1971
1971 (
MCMLXXI) was a
common year starting on Friday (the link is to a full 1971 calendar).
January
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January 1 - British
Divorce Reform Act comes into force
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January 2 - 66 die in stairway crush at Rangers v Celtic
football match,
Glasgow,
Scotland. See
Ibrox disaster.
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January 2 - A ban on
television cigarette advertisements goes into effect in the
United States.
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January 3 -
BBC Open University begins in the
United Kingdom*
January 8 -
Tupamaros kidnap
Geoffrey Jackson, British ambassador to
Uruguay, in
Montevideo; they keep him captive until September
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January 9 -
Uruguayan president
Jorge Pacheco Areco demands emergency powers for 90 days due to kidnappings and receives them the next day
*
January 14 - 70
Brazilian political prisoners released in
Santiago.
Giovanni Enrico Bucher is released
January 16*
January 15 -
Aswan Dam officially opened
*
January 18 - Strikes in
Poland demand resignation of interior minister
Kazimierz Switala. He resigns January 23 and is replaced by
Franciszek Szlachcic*
January 18 -
Ivan Koloff pins
Bruno Sammartino to win the
WWWF World Title ending the longest reign ever of that title to date. This occurred in
Madison Square Garden*
January 19 - Representatives of 23 western oil companies begin negotiations with
OPEC in
Tehran to stabilize
oil prices.
February 14 they sign a treaty with six
Persian Gulf countries
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January 19 -
No, No Nanette premieres (
46th Street Theatre,
New York City)
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January 24 -
Guinean government sentences to death 92 Guineans who helped Portuguese troops in the failed landing attempts in November
1970. 72 are sentenced to
hard labor for life. 58 of the sentenced are hanged the next day
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January 25 -
Charles Manson and three female "family members" are found guilty of the
1969 murder of
Sharon Tate and others at Sharon's house
*
January 25 -
Idi Amin leads a coup deposing
Milton Obote and becomes
Uganda's president
*
January 25 -
Himachal Pradesh becomes the 18th
Indian state
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January 30 - Musician and designer
Eric Chamberlain is born
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January 31 -
Apollo program: US spaceflight
Apollo 14, commanded by
Alan Shepard, lifts off on the third successful lunar landing mission
February
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February 2 -
Idi Amin ousts
Milton Obote and assumes power in
Uganda*
February 4 - In Britain,
Rolls-Royce goes bankrupt - nationalised
*
February 5 -
Apollo 14 lands on the
Moon.
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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.
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February 7 -
Władysław Gomułka is expelled from the Central Council of the Polish Communist Party
*
February 8 - A new
stock market index called the
Nasdaq debuts
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February 9 - The 6.4 on the
Richter Scale Sylmar earthquake hits the
San Fernando Valley area of
California.
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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.
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February 11-
12 â€" Palestinian and Jordanian fighters clash in
Amman*
February 13 -
Vietnam War: Backed by American air and artillery support,
South Vietnamese troops invade
Laos.
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February 15 - "
Decimalisation Day" - United Kingdom and Ireland both switch to
decimal currency. See also
decimalisation.
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February 15 - Angry Belgian farmers bring three live cows to crash the
EEC meeting in
Brussels.
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February 16 - In
Italy, local parliament elects the city of
Catanzaro as the capital of
Calabria â€" residents of
Reggio di Calabria riot for five days because of the decision
*
February 20 - 50
tornadoes rage in
Mississippi â€" 74 dead
*
February 20 - US
Emergency Broadcast System sends an erroneous warning - many
radio stations just ignore it
*
February 21 - The
Convention on Psychotropic Substances is signed at
Vienna.
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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 (Mildredhuis in
Arnhem) start to perform
abortus provocatusMarch
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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 5 -
Pakistani army occupies the
East Pakistan*
March 7 - Strike of British postal workers led by
UPW General Secretary Tom Jackson ends after 47 days
*
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 12 -
The Allman Brothers Band played the first day of their legendary concert at the
Fillmore East*
March 13 -
The Allman Brothers Band finish their second and last concert at the
Fillmore East*
March 16 - Government of
Trygve Bratteli in
Norway*
March 18 - A landslide at
Chungar,
Peru crashes into
Lake Yanahuani killing 200
*
March 23 - Military coup in
Argentina â€" general
Alejandro Lanusse takes power
*
March 25 -
Pakistani army starts massive killing in
East Pakistan, which is now
Bangladesh, after an open, non-democratic denial by Pakistani president
Muhammad Agha Yahya Khan, a military ruler, of election results that gave
Awami League an overwhelming majority in the parliament.
