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Famous birthdays, deaths and events of 1971


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Birthdays


Deaths
  • January 4 - Arthur Ford, American clairaudient (b. 1896)
  • January 9 - Giannis Christou, Greek composer (b. 1926)
  • January 9 - Elmer Flick, baseball player (b. 1876)
  • January 13 - Robert Still, English composer (b. 1910)
  • January 16 - Philippe Thys, Belgian cyclist (b. 1890)
  • January 18 - Virgil Finlay, American horror illustrator (b. 1914)
  • January 19 - Harry Shields, American musician (b. 1899)
  • January 20 - Gilbert M. 'Broncho Billy' Anderson, American actor
  • January 28 - Donald Winnicott, British psychoanalyst (b. 1896)
  • February 15 - Dimitrios Loundras, Greek gymnast (b. 1885)
  • February 26 - Fernandel, French actor (b. 1903)
  • March 8 - Harold Lloyd, American actor (b. 1893)
  • March 15 - Jean-Pierre Monseré, Belgian cyclist (b. 1948)
  • April 3 - Joseph Valachi, American gangster (b. 1904)
  • April 6 - Igor Stravinsky, Russian composer (b. 1882)
  • April 12 - Ed Lafitte, American baseball player (b. 1871)
  • April 12 - Wynton Kelly, American jazz pianist (b. 1931)
  • April 13 - Michel Brière, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1949)
  • April 13 - Juhan Smuul, Estonian author (b. 1921)
  • April 15 - Dan Reeves, American football team owner (b. 1912)
  • April 21 - François "Papa Doc" Duvalier, Haitian dictator (b. 1907)
  • May 4 - Seamus Elliott, Irish cyclist (b. 1934)
  • May 12 - Heinie Manush, American baseball player (b. 1901)
  • May 15 - Tyrone Guthrie, English director
  • May 19 - Ogden Nash, American poet (b. 1902)
  • May 20 - Waldo Williams, Welsh poet (b. 1904)
  • May 28 - Audie Murphy, American actor and war hero (b. 1924)
  • May 28 - Jean Vilar, French actor (b. 1912)
  • May 30 - Marcel Dupré, French organist and composer (b. 1886)
  • June 10 - Michael Rennie, English actor (b. 1909)
  • June 18 - Thomas Gomez, American actor (b. 1905)
  • June 28 - Franz Stangl, Austrian commandant of concentration camps (b. 1908)
  • June 30 - Herbert Biberman, Jewish American screenwriter and film director (b. 1900)
  • July 3 - Jim Morrison, American singer (The Doors) (b. 1943)
  • July 6 - Louis Armstrong, American musician (b. 1901)
  • July 7 - Claude Gauvreau, Canadian writer (b. 1925)
  • July 8 - Charlie Shavers, American jazz trumpet player (b. 1920)
  • July 11 - Pedro Rodríguez, Mexican racing driver (b. 1940)
  • July 12 - Yvon Robert, French Canadian professional wrestler (b. 1914)
  • July 23 - Van Heflin, American actor (b. 1910)
  • July 25 - Leroy Robertson, American composer (b. 1896)
  • July 27 - Charlie Tully, Northern Irish footballer (b. 1924)
  • July 28 - Myril Hoag, American baseball player (b. 1908)
  • July 30 - Kenneth Slessor, Australian poet (b. 1901)
  • August 15 - Paul Lukas, Hungarian-born actor (b. 1887)
  • August 20 - Rashid Minhas, Pakistani Air Force pilot (b. 1951)
  • August 21 - George Jackson, American prisoner
  • August 23 - The original Shamu, Sea World orca
  • August 27 - Bennett Cerf, American publisher and television personality (b. 1898)
  • September 7 - Spring Byington, American actress (b. 1886)
  • September 10 - Pier Angeli, Italian actress (b. 1932)
  • September 11 - Bella Darvi, Polish-born French actress (b. 1928)
  • September 20 - Giorgos Seferis, Greek poet
  • September 21 - Bernardo Houssay, Argentine physiologist
  • September 23 - Billy Gilbert, American actor (b. 1894)
  • October 2 - Bola de Nieve, Cuban singer
  • October 11 - Chesty Puller, the most decorated Marine in history (b. 1898)
  • October 24 - Carl Ruggles, American composer (b. 1876)
  • October 26 - Vincent Coleman, American actor (b. 1901)
  • October 29 - Duane Allman, American musician (b. 1946)
  • November 5 - Sam Jones, baseball player (b. 1925)
  • November 9 - Maude Fealy, American actor (b. 1881)
  • November 14 - William Bendeck, Bolivian rally driver (b. 1934)
  • November 15 - Rudolf Abel, Soviet spy (b. 1903)
  • November 15 - Edie Sedgwick, American actress and model (b. 1943)
  • November 16 - Edie Sedgwick, American socialite and heiress (b. 1940)
  • December 14 - Dick Tiger, Nigerian-born boxer (b. 1929)
  • December 18 - Bobby Jones, American golfer (b. 1902)
  • December 18 - Diana Lynn, American actress (b. 1926)
  • December 22 - Godfried Bomans, Dutch author and television personality (b. 1913)
  • December 28 - Max Steiner, Austrian-born American film music composer (b. 1888)
  • December 30 - Melba Rae, American actress (Search for Tomorrow) (b. 1922)
  • December 31 - Pete Duel American actor, (b. 1940)
  • December 31 - Marin Sais, American actress (b. 1890)

Events
  • January 1 - Cigarette advertisements are banned on American television.
