On this day
Revisit the music, news, notable people, and historical moments connected to this date.
Portrait 1080 × 1920 PNG · created on your device
Mayor Lindsay proposes extension of sales tax to NYC parking lots and garages, with estimated $4.7-million in proceeds collected by state and returned entirely to city, to help balance budget for next fiscal yr; proposal emerged from meeting between A G Marshall, other Rockefeller aides and Deputy Mayor Aurelio on budget gap; state legislators are non-commital
at least 89 Vietnamese civilians, including many women and children, killed, many wounded during what Cambodian mil sources call Vietnamese Communist attack on Prasot; Cambodia claims civilians were mowed down in crossfire by Cambodian troops; other sources who visited scene, dispute account; Vietnamese civilians had huddled together in field at agr co-op where they were being held as Vietcong suspects; Cambodia mil officials rept Prasot is still in Govt hands; Vietcong provisional Govt and N Vietnamese reptdly have indicated through Polish embassy that they are considering reopening their embassies in Pnompenh; Cambodian inf co battles Vietcong force at village of Poi Meau, drives them back; illus of dead Vietnamese civilians; map
J deJ Pemberton Jr resigns as exec dir, saying orgn needs man who will stay as leader for rest of decade; denies move is linked to internal disputes between so-called militant and conservative factions of ACLU; bd chmn Ennis hails Pemberton's service
Smith's Rhodesian Front party wins at least 48 of 50 seats reserved for white candidates
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of April 8, 1970, covering April 11, 1970.
Simon & Garfunkel
The Beatles
Crosby| Stills| Nash & Young
The Doors
Santana
1970Trevor Linden, Canadian ice hockey player and manager[†]
Trevor John Linden is a Canadian former professional ice hockey player and former president of hockey operations and alternate governor of the Vancouver Canucks. He spent 19 seasons in the National Hockey League (NHL), playing centre and right wing with four teams: the Vancouver Canucks, New York Islanders, Montreal Canadiens and Washington Capitals. Before joining the NHL in 1988, Linden helped the Medicine Hat Tigers of the Western Hockey League (WHL) win consecutive Memorial Cup championships. In addition to appearing in two NHL All-Star Games, Linden was a member of the 1998 Canadian Olympic team and participated in the 1996 World Cup of Hockey.
1970Whigfield, Danish singer and songwriter[†]
Whigfield is an Italian dance act fronted by Danish singer, former model, songwriter, and record producer Sannie Charlotte Carlson, known by her various stage names, including Whigfield, Sannie, or simply Naan. She is best known for her 1993 single "Saturday Night", which became an international hit the following year.
1970Cathy O'Donnell, American actress (born 1923)[†]
Cathy O'Donnell was an American actress who appeared in The Best Years of Our Lives, Ben-Hur, and films noir such as Detective Story and They Live by Night.
1970John O'Hara, American novelist and short story writer (born 1905)[†]
John Henry O'Hara was an American writer. He was one of America's most prolific writers of short stories, credited with helping to invent The New Yorker magazine short story style. He became a best-selling novelist before the age of 30 with Appointment in Samarra and BUtterfield 8. While O'Hara's legacy as a writer is debated, his work was praised by such contemporaries as Ernest Hemingway and F. Scott Fitzgerald, and his champions rank him highly among the major under-appreciated American writers of the 20th century. Few college students educated after O'Hara's death in 1970 have discovered him, chiefly because he refused to allow his work to be reprinted in anthologies used to teach literature at the college level.
1970Apollo Program: Apollo 13 is launched.[†]
The Apollo program, also known as Project Apollo, was the United States human spaceflight program led by NASA, which landed the first humans on the Moon in 1969. Apollo followed Project Mercury that put the first Americans in space. It was conceived in 1960 as a three-person spacecraft during President Dwight D. Eisenhower's administration. Apollo was later dedicated to President John F. Kennedy's national goal for the 1960s of "landing a man on the Moon and returning him safely to the Earth" in an address to Congress on May 25, 1961. It was the third American human spaceflight program to fly, preceded by Project Gemini conceived in 1961 to extend spaceflight capability in support of Apollo.
In 1970, the world population was approximately 3,694,683,794 people[†]