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LIRR, in anticipation of $8.5-million NYS loan to cover freight losses, will seek $4.60 instead of $9.20 monthly fare rise; Lindsay charges MTA decision to hold down LIRR fare is 'discrimination' by MTA and state pol leaders against NYC residents who use transit system
US Sup Ct overturns Appeals Ct decision and rules desegregation of pss in 6 Deep South states cannot be delayed till fall and that integration must take place no later than Feb; Chief Justice Berger and Assoc Justice Stewart do not join Ct action holding it unsound to overrule appeals ct without considering arguments and briefs in hearings; action marks departure from unanimity that marked similar rulings; Assoc Justices Harlan and White join in separate opinion which concurs with ruling but chides Ct for not giving more definite guidance on timing of school desegregation; suggest that once Ct has determined school dist has not eliminated identifible Negro and white schools no more than 8 wks should elapse before integration must be prepared and put into effect; other justices score 8-wk proposal as retreat from Ct's Oct 29 ruling for immediate end to segregation; ruling marks another setback for Adm's policy for more deliberate desegregation; is scored by school officials
Gen Motors Corp pres Cole says govt will ask auto indus to design virtually pollution-free engine by '80, s, Soc of Automotive Engineers; says lab tests show such an engine can be developed; urges regulating gasoline composition as well; believes HEW Dept will soon issue new auto emission goals for '75, under which hydrocarbon would be reduced by 95%, carbon monoxide by 85% and nitrogen oxide fumes by 75%; notes that reducing volatility and eliminating some gasoline components would have marked benefits in curbing smog; urges Govt, auto mfrs and oil refineries to give issue top priority; Ford Motor Co, in all-out campaign to cut down auto air pollution, announces plans for $7.5-million carburetion engineering laboratory, Dearborn, Mich; API says oil cos will study Cole proposals; vp Gammelgard comments
Peace foundation to be formed by Zale Corp from proceeds from exhibits of 150-carat cut diamond; to be administered by A J Goldberg, gets $250,000 Zale Corp grant
Dem Legis leaders say added school aid funds they propose could be obtained without imposing new taxes on low and middle-income property owners; Assemblyman Steingut holds Rockefeller's smaller aid proposal could cause property tax rises to meet increased local shares of school costs
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of January 14, 1970, covering January 15, 1970.
Led Zeppelin
The Beatles
Creedence Clearwater Revival
Tom Jones
The Rolling Stones
1970Michele Granger, American softball player[†]
Michele Marie Granger is an American, former collegiate four-time NCAA Division I First Team All-American and 1996 gold medal-winning Olympian softball pitcher. She played college softball for four seasons, over five years, for California. She won a gold medal at the 1996 Summer Olympics with Team USA. She currently holds numerous pitching records for the Bears, and is the Pac-12 Conference career leader in perfect games, no hitters, shutouts and innings pitched, simultaneously holding the NCAA lead in no-hitters (25), along with several other top-10 career records. She is a USA Softball Hall of Fame inductee.
1970Shane McMahon, American wrestler and businessman[†]
Shane Brandon McMahon is an American businessman and retired professional wrestler best known for his tenures in WWE.
1970Frank Clement, English race car driver (born 1886)[†]
Frank Charles Clement was a British racing driver who, along with Canadian John Duff, won the 1924 24 Hours of Le Mans.
1970William T. Piper, American engineer and businessman, founded Piper Aircraft (born 1881)[†]
William Thomas Piper Sr. was an American aviation and oil industry businessman. He was the founding president of the Piper Aircraft Corporation and led the company from 1929 until his death in 1970. He graduated from Harvard University in 1903 and later became known as "the Henry Ford of aviation".
1970Nigerian Civil War: Biafran rebels surrender following an unsuccessful 32-month fight for independence from Nigeria.[†]
The Nigerian Civil War, also known as the Biafran War, Nigeria-Biafra War, or Biafra War, was fought between Nigeria and the Republic of Biafra, a secessionist state which had declared its independence from Nigeria in 1967. Nigeria was led by General Yakubu Gowon, and Biafra by Lieutenant Colonel Chukwuemeka "Emeka" Odumegwu Ojukwu. The conflict resulted from political, ethnic, cultural and religious tensions which preceded the United Kingdom's formal decolonisation of Nigeria from 1960 to 1963. Immediate causes of the war in 1966 included a military coup, a counter-coup, and anti-Igbo pogroms in the Northern Region. The pogroms and the exodus of surviving Igbos from the Northern Region to the Igbo homelands in the Eastern Region led the leadership of the Eastern Region to conclude that the Nigerian federal government would not protect them and that they must protect themselves in an independent Biafra.
1970Muammar Gaddafi is proclaimed premier of Libya.[†]
Muammar Muhammad Abu Minyar al-Gaddafi was a Libyan military officer, revolutionary, politician and political theorist who ruled Libya from 1969 until his assassination by Libyan rebel forces in 2011. He came to power through a military coup, first becoming Revolutionary Chairman of the Libyan Arab Republic from 1969 to 1977 and then the Brotherly Leader of the Great Socialist People's Libyan Arab Jamahiriya from 1977 to 2011. Initially ideologically committed to Arab nationalism and Arab socialism, Gaddafi later ruled according to his own Third International Theory.
In 1970, the world population was approximately 3,694,683,794 people[†]