page_title: January 1970
section_title: January 5, 1970 (Monday)
hierarchical_section_title: January 1970 / January 5, 1970 (Monday)
caption_attribution_description: Photo of actress Rosemary Prinz.
context_page_description: Unix time became the standard for timestamps in computer programming at 00:00:00 UTC as the new year was ushered in at Greenwich, England. "Unix simply counts seconds since New Year's Day 1970," in comparing the difference between two different times, a programmer noted in 2005, adding "An advantage to storing time in this fashion is that there was no inherent Y2K problem with Unix-based systems... The disadvantage is that the Y2K problem has simply been postponed," since the number of seconds in the "Unix epoch" are stored on a 32-bit integer system "and sometime in the year 2038, the number of seconds since the beginning of the Unix epoch will be larger than a 32-bit integer." Unix time at the beginning of January 1, 2020 UTC was 1577851200.
  In Dallas, the University of Texas Longhorns, ranked No. 1 in the nation by the Associated Press, won the Cotton Bowl game, 21 to 17, in the final two minutes of their game against the No. 9 ranked Fighting Irish of the University of Notre Dame. The win allowed the Longhorns, already voted No. 1 in the final UPI poll, to stay unbeaten at with 11 wins and no losses or ties.
context_section_description: A 7.1 magnitude earthquake struck China's Yunnan province less than a minute after 1:00 in the morning local time (1700 UTC on 4 January).  The Chinese government did not acknowledge the disaster until four days later, when Radio Peking reported that the local populace was acting "in the revolutionary spirit, fearing neither hardship nor death" and that "the people creatively applied the thoughts of Mao Tse-tung and fought the natural disaster all in one heart and with 100-fold confidence."  According to statistics later released by the People's Republic of China, the quake killed 14,621 people in Kunming and surrounding Tonghai County, and injured 26,783.
  The first episode of the American soap opera All My Children was introduced on the ABC television network.  The show billed itself as "the first daytime television serial to deal with current controversial political and social issues" and starred Rosemary Prinz (a veteran of the soap As the World Turns) as "Amy Tyler... a liberal political activist dedicated to the peace movement, who married into a conservative family with considerable wealth and stature."  The show would run for more than 31 years, with a final broadcast on September 23, 2011.
  The bodies of defeated United Mine Workers of America presidential candidate Jock Yablonski, his wife, and his 25-year-old daughter, were found at the Yablonski home in the community of Clarksville, Pennsylvania.  Mr. Yablonski had not been seen since New Year's Eve.  All three victims had been shot to death.  Three suspects would be arrested on January 21, which would be traced to UMW President Tony Boyle.
  The American merchant freighter SS Badger State, formerly the U.S. Navy transport ship USS Starlight, sank in the Pacific Ocean.  Ten days earlier, it had exploded while carrying a cargo of artillery shells and bombs, killing 26 of its crew of 40.
  Died: 
  Max Born, 87, West German physicist and 1954 Nobel Prize winner for his interpretation of the wave function in quantum mechanics
  Cyril Fagan, 73, Irish-born American astrologer
caption: Rosemary Prinz
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