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1971 (MCMLXXI common year starting on Friday .
Contents
1 Events of 1971
1.1 January 1.2 February 1.3 March 1.4 April 1.5 May 1.6 June 1.7 July 1.8 August 1.9 September 1.10 October 1.11 November 1.12 December 1.13 unknown dates
2 Births
2.1 January-February 2.2 March-April 2.3 May-June 2.4 July-August 2.5 September-October 2.6 November-December 2.7 Unknown date
3 Deaths
3.1 January-March 3.2 April-June 3.3 July-September 3.4 October-December 3.5 Unknown dates
4 Nobel prizes 5 External links
Events of 1971 January February
March March 1 - A bomb explodes in the men's room at the White House ; the Weather Underground claims responsibility.
March 1 - Pakistani President Agha Muhammad Yahya Khan indefinitely postpones the pending National Assembly session, precipitating massive civil disobedience in East Pakistan .
March 1 - Canadian John Robarts ends his term of office as the 17th Premier of Ontario .
March 5 - The Pakistani army occupies East Pakistan .
March 7 - The British postal workers' strike, led by UPW General Secretary Tom Jackson , ends after 47 days.
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 massive killings in East Pakistan , 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 Army Major (later President of Bangladesh) Ziaur Rahman on behalf of Sheikh Mujibur Rahman from Kalurghat Radio Station, Chittagong .
March 29 - Filming begins on The Godfather 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).
March 29 - 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 - In Ceylon , a group calling themselves the People’s Liberation Front begin a rebellion against the Bandaranaike government.
April 5 - Chile and East Germany establish diplomatic relations .
April 5 - Mount Etna erupts.
April 7 - Greece releases 261 political prisoners , 50 of which are sent to 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 - Bangladesh officially declares independence, but Pakistani troops continue the fighting.
April 17 - Libya , Syria and Egypt sign an agreement to form a confederation .
April 19 - The government of Bangladesh flees to India .
April 19 - Sierra Leone becomes a republic .
April 19 - The Soviet Union launches Salyut 1 April 19 - Followers of Charles Manson , the Manson Family , are sentenced to the gas chamber.
April 20 - Swann v. Charlotte-Mecklenburg Board of Education Supreme Court of the United States rules unanimously that busing of students may be ordered to achieve racial desegregation .
April 20 - 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 .
April 21 - François Duvalier , president of Haiti , dies; his son Jean-Claude Duvalier follows him as president-for-life .
April 24 - Soyuz 10 Salyut 1 April 24 - Five hundred thousand people in Washington, DC and 125,000 in San Francisco march against the Vietnam War .
April 24 - 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 - Todor Zhivkov is re-elected as the leader of the Bulgarian Communist Party.
April 25 - Franz Jonas is re-elected as chancellor of Austria .
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 zinc mine of Matilde.
April 29 - The third anniversary of the Broadway musical Hair May May 1 - Amtrak begins inter-city rail passenger service in the United States .
May 1 - The Ceylonese government promises amnesty for those guerillas who surrender before April 5 .
May 2 – In Ceylon , left-wing guerillas launch a series of assaults against public buildings.
May 3 - The Harris Poll claims that 60% of Americans are against the Vietnam War .
May 3 - East German leader Walter Ulbricht resigns as Communist Party leader but retains the position of 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 – 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 – 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 19 - Mars probe program : Mars 2 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 persons, mostly British tourists.
May 26 - Austria and the People's Republic of China establish diplomatic relations.
May 26 - Qantas agrees to pay $500,000 to bomb hoaxer-extortionist Mr. Brown (Peter Macari) who is later arrested.
May 27 - Six armed passengers hijack a Romanian passenger plane and force it to fly to Vienna .
May 27 - Christie's auctions a diamond known as Deepdene ; it is later found to be artificially colored.
May 28 – Portugal resigns from UNESCO .
May 30 - Mariner program : Mariner 9 Mars .
May 31 - The birth of Bangladesh is declared by the government in exile, in territory formerly part of Pakistan .
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