1970

Full moon telegram 1970

Born at full moon

• 17.08.1970 – Jim Courier, American tennis player
• 19.06.1970 – Rahul Gandhi, Indian politician and grandson of the Indian Primeminister Indira Ghandi

Deceased at full moon

• 23.03.1970 – Ludwig Rödl, German chess master (1907-1970)
• 15.09.1970 – Heinrich Ochsner, philosopher and publisher’s reader (1891-1970)
• 15.09.1970 – Jost Trier, German germanist (1894-1970)

Events at full moon

• 13.11.1970 – Bhola cyclone: Speeds up to 190 km/h (115 mph), tropical cyclone devastates the densely populated Ganges Delta region in the East of Pakistan (now Bangladesh). Approx. 500,000 people die. The biggest cyclone catastrophe of the 20th century