  • January 2 - The second Ibrox disaster kills 66 fans at a Rangers-Celtic football match.
  • January 12 - The Harrisburg Six: The Reverend Philip Berrigan and five others are indicted on charges of conspiring to kidnap Henry Kissinger and of plotting to blow up the heating tunnels of federal buildings in Washington, D.C.
  • January 19 - The revival of No, No, Nanette premieres at the 46th Street Theatre, in New York City.
  • January 25 - Charles Manson and three female "Family" members are found guilty of the 1969 Tate-LaBianca murders.
  • 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: Apollo 14 Mission
  • January 31 - The Winter Soldier Investigation, organized by the Vietnam Veterans Against the War to publicize war crimes and atrocities by Americans and allies in Vietnam, begin in Detroit, Michigan.
  • February 2 - Idi Amin replaces President Milton Obote as leader of Uganda.
  • February 3 - New York Police Office Frank Serpico is shot during a drug bust in Brooklyn and survives to later testify against police corruption.. Many believed the incident proved NYPD officers tried to kill him.
  • February 5 - Apollo program: Apollo 14 Mission
  • February 8 - The Nasdaq stock market index 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 be voted into the Baseball Hall of Fame.
  • February 9 - Apollo program: Apollo 14 returns to Earth after the third manned moon landing.
  • February 11 - Eighty-seven countries, including the US, UK, and USSR, sign the Seabed Treaty outlawing nuclear weapons in international waters.
  • February 13 - Vietnam War: Backed by American air and artillery support, South Vietnamese troops invade Laos.
  • February 15 - Decimalisation of British coinage is completed on Decimal Day.
  • February 21 - The Convention on Psychotropic Substances is signed at Vienna.
  • February 24 - The All India Forward Bloc holds an emergency central committee meeting after its chairman, Hemantha Kumar Bose, was killed 3 days earlier. P.K. Mookiah Thevar appointed as the new chairman.
  • February 25 - The first unit of the Pickering Nuclear Generating Station, first commercial nuclear power station in Canada, goes online.
  • February 26 - Secretary-General U Thant signs United Nations proclamation of the vernal equinox as Earth Day.
  • February 27 - Doctors in the first Dutch abortion clinic (the Mildredhuis in Arnhem) start to perform aborti provocati.
  • March 1 - A bomb explodes in a men's room in the United States Capitol: the Weather Underground claims responsibility.
  • March 1 - Pakistani President Yahya Khan indefinitely postpones the pending national assembly session, precipitating massive civil disobedience in East Pakistan.
  • March 3 - Beginning of Indo-Pakistani War of 1971 and India's official entry to the Bangladesh Liberation War in support of Mukti Bahini.
  • March 8 - Joe Frazier becomes the undisputed world heavyweight boxing champion by winning a unanimous 15-round decision over Muhammad Ali at Madison Square Garden in New York City.
  • March 12 - The March 12 Memorandum, second intervention of Turkish Army, is sent to the Demirel government and Demirel government resigned.
  • March 16 - Government of Trygve Bratteli in Norway.
  • March 18 - A landslide at Chungar, Peru crashes into Lake Yanahuani killing 200.
  • March 25 - Bangladesh Liberation War: Beginning of Operation Searchlight of Pakistan Army against East Pakistani civilians.
  • March 26 - East Pakistan declares its independence from Pakistan to form People's Republic of Bangladesh and Bangladesh Liberation War begins.
