The following lists events that happened during 1970 in the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg.
Incumbents
Events
January – March
* 1 January -
Value added tax
A value-added tax (VAT), known in some countries as a goods and services tax (GST), is a type of tax that is assessed incrementally. It is levied on the price of a product or service at each stage of production, distribution, or sale to the end ...
(TVA) is introduced at 8%, with a reduced rate of 4%.
[Thewes (2006), p. 178]
* 4 March –
Cargolux is founded.
* 21 March – Representing Luxembourg,
David Alexandre Winter
David Alexandre Winter (born Lion Kleerekoper; 4 April 1943) is a Dutch-born international pop singer. Winter found fame in Luxembourg and France.
Early life
Winter was born in Amsterdam, Netherlands into a Jewish family. Both he and his parent ...
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.
* 28 May -
Luxembourg and
Yugoslavia sign a treaty governing the migration of
Yugoslavs to Luxembourg.
July – September
October – December
* 11 November -
Alfred Loesch is appointed to the
Council of State.
* 2 December – One of Cargolux's two
CL-44
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's crashes in
East Pakistan while conducting a humanitarian airlift, killing four crew members and four villagers.
* 9 December - Legislation sets the
workweek
The weekdays and weekend are the complementary parts of the week devoted to labour and rest, respectively. The legal weekdays (British English), or workweek (American English), is the part of the seven-day week devoted to working. In most of th ...
at 40 hours.
[Thewes (2006), p. 181]
Births
* 16 August -
Patrick Santer, politician
Deaths
* 8 April –
Felix of Bourbon-Parma, prince consort
Footnotes
References
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