1971 Calendar
What Happened In Year 1971?
- January 27, 1971 – New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Metal Pig in Chinese astrology.
- 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, begin in Detroit, Michigan.
- February 9, 1971 – The Sylmar earthquake hits the San Fernando Valley area of California.
- March 18, 1971 – In Peru a landslide crashes into Lake Yanahuani, killing 200 at the mining camp of Chungar.
- March 29, 1971 – My Lai massacre: Lieutenant William Calley is convicted of premeditated murder and sentenced to life in prison.
- April 17, 1971 – The People’s Republic of Bangladesh forms, under Sheikh Mujibur Rahman at Mujibnagor.
- June 6, 1971 – Vietnam War: The Battle of Long Khanh between Australian and Vietnamese communist forces begins.
- 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, which all turn out to be inert or dummies.
- June 13, 1971 – Vietnam War: The New York Times begins publication of the Pentagon Papers.
- June 27, 1971 – After only three years in business, rock promoter Bill Graham closes the Fillmore East in New York, New York, the “Church of Rock and Roll”.
- July 12, 1971 – The Australian Aboriginal flag is flown for the first time.
- August 22, 1971 – J. Edgar Hoover and John Mitchell announce the arrest of 20 of the Camden 28.
- September 3, 1971 – Qatar becomes an independent state
- September 16, 1971 – Typhoon Nancy, with possibly the strongest winds ever measured in a tropical cyclone, makes landfall in Osaka, Japan, killing 173 people.
- October 28, 1971 – Britain launches the satellite Prospero into low Earth orbit atop a Black Arrow carrier rocket, the only British satellite to date launched by a British rocket.
- October 29, 1971 – In Macon, Georgia, guitarist Duane Allman is killed in a motorcycle accident.
- 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 30, 1971 – Iran seizes the Greater and Lesser Tunbs from the United Arab Emirates.
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