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capture supply base at Sam Thong, burn adjoining village and Amer-operated hosp; Govt repts all Amers, 16, and over 2,000 Meo tribesmen and Laotian peasants were evacuated earlier; Communist troops reptdly met with little resistance; map
Cambodian troops reptdly called on S Vietnam arty fire, on 2 successive days, to help drive Vietcong bn back across border; incidents detailed; Amer mil officials surprised by joint action
Lr carriers in Bronx and Manhattan, NYC, vote to strike to force Govt to raise their pay; they are members of Natl Lr Carriers Assn Branch 36; 21 night routers reptd absent from jobs at Manhattan Gen PO; picket lines formed at Grand Central and Murray Hill POs; Branch 41, Bklyn, approves strike and will join walkout; Manhattan-Bronx Postal Union pres Biller says he does not expect union members to cross picket lines; PO officials say strike is 1st against dept; note US Code barring strike against Fed Govt and penalties for any violation; 1,555 voted for strike and 1,055 against it; Natl Lr Carriers Branch 36 pres Johnson says carriers are seeking starting pay rate of $8,500 a yr, rising to maximum of $11,700, plus a cost-of-living provision; top pay would be reached after 5 yrs; other benefits sought
Govt begins urgent study designed to protect civilian ships transporting mil cargo to war zones after Columbia Eagle capt says 2 crewmen warned that incident is 1st of such mutinies designed to impede war effort in Vietnam
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of March 18, 1970, covering March 18, 1970.
Simon & Garfunkel
Led Zeppelin
The Beatles
The Doors
Creedence Clearwater Revival
1970Katy Gallagher, Australian politician[†]
Katherine Ruth Gallagher is an Australian politician who has been serving as the Minister for Finance, Minister for Women, Minister for the Public Service and Vice-President of the Executive Council in the Albanese Government since 2022 and since 2025 as Minister for Government Services. She also formerly served as the 6th Chief Minister of the Australian Capital Territory from 2011 to 2014. She has been a Senator for the Australian Capital Territory since the 2019 federal election, as a member of the Australian Labor Party (ALP) having previously served in the Senate from 2015 to 2018.
1970Queen Latifah, American rapper, producer, and actress[†]
Dana Elaine Owens, known professionally by her stage name Queen Latifah, is an American rapper, singer, and actress. She has received various accolades, including a Grammy Award, a Primetime Emmy Award, a Golden Globe Award, three Screen Actors Guild Awards, and two NAACP Image Awards, in addition to a nomination for an Academy Award. In 2006, she became the first hip hop artist to receive a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
1970Lon Nol ousts Prince Norodom Sihanouk of Cambodia.[†]
Marshal Lon Nol was a Cambodian military officer and politician who served as Prime Minister of Cambodia twice, as well as serving repeatedly as defence minister and provincial governor. As a right-wing nationalist, he led the military coup of 1970 against Prince Norodom Sihanouk, abolished the monarchy, and established the short-lived Khmer Republic. Constitutionally a semi-presidential republic, Cambodia was de facto governed under a military dictatorship. He was the commander-in-chief of the Khmer National Armed Forces during the Cambodian Civil War and became President of the Khmer Republic on 10 March 1972. On 1 April 1975, 16 days before the Khmer Rouge captured Phnom Penh, Lon Nol fled to the United States, first to Hawaii and then to California, where he remained until his death in 1985.
In 1970, the world population was approximately 3,694,683,794 people[†]