NEWS
• At Kent State University 4 students would be gunned down during protests.
• A gallon of gas cost 35 cents.
• The first Earth Day took place.
• Adds for cigarettes would no longer be seen on T.V.
• Soviet Cosmonauts Set New Record Of 17 Days In Space.
FADS and ENTERTAINMENT
• “Monday Night Football” Premiers on ABC.
• MOVIES: “Mash” “Patton” & “Love Story”
• Doonesbury debuted.
• The “Blue Flame” was setting world speed records by going over 622 MPH!
• Ziploc plastic bags come to market.
DEAD
• Gypsy Rose Lee: January 8, 1911 – April 26, 1970
• Walter Reuther: September 1, 1907 – May 9, 1970) was an American labor union leader.
• Jimi Hendrix: born Johnny Allen Hendrix; November 27, 1942 – September 18, 1970
• Janis Joplin: January 19, 1943 – October 4, 1970
#1@1
• The start of 1970 really signaled the impending finish for one of our beloved 60’s icons: The Beatles
• In January the Lads from Liverpool performed together in the studio for the last time.
• They would go to #1 for the last time in June 1970
• “The Long & Winding Road” the Beatles… You’re #1 @ 1 from June 1970
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