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Movie history events from 1970
Howard Hunt ends work for the CIA. (All the President's Men)
Scoop VII returns to Earth after being struck with a mircometeorite, bringing the Andromeda strain with it, which kills all but two people in the town. (Pedmount. Arizona) (The Andromeda Strain)
Dr Malcolm Sayer comes to Bainbridge Hospital and begins prescribing L-Dopa therapy, causing brief "awakenings" for post-encephalitic patients. (New York) (Awakenings)
An agent of Michael X gets compromising (and embarrassing) photos of Princess Margeret. (The Caribbean) (The Bank Job)
Deena Jones and The Dreams have another No 1 hit record. (Dreamgirls)
Joel Millner meets Denise at the commune where she is staying, and convinces her to return to the music business. (Idyllwild) (Grace of My Heart)
Dr Nicholas Garrigan arrives from Scotland to help a Ugandan village - he becomes personal physician and main advisor to Idi Amin. (Uganda) (The Last King of Scotland)
Future teacher and pupil-seducer Sheba Hart is born. (Notes on a Scandal)
Jackie Moon's song "Love Me Sexy" is a big hit. (Semi-Pro)
Edward Lionheart snubbed for the Critics' Circle Award, so attempts suicide. (London) (Theatre of Blood)
Johnny Cash and June Carter have a son, John. (Walk the Line)
Randolph Dupree and Carl Peterson born. (You, Me and Dupree)
Sunday 22nd March: A woman and baby are victims to the Zodiac killer in their car. (Modesto, California) (Zodiac)
Saturday 11th April: Apollo 13 is successfully launched. (Cape Canaveral, Florida) (Apollo 13)
Monday 13th April: 10:06pm EST - "Houston, we have a problem..." - the Apollo 13 spacecraft starts losing oxygen in space. (Apollo 13)
Tuesday 28th April: Richard Nixon approves Cambodian incursion. (Nixon)
May: The George Baker Selection reach number 21 with 'Little Green Bag'. (Reservoir Dogs)
Friday 8th May: Richard Nixon defends invasion of Cambodia. (Nixon)
Tuesday 19th May: Ray Schalk dies. (Chicago, Illinois) (Eight Men Out)
Wednesday 3rd June: Nixon calls Cambodian operation a success. (Nixon)
Thursday 11th June: The night Billy Blatts gets whacked: He is beaten, kicked and pistol-whipped to a bloody pulp in Henry Hill's bar by Tommy and Jimmy, then bundled into the trunk of the car. (Queens, New York) (Goodfellas)
Friday 12th June: In the early hours, Tommy & Jimmy stop at Tommy's mother's for a shovel and a large kitchen knife, then stab, shoot and bury Billy Blatts. (Queens, New York) (Goodfellas)
Tuesday 16th June: Brian Piccolo dies from embryonal cell carcinoma. (Brian's Song)
Tuesday 7th July: While strolling through the Naka Avenue Shopping District, family boss Masakichi Makihara is shot repeatedly and dies. His assailant, a yakuza recruit for the Hirono Family, walks away from the scene covered in his victims blood while his accompice cowers in a puddle of his own urine. (Kure, Japan) (The Yakuza Papers 5: Final Episode)
Wednesday 26th August: Jimi Hendrix opens a recording studio. (New York) (Down on Us)
Sunday 13th September: Jason Bourne is bourne. And is born. (The Bourne Ultimatum)
Friday 18th September: While en route to his swearing-in ceremony in Osaka as Chairman of the Tensei Coalition, Tamotsu Matsumura's motorcade is ambushed near Imaike Station. Having switched places in the back seat with Vice Chairman Shoichi Eda, Matsumura escaped with a serious chest wound and his life while Eda died. (Nishinari, Japan) (The Yakuza Papers 5: Final Episode)
Wednesday 4th November: Serial killer Carl Rudolph Stargher is born. (The Cell)
Saturday 14th November: Southern Airways Flight 932 clips trees on a ridge short of the runway and crashes killing the Marshall University football team, coaching staff, boosters and air crew. (Ceredo, West Virginia) (We Are Marshall)
Tuesday 17th November: The court-martial of 1st Lt. William Calley begins. (Pinkville)
Wednesday 18th November: Richard Nixon asks Congress for supplemental appropriations for the Cambodian government of Premier Lon Nol. (Nixon)
Wednesday 18th November: Police begin to investigate what is possibly the Zodiac Killer's first murder, from four years earlier. (Zodiac)
Wednesday 18th November: The police begin to investigate the first Zodiac killing. (Zodiac)
Sunday 13th December: Arnold "Chick" Gandil dies. (Calistoga, California) (Eight Men Out)
Monday 21st December: Elvis Presley is greeted at the White House by President Richard M. Nixon. (Washington, D.C.) (Nixon)