See:
Wikipedia.
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 manned 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 Day" - United Kingdom and Ireland both switch to decimal
currency. See also decimalization.
March 1 - Bomb explodes in men's room in the White House - Weather Underground
claims responsibility.
March 1 - Pakistani President Yahya Khan indefinitely postponed the pending national
assembly session, precipitating massive civil disobedience in East Pakistan.
March 1 - Canadian John Robarts ends his term of office as 17th premier of Ontario.
March 10 - Twenty-sixth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution lowers voting age to 18.
March 12 - Hafez al-Assad becomes president of Syria.
March 18 - A landslide at Chungar, Peru crashes into Lake Yanahuani killing 200.
March 25 - The Pakistani miltary moves to crush dissent in East Pakistan.
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 sign an agreement to form a confederation.
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.
April 29 - The third anniversary of the Broadway musical Hair was celebrated with a
concert at a Central Park bandshell.
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 3 - All Things Considered, National Public Radio's flagship news program,
broadcasts for the first time.
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 1 - Vietnam War: Vietnam Veterans for a Just Peace, claiming to represent the majority
of U.S. veterans who served in southeast Asia, speak against war protests.
June 6 - Soyuz program: Soyuz 11 launches.
June 13 - Vietnam War: The New York Times begins to publish the Pentagon Papers.
June 14 - Norway begins oil production in North Sea.
June 17 - Representatives of Japan and the United States sign the Okinawa Reversion
Agreement, setting out a plan where the U.S. would return control of Okinawa.
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 16 - The four billionth baby was born.
July 26 - Apollo program: Launch of Apollo 15. On July 31 the Apollo 15 astronauts
become the first to ride in a lunar rover a day after landing on the surface.
August 9 - India signs a twenty year treaty of friendship and cooperation with
the Soviet Union.
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 15 - President Richard Nixon announced that the United States would no
longer convert dollars to gold at a fixed value, effectively ending the Bretton Woods
Gold Standard.
August 18 - Vietnam War: Australia and New Zealand decide to withdraw their
troops from Vietnam.
August 26 - Civilian government in Greece.
August 30 - The Alberta Progressive Conservatives under Peter Lougheed defeat the
Social Credit government under Harry E. Strom in a general election, ending 36
years of uninterrupted power for Social Credit in Alberta.
September 3 - Qatar regains independence from the United Kingdom.
September 4 - A Boeing 727 carrying Alaska Airlines Flight 1866 crashes into the
side of a mountain near Juneau, Alaska killing all 111 people on board.
September 8 - In Washington, DC, the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts
is inaugurated with the opening feature being the premiere of Leonard Bernstein's Mass.
September 9 - September 13 - Attica Prison riots - 43 dead, 10 of them hostages.
September 24 - Britain expels 90 KGB and GRU officials and 15 are 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 tsunami in the Bay of Bengal in Orissa state in India kills 10.000.
October 1 - Walt Disney World opens.
October 25 - The United Nations General Assembly admits the People's Republic of
China and expels the Republic of China (on Taiwan).
October 27 - Democratic Republic of the Congo is renamed Zaire.
October 28 - British House of Commons votes in favour of joining the EEC by 356-244.
October 29 - Vietnam War: Vietnamization - The total number of American troops still
in Vietnam drops to a record low of 196,700 (the lowest level since January 1966).
October 30 - Rev. Ian Paisley's Democratic Unionist Party founded in Northern Ireland.
November 3 - The UNIX Programmer's Manual is published.
November 6 - US nuclear bomb test in Aleuts.
November 10 - In Cambodia, Khmer Rouge forces attack the city Phnom Penh and its
airport, killing 44, wounding at least 30 and damaging nine airplanes.
November 12 - Vietnam War: Vietnamization - US President Richard M. Nixon
sets February 1, 1972 as the deadline for the removal of another 45,000 American
troops from Vietnam.
November 13 - Mariner program: Mariner 9 enters Mars orbit.
November 15 - Intel releases world's first microprocessor, the 4004.
