July 1971 in History

Events in History

Jul 9 Henry Kissinger visits the People's Republic of China to negotiate a detente between the US and China

Jul 10 National Women's Political Caucus (NWPC) founded in US by women including Bella Abzug, Betty Friedan, Shirley Chisholm, Myrlie Evers-Williams and Gloria Steinem

Jul 11 Chilean parliament nationalizes American copper mines
Jul 11 The Irish Republican Army set off a number of bombs in the centre of Belfast injuring a number of people
Jul 12 Juan Corona, indicted for 25 murders

Jul 15 US President Richard Nixon announces he will visit the People's Republic of China

Jul 16 Franco appoints prince Juan Carlos as deputy in Spain

Jul 16 The Social Democratic and Labour Party (SDLP) withdraw from Stormont (North Ireland Parliament) after no inquiry is announced into the shooting dead of Seamus Cusack and Desmond Beattie
Jul 19 Sudan military coup under maj Hashem al-Atta, Numeiry flees

Jul 21 Sam Giancana returns to the United States after spending seven years of exile in Mexico

Jul 21 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
Jul 22 Sudanese military counter-coup under premier Numeiry
Jul 23 The British Army carry out early morning raids across Northern Ireland and arrest 48 people
Jul 26 Apollo 15 launched (Scott and Irwin) to 4th manned landing on Moon
Jul 28 16 time gold glover Brook Robinson commits 3 errors in 6th inning
Jul 30 All Nippon Airways Flight 58 collides with a Japan Air Self-Defense Force F-86F near Shizukuishi, Japan, killing all 162 aboard the Boing 727
Jul 30 US Apollo 15 (Scott & Irwin) lands on Mare Imbrium on the Moon
Jul 31 Apollo 15 astronauts take 6½ hour electric car ride on Moon
Jul 31 Venezuela's Hydrocarbons Reversion Law mandates gradual transfer to government ownership of all "unexploited concession areas" by 1974 and "all their residual assets" by 1983

Jul 3 Australian founder of Wikileaks, born in Townsville, Queensland

Jul 4 Koko, sign-language gorilla, born in San Francisco Zoo (San Francisco, California)
Jul 7 Alistair Potts, British rower, born in Chertsey, United Kingdom
Jul 9 Marc Andreessen, American software developer
Jul 17 Cory Doctorow, Canadian author and activist, born in Toronto, Ontario

Jul 28 Leader of Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), born in Samarra, Iraq

Jul 4 August Derleth, American writer (Judge Peck Mysteries) and editor, dies of a heart attack at 62
Jul 4 Maurice Bowra, British classics scholar (Greek experience), dies at 73
Jul 4 Thomas C. Hart, U.S. admiral and commander (Pacific Fleet), dies at 94
Jul 6 Horst Lange, German writer (The Long Lament), dies at 66
Jul 6 Thomas C Heart, US admiral/commander (Asiatic fleet), dies
Jul 7 Claude Gauvreau, Canadian writer (b. 1925)
Jul 7 Ub Iwerks, American artist, director, and cartoonist (b1901)
Jul 10 Harry M O'Connor, dies of pneumonia at 98
Jul 10 Mohamed Madbouh, Moroccan general/putschist, shot to death
Jul 10 Samuel Bronfman, Jewish-Russian-Canadian businessman, distiller (founder of Seagrams), and philanthropist, dies at 82

Jul 11 American psychologist (Perceptron), dies in a boating accident at 43

Jul 11 John W. Campbell, American sci-fi writer (Space Beyond), dies at 61
Jul 16 H T Tsiang, dies at 65
Jul 17 Gerald Nye, American politician and Republican US Senator from North Dakota (1925-1945), dies after mistakenly being prescribed penicillin to which he was allergic at 78
Jul 26 Diane Arbus [Nemerov], American photographer (Vogue, Harper's Bazaar), commits suicide at 48 [1]
Jul 28 Charles E. Pont, American artist, dies at 73
Jul 30 Kenneth Slessor, Australian poet (b. 1901)