65 events found for 1970
Two passenger jets bound from Europe to New York are simultaneously hijacked by Palestinian terrorist members of the…
Fighting begins between Arab guerrillas and government forces in Jordan.
Trans International Airlines Flight 863 crashes during takeoff from John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York…
A British airliner is hijacked by the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine and flown to Dawson's Field in…
The Dawson's Field hijackers release 88 of their hostages. The remaining hostages, mostly Jews and Israeli citizens,…
Dawson's Field hijackings: Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine terrorists blow up three hijacked airliners…
King Hussein of Jordan declares war against the Palestine Liberation Organization, the conflict came to be known as…
Michael Eavis hosts the first Glastonbury Festival.
Kostas Georgakis, a Greek student of geology, sets himself ablaze in Matteotti Square in Genoa, Italy, as a protest…
Egyptian President Gamal Abdel Nasser dies of a heart attack in Cairo.
Jordan makes a deal with the PFLP for the release of the remaining hostages from the Dawson's Field hijackings.
An aircraft carrying the Wichita State University football team, administrators, and supporters crashes in Colorado,…
The Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) is founded in the United States.[citation needed]
The British Trade Commissioner, James Cross, is kidnapped by members of the Front de libération du Québec, triggering…
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn wins the Nobel Prize in literature.
Canada's October Crisis escalates when Quebec Vice Premier Pierre Laporte is kidnapped by members of the Front de…