*
March 26 -
East Pakistan (now
Bangladesh) declared its independence.
*
March 29 - Filming begins on
The Godfather.
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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
*
April 1 -
United Kingdom lifts all
restrictions on gold ownership.
*
April 5 - In
Ceylon, a group calling themselves the
People's Liberation Front begin a rebellion against the
Bandaranaike government.
*
April 5 -
Chile and
East Germany form
diplomatic relations.
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April 5 - Mount
Etna erupts.
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April 7 -
Greece releases 261
political prisoners, 50 of which are sent to internal exile.
*
April 7 - Hong Kong Air Cadet Corps established
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April 8 - Right-wing coup attempt exposed in
Laos.
*
April 9 -
Charles Manson is sentenced to death but the sentence is commuted to life imprisonment.
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April 12 - Palestinians retreat from
Amman to north of
Jordan.
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April 17 -
Bangladesh makes official
declaration of independence but
Pakistani troops continue the fighting.
*
April 17 -
Libya,
Syria and
Egypt sign an agreement to form a
confederation.
*
April 19 - Government of Bangladesh flees to India.
*
April 19 -
Sierra Leone becomes a
republic.
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April 19 - Soviet Union launches
Saljut I.
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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.
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April 20 -
Cambodian (renamed the Khmer Republic) Prime Minister
Lon Nol resigns, but remains effectively in power until the next elections.
*
April 21 -
Siaka Stevens is elected the first president of
Sierra Leone.
*
April 21 â€"
François Duvalier, president of
Haiti, dies—his son
Jean-Claude Duvalier follows him as
president-for-life.
*
April 24 â€"
Soyuz 10 docks with
Salyut 1.
*
April 24 â€" 500,000 people in
Washington DC and 125,000 in
San Francisco march against the
Vietnam War.
*
April 24 -
Tsunami 85 m high rises over
Ryukyu Islands in Japan. It throws a 750-ton block of
coral 2.5 km inland.
*
April 25 â€"
Todor Zhivkov re-elected as the leader of the
Bulgarian Communist Party.
*
April 25 â€"
Franz Jonas re-elected as the new chancellor of
Austria.
*
April 26 â€" Government of
Turkey declares the
state of siege in 11 provinces,
Ankara included, because of violent
demonstrations.
*
April 29 â€"
Bolivia nationalizes American-owned zinc mine of
Matilde.
*
April 29 - The third anniversary of the Broadway musical
Hair was celebrated with a concert at a Central Park bandshell.
May
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May 1 -
Amtrak begins operation of inter-city rail passenger service in the
United States.
*
May 1 â€"
Ceylonese government promises
amnesty for those guerillas who surrender before
April 5.
*
May 2 â€" in
Ceylon left-wing guerillas launch a series of assaults against public buildings.
*
May 3 â€" Harris public opinion poll claims that 60% of Americans are against the
war in Vietnam.
*
May 3 â€" East German leader
Walter Ulbricht resigns as a party leader but retains the positions of the head of state.
*
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 5 â€"
US dollar floods the European
currency markets and threatens especially the
Deutsche Mark â€" The central banks of
Austria,
Belgium,
Netherlands and
Switzerland stop the currency trading.
*
May 6 â€"
Ceylon government begins a major offensive against the
People's Liberation Front.
*
May 9 â€" Launch of
Mariner 8 fails.
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May 12 â€"
Earthquake in
Turkey destroys most of the city of
Burdur.
*
May 15 â€"
Israeli ambassador to Turkey,
Efraim Elrom, is kidnapped. He is found killed in
Istanbul May 25.
*
May 16 â€" Coup attempt exposed and foiled in
Egypt.
*
May 19 -
Mars probe program:
Mars 2 is launched by the
Soviet Union.
*
May 26 â€"
Austria and
People's Republic of China form diplomatic relations
*
May 26 -
Qantas agrees to pay $500,000 to Bomb hoaxer-extortionist Mr. Brown (
Peter Marcini) (Later Arrested).
