page_title: June 1970
section_title: June 16, 1970 (Tuesday)
hierarchical_section_title: June 1970 / June 16, 1970 (Tuesday)
caption_attribution_description: Leader Phil Mickelson teeing off on the 18th hole at TPC at Sawgrass during the final round of the 2007 Players Championship. Mickelson bogeyed the hole but still won the title by two shots.
context_page_description: The following events occurred in June 1970:
context_section_description: The leftist terrorist group Ação Libertadora Nacional released West Germany's ambassador to Brazil, Ehrenfried von Holleben, the day after the Brazilian government freed 40 political prisoners and five days after von Holleben had been kidnapped. Under the terms of the ransom, von Holleben would be freed only after the group received confirmation that the prisoners had landed safely in Algeria. Von Holleben, who was released unharmed the next day, had been kidnapped on June 11 by the leftist.
  Structural engineer Kenneth A. Gibson overwhelmingly defeated incumbent Hugh J. Addonizio in the race for Mayor of Newark, New Jersey, becoming the first African-American to be elected as mayor of major east coast American city. Newark, at the time, had a population of almost 382,000 people. A few weeks after his July 1 departure from office, Adonizzio, already under criminal indictment at the time of the election, was found guilty of extortion in a jury trial and sentenced to 10 years in federal prison.
  Born: Phil Mickelson, American professional golfer, three-time winner of the Masters, as well as one PGA championship and the British Open; in San Diego
  Died: 
  Brian Piccolo, 26, American NFL running back from 1965 to 1969, from cancer. Piccolo attained greater fame posthumously as the subject of the film Brian's Song
  Charles P. McCormick, 74, American businessman who built the spice manufacturer McCormick & Company into a multi-billion dollar international conglomerate
  Heino Eller, 83, Estonian-Soviet classical music composer
caption: Phil Mickelson
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