Events from 1970

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1970

26 events
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1970 ID: 1866
Vietnam War military testing: 73% literacy rate
ID: 1866
1970 ID: 1867
Brzezinski: 'It will soon be possible to assert almost continuous control over every citizen'
ID: 1867
1970 ID: 1868
Investigative journalism begins uncovering Operation Paperclip details
ID: 1868
1970 ID: 1869
Jewish Agency relaunched by Max Fisher; Maxwell loses Parliament seat and Pergamon control
ID: 1869
1970 ID: 1870
CEDADE begins publishing Holocaust denial materials across Europe and Latin America
ID: 1870
1970 ID: 1871
CIA phases out direct responsibility, Phoenix transferred to CORDS; 704 U.S. advisers deployed
ID: 1871
1970 ID: 1872
Operation Twofold begins - CIA infiltrates 19 officers into BNDD through proprietary company cover
ID: 1872
1970 ID: 1873
BNDD inspections staff gathers evidence on dozens of corrupt FBN agents in management
ID: 1873
1970 ID: 1874
Phoenix Template Export - CIA creates 'Department 5' in El Salvador; systematic machete executions
ID: 1874
1970 ID: 1875
Germany holds fifth EU Council Presidency
ID: 1875
1970 ID: 1876
ECHELON: Global signals intelligence system operated by Five Eyes alliance
ID: 1876
1970 ID: 1877
Mid-1970s: Of Moscow's 657 churches in 1917, only 46 still held services
ID: 1877
1970 ID: 1878
Kate Millett's Sexual Politics published (dissertation at Columbia University)
ID: 1878
1970 ID: 1879
1970s: Harry Hay founds Radical Faeries - left-wing cultural-spiritual-ecological pagan group
ID: 1879
1970 ID: 1880
Environmental accounting concepts emerge as companies track ecological impact
ID: 1880
1970 ID: 1881
Stephen Cook develops systematic computational complexity theory
ID: 1881
1970 ID: 1882
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is established
ID: 1882
1970 ID: 1883
Many eugenic laws finally removed from books (1970s)
ID: 1883
1970 ID: 1884
Pharmaceutical companies shift marketing focus to licensed medical doctors per FDA mandates
ID: 1884
1970 ID: 1885
Teachers begin serving as 'sickness brokers' using pharmaceutical-industry-developed rating scales
ID: 1885
1970 ID: 4423
Niklaus Wirth publishes Pascal - structured programming language for education, widely adopted in universities
ID: 4423
1970 ID: 4481
Busicom LE-120A 'HANDY' released - first truly pocket-sized calculator, uses Intel processors
ID: 4481
1970 ID: 4570
John Conway creates Game of Life - cellular automaton showing complexity from simple rules
ID: 4570
1970 ID: 4326
January 1970
DEC introduces PDP-11 - most successful minicomputer line, influences all modern computer architectures
ID: 4326
1970 ID: 4327
July 1970
Xerox establishes Palo Alto Research Center (PARC) under Robert Taylor - computer research lab that invents future
ID: 4327
1970 ID: 4962
September 27, 1970
Pope Paul VI declares St. Teresa of Ávila and St. Catherine of Siena first women Doctors of the Church
ID: 4962
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