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Date	Event
January 1, 1971	Cigarette advertisements are banned on American television.
January 2, 1971	The second Ibrox disaster kills 66 fans at a Rangers-Celtic association football (soccer) match.
January 12, 1971	The Harrisburg Seven: Rev. Philip Berrigan and five other activists are indicted on charges of conspiring to kidnap Henry Kissinger and of plotting to blow up the heating tunnels of federal buildings in Washington, D.C.
January 21, 1971	The current Emley Moor transmitting station, the tallest free-standing structure in the United Kingdom, begins transmitting UHF broadcasts.
January 22, 1971	The Singapore Declaration, one of the two most important documents to the uncodified constitution of the Commonwealth of Nations, is issued.
January 25, 1971	Charles Manson and four "Family" members (three of them female) are found guilty of the 1969 Tate–LaBianca murders.
January 25, 1971	Idi Amin leads a coup deposing Milton Obote and becomes Uganda's president.
January 31, 1971	Apollo program: Apollo 14: Astronauts Alan Shepard, Stuart Roosa, and Edgar Mitchell, aboard a Saturn V, lift off for a mission to the Fra Mauro Highlands on the Moon.
January 31, 1971	The Winter Soldier Investigation, organized by the Vietnam Veterans Against the War to publicize war crimes and atrocities by Americans and allies in Vietnam, begins in Detroit.
February 2, 1971	Idi Amin replaces President Milton Obote as leader of Uganda.
February 2, 1971	The international Ramsar Convention for the conservation and sustainable utilization of wetlands is signed in Ramsar, Mazandaran, Iran.
February 3, 1971	New York Police Officer Frank Serpico is shot during a drug bust in Brooklyn and survives to later testify against police corruption.
February 5, 1971	Astronauts land on the Moon in the Apollo 14 mission.
February 8, 1971	The NASDAQ stock market index opens for the first time.
February 8, 1971	South Vietnamese ground troops launch an incursion into Laos to try to cut off the Ho Chi Minh trail and stop communist infiltration.
February 9, 1971	The 6.5–6.7 Mw  Sylmar earthquake hits the Greater Los Angeles Area with a maximum Mercalli intensity of XI (Extreme), killing 64 and injuring 2,000.
February 9, 1971	Satchel Paige becomes the first Negro league player to be voted into the USA's Baseball Hall of Fame.
February 9, 1971	Apollo program: Apollo 14 returns to Earth after the third manned Moon landing.
February 11, 1971	Cold War: the Seabed Arms Control Treaty opened for signature outlawing nuclear weapons on the ocean floor in international waters.
February 15, 1971	The decimalisation of the currencies of the United Kingdom and Ireland is completed on Decimal Day.
February 20, 1971	The United States Emergency Broadcast System is accidentally activated in an erroneous national alert.
February 21, 1971	The Convention on Psychotropic Substances is signed at Vienna.
February 23, 1971	Operation Lam Son 719: South Vietnamese General Do Cao Tri was killed in a helicopter crash en route to taking control of the faltering campaign.
February 24, 1971	The All India Forward Bloc holds an emergency central committee meeting after its chairman, Hemantha Kumar Bose, is killed three days earlier. P.K. Mookiah Thevar is appointed as the new chairman.
February 26, 1971	U.N. Secretary-General U Thant signs United Nations proclamation of the vernal equinox as Earth Day.
February 27, 1971	Doctors in the first Dutch abortion clinic (the Mildredhuis in Arnhem) start performing artificially-induced abortions.
March 1, 1971	President of Pakistan Yahya Khan indefinitely postpones the pending national assembly session, precipitating massive civil disobedience in East Pakistan.
March 7, 1971	Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, political leader of then East Pakistan (present day-Bangladesh), delivers his historic 7th March speech in the Racecourse Field (Now Suhrawardy Udyan) in Dhaka.
March 12, 1971	The 1971 Turkish military memorandum is sent to the Süleyman Demirel government of Turkey and the government resigns.
March 18, 1971	Peru: A landslide crashes into Yanawayin Lake, killing 200 people at the mining camp of Chungar.
March 25, 1971	The Army of the Republic of Vietnam abandon an attempt to cut off the Ho Chi Minh trail in Laos.
March 26, 1971	East Pakistan declares its independence from Pakistan to form Bangladesh and the Bangladesh Liberation War begins.
March 29, 1971	My Lai Massacre: Lieutenant William Calley is convicted of premeditated murder and sentenced to life in prison.
April 1, 1971	Bangladesh Liberation War: The Pakistan Army massacre over 1,000 people in Keraniganj Upazila, Bangladesh.
