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Top Song(s)
• The Beatles - Let it Be
• Mungo Jerry - In the Summertime
• Shocking Blue - Venus
• Simon & Garfunkel - Bridge Over Troubled Water
• B J Thomas - Raindrops Keep Falling On My Head
Top Film(s)
• The Conformist
• Patton
• Five Easy Pieces
• MASH
• Kelly's Heroes
Best Selling Book(s)
• Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret - Judy Blume
• 84, Charing Cross Road - Helene Hanff
• The Crystal Cave - Mary Stewart
• Fantastic Mr. Fox - Roald Dahl
• Jonathan Livingston Seagull - Richard Bach
Famous Deaths
• January 5 – Max Born, German physicist, Nobel Prize laureate
• February 16 – Francis Peyton Rous, American pathologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize
• February 20 - Cafe Filho, Brazilian politician, 18th President of Brazil
• April 26 - Francisco Cunha Leal, Portuguese politician, 84th Prime Minister of Portugal
• May 9 – Walter Reuther, American labor union leader and president of the United Auto Workers
• June 1 – Pedro Eugenio Aramburu, 31st President of Argentina
• July 10 – Bjarni Benediktsson, 11th Prime Minister of Iceland
• August 1 - Otto Heinrich Warburg, German physician and physiologist, Nobel Prize
• September 14 – Rudolf Carnap, German-American philosopher and mathematician
• November 9 – Charles de Gaulle, French general and statesman, 98th Prime Minister of France
Medical/Science/Technology
• Ulrich K. Laemmli's refinement of the SDS-PAGE method is published.
• Unix time begins at 00:00:00 UTC.
• The first Pascal compiler is released by Niklaus Wirth.
• Drilling on the Kola Superdeep Borehole begins on the Kola Peninsula of Russia.
• The Dubowitz Score for estimating the gestational age of babies is published by Lilly and Victor Dubowitz.
• The Exeter hip replacement stem is first implanted at the Princess Elizabeth Orthopedic Hospital in Exeter, England.
• The first case of monkeypox in humans is identified in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
• The minimal group paradigm is developed by Henri Tajfel.
• Luna 16 lands on the Moon and lifts off the next day with samples, landing back on Earth September 24.
• Kurt Godel's ontological proof of the existence of God is circulated.
Political
• March 18 – United States Postal Service workers in New York City go on strike.
• April 1 - President Richard Nixon signs the Public Health Cigarette Smoking Act into law.
• April 22 – The first Earth Day is celebrated in the U.S.
• May 1 - President Richard Nixon orders U.S. forces to cross into neutral Cambodia, threatening to widen the Vietnam War.
• June 6 – A D-Day celebration is held in Washington, D.C., on the 26th anniversary of the event.
• June 11 – The United States gets its first female generals: Anna Mae Hays and Elizabeth P. Hoisington.
• June 22 – U.S. President Richard Nixon signs the Voting Rights Act Amendments of 1970.
• June 24 – The United States Senate repeals the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution.
• July 1 - The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is subordinated to the Public Health Service.
• November 3 – Ronald Reagan is re-elected as Governor of California; Jimmy Carter is elected as Governor of Georgia.
National
• January 5 – The first episode of All My Children is broadcast on the ABC television network.
• February 28 - Bicycles permitted to cross Golden Gate Bridge.
• May 9 – In Washington, D.C., 100,000 people demonstrate against the Vietnam War.
• June 30 – Riverfront Stadium in Cincinnati opens.
• July 4 - Bob Hope and other entertainers gather in Washington, D.C., for Honor America Day, a nonpartisan holiday event.
• July 1 – Xerox PARC computer laboratory opens in Palo Alto, California, United States.
• August 26 – The Women's Strike For Equality takes place down Fifth Avenue in New York City.
• September 10 – The Chevrolet Vega is introduced.
• September 11 – The Ford Pinto is introduced.
• October 25 – The wreck of the Confederate submarine Hunley is found off Charleston, South Carolina.
Worldwide
• February 1 – The Benavidez rail disaster near Buenos Aires, Argentina (a rear-end collision) kills 236.
• March 5 – The Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty goes into effect, after ratification by 56 nations.
• March 16 – The complete New English Bible is published in the UK.
• April 8 - A huge gas explosion at a subway construction site in Osaka, Japan, kills 79 and injures over 400.
• May 26 – The Soviet Tupolev Tu-144 becomes the first commercial transport to exceed Mach 2.
• July 21 – The Aswan High Dam in Egypt is completed.
• September 1 – An assassination attempt against King Hussein of Jordan precipitates the country's Black September crisis.
• October 7 – General Juan José Torres becomes the new President of Bolivia.
• November 1 - The Club Cinq-Sept fire in Saint-Laurent-du-Pont, France, kills 146.
• November 8 – Egypt, Libya and Sudan announce their intentions to form a federation.