page_title: January 1970
section_title: January 14, 1970 (Wednesday)
hierarchical_section_title: January 1970 / January 14, 1970 (Wednesday)
caption_attribution_description: English: A Borthwick's Foden export meat truck alongside the Orient Line Steam Navigation Co liner Oronsay at a Brisbane wharf
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: With more than 20 suspected cases of typhoid fever among its passengers and crew, the luxury ocean liner SS Oronsay was placed under quarantine after arriving in Vancouver harbor, partway through its round-the-world cruise.  Although 154 passengers Vancouver-bound passengers were allowed to leave for examination, the remaining 991 passengers and the 500 crew members were ordered to prohibited from disembarking until further notice.  Most would spend the next three weeks on the ship while it sat at port.  A spokesman for the Vancouver health department branded SS Oronsay "a floating bomb".  The ship had departed London on December 16 for a four-month cruise and the disease was discovered after some of the crew were hospitalized in Los Angeles.  In all, 70 people were hospitalized.  About 700 passengers would be confined to the ship until it would finally sail out of Vancouver on February 4 
  The United States Supreme Court ordered the last 14 legally segregated school districts in the United States to integrate by February 1, reversing a lower court ruling that would have permitted them to wait until the beginning of the 1970–1971 school year.  The largest segregated school districts were those of Mobile County, Alabama (with 73,504 students) the 67,000 students in the Birmingham suburbs of Jefferson County, Alabama, and the public schools of Jackson, Mississippi.  The other 11 districts were in Holly Springs, Mississippi; Bessemer, Alabama; Burke County, Bibb County and Houston County, Georgia; Bay County and Alachua County, Florida; and West Feliciana Parish, East Feliciana Parish and Concordia Parish in Louisiana.
  Diana Ross and The Supremes performed their farewell live concert together at the Frontier Hotel in Las Vegas.  The last performance of the trio of Ross, Mary Wilson and Cindy Birdsong was of their final No. 1 bestselling song, "Someday We'll Be Together".  Ross would begin her solo career on February 12, in Vancouver, and her place on The Supremes would be filled by Jean Terrell, who was introduced onstage during the final show.  Excerpts of the concert would be included on the group's final album, Farewell, released in April.
  Died: Ma Hongkui, 77, Chinese Army general during World War II and warlord of the Ningxia (Ning-hsia) province until the Communist revolution of 1949
caption: Typhoid ship SS Oronsay
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