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# 1970 in the Soviet Union

The following lists events that happened during 1970 in the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics.

## Incumbents

* General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union: Leonid Brezhnev
* Premier of the Soviet Union: Alexei Kosygin
* Chairman of the Russian SFSR: Mikhail Yasnov

## Events

* May 24 – The scientific drilling of the Kola Superdeep Borehole begins.
* June 1 – The two-man spacecraft Soyuz 9 is launched.
* June 15 – Operation Wedding: Fifteen refuseniks try to escape from the Soviet Union by hijacking a plane.
* October 6 – French President Georges Pompidou visits the Soviet Union.
* October 8 – Soviet author Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn is awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature.
* October 15 – The domestic Soviet Aeroflot Flight 244 is hijacked and diverted to Turkey.
* October 20 – The Zond 8 lunar probe is launched.
* November 9 – Luna 17 is launched.
* November 12 – Soviet author Andrei Amalrik is sentenced to three years imprisonment for 'anti-Soviet' writings.

## Births

* January 2 – Oksana Omelianchik, artistic gymnast
* January 17 – Genndy Tartakovsky, Russian-born American animator
* March 16 – Oleg Pavlov, writer (died 2018)
* June 11 – Dmitry Utkin, army officer (died 2023)
* July 3 – Serhiy Honchar, Ukrainian racing cyclist
* July 13 – Igor Kirillov, army general and war criminal (died 2024)
* August 26 – Olimpiada Ivanova, race walker

## Deaths

* January 10 — Pavel Belyayev, cosmonaut (b. 1925)
* March 31 — Semyon Timoshenko, 2nd People's Commissar for Defence (b. 1895)
* April 1 — Polina Zhemchuzhina, politician and wife of former foreign minister Vyacheslav Molotov (b. 1897)
* April 17 — Patriarch Alexy I of Moscow, 13th Patriarch of Moscow and all Rus' (b. 1877)
* June 11 — Alexander Kerensky, revolutionary, lawyer and politician (b. 1881)
* June 21 — Lev Kassil, writer (b. 1905)
* August 22 — Vladimir Propp, folklorist and scholar (b. 1895)
* September 9 — Konon Molody, intelligence officer (b. 1922)
* November 17 — Nikolai Lunin, admiral in the Soviet Navy (b. 1907)
* November 19
** Andrei Yeremenko, military leader and Marshal of the Soviet Union (b. 1892)
** Maria Yudina, pianist (b. 1899)
* December 8 — Abram Alikhanov, experimental physicist (b. 1904)
* December 24 — Nikolai Shvernik, 2nd Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union (b. 1888)
# NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series at Lime Rock

The LiUNA! 150 is a 150-mile-long (241.402 km) event in the NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series that will take place at Lime Rock Park in Connecticut starting from the 2025 season.

## History

On August 29, 2024, the 2025 schedule released announcing a race at Lime Rock. The Laborers' International Union of North America (LiUNA) was announced as the inaugural title sponsor for the race.

## Past winners

| Year | Date | No. | Driver | Team | Manufacturer | Race Distance | Race Distance | Race Time | Average Speed (mph) | Ref |
| Year | Date | No. | Driver | Team | Manufacturer | Laps | Miles (km) | Race Time | Average Speed (mph) | Ref |
| 2025 | June 28 | | | | | | | | | |
# Erick Lemus

Erick Diego Alejandro “Kuki” Lemus De Paz (born 5 February 2001) is a Guatemalan professional footballer who plays as a forward for Liga Nacional club Comunicaciones and the Guatemala national team.

## Club career
### Youth Career

Erick Lemus started his youth career in Guatemala, joining clubs such as Barberena, Cuilapa FC and Juventud Pinulteca.

