WHAT ALL HAPPENED AUGUST TO DECEMBER 1970
Find out what all happened August to December 1970

The then new feminist movement, led by Betty Friedan, leads a nation-wide Women's Strike for Equality. (26. August 1970)

Venera program: Venera 7 launched. It will later become the first spacecraft to successfully transmit data from the surface of another planet (Venus). (17. August 1970)

Egyptian President Gamal Abdel Nasser dies of a heart attack in Cairo. Anwar Sadat is named as Nasser's temporary successor, and will later become the permanent successor. (28. September 1970)

A plane carrying the Wichita State University football team, administrators, and supporters crashes in Colorado killing 31 people. (2. October 1970)

Thirty-five construction workers are killed when a section of the new West Gate Bridge in Melbourne collapses. (15. October 1970)

Fiji joins the United Nations. (13. October 1970)

Fighting between Arab guerrillas and government forces in Amman, Jordan. (7. September 1970)

The Khmer Republic is proclaimed in Cambodia. (9. October 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)

Chicano Moratorium against the Vietnam War, East Los Angeles, California. Police riot kills three people, including journalist Ruben Salazar. (29. August 1970)

Vietnam War: US President Richard Nixon announces that the United States will withdraw 40,000 more troops before Christmas (12. October 1970)

Jordan makes a deal with the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) for the release of the remaining hostages from the Dawson's Field hijackings. (30. September 1970)

Siad Barre declares Somalia a socialist state. (20. October 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)

The first Glastonbury Festival is held at Michael Eavis's farm in Glastonbury, United Kingdom. (19. September 1970)

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

Palestinian terrorists blow up three hijacked airliners in Jordan, continuing to hold the passengers hostage in various undisclosed locations in Amman. (12. September 1970)

Vietnam War: Operation Jefferson Glenn begins — the United States 101st Airborne Division and the South Vietnamese 1st Infantry Division initiate a new operation in Thừa Thiên–Huế Province. (5. September 1970)

Vietnam War: In Paris, a Communist delegation rejects US President Richard Nixon's October 7 peace proposal as "a manoeuvre to deceive world opinion". (8. October 1970)