*
May 27 â€" Six armed passengers hijack
Romanian passenger plane and force it to fly to
Vienna.
*
May 27 -
Christie's auctions diamond later known as
Deepdene - it is later found to be artificially colored.
*
May 28 â€"
Portugal resigns from
UNESCO.
*
May 30 -
Mariner program:
Mariner 9 is launched toward
Mars.
*
May 31 - The birth of a new country,
Bangladesh, is declared by the government in exile from territory formerly part of
Pakistan.
June
*
Massachusetts passes its Chapter 766 laws enacting
Special Education*
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 6 - A midair collision between a
Hughes Airwest Douglas DC-9 jetliner and a U.S. Marine Corps
McDonnell Douglas F-4 Phantom jet fighter near
Duarte, California claims 50 lives.
*
June 10 â€" USA ends
trade embargo of
China. A student´s rally on the street of
Mexico City is hardly dispersed.( The Corpus Thursday )
*
June 13 -
Vietnam War: The
New York Times begins to publish the
Pentagon Papers. [
1].
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June 13 -
Gijs van Lennep wins the 24 hours of Le Mans together with Helmet Marko.
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June 14 -
Norway begins oil production in
North Sea.
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June 16 - Rap legend
Tupac Shakur is born.
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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.[
2]
*
June 20 â€" Britain announces that Soviet space scientist
Anatoli Fedosejev has been granted asylum.
*
June 21 â€" Britain begins new negotiations for
EEC membership in Luxembourg.
*
June 25 â€"
Madagascar accuses
USA of being connected to the plot to oust the current government â€" USA recalls its ambassador.
*
June 27 - Concert promoter
Bill Graham closes the legendary
Fillmore East, which was located on 2nd Ave. between 5th and 6th Streets in New York City. The Fillmore East was opened on March 8, 1968.
*
June 28 - Assassin
Jerome A. Johnson shoots
Joe Colombo in the head in a middle of a
Italian-American rally. Colombo goes into coma.
*
June 30 - After a successful mission aboard
Salyut 1, the world's first manned space station, the crew of the
Soyuz 11 spacecraft are killed when their air supply leaks out through a faulty valve.
*
June 30 - The
U.S. Supreme Court, in the case of
New York Times Co. vs. USA, rules that the
Pentagon Papers may be published, overturning government injunctions as unconstitutional prior restraint.
*
June 30 - The Movie "
Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory" is realesed in theaters.
July
*
July 3 - Doors musician
Jim Morrison is found dead in his
Paris apartment.
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July 5 -
Right to vote: The voting age in the
United States is reduced from 21 to 18 (provision of the
26th Amendment formally certified by President
Richard Nixon on this day).
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July 6 -
Louis Armstrong dies of a heart attack.
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July 7 -
Tom Morey builds the first
boogie board.
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July 9 -
United Kingdom increases its troops in
Northern Ireland to 11,000.
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July 10-
11 â€" Coup attempt in
Morocco - 1400 cadets take over the king's palace for three hours and kill 28 people; 158 rebels die when king's troops storm the palace. Ten high-ranking officers are later executed for involvement.
*
July 13 â€"
Ã"lafur Jóhannesson's government in
Iceland.
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July 13 â€"
Jordanian army troops launch offensive against Palestinian guerillas in Jordan.
*
July 14 â€"
Libya severs its diplomatic ties to
Morocco.
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July 14 â€"
Yugoslavian government allows foreign companies to take their profits from the country.
*
July 16 - Spanish dictator and head of state
Francisco Franco makes Prince
Juan Carlos his successor.
*
July 16 - The four billionth baby was born. (see
World Population).
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July 17 â€"
Italy and
Austria sign a treaty that ends the schism about
South Tyrol.
*
July 18 â€"
Trucial States formed in the
Persian Gulf.
*
July 19 â€" The South Tower of the
World Trade Center is topped out at 1,362 feet, making it the second tallest building in the world.
*
July 19-
23 â€" Military coup in
Sudan ousts
Jaafar Muhammad al-Nemieri and major
Hashem al-Atta takes over. Fighting continues until on
July 22 pro-Nimeiri troops win. Al-Atta and 3 officers are executed
July 23. Nimeiri launches an anti-communist campaign.