### Achuapa

Erick Lemus would begin his Liga Nacional career with Achuapa in 2021. He would make his debut on 11 August 2021. He would score his first goal on 11 September 2021 in a 2-0 victory against Iztapa. During the 2022-23 Liga Nacional season, on 15 April 2023, he would score his first hat-trick against Guastatoya in a 3-2 victory. At the end of that season, he would be tied in third place for top scorer with 8 goals. He would also finish the 2023-24 season with 11 goals in 32 appearances across all competitions.

### Comunicaciones

In May 2024, Lemus was signed by Comunicaciones ahead of the 2024-25 Liga Nacional season as a free transfer. He would finish the 2024 Liga Nacional Apertura as the top scorer with 9 goals, earning the “Trofeo Juan Carlos Plata” trophy (award given to the top scorer, not including playoffs).

## International career
### Youth career

Erick Lemus began his international career representing Guatemala's national under-23 team three times at the 2023 Central American and Caribbean Games.

### Senior career

Erick Lemus was first called up to the Guatemala national team in November 2023 for a friendly against Jamaica, however due to visa issues he was left out of the squad. He would be called up once again for a friendly against Uruguay in August 2024. He would make his international debut in that match in which Guatemala tied 1-1. Lemus was once again called up in September after Comunicaciones and national teammate Carlos Mejia got injured and replaced him for the 2024–25 CONCACAF Nations League.

## Career statistics
### Club

    As of match played 9 March 2025
Appearances and goals by club, season and competition :
| Club | Season | League | League | League | Domestic Cup | Domestic Cup | Continental | Continental | Other | Other | Total | Total |
| Club | Season | Division | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals |
| Achuapa | 2021-22 | Liga Nacional | 16 | 1 | — | — | — | — | — | — | 16 | 1 |
| Achuapa | 2022-23 | Liga Nacional | 22 | 8 | — | — | — | — | — | — | 22 | 8 |
| Achuapa | 2023-24 | Liga Nacional | 32 | 11 | — | — | — | — | — | — | 32 | 11 |
| Achuapa | Total | Total | 70 | 20 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 70 | 20 |
| Comunicaciones | 2024-25 | Liga Nacional | 27 | 14 | — | — | 8 | 0 | — | — | 34 | 14 |
| Career Total | Career Total | Career Total | 97 | 34 | 0 | 0 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 105 | 34 |
* ↑ Appearance(s) in CONCACAF Central American Cup

### International

    As of match played 1 September 2024
Appearances and goals by national team and year :
| National team | Year | Apps | Goals |
| Guatemala | 2024 | 1 | 0 |
| Total | Total | 1 | 0 |

## Honours

Individual
* Liga Nacional de Guatemala Top Scorer (Trofeo Juan Carlos Plata): 2024 Apertura
# List of people executed in the United States in 2025

To date, seven people, all male, have been executed in the United States in 2025, four by lethal injection, two by nitrogen hypoxia, and one by firing squad.
The state of South Carolina carried out the execution of Brad Sigmon by firing squad, marking the first execution by firing squad since 2010, when Ronnie Lee Gardner was executed in Utah by firing squad (both inmates chose the method).
One person, Christopher Sepulvado, died of natural causes at age 81 before his execution could be carried out in Louisiana in March 2025. Another person, Robin Dion Myers, received a commutation of his death sentence to life without parole from Alabama Governor Kay Ivey, after the Alabama Supreme Court authorized the setting of an execution date.

## List of people executed in the United States in 2025

| No. | Date of execution | Name | Age of person | Age of person | Age of person | Gender | Ethnicity | State | Method | Ref. |
| No. | Date of execution | Name | At execution | At offense | Age difference | Gender | Ethnicity | State | Method | Ref. |
| 1 | January 31, 2025 | Marion Bowman Jr. | 44 | 20 | 24 | Male | Black | South Carolina | Lethal injection | |
| 2 | February 5, 2025 | Steven Lawayne Nelson | 37 | 24 | 13 | Male | Black | Texas | Lethal injection | |
| 3 | February 6, 2025 | Demetrius Terrence Frazier | 52 | 19 | 33 | Male | Black | Alabama | Nitrogen hypoxia | |
| 4 | February 13, 2025 | James Dennis Ford | 64 | 36 | 28 | Male | White | Florida | Lethal injection | |
| 5 | February 13, 2025 | Richard Lee Tabler | 46 | 25 | 21 | Male | White | Texas | Lethal injection | |
| 6 | March 7, 2025 | Brad Keith Sigmon | 67 | 43 | 24 | Male | White | South Carolina | Firing squad | |
| 7 | March 18, 2025 | Jessie Dean Hoffman Jr. | 46 | 18 | 28 | Male | Black | Louisiana | Nitrogen hypoxia | |
| | | Average: | 51 years | 27 years | 23 years | | | | | |

