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Year 1970 (MCMLXX) was a common year starting on Thursday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. It is the Unix epoch time and it was also the first year of the 1970s.

Events[link]

January[link]

• January 1 – UNIX epoch begins.
• January 5
  • The first episode of US soap opera All My Children is broadcast on the ABC television network.
  • An earthquake (Richter Scale 7.7 magnitude) at Yunnan, China kills at least 15,621.
• January 11 – Super Bowl IV: The Kansas City Chiefs beat the heavily favored Minnesota Vikings 23–7 at Tulane Stadium in New Orleans.
• January 12 – Biafra capitulates, ending the Nigerian civil war.
• January 14 – Diana Ross & The Supremes perform their farewell live concert together at the Frontier Hotel in Las Vegas. Ross's replacement, Jean Terrell, is introduced onstage at the end of the last show.
• January 15 – After a 32-month fight for independence from Nigeria, Biafran forces under Philip Effiong formally surrender to General Yakubu Gowon.
• January 20 – The Greater London Council announces its plans for the Thames Barrier at Woolwich to prevent flooding (the barrier opens in 1981).
• January 21
  • Five lifeboatmen are killed when a Fraserburgh, Scotland vessel, The Duchess of Kent, capsizes.
  • Pan American Airways offers the first commercially scheduled 747 service from John F. Kennedy International Airport to London Heathrow Airport.
• January 26 – Mick Jagger is fined £200 for possession of cannabis.

January 20: Thames Barrier is planned.

February[link]

• February 1 – A train collision near Buenos Aires, Argentina kills 236.
• February 10 – An avalanche at Val d'Isère, France kills 39 tourists.
• February 11 – Ōsumi, Japan's first satellite, is launched on a Lambda-4 rocket.
• February 13 – Black Sabbath's debut album, Black Sabbath released; often regarded as the first true heavy metal album.
• February 14 – The iconic live album The Who: Live at Leeds is recorded.
• February 17
  • MacDonald family massacre: Jeffrey R. MacDonald kills his wife and children at Fort Bragg, North Carolina, claiming that drugged-out "hippies" did it.
    

    

    February 11: Ōsumi (satellite) launched
  • Author David Irving is ordered to pay £40,000 libel damages to Capt. John Broome over his book The Destruction of Convoy PQ17.
• February 18 – A jury finds the Chicago Seven defendants not guilty of conspiring to incite a riot, in charges stemming from the violence at the 1968 Democratic National Convention. Five of the defendants are found guilty on the lesser charge of crossing state lines to incite a riot.
• February 19 – Poseidon bubble: shares in Australian nickel mining company Poseidon NL, which stood at $0.80 in September 1969, peak at around $280 before the speculative bubble bursts.
• February 21 – Construction begins on the Boğaziçi Bridge crossing the Bosphorus in Istanbul.
• February 22 – Guyana becomes a Republic within the Commonwealth of Nations.
• February 26 – Chevrolet release the second generation Camaro.