1971 Calendar
What Happened In Year 1971?
- January 1, 1971 – Cigarette advertisements are banned on American television.
- 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 – Idi Amin leads a coup deposing Milton Obote and becomes Uganda’s president.
- January 27, 1971 – New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Metal Pig in Chinese astrology.
- February 9, 1971 – Satchel Paige becomes the first Negro League player to be voted into the Baseball Hall of Fame.
- February 24, 1971 – The All India Forward Bloc holds an emergency central committee meeting after its chairman, Hemantha Kumar Bose, is killed 3 days earlier. P.K. Mookiah Thevar is appointed as the new chairman.
- March 25, 1971 – Bangladesh Liberation War: Beginning of Operation Searchlight by the Pakistani Armed Forces against East Pakistani civilians.
- March 26, 1971 – East Pakistan declares its independence from Pakistan to form People’s Republic of 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.
- 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.
- July 10, 1971 – Hassan II of Morocco survives an attempted coup d'état, which lasts until June 11.
- September 13, 1971 – State police and National Guardsmen storm New York’s Attica Prison to end a prison revolt.
- November 14, 1971 – Enthronment of Pope Shenouda III as Pope of Alexandria
- November 21, 1971 – Indian troops, partly aided by Mukti Bahini (Bengali guerrillas), defeat the Pakistan army in the Battle of Garibpur.
- December 4, 1971 – The United Nations Security Council calls an emergency session to consider the deteriorating situation between India and Pakistan.
- December 9, 1971 – Indo-Pakistani War: The Indian Air Force executes an airdrop of Indian Army units, bypassing Pakistani defences.
- December 18, 1971 – Capitol Reef National Park is established in Utah.
- December 20, 1971 – Zulfikar Ali Bhutto takes over as the fourth President of Pakistan.
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