## Demographics

Gender :
| Male | 6 | 100% |
| Female | 0 | 0% |
| Ethnicity |||
| Black | 3 | 50% |
| White | 3 | 50% |
| State |||
| South Carolina | 2 | 33% |
| Texas | 2 | 33% |
| Alabama | 1 | 17% |
| Florida | 1 | 17% |
| Method |||
| Lethal injection | 4 | 67% |
| Firing squad | 1 | 17% |
| Nitrogen hypoxia | 1 | 17% |
| Month |||
| January | 1 | 17% |
| February | 4 | 67% |
| March | 1 | 17% |
| April | 0 | 0% |
| May | 0 | 0% |
| June | 0 | 0% |
| July | 0 | 0% |
| August | 0 | 0% |
| September | 0 | 0% |
| October | 0 | 0% |
| November | 0 | 0% |
| December | 0 | 0% |
| Age |||
| 30–39 | 1 | 17% |
| 40–49 | 2 | 33% |
| 50–59 | 1 | 17% |
| 60–69 | 2 | 33% |
| Total | 6 | 100% |

## Executions in recent years

Number of executions :
| 2026 | — |
| 2025 | 6 |
| 2024 | 25 |
| Total | 31 |
# Metzstein

Metzstein (Yiddish: מצשטיין or מעצשטיין) is a surname. People with the name include:
* Isi Metzstein (1928–2012), German-born Scottish architect
* Saul Metzstein (born 1970), Scottish film director, son of Isi
# Philippine Rugby Football Union

The Philippine Rugby Football Union (PRFU) is the governing body for rugby union in the Philippines. It was founded on January 19, 1998 and became affiliated to the International Rugby Board on, November 1, 2004.
# Kiel Giddens

Kiel Giddens (born 1984 or 1985) is a Canadian politician who was elected to the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia in the 2024 British Columbia general election. He represents the electoral district of Prince George-Mackenzie as a member of the Conservative Party of British Columbia.

## Early life and career

Giddens was previously the BC United candidate for the same riding, however he switched to the BC Conservative Party after the former suspended its campaign to support the latter.
Prior to being elected as an MLA, Giddens served on the Board of Directors for Spirit of the North Healthcare Foundation. He has also served as the Land, Community & Aboriginal Relations Liaison and later Public Affairs Manager for TC Energy's Coastal GasLink pipeline project from 2013 to 2022, on behalf of which he met with the Government of British Columbia as a registered lobbyist 29 times. He also served on the Premier's LNG Labour Working Group, the Regional District of Bulkley-Nechako Strategic Workforce Opportunities Team, and the College of New Caledonia President's Industry Council.
Giddens advocated for small businesses and jobs in Prince George and the region through his past role as President of the Prince George Chamber of Commerce.
Giddens has also held senior roles in previous governments of BC. These include Chief of Staff to the Minister of Environment and Chief of Staff to the Minister of Transportation & Infrastructure, as well as roles in the Ministry of Forests, Lands, and Natural Resource Operations, and the Ministry of Labour. This political career history has supported the reduction of red tape in environmental assessments; enhanced environmental stewardship; fast-tracked spending on projects like the Cariboo Connector and South Taylor Hill in the Peace; and supported policy making and implementation in wildlife management, forestry, climate, WorkSafe BC, and construction labour relations.

