Timeline January 1970

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• 1969 – 1970 Jimi Hendrix plays with Band of Gypsys Fillmore East New Year shows with Buddy Miles and Billy Cox, released as a live album.
• 1970 Australian Open 1970 Men: Arthur Ashe · Women: Margaret Court
• 1970 Van Morrison releases Moondance Into the Mystic His commercial breakthrough, with Moondance, Caravan and Into the Mystic.
• 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 – 1977 Cultural Revolution Exile Spent years during the Cultural Revolution doing manual labour on a farm, raising pigs and planting rice. He was not rehabilitated until 1978, after Mao's death.
• 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 The Band on the cover of Time First rock group on a Time cover Time's cover story calls them the new sound of country rock.
• 1970 – 2004 Marco Pantani Il Pirata The last rider to win the Giro and Tour in the same year (1998); a legendary climber.
• 1970 Nigerian Civil War Ends Biafra surrenders, ending secessionist war The breakaway state of Biafra formally surrendered to Nigerian federal forces, ending a civil war that had killed over a million people, many from starvation caused by a federal blockade. The war's end reunified Nigeria but left lasting ethnic tensions.
• 1970 IBM antitrust case — 13 years of litigation The US Department of Justice files an antitrust suit against IBM on 17 January 1969, alleging it monopolises the computer industry. The case is the longest antitrust litigation in US history — the government finally drops it in January 1982 after 13 years, declaring it 'without merit.' But the threat of breakup constrains IBM's behaviour throughout the 1970s and contributes to its fateful decision to use outside suppliers (Microsoft, Intel) for the IBM PC rather than developing proprietary technology that might invite further antitrust action.
• 1970 Boeing 747 Enters Commercial Service Pan Am flies the first jumbo jet passenger route Pan American World Airways flew the first commercial passenger flight of the Boeing 747 between New York and London. The wide-body jumbo jet transformed long-haul air travel by dramatically increasing passenger capacity.
• 1970 Simon & Garfunkel release Bridge Over Troubled Water Final album Their last studio album, one of the best-selling ever.