WHAT ALL HAPPENED SEPTEMBER TO DECEMBER 1970
Find out what all happened September to December 1970

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

The Oregon Highway Division attempts to destroy a rotting beached Sperm whale with explosives, leading to the now infamous "exploding whale" incident. (12. November 1970)

Jochen Rindt become the only driver to posthumously win the Formula One World Drivers' Championship (in 1970), after being killed in practice for the Italian Grand Prix. (5. September 1970)

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

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

Bill Shoemaker sets record for most lifetime wins as a jockey (passing Johnny Longden). (7. September 1970)

Kostas Georgakis, a Greek student of geology, sets himself ablaze in Matteotti Square in Genoa, Italy, as a protest against the dictatorial regime of Georgios Papadopoulos. (19. September 1970)

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

Soviet Union enters ICAO, making Russian the fourth official language of organization. (14. November 1970)

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

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

In Montreal, Quebec, a national crisis hits Canada when Quebec Vice-Premier and Minister of Labour Pierre Laporte becomes the second statesman kidnapped by members of the FLQ terrorist group. (10. October 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)

NASA announces the cancellation of two Apollo missions to the Moon, Apollo 15 (the designation is re-used by a later mission), and Apollo 19. (2. September 1970)

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

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

A British airliner is hijacked by the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine and flown to Dawson's Field in Jordan. (9. September 1970)

In Vietnam, the worst monsoon to hit the area in six years causes large floods, kills 293, leaves 200,000 homeless and virtually halts the Vietnam War. (30. October 1970)