This article is about the year 1971.
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Australia – Canada – People's Republic of China – Ecuador – France – Germany – Greece – India – Ireland – Israel – Italy – Japan – Luxembourg – Malaysia – Mexico – New Zealand – Norway – Pakistan – Philippines – Singapore – South Africa– Soviet Union – UK – USA |
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Establishments – Disestablishments |
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Works – Introductions |
Gregorian calendar | 1971 MCMLXXI
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Ab urbe condita | 2724 |
Armenian calendar | 1420 ԹՎ ՌՆԻ |
Bahá'í calendar | 127 – 128 |
Buddhist calendar | 2515 |
Coptic calendar | 1687 – 1688 |
Ethiopian calendar | 1963 – 1964 |
Hebrew calendar | 5731 – 5732 |
Hindu calendars | |
- Vikram Samvat | 2026 – 2027 |
- Shaka Samvat | 1893 – 1894 |
- Kali Yuga | 5072 – 5073 |
Holocene calendar | 11971 |
Iranian calendar | 1349 – 1350 |
Islamic calendar | 1390 – 1391 |
Japanese calendar | Shōwa
46
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- Imperial Year | Kōki 2631 (皇紀2631年) |
Julian calendar | 2016 |
Korean calendar | 4304 |
Thai solar calendar | 2514 |
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Year 1971 (MCMLXXI) was a common year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar.
Events 1971[]
January[]
- January 2
- January 3 – BBC Open University begins in the United Kingdom.
- January 5 – The 1st ever ODI cricket match is played between Australia & England at the M.C.G.
- January 8 – Tupamaros kidnap Geoffrey Jackson, British ambassador to Uruguay, in Montevideo, keeping him captive until September.
- January 9 – Uruguayan president Jorge Pacheco Areco demands emergency powers for 90 days due to kidnappings, and receives them the next day.
- January 12 – The landmark television sitcom All In The Family, starring Carroll O'Connor as Archie Bunker, debuts on CBS.
- January 14 – Seventy Brazilian political prisoners are released in Santiago, Chile. Giovanni Enrico Bucher is released January 16.
- January 15 – The Aswan High Dam officially opens in Egypt.
- January 17 – The Baltimore Colts defeated the Dallas Cowboys, 16-13, in Super Bowl V. The game was plagued by a record combined 11 turnovers, and was not decided until Jim O'Brien kicked a 32-yard field goal with five seconds remaining. Cowboys linebacker Chuck Howley became the first player from a losing team to be named Super Bowl MVP.
- January 18 – Strikes in Poland demand the resignation of Interior Minister Kazimierz Switala. He resigns January 23 and is replaced by Franciszek Szlachcic.
- 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 6 Khalij el-Arab countries.
- January 24 – The 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.
- January 25
- In Uganda, Idi Amin deposes Milton Obote in a coup, and becomes president.
- In Los Angeles, Charles Manson and three female "Family" members are found guilty of the 1969 Tate-LaBianca murders.
- Himachal Pradesh becomes the 18th Indian state.
- Intelsat IV (F2) is launched; it enters commercial service over the Atlantic Ocean March 26.
- January 31 – Apollo program: Apollo 14 (carrying astronauts Alan Shepard, Stuart Roosa, and Edgar Mitchell) lifts off on the third successful lunar landing mission.
February[]
- February 4 – In Britain, Rolls-Royce goes bankrupt and is nationalised.
- February 5 – Apollo 14 lands on the Moon.
- February 7
- An earthquake in the city of Tuscania, Italy kills 31.
- Switzerland gives women voting rights in state elections, but not in all canton-specific ones.
- Władysław Gomułka is expelled from the Central Council of the Polish Communist Party.
- February 8 – A new stock market index called the Nasdaq debuts.
- February 9
- The Sylmar earthquake (6.4 on the Richter Scale) hits the San Fernando Valley area of California.
- Satchel Paige becomes the first Negro League player to become voted into the Baseball Hall of Fame from the Negro League. Jackie Robinson was inducted July 23, 1962.
- Apollo program: Apollo 14 returns to Earth after the third manned Moon landing.
- February 11 – The US, UK, USSR and others sign the Seabed Treaty, outlawing nuclear weapons on the ocean floor.
- February 11–February 12 – Palestinian and Jordanian fighters clash in Amman.
- February 13 – Vietnam War: Backed by American air and artillery support, South Vietnamese troops invade Laos.
- February 15
- Decimalisation Day: – The United Kingdom and Ireland both switch to decimal currency (see also decimalisation).
- Protesting Belgian farmers bring 3 live cows to crash the EEC meeting in Brussels.
- February 16 – In Italy, a local parliament elects the city of Catanzaro as the capital of Calabria; residents of Reggio di Calabria riot for 5 days because of the decision.
- February 20
- Fifty tornadoes rage in Mississippi, killing 74 people.
- The U.S. Emergency Broadcast System sends an erroneous warning; many radio stations just ignore it.
- February 21 – The Convention on Psychotropic Substances is signed at Vienna.
- February 26 – Secretary General U Thant signs the 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 provocatus.
- February 28 – Evel Knievel sets a world record and jumps 19 cars in Ontario, California.
March[]
- March 1
- A bomb explodes in the men's room at the United States Capitol. Weather Underground Organization claims responsibility.
- Pakistani President Agha Muhammad Yahya Khan indefinitely postpones the pending National Assembly session, precipitating massive civil disobedience in East Pakistan.
- Canadian John Robarts ends his term of office as the 17th Premier of Ontario.
- March 4 – The southern part of Quebec, and especially Montreal, receive 16½" (42 cm) of snow in what becomes known as the Century's Snowstorm (la tempête du siècle).
- March 5 – The Pakistani army occupies East Pakistan.
