1970 in Luxembourg

Years in Luxembourg:	1967 1968 1969 1970 1971 1972 1973
Centuries:	19th century · 20th century · 21st century
Decades:	1940s 1950s 1960s 1970s 1980s 1990s 2000s
Years:	1967 1968 1969 1970 1971 1972 1973

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	Maurice Sevenig
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

20 May - Luxembourg and Portugal sign a treaty governing the growing population of Portuguese Luxembourgers.^[1]
28 May - Luxembourg and Yugoslavia sign a treaty governing the migration of Yugoslavs to Luxembourg.^[1]

October – December

11 November - Alfred Loesch 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

16 August - Patrick Santer, politician^[2]

Deaths

8 April – Felix of Bourbon-Parma, prince consort^[2]
9 September – Ferdinand Gremling, writer
20 September – Josy Meyers Friob, artist

Footnotes

1 2 3 Thewes (2006), p. 178
1 2 3 "Membres depuis 1857" (in French). Council of State. Retrieved 2009-04-05.
↑ Thewes (2006), p. 181

References

Thewes, Guy (2006). Les gouvernements du Grand-Duché de Luxembourg depuis 1848 (PDF) (in French) (2006 ed.). Luxembourg City: Service Information et Presse. ISBN 978-2-87999-156-6. Retrieved 12 December 2009.

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