Timeline December 1970

Events in December 1970 20

• 1883 – 1970 Rube Goldberg (1883-1970) Died 7 December 1970, aged 87 Rube Goldberg, the American cartoonist famous for drawings of absurdly complicated machines, died in New York City. His name became a generic term for any needlessly convoluted device or process.
• 1962 – 1970 Early Career and National Theatre Began appearing in films in the 1960s. Worked with the National Theatre alongside Laurence Olivier and Maggie Smith, building his reputation as a versatile classical actor.
• 1964 – 1970 Miles Davis's Second Great Quintet Joined Miles Davis's quintet in 1964, contributing compositions that helped shape one of the most innovative periods in jazz history. Participated in the landmark recordings In a Silent Way and Bitches Brew.
• 1968 – 1970 Promises, Promises Revival The Broadway musical Promises, Promises, with lyrics by Hal David, ran for over 1,200 performances and earned Bacharach a Tony nomination.
• 1968 – 1970 Promises, Promises on Broadway Composed the score for the Broadway musical Promises, Promises, based on Billy Wilder's The Apartment, which ran for over 1,200 performances.
• 1969 – 1970 Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid Won two Academy Awards for the score of Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid and the song Raindrops Keep Fallin' on My Head.
• 1969 – 1970 In a Silent Way and Bitches Brew Played a key role on Miles Davis's epoch-making albums In a Silent Way (1969) and Bitches Brew (1970), which launched the jazz fusion movement.
• 1969 – 1970 Life Is Elsewhere Wrote Life Is Elsewhere, a novel satirising revolutionary romanticism. It won the Prix Médicis étranger in France in 1973.
• 1969 – 1970 Postdoc at the Salk Institute Worked as a postdoctoral fellow at the Salk Institute under Renato Dulbecco, who would later win the Nobel Prize. When his American visa expired, Dulbecco recommended him to the newly established Basel Institute for Immunology in Switzerland.
• 1970 1970: Jochen Rindt Lotus Rindt became the sport's only posthumous World Champion, having been killed during practice at the Italian Grand Prix. His points lead proved unassailable in the remaining races.
• 1970 First Congressional Run Ran for the US House of Representatives in Ohio as an anti-war Democrat. Despite being in a conservative district, he received 44% of the vote.
• 1970 Myra Breckinridge Played the title role in the controversial film adaptation of Gore Vidal's Myra Breckinridge, portraying a transgender revolutionary.
• 1970 US Environmental Protection Agency Established Nixon administration creates federal environmental regulator President Richard Nixon's administration created the Environmental Protection Agency to consolidate federal efforts to control air and water pollution. The agency became the primary US body enforcing environmental law in the following decades.
• 1970 Willy Brandt Kneels at Warsaw Ghetto Memorial West German chancellor signs Treaty of Warsaw West German Chancellor Willy Brandt signed a treaty normalizing relations with Poland and unexpectedly knelt in silence before a memorial to the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising. The gesture became an enduring symbol of German reconciliation with the victims of Nazism.
• 1970 Creedence Clearwater Revival release Pendulum Have You Ever Seen the Rain Their last album as a four-piece.
• 1970 John Lennon releases John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band Primal scream album A raw album after primal therapy, with Mother and Working Class Hero.
• 1970 Final concert with The Doors The Warehouse, New Orleans, 12 December 1970 Performed his final concert with The Doors at The Warehouse in New Orleans on 12 December 1970 — a chaotic show during which, according to band members, Morrison appeared to lose his energy and will to perform mid-set, reportedly sitting down on stage.
• 1970 Elvis Presley meets Richard Nixon Elvis visits the White House and asks President Nixon for a federal narcotics badge. The photo of the meeting becomes one of the most requested in the National Archives.
• 1970 F-14 Tomcat first flight Grumman, Calverton, New York Grumman's variable-sweep fleet defence fighter flies for the first time. The prototype is lost in a crash nine days later, though both crew eject.
• 1970 The US Clean Air Act The engine acquires a regulator Signed on the last day of 1970, the Act sets emissions standards that no existing engine can meet and gives manufacturers a deadline. For the first time the design of the internal combustion engine is driven by law rather than by performance or cost. Every engine built since has been shaped by it.