WHAT ALL HAPPENED NOVEMBER TO DECEMBER 1970
Find out what all happened November to December 1970

Soviet spacecraft Venera 7 successfully land on Venus. It is the first successful soft landing on another planet (15. December 1970)

The South Korean ferry Namyong Ho capsizes in the Korea Strait, killing over 300 people. (15. December 1970)

Polish 1970 protests: In Gdynia, soldiers fire at workers emerging from trains, killing dozens. (17. December 1970)

Luna programme: The Soviet Union lands Lunokhod 1 on Mare Imbrium (Sea of Rains) on the Moon. This is the first roving remote-controlled robot to land on another world and is released by the orbiting Luna 17 spacecraft. (17. November 1970)

Vietnam War: The Supreme Court of the United States votes 6 to 3 against hearing a case to allow Massachusetts to enforce its law granting residents the right to refuse military service in an undeclared war. (9. November 1970)

In Basse-Terre, Guadeloupe, 1.5 inches (38.1 mm) of rain fall in a minute, the heaviest rainfall ever recorded. (26. November 1970)

Vietnam War: Lieutenant William Calley goes on trial for the My Lai Massacre. (17. November 1970)

The United States Environmental Protection Agency begins operations. (2. December 1970)

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. This is regarded as the 20th century's worst natural disaster. (13. November 1970)

Vietnam War: Vietnamization – For the first time in five years, an entire week ends with no reports of American combat fatalities in Southeast Asia. (10. November 1970)

The Democratic Republic of the Congo officially becomes a single-party state. (23. December 1970)

Genie, a 13-year-old feral child is found in Los Angeles, California having been locked in her bedroom for most of her life. (4. November 1970)

The Soviet Lunar probe Lunokhod 1 is launched. (10. November 1970)

Vietnam War: Operation Ivory Coast – A joint Air Force and Army team raids the Son Tay prison camp in an attempt to free American prisoners of war thought to be held there. (21. November 1970)

Club Cinq-Sept fire in Saint-Laurent-du-Pont, France kills 146 young people. (1. November 1970)

Southern Airways Flight 932 crashes in the mountains near Huntington, West Virginia, killing 75, including members of the Marshall University football team. (14. November 1970)

Vietnam War: The United States Military Assistance Command in Vietnam reports the lowest weekly American soldier death toll in five years (24). (5. November 1970)

Vietnam War: Vietnamization – The United States turns control of the Binh Thuy Air Base in the Mekong Delta over to South Vietnam. (4. November 1970)

The North Tower of the World Trade Center in Manhattan, New York, New York is topped out at 1,368 feet (417 m), making it the tallest building in the world. (23. December 1970)

The 1970 Bhola cyclone makes landfall on the coast of East Pakistan becoming the deadliest tropical cyclone in history. (12. November 1970)