East Pakistan Leader Voices a Secession Threat
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Thanksgiving dinner for servicemen; illus of Nixon and guests, of Mrs D D Eisenhower at dinner
NORTH CHICAGO, III., Nov. 26 — Benjamin O. Davis Sr., the first Negro to be named a general in the United States armed forces, died today at Great Lakes Naval Hospital here. He was 93 years old.
Natl League of Cities repts that while local govts raised taxes by 499% since World War II, city costs have risen by almost 550%
NY Times survey shows that tenants of pub housing are rebelling in several cities throughout nation against what they consider to be paternalistic, arbitrary policies of management, ranging from unfair eviction to imposition of ugly decorating schemes; says that in number of cities, organized protests are meeting with such remarkable success that tenants now have some voice in management and complaints have declined rapidly; says standard lease and grievance procedure will soon be put into effect nation
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of November 25, 1970, covering November 27, 1970.
Santana
Led Zeppelin
James Taylor
Carpenters
The Jackson 5
1970Kelly Loeffler, American politician and businesswoman[†]
Kelly Lynn Loeffler is an American businesswoman and politician who has served as the 28th administrator of the Small Business Administration since February 20, 2025. A member of the Republican Party, she served as a United States senator from Georgia from 2020 to 2021.
1970Han Kang, South Korean writer[†]
Han Kang is a South Korean writer. From 2007 to 2018, she taught creative writing at the Seoul Institute of the Arts. Han rose to international prominence for her novel The Vegetarian, which became the first Korean language novel to win the International Booker Prize for fiction in 2016. In 2024, she was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature, a first for an Asian woman and for a Korean.
1970Markus Vogl, Austrian politician[†]
Markus Vogl is an Austrian politician and former member of the National Council. A member of the Social Democratic Party, he represented Traunviertel from October 2013 to January 2021.
1970Helene Madison, American swimmer and nurse (born 1913)[†]
Helene Emma Madison was an American competition swimmer, a 1932 Olympic gold medalist in the 100-meter, 400-meter and 4x100-meter freestyle relay, and a former world record-holder.
In 1970, the world population was approximately 3,694,683,794 people[†]