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Year 1971 (MCMLXXI) was a common year starting on Friday (link will display full calendar) of the 1971 Gregorian calendar.
[edit] Events of 1971
[edit] January
[edit] February
- March 1
- March 4 - The southern part of Québec, and especially Montreal, receive 42 cm of snow in what became 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
- March 8 - 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 genocide 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, Chittagong.
- 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
- May 1
- 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.
- 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 - 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 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.
- July 3 - Jim Morrison, leader of The Doors is found dead in his bathtub in Paris, France.
- 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 13 - Ólafur Jóhannesson forms a government in Iceland.
- July 13 - Jordanian army troops launch an offensive against Palestinian guerillas in Jordan.
- July 13 - The Yugoslavian government begins allowing foreign companies to take their profits from the country.
- 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 16 - The world's four billionth baby is born. (see World Population).
- July 17 - Italy and Austria sign a treaty that ends the schism about Alto Adige/Südtirol.
- 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, 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 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 - 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.
[edit] August
[edit] September
- September 3
- 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 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 - József Cardinal 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.
[edit] October
[edit] November
- November 3 - The UNIX Programmer's Manual is published.
- November 6 - The U.S. tests a nuclear bomb on Amchitka Island in Alaska.
- 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 - Enthronment of Pope Shenouda III as Pope of Alexandria
- November 15 - Intel releases the world's first microprocessor, the Intel 4004.
- November 20 - A bridge still in construction, called Elevado Engenheiro Freyssinet, fell over the Paulo de Frontin Avenue, at Rio de Janeiro city (Brazil). 48 people died 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 was never seen again. As of March 2008, this case remains the only unsolved skyjacking in history.
- November 24 - A Brussels court sentences pretender Alexis Brimeyer to 18 months in jail for falsely using a noble title; Brimeyer has already fled to Greece.
[edit] December
[edit] Undated
[edit] Ongoing
[edit] Births
[edit] January
- January 1
- Sammie Henson, American World Champion wrestler, Olympic silver medalist
- January 2
- January 3 - Cory Cross, Canadian ice hockey player
- January 5 - Mayuko Takata, Japanese actress
- January 7 - Chavo Guerrero, Jr., American pro wrestler
- January 8 - Jason Giambi, baseball player
- January 9 - Scott Thornton, Canadian hockey player
- January 11 - Mary J. Blige, American singer
- January 17
- January 18 - Jonathan Davis, American singer (Korn)
- January 19
- January 20
- January 21 - Alan McManus, Scottish snooker player
- January 25 - Luca Badoer, Italian race car driver
- January 27
- January 31 - Patrick Kielty, Northern Irish comedian and television presenter
[edit] February
- February 1 - Jill Kelly, American adult film actress
- February 2 - Andrus Veerpalu, Estonian cross-country skier
- February 3 - Sarah Kane, English playwright (d. 1999)
- February 5 - Sara Evans, American singer
- February 10 - Lisa Marie Varon, American professional wrestler
- February 13
- February 14 - Tommy Dreamer, American professional wrestler
- February 16 - Amanda Holden, British actress
- February 17 - Denise Richards, American actress
- 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
- February 26 - Erykah Badu, American singer
- February 27 - Rozonda "Chilli" Thomas, singer
- February 28 - Tristan Louis, Internet entrepreneur
- March 2 - Manami Toyota, Japanese women's professional wrestler
- March 4
- March 7 - Rachel Weisz, British actress
- March 9 - Kinga Rusin, Polish journalist
- March 10 - Timbaland, American rapper/Singer
- March 11 - Johnny Knoxville, American television personality
- March 12 - Tony Eveready (Duane Moore), American adult film actor, performance artist
- March 16 - Val Venis, American professional wrestler
- March 23 - Karen McDougal, American model
- March 23 - Alexander Selivanov, Russian ice hockey player
- March 26 - Behzad Ghorbani, Iranian scientist
- March 27
