Historical Events in January 1971

Jan 3 AFC Championship Game: Baltimore Colts beat Oakland Raiders 27-17

Jan 3 NFC Championship Game: Dallas Cowboys beat San Francisco 49ers 17-10
Jan 4 Dr Melvin H Evans inaugurated as 1st elected governor of Virgin Is
Jan 4 Ohio agrees to pay $675,000 to relatives of Kent State victims
Jan 4 Philadelphia's Veteran's Stadium dedicated
Jan 5 1st one-day international, Australia v England at the MCG
Jan 5 Globetrotters lose 100-99 to NJ Reds, ending 2,495-game win streak
Jan 5 Body of US heavyweight Charles "Sonny" Liston (36) found; he had been dead for an estimated 6 days.
Jan 6 Berkeley chemists announces 1st synthetic growth hormones
Jan 6 Cecil Partee elected president pro tem of Illinois state senate

Jan 6 Neil Young returns to his homeland of Canada for his first concert there since his pre-stardom days

Jan 7 -40°F (-40°C) in Hawley Lake, Arizona (state record)
Jan 8 29 pilot whales beach themselves & die at San Clemente Island, California
Jan 8 Voyageurs National Park, Minn, established
Jan 9 "Lovely Ladies, Kind Gentlemen" closes at Majestic NYC after 19 performances
Jan 10 "Light, Lively & Yiddish" closes at Belasco Theater NYC after 87 performances
Jan 10 Bollingen Prize for poetry awarded to Richard Wilbur
Jan 10 Irish Republican Army (IRA) carry out a 'punishment attack', tarring and feathering 4 men accused of criminal activities in Belfast
Jan 11 Tigers ace reliever John Hiller, 27, sufferes a heart attack, but later makes a remarkable comeback to record 38 saves
Jan 12 "All in the Family" premieres on CBS featuring 1st toilet flush on TV
Jan 12 "Soon" opens at Ritz Theater NYC for 3 performances
Jan 12 Congressional Black Caucus organizes

Jan 12 US Federal grand jury indicts Rev Philip Berrigan & 5 others, including a nun & 2 priests, on charges of plotting to kidnap Henry Kissinger

Jan 12 Negotiations over price of petroleum begin in Tehran between 6 OPEC Persian Gulf states and 22 oil companies
Jan 12 2 bombs explode at UK Employment Secretary Robert Carr's home
Jan 12 21st NBA All-Star Game: West beats East 108-107 at San Diego
Jan 13 "Soon" closes at Ritz Theater NYC after 3 performances
Jan 14 John Snow takes 7-40 for England to beat Australia by 299 runs
Jan 15 "Ari" opens at Mark Hellinger Theater NYC for 19 performances
Jan 15 Aswan Dam official opens in Egypt

Jan 15 George Harrison releases "My Sweet Lord" single in the UK

Jan 16 Ard Schenk skates world record 1500m (1:58.7)
Jan 17 Super Bowl V: Balt Colts-16, Dallas Cowboys-13 in Miami Super Bowl MVP: Chuck Howley, Dallas, LB
Jan 17 At a party conference in Dublin, Sinn Féin end their 65 year abstentionist policy and agree that any elected representative could take their seat at the Dáil
Jan 18 Ivan Koloff beats Bruno Sammartino in New York, to become WWF champ

Jan 18 Northern Ireland Prime Minister James Chichester-Clark meets British Home Secretary Reginald Maudling
Jan 19 "No, No Nanette" opens at 46th St Theater NYC for 861 performances
Jan 19 24th NHL All-Star Game: West beat East 2-1 at Boston

Jan 19 The Beatles' "Helter Skelter" is played at Charles Manson trial

Jan 19 NHL Writers' Association renamed Professional Hockey Writers' Association
Jan 20 Ard Schenk skates world record 1000m (1:18.8)

Jan 20 John Lennon meets Yoko Ono's parents in Japan

Jan 20 Single "What's Going On" by Marvin Gaye about police brutality is released

Jan 22 John Lennon and Yoko Ono record "Power to the People"

Jan 23 -80°F (-62°C) in Prospect Creek Camp, Alaska (US record)
Jan 23 4th ABA All-Star Game: East 126 beats West 122 at Carolina
Jan 23 UCLA loses to Notre Dame, UCLA then wins next 88 games in a row
Jan 23 Riots break out in the Shankill Road area of Belfast, North Ireland
Jan 23 Britain allowed to sell arms to S. Africa, after Commonwealth Conference in Singapore ends in compromise
Jan 24 NFL Pro Bowl: NFC beats AFC 27-6
Jan 25 Charles Manson & 3 women followers convicted of Tate-LaBianca murders
Jan 25 Himachal Pradesh becomes 18th Indian state

Jan 25 Military coup in Uganda under Major General Idi Amin

Jan 25 Philadelphia mint's 1st trial strike of Eisenhower dollar

Jan 25 WHMB TV channel 40 in Indianapolis, IN (IND) begins broadcasting
Jan 25 The 170 delegates of the Ulster Unionist Council (UUC) call for the resignation of Northern Ireland Prime Minister James Chichester-Clark
Jan 26 Dutch 2nd Chamber accepts law against limitation of war crimes
Jan 27 Montgomery St Station, last link in Bay Area Rapid Transit in San Francisco, 'holed thru'
Jan 27 The body of a man who had been shot dead is found in Belfast
Jan 28 1971 NFL Draft: Jim Plunkett from University of Stanford first pick by New England Patriots
Jan 29 Test debut of Dennis Keith Lillee, v England at Adelaide
Jan 30 "Ari" closes at Mark Hellinger Theater NYC after 19 performances
Jan 30 Dennis Lillee takes 5-84 in his 1st Test bowl, v England
Jan 30 UCLA starts 88 basketball game win streak
Jan 31 "My Sweet Lord" by George Harrison hits #1 on UK pop chart
Jan 31 Apollo 14 launched, 1st landing in lunar highlands
Jan 31 Special Veterans Committee adds 6 former players and 1 executive to the Baseball Hall of Fame: Dave Bancroft, Jake Beckley, Chick Hafey, Harry Hooper, Joe Kelley, Rube Marquard and George Weiss
Jan 31 US female Figure Skating championship won by Janet Lynn
Jan 31 US male Figure Skating championship won by John Misha Petkevich
Jan 31 Dave Bancroft & George Weiss elected to baseball Hall of Fame