page_title: September 1970
section_title: September 22, 1970 (Tuesday)
hierarchical_section_title: September 1970 / September 22, 1970 (Tuesday)
context_page_description: The following events occurred in September 1970:
context_section_description: Longtime Prime Minister of Malaysia Tunku Abdul Rahman stepped down after 15 years as the leader of the Malayan and the Malaysian government, having announced his resignation on August 30.  Abdul Halim of Kedah, who had taken office as the new Yang di-Pertuan Agong (the elected Malaysian monarch) the day before, formally asked Rahman's deputy, Tun Abdul Razak, to form the new government.  Rahman's powers had been curtailed after his response to 1969 rioting in Kuala Lumpur, when 143 ethnic Chinese and 25 Malays had been killed.
  The District of Columbia Delegate Act was signed into law, giving the District of Columbia representation in the U.S. Congress for the first time in its history.  The also act provided for voters in Washington to directly elect a government, something that had been taken away in 1874, and for a non-voting delegate to the U.S. House of Representatives 
  Born: 
  Mike Matheny, American major league baseball catcher and manager; in Columbus, Ohio
  Mystikal (stage name for Michael Lawrence Tyler) American rapper and hip-hop artist; in New Orleans
  Died: 
  Dr. Alice Hamilton, 101, American physician and the first woman to be appointed (in 1919) to the faculty of Harvard University
  Dr. Howard Snyder, 89, U.S. Army Major General who was Physician to the President for Dwight D. Eisenhower
caption: Tunku Abdul Rahman
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