- March 29 - Jose Luis Rodriguez Pitti, Panamanian writer
- March 31 - Pavel Bure, Russian ice hockey player
- March 31 - Ewan McGregor, Scottish actor
- April 1 - Method Man, American rapper
- April 2 - Todd Woodbridge, Australian tennis player
- April 2 - Zeebra, Japanese rapper
- April 3 - Picabo Street, American skier
- April 9 - Jacques Villeneuve, race driver, Formula 1 world champion
- April 11 - Oliver Riedel, German musician (Rammstein)
- April 12 - Shannen Doherty, American actress
- April 14 - Peter Gibson, American writer
- April 15 - Jason Sehorn, American football player
- April 16 - Moses Chan, Hong Kong actor
- April 16 - Selena Quintanilla Perez, American singer (d. 1995)
- April 18 - David Tennant, Scottish actor
- April 20 - Allan Houston, former NBA player, best known for playing with the New York Knicks
- April 20 - Carla Geurts, Dutch swimmer
- April 22 - Eric Mabius, American Actor
- April 22 - Daisuke Enomoto, first Japanese space tourist
- April 24 - Mauro Pawlowski, Belgian guitar player and singer (Evil Superstars, dEUS) with Italian/Polish roots
- April 29 - Siniša Vuco, Croatian musician
- May 1 - Stuart Appleby, Australian golfer
- May 6 - Chris Shiflett, member of the band, Foo Fighters
- May 8 - Ross Anderson (skier), 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 18 - Desiree Horton, Los Angeles helicopter pilot/TV reporter/USFS aerial firefighter
- May 20 - Tony Stewart, American race car driver
- May 25 - Sonya Smith, American actress
- May 26 - Matt Stone, American television producer
- May 27
- May 30 - Idina Menzel, American actress and singer
- June 4 - Joseph Kabila, President of the Democratic Republic of the Congo
- June 5 - Susan Lynch, Irish actress
- June 5 - Mark Wahlberg, American actor and singer
- June 8 - Troy Vincent, American football player
- June 9 - Rick Renstrom, American guitarist
- June 10 - Bobby Jindal, Governor of the U.S. state of Louisiana
- June 10 - Kyle Sandilands, Australian DJ, Australian Idol judge and TV presenter
- June 12 - Mark Henry, American professional wrestler, former Olympian
- June 16 - Tupac Shakur, American rapper, poet, and actor (d. 1996)
- June 17 - Paulina Rubio, Mexican singer
- June 21 - Anette Olzon, Swedish singer (Nightwish)
- June 22- Kurt Warner, American football player
- June 22 - Mary Lynn Rajskub, American actor and comedian
- June 25 - Scott Maslen, English actor
- 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 28 - Aileen Quinn, American actress
- June 28 - Fabien Barthez, French Footballplayer
- June 29 - Matthew Good, Canadian musician
- July 1 - Missy "Misdemeanor" Elliott, American singer
- July 9 - Marc Andreessen, American software developer
- July 11 - Leisha Hailey, American musician and actress
- July 11 - Brett Hauer, American ice hockey player
- July 12 - Kristi Yamaguchi, American figure skater
- July 14 - Mark LoMonaco, American professional wrestler
- July 14 - Joey Styles, American professional wrestling announcer
- July 14 - Alison Bartlett-O'Reilly, American actress
- July 17 - Cory Doctorow, Canadian author and activist
- July 18 - Penny Hardaway, American basketball player
- July 21 - Nuno Markl, Portuguese comedian and radio host
- July 22 - Kristine Lilly, American soccer player
- July 23 - Alison Krauss, American country singer
- July 26 - Reggie Carthon, American football player
- July 30 - Tom Green, Canadian entertainer
- July 31 - John Lowery, American guitarist
[edit] August
- August 2 - Michael Hughes, Northern Irish footballer
- August 4 - Jeff Gordon, American race car driver
- August 6 - Merrin Dungey, American actress
- August 8 - Guy Walters, British writer
- August 10
- August 12
- August 17
- August 18 - Richard D James, Irish musician
- August 20 - David Walliams, English comedy actor
- August 25
- August 26
- 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
[edit] September
- September 1 - Hakan Şükür, Turkish footballer
- September 2
- September 4 - Anita Yuen, Hong Kong actress
- September 6 - Dolores O'Riordan, Irish singer
- September 8 - Brooke Burke, American model
- September 10 - Pantea Rahmani, Iranian visual artist
- September 11 - Richard Ashcroft, British singer
- September 11 - Mack Strong, National Football League player
- September 13 - Stella McCartney, British fashion designer, daughter of Paul McCartney
- September 14 - Kimberly Williams, American actress
- September 16 - Amy Poehler, American actress and comedienne
- September 18 - Lance Armstrong, American cyclist
- September 18 - Jada Pinkett Smith, American actress and singer
- September 19 - Sanaa Lathan, American actress
- September 20 - Henrik Larsson, Swedish footballer
- September 21 - Luke Wilson, American actor
- September 21 - Alfonso Riberio, American actor, singer and dancer
