamboukas, Greek-French actor and singer (b. 1936)

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