- March 6 – A fire in a mental hospital at Burghölzli, Switzerland, kills 28 people.
- March 7
- The British postal workers' strike, led by UPW General Secretary Tom Jackson, ends after 47 days.
- Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, political leader of then East Pakistan (present day - Bangladesh), delivers his famous speech in the Racecourse Field in Dhaka, calling on the masses to be prepared to fight for national independence.
- March 8 – 'Fight of the Century': Boxer Joe Frazier defeats Muhammad Ali at Madison Square Garden.
- March 12 – Hafez al-Assad becomes president of Syria.
- March 12–March 13 – The Allman Brothers Band plays their legendary concert at the Fillmore East.
- March 16 – Trygve Bratteli forms a government in Norway.
- March 18 – A landslide at Chungar, Peru crashes into Lake Yanahuani, killing 200.
- March 23 – General Alejandro Lanusse of Argentina takes power in a military coup.
- March 25 – The Pakistani army starts Operation Searchlight in East Pakistan from midnight, after President Agha Muhammad Yahya Khan, a military ruler, voids election results that gave the Awami League an overwhelming majority in the parliament.
- March 26
- East Pakistan (now Bangladesh) independence is declared by local Awami League leader Hannan Sarker on behalf of Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, from Kalurghat Radio Station in Chittagong.
- Nihat Erim (a former CHP member) forms the new government of Turkey (33rd government,composed mostly of technocrats)
- March 27 – East Pakistan (now Bangladesh) independence is repeatedly declared by Army Major (later President of Bangladesh) Ziaur Rahman on behalf of Sheikh Mujibur Rahman from Kalurghat Radio Station, Chittagong.
- March 28 – The Ed Sullivan Show airs its final episode.
- March 29
- U.S. Army Lieutenant William Calley is found guilty of 22 murders in the My Lai massacre and sentenced to life in prison (later pardoned).
- A Los Angeles, California jury recommends the death penalty for Charles Manson and 3 female followers.
April[]
- April 1 – The United Kingdom lifts all restrictions on gold ownership.
- April 3 – Un banc, un arbre, une rue by Séverine (music by Jean-Pierre Bourtayre, text by Yves Dessca) wins the Eurovision Song Contest 1971 for Monaco
- April 5
- April 7 – Greece releases 261 political prisoners, 50 of whom are sent into internal exile.
- April 8 – A right-wing coup attempt is exposed in Laos.
- April 9 – Charles Manson is sentenced to death; in 1972, the sentence for all California Death Row inmates is commuted to life imprisonment.
- April 12 – Palestinians retreat from Amman to the north of Jordan.
- April 17
- The People's Republic of Bangladesh forms, under Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, at Mujibnagor.
- Libya, Syria and Egypt sign an agreement to form a confederation.
- April 19
- The government of Bangladesh flees to India.
- Sierra Leone becomes a republic.
- The Soviet Union launches Salyut 1.
- Followers of Charles Manson, the Manson Family, are sentenced to the gas chamber.
- April 20
- Swann v. Charlotte-Mecklenburg Board of Education: The Supreme Court of the United States rules unanimously that busing of students may be ordered to achieve racial desegregation.
- Cambodian 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.
- François Duvalier, president of Haiti, dies; his son Jean-Claude Duvalier follows him as president-for-life.
- April 24
- Soyuz 10 docks with Salyut 1.
- Five hundred thousand people in Washington, DC and 125,000 in San Francisco march in protest against the Vietnam War.
- A tsunami 85 m high rises over the Ryukyu Islands in Japan. It throws a 750-ton block of coral 2.5 km inland.
- April 25
- April 26 – The government of Turkey declares a state of siege in 11 provinces, Ankara included, due to violent demonstrations.
- April 28 – The first number of Il Manifesto is issued in Italy.
- April 29 – Bolivia nationalizes the American-owned Matilde zinc mine.
- April 30 – The Milwaukee Bucks win the NBA World Championship, sweeping the Baltimore Bullets in four straight games.
May[]
- May 1
- May 2 – In Ceylon, left-wing guerrillas launch a series of assaults against public buildings.
- May 3
- Arsenal FC wins the English Division 1 football league championship at the home of their bitter rivals, Tottenham Hotspur, with Ray Kennedy scoring the winner. (Arsenal FC would go on to win the league and cup 'double' 6 days later by defeating Liverpool in the FA Cup final).
- The Harris Poll claims that 60% of Americans are against the Vietnam War.
- East German leader Walter Ulbricht resigns as Communist Party leader but retains the position of head of state.
- 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 5 – The US dollar floods the European currency markets and threatens especially the Deutsche Mark; the central banks of Austria, Belgium, Netherlands and Switzerland stop the currency trading.
- May 6 – The Ceylon government begins a major offensive against the People's Liberation Front.
- May 9
- Arsenal FC beats Liverpool FC 2-1 to win the English FA Cup thus completing the league and cup 'double'.
- Mariner 8 fails to launch.
- May 12 – An earthquake in Turkey destroys most of the city of Burdur.
- May 15 – Efraim Elrom, Israeli ambassador to Turkey, is kidnapped; he is found killed in Istanbul May 25.
- May 16 – A coup attempt is exposed and foiled in Egypt.
- May 18 – The U.S. Congress formally votes to end funding for the American Supersonic Transport program.
- May 19 – Mars probe program: Mars 2 is launched by the Soviet Union.
- May 22 – An earthquake lasting 20 seconds destroys most of Bingöl, Turkey – more than 1,000 are killed, 10,000 made homeless.
- May 23 – An air crash at Rijeka Airport, Yugoslavia kills 78 people, mostly British tourists.
- May 26
- Austria and the People's Republic of China establish diplomatic relations.
