What day of the week was October 10, 1970?

The day of the week October 10th, 1970 fell on was a Saturday. Yom Kippur for Jewish people.

Édouard Daladier the French politician, 105th Prime Minister of France (b. 1884) died on this day in 1970.

Fiji becomes independent. In Montreal the Quebec, a national crisis hits Canada when Quebec Vice-Premier and Minister of Labour Pierre Laporte becomes the second statesman kidnapped by members of the FLQ terrorist group.