19700429

19700429 is the date written in the YYYYMMDD format that corresponds to April 29, 1970, in the Gregorian calendar. It is the 119th day of the year in a common year, with 246 days remaining. In ISO 8601 notation, the date is expressed as 1970-04-29. The day of the week for this date was Wednesday.

Context and background: The year 1970 sits in the early post-Apollo era and the general period of rapid development in computing, science, and international affairs. Earth Day 1970 occurred seven days earlier on April 22, highlighting environmental awareness that year and shaping subsequent environmental policy movements. The broader decade saw notable changes across technology, culture, and politics.

Uses and significance: The numeric form 19700429 is widely used in data processing, archival indexing, and file naming because it provides an unambiguous, sortable date stamp that avoids regional format confusion. As a calendar date, 1970-04-29 does not correspond to a single universally recognized historical event, but it lies within a period of notable activity in science and global affairs.

Related topics: 1970, ISO 8601, Unix time, calendar dates, date formats.