Wikipedia: 1970

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January 1: Unix epoch begins at 00:00:00 UTC.
January 15 - After a 32-month fight for independance from Nigeria, Biafra? surrenders.
February 11 - John Lennon pays £1,344 in fines for 96 people who had protested against the South African rugby team playing in Scotland.
February 11 - Japan becomes the fourth country to launch a satellite into orbit.
March 1 - Rhodesia severs its last tie with the British crown and declares itself a racially segregated republic.
May 1 - U.S. troops invade Cambodia.
May 4 Four students at Kent State University in Ohio are killed by [National Guard]?smen at a demonstration protesting incursion into Cambodia.
June 24 - The United States Senate repeals the [Gulf of Tonkin resolution]?.
Brazil wins Football World Cup in Mexico

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