- Qantas agrees to pay $500,000 to bomb hoaxer-extortionist Mr. Brown (Peter Macari), who is later arrested.
- May 27
- May 28 – Portugal resigns from UNESCO.
- May 30 – Mariner program: Mariner 9 is launched toward Mars.
- May 31 – The birth of Bangladesh is declared by the government in exile, in territory formerly part of Pakistan.
June[]
- 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 (Vladislav Volkov, Georgi Dobrovolski, Viktor Patsayev) is launched.
- A midair collision between Hughes Airwest Flight 706 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
- The U.S. ends its trade embargo of China.
- Corpus Thursday: A student rally on the streets of Mexico City is roughly dispersed.
- June 11 – Neville Bonner becomes the first Indigenous Australian to sit in the Australian Parliament.
- June 13
- Vietnam War: The New York Times begins to publish the Pentagon Papers. [1].
- Gijs van Lennep wins the 24 hours of Le Mans together with Helmut Marko.
- June 14 – Norway begins oil production in the North Sea.
- June 17
- Representatives of Japan and the United States sign the Okinawa Reversion Agreement, whereby the U.S. will return control of Okinawa.[2]
- President Richard Nixon declares the U.S. War on Drugs.
- June 18 – Southwest Airlines, a low cost carrier, begins its first flights between Dallas, Houston, And San Antonio.
- June 20 – Britain announces that Soviet space scientist Anatoli Fedoseyev has been granted asylum.
- June 21 – Britain begins new negotiations for EEC membership in Luxembourg.
- June 25 – Madagascar accuses the U.S. of being connected to the plot to oust the current government; the U.S. recalls its ambassador.
- June 27 – Concert promoter Bill Graham closes the legendary Fillmore East, which first opened on 2nd Avenue (between 5th and 6th Streets) in New York City on March 8, 1968.
- June 28 – Assassin Jerome A. Johnson shoots Joe Colombo in the head in a middle of an Italian-American rally, putting him in a 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.
- New York Times Co. v. United States: The U.S. Supreme Court rules that the Pentagon Papers may be published, rejecting government injunctions as unconstitutional prior restraint.
July[]
- July – Nordic Council secretariat inaugurated.
- July 3 – Jim Morrison, lead singer of The Doors is found dead in his bathtub in Paris, France.
- July 4 – Michael S. Hart posts the first e-book, a copy of the United States Declaration of Independence, on the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign's mainframe computer, the origin of Project Gutenberg.[3]
- July 5 – Right to vote: The 26th Amendment to the United States Constitution, formally certified by President Richard Nixon, lowers the voting age from 21 to 18.
- July 6 – Hastings Banda is proclaimed President for Life of Malawi.
- July 9 – The United Kingdom increases its troops in Northern Ireland to 11,000.
- July 10–July 11 – Coup attempt in Morocco: 1,400 cadets take over the king's palace for 3 hours and kill 28 people; 158 rebels die when the king's troops storm the palace. Ten high-ranking officers are later executed for involvement.
- July 10 – Gloria Steinem holds her Address to the Women of America speech.
- July 13
- Ólafur Jóhannesson forms a government in Iceland.
- Jordanian army troops launch an offensive against Palestinian guerrillas in Jordan.
- The Yugoslavian government begins allowing foreign companies to take their profits from the country.
- Paced by a prodigious home run by Reggie Jackson which hits a transformer on the roof of Tiger Stadium, the American League defeats the National League 6-4 in the Major League Baseball All-Star Game in Detroit.
- July 14 – Libya severs its diplomatic ties with Morocco.
- July 16 – Spanish dictator and head of state Francisco Franco makes Prince Juan Carlos his successor.
- July 17 – Italy and Austria sign a treaty that ends the schism about South Tyrol.
- July 18 – The Trucial States are formed in the Persian Gulf.
- July 19 – The South Tower of the World Trade Center is topped out at 1,362 feet (415 m), making it the second tallest building in the world.
- July 19–July 23 – Major Hashem al-Atta ousts Jaafar Muhammad al-Nimeiri in a military coup in Sudan. Fighting continues until on July 22, when pro-Nimeiri troops win. Al-Atta and 3 officers are executed.
- July 25–July 30 – Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli records in Munich two Debussy works for Deutsche Grammophon; it's his fifth recording.
- July 26 – Apollo 15 (carrying astronauts David Scott, Alfred Worden, and James Irwin) is launched.
- July 28 – Abdel Khaliq Mahjub, 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 – In Japan, an All Nippon Airways Boeing 727 collides with a Japanese fighter jet; 162 people are killed.
- July 31 – Apollo 15 astronauts David Scott and James Irwin become the first to ride in a lunar rover, a day after landing on the Moon.
August[]
- August – Camden, New Jersey erupts in race riots following the beating death of a Puerto Rican motorist by city police. Looting and arson occurred. This was a turning point in Camden's decline to one of the poorest and highest-crime municipalities in the United States. Camden was, however, the site of a 1949 shooting rampage by Howard Unruh, considered by some to be the first mass murderer in the United States. The riots resulted in the demise of Camden's Sears and A&P branches. Also in 1971, Philadelphia International Records was established, with Camden native Leon Huff as co-founder.
- August 1 – In New York City, 40,000 attend the Concert for Bangladesh.
- August 2 – JCPenney debuts its trademark Helvetica wordmark which has been used ever since.
- August 5 – South Pacific Forum (SPF)
- August 6 – A lunar eclipse lasting 1 hour, 40 minutes, and 4 seconds is observed.
- August 7 – Apollo 15 returns to Earth.
- August 9
- India signs a 20-year treaty of friendship and cooperation with the Soviet Union.
- Internment in Northern Ireland: British security forces arrest hundreds of nationalists and detain them without trial in Long Kesh prison; 20 people die in the riots that follow.
