October 1970

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October 23, 1970: Gary Gabelich becomes first man to drive a car 1,000 kilometers per hour, reaches 622.407 mph
October 4, 1970: Singer Janis Joplin dies of overdose at aged 27
October 10, 1970: Dominion of Fiji becomes independent
October 8, 1970: Soviet author Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn wins Nobel Prize, not allowed to accept it
October 9, 1970: Kingdom of Cambodia proclaimed as "The Khmer Republic"

The following events occurred in October 1970: