October 23, 1970: Gary Gabelich becomes first man to drive a car 1,000 kilometers per hour, reaches 622.407 mphOctober 4, 1970: Singer Janis Joplin dies of overdose at aged 27October 10, 1970: Dominion of Fiji becomes independentOctober 8, 1970: Soviet author Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn wins Nobel Prize, not allowed to accept itOctober 9, 1970: Kingdom of Cambodia proclaimed as "The Khmer Republic"