  • March 29 - My Lai massacre: Lt. William Calley is convicted of premeditated murder and sentenced to life in prison.
  • March 29 - A Los Angeles, California jury recommends the death penalty for Charles Manson and three female followers.
  • April 5 - In Sri Lanka, Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna launches insurrection against the United Front government of Mrs. Sirimavo Bandaranaike.
  • April 7 - U.S. President Richard Nixon announces his decision to increase the rate of American troop withdrawals from Vietnam.
  • April 10 - Ping Pong Diplomacy: In an attempt to thaw relations with the United States, the People's Republic of China hosts the U.S. table tennis team for a weeklong visit.
  • April 17 - The People's Republic of Bangladesh forms, under Sheikh Mujibur Rahman at Mujibnagor.
  • April 17 - Sierra Leone becomes a republic.
  • April 19 - Sierra Leone becomes a republic, and Siaka Stevens the president.
  • April 19 - Vietnam War: Vietnam Veterans Against the War begin a five-day demonstration in Washington, DC.
  • April 19 - Launch of Salyut 1, first human-made space station.
  • April 19 - Charles Manson is sentenced to death for the Sharon Tate murders.
  • May 1 - Amtrak (the National Railroad Passenger Corporation) is formed to take over U.S. passenger rail service.
  • May 19 - Mars probe program: Mars 2 is launched by the Soviet Union.
  • May 27 - The Dahlerau train disaster, the worst railway accident in West Germany, kills 46 people and injures 25 near Wuppertal.
  • May 30 - Mariner program: Mariner 9 is launched to map 70% of the surface, and to study temporal changes in the atmosphere and surface, of Mars.
  • May 31 - In accordance with the Uniform Monday Holiday Act passed by the U.S. Congress in 1968, observation of Memorial Day occurs on the last Monday in May for the first time, rather than on the traditional Memorial Day of May 30.
  • June 6 - Soyuz program: Soyuz 11 launches.
  • June 6 - A midair collision between a Hughes Airwest Douglas DC-9 jetliner and a United States Marine Corps McDonnell Douglas F-4 Phantom II jet fighter near Duarte, California claims 50 lives.
  • June 7 - The United States Supreme Court overturns the conviction of Paul Cohen for disturbing the peace, setting the precedent that vulgar writing is protected under the First Amendment.
  • June 13 - Vietnam War: The New York Times begins publication of the Pentagon Papers.
  • June 30 - The crew of the Soviet Soyuz 11 spacecraft are killed when their air supply escapes through a faulty valve.
  • June 30 - Ohio ratifies the 26th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, lowering the voting age to 18, thereby putting the amendment into effect.
  • July 5 - Right to vote: the Twenty-sixth Amendment to the United States Constitution, lowering the voting age from 21 to 18 years, is formally certified by President Richard Nixon.
  • July 11 - Copper mines in Chile are nationalized.
  • July 20 - The Soviet Union says it will support the People's Republic of China's admission to the United Nations
  • July 26 - Apollo Program: Apollo 15 Mission
  • July 30 - Apollo program: Apollo 15 Mission
  • July 30 - An All Nippon Airways Boeing 727 and a Japanese Air Force F-86 collide over Morioka, Japan killing 162.
  • July 31 - Apollo program: Apollo 15 astronauts become the first to ride in a lunar rover.
  • August 9 - Internment in Northern Ireland: British security forces arrest hundreds of nationalists and detain them without trial in Long Kesh prison. Twenty people die in the riots that follow.
  • August 10 - The Society for American Baseball Research is founded in Cooperstown, New York.
  • August 15 - President Richard Nixon completes the break from the gold standard by ending convertibility of the United States dollar into gold by foreign investors.
  • August 18 - Vietnam War: Australia and New Zealand decide to withdraw their troops from Vietnam.
  • August 21 - A bomb exploded in the Liberal Party campaign rally in Plaza Miranda, Manila, Philippines with several anti-Marcos political candidates injured.
  • August 22 - J. Edgar Hoover and John Mitchell announce the arrest of 20 of the Camden 28.
  • August 27 - A coup attempt fails in the African nation of Chad. The Government of Chad accuses Egypt of playing a role in the attempt and breaks off diplomatic relations.
  • August 28 - The dollar is allowed to float against the yen for the first time.
  • September 3 - Qatar becomes an independent state
  • September 4 - A Boeing 727 carrying Alaska Airlines Flight 1866 crashes near Juneau, Alaska, killing all 111 people on board.
