Editing 1970 (section)

===October===
{{Main|October 1970}}
* [[October 2]] – The [[Wichita State University]] football team's "Gold" plane [[Wichita State University football team plane crash|crashes]] in [[Colorado]], killing most of the players. They were on their way (along with administrators and fans) to a game with [[Utah State University]].
* [[October 3]]
** In [[Lebanon]], the government of Prime Minister [[Rashid Karami]] resigns.
** The [[National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration]] (NOAA) is formed in the United States and the Weather Bureau is renamed to [[National Weather Service]] as part of NOAA.
** [[Pope Paul VI]] names Saint [[Catherine of Siena]] (d. 1380) as the second female [[Doctor of the Church]].
* [[October 4]]
** [[Jochen Rindt]] becomes [[Formula One]] [[List of Formula One World Drivers' Champions|World Driving Champion]], the first to earn the honor posthumously.
** In [[Bolivia]], Army Commander General [[Rogelio Miranda]] and a group of officers rebel and demand the resignation of President [[Alfredo Ovando Candía]], who dismisses him.
** American rock singer [[Janis Joplin]] is found dead of an overdose, age 27, in her hotel room in Hollywood.
* [[October 5]] – The [[Front de libération du Québec]] (FLQ) kidnaps British trade commissioner [[James Cross]] in Montreal and demands release of all imprisoned FLQ members, beginning [[Quebec]]'s [[October Crisis]]. The next day the Canadian government announces that it will not meet the demand.
* [[October 6]] – Bolivian President [[Alfredo Ovando Candía]] resigns; General [[Rogelio Miranda]] takes over but resigns soon after.
* [[October 7]] – General [[Juan José Torres]] becomes the new [[President of Bolivia]].
* [[October 8]]
** The U.S. Foreign Office announces the renewal of arms sales to [[Pakistan]].
** [[Vietnam War]]: In Paris, a [[Communism|Communist]] delegation rejects U.S. President [[Richard Nixon]]'s peace proposal as "a maneuver to deceive world opinion."
* [[October 9]] – The [[Khmer Republic]] is proclaimed in [[Cambodia]], escalating the [[Cambodian Civil War]] between the government and the [[Khmer Rouge]].
* [[October 10]]
** [[Fiji]] becomes independent.
** [[October Crisis]]: In [[Montreal]], [[Quebec]] Minister of Labour [[Pierre Laporte]] becomes the second statesman kidnapped by members of the [[FLQ]] terrorist group.
* [[October 11]] – Eleven French soldiers are killed in a shootout with rebels in [[Chad]].
* [[October 12]] – [[Vietnam War]]: U.S. President [[Richard Nixon]] announces that the United States will withdraw 40,000 more troops before [[Christmas]].
* [[October 13]] – [[Saeb Salam]] forms a government in [[Lebanon]].
* [[October 14]] – A Chinese nuclear test is conducted in [[Lop Nor]].
* [[October 15]]
** A section of the new [[West Gate Bridge]] in [[Melbourne]] collapses into the river below, killing 35 construction workers.
** In [[Egypt]], a referendum supports [[Anwar Sadat]] 90.04%.
* [[October 16]] – [[October Crisis]]: The Canadian government declares a [[state of emergency]] and outlaws the [[Quebec Liberation Front]].
* [[October 17]]
** [[October Crisis]]: Quebec politician [[Pierre Laporte]] is found murdered by the FLQ in south Montreal.
** A [[cholera]] epidemic breaks out in [[Istanbul]].
** [[Anwar Sadat]] officially becomes President of Egypt.
* [[October 20]]
** The Soviet Union launches the ''[[Zond 8]]'' lunar probe.
** New Egyptian president Anwar Sadat names [[Mahmoud Fawzi]] as his prime minister.
* [[October 22]] – [[Chile]]an army commander [[René Schneider]] is shot in Santiago; the government declares a state of emergency. Schneider dies [[October 25]].
* [[October 24]] – [[Salvador Allende]] is elected [[President of Chile|President]] of [[Chile]] by a run-off vote in the [[National Congress of Chile|National Congress]]
* [[October 25]] – The wreck of the Confederate submarine ''[[H. L. Hunley (submarine)|Hunley]]'' is found off [[Charleston, South Carolina]], by 22-year-old pioneer [[underwater archaeologist]], [[Dr. E. Lee Spence]].<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.usnews.com/usnews/news/articles/070624/2hunley_2.htm |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070929133235/http://www.usnews.com/usnews/news/articles/070624/2hunley_2.htm |url-status=dead |title=Cover Story: Time Capsule From The Sea – ''U.S. News & World Report'', July 2–9, 2007 |archive-date=September 29, 2007}}</ref> ''Hunley'' is the first submarine in history to sink a ship in warfare.
* [[October 28]]
** In [[Jordan]], the government of [[Ahmad Toukan]] resigns; the next prime minister is [[Wasfi al-Tal]].
** A [[cholera]] outbreak in eastern Slovakia causes [[Hungary]] to close its border with [[Czechoslovakia]].
** [[Gary Gabelich]] drives the rocket-powered ''[[Blue Flame]]'' (part fuelled by LNG) to an official [[land speed record]] of {{convert|622.407|mph|km/h|abbr=on}}<ref name="FIA land speed records, Cat C">{{cite web |url=http://argent.fia.com/web/fia-public.nsf/7D4955E7190F1A25C12572FB00559369/$FILE/Records_List_Cat-C.pdf |title=FIA land speed records, Cat C |publisher=FIA |access-date=July 12, 2009}}</ref> on the dry lake bed of the [[Bonneville Salt Flats]] in Utah. The record, the first above 1,000&nbsp;km/h, stands for nearly 13 years.
* [[October 30]] – In [[Vietnam]], the worst [[monsoon]] to hit the area in six years causes large [[flood]]s, kills 293, leaves 200,000 homeless and virtually halts the [[Vietnam War]].