## Current Role

In the 2024 provincial election, Giddens was elected as a Member of the Legislative Assembly for Prince George-Mackenzie, representing the Conservative Party of British Columbia. After his election, Giddens was named to the Conservative shadow cabinet as critic for Labour. In his role as critic for Labour, Giddens has stated a focus on the small business and forestry sectors.

## Electoral record

vte2024 British Columbia general election: Prince George-Mackenzie :
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | Expenditures |
| | Conservative | Kiel Giddens | 11,310 | 60.9% | |
| | New Democratic | Shar McCrory | 5,242 | 28.2% | -5.4 |
| | Green | James Steidle | 1,577 | 8.5% | -2.6 |
| | Unaffiliated | Rachael Weber | 435 | 2.3% | |
| Total valid votes | Total valid votes | Total valid votes | 18,564 | – |
| Total rejected ballots | Total rejected ballots | Total rejected ballots | |
| Turnout | Turnout | Turnout | |
| Registered voters | Registered voters | Registered voters | |
| Source: Elections BC |||||||
# Lophocampa teffeana

Lophocampa teffeana is a moth of the family Erebidae. It was described by William Schaus in 1933. It is found in Brazil.
# Sherin Khankan

Sherin Khankan (born Ann Christine Khankan; 13 October 1974) is Denmark's (and Scandinavia's) first female imam; she founded a women-led mosque in Copenhagen. She is also an activist on Muslim issues including female integration and extremism, and has written numerous texts discussing Islam and politics.

## Early life

Khankan was born in Denmark in 1974, to a Syrian father and a Finnish mother. Her father was a political refugee and a feminist. Khankan studied in Damascus and returned to Denmark in 2000. She sees herself as being born between two worlds and considers her goal to reconcile opposites.
She started at the University of Copenhagen in 1992 studying religion supplemented by courses in Arabic. Despite her father's background, Arabic is not her mother tongue. She graduated with a master's degree in Sociology of Religion and Philosophy in 2002.

## Career

In February 2016, the Mariam mosque in Copenhagen, Denmark's first female-run mosque, was founded by Khankan; it has only female imams. The mosque is open to male and female worshippers, with the exception of Friday prayers, which are only open to female worshippers. Khankan became Scandinavia's first female imam when she opened that mosque.
Khankan also founded Critical Muslims, an organisation to link religion and politics.
In 2007, she published a book titled Islam and Reconciliation - A Public Matter.
Khankan notes that Christianity, Jewish, and Muslim institutions have become patriarchal, and she sees women-run mosques as a challenge to this tradition. She has had some moderate opposition but, in general, she says the reception has been supportive. The mosque opened in February 2016 and held its first formal service that August. Khankan gave the call to prayer and 60 women gathered above a fast food shop. Another imam, Saliha Marie Fetteh, took the service where she spoke on the subject of women and Islam. The new mosque has conducted several weddings. The mosque marries couples of different religions, which some mosques will not allow.
She stood for parliament as a candidate for the Danish Social Liberal Party.
Khankan was named one of the BBC's 100 Women of 2016.

## Personal life

Khankan has two daughters and two sons. She is divorced. She was also hosted by Emmanuel Macron in his presidential palace for her advocacy for progressive mosques and feminist imams.
# Alf Wilhelm Lundberg

Alf Wilhelm Lundberg (born 8 May 1979 in Haugesund, Norway) is a Norwegian jazz musician (guitar and piano) and composer.

