Welcome to the Class of 1970
Did You Know?
January 15 Muammar al-Qaddafi is proclaimed premier of Libya.
February 24 National Public Radio (NPR) is founded.
April 10 Paul McCartney announces that The Beatles have broken up.
April 11 Apollo 13 is launched.
April 22 First Earth Day celebrated.
May 12 Ernie Banks becomes the ninth member of the 500 home run club
May 15 The Beatles' last LP, Let It Be, is released
August 17 Venera 7 is launched for Venus. It will later becomes the first spacecraft to successfully transmit from the surface of another planet.
September 18 Guitarist Jimi Hendrix dies of an overdose of sleeping pills.
September 21 Monday Night Football first airs on TV.
September 25 The first episode of the TV show the Partridge Family airs.
October 5 Start of the public television network PBS
October 10 Fiji gains its independence
October 16 Anwar Sadat is elected President of Egypt
November 11 The Sesame Street TV show is broadcast for the first time.
November 17 The computer mouse is patented by Douglas Engelbart.
Famous Birthdays
January 29 Heather Graham (Actress)
March 18 Queen Latifah (Singer and Actress)
March 24 Mase (Rapper)
March 27 Mariah Carey (Singer)
April 13 Ricky Shroeder (Actor)
April 23 Scott Bairstow (Actor)
April 26 "Tionne ""t-boz"" Watkins (Rapper)"
April 29 Andre Agassi (Tennis Player)
April 29 Master P (Rapper)
April 29 Uma Thurman (Actress)
May 18 Tina Fey (Comedianne)
May 22 Naomi Campbell (Model)
May 25 Jaime Kennedy (Actor)
May 27 Joseph Fiennes (Actor)
June 16 Phil Mickelson (Golfer)
June 26 Chris O'Donnell (Actor)
August 9 Rod Brind'Amour (Hockey Player)
August 17 Jim Courier (Tennis Player)
August 18 Malcom-Jamal Warner (Actor)
August 20 Fred Durst (Singer)
August 23 Jay Mohr (Actor)
August 25 Claudia Schiffer (Model)
August 27 Jim Thome (Baseball Player)
August 31 Deborah Gibson (Singer)
September 7 Evan Rachel Wood (Actor)
September 8 Latrell Spreewell (Basketball Player)
October 2 Kelly Rippa (TV Star)
October 8 Matt Damon (Actor)
October 9 Annika Sorenstam (Golfer)
October 12 Kirk Cameron (Actor - TV's Growing Pains)
November 6 Ethan Hawke (Actor)
November 7 Andy Houston (Nascar Driver)
November 9 Chris Jericho (Wrestler)
November 12 Tonya Harding (Figure Skater)
November 16 Marth Plimpton (Actress)
December 12 Jennifer Connely (Actress)
December 29 Kevin Weisman (Actor - TV's Alias)
