Events in History in 1971 (Part 2)

Events 201 - 400 of 424

• Jul 1 Britain and Argentina sign accord about Falkland Islands
• Jul 1 Debt raised to build San Franisco's Golden Gate Bridge paid off

• Jul 1 North Carolina becomes 38th state to approve of lower voting age to 18, ratifying 26th amendment
• Jul 1 State of Washington becomes 1st state to ban sex discrimination
• Jul 1 Twenty-sixth Amendment, which lowers the voting age from 21 to 18, is ratified and becomes part of the United States Constitution
• Jul 2 USSR performs underground nuclear test
• Jul 4 France performs nuclear test at Mururoa atoll
• Jul 5 26th amendment to the US constitution certified (reduces voting age to 18)
• Jul 5 Simon Gray's "Butley" premieres in London
• Jul 6 A member of the Official Irish Republican Army (OIRA) is killed in a premature explosion in County Tipperary, Republic of Ireland
• Jul 6 Barend Biesheuvel government forms in Netherlands
• Jul 6 Dr Hastings Kamuzu Banda sworn in as President for Life of Malawi
• Jul 6 White House Plumbers unit formed to plug news leaks
• Jul 8 During street disturbances, British soldiers shoot dead two Catholic civilians in Free Derry; riots erupt, the Social Democratic and Labour Party withdraw from Stormont in protest
• Jul 8 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site

• Jul 10 Failed assassination attempt on King Hassan II of Morocco, 101 killed

• 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 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 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
• Aug 4 US launches 1st satellite into lunar orbit from manned spacecraft
• Aug 5 The British Parliament debate the security situation in Northern Ireland
• Aug 7 A Catholic man is shot dead by a British soldier in Belfast
• Aug 7 Apollo 15 returns to Earth
• Aug 8 A British soldier is shot dead by the Irish Republican Army in Belfast
• Aug 8 France performs nuclear test at Mururoa atoll
• Aug 9 Operation Demetrius (or Internment) is introduced in Northern Ireland allowing suspected terrorists to be indefinitely detained without trial; the security forces arrested 342 people suspected of supporting paramilitaries
• Aug 10 During the internment round-up operation in west Belfast, the Parachute Regiment kill 11 unarmed civilians in what became known as the Ballymurphy massacre
• Aug 11 4 people are shot dead in separate incidents in Belfast; three of them by the British Army, as violence continues following the introduction of Internment and Operation Demetrius
• Aug 11 Construction begins on Louisiana Superdome

• Aug 14 Bahrain proclaims independence after 110 years of British rule
• Aug 14 British begin internment without trial in Northern Ireland
• Aug 14 Cards Bob Gibson, 35, no-hits Pirates, 11-0
• Aug 14 France performs nuclear test
• Aug 15 Bahrain gains independence from Britain
• Aug 15 KVRL (now KRIV) TV ch 26 in Houston, Texas (Fox) begins
• Aug 15 The Social Democratic and Labour Party announce a campaign of civil disobedience in response to the introduction of Internment in Northern Ireland
• Aug 15 US President Richard Nixon announces 90-day freeze on wages, prices & rents
• Aug 16 Over 8,000 workers go on strike in Derry, Northern Ireland, in protest at the introduction of Internment (allowing suspected terrorists to be indefinitely detained without trial)

• Aug 20 FBI begins covert investigation of journalist Daniel Schorr
• Aug 22 Approximately 130 non-Unionist councillors announce their withdrawal from participation on district councils across Northern Ireland in protest against Internment (allowing suspected terrorists to be indefinitely detained without trial)
• Aug 22 Bolivian military coup led by army Col. Hugo Banzer, drives out leftist President Juan José Torres