April 5, 1971	In Sri Lanka, Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna launches a revolt against the United Front government of Sirimavo Bandaranaike.
April 7, 1971	Vietnam War: President Richard Nixon announces his decision to quicken the pace of Vietnamization.
April 10, 1971	Ping-pong diplomacy: In an attempt to thaw relations with the United States, China hosts the U.S. table tennis team for a week-long visit.
April 17, 1971	The Provisional Government of Bangladesh is formed.
April 19, 1971	Sierra Leone becomes a republic, and Siaka Stevens the president.
April 19, 1971	Launch of Salyut 1, the first space station.
April 19, 1971	Charles Manson is sentenced to death (later commuted to life imprisonment) for conspiracy in the Tate–LaBianca murders.
April 23, 1971	Bangladesh Liberation War: The Pakistan Army and Razakars massacre approximately 3,000 Hindu emigrants in the Jathibhanga area of East Pakistan (now Bangladesh).
May 1, 1971	Amtrak (the National Railroad Passenger Corporation) takes over operation of U.S. passenger rail service.
May 3, 1971	Erich Honecker becomes First Secretary of the Socialist Unity Party of Germany, remaining in power until 1989.
May 13, 1971	Over 900 unarmed Bengali Hindus are murdered in the Demra massacre.
May 19, 1971	Mars probe program: Mars 2 is launched by the Soviet Union.
May 20, 1971	In the Chuknagar massacre, Pakistani forces massacre thousands, mostly Bengali Hindus.
May 23, 1971	Seventy-eight people are killed when Aviogenex Flight 130 crashes on approach to Rijeka Airport in present-day Rijeka, Croatia (then the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia).
May 23, 1971	The Intercontinental Hotel in Bucharest opens, becoming the second-tallest building in the city.
May 26, 1971	Bangladesh Liberation War: The Pakistan Army slaughters at least 71 Hindus in Burunga, Sylhet, Bangladesh.
May 27, 1971	The Dahlerau train disaster, the worst railway accident in West Germany, kills 46 people and injures 25 near Wuppertal.
May 27, 1971	Pakistani forces massacre over 200 civilians, mostly Bengali Hindus, in the Bagbati massacre.
May 30, 1971	Mariner program: Mariner 9 is launched to map 70% of the surface, and to study temporal changes in the atmosphere and surface, of Mars.
May 31, 1971	In accordance with the Uniform Monday Holiday Act passed by the U.S. Congress in 1968, observation of Memorial Day occurs on the last Monday in May for the first time, rather than on the traditional Memorial Day of May 30.
June 6, 1971	Soyuz 11 is launched. The mission ends in disaster when all three cosmonauts, Georgy Dobrovolsky, Vladislav Volkov, and Viktor Patsayev are suffocated by uncontrolled decompression of the capsule during re-entry on 29 June.
June 6, 1971	Hughes Airwest Flight 706 collides with a McDonnell Douglas F-4 Phantom II of the United States Marine Corps over the San Gabriel Mountains, killing 50.
June 7, 1971	The United States Supreme Court overturns the conviction of Paul Cohen for disturbing the peace, setting the precedent that vulgar writing is protected under the First Amendment to the United States Constitution.
June 7, 1971	The Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms Division of the U.S. Internal Revenue Service raids the home of Ken Ballew for illegal possession of hand grenades.
June 11, 1971	The U.S. Government forcibly removes the last holdouts to the Native American Occupation of Alcatraz, ending 19 months of control.
June 13, 1971	Vietnam War: The New York Times begins publication of the Pentagon Papers.
June 17, 1971	U.S. President Richard Nixon in a televised press conference called drug abuse "America's public enemy number one", starting the War on drugs.
June 29, 1971	Prior to re-entry (following a record-setting stay aboard the Soviet Union’s Salyut 1 space station), the crew capsule of the Soyuz 11 spacecraft depressurizes, killing the three cosmonauts on board. Georgy Dobrovolsky, Vladislav Volkov and Viktor Patsayev are the first humans to die in space.
June 30, 1971	The crew of the Soviet Soyuz 11 spacecraft are killed when their air supply escapes through a faulty valve.
July 5, 1971	The Twenty-sixth Amendment to the United States Constitution, lowering the voting age from 21 to 18 years, is formally certified by President Richard Nixon.
July 11, 1971	Copper mines in Chile are nationalized.
July 12, 1971	The Australian Aboriginal Flag is flown for the first time.
July 15, 1971	The United Red Army is founded in Japan.
July 25, 1971	The Sohagpur massacre is perpetrated by the Pakistan Army.
July 26, 1971	Apollo program: Launch of Apollo 15 on the first Apollo "J-Mission", and first use of a Lunar Roving Vehicle.
