January 1 - Australian media baron Rupert Murdoch purchases the largest selling British Sunday newspaper, The News of the World.
January 5 - The Soviet Union launches Venera 5 toward Venus.
January 10 - The Soviet Union launches Venera 6 toward Venus.
January 12 - Led Zeppelin I, an album considered by many to be one of the first in the heavy metal genre, is released.
January 30 - The Beatles give their last public performance, on the roof of Apple Records. The impromptu concert was broken up by the police.
February 9 - The Boeing 747 makes its maiden flight.
March 10 - In Memphis, Tennessee, James Earl Ray pleads guilty to assassinatingMartin Luther King Jr. (he later retracts his guilty plea).
May 10 - Zip to Zap, a harbinger of the Woodstock Concert, ends with the dispersal and eviction of youth and young adults at Zap, North Dakota by the National Guard.
May 18 - Apollo program: Apollo 10 (Tom Stafford, Gene Cernan, John Young) is launched, on the full dress-rehearsal for the Moon landing.
May 26 - Apollo program: Apollo 10 returns to Earth, after a successful 8-day test of all the components needed for the upcoming first manned Moon landing.
May 26 – June 2 - John Lennon and Yoko Ono conduct their Bed-In at the Queen Elizabeth Hotel in Montreal, Quebec.
June 1 - In Montreal, Canada, Give Peace a Chance is recorded during the famous bed-in for peace by John Lennon. The song, the first single recorded solo by a Beatle, and released under the name Plastic Ono Band, is still a strong anthem for peace.
July 8 - Vietnam War: The very first U.S. troop withdrawals are made.
July 16 - Apollo program: Apollo 11 (Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin, Michael Collins) lifts off toward the first landing on the Moon.
July 20 - Apollo program: The lunar module Eagle lands on the lunar surface. The world watches in awe as Neil Armstrongtakes his historic first steps on the Moon.
August 13 - Serious border clashes occur between the Soviet Union and the People's Republic of China.
August 15–18 - The Woodstock Festival is held in upstate New York, featuring some of the top rock musicians of the era..
September 2 - The first automatic teller machine in the United States is installed inRockville Centre, New York.
September 26 - The Beatles release their Abbey Road album, receiving critical praise and enormous commercial success
October 31 - Wal-Mart incorporates as Wal-Mart Stores, Inc
November 14 - Apollo program: NASA launches Apollo 12 (Pete Conrad, Richard Gordon, Alan Bean), the second manned mission to the Moon.
November 15 - Regular colour television broadcasts begin on BBC1 and ITV in UK.
November 15 - Dave Thomas opens his first restaurant in a former steakhouse on a cold, snowy Saturday in downtownColumbus, Ohio. He names the chain Wendy's after his 8-year-old daughter Melinda Lou (nicknamed Wendy by her siblings).
November 19 - Apollo program: Apollo 12 astronauts Charles Conrad and Alan Bean land at Oceanus Procellarum("Ocean of Storms"), becoming the third and fourth humans to walk on the Moon.
November 19 - Soccer great Pelé scores his 1,000th goal.
November 24 - Apollo program: The Apollo 12 spacecraft splashes down safely in the Pacific Ocean, ending the second manned mission to the Moon.
November 25 - John Lennon returns his MBE medal to protest the British government's support of the U.S. war in Vietnam.
December 1Vietnam Wardraft lotteryUnited StatesWorld War IIJanuary 41970New York TimesDecember 2 - The Boeing 747 jumbo jet makes its debut. It carries 191 people, most of them reporters and photographers, from Seattle, Washington to New York City.
§ The first Gap store opens, in San Francisco.
§ Reported as being the year the first strain of the AIDS virus (HIV) migrated to the United States via Haiti.[2]
§ Summer saw the invention of Unix under the potential name "Unics" (after Multics).
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