November 1971 in History

Events in History

Event of Interest

Nov 1 Eisenhower dollar put into circulation

34th US President & WWII General Dwight D. Eisenhower

Nov 3 "Play Misty For Me" premieres
Nov 5 Bolivia passes death penalty for political kidnapping
Nov 6 US performs underground nuclear test at Amchitka Island Aleutians
Nov 9 David Storey's "Changing Room" premieres in London
Nov 9 John List kills family & moves to Colorado
Nov 10 US table tennis team arrived in China
Nov 11 Man-made earthslide at Kawasaki Japan, kills 15
Nov 13 Mariner 9, 1st to orbit another planet (Mars)
Nov 14 Enthronment of Pope Shenouda III as Pope of Alexandria

Historic Invention

Nov 15 Intel advertises 4004-processor

Semiconductor Pioneer and CEO of Intel Andrew Grove

Nov 16 The Compton inquiry is published, acknowledging that there was ill-treatment of internees, but rejected claims of systematic brutality or torture (Northern Ireland)
Nov 16 The US increase air activity to support the Cambodian government as fighting neared Phnom Penh
Nov 18 A British soldier is shot dead by the Irish Republican Army (IRA) in Belfast
Nov 18 China performs nuclear test at Lop Nor, PRC
Nov 20 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
Nov 21 Battle of Garibpur: Indian troops aided by the Mukti Bahini, Bengali guerrillas, defeat the army of Pakistan
Nov 21 Richard Baker becomes teacher of San Francisco Zen Center
Nov 22 A member of the Irish Republican Army (IRA) is killed in a premature bomb explosion in Lurgan, County Armagh
Nov 23 China People's Republic seated in UN Security Council
Nov 24 A British Army bomb-disposal specialist is killed by a bomb in Lurgan, County Armagh
Nov 24 A woman is killed after members of the Irish Republican Army carry out an attack on British soldiers in Strabane, County Tyrone
Nov 24 American "Dan Cooper" hijacks plane, extorts $200,000 ransom before jumping out of plane over Washington State, never seen again
Nov 24 Prison rebellion at Rahway State Prison, New Jersey

Event of Interest

Nov 25 British Labour Party leader Harold Wilson proposes Britain should work towards a withdrawal from Northern Ireland, and after 15 years; the Republic of Ireland could rejoin the British Commonwealth

Nov 27 Soviet Mars 2 becomes 1st spacecraft to crash land on Mars
Nov 27 Two Customs officials are shot by an Irish Republican Army sniper firing upon a British Army patrol investigating a bomb attack on a Customs Post near Newry, County Armagh
Nov 29 USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
Nov 30 The government of the Republic of Ireland states that it will take the allegations of brutality against the security forces in Northern Ireland to the European Court of Human Rights

Birthdays in History

Nov 7 Jamie Drummond, Scottish-Canadian sommelier, born in Edinburgh, Scotland
Nov 10 Mario Abdo Benítez, Paraguayan politician, President of Paraguay (2018-), born in Asunción, Paraguay
Nov 18 Thérèse Coffey, British politician (Deputy PM 2022-), born in Billinge, England
Nov 24 Cosmas Ndeti, three-time Boston Marathon winner
Nov 25 Dominic Cummings, English political strategist (Vote Leave campaign), born in Durham, England
Nov 27 Eric Menendez, American accused of killing his parents (Menendez Brothers), born in NYC
Nov 27 Sarah Kate Ellis, American journalist and human rights activist (head of GLAAD), born in New York City
Nov 30 Kristi Noem, American politician, Governor of South Dakota (2019-), born in Watertown, South Dakota

Deaths in History

Nov 1 Gertrud von Le Fort, German writer (The Eternal Woman), dies at 95
Nov 10 Walter Van Tilburg Clark, American author (Ox-Bow Incident), dies at 62
Nov 11 A. P. Herbert, English journalist and writer (Punch, Helen), dies at 81
Nov 11 Sylvia Brett, Lady Brooke and Ranee of Sarawak, dies at 86
Nov 15 Rudolf Abel, Soviet spy (b. 1903)
Nov 26 Joe Adonis, US crime-syndicate boss in NY & NJ, dies at 68
Nov 27 Korneel Goossens, Flemish literary figure and art historian, dies at 70
Nov 28 Grantley Herbert Adams, Premier of Barbados (1953-58) and Prime Minister of the West Indies Federation (1958-62), dies at 73
Nov 28 Wasfi Tal, Jordan's PM, assassinated by Black Sept in Cairo