- August 11 – Construction begins on the Louisiana Superdome in New Orleans.
- August 12
- Three thousand people from Belfast and Derry flee to the Republic of Ireland because of the violence.
- Syria severs diplomatic relations with Jordan because of border clashes.
- August 14
- British troops are stationed on the Ireland border to stop arms smuggling.
- Bahrain declares independence as the State of Bahrain (Kingdom of Bahrain as of February 2002).
- August 15
- The number of British troops in Northern Ireland is raised to 12,500.
- President Richard Nixon announces that the United States will no longer convert dollars to gold at a fixed value, effectively ending the Bretton Woods system. He also imposes a 90-day freeze on wages, prices and rents.
- August 18
- Vietnam War: Australia and New Zealand decide to withdraw their troops from Vietnam.
- British troops are engaged in a firefight with the IRA in Derry, Northern Ireland.
- August 19–August 22 – A 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 20
- International Telecommunications Satellite Organization (Intelsat) (effective 12 February 1973).
- The USS Manatee (AO-58) spills 1,000 US gallons (3,800 L) of fuel oil on President Nixon's Western White House beach in San Clemente, California.
- August 21
- The first orca to be named, Shamu, dies.
- A bomb made of two hand grenades by communist rebels explodes in the Liberal Party campaign party in Plaza Miranda in Quiapo, Manila the Philippines, injuring several anti-Marcos political candidates.
- August 25
- Border clashes occur between Tanzania and Uganda.
- Bangladesh and eastern Bengal are flooded; thousands flee the area.
- August 26 – A civilian government takes power in Greece.
- August 30 – The 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 gains independence from the United Kingdom. Unlike most nearby emirates, Qatar declines to become part of either the United Arab Emirates or Saudi Arabia.
- Manlio Brosio resigns as NATO Secretary General.
- September 4 – A Boeing 727 (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: – A revolt breaks out at the maximum-security prison in Attica, New York. In the end, state police and the United States National Guard storm the facility; 42 are killed, 10 of them hostages.
- September 19 – The electric tram system closes in the city of Ballarat, Victoria, Australia.
- September 21 – Pakistan declares a state of emergency.
- September 24 – Britain expels 90 KGB and GRU officials; 15 are not allowed to return.
- September 27–October 11 – Japanese Emperor Hirohito travels abroad.
- September 28 – Cardinal József Mindszenty, who has taken refuge in the U.S. Embassy in Budapest since 1956, is allowed to leave Hungary.
- September 29 – A cyclone in the Bay of Bengal, in Orissa State in India, kills 10,000.
October[]
- October 1 – Walt Disney World opens in Orlando, Florida
- October 15 – The 2,500 Year Celebration of Iran begins, celebrating the birth of Persia.
- October 17 – The Pittsburgh Pirates win the World Series in 7 games against the Baltimore Orioles. The Pirates' Roberto Clemente, who turned into a one-man gang in the Series, became the first Latino player to earn World Series MVP honors. Game 4 of the Series was also the first night game ever to be played in the World Series.
- October 18 – In New York City, the Knapp Commission begins public hearings on police corruption.
- October 21
- U.S. President Richard Nixon nominates Lewis Franklin Powell, Jr. and William H. Rehnquist to the U.S. Supreme Court.
- The Clarkston explosion in Scotland kills 22 people.
- October 25 – The United Nations General Assembly admits the People's Republic of China and expels the Republic of China (or Taiwan).
- October 27 – The Democratic Republic of the Congo is renamed Zaire.
- October 28
- The British House of Commons votes 356–244 in favour of joining the European Economic Community.
- The United Kingdom becomes the 6th nation to launch a satellite into orbit, the Prospero X-3, using a Black Arrow carrier rocket.
- The Egyptian Opera House (Khedivial Opera House) burns down in Cairo.
- October 29 – Vietnam War – Vietnamization: The total number of American troops still in Vietnam drops to a record low of 196,700 (the lowest since January 1966).
- October 30 – Rev. Ian Paisley's Democratic Unionist Party is founded in Northern Ireland.
- 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 – Operation Grommet: The U.S. tests a thermonuclear warhead at Amchitka Island in Alaska, code-named Project Cannikin. At around 5 megatons, it is the largest ever U.S. underground detonation.
- November 8 – Led Zeppelin releases their Fourth Studio album "Led Zeppelin IV" which goes on to sell 23,000,000 copies.
- November 9 – A British Royal Air Force C-130 crashes into the Ligurian Sea near Leghorn, Italy, killing all 51 people on board.
- November 10 – In Cambodia, Khmer Rouge forces attack Phnom Penh and its airport, killing 44, wounding at least 30 and damaging 9 airplanes.
- November 12 – Vietnam War – Vietnamization: U.S. 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 14 – Pope Shenouda III of Alexandria is enthroned.
- November 15
- Intel releases the world's first microprocessor, the Intel 4004.
- International Organization and System of Space Communications (Intersputnik) (effective 12 July 1972).
- November 20 – A bridge still in construction, called Elevado Engenheiro Freyssinet, falls over the Paulo de Frontin Avenue, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; 48 people are killed and several injured. Reconstructed, the bridge is currently a part of the Linha Vermelha elevate.
- November 23 – The People's Republic of China takes 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, and is never seen again (as of March 2008, this case remains the only unsolved skyjacking in history).
- A Brussels court sentences pretender Alexis Brimeyer to 18 months in jail for falsely using a noble title; Brimeyer has already fled to Greece.
- November 28 – 59th Grey Cup Game sees the Calgary Stampeders beat the Toronto Argonauts 14 to 11.
December[]
- 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 Persian Gulf sheikdoms found the United Arab Emirates.