• Aug 24 India beat England by 4 wickets, their win against the Poms
• Aug 25 Leader of the Social Democratic and Labour Party Gerry Fitt presents a number of allegations of brutality by the security forces in Northern Ireland to representatives of the United Nations
• Aug 26 Dutch Queen Juliana & Prince Bernhard visit Indonesia
• Aug 26 NY Giant football team announces they're leaving Bronx for New Jersey in 1975
• Aug 28 The US dollar is allowed to float against the Japanese yen for the first time.
• Aug 31 An inquiry into allegations of brutality by the security forces against those interned without trial in Northern Ireland is announced
• Sep 1 The Irish Republican Army set off a series of bombs across Northern Ireland injuring a number of people
• Sep 2 NY's Electric Circus Club goes out of business
• Sep 2 There are further Irish Republican Army bombs set off across the region, including one in Belfast which wrecked the headquarters of the Ulster Unionist Party
• Sep 3 A baby girl and an Ulster Defence Regiment (UDR) soldier are killed in separate shooting incidents in Northern Ireland
• Sep 3 Manlio Brosio resigns as secretary general of NATO
• Sep 3 Qatar regains complete independence from Britain
• Sep 3 Watergate team breaks into Daniel Ellsberg's doctor's office
• Sep 4 Alaskan 727 crashes into Chilkoot Mountain, kills 109 (Alaska)

• Sep 8 John F. Kennedy Center for Performing Arts opens in Washington, D.C.
• Sep 9 1,000 convicts riot & seize Attica, NY prison
• Sep 11 Egypt adopts its constitution
• Sep 13 11 guards & 31 prisoners die in take over at Attica State Prison

• Sep 13 Two North Ireland Loyalists are mortally injured when the bomb they were preparing exploded prematurely in a house in Bann Street, Belfast
• Sep 13 World Hockey Association forms
• Sep 14 Two British soldiers are killed in separate shooting incidents in County Tyrone, Northern Ireland
• Sep 16 6 Ku Klux Klansmen arrested in connection with bombing of 10 school buses
• Sep 16 A number of Unionists resign over the proposed tripartite talks involving Northern Ireland, the UK, and the Republic of Ireland

• Sep 22 OPEC directs members to negotiate price increases to offset the devaluation of the US dollar
• Sep 22 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
• Sep 23 2 members of the Official Irish Republican Army are killed in a premature bomb explosion

• Sep 24 90 Russian diplomats expelled from Britain for spying
• Sep 24 Eyskens-Cools disbands Belgium parliament
• Sep 26 MP David Bleakley resigns in protest over the introduction of Internment and the lack of any new political initiatives by the Northern Ireland government
• Sep 27 Tripartite talks involving the prime ministers of Northern Ireland, Britain, and the Taoiseach (Irish Prime Minister) of the Republic of Ireland take place at Chequers, England
• Sep 27 USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR
• Sep 28 Hungarian cardinal József Mindszenty after 15 years refuge in US Embassy in Budapest is allowed to leave the country
• Sep 28 UK passes the Misuse of Drugs Act banning the medicinal use of cannabis.
• Sep 29 Cyclone & tidal wave off Bay of Bengal kills as many as 10,000
• Sep 29 Orbiting Solar Observatory VII launched
• Sep 29 Ron Hunt is hit by a pitch for record 50th time in a season
• Sep 29 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
• Sep 30 -11/6] 3rd bishop synod held in Rome
• Sep 30 Ian Paisley and Desmond Boal launch the [Ulster] Democratic Unionist Party
• Oct 1 Joseph Luns becomes secretary-general of NATO
• Oct 2 Homing pigeon averages a record 133kph in an 1100km race in Australia
• Oct 4 USSR performs underground nuclear test
• Oct 5 A new sitting of the Northern Ireland parliament at Stormont begins, though the Social Democratic and Labour Party remain absent due to its continuing protest against Internment
• Oct 7 Northern Ireland Prime Minister Brian Faulkner meets with British Prime Minister Edward Heath; they agree to send an additional 1,500 British Army troops to Northern Ireland
• Oct 7 Terence McNally's play "Where has Tommy Flowers gone?" premieres in NYC
• Oct 8 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site

