Hans Remembers- Saturday October 24, 1970- 50 Years Ago.

• Salvador Allende – a Marxist was elected President of Chile by a joint session of the Chilean Congress where senators and deputies had the choice of Allende or Jorge Alessandri who was the runner-up in the September 4 popular vote.
• American historian Richard Hofstadter died from leukemia at the age of 54.
• Owen Cheatham who founded Georgia-Pacific Company and transformed it from a lumber wholesaler into a worldwide conglomerate and manufacturer of paper products died at the age of 68.