- December 3 – The Indo-Pakistani War of 1971 begins as Pakistan launches preemptive attacks 9 Indian airbases. The next day India launches a massive invasion of East Pakistan.
- December 3–December 4 – The Pakistani submarine PNS Ghazi (former USS Diablo) sinks mysteriously near Indian coast while laying mines.
- December 4
- December 8 – U.S. President Richard Nixon orders the 7th Fleet to move towards the Bay of Bengal in the Indian Ocean.
- December 11 – Nihat Erim forms the new government of Turkey (34th government, Nihat Erim had served two times as a prime minister)
- December 16 – Victory Day of Bangladesh: The Pakistan Army in East Pakistan (now Bangladesh) surrenders to the Indian Armed Forces, ending the Bangladesh Liberation War.
- December 18
- The U.S. dollar is devalued for the second time in history.
- The world's largest hydroelectric plant in Krasnoyarsk, Soviet Union, begins operations.
- December 19
- The Clube Atletico Mineiro wins the Brazil Football Championship.
- Intelsat IV (F3) is launched; it enters commercial service over the Atlantic Ocean February 18, 1972.
- December 24
- Giovanni Leone is elected President of the Italian Republic.
- Juliane Koepcke survives a fall of 10,000 feet following disintegration of LANSA Flight 508.
- December 25
- In the longest game in NFL history, the Miami Dolphins beat the Kansas City Chiefs.
- Fire at a 22-story hotel in Seoul, South Korea kills 158 people.
- December 29 – The United Kingdom gives up its military bases in Malta.
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- Ray Tomlinson sends the first ARPAnet e-mail between host computers.
- The Free State of Christiania is founded.
- Seychelles International Airport in Victoria, Seychelles (Mahe) is completed.
- Crude oil production peaks in the continental United States at approximately 4.5 million barrels per day (720,000 m3/d).
- The Center for Science in the Public Interest is established.
- The National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism is established.
Births[]
January[]
- January 1 – Sammie Henson, American World Champion wrestler, Olympic silver medalist
- January 2
- Lisa Harrison, American basketball player
- Taye Diggs, American actor
- January 3 – Cory Cross, Canadian ice hockey player
- January 5 – Mayuko Takata, Japanese actress
- January 7 – Jeremy Renner, American actor
- January 9 – Scott Thornton, Canadian hockey player
- January 11 – Mary J. Blige, American singer
- January 12 – Jay Burridge, British artist and television presenter
- January 14 – Lasse Kjus, Norwegian alpine skier
- January 17 – Kid Rock, American rock singer
- January 18 – Fabian Ribauw, Nauruan politician
- January 20 – Gary Barlow, British singer-songwriter
- January 21 – Alan McManus, Scottish snooker player
- January 25 – Luca Badoer, Italian race car driver
- January 26 – Li Ming, Chinese footballer and football executive
- January 27
- Fann Wong, Singaporean Chinese actress, model, and singer
- Lil Jon, American rapper and producer
- January 29 – Clare Balding, British sports presenter
- January 30 – Lizzie Grubman, American publicist
- January 31
- Patrick Kielty, Northern Irish comedian and television presenter
- Patricia Velásquez, Venezuelan actress and supermodel.
February[]
- February 2 – Andrus Veerpalu, Estonian cross-country skier
- February 3 – Sarah Kane, English playwright (died 1999)
- February 4 – Fatmir Limaj, Albanian politician
- February 10 – Lisa Marie Varon, American professional wrestler
- February 13 – Mats Sundin, Swedish ice hockey player
- February 14
- Tommy Dreamer, American professional wrestler
- Kris Aquino, Filipina actress
- February 16 - Amanda Holden, British actress
- February 17 – Denise Richards, American actress
- February 18 – Thomas Bjørn, Danish golfer
- February 19 – Gil Shaham, Israeli/American violinist
- February 20 – Jari Litmanen, Finnish footballer
- February 23 – Melinda Messenger, English television presenter
- February 24 – Pedro de la Rosa, Spanish Formula One driver
- February 25
- Sean Astin, American actor
- Daniel Powter, Canadian singer
- February 27 – Rozonda "Chilli" Thomas, American singer (TLC)
- February 28 – Tristan Louis, French Internet entrepreneur
March[]
- March 2 – Manami Toyota, Japanese professional wrestler
- March 4
- Shavar Ross, American actor and filmmaker
- Iain Baird, Canadian soccer player
- March 9 – Kinga Rusin, Polish journalist
- March 11 – Johnny Knoxville, American actor
- March 16 – Val Venis, American professional wrestler
- March 22 – Iben Hjejle, Danish actress
- March 23
- Karen McDougal, American model
- Alexander Selivanov, Russian ice hockey player
- March 26 – Behzad Ghorbani, Iranian scientist
- March 27
- David Coulthard, Scottish racing driver
- Wayne Carey, Australian rules footballer
- Nathan Fillion, Canadian actor
- March 29
- Attila Csihar, Hungarian vocalist
- Robert Gibbs, 28th White House Press Secretary
- March 31
- Pavel Bure, Russian ice hockey player
- Ewan McGregor, Scottish actor
- Craig McCracken, American animator
April[]
- April 1 – Method Man, American rapper
- April 2
- Todd Woodbridge, Australian tennis player
- Zeebra, Japanese rapper
- April 3 – Picabo Street, American skier
- April 9 – Jacques Villeneuve, Canadian race driver, Formula 1 world champion
- April 11 – Oliver Riedel, German musician (Rammstein)