*
July 25-
30 -
Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli records in
Munich two
Debussy works for
Deutsche Grammophon; it's his fifth recording.
*
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.
*
July 28 -
Abdel Madgoub,
Sudanese communist leader, is hanged.
*
July 29 - The
United Kingdom opts out of the
Space Race with the cancellation of its
Black Arrow launch vehicle.
*
July 30 â€" In
Japan, an
All Nippon Airways Boeing 727 collides with a Japanese fighter jet â€" 162 dead.
August
*
August 6 - A
lunar eclipse lasting 1 hour, 40 minutes, and 4 seconds was observed
*
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 11 - Construction begins on the
Louisiana Superdome in
New Orleans.
*
August 12 â€" 3000 people from
Belfast and
Londonderry flee to
Ireland because of the violence
*
August 12 â€"
Syria severs diplomatic relations to
Jordan because of border clashes
*
August 14 â€" British troops stationed on
Ireland border to stop arms smuggling
*
August 14 -
Bahrain declares independence as the State of Bahrain (Kingdom of Bahrain as of February 2002)
*
August 15 â€" Number of British troops in Northern Ireland rises to 12,500
*
August 15 - President
Richard Nixon announces that the
United States would no longer convert dollars to gold at a fixed value, effectively ending the
Bretton Woods system*
August 18 -
Vietnam War:
Australia and
New Zealand decide to withdraw their troops from
Vietnam*
August 18 â€" British troops in firefight in
Londonderry*
August 19-
22 â€" Right-wing coup ignites a rebellion in
Bolivia. Miners and students join troops to support president
Juan Jose Torres but eventually
Hugo Banzer takes over
*
August 25 â€" Border clashes between
Tanzania and
Uganda*
August 25 â€" Large
flood in
Bangladesh and eastern
Bengal â€" thousands flee the area
*
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
*
September 3 -
Qatar regains
independence from the
United Kingdom. Unlike most nearby
emirates, Qatar declined to become part of either the
United Arab Emirates or of
Saudi Arabia.
*
September 3 -
Manlio Brosio resigns as secterary general of
NATO*
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 -
13 -
Attica Prison riots - Revolt at the maximum-security prison in
Attica, New York. In the end,
state police and
National Guard storm the facility - 42 dead, 10 of them hostages
*
September 21 -
Pakistan declares
state of emergency*
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
*
October 1 -
Walt Disney World opens.
*
October 6 -
Jacob's Ladder opens with a scene in Vietnam set on this date.
*
October 15 - The start of the
2500 Year Celebration of Iran, celebrating the birth of
Persia.
*
October 21 -
President Nixon nominates
Lewis Franklin Powell, Jr. and
William H. Rehnquist to the
U.S. Supreme Court.
*
October 21 - Gas explosion in
Clarkston, Glasgow kills 20 people.
*
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 28 - The
United Kingdom becomes the 6th nation to launch a satellite into orbit, the
Prospero X-3.
*
October 29 -
Vietnam War:
Vietnamization - The total number of American troops still in
Vietnam drops to a record low of 196,700 (lowest since January
1966)
*
October 30 - Rev.
Ian Paisley's
Democratic Unionist Party founded in
Northern Ireland.
*
October 30 -
Pink Floyd's sixth LP "Meddle" is released. Contains six tracks, including the epic 23-minute "Echoes".
*
October 31 - A bomb explodes at the top of the
Post Office Tower in
London.
November
*
November 3 - The
UNIX Programmer's Manual is published
*
November 6 - US nuclear bomb test in
Aleuts.
*
November 8 - Led Zeppelin releases their untitled fourth album. Sometimes called "Led Zeppelin IV" or "Runes". The album contains such hits as "When the Levee Breaks", "Rock and Roll" and the most requested rock song of all time, "Stairway To Heaven". "Led Zeppelin IV" would become the fourth best selling album of all time with sales of 22 million copies, and a source of inspiration for generations of rock artists to come.
*
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 becomes the first spacecraft to enter
Mars orbit successfully
*
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)
*
November 24 -
Brussels court sentences would-be-
pretender Alexis Brimeyer to 18 months in jail for falsely using a noble title; Brimeyer has already fled to
GreeceDecember
*
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 found
United Arab Emirates.
