Chronopin: upcoming release dates, events and other important dates

When Apollo 11's Buzz Aldrin followed Neil Armstrong onto the lunar surface on 20-21 July 1969 he wore an Omega Speedmaster, the first wristwatch worn on the Moon, earning the model its Moonwatch nickname.

Concorde prototype 001, flown by chief test pilot Andre Turcat, passed Mach 1 on 1 October 1969, the western supersonic airliner programme's first flight beyond the speed of sound.

Seiko put the Quartz Astron on sale on 25 December 1969, the first quartz wristwatch, at 450,000 yen; it began the quartz revolution that upended Swiss watchmaking.

The FAA certificated the Boeing 747 on 30 December 1969 after about 10 months of flight testing, clearing the first widebody jetliner for airline service. Pan Am's first revenue flight followed on 22 January 1970.

Streets first released the Golden Gaytime in 1970, a toffee and vanilla ice cream dipped in compound chocolate and rolled in biscuit crumbs, a decade after the plain Gaytime of 1959.

Pan Am's first Boeing 747 passenger flight left New York for London at 1:52 a.m. EST on 22 January 1970, nearly seven hours late after an engine overheated on the original jet.

At the 12th Annual Grammy Awards on 11 March 1970, staged across five US cities for ABC, Blood, Sweat & Tears won Album of the Year, Crosby, Stills & Nash Best New Artist and Joe South Song of the Year, with the 5th Dimension's 'Aquarius' taking Record of the Year.

Joe, a teenage orphan in the slums of the Doya streets, meets Danpei, a homeless, alcoholic ex-boxing coach. Danpei, seeing Joe's boxing talent, decides to train him.

"Okie From Muskogee" won Song, Single Record and Album of the Year at the fifth Academy of Country & Western Music awards on 13 April 1970 at the Hollywood Palladium, where Merle Haggard was Top Male Vocalist and Tammy Wynette Top Female.

A magnitude 7.9 earthquake off the Peruvian coast shook loose part of Mount Huascaran, and the debris avalanche buried the town of Yungay. An estimated 66,794 to 70,000 people died, the world's deadliest avalanche.

Ted Codd's paper in Communications of the ACM proposes storing data as relations queried by predicate logic, independent of how it is laid out on disk. It is the founding document of the relational database and of SQL.

Egypt's Aswan High Dam, built with Soviet help across the Nile since 1960, was completed on 21 July 1970, creating Lake Nasser and ending the river's annual flood cycle.

The first DC-10-10, N10DC, flew from Long Beach to Edwards Air Force Base on 29 August 1970 in a 3 hour 36 minute flight, reaching 300 knots and 30,000 feet on the first widebody trijet's first outing.

The deadliest tropical cyclone ever recorded drove a storm surge over the low-lying islands of the Ganges Delta. At least 300,000 died, and the Pakistani government's response helped set off the Bangladesh Liberation War.

On 18 December 1970 Airbus Industrie was created under French law as a Groupement d'Intérêt Économique, bringing the A300's industrial partners together as one managed programme.

The Aristocats is a 1970 American animated musical comedy film produced by Walt Disney Productions and distributed by Buena Vista Distribution. It reached US theaters on 24 December 1970.

Heinz Reitbauer’s contemporary Austrian cooking in a light-filled Stadtpark dining room.

A long-established Aburayama hillside French restaurant with city views, seasonal tasting courses and special-occasion dining.

On 8 February 1971 the National Association of Securities Dealers launched Nasdaq, the first electronic stock market, at first a quotation system for over-the-counter securities.

The 13th Grammy Awards on 16 March 1971 at the Hollywood Palladium were the first broadcast live on television, on ABC with host Andy Williams; Simon & Garfunkel's "Bridge Over Troubled Water" won Record, Album and Song of the Year and the Carpenters Best New Artist.

Merle Haggard won the first Entertainer of the Year, and Top Male Vocalist, at the sixth Academy of Country & Western Music awards on 22 March 1971 at the Hollywood Palladium, hosted by Dick Clark, where "For the Good Times" won the three record prizes.

American Airlines flew the first DC-10 passenger flight, a Los Angeles-Chicago round trip with N103AA, on 5 August 1971; United followed on 16 August with San Francisco-Los Angeles.

The Magic Kingdom and its Florida resort opened to the public near Orlando, realizing Walt Disney's vision for a second, larger theme park.

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VEB TAKRAF completed the first F60 lignite overburden conveyor bridge at the Welzow open-pit mine, creating what is still recognized as the largest mobile land machine ever built.

Richard Nixon spent 21 to 28 February 1972 in Beijing, Hangzhou and Shanghai, meeting Mao Zedong on the day he arrived. No sitting US president had set foot in the People's Republic, and the two governments had had no diplomatic relations for 23 years.

At the end of Nixon's visit the two governments published a joint statement setting out, separately, what each believed about Taiwan. Washington said it 'acknowledges that all Chinese on either side of the Taiwan Strait maintain that there is but one China' — the sentence US policy has rested on ever since.

Freddie Hart's "Easy Loving" won Album, Single and Song of the Year, and Hart was also Entertainer of the Year and Top Male Vocalist, at the seventh Academy of Country & Western Music awards on 13 March 1972 at Knott's Berry Farm, hosted by Dick Clark.

At the 14th Grammy Awards on 14 March 1972 at the Felt Forum in New York, Carole King won Record of the Year ("It's Too Late"), Album of the Year (Tapestry), Song of the Year ("You've Got a Friend") and Best Female Pop Vocal; Carly Simon won Best New Artist.

Hamilton Watch Company released the Pulsar P1 Time Computer on 4 April 1972, the first all-electronic digital watch, an 18-karat gold LED watch priced at US$2,100.