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ISUPPOSE that drama could be defined four times over in the course of watch ing John Lewin's new—and very free —adaptation of Aeschylus's “The Pers ians,” now being offered as “A Ceremony for Our Time” at St. George's Church in Stuyvesant Square.
The heat is on, for Willis Reed of the Knicks as well as for the Los Angeles Lakers.
witnesses before closed hearings of NYS Joint Crime Com include Voloshen and Justice Schweitzer
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of April 22, 1970, covering April 26, 1970.
Simon & Garfunkel
Crosby| Stills| Nash & Young
The Beatles
Santana
The Jackson 5
1970Dean Austin, English footballer and manager[†]
Dean Barry Austin is an English football manager and former professional player who is currently head of recruitment at Coventry City.
1970Melania Trump, Slovene-American model; 47th First Lady of the United States[†]
Melania Knauss Trump is a Slovenian and American former model who is married to U.S. President Donald Trump. Since 2025, Melania Trump has served as the first lady of the United States, a role she previously held from 2017 to 2021. She is the first naturalized citizen to become first lady, the second foreign-born first lady after Louisa Adams, the second Roman Catholic first lady after Jacqueline Kennedy, and the second first lady to serve two non-consecutive terms after Frances Cleveland.
1970Kristen R. Ghodsee, American ethnographer and academic[†]
Kristen Rogheh Ghodsee is an American ethnographer and Professor of Russian and East European Studies at the University of Pennsylvania. She is primarily known for her ethnographic work on post-Communist Bulgaria as well as being a contributor to the field of postsocialist gender studies. She was critical of the role of Western feminist nongovernmental organizations doing work among East European women in the 1990s. She has also examined the shifting gender relations of Muslim minorities after Communist rule, the intersections of Islamic beliefs and practices with the ideological remains of Marxism–Leninism, communist nostalgia, the legacies of Marxist feminism, and the intellectual history of utopianism.
1970Tionne "T-Boz" Watkins, American singer-songwriter, dancer, and actress[†]
Tionne Tenese Watkins, also known by her stage name T-Boz, is an American singer. Watkins rose to fame in the early 1990s as a member of the girl-group TLC. She has won four Grammy Awards for her work with TLC.
1970Erik Bergman, Swedish minister and author (born 1886)[†]
Erik Henrik Fredrik Bergman was a Swedish parish minister of the Lutheran Church and the father of diplomat Dag Bergman, novelist Margareta Bergman, and film director Ingmar Bergman.
1970Gypsy Rose Lee, American actress, striptease dancer, and writer (born 1911)[†]
Gypsy Rose Lee was an American burlesque entertainer, stripper, actress, author, playwright and vedette, famous for her striptease act. Her 1957 memoir, Gypsy: A Memoir, was adapted into the 1959 stage musical Gypsy.
1970The Convention Establishing the World Intellectual Property Organization enters into force.[†]
The WIPO Convention is a multilateral treaty that established the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO).
In 1970, the world population was approximately 3,694,683,794 people[†]