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1971

Centuries: 19th century - 20th century - 21st century

Decades: 1920s 1930s 1940s 1950s 1960s - 1970s - 1980s 1990s 2000s

Years: 1966 1967 1968 1969 1970 - 1971 - 1972 1973 1974 1975 1976

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Events

January 1 - British divorce Reform Act comes into force
January 2 - 66 die in stairway crush at Rangers v Celtic football match, Glasgow, Scotland.
January 2 - A ban on television cigarette advertisements goes into effect in the United States.
January 3 - BBC open university[?] commences
January 7 - Howard Hughes breaks his silence to announce that his supposed biography is a forgery.
January 15 - Aswan Dam officially opened
January 19 - No, No Nanette[?] premieres (46th Street Theatre[?], New York City).
January 25 - Charles Manson and three female "family members" are found guilty and sentenced to life imprisonment for the murder of Sharon Tate and others
January 25 - Idi Amin leads a coup deposing Milton Obote and becomes Uganda's president
January 25 - Himachal Pradesh becomes the 18th Indian state
January 31 - Apollo program: Astronauts aboard Apollo 14 lift off for a mission to the moon.
February 2 - In Uganda after a coup, Idi Amin replaces President Milton Obote as leader.
February 4 - In Britain, Rolls Royce goes bankrupt - state takes over
February 5 - Apollo 14 lands on the Moon.
February 7 - Tuscany, Italy, wrecked in an earthquake
February 7 - Men of Switzerland vote for giving voting rights to women in state elections - but not in all canton-specific ones.
February 8 - A new stock-market index[?] called the Nasdaq debuts.
February 9 - The 6.4 on the Richter Scale Sylmar earthquake[?] hits the San Fernando Valley[?] area of California.
February 9 - Satchel Paige becomes the first Negro League player to become voted into the Baseball Hall of Fame
February 9 - Apollo program: Apollo 14 returns to Earth after the third maned moon landing.
February 11 - US, UK, USSR, others sign Seabed Treaty[?] outlawing nuclear weapons.
February 13 - Vietnam War: Backed by American air and artillery support, South Vietnamese troops invade Laos.
February 15 - "Decimalization" - United Kingdom switches to decimal currency.
March 1 - Bomb explodes in men's room in the White House - Weather Underground claims responsibility.
March 10 - Twenty-sixth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution lowers voting age to 18.
March 12 - Hafis al-Assad[?] becomes president of Syria.
March 18 - A landslide at Chungar[?], Peru crashes into Lake Yanahuani[?] killing 200.
March 26 - East Pakistan declares its independence from Pakistan and the establishment of Bangladesh.
March 29 - William Calley is found guilty of 22 murders in My Lai massacre and sentenced to life in prison. He is later pardoned.
March 29 - A Los Angeles, California jury recommends the death penalty for Charles Manson and three female followers.
April 5 - Mount Etna erupts.
April 9 - Charles Manson is sentenced to death but the sentence is commuted to life imprisonment.
April 17 - Libya, Syria and Egypt discuss about treaty allegiance that is a precurcor Arab Republic[?].
April 19 - Soviet Union launches Saljut I.
April 19 - Followers of Charles Manson, the Manson Family[?], are sentenced to gas chamber.
April 20 - Supreme Court of the United States rules unanimously that busing of students may be ordered to achieve racial desegregation.
April 24 - 500.000 demonstrate against Vietnam War in Washington DC.
May 3 - Anti-war militants attempt to disrupt government business in Washington, D.C.; police and military units arrest as many as 12,000, most of whom are later released.
May 19 - Mars probe program: Mars 2 is launched by the Soviet Union.
May 30 - Mariner program: Mariner 9 is launched toward Mars.
May 31 The birth of a new country, Bangladesh. It is out of territory formerly part of Pakistan
June - The Pentagon Papers are published
June 14 - Norway begins oil production in North Sea.
June 17 - USA and Japan sign a treaty which gives Okinawa and other islands back to Japan.
June 28 - Black assassin shoots Joe Colombo[?] to the head in a middle of a Italian-American rally. Colombo goes into coma.
June 30 - The crew of the Soyuz 11 spacecraft are killed when their air supply leaks out through a faulty valve
July 5 - Right to vote: The voting age in the United States is reduced to 18 from 21 (provision of the 26th Amendment formally certified by President Richard Nixon on this day).
July 9 - Britain sends 500 more soldiers to Northern Ireland.
July 16 - Franco makes Prince Juan Carlos his successor.
July 26 - Apollo 15 launched.
August 9 - British security forces in Northern Ireland detain hundreds of guerilla suspects and put them into Long Kesh - the beginning of an internment without trial policy. 20 die in riots that follow
August 14 - Emirate[?] of Bahrain declares independence.
August 26 - Civilian government in Greece.
September 9 - September 13 - Attica prison riot - 43 dead, 10 of them hostages.
September 24 - Britain expels 90 KGB and GRU officials and 15 is not allowed to return
September 27 - October 11 - Emperor Hirohito travels abroad.
September 28 - Cardinal Mindszenty, who has resided in US embassy in Budapest from 1956 is allowed to move out of Hungary.
September 29 - Cyclone and tidal wave in the Bay of Negal[?] in Orissa state in India kills 10.000
October 1 - Disney World opens.
October 25 - The United Nations admits Communist People's Republic of China and expels Nationalist China.
October 27 - Democratic Republic of Congo becomes Zaire.
October 28 - British House of Commons votes in favor of joining the EEC by 356-244
October 30 - Rev. Ian Paisley's Democratic Unionist party[?] founded in Northern Ireland
November 6 - US nucleab bomb test in Aleuts[?].
November 13 - Mariner 9 enters Mars orbit.
November 24 - "D.B. Cooper" hijacks a plane with alleged bomb, demands and gets a ransom of $200,000 and parachutes out over the Cascade Mountains. Never caught.
December 2 - Six Sheikdoms[?] in Persian Gulf founds United Arab Emirates
December 3 - Indian-Pakistan War[?] begins
December 18 - US dollar devalued for the second time in US history
December 18 - World's largest hydroelectric plant in Krasnojarsk[?], Russia, begins operations.
December 31 - The Beatles break up
December 29 - Britain gives up its military bases in Malta
Don't Make A Wave Committee changes its name to Greenpeace
Intel introduces the microprocessor for micro-computers. The 4004 chip
Libertarian party established in USA
First Concorde test flights
Free City of Christiania is founded.
Intelsat IV