- April 12 – Shannen Doherty, American actress
- April 16
- Moses Chan, Hong Kong actor
- Selena Quintanilla Perez, Mexican-American singer (d. 1995)
- April 18 – David Tennant, Scottish actor
- April 20
- Allan Houston, American NBA player
- Carla Geurts, Dutch swimmer
- April 22 - Daisuke Enomoto, first Japanese space tourist
- April 28 – Bridget Moynahan, American Actress
- April 29
- Siniša Vuco, Croatian musician
- Tamara Johnson-George, American singer (SWV)
May[]
- May 1
- Stuart Appleby, Australian golfer
- Ajith Kumar, Indian film actor
- May 8 – Ross Anderson, American Pro Speed skier
- May 12 – Doug Basham, American professional wrestler
- May 14 – Sofia Coppolla, American filmmaker
- May 15 – Phil Pfister, American strength athlete
- May 17 – Vernie Bennett, English singer (Eternal)
- May 20 – Tony Stewart, American race car driver
- May 25 – Kristina Orbakaite, Lithuanian-Russian singer and actress
- May 27
- Wayne Carey, Australian rules footballer
- Mathew Batsiua, Nauruan politician
- Paul Bettany, British actor
- Lisa Lopes, American rapper (TLC) (d. 2002)
- May 30 – Idina Menzel, American singer, songwriter and actress
June[]
- June 1 – Mario Cimarro, Cuban actor and singer
- June 4
- Joseph Kabila, President of the Democratic Republic of the Congo
- Noah Wyle, American actor
- June 5
- Susan Lynch, Irish actress
- Mark Wahlberg, American actor and singer
- June 8
- Troy Vincent, American football player
- Jeff Douglas, Canadian actor
- June 10
- Bobby Jindal, American Governor of Louisiana
- Kyle Sandilands, Australian DJ, Australian Idol judge and TV presenter
- June 12
- Arman Alizad, Finnish tailor, columnist and TV personality
- Mark Henry, American professional wrestler, former Olympian
- June 16 – Tupac Shakur, American rapper, poet, and actor (died 1996)
- June 17 – Paulina Rubio, Mexican singer
- June 18 – Nathan Morris, American singer (Boyz II Men)
- June 21
- Anette Olzon, Swedish singer (Nightwish)
- Max Biaggi, Italian motorcycle racer
- June 25
- Scott Maslen, English actor
- Neil Lennon, Northern Irish footballer
- June 26 – Max Biaggi, Italian motercycle racer
- June 27
- King Dipendra of Nepal (died 2001)
- Kieren Keke, Nauruan politician
- June 28
- Norika Fujiwara, Japanese actress and television personality
- Aileen Quinn, American actress
- Fabien Barthez, French football player
- Tichina Arnold, American actress (Everybody Hates Chris)
- June 29 – Matthew Good, Canadian musician
July[]
- July 1
- Missy "Misdemeanor" Elliott, American singer
- Amira Casar, French actress
- July 3 – Julian Assange, Australian activist
- July 9 – Marc Andreessen, American software developer
- July 11 – Brett Hauer, American ice hockey player
- July 12
- Kristi Yamaguchi, American figure skater
- Robert Allenby, Australian golfer
- July 14
- Mark LoMonaco, American professional wrestler
- Joey Styles, American professional wrestling announcer
- Alison Bartlett-O'Reilly, American actress
- July 16 – Corey Feldman, American actor
- July 17 – Cory Doctorow, Canadian author and activist
- July 18 – Penny Hardaway, American basketball player
- July 19 – Vitali Klitschko, Ukrainian boxer
- July 20 – Sandra Oh, Korean Canadian actress
- July 21
- Charlotte Gainsbourg, French actress and singer-songwriter
- Nuno Markl, Portuguese comedian and radio host
- July 23
- Alison Krauss, American country singer
- Ahmed Ezz, Egyptian actor
- July 26 – Khaled Mahmud, Bangladeshi cricketer
- July 28 – Jeffrey S. Williams, American sportswriter
- July 30 – Tom Green, Canadian entertainer
August[]
- August 2 – Michael Hughes, Northern Irish footballer
- August 4
- Jeff Gordon, American race car driver
- Yo-Yo, American rapper
- August 10
- Roy Keane, Irish footballer
- Mario César Kindelán Mesa, Cuban amateur boxer
- August 12
- Phil Western, Canadian musician
- Pete Sampras, American tennis player
- Patrick Carpentier, Canadian race car driver
- August 17 - Anthony Kearns, Irish tenor
- August 20 – David Walliams, English comedy actor
- August 21 – Robert Harvey, Australian rules footballer
- August 25 – Mike Lockwood (Crash Holly), American World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) professional wrestler (d. 2003)
- August 26
- Thalía, Mexican actress and singer
- Gaynor Faye, British actress
- August 27 – Julian Cheung, Hong Kong actor and singer
- August 28 – Janet Evans, American swimmer
- August 29 – Carla Gugino, American actress
- August 31
- Pádraig Harrington, Irish golfer
- Chris Tucker, American actor and comedian
September[]
- September 1 – Hakan Şükür, Turkish footballer
- September 2
- Arnold Arre, Filipino graphic novelist
- Tommy Maddox, American football player
- Kjetil André Aamodt, Norwegian alpine skier
- September 4 – Anita Yuen, Hong Kong actress
- September 6 – Dolores O'Riordan, Irish singer
- September 8 – Brooke Burke, American model
- September 9 – Henry Thomas, American actor
- September 13 – Stella McCartney, British fashion designer, daughter of Paul McCartney
- September 16 – Amy Poehler, American actress
- September 18
- Lance Armstrong, American cyclist
- Anna Netrebko, Russian operatic soprano
- Jada Pinkett Smith, American actress
- September 19 – Sanaa Lathan, American actress
- September 20 – Henrik Larsson, Swedish footballer
- September 21 – Luke Wilson, American actor
