1970 in Luxembourg

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Years: 1967 1968 1969 1970 1971 1972 1973

The following lists events that happened during 1970 in the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg.

Incumbents[]

Position Incumbent
Grand Duke Jean
Prime Minister Pierre Werner
Deputy Prime Minister Eugène Schaus
President of the Chamber of Deputies Pierre Grégoire
President of the Council of State
Mayor of Luxembourg City Colette Flesch

Events[]

January – March[]

  • 1 January - Value added tax (TVA) is introduced at 8%, with a reduced rate of 4%.[1]
  • 4 March – Cargolux is founded.
  • 21 March – Representing Luxembourg, David Alexandre Winter finishes twelfth (and last) in the Eurovision Song Contest 1970 with the song Je Suis Tombé Du Ciel. It is the first and (so far) only occasion on which Luxembourg has scored 'nul points'.

April – June[]

July – September[]

October – December[]

  • 11 November - is appointed to the Council of State.[2]
  • 2 December – One of Cargolux's two CL-44's crashes in East Pakistan while conducting a humanitarian airlift, killing four crew members and four villagers.
  • 9 December - Legislation sets the workweek at 40 hours.[3]

Births[]

Deaths[]

  • 8 April – Felix of Bourbon-Parma, prince consort[2]
  • 9 September – , writer
  • 20 September – , artist

Footnotes[]

  1. ^ Jump up to: a b c Thewes (2006), p. 178
  2. ^ Jump up to: a b c "Membres depuis 1857" (in French). Council of State. Archived from the original on 2009-11-03. Retrieved 2009-04-05.
  3. ^ Thewes (2006), p. 181

References[]

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