November 23 - The People's Republic of China is given the Republic of China's
seat on the United Nations Security Council (see China and the United Nations).
November 24 - During a severe thunderstorm over Washington, a man calling himself
D.B. Cooper parachutes from the Northwest Orient Airlines plane he hijacked with
US$200,000 in ransom money (he was never heard from again).
December 1 - Cambodian Civil War: Khmer Rouge rebels intensify assaults on Cambodian
government positions, forcing their retreat from Kompong Thmar and nearby Ba Ray,
10 kilometers northeast of Phnom Penh.
December 2 - Six Sheikdoms in Persian Gulf founds United Arab Emirates.
December 3 - The Indo-Pakistani War of 1971 begins as Pakistan attacks eight India
aribases. The next day India launches a massive invasion of East Pakistan.
December 16 - Victory Day of Bangladesh: marks surrender of occupying Pakistan
army after nine months of war.
December 18 - US dollar devalued for the second time in US history.
December 18 - World's largest hydroelectric plant in Krasnoyarsk, Russia, begins operations.
December 29 - The United Kingdom gives up its military bases in Malta.
Don't Make A Wave Committee changes its name to Greenpeace.
Unknown dates:
Ray Tomlinson sends the first e-mail.
Libertarian party established in USA.
First Concorde test flights.
Free City of Christiania is founded.
Intelsat IV.
Year in topic:
1971 in
film:
A Clockwork Orange by Stanley Kubrick.
Fiddler on the Roof.
Dirty Harry starring Clint Eastwood.
The French Connection.
1971 in
music:
John Lennon recorded Imagine.
1971 in
television:
January 10 - Masterpiece Theatre debuts on PBS.
All in the Family premieres January 12 on TV.
Births:
January 8 -
Jason Giambi, Major League Baseball All-Star.
January 11 -
Mary J. Blige, pop singer.
January 17 -
Kid Rock, singer.
January 19 -
Shawn Wayans, actor, writer, producer.
January 19 -
John Wozniak, singer, songwriter of Marcy Playground.
February 1 -
Jacobus van Reijswoud.
February 3 -
Sarah Kane, playwright.
February 15 -
Renée O'Connor, actress, director.
February 17 -
Denise Richards.
February 25 -
Sean Astin, actor.
February 26 -
Erykah Badu, singer.
March 5 -
John Frusciante, musician, former member of Red Hot Chili Peppers.
March 10 -
Ugonna Wachuku, creative writer, author.
March 11 -
Johnny Knoxville, ("Jackass"), television personality.
March 24 -
Saskia van Wijk.
March 27 -
David Coulthard, Formula One racing driver.
March 31 -
Ewan McGregor, actor.
March 31 -
Pavel Bure, hockey player.
April 1 -
Method Man, musician.
April 3 -
Picabo Street, Olympic gold-medalist skier.
April 17-
Selena Quintanilla, famous Mexican-American tejano music singer (died 1995).
May 17 -
Máxima Zorreguieta, wife of Prince Willem-Alexander of the Netherlands.
May 20 -
Tony Stewart, auto racing driver.
May 25 -
Sonya Smith, actress.
May 26 -
Matt Stone, co-creator of South Park.
June 2 -
Daniela Mireille Gwendolijn Adriena Pleiffer.
June 2 -
Anthony Montgomery, actor (Star Trek: Enterprise).
June 5 -
Mark Wahlberg ("Marky Mark"), actor, singer.
June 16 -
Tupac Shakur, rapper, poet, actor (d. 1996).
June 22 -
Kurt Warner, two-time NFL MVP.
July 1 -
Missy "Misdemeanor" Elliott, hip hop artist.
July 9 -
Marc Andreessen, software developer - co-author of Mosaic and
cofounder of Netscape.
July 12 -
Kristi Yamaguchi, figure skater.
July 17 -
Cory Doctorow, author, activist.
July 22 -
Kristine Lilly, American soccer star; all-time leader in international matches
played (men or women).
August 4 -
Jeff Gordon, NASCAR racing driver.
