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BLS puts avg wkly earnings of factory workers, NY-northeastern NJ area, at record $125.52 in '69, 5.5% above '68 level; repts rise brought workers no gain in purchasing power because of sharp rise in prices
riders queue up at subway stations to buy 30c tokens; illus; many wait up to 30 mins to make purchase; NY Auto Club pres G B Phillips scores proposal to raise bridge and tunnel tolls to subsidize fare, TV int; urges tax charged against all citizens, not just motorists; Kheel replies that proposal to tax everyone overlooks tremendous subsidies motorists now receive, including police and sanitation services
Mayor Lindsay reptdly rejected Gov Rockefeller offer to split revenues from proposed increase in TB&TA tolls between NYC transit system and commuter rrs, particularly LIRR and Penn Central New Haven div
Article finds 7 cases involving de facto school desegregation in North being pressed by Justice Dept; civil rights authorities note basic problem is lack of segregation laws in North like those in South as most segregation in North is de facto, based on housing patterns; feel basic question in coming suits will be whether school bd has fundamental responsibility to act against racial isolation of school children, irrespective of residential patterns
article finds mass exodus of white students to private schools is posing serious threat to ps system; illus; many parents have chosen private schools as alternative to violence; business leaders join Gov Williams's appeal for calm, warning violence will bring econ ruin to Miss commerce and indus; Legis has repealed compulsory attendance law for school children, requisite for closing school to avoid desegregation; trouble may start among poor whites who cannot afford private schools and must choose between integration or no school at all
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of December 31, 1969, covering January 5, 1970.
The Beatles
Led Zeppelin
The Rolling Stones
Creedence Clearwater Revival
Tom Jones
1970Nigel Gaffey, Australian rugby league player[†]
Nigel Gaffey is an Australian former rugby league footballer who played in the 1990s and 2000s. He played at club level for the Canberra Raiders, the Sydney City Roosters, the South Queensland Crushers and the Penrith Panthers, as a second-row and lock. He is the son of former Cronulla Sharks player Len Gaffey.
1970Max Born, German physicist and mathematician, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1882)[†]
Max Born was a German-British theoretical physicist who was instrumental in the development of quantum mechanics. He also made contributions to solid-state physics and optics, and supervised the work of a number of notable physicists in the 1920s and 1930s. Born shared the 1954 Nobel Prize in Physics with Walther Bothe "for his fundamental research in quantum mechanics, especially in the statistical interpretation of the wave function".
1970Roberto Gerhard, Catalan composer and scholar (born 1896)[†]
Robert Gerhard i Ottenwaelder was a Spanish and British composer, musical scholar, and writer, generally known outside his native region of Catalonia as Roberto Gerhard.
1970The 7.1 Mw Tonghai earthquake shakes Tonghai County, Yunnan province, China, with a maximum Mercalli intensity of X (Extreme). Between 10,000 and 15,000 people are known to have been killed and about another 26,000 are injured.[†]
An earthquake occurred in Tonghai, Yunnan province, China at 01:00:41 local time on 5 January 1970 with a moment magnitude of 7.1 and a maximum Mercalli intensity of X (Extreme). The strike-slip rupture originated on the Red River Fault, which had not experienced an earthquake above magnitude 7 since 1700. At least 10,000 people were killed, making it one of the deadliest in its decade. The tremor caused between US$5 and $25 million in damage, felt over an area of 8,781 km2 (3,390 sq mi). In Hanoi, North Vietnam, almost 483 km (300 mi) from the epicenter, victims left their homes as the rupture rumbled through the city.
In 1970, the world population was approximately 3,694,683,794 people[†]