Editing 1970 (section)

===July===
{{Main|July 1970}}
* [[July 1]] – [[PARC (company)|Xerox PARC]] computer laboratory opens in [[Palo Alto, California]], United States.
* [[July 3]] 
** All 112 people on board [[Dan-Air Flight 1903]] are killed when the chartered British [[De Havilland Comet]] crashes into mountains north of [[Barcelona]] through navigational error.
**The French Army detonates a 914 kiloton thermonuclear device in the [[Mururoa Atoll]]. It is the fifth in a series that started on June 15 in their program to perfect a [[hydrogen bomb]] small enough to be delivered by a missile.
* [[July 5]] – [[Air Canada Flight 621]] crashes near [[Toronto Pearson International Airport|Toronto International Airport]], [[Toronto]], [[Ontario]] through pilot error; all 109 passengers and crew are killed.
* [[July 12]] – [[Thor Heyerdahl]]'s papyrus boat ''Ra II'' arrives in [[Barbados]].
* [[July 21]] – The [[Aswan Dam|Aswan High Dam]] in [[Egypt]] is completed.
* [[July 23]] – [[1970 Omani coup d'état]]: [[Said bin Taimur]], [[List of rulers of Oman|Sultan of Muscat]] and [[Oman]], is deposed in a bloodless palace [[Coup d'état|coup]] by his son, [[Qaboos bin Said al Said|Qaboos]] with covert British support. Among the reforms he introduces is the abolition of chattel [[slavery in Oman]].<ref>{{cite book |first=Suzanne |last=Miers |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=zZk9Y-HTQzcC&q=1926+Slavery+Convention |title=Slavery in the Twentieth Century: The Evolution of a Global Problem |date=2003 |pages=346–47 |publisher=Rowman Altamira |isbn=978-0-7591-0340-5}}</ref> 
* [[July 30]] – [[Thalidomide scandal]]: Damages totalling £485,528 are awarded to 28 [[Thalidomide]] victims in the UK.{{citation needed|date=September 2024}}