August 6 -
Merrin Dungey, actress.
August 12 -
Pete Sampras, tennis player.
August 17 -
Jorge Posada, Major League Baseball All-Star.
August 26 -
Thalía, Mexican actress.
September 1 -
Hakan Sükür, Turkish football star.
September 8 -
Brooke Burke, model.
September 18 -
Lance Armstrong, cyclist, five-time Tour de France winner.
September 11 -
Richard Ashcroft, singer.
September 20 -
Henrik Larsson, Swedish football star.
October 14 -
Jorge Costa, football player.
October 25 -
Pedro Martínez, baseball pitcher, three-time Cy Young Award winner.
October 29 -
Winona Ryder, actress.
November 16 -
Jan Willem Geerhold.
November 24 -
Keith Primeau, Canadian NHL star.
November 25 -
Christina Applegate, actress.
November 25 -
Magnus Arvedson, hockey player.
November 30 -
Ivan "Pudge" Rodriguez, baseball player.
December 24 -
Ricky Martin, singer.
December 25 -
Dido, singer.
December 28 -
Frank Sepe, bodybuilder and male model.
December 31 -
Brent Barry, NBA basketball player.
Deaths:
January 5 -
Douglas Shearer, pioneer motion-picture sound engineer.
January 6 -
Sonny Liston (date he was found dead).
January 9 -
Elmer Flick, baseball player (b. 1876).
January 10 -
Gabrielle Chanel, aka Coco Chanel, fashion designer.
January 11 -
Jose Arigo,"psychic surgeon".
January 19 -
Harry Shields, jazz musician (b. 1899).
January 20 -
Gilbert M. 'Broncho Billy' Anderson, actor, director, writer, producer.
January 23 -
Maria Christina Brouwer.
January 28 -
Donald Winnicott, British psychoanalyst.
February 11 -
Whitney Young Jr, National Urban League director.
February 26 -
Fernandel, French comedian.
March 8 -
Wilhelmina (Willemina) van den Houten.
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.
March 18 -
Jannetje van As.
April 6 -
Igor Stravinsky, composer.
April 19 -
Earl Thomson, Canadian athlete.
April 21 -
Papa Doc Duvalier, despotic President of Haiti.
May 11 -
Sean Lemass, former Taoiseach of the Republic of Ireland.
May 12 -
Heinie Manush, Baseball Hall of Famer (b. 1901).
May 15 - Sir
Tyrone Guthrie, director, producer, writer.
May 19 -
Ogden Nash, poet.
May 28 -
Audie Murphy, World War II hero, actor.
June 10 -
Michael Rennie, actor (b. 1909).
June 30 -
Viktor Patsayev, Georgi Dobrovolsky, and Vladislav Volkov, Soyuz 11 cosmonauts.
July 3 -
Jim Morrison, American singer, songwriter and poet.
July 4 -
August Derleth, American author and anthologist.
July 6 -
Louis Armstrong, jazz musician.
July 7 -
Claude Gauvreau, Quebec playwright, poet and polemist.
July 7 -
Ub Iwerks, American animator.
July 15 -
Cornelia Bil.
July 19 -
John Jacob Astor, 1st Baron Astor of Hever, British businessman.
August 25 -
Ted Lewis, jazz musician, entertainer (b. 1890).
September 11 -
Nikita Sergeevich Khrushchev, Soviet politician and leader. He was
buried without official honors.
September 12 -
Lin Biao, China's defense minister. Air crash in suspicious circumstances.
September 19/ 20 -
William F. Albright, American archeologist and Biblical scholar.
October 24 -
Carl Ruggles, composer.
November 15 -
Edie Sedgwick, actor and model.
November 23 -
Adriana (Joane) Stoutjesdijk.
November 29 -
Edith Bratt, wife and inspiration to John Ronald Reuel Tolkien.
December 1 -
Jacob van der Holst.
December 12 -
Aphalona (Apolonia) van den Houten.
December 20 -
Roy Oliver Disney, older brother and business partner of Walt Disney.
Sarah Walker.
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