- September 23 – Lee Mi-yeon, South Korean actress
- September 24 – Michael S. Engel, American paleontologist & entomologist
- September 27 – Horacio Sandoval, Mexican artist
- September 30
- Jeff Whitty, American Broadway playwright
- Jenna Elfman, American actress
October[]
- October 2 – Tiffany, American singer
- October 3 – Kevin Richardson, American pop singer (Backstreet Boys)
- October 10 – Evgeny Kissin, Russian pianist
- October 13
- Sacha Baron Cohen, British comedian
- Pyrros Dimas, Greek weightlifter
- October 14
- Jorge Costa, Portuguese footballer
- Andrew Cole, English footballer
- October 17 – Chris Kirkpatrick, American singer ('N Sync)
- October 20
- Dannii Minogue, Australian singer
- Snoop Dogg, American rapper
- October 21 – Jade Jagger, English jewelry designer and daughter of Mick Jagger
- October 24 – Caprice Bourret, American model and actress
- October 25
- Athena Chu, Hong Kong actress and singer
- Pedro Martínez, Dominican baseball player
- Midori Goto, Japanese violinist
- October 29 – Winona Ryder, American actress
November[]
- November 2 – Eric Wall, American writer and political activist
- November 3 – Dylan Moran, Irish comedian, actor, and writer
- November 5 – Jonny Greenwood, English musician and composer
- November 7 – Rituparna Sengupta, Indian film actress
- November 8 – Carlos Atanes, Spanish film director
- November 9 – Big Pun (Christopher Rios), American/Latin rapper (died 2000)
- November 10 – Niki Karimi, Iranian actress and movie director
- November 11 – David DeLuise, American actor
- November 12 – Yasuo Aiuchi, Japanese snowboarder
- November 14 – Adam Gilchrist, Australian cricketer
- November 16 – Alexander Popov, Russian swimmer
- November 17 – Michael Adams, British chess Grandmaster
- November 18 – Özlem Tekin, Turkish singer
- November 19 – Sundeep Malani, Indian film director
- November 20 – Dion Nash, New Zealand cricket captain
- November 22 – Kyran Bracken, English rugby player
- November 24 – Keith Primeau, Canadian hockey player
- November 25
- Christina Applegate, American actress
- Magnus Arvedson, Swedish hockey player
- November 27 – Iván "Pudge" Rodríguez, Puerto Rican Major League Baseball player and actor
December[]
- December 2 – Mine Yoshizaki, Japanese manga artist
- December 5 – Kali Rocha, American actress
- December 6
- Helena Bulaja, Croatian multimedia artist
- Richard Krajicek, Dutch tennis player
- December 7
- Larisa Alexandrovna, Ukrainian feminist
- Vladimir Akopian, Armenian chess Grandmaster
- December 8 – Abdullah Ercan, Turkish football player
- December 10 – Michele Mahone, American television entertainment reporter and former make-up artist and hair stylist
- December 12 – Sammy Korir, Kenyan long-distance runner
- December 15 – Arne Quinze, Belgian conceptual artist
- December 16 – Michael McCary, American singer (Boyz II Men)
- December 17
- Antoine Rigaudeau, French basketball player
- Alan Khan, South African radio DJ
- Sinan Akkuş, Turkish-German actor
- December 18 – Arantxa Sánchez Vicario, Spanish tennis player
- December 20 – Simon O'Neill, New Zealand opera singer
- December 22 – Khalid Khannouchi, Moroccan long-distance runner
- December 23
- Corey Haim, Canadian actor (d. 2010)
- Tara Palmer-Tomkinson, British socialite
- December 24
- Christopher Daniels, American professional wrestler
- Ricky Martin, Puerto Rican singer
- December 25 – Dido, English singer
- December 26 – Jared Leto, American actor and musician
- December 31 – Brent Barry, American basketball player
Date unknown[]
- Vic Pratt, English writer
Deaths[]
January[]
- 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, American 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 14 – Guillermo de Torre, Spanish Dadaist author (b. 1900)
- January 15 – John Dall, American actor (b. 1918)
- January 20 – Gilbert M. 'Broncho Billy' Anderson, American actor, director, writer, and producer (b. 1880)
- January 23 – Fritz Feigl, Austria-born chemist (b. 1875)
- January 24
- January 25 – Isobel Lennart, American screenwriter (b. 1915)
- January 27 – Jacobo Arbenz, President of Guatemala (b. 1913)
- January 28 – Donald Winnicott, British psychoanalyst (b. 1896)
- January 31 – Viktor Maksimovich Zhirmunsky, Russian literary historian, linguist (b. 1891)
February[]
- February 1 – Harry Roy, British bandleader (b. 1900)
- February 3 – Jay C. Flippen, American actor (b. 1899)
- February 12 – James Cash Penney, American founder of J. C. Penney (b. 1875)
- February 18 – Jaime de Barros Câmara, Brazilian archbishop (b. 1894)
- February 25 – Theodor Svedberg, Swedish chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1884)
- February 26 – Fernandel, French comedian (b. 1903)
March[]
- March 7 – Barney Balaban, American studio executive (b. 1887)
- March 8
- March 9 – Pope Cyril VI of Alexandria, Coptic Orthodox Patriarch (b. 1902)
- March 11 – Philo T. Farnsworth, American television pioneer (b. 1906)
- March 12 – David Burns, American actor (b. 1902)
- March 16
- March 18 – Leland Hayward, American film and theatrical agent (b. 1902)
- March 23 – Basil Dearden, English film director (b. 1911)
April[]
- April 3 – Joseph Valachi, American gangster (b. 1904)
- April 6 – Igor Stravinsky, Russian composer (b. 1882)
- April 12 – Igor Tamm, Russian physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1895)
