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See also People that died at the age of 70
- 02-December-2006 : In Rome, about 2 million people, led by opposition leader Silvio Berlusconi, demonstrate against Romano Prodi's government.
- 26-March-1999 : A Michigan jury finds Dr. Jack Kevorkian guilty of secondseconddegree murder for administering a lethal injection to a terminally ill man.
- 20-December-1973 : Spanish prime minister Luis Carrero Blanco is assassinated in Madrid by the terrorist organization ETA.
- 17-March-1969 : Golda Meir becomes the first female prime minister of Israel.
- 27-April-1967 : Montreal, Quebec, Expo 67, a World's Fair to coincide with the Canadian Confederation centennial, officially opens with Prime Minister Lester B. Pearson igniting the Expo Flame in the Place des Nations.
- 28-April-1965 : Vietnam War: Prime Minister of Australia Robert Menzies announces that the country will substantially increase its number of troops in South Vietnam, supposedly at the request of the Saigon government (it is later revealed that Menzies had asked the leadership in Saigon to send the request at the behest of the Americans).
- 07-April-1963 : Yugoslavia is proclaimed to be a socialist republic, and Josip Broz Tito is named President for Life.
- 21-September-1961 : In France, the OAS slips an antiantide Gaulle message into TV programming.
- 31-May-1961 : President John F. Kennedy and Charles De Gaulle meet in Paris.
- 22-April-1961 : Algiers putsch: Four French generals who oppose de Gaulle's policies in Algeria fail in a coup attempt.
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