page_title: December 1970
section_title: December 7, 1970 (Monday)
hierarchical_section_title: December 1970 / December 7, 1970 (Monday)
caption_attribution_description: English: Willy Brandt memorial plate in Warsaw Polski: Pomnik Willy'ego Brandta w Warszawie. Zaprojektowany przez Wiktorię Czechowską-Antoniewską.
context_page_description: The following events occurred in December 1970:
context_section_description: Voting began in the first ever nationwide election in Pakistan (which, at the time, included Bangladesh as the province of East Pakistan) for the 313-member National Assembly.  The result was that the Awami League won 160 of the 162 seats that had been reserved for East Pakistan, while the Pakistan Peoples Party won only 81 of the 138 seats reserved for West Pakistan, the other 57 being split among various political parties.  The government of Pakistan, dominated since its 1947 independence by the Punjabis, Pashtuns, Sindhis of the side west of India, was scheduled to be controlled by the Bengalis of the side east of India, whose Awami League representatives had an absolute majority.  The resistance by Pakistan's President Yahya Khan and Prime Minister Zulfikar Ali Bhutto to allowing the elected Assembly to form an East Pakistan controlled government would lead to a civil war and the breakup of the Islamic nation in 1971.
  Giovanni Enrico Bucher, Switzerland's ambassador to Brazil, was kidnapped in Rio de Janeiro; kidnappers demanded the release of 70 political prisoners.  Bucher would be freed on January 16 after 40 days as a hostage, following Brazil's deportation of the 70 prisoners to Chile 
  During his visit to the Polish capital, German Chancellor Willy Brandt went down on his knees in front of the monument to the victims of the Warsaw Ghetto, then placed a wreath at the site.  The symbolic act of German remorse for its persecution of Poland's Jews would become known as the Warschauer Kniefall ("the Warsaw Kneeling").  Brandt then signed the treaty with Poland, acknowledging West Germany's acceptance of the cession of former German territory east of the Oder river.
  Born: Lado Gurgenidze, Prime Minister of Georgia from 2007 to 2008; in Tbilisi
  Died: Rube Goldberg, 87, popular American cartoonist   His death came less than two weeks after he appeared at a dinner at the Smithsonian Institution to celebrate the opening of an exhibition of his work, including working models of his humorous conceptions "agonizingly intricate inventions to accomplish simple tasks".
caption: Commemoration of Der Kniefall
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