*
December 3 - The
Indo-Pakistani War of 1971 begins as Pakistan attacks eight India airbases. The next day India launches a massive invasion of East Pakistan.
*
December 3-
4 night -
Indian navy destroyer
INS Rajput sinks
Pakistani
submarine PNS Ghazi (former
USS Diablo)
*
December 7 - The
Montreux Casino burned down during a
Frank Zappa Concert. The event was embedded in the
Deep Purple song
Smoke on the Water. The casino was rebuilt in
1975.
*
December 8 - US President Richard Nixon orders the 7th Fleet to move towards the Bay of Bengal in the Indian Ocean.
*
December 14 - Facing defeat in
the war,
Pakistan Army kills hundreds of Bangladeshi Intellectuals.
*
December 16 -
Victory Day of Bangladesh (
Pakistan Army surrenders to the
Indian Armed Forces and
Mukti Bahini (Freedom Force), ending
Bangladesh Liberation War and
Indo-Pakistani War of 1971 simultaneously).
*
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 19 - The
Clube Atletico Mineiro win the first Brazil Football Championship.
*
December 29 - The
United Kingdom gives up its military bases in
Malta.
unknown dates
Don't Make A Wave Committee changes its name to
Greenpeace.
*
Ray Tomlinson sends the first
e-mail.
*
Libertarian party established in USA.
*
Free State of Christiania is founded.
*Intelsat IV
*
Seychelles International Airport in
Victoria, Seychelles (
Mahe) is completed.
*
Knapp Commission*
Johnny Cash, the
American country and western singer, writes a song titled
The Man in Black.
*US 48 continental states crude oil production peaks at approximately 4.5 million barrels/day.
*
Center for Science in the Public Interest established.
*
National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism established.
January
*
January 1 -
Suzanne Virdee, British Newsreader-Midlands Today BBC ONE
*
January 2 -
Lisa Harrison, American basketball player
*
January 5 -
Mayuko Takata, Japanese actress
*
January 7 -
Chavo Guerrero Jr., American Pro Wrestler 3rd Generation.
*
January 8 -
Jason Giambi, baseball player
*
January 9 -
Scott Thornton, Canadian hockey player
*
January 11 -
Mary J. Blige, American singer
*
January 17 -
Leonardo Ciampa, Italian-American composer and author
*
January 17 -
Kid Rock, American singer
*
January 18 -
Jonathan Davis, American singer (
Korn)
*
January 19 -
Shawn Wayans, American actor, writer, and producer
*
January 19 -
John Wozniak, American singer and songwriter (
Marcy Playground)
*
January 21 -
Alan McManus, Scottish snooker player
*
January 25 -
Luca Badoer, Italian race car driver
*
January 27 -
Fann Wong, Chinese actress, model, and singer (
Shanghai Knights)
*
January 31 -
Patrick Kielty, Northern Irish comedian and television presenter
February
*
February 1 -
Jill Kelly, American adult film actress
*
February 3 -
Sarah Kane, English playwright (d.
1999)
*
February 5 -
Sara Evans, American singer
*
February 10 -
Lisa Marie Varon, American professional wrestler, Victoria
*
February 13 -
Mats Sundin, Swedish
ice hockey player
*
February 14 -
Tommy Dreamer, American Professional Wrestler
*
February 17 -
Denise Richards, American actress
*
February 20 -
Jari Litmanen, Finnish footballer
*
February 25 -
Sean Astin, American actor
*
February 26 -
Erykah Badu, American singer
*
February 28 -
Tristan Louis, Internet entrepreneur
March
*
March 2 -
Manami Toyota, Japanese women's professional wrestler
*
March 4 -
Fergal Lawler, Irish drummer (
The Cranberries)
*
March 4 -
Nick Stabile, American actor
*
March 7 -
Rachel Weisz, British actress
*
March 10 -
Ugonna Wachuku, Nigerian writer
*
March 11 -
Johnny Knoxville, American television personality
*
March 16 -
Val Venis, American Professional Wrestler
*
March 23 -
Karen McDougal, American model, Playboy
*
March 26 -
Behzad Ghorbani, Iranian scientist
*
March 27 -
David Coulthard, Scottish race car driver
*
March 31 -
Pavel Bure, Russian hockey player
*
March 31 -
Ewan McGregor, Scottish actor
April
*
April 1 -
Method Man, American rapper
*
April 2 -
Todd Woodbridge, Australian tennis player
*
April 7 -
Rob Steele, American author
*
April 11 -
Oliver Riedel, German musician (
Rammstein)
*
April 12 -
Shannen Doherty, American actress
*
April 16 -
Moses Chan, Hong Kong actor
*
April 16 -
High Pitch Eric, member of the
Wack Pack from radio's
The Howard Stern Show*
April 16 -
Selena Quintanilla, American singer (d.
