1971 in History (Part 5)

Events in History

Events 401 - 449 of 449

Dec 2 Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan is appointed President of the United Arab Emirates

Dec 3 US President Richard Nixon commutes Jimmy Hoffa's jail term

Dec 3 Indo-Pakistani War of 1971: India invades West Pakistan and a full scale war begins claiming hundreds of lives.
Dec 4 The UN Security Council calls an emergency session to consider the deteriorating situation between India and Pakistan
Dec 4 The Indian Navy attacks the Pakistan Navy and Karachi
Dec 4 McGurk's Bar bombing: the UVF explode a bomb at a Catholic-owned pub in Belfast, killing fifteen Catholic civilians and wounding seventeen others; this was the highest death toll from a single incident in Belfast during 'the Troubles'
Dec 5 Libya nationalizes British Petroleum concession
Dec 6 Lewis Franklin Powell confirmed as US Supreme Court justice
Dec 6 A woman dies trying to salvage property from the Salvation Army Citadel in Belfast after bomb which started a large fire in an adjoining building
Dec 7 "Wild & Wonderful" opens/closes at Lyceum Theater NYC
Dec 7 An off duty member of the Ulster Defence Regiment is shot dead by members of the Irish Republican Army in County Tyrone, Northern Ireland

Dec 10 West German Chancellor Willy Brandt receives the Nobel Peace Prize

Dec 10 William H Rehnquist confirmed as Supreme Court justice
Dec 11 The Libertarian Party of the United States is formed.
Dec 11 A bomb explodes outside a furniture showroom on the mainly-Protestant and loyalist Shankill Road, Belfast; four civilians (including two babies) were killed and nineteen wounded
Dec 13 John Sinclair (sentence: 10 yrs, sold 2 marijuana joints) is freed
Dec 14 Golden Gate Bridge lights out all night due to power failure
Dec 14 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
Dec 14 The Pakistan Army executes an estimated 1,111 of East Pakistan's intellectuals during the Bangladesh Liberation War
Dec 15 USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
Dec 16 Vijay Diwas (Victory Day): East Pakistan's independence (as Bangladesh) from Pakistan is recognized internationally after India's army occupies Dacca, and 93,000 West Pakistani troops surrender
Dec 16 Don McLean's 8+ minute version of "American Pie" released
Dec 17 Cease fire between India & Pakistan in Kashmir
Dec 17 Radio Bangladesh begins transmitting
Dec 18 People United To Save Humanity (PUSH) formed by Jesse Jackson in Chicago
Dec 18 US dollar devalued 7.9% in Holland ($1=Ÿ3,245)
Dec 18 Three members of the Irish Republican Army die when the bomb they were transporting explodes prematurely in King Street, Magherafelt, County Derry.
Dec 19 NASA launches Intelsat 4 F-3 for COMSAT Corp
Dec 20 Pakistan president Yahya Khan resigns

Dec 20 First preview issue of "Ms" magazine is published in the US launched by Gloria Steinem

Dec 21 UN Security Council chooses Kurt Waldheim as 4th Secretary-General
Dec 21 A publican is killed as he tried to remove a bomb from his pub, Northern Ireland
Dec 22 UN General Assembly ratifies former Austrian President Kurt Waldheim as Secretary-General
Dec 22 USSR performs underground nuclear test

Dec 23 British Prime Minister Edward Heath visits Northern Ireland and expresses his determination to end the violence

Dec 24 Peruvian Airlines Electra crashes at headwaters of Amazon, killing all except Juliane Margaret Koepcke found 10 days later
Dec 25 Operation PUSH (People United to Save Humanity) formed by Jesse Jackson
Dec 25 Worst hotel fire in history kills 163 at Taeyokale Hotel in Seoul
Dec 28 Hashish now falls under the Dutch Opium Law (Opiumwet)
Dec 30 USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
Dec 30 A member of the Irish Republican Army is killed in a premature bomb explosion in Santry, Dublin.
Dec 31 Lt Gen Robert E Cushman, Jr, USMC, ends term as deputy director of CIA
Dec 31 Edmund Compton, then Northern Ireland Ombudsman, is replaced by John Benn