1970(MCMLXX) was acommon year starting on Thursdayof theGregorian calendar,the 1970th year of theCommon Era(CE) andAnno Domini(AD) designations, the 970th year of the2nd millennium,the 70th year of the20th century,and the 1st year of the1970sdecade.

Millennium: 2nd millennium
Centuries:
Decades:
Years:
1970 in variouscalendars
Gregorian calendar1970
MCMLXX
Ab urbe condita2723
Armenian calendar1419
ԹՎ ՌՆԺԹ
Assyrian calendar6720
Baháʼí calendar126–127
Balinese saka calendar1891–1892
Bengali calendar1377
Berber calendar2920
British Regnal year18Eliz. 2– 19Eliz. 2
Buddhist calendar2514
Burmese calendar1332
Byzantine calendar7478–7479
Chinese calendarKỷ dậuNiên (EarthRooster)
4667 or 4460
— to —
Canh tuất niên (MetalDog)
4668 or 4461
Coptic calendar1686–1687
Discordian calendar3136
Ethiopian calendar1962–1963
Hebrew calendar5730–5731
Hindu calendars
-Vikram Samvat2026–2027
-Shaka Samvat1891–1892
-Kali Yuga5070–5071
Holocene calendar11970
Igbo calendar970–971
Iranian calendar1348–1349
Islamic calendar1389–1390
Japanese calendarShōwa45
( chiêu hòa 45 niên )
Javanese calendar1901–1902
Juche calendar59
Julian calendarGregorian minus 13 days
Korean calendar4303
Minguo calendarROC59
Dân quốc 59 niên
Nanakshahi calendar502
Thai solar calendar2513
Tibetan calendarÂm thổ kê niên
(female Earth-Rooster)
2096 or 1715 or 943
— to —
Dương kim cẩu niên
(male Iron-Dog)
2097 or 1716 or 944
Unix time0 – 31535999

Events

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January

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February

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February 11:Ohsumi (satellite)launched

March

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April

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June

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July

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August

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September

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October

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November

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December

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Date unknown

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World population

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World population
1970 1965 1975
World 3,692,492,000 3,334,874,000 357,618,000 4,068,109,000 375,617,000
Africa 357,283,000 313,744,000 43,539,000 408,160,000 50,877,000
Asia 2,143,118,000 1,899,424,000 243,694,000 2,397,512,000 254,394,000
Europe 655,855,000 634,026,000 21,829,000 675,542,000 19,687,000
Latin America 284,856,000 250,452,000 34,404,000 321,906,000 37,050,000
North America 231,937,000 219,570,000 12,367,000 243,425,000 11,488,000
Oceania 19,443,000 17,657,000 1,786,000 21,564,000 2,121,000

Births

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Lara Fabian
Warwick Davis
Shane McMahon
Simon Pegg
Julie Bowen
Aleksandar Vučić
Redman
Rachel Weisz
Queen Latifah
Gianni Infantino
Elizabeth Mitchell
Vince Vaughn
Alenka Bratušek
Barry Pepper
Andrej Plenković
Q-Tip
Jason Lee
Melania Trump
Andre Agassi
Uma Thurman
Will Arnett
Ghostface Killah
Tina Fey
Naomi Campbell
Gabby Giffords
Cafu
Will Forte
Paul Thomas Anderson
Sean Hayes
Chris O'Donnell
Nick Offerman
Audra McDonald
Beck
Justin Chambers
Nicola Sturgeon
Christopher Nolan
Alan Shearer
Anthony Anderson
Fred Durst
Cathy Weseluck
River Phoenix
Claudia Schiffer
Melissa McCarthy
Queen Rania of Jordan
Darren Gough
Hwang Jung-min
Taraji P. Henson
Tony Hale
Nicole Ari Parker
Matt Damon
Sadiq Khan
Javier Milei
Chavo Guerrero Jr.
Xie Jun
Ethan Hawke
Chris Jericho
Martha Plimpton
Sarah Silverman
Édouard Philippe
Mädchen Amick
Jennifer Connelly

January

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February

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March

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April

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June

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July

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August

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September

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October

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November

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December

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Deaths

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January–February

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Max Born
Fritz Bayerlein
Bertrand Russell

March

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Heinrich Brüning

April

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Ed Begley
Inger Stevens
Nelly Sachs
Terry Sawchuk

June

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Sukarno

July

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Bjarni Benediktsson

August

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Otto Heinrich Warburg

September

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Jimi Hendrix
Gamal Abdel Nasser

October

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Janis Joplin

November

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Charles de Gaulle
Yukio Mishima

December

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William Slim

Nobel Prizes

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