## Career

Lundberg studied music on the Jazz program at Trondheim Musikkonsevatorium, where he earned specialization in arranging and composition. In 2003 Lundberg was awarded the first prize at the "Umbria Jazz Clinics" in Italia as guitarist in a strong competition. He has subsequently also studied guitar under the guidance of Adam Rogers in New York and Nelson Veras in Paris.
Lundberg has toured England, Poland, Sweden, Finland, Italy and France with bands "All Strings Trio", "Faces" and "Kofi/Makowski Quartet", and played on some of the biggest jazz festivals in Europe, like Kongsberg Jazzfestival, London Jazz Festival and Umbria Jazz. He has also won Sildajazzprisen and the "Haugesund Kommunes Kulturstipend" in 2004. Has been described as one of the best guitarists in Norway and has been compared to jazz and classical giants like Egberto Gismonti, Keith Jarrett and Andrés Segovia by Norwegian reviewers.

## Honors

* 2003: First prize at the "Umbria Jazz Clinics" in Italia as guitarist
* 2004: Sildajazzprisen

## Discography

* 1999: Aroma, within "Aroma»
* 2008: Norchestra, within "Norchestra»
* 2010: Alle E Aleina, with Jan Toft
# Yoji Nakajima

Yoji Nakajima (born (1964-03-16)March 16, 1964) is a Japanese wheelchair curler.
He participated in the 2010 Winter Paralympics where Japanese team finished on fifth place.

## Teams

| Season | Skip | Third | Second | Lead | Alternate | Coach | Events |
| 2004–05 | Yoji Nakajima | Katsuo Ichikawa | Takashi Hidai | Ayako Saitoh | Toru Utumi | Kumiko Ogihara | WWhCC 2005 (13th) |
| 2006–07 | Yoji Nakajima | Katsuo Ichikawa | Takashi Hidai | Ayako Saitoh | Seiji Uchida | Kumiko Ogihara | WWhCQ 2006 WWhCC 2007 (5th) |
| 2007–08 | Yoji Nakajima | Katsuo Ichikawa | Takashi Hidai | Ayako Saitoh | Mari Yamazaki | Kumiko Ogihara | WWhCC 2008 (9th) |
| 2008–09 | Yoji Nakajima | Katsuo Ichikawa | Takashi Hidai | Ayako Saitoh | | Emi Kaneko, Satako Ogawa | WWhCQ 2008 (6th) |
| 2009–10 | Yoji Nakajima | Katsuo Ichikawa | Takashi Hidai | Ayako Saitoh | Aki Ogawa | Katsuji Uchibori | WPG 2010 (5th) |
| 2010–11 | Katsuo Ichikawa | Kazuyuki Mochiki | Aki Ogawa | Ayako Saitoh | Yoji Nakajima | Teruo Moriizumi | WWhCQ 2010 (4th) |
| 2011–12 | Yoji Nakajima | Takashi Sakataya | Hiroshi Wachi | Aki Ogawa | Ayako Saitoh | Michiaki Saito | WWhCQ 2011 (8th) |

### Mixed doubles

| Season | Female | Male | Coach | Events |
| 2023–24 | Aki Ogawa | Yoji Nakajima | Akiko Iino, Eri Ogihara | WWhMDCC 2024 (4th) |
| 2024–25 | Aki Ogawa | Yoji Nakajima | Akiko Iino, Eri Ogihara | WWhMDCC 2025 |
# Milad

Al Hasan Milad (born: 11 February 2000) is a Bangladeshi tech entrepreneur and author. He is the founder and CEO of International Technology of Bangladesh. He received the Ernst & Young Entrapreneur of The Year Award in 2022 and the Global Youth Parliament Awards Georgia nomination in 2024

## Education

He completed his secondary from Ranaping Adarsh ​​High School and College and higher secondary from Syed Nabib Ali College. Currently he is studying in the Department of Law at Metropolitan University, Sylhet.

## Writing career

He used to write columns in Bangladesh's national daily newspaper Prothom Alo, Daily Star, Channel 24, Ittefaq. His first book Struggle was published in 2022. The Breath of Life is released in 2024.