July 30, 1971	Apollo program: On Apollo 15, David Scott and James Irwin on the Apollo Lunar Module Falcon land on the Moon with the first Lunar Rover.
July 30, 1971	An All Nippon Airways Boeing 727 and a Japanese Air Force F-86 collide over Morioka, Iwate, Japan killing 162.
July 31, 1971	Apollo program: the Apollo 15 astronauts become the first to ride in a lunar rover.
August 1, 1971	The Concert for Bangladesh, organized by former Beatle George Harrison, is held at Madison Square Garden in New York City.
August 5, 1971	The first Pacific Islands Forum (then known as the "South Pacific Forum") is held in Wellington, New Zealand, with the aim of enhancing cooperation between the independent countries of the Pacific Ocean.
August 9, 1971	The Troubles: In Northern Ireland, the British authorities launch Operation Demetrius. The operation involves the mass arrest and internment without trial of individuals suspected of being affiliated with the Irish Republican Army (PIRA). Mass riots follow, and thousands of people flee or are forced out of their homes.
August 10, 1971	The Society for American Baseball Research is founded in Cooperstown, New York.
August 14, 1971	Bahrain declares independence from Britain.
August 15, 1971	President Richard Nixon completes the break from the gold standard by ending convertibility of the United States dollar into gold by foreign investors.
August 15, 1971	Bahrain gains independence from the United Kingdom.
August 18, 1971	Vietnam War: Australia and New Zealand decide to withdraw their troops from Vietnam.
August 21, 1971	A bomb exploded in the Liberal Party campaign rally in Plaza Miranda, Manila, Philippines with several anti-Marcos political candidates injured.
August 22, 1971	J. Edgar Hoover and John Mitchell announce the arrest of 20 of the Camden 28.
August 27, 1971	An attempted coup d'état fails in the African nation of Chad. The Government of Chad accuses Egypt of playing a role in the attempt and breaks off diplomatic relations.
September 3, 1971	Qatar becomes an independent state.
September 4, 1971	Alaska Airlines Flight 1866 crashes near Juneau, Alaska, killing all 111 people on board.
September 6, 1971	Paninternational Flight 112 crashes on the Bundesautobahn 7 highway near Hamburg Airport, in Hamburg, Germany, killing 22.
September 8, 1971	In Washington, D.C., the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts is inaugurated, with the opening feature being the premiere of Leonard Bernstein's Mass.
September 9, 1971	The four-day Attica Prison riot begins, eventually resulting in 39 dead, most killed by state troopers retaking the prison.
September 11, 1971	The Egyptian Constitution becomes official.
September 13, 1971	State police and National Guardsmen storm New York's Attica Prison to quell a prison revolt, which claimed 43 lives.
September 13, 1971	Chairman Mao Zedong's second in command and successor Marshal Lin Biao flees China after the failure of an alleged coup. His plane crashes in Mongolia, killing all aboard.
September 15, 1971	The first Greenpeace ship departs from Vancouver to protest against the upcoming Cannikin nuclear weapon test in Alaska.
September 20, 1971	Having weakened after making landfall in Nicaragua the previous day, Hurricane Irene regains enough strength to be renamed Hurricane Olivia, making it the first known hurricane to cross from the Atlantic Ocean into the Pacific.
September 21, 1971	Bahrain, Bhutan and Qatar join the United Nations.
September 29, 1971	Oman joins the Arab League.
October 1, 1971	Walt Disney World opens near Orlando, Florida.
October 1, 1971	The first practical CT scanner is used to diagnose a patient.
October 2, 1971	South Vietnamese President Nguyen Van Thieu is re-elected in a one-man election.
October 2, 1971	British European Airways Flight 706 crashes near Aarsele, Belgium, killing 63.
October 12, 1971	The 2,500 year celebration of the Persian Empire begins.
October 21, 1971	A gas explosion kills 22 people at a shopping centre near Glasgow, Scotland.
October 25, 1971	The People's Republic of China replaces the Republic of China at the United Nations.
October 27, 1971	The Democratic Republic of the Congo is renamed Zaire.
October 28, 1971	Prospero becomes the only British satellite to be launched by a British rocket.
November 6, 1971	The United States Atomic Energy Commission tests the largest U.S. underground hydrogen bomb, code-named Cannikin, on Amchitka Island in the Aleutians.
November 10, 1971	In Cambodia, Khmer Rouge forces attack the city of Phnom Penh and its airport, killing 44, wounding at least 30 and damaging nine aircraft.
November 10, 1971	A Merpati Nusantara Airlines Vickers Viscount crashes into the Indian Ocean near Padang, West Sumatra, Indonesia, killing all 69 people on board.