Art, Culture & Fashion

1971 in film
- The French Connection
- A Clockwork Orange by Stanley Kubrick
- Fiddler on the Roof
- Dirty Harry[?] starring Clint Eastwood
- The French Connection by William Friedkin[?]
1971 in literature
1971 in music
1971 in sports
1971 in television
- January 10 - Masterpiece Theatre debuts on PBS
- All in the Family premieres January 12 on TV

Births

January 11 - Mary J. Blige, pop singer
January 17 - Kid Rock, singer
January 19 - Shawn Wayans[?], actor, writer, producer
February 3 - Sarah Kane, playwright
February 17 - Denise Richards.
February 25 - Sean Astin, actor
February 26 - Erykah Badu, singer
March 5 - John Frusciante, musician of The Red Hot Chili Peppers
March 11 - Johnny Knoxville[?], ("Jackass"), television personality
March 31 - Ewan McGregor.
March 31 - Pavel Bure[?], ice hockey player
April 1 - Method Man, musician
April 6 - Igor Stravinsky, composer
April 17- Selena Quintanilla, famous Mexican-American tejano music[?] singer.
May 17 - Maxima Zorreguieta Cerruti, wife of Prince Willem-Alexander of the Netherlands
May 25 - Sonya Smith, actress
August 12 - Pete Sampras, tennis player[?]
August 28 - Janet Evans, Olympic swimming champion
August 31 - Chris Tucker, actor
September 18 - Lance Armstrong, cyclist
October 25 - Pedro Martinez, baeball player
October 29 - Winona Ryder, American actor.
November 2 - Daniel C. Boyer, artist
November 25 - Christina Applegate
December 24 - Ricky Martin, singer

Deaths

January 5 - Douglas Shearer, pioneer motion-picture sound engineer
January 6 -- Sonny Liston (date he was found dead)
January 10 --Gabrielle Chanel, perfumer
January 10 - Coco Chanel, fashion designer
January 11 - Jose Arigo[?],"psychic surgeon"
January 20 - Gilbert M. 'Broncho Billy' Anderson[?], actor, director, writer, producer
February 11 - Whitney Young Jr[?], National Urban League[?] director.
February 26 - Fernandel, French comedian
March 8 - Harold Lloyd, silent screen comedian
March 11 - Philo T. Farnsworth, television pioneer
March 16 - Thomas Dewey, candidate for President of the United States in 1944 and 1948
April 6 - Igor Stravinsky, composer
April 21 - Papa Doc Duvalier[?], despotic President of Haiti.
May 11 - Sean Lemass, former Taoiseach (prime minister) of the Republic of Ireland
May 15 - Sir Tyrone Guthrie[?], director, producer, writer
May 19 - Ogden Nash, poet
June 30 - Viktor Patsayev, Georgi Dobrovolsky[?], and Vladislav Volkov, cosmonauts on Soyuz 11
July 3 - Jim Morrison, American singer, songwriter and poet.
July 4 - August Derleth, American author and anthologist.
September 11 -Nikita Sergeevich Khrushchev, Soviet politician and leader. He was buried without official honors.
September 12 - Bi Lao[?], China's defense minister. Air crash in suspicious circumstances.

Nobel Prizes

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