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Events on Monday 7 December 1970 2
1883 – 1970Rube Goldberg (1883-1970)Died 7 December 1970, aged 87Rube Goldberg, the American cartoonist famous for drawings of absurdly complicated machines, died in New York City. His name became a generic term for any needlessly convoluted device or process.
1970Willy Brandt Kneels at Warsaw Ghetto MemorialWest German chancellor signs Treaty of WarsawWest German Chancellor Willy Brandt signed a treaty normalizing relations with Poland and unexpectedly knelt in silence before a memorial to the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising. The gesture became an enduring symbol of German reconciliation with the victims of Nazism.