- April 13 – Juhan Smuul, Estonian writer (b. 1922)
- April 15 – Friedebert Tuglas, Estonian writer and critic (b. 1886)
- April 17 – William Corbett, American attorney, acting Governor of Guam (b. 1902)
- April 19 – Earl Thomson, Canadian athlete (b. 1895)
- April 20 – Cecil Parker, English actor (b. 1897)
- April 21
- April 29 – Nikolai P. Barabashov, Russian astronomer (b.1894)
May[]
- May 1
- May 11 – Seán Lemass, Taoiseach of Ireland (b. 1899)
- May 12
- May 15
- May 19 – Ogden Nash, American poet (b. 1902)
- May 21 – Dennis King, English actor (b. 1897)
- May 26 – Laurence Wild, 1913 NCAA Men's Basketball All-American, former head coach for the Navy Midshipmen men's basketball, and 30th Governor of American Samoa (d. 1890)
- May 27 – Chips Rafferty, Australian actor (b. 1909)
- May 28
- May 30 – Marcel Dupré, French composer (b. 1886)
June[]
- June 1 – Reinhold Niebuhr, American theologian (b. 1892)
- June 10
- June 11 – Ambrose (bandleader), English violinist and bandleader (b. 1896)
- June 14 – Carlos P. Garcia, 8th President of the Philippines (b. 1896)
- June 15 – Wendell Meredith Stanley, American chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1904)
- June 18
- June 25 – John Boyd Orr, Scottish physician and biologist, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (b. 1880)
- June 30
July[]
- July 1 – William Lawrence Bragg, English physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1890)
- July 3 – Jim Morrison, American rock singer, songwriter, and poet (b. 1943)
- July 4
- July 6 – Louis Armstrong, African-American jazz trumpeter (What A Wonderful World) (b. 1901)
- July 7
- July 15 – Bill Thompson, American actor (b. 1913)
- July 17 – Cliff Edwards, American actor (b. 1895)
- July 19
- John Jacob Astor, 1st Baron Astor of Hever, British businessman (b. 1886)
- Norman Reilly Raine, American screenwriter (b. 1894)
- Arsène Roux, French Arabist (b. 1893)
- July 23 – Van Heflin, American actor (b. 1910)
- July 24 – Christl Mardayn, German actress (b. 1896)
- July 26 – Diane Arbus, American photographer (b. 1923)
- July 27 – Charlie Tully, Northern Irish footballer (b. 1924)
- July 30 – Kenneth Slessor, Australian poet (b. 1901)
August[]
- August 2 – John McDermott, American golf champion (b. 1891)
- August 13 – King Curtis, American saxophonist (b. 1934)
- August 15 – Paul Lukas, Hungarian actor (b. 1895)
- August 17 – Horace McMahon, American actor (b. 1906)
- August 20 – Matiur Rahman, Bangladeshi war hero (b. 1945)
- August 25 – Ted Lewis, American musician and entertainer (b. 1890)
- August 27
- August 28 – Reuvein Margolies, Austrian-Hungarian-born Israeli author and Talmudic scholar (b. 1889)
- August 29 – Nathan Leopold, American murderer (b. 1904)
September[]
- September 7 – Spring Byington, American actress (b. 1886)
- September 10 – Pier Angeli, Italian actress (b. 1932)
- September 11
- September 12 – Lin Biao, Chinese defense minister (plane crash) (b. 1907)
- September 17 – Carlos Lamarca, Brazilian military turned guerrilla leader (b. 1937)
- September 20 – Giorgos Seferis, Greek writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1900)
- September 21 – Bernardo Houssay, Argentine physiologist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1887)
- September 23 – Billy Gilbert, American actor (b. 1894)
- September 25 – Hugo Black, American Supreme Court Justice (b. 1886)
October[]
- October 3 – Leah Baird, American actress (b. 1883)
- October 10 – Cyril Burt, British educational psychologist (b. 1883)
- October 11 – Chester Conklin, American comedic actor (b. 1886)
- October 12
- October 14 – Samuel Spewack, American songwriter (b. 1899)
- October 16 – Robin Boyd, Australian architect (b. 1919)
- October 19 – Betty Bronson, American actress (b. 1906)
- October 21 – Raymond Hatton, American actor (b. 1887)
- October 29
November[]
- November 2 – Martha Vickers, American actress (b. 1925)
- November 4 – Guillermo León Valencia, President of Colombia (b. 1909)
- November 9 – Maude Fealy, American stage and film actor (b. 1881)
- November 16 – Edie Sedgwick, American actress and model (b. 1943)
- November 17 – Gladys Cooper, English actress (b. 1888)
- November 22 – József Zakariás, Hungarian soccer player (b. 1924)
- November 25 – Hank Mann, American comedic actor (b. 1888)
December[]
- December 9 – Ralph Bunche, African-American diplomat, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (b. 1904)
- December 11 – Mac Mcdonald, American fast food restaurant owner (McDonald's) (b. 1902)
- December 12
- December 18
- December 20 – Roy O. Disney, American studio executive (b. 1893)
- December 22 – Godfried Bomans, Dutch writer (b. 1913)
- December 24
- December 26 – Robert Lowery, American actor (b. 1913)
- December 28 – Max Steiner, Austrian-born film composer (b. 1888)
- December 29 – Stuart Holmes, American actor (b. 1884)
- December 30 – Dorothy Comingore, American actress (b. 1913)
- December 31 – Pete Duel, American actor (Alias Smith and Jones) (b. 1940)
Date unknown[]
- Reg Bunn, British artist (b. 1905)
Nobel Prizes[]
- Physics – Dennis Gabor
- Chemistry – Gerhard Herzberg
- Medicine – Earl W. Sutherland, Jr
- Literature – Pablo Neruda
- Peace – Willy Brandt
- Economics – Simon Kuznets
References[]
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