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November 21, 1970

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U.S.‐Soviet Space Docking Plans Traded

By Walter Sullivan

USSR scientists presented detailed plans for new docking system patterned after US method during recent US‐USSR conf, Moscow, on future space cooperation; NASA official C C Johnson, who attended conf, holds US and USSR systems are similar; foresees no great difficulty in making them compatible; both systems depend on 'key‐in‐lock' approach, in which 1 craft is equipped with protruding probe and other carries receptacle or 'drogue'; schematic diagram of current US system (W Sullivan rept)

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GUN SITES TARGET

By Unknown Author

Laird issues statement saying US conducts raids as part of policy and effort to protect Amer lives; describes raids as 'limited duration protective reaction' strikes taking place below 19th parallel; says strikes are in response to attacks on reconnaissance planes; asserts US halted bombing in '68 with understanding of fact that reconnaissance flights would continue

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AIRLINES GRANTED HIGHER U. S. FARES

By Robert Lindsey

CAB approves selective fare increases to raise $100‐million per yr for nation's financially pressed lines; increases to affect 1st‐class, vacation and special discount rates but econ fares will remain unchanged; United Air Lines vp Beamish comments; indus sources indicate new fares will become effective between mid‐Dec and Jan 10; some fares listed

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INQUIRY TO REOPEN AT JACKSON STATE

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Fed statute covering civil rights violations by law enforcement officers expected to be principal legal basis for possible Fed intervention into Portage County jury prosecutions; Justice Dept spokesman says no decision has yet been made to impanel Fed grand jury on case

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Music on My Birthday

Billboard 200

The Top 50 albums for the chart week of November 18, 1970, covering November 21, 1970.

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    Album cover for Led Zeppelin III by Led Zeppelin

    Led Zeppelin III

    Led Zeppelin

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    Peak
    1
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    5
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    Album cover for Abraxas by Santana

    Abraxas

    Santana

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    Peak
    1
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    7
  3. 3
    Album cover for Sweet Baby James by James Taylor

    Sweet Baby James

    James Taylor

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    Peak
    3
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    37
  4. 4
    Album cover for Close To You by Carpenters

    Close To You

    Carpenters

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    Peak
    4
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    10
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    Album cover for Third Album by The Jackson 5

    Third Album

    The Jackson 5

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    Peak
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    9

Notable Births

Karen Davila

1970Karen Davila, Filipino journalist[†]

Kristin Karen Lising Davila–Sta. Ana, is a Filipino broadcast journalist. She has been the anchor or host of multiple programs under ABS-CBN's News and Current Affairs division, including Bandila, My Puhunan: Kaya Mo!, and TV Patrol.

Justin Langer

1970Justin Langer, Australian cricketer and coach[†]

Justin Lee Langer is an Australian cricket coach and former cricketer. He is the former coach of the Australia men's national team, having been appointed to the role in May 2018 and leaving in February 2022 and became the coach of Lucknow based IPL franchise Lucknow Super Giants in July, 2023. A left-handed batsman, Langer is best known for his partnership with Matthew Hayden as Australia's test opening batsmen during the early and mid-2000s, considered one of the most successful ever. Representing Western Australia domestically, Langer played English county cricket for Middlesex and also Somerset. He holds the record for the most runs scored at first-class level by an Australian. As Australia's coach, he led the team to victory in the 2021 T20 World Cup.

Notable Deaths

Newsy Lalonde

1970Newsy Lalonde, Canadian lacrosse and ice hockey player (born 1887)[†]

Édouard Cyrille "Newsy" Lalonde was a Canadian professional ice hockey forward in the National Hockey League (NHL) and a professional lacrosse player. Lalonde is regarded as one of hockey's and lacrosse's greatest players of the first half of the 20th century and one of Canadian sport's most colourful characters. He played for the Montreal Canadiens – considered to be the original "Flying Frenchman" – in the National Hockey Association and the NHL. As player-coach, Lalonde led the Canadiens to their first Stanley Cup in 1916. His goal-scoring prowess in the 1919 Stanley Cup playoffs set three NHL records that remain unbroken over a century later. He also played for the WCHL's Saskatoon Sheiks.

C. V. Raman

1970C. V. Raman, Indian physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1888)[†]

Sir Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman was an Indian physicist known for his work in the field of light scattering. Using a spectrograph that he developed, he and his student K. S. Krishnan discovered that when light traverses a transparent material, the deflected light changes its wavelength. This phenomenon, a hitherto unknown type of scattering of light, which they called modified scattering was subsequently termed the Raman effect or Raman scattering. In 1930, Raman received the Nobel Prize in Physics for this discovery and was the first Asian and non-White to receive a Nobel Prize in any branch of science.

Historical Events

Operation Ivory Coast

1970Vietnam War: Operation Ivory Coast: A joint United States Air Force and Army team raids the SÆĄn TĂąy prisoner-of-war camp in an attempt to free American prisoners of war thought to be held there.[†]

Operation Ivory Coast was a mission conducted by United States Special Operations Forces and other American military elements to rescue U.S. prisoners of war during the Vietnam War. It was also the first joint military operation in United States history conducted under the direct control of the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. The specially selected raiders extensively trained and rehearsed the operation at Eglin Air Force Base, Florida, while planning and intelligence gathering continued from 25 May to 20 November 1970.

Historical Context for November 21, 1970

In 1970, the world population was approximately 3,694,683,794 people[†]