1995)
*
April 17 -
Daryl Barnes, Author
*
April 19 -
David Tennant, Actor
*
April 20 -
Carla Geurts, Dutch swimmer
*
April 22 -
Daisuke Enomoto, first
Japanese space tourist*
April 24 -
Mauro Pawlowski, Belgian guitar player and singer (
Evil Superstars,
dEUS) with
Italian/
Polish roots
May
*
May 8 -
Candice Night, American singer
*
May 20 -
Tony Stewart, American race car driver
*
May 25 -
Sonya Smith, American actress
*
May 26 -
Matt Stone, American television producer
*
May 27 -
Paul Bettany, British actor
*
May 30 -
Idina Menzel, American actress and singer
June
*
June 2 -
Anthony Montgomery, American actor
*
June 5 -
Susan Lynch, Northern Irish actress
*
June 5 -
Mark Wahlberg, American actor and singer
*
June 8 -
Troy Vincent, American football player
*
June 10 -
Joel Hailey, American singer (
Jodeci)
*
June 16 -
Derek R. Audette, Canadian musician, artist, and poet
*
June 16 -
Tupac Shakur, American rapper, poet, and actor (d.
1996)
*
June 22 -
Kurt Warner, American football player
*
June 25 -
Neil Lennon, Northern Irish footballer
*
June 27 -
Dipendra of Nepal,
King of Nepal (d.
2001)
*
June 28 -
Norika Fujiwara, Japanese actress and television-personality
*
June 29 -
Matthew Good, Canadian musician
July
*
July 1 -
Missy "Misdemeanor" Elliott, American singer
*
July 9 -
Marc Andreessen, American software developer
*
July 11 -
Leisha Hailey, American musician and actress
*
July 12 -
Kristi Yamaguchi, American figure skater
*
July 14 -
Joey Styles and
Brother Ray, professional wrestling
*
July 17 -
Cory Doctorow, Canadian author and activist
*
July 22 -
Kristine Lilly, American soccer player
*
July 23 -
Dalvin DeGrate, American singer and producer (
Jodeci)
*
July 26 -
Neus Avila, Spanish tennis player
*
July 26 -
Reggie Carthon, American football player
*
July 30 -
Tom Green, Canadian Entertainer
*
July 31 -
John Lowery, American Guitarist
August
*
August 2 -
Michael Hughes, Northern Irish footballer
*
August 4 -
Jeff Gordon, American race car driver
*
August 6 -
Merrin Dungey, American actress
*
August 10 -
Roy Keane, Irish footballer
*
August 10 -
Mario César Kindelán Mesa, Cuban amateur boxer
*
August 12 -
Pete Sampras, American tennis player
*
August 13 -
Nichola Holt, contestant in
Big Brother (UK series 1)*
August 17 -
Jorge Posada, Puerto Rican
Major League Baseball player
*
August 18 -
Richard D James, Irish musician
*
August 26 -
Mike Lockwood,
Crash Holly World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE)
professional wrestler d.