- September 24 - Michael S. Engel, American paleontologist & entomologist
- September 25
- September 26 - Joel Breton, video game producer
- September 30 - Jeff Whitty, Broadway playwright
[edit] October
- October 2- James Root, American guitarist (Slipknot, Stone Sour)
- October 3 - Kevin Richardson, American singer, member of Backstreet Boys
- October 4 - Brian Transeau, American disc jockey
- October 5 - Samuel Vincent, Canadian voice actor
- October 10 - Evgeny Kissin, Russian pianist
- October 13
- October 14 - Jorge Costa, Portuguese footballer
- October 14 - Andrew Cole, English Footballer
- October 16 - Craig Phillips, British reality show star, Winner of Big Brother UK in 2000
- October 20
- October 24 - Caprice Bourret, American model and actress
- October 25 - Athena Chu, Hong Kong actress and singer
- October 25
- October 26 - Anthony Rapp, American singer and actor
- October 27 - Jade Arcade, American comics artist and writer
- October 29
[edit] November
- November 3 - Dylan Moran, Irish comedian, actor, and writer
- November 8 - Carlos Atanes, Spanish film director
- November 9 - Big Pun, real name Christopher Rios, American/Latin rapper (d. 2000)
- November 10 - Niki Karimi, Iranian actress and movie director
- November 12
- November 13 - Noah Hathaway, American actor
- November 14 - Adam Gilchrist, Australian cricketer
- November 16 - Alexander Popov, Russian swimmer
- November 18 - Özlem Tekin, Turkish singer
- 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
- November 25 - Magnus Arvedson, Swedish hockey player
- November 30 - Iván "Pudge" Rodríguez, Puerto Rican Major League Baseball player and actor
[edit] December
- December 1 - Jason Chan, Australian actor
- December 1 - John Schlimm, American author
- December 6
- December 7
- December 8 - Abdullah Ercan, Turkish football player
- December 16 - People in Bangladesh rejoiced at their liberation....
- December 17
- December 19 - Tyson Beckford, American model
- December 20 - Simon O'Neill, New Zealand opera singer
- December 23
- December 24
- December 25 - Dido, English singer
- December 26 - Jared Leto, American actor and musician
- December 27 - Jason Hawes, American paranormal investigator, founder of TAPS (The Atlantic Paranormal Society)
- December 28 - Frank Sepe, American bodybuilder and model
- December 31 - Brent Barry, American basketball player
[edit] Deaths
[edit] January-March
- 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 14 - Guillermo de Torre, Spanish Dadaist author (b. 1900)
- 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 24 - St. John Greer Ervine, Northern Irish dramatist and author (b. 1883)
- 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 1 - Harry Roy, British bandleader (b. 1900)
- 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 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)
- March 23 - Basil Dearden, English film director (b. 1911)
[edit] April-June
- 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)
- April 29 - Nikolai P. Barabashov, Russian astronomer (b.1894)
- May 1 - Violet Jessop, Titanic survivor (b. 1887)
- May 11 - Seán Lemass, Taoiseach 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 1 - Reinhold Niebuhr, American theologian (b. 1892)
- June 10 - Michael Rennie, English actor (b. 1909)
- June 11 - Ambrose (bandleader) (b. 1896)
- 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:
[edit] July-September
- 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
- July 6 - Louis Armstrong, American jazz trumpeter (b. 1901)
- July 7
- July 15 - Bill Thompson, American actor (b. 1913)
- July 17 - Cliff Edwards, American actor (b. 1895)
- July 19
- 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 13 - King Curtis, American saxophonist (b. 1934)
- August 20 - Matiur Rahman, Bangladeshi war hero (b. 1945)
- August 25 - Ted Lewis, American musician and entertainer (b. 1890)
- August 27
- September 11 - Nikita Sergeyevich 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)
- September 23 - Billy Gilbert, American actor (b. 1894)
[edit] October-December
- October 10 - Cyril Burt, educational psychologist (b. 1883)
- 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 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 22 - József Zakariás, Hungarian soccer player (b. 1924)
- December 9 - Ralph Bunche, 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 22 - Godfried Bomans, Dutch writer (b. 1913)
- December 25 - Maria Koepcke, ornithologist, killed in the crash of LANSA Flight 508 (b. 1924)
- December 31 - Pete Duel, American actor (Alias Smith and Jones) (b. 1940)
[edit] Nobel prizes
- ^ "Cigarette Maker Phillip Morris Agrees to Remove Advertising Signs from Sports Stadiums Where They Were Shown on TV" (1995), DOJ315.
[edit] External links