November 12, 1971	Vietnam War: As part of Vietnamization, U.S. President Richard Nixon sets February 1, 1972 as the deadline for the removal of another 45,000 American troops from Vietnam.
November 14, 1971	Mariner 9 enters orbit around Mars.
November 15, 1971	Intel releases the world's first commercial single-chip microprocessor, the 4004.
November 18, 1971	Oman declares its independence from the United Kingdom.
November 21, 1971	Indian troops, partly aided by Mukti Bahini (Bengali guerrillas), defeat the Pakistan army in the Battle of Garibpur.
November 22, 1971	In Britain's worst mountaineering tragedy, the Cairngorm Plateau Disaster, five children and one of their leaders are found dead from exposure in the Scottish mountains.
November 23, 1971	Representatives of the People's Republic of China attend the United Nations, including the United Nations Security Council, for the first time.
November 24, 1971	During a severe thunderstorm over Washington state, a hijacker calling himself Dan Cooper (aka D. B. Cooper) parachutes from a Northwest Orient Airlines plane with $200,000 in ransom money. He has never been found.
November 27, 1971	The Soviet space program's Mars 2 orbiter releases a descent module. It malfunctions and crashes, but it is the first man-made object to reach the surface of Mars.
November 28, 1971	Fred Quilt, a leader of the Tsilhqot'in First Nation suffers severe abdominal injuries allegedly caused by Royal Canadian Mounted Police officers; he dies two days later.
November 28, 1971	Wasfi al-Tal, Prime Minister of Jordan, is assassinated by the Black September unit of the Palestine Liberation Organization.
November 30, 1971	Iran seizes the Greater and Lesser Tunbs from the Emirates of Sharjah and Ras Al Khaimah.
December 1, 1971	Cambodian Civil War: Khmer Rouge rebels intensify assaults on Cambodian government positions, forcing their retreat from Kompong Thmar and nearby Ba Ray.
December 1, 1971	Purge of Croatian Spring leaders starts in Yugoslavia at the meeting of the League of Communists at the Karađorđevo estate
December 2, 1971	Abu Dhabi, Ajman, Fujairah, Sharjah, Dubai, and Umm al-Quwain form the United Arab Emirates.
December 3, 1971	Indo-Pakistani War of 1971: Pakistan launches a pre-emptive strike against India and a full-scale war begins.
December 4, 1971	Indo-Pakistani War of 1971: The Indian Navy attacks the Pakistan Navy and Karachi.
December 4, 1971	The PNS Ghazi, a Pakistan Navy submarine, sinks during the course of the Indo-Pakistani Naval War of 1971.
December 4, 1971	During a concert by Frank Zappa and The Mothers of Invention at the Montreux Casino, an audience member fires a flare gun into the ceiling, causing a fire that destroys the venue. Rock band Deep Purple, who were there to use the Casino to record their next album, witnesses the fire from their hotel; the incident would be immortalized in their best known song, "Smoke on the Water".
December 5, 1971	Battle of Gazipur: Pakistani forces stand defeated as India cedes Gazipur to Bangladesh.
December 6, 1971	Pakistan severs diplomatic relations with India, initiating the Indo-Pakistani War of 1971.
December 7, 1971	The Battle of Sylhet is fought between the Pakistani military and the Mukti Bahini.
December 7, 1971	Pakistan President Yahya Khan announces the formation of a coalition government with Nurul Amin as Prime Minister and Zulfikar Ali Bhutto as Deputy Prime Minister.
December 8, 1971	Indo-Pakistani War: The Indian Navy launches an attack on West Pakistan's port city of Karachi.
December 9, 1971	Indo-Pakistani War: The Indian Air Force executes an airdrop of Indian Army units, bypassing Pakistani defences.
December 14, 1971	Bangladesh Liberation War: Over 200 of East Pakistan's intellectuals are executed by the Pakistan Army and their local allies. (The date is commemorated in Bangladesh as Martyred Intellectuals Day.)
December 16, 1971	Bangladesh Liberation War and Indo-Pakistani War of 1971: The ceasefire of the Pakistan Army brings an end to both conflicts. This is commemorated annually as Victory Day in Bangladesh, and as Vijay Diwas in India.
December 16, 1971	The United Kingdom recognizes Bahrain's independence, which is commemorated annually as Bahrain's National Day.
December 22, 1971	The international aid organization Doctors Without Borders is founded by Bernard Kouchner and a group of journalists in Paris, France.
December 24, 1971	LANSA Flight 508 is struck by lightning and crashes in the Puerto Inca District in the Department of Huánuco in Peru, killing 91.