• Oct 9 USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
• Oct 11 Frank McGee becomes news anchor of Today Show
• Oct 11 Switzerland recognizes North Vietnam
• Oct 14 2 killed in Memphis racial disturbances
• Oct 15 The start of the 2,500-year celebration of Iran, celebrating the birth of Persia
• Oct 16 Amphitheater in McLaren Park is dedicated in San Francisco
• Oct 17 Cleveland Metroparks' Rocky River Nature Center opens
• Oct 17 It is estimated today that approximately 16,000 households were withholding rent and rates for council houses as part of the campaign of civil disobedience against internment organised by the Social Democratic and Labour Party, Northern Ireland
• Oct 19 A group of Northern Ireland Members of Parliament begin a 48 hour hunger strike against the policy of Internment
• Oct 19 Last issue of "Look" magazine is published
• Oct 20 The Nepal stock exchange collapses.

• Oct 21 USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
• Oct 21 William H Rehnquist & Lewis F Powell nominated to US Supreme Court by Nixon, following resignations of Justices Hugo Black & John Harlan
• Oct 22 USSR performs nuclear test
• Oct 23 Three Catholic civilians are shot dead by the British Army during an attempted robbery in Newry, County Down
• Oct 23 Two female members of the Irish Republican Army (IRA) are shot dead by the British Army in the Lower Falls area of Belfast
• Oct 24 A member of the Irish Republican Army (IRA) is shot dead by undercover Royal Ulster Constabulary officers during a bomb attack in Belfast
• Oct 24 Harry Drake sets longest arrow flight by a footbow (1 mile 268 yds)
• Oct 24 President of Sinn Féin Ruairi O'Brady, addresses a party conference in Dublin and proclaims that the North of Ireland must be made ungovernable as a first step to achieve a united Ireland
• Oct 24 Texas Stadium opens-Cowboys beat Patriots 44-21
• Oct 25 A man dies two days after being shot during an Irish Republican Army attack on the British Army in Belfast
• Oct 25 Belgium & People's Republic of China establish diplomatic relations
• Oct 25 General Meeting of UN agrees to admit People's Republic of China
• Oct 25 United Nations votes to expel the Chinese Nationalist ruled Taiwan and admit the Communist People's Republic of China
• Oct 26 An Assembly, attended only by Nationalist politicians, and acting as an alternative to Stormont, meet in Dungiven Castle
• Oct 26 UN votes to replace Taiwan with China
• Oct 27 Gerard Newe becomes the first Catholic to serve in any Northern Ireland government since 1920; Newe was appointed to try to improve community relations
• Oct 27 Republic of Congo-Kinshasa becomes Republic of Zaire

• Oct 28 United Kingdom becomes the 6th nation to have a satellite in orbit with the launch of Prospero
• Oct 31 The Irish Republican Army (IRA) explode a bomb at the Post Office Tower in London

• 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

• 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

• 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
• Dec 1 Cambodian Civil War: Khmer Rouge rebels intensify assaults on Cambodian government positions, forcing their retreat from Kompong Thmar and nearby Ba Ray.
• Dec 2 Abu Dhabi, Ajman, Dubai, Fujeira, Sharjah & Umm ak Qiwain form United Arab Emirates
• Dec 2 Soviet space probe Mars 3 is first to soft land on Mars
• Dec 2 United Arab Emirates (Trucial States) declares independence from UK

• Dec 3 India invades West Pakistan claiming hundreds of lives and starting the full scale Indo-Pakistani War of 1971
• 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 4 The Indian Navy attacks the Pakistan Navy and Karachi
• Dec 4 The UN Security Council calls an emergency session to consider the deteriorating situation between India and Pakistan
• Dec 5 Libya nationalizes British Petroleum concession
• 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 6 Lewis Franklin Powell confirmed as US Supreme Court justice
• 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 9 Lewis F. Powell Jr. appointed to US Supreme Court
• Dec 10 West German Chancellor Willy Brandt receives the Nobel Peace Prize
• Dec 10 William H Rehnquist confirmed as Supreme Court justice
• 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 11 The Libertarian Party of the United States is formed
• 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 The Pakistan Army executes an estimated 1,111 of East Pakistan's intellectuals during the Bangladesh Liberation War
• Dec 14 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
• Dec 15 USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR

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