Please refer back to my earlier posts and read what this challenge is about so that the later posts make sense. 
Day 16 Question 16: What were the big events going on in the world the year you were born? Who was the president?
Answer: 1970 was my birth year so here are a few high lights of what took place . Doing this was interesting because I learned a lot about what happened that year.
1970
- 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.
February 13 – Black Sabbath‘s debut album, Black Sabbath released; often regarded as the first true heavy metal album.
United States Postal Service workers in New York City go on strike; the strike spreads to the state of California and the cities of Akron, Ohio, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Chicago,Boston, and Denver, Colorado; 210,000 out of 750,000 U.S. postal employees walk out. President Nixon assigns military units to New York City post offices. The strike lasts 2 weeks.
- April 10 – Paul McCartney announces that the Beatles have disbanded, while at the same press conference, announcing the release of his first solo album. The Elton John album is released, the second album by Elton John, but the first to chart and the first to be released in America.
May 4 – Kent State shootings: Four students at Kent State University in Ohio are killed and 9 wounded by Ohio National Guardsmen, at a protest against the incursion into Cambodia. 
June 21
- Brazil defeats Italy 4–1 to win the 1970 FIFA World Cup.
July 4
- Bob Hope and other entertainers gather in Washington, D.C. for Honor America Day, a nonpartisan holiday event.
- Longtime radio music countdown show American Top 40 debuts on 5 U.S. stations with Casey Kasem as host.
August 26–August 30 – The Isle of Wight Festival 1970 takes place on East Afton Farm off the coast of England. Some 600,000 people attend the largest rock festival of all time. Artists include Jimi Hendrix, The Who, The Doors, Chicago,Richie Havens, John Sebastian, Joan Baez, Ten Years After, Emerson, Lake & Palmer and Jethro Tull.
September 18
- Jimi Hendrix dies in London of drug related complications.
October 5
- U.S. President Richard Nixon‘s European tour ends.
- The Public Broadcasting Service begins broadcasting.
November 3
- Democrats sweep the U.S. Congressional midterm elections; Ronald Reagan is reelected governor of California; Jimmy Carter is elected governor of Georgia.
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Thanks for all your efforts that you have put in this. Very interesting info. “The words that enlighten the soul are more precious than jewels.” by Hazrat Inayat Khan.
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