2003*
August 26 -
ThalÃa, Mexican actress and singer
*
August 28 -
Janet Evans, American swimmer
September
*
September 1 -
Hakan Şükür, Turkish footballer
*
September 2 -
Arnold Arre, Filipino graphic novelist
*
September 2 -
Tommy Maddox, American football player
*
September 8 -
Brooke Burke, American model
*
September 13 -
Stella McCartney, British fashion designer
*
September 18 -
Lance Armstrong, American cyclist
*
September 11 -
Richard Ashcroft, British singer
*
September 20 -
Henrik Larsson, Swedish footballer
*
September 23 - Tim J Hobbs, British worker
*
September 24 -
Jeff Cannell, American Pastor
*
September 25 -
John Lynch, American football player
*
September 30 -
Jeff Whitty, Broadway playwright
October
*
October 3 -
Kevin Richardson, American singer, member of
Backstreet Boys*
October 4 -
Brian Transeau, American disc jockey
*
October 4 -
Tammi ann, American porn actress
*
October 5 -
Samuel Vincent, Canadian voice actor
*
October 13 -
Sacha Baron Cohen, British comedian
*
October 14 -
Jorge Costa, Portuguese footballer
*
October 16 -
Craig Phillips, British reality show star, Winner of Big Brother UK in 2000
*
October 20 -
Snoop Dogg, American rapper and actor
*
October 20 -
Dannii Minogue, Australian singer
*
October 24 -
Caprice Bourret, American model and actress
*
October 25 -
Pedro MartÃnez, Dominican
Major League Baseball player
*
October 25 -
Midori, Japanese violinist
*
October 29 -
Winona Ryder, American actress
November
*
November 8 -
Carlos Atanes, Spanish film director
*
November 12 -
Tom Shear, American musician and producer
*
November 16 -
Alexander Popov, Russian swimmer
*
November 20 -
Dion Nash,
New Zealand cricket captains*
November 24 -
Keith Primeau, Canadian hockey player
*
November 25 -
Christina Applegate, American actress
*
November 25 -
Magnus Arvedson, Swedish hockey player
*
November 30 -
Iván "Pudge" RodrÃguez, Puerto Rican
Major League Baseball player
December
*
December 6 -
Richard Krajicek, Dutch tennis player
*
December 7 -
Chasey Lain, American adult film star
*
December 7 -
Larisa Alexandrovna, Ukrainian feminist
*
December 17 -
Antoine Rigaudeau, French basketball player
*
December 17 -
Alan Khan, South African radio DJ
*
December 19 -
Tyson Beckford, American model
*
December 19 -
Tiffany Towers, Canadian Adult actress
*
December 24 -
Ricky Martin, Puerto Rican singer
*
December 25 -
Dido, English singer
*
December 26 -
Jonathan M. Parisen, American filmmaker
*
December 28 -
Frank Sepe, American bodybuilder and model
*
December 31 -
Brent Barry, American basketball player
Unknown date
*
Siniša Vuco, Croatian musician
*
Randal Pinkett, winner of
The Apprentice 4January
*
January 4 -
Arthur Ford, American psychic spiritual medium, clairaudient {b.
1896)
*
January 5 -
Douglas Shearer, Canadian film sound engineer (b.
1899)
*
January 9 -
Elmer Flick, baseball player (b.
1876)
*
January 10 -
Coco Chanel, French fashion designer (b.
1883)
*
January 12 -
John Tovey, British admiral of the fleet (b.
1885)
*
January 19 -
Harry Shields, American musician (b.
1899)
*
January 20 -
Gilbert M. 'Broncho Billy' Anderson, American actor, director, writer, and producer (b.
1880)
*
January 23 -
Fritz Feigl, Austria-born chemist (b.
1871)
*
January 27 -
Jacobo Arbenz,
President of Guatemala (b.
1913)
*
January 28 -
Donald Winnicott, British psychoanalyst (b.
1896)
February
*
February 25 -
Theodor Svedberg, Swedish chemist,
Nobel Prize laureate (b.
1884)
*
February 26 -
Fernandel, French comedian (b.
1903)
March
*
March 6 -
Thurston Dart, English harpsichordist and conductor (b.
1921)
*
March 8 -
Harold Lloyd, American actor and filmmaker (b.
1893)
*
March 9 -
Pope Cyril VI of Alexandria, Coptic Orthodox Patriarch (b.
1902)
*
March 11 -
Philo T. Farnsworth, American television pioneer (b.
1906)
*
March 16 -
Thomas Dewey, Governor of New York and Presidential candidate (b.
1902)
April
*
April 3 -
Joseph Valachi, gangster (b.
1904)
*
April 6 -
Igor Stravinsky, Russian composer (b.
1882)
*
April 12 -
Igor Tamm, Russian physicist,
Nobel Prize laureate (b.
1895)
*
April 19 -
Earl Thomson, Canadian athlete (b.
