1971 Calendar
What Happened In Year 1971?
- January 25, 1971 – Himachal Pradesh becomes the 18th Indian state.
- January 27, 1971 – New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Metal Pig in Chinese astrology.
- February 3, 1971 – New York Police Officer Frank Serpico is shot during a drug bust in Brooklyn and survives to later testify against police corruption. Many believe the incident proves that NYPD officers tried to kill him.
- February 21, 1971 – The Convention on Psychotropic Substances is signed at Vienna.
- February 25, 1971 – The first unit of the Pickering Nuclear Generating Station, the first commercial nuclear power station in Canada, goes online.
- March 25, 1971 – The Army of the Republic of Vietnam abandon an attempt to cut off the Ho Chi Minh trail in Laos.
- March 29, 1971 – A Los Angeles, California jury recommends the death penalty for Charles Manson and three female followers.
- April 7, 1971 – President Richard Nixon announces his decision to increase the rate of American troop withdrawals from Vietnam.
- April 24, 1971 – Soyuz 10 docks with Salyut 1.
- June 6, 1971 – Soyuz program: Soyuz 11 launches.
- August 15, 1971 – Bahrain gains independence from the United Kingdom.
- August 27, 1971 – An attempted coup fails in the African nation of Chad. The Government of Chad accuses Egypt of playing a role in the attempt and breaks off diplomatic relations.
- September 8, 1971 – In Washington, D.C., the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts is inaugurated, with the opening feature being the premiere of Leonard Bernstein’s Mass.
- September 9, 1971 – The four-day Attica Prison riot begins, which eventually results in 39 dead, most killed by state troopers retaking the prison.
- September 26, 1971 – The Freetown Christiania was founded.
- October 10, 1971 – Sold, dismantled and moved to the United States, London Bridge reopens in Lake Havasu City, Arizona.
- November 28, 1971 – Wasfi al-Tal, Prime Minister of Jordan, is assassinated by the Black September unit of the Palestine Liberation Organization.
- December 4, 1971 – The Montreux Casino in Switzerland is set ablaze by someone wielding a flare gun during a Frank Zappa concert; the incident would be noted in the Deep Purple song “Smoke on the Water”.
- December 6, 1971 – Pakistan severs diplomatic relations with India following New Delhi’s recognition of Bangladesh.
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