## Entrepreneurship

Milad founded the cyber security company International Technology of Bangladesh in 2022. In 2024, he founded the international news portal Daily Topnatch published from Sylhet and established another IT company named Syl Tech.
Milad may refer to:
* Milad (given name)
* Milad Dezful F.C., Iranian football club based in Dezful, Iran
* Milad Hospital, hospital in Iran
* Milad Rizk (fl. 2010–2015), a Lebanese actor
* Milad Tower, tallest tower in Iran
* Mawlid, the observance of the birthday of the Islamic prophet Muhammad
# 1867 in animation

Events in 1867 in animation.

## Events

* April 23: The inventor William Ensign Lincoln is granted a U.S. patent for his zoetrope, as an assignor to the board game manufacturing company Milton Bradley and Co.. This animation device was also patented in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland on June 7, 1867 (application March 6, 1867) under no. 629, by Henry Watson Hallett (as a communication to him by Milton Bradley), and in the Second French Empire by Charles William May (filed May 14, 1867).
* Specific date unknown:
** In his 1867 account about the origin of the optical toy thaumatrope, the French artist Antoine Claudet stated that he had heard that John Ayrton Paris had once been present when John Herschel demonstrated his rotating coin trick to his children. Paris reportedly got the idea for the thaumatrope from Herschel's trick. Claudet also noted in 1867 that the thaumatrope could create a three-dimensional illusion. A spinning rectangular thaumatrope with the alternating letters of the name "Victoria" on each side, showed the full word with the letters at two different distances from the observer's eye. If the two strings of the thaumatrope are attached to the same side of the card, the thickness of the card accounts for a small difference in the distances when each side is visible.
** W. R. Hill (1823–1901) was Henry Langdon Childe's apprentice in the slide painting art for magic lanterns. In 1867, Hill moved on to work for John Henry Pepper.

## Births
### June

* June 8: O'Galop, French animator and cartoonist, (created about 40 animated films between 1910 and 1927), (d. 1946).

### September

* September 10: Alexander Shiryaev, Russian animation director, ballet dancer, ballet master and choreographer, (grom 1906 to 1909, Shiryaev produced a number of pioneering stop motion and traditionally animated films. He recreated various ballets by staging them through using hand-made dolls which he created from either clay or papier-mâché; they were 20–25 cm (7.9–9.8 in) tall, and their body parts were connected by thin wire which provided plasticity. He then filmed them on camera, frame by frame. In the process he also made thousands of sketches, catching every movement, also turning them into a filming reel so that one could watch the entire dance in the form of a cartoon, (d. 1941).
# Glenn Cowan

Glenn L. Cowan (August 25, 1952 – April 6, 2004) was an American table tennis player.

## Biography

Cowan was from New Rochelle, New York, and was Jewish. His parents were Phil (a television executive, who died at age 48) and Fran Cowan. The family later moved to Bel Air, California. He attended University High School.
In 1964, at age 12, Cowan won the singles for his age under-13s group in the Eastern regional junior championships. He won the 1967 U.S. Open junior under-17s table tennis championships. Two years later he won another U.S. Open.
One day during the 31st World Table Tennis Championship in Nagoya, Japan, American team member Cowan missed his own bus and in his haste got onto the bus of the Chinese team. Unlike his team mates, who ignored Cowan, Zhuang Zedong greeted him and presented him with a silk-screen portrait of the Huangshan Mountains, thus starting the so-called ping-pong diplomacy.
Cowan was arguably one of two critical personalities, the other being the Chinese table tennis player Zhuang Zedong, in the 1971 ping-pong diplomacy which helped paved the way for President Richard Nixon's visit to Beijing in 1972. He was the youngest player on the first U.S. table tennis team to compete in 1971's “Ping-pong diplomacy” tour to China.
Cowan studied at UCLA and Santa Monica College (1969 to 1972). He became a junior high school teacher. He was diagnosed, variously, as being bipolar and schizophrenic. He was married briefly. He lived in Culver City.
He died on April 6th 2004 at 51 years of age of complications during heart surgery.

## Accolades

In 2008 he was inducted into the Southern California Jewish Sports Hall of Fame. He was posthumously inducted into the California Table Tennis Hall of Fame in 2014.