  • September 8 - In Washington, D.C., 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 - The four-day Attica Prison riot begins, which eventually results in 39 dead, most killed by state troopers retaking the prison.
  • September 11 - The Egyptian Constitution becomes official.
  • September 13 - State police and National Guardsmen storm New York's Attica Prison to end a prison revolt. 42 people die in the assault.
  • September 28 - UK passes the Misuse of Drugs Act banning the medicinal use of cannabis.
  • September 29 - Oman joins the Arab League.
  • October 1 - Walt Disney World opens near Orlando, Florida, United States.
  • October 10 - Sold, dismantled and moved to the United States, the London Bridge reopens in Lake Havasu City, Arizona.
  • October 13 - 1971 World Series: The first night game in World Series history is played at Pittsburgh's Three Rivers Stadium between the Baltimore Orioles and Pittsburgh Pirates.
  • October 15 - The start of the 2500-year celebration of Iran, celebrating the birth of Persia.
  • October 20 - The Nepal stock exchange collapses.
  • October 21 - Pablo Neruda wins Nobel Prize for Literature.
  • October 25 - The United Nations seated the People's Republic of China and expelled the Republic of China (see political status of Taiwan and China and the United Nations)
  • October 27 - The Democratic Republic of the Congo is renamed Zaire.
  • October 28 - Britain launches its first (and as of 2007, only) satellite, Prospero, into low Earth orbit atop a Black Arrow carrier rocket.
  • October 29 - Vietnam War: Vietnamization
  • November 6 - The United States Atomic Energy Commission tests the largest U.S. underground hydrogen bomb, code-named Cannikin, on Amchitka Island in the Aleutians.
  • November 10 - In Cambodia, Khmer Rouge forces attack the city of Phnom Penh and its airport, killing 44, wounding at least 30 and damaging nine aircraft.
  • November 12 - Vietnam War: As part of 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 - The American space probe, Mariner 9, becomes the first spacecraft to orbit another planet successfully, swinging into its planned trajectory around Mars.
  • November 14 - Enthronment of Pope Shenouda III as Pope of Alexandria
  • November 14 - Mariner program: Mariner 9 reaches Mars, becoming the first spacecraft to orbit another planet.
  • November 15 - Intel releases world's first commercial single-chip microprocessor, the 4004.
  • November 21 - Indian troops partly aided by Mukti Bahini (Bengali guerrillas) defeat the Pakistan army in the Battle of Garibpur.
  • November 23 - The representatives of the People's Republic of China first attended the United Nations, including the United Nations Security Council, as China's representatives (See China and the United Nations).
  • November 24 - During a severe thunderstorm over Washington state, a hijacker calling himself Dan Cooper (AKA D.B. Cooper) parachutes from a Northwest Orient Airlines plane with $200,000 in ransom money
  • November 27 - Mars 2 of the Soviet space program landed on Mars.
  • November 30 - Iran seizes the Greater and Lesser Tunbs from the United Arab Emirates.
  • December 1 - Cambodian Civil War: Khmer Rouge rebels intensify assaults on Cambodian government positions, forcing their retreat from Kompong Thmar and nearby Ba Ray.
  • December 1 - Indian Army occupies part of Kashmir.
  • December 2 - Abu Dhabi, Ajman, Fujairah, Sharjah, Dubai, and Umm Al Quwain form the United Arab Emirates.
  • December 3 - Indo-Pakistani War of 1971: India invades West Pakistan and a full scale war begins claiming hundreds of lives.
  • December 4 - The UN Security Council calls an emergency session to consider the deteriorating situation between India and Pakistan.
  • December 4 - The Indian Navy attacks the Pakistan Navy and Karachi.
  • December 4 - The Montreux Casino in Switzerland is set ablaze by someone wielding a flare gun during a Frank Zappa concert; the incident would be noted in the Deep Purple song "Smoke on the Water".
  • December 6 - Pakistan severs diplomatic relations with India following New Delhi's recognition of Bangladesh.
  • December 7 - Pakistan President Yahya Khan announces formation of a Coalition Government at Centre with Nurul Amin as Prime Minister and Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto as Vice-Prime Minister.
  • December 11 - The Libertarian Party of the United States is formed.
  • December 16 - Bangladesh War of Independence and Indo-Pakistani War of 1971: The surrender of the Pakistan army brings an end to both conflicts.
  • December 16 - Independence Day of the State of Bahrain from British Protectorate Status
  • December 21 - The United Nations Security Council chooses Kurt Waldheim to succeed U Thant as Secretary-General.


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