1895)
*
April 21 -
Papa Doc Duvalier,
President of Haiti (b.
1907)
May
*
May 1 -
Violet Jessop,
Titanic survivor (b.
1887)
*
May 11 -
Sean Lemass,
President of Ireland (b.
1899)
*
May 12 -
Heinie Manush, baseball player (b.
1901)
*
May 15 - Sir
Tyrone Guthrie, English film director, producer, and writer (b.
1900)
*
May 19 -
Ogden Nash, American poet (b.
1902)
* May 27. Chips Rafferty, Australian Actor (b. 1909)
*
May 28 -
Audie Murphy, American World War II hero and actor (b.
1924)
*
May 30 -
Marcel Dupré, French composer (b.
1886)
June
*
June 1 -
Reinhold Niebuhr, American theologian (b.
1892)
*
June 10 -
Michael Rennie, English actor (b.
1909)
*
June 15 -
Wendell Meredith Stanley, American chemist,
Nobel Prize laureate (b.
1904)
*
June 18 -
Paul Karrer, Swiss chemist,
Nobel Prize laureate (b.
1889)
*
June 25 -
John Boyd Orr, Scottish physician and biologist, recipient of the
Nobel Peace Prize (b.
1880)
*
June 30 -
Herbert Biberman, Jewish American screenwriter and film director (b.
1900)
*
June 30 - Crew of Soyuz 11:
**
Georgi Dobrovolski (b.
1928)
**
Viktor Patsayev (b.
1933)
**
Vladislav Volkov (b.
1935)
July
*
July 1 -
William Lawrence Bragg, English physicist,
Nobel Prize laureate (b.
1890)
*
July 3 -
Jim Morrison, American singer, songwriter, and poet (b.
1943)
*
July 4 -
August Derleth, American author and anthologist (b.
1909)
*
July 6 -
Louis Armstrong, American jazz trumpeter (b.
1901)
*
July 7 -
Claude Gauvreau, Canadian writer (b.
1925)
*July 7 -
Ub Iwerks, American animator (b.
1901)
*
July 19 -
John Jacob Astor, 1st Baron Astor of Hever, British businessman (b.
1886)
*
July 25 -
Leroy Robertson, American composer (b.
1896)
*
July 27 -
Charlie Tully, Northern Irish footballer (b.
1924)
*
July 30 -
Kenneth Slessor, Australian poet (b.
1901)
August
*
August 13 -
King Curtis, American saxophonist
*
August 25 -
Ted Lewis, American musician and entertainer (b.
1890)
*
August 27 -
Bennett Cerf, American publisher and television personality (b.
1898)
September
*
September 11 -
Nikita Sergeevich Khrushchev, Soviet leader (b.
1894)
*
September 12 -
Lin Biao, Chinese defense minister (plane crash) (b.
1907)
*
September 20 -
Giorgos Seferis, Greek writer,
Nobel Prize laureate (b.
1900)
*
September 21 -
Bernardo Houssay, Argentine physiologist,
Nobel Prize laureate (b.
1887)
October
*
October 24 -
Carl Ruggles, American composer (b.
1876)
*
October 29 -
Arne Tiselius, Swedish chemist,
Nobel Prize laureate (b.
1902)
*
October 29 -
Duane Allman, American guitarist for
The Allman Brothers Band and
Derek and the Dominos (b.
1946)
November
*
November 9 -
Maude Fealy, American stage and film actor (b.
1881)
*
November 15 -
Edie Sedgwick, American actress and model (b.
1943)
December
*
December 9 -
Ralph Bunche, American diplomat, recipient of the
Nobel Peace Prize (b.
1904)
*
December 14 - Numerous intellectuals of
East Pakistan, later
Bangladesh, killed by Pakistani armies and their collaborators (now commonly called as Razakars) of
Bangladesh just 2 days before of the birth of a new nation
Bangladesh.
*
December 22 -
Godfried Bomans, Dutch writer (b.
1913).
Unknown dates
*
St. John Greer Ervine, Northern Irish dramatist and author (b.
1883)
*
Physics -
Dennis Gabor*
Chemistry -
Gerhard Herzberg*
Medicine -
Earl W. Sutherland, Jr*
Literature -
Pablo Neruda*
Peace -
Willy Brandt*
Economics -
Simon Kuznets*
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