What happened in 1970

“Bridge Over Troubled Water”

Simon & Garfunkel · 6 weeks at #1 in 1970

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1. Jan 3Raindrops Keep Fallin' On My HeadB.J. Thomas4 wks
2. Jan 31I Want You BackJackson 51 wk
3. Feb 7VenusThe Shocking Blue1 wk
4. Feb 14Thank You Falettinme Be Mice Elf Agin/Everybody Is A StarSly & The Family Stone2 wks
5. Feb 28Bridge Over Troubled WaterSimon & Garfunkel6 wks
6. Apr 11Let It BeThe Beatles2 wks
7. Apr 25ABCJackson 52 wks
8. May 9American Woman/No Sugar TonightThe Guess Who3 wks
9. May 30Everything Is BeautifulRay Stevens2 wks
10. Jun 13The Long And Winding Road/For You BlueThe Beatles2 wks
11. Jun 27The Love You Save/I Found That GirlJackson 52 wks
12. Jul 11Mama Told Me (Not To Come)Three Dog Night2 wks
13. Jul 25(They Long To Be) Close To YouCarpenters4 wks
14. Aug 22Make It With YouBread1 wk
15. Aug 29WarEdwin Starr3 wks
16. Sep 19Ain't No Mountain High EnoughDiana Ross3 wks
17. Oct 10Cracklin' RosieNeil Diamond1 wk
18. Oct 17I'll Be ThereJackson 55 wks
19. Nov 21I Think I Love YouThe Partridge Family Starring Shirley Jones Featuring David Cassidy3 wks
20. Dec 12The Tears Of A ClownSmokey Robinson & The Miracles2 wks
21. Dec 26My Sweet Lord/Isn't It A PityGeorge Harrison1 wk

Dates are the first chart week at #1 in 1970; weeks count only those in 1970.Find the #1 song on your birthday →

1. Jan 15Muammar Gaddafi is proclaimed premier of Libya.
2. Jan 22The Boeing 747, the world's first wide-body commercial airliner, entered service for Pan Am on the New York–London route.
3. Apr 1The American Motors Corporation introduced its Gremlin, promoted as America's first subcompact car.
4. Apr 10In the midst of business disagreements with his bandmates, Paul McCartney announced his departure from the Beatles.
5. Apr 11Apollo Program: Apollo 13 is launched.
6. Apr 17Apollo program: The damaged Apollo 13 spacecraft returns to Earth safely.
7. May 4Vietnam War: Kent State shootings: The Ohio National Guard, sent to Kent State University after disturbances in the city of Kent the weekend before, opens fire killing four unarmed students and wounding nine others. The students were protesting the Cambodian Campaign of the United States and South Vietnam.
8. May 8Construction workers attacked students and others who were protesting the Vietnam War in New York City.
9. May 11Lubbock, Texas, was struck by a tornado that left 26 people dead.
10. Aug 7Jonathan Jackson took hostages in a courthouse in Marin County, California, to coerce the release of the Soledad Brothers, resulting in the deaths of judge Harold Haley and three others.
11. Oct 5The Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) is founded in the United States.[citation needed]
12. Oct 10Fiji becomes independent.
13. Nov 4Authorities in California discovered a 13-year-old feral child, pseudonymously known as Genie, who had spent nearly her entire life in social isolation.
14. Nov 18U.S. President Richard Nixon asks the U.S. Congress for $155 million in supplemental aid for the Cambodian government.

Event summaries from Wikipedia’s “On this day”, CC BY-SA 4.0. Each links to its article.

• U.S. President

  Richard Nixon

• UK Prime Minister

  Harold Wilson → Edward Heath

• Prime Minister of Canada

  Pierre Trudeau

• President of France

  Georges Pompidou

• German Chancellor

  Willy Brandt

• Prime Minister of Japan

  Eisaku Satō

• Soviet leader

  Leonid Brezhnev

Everyone who held the office at some point in 1970, from Wikidata.

A selection of the best-documented titles on Wikidata, by first release year; not a box-office ranking.

• Zack de la RochaAmerican singer-songwriter · Jan 12
• Shonda RhimesAmerican actress, director, producer, and screenwriter · Jan 13
• Skeet UlrichAmerican actor · Jan 20
• Matthew LillardAmerican actor · Jan 24
• Heather GrahamAmerican actress · Jan 29
• Antony RussoAmerican director, producer and screenwriter · Feb 3
• Hunter BidenAmerican attorney and lobbyist · Feb 4
• Julie BowenAmerican actress · Mar 3
• John FruscianteAmerican singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer · Mar 5
• Queen LatifahAmerican rapper, producer, and actress · Mar 18

From Wikipedia’s “On this day”, CC BY-SA 4.0.