The Year 1971
History and Politics
US planes bomb Vietcong supply routes in Cambodia; fighting in Indochina spreads to
Laos and Cambodia; US conducts large-scale bombing raids against N. Vietnam.
Canada and the People's Republic of China exchange diplomatic envoys; Mainland Cnina admitted to UN.
Major-General Idi Amin establishes himself as Ugandan strongman.
Whitney Young, American civil rights leader dies.
Lt. William Calley, Jr. found guilty of premeditated murder in Mylai massacre.
First segments of "Pentagon Papers" appear in "The New York Times".
Francois Duvalier, Haitian dictator dies.
The 26th Amendment of the US Constitution, allowing 18 year-olds to vote, ratified.
Violence worsens in Northern Ireland after Britian institutes policies
of preventive detention and internment without trial.
Nixon orders 90-day freeze on wages and prices and announces other ecomonic measures
designed to curb domestic inflation and strengthen the US balance of payment positions.
Lewis F. Powell, Jr. and William H. Rehnquist maned to US Supreme Court.
Nobel Peace Prize: Willy Brandt, W. Germany Chancellor.
India (fighting on the side of Bengali rebels) and Pakistan go to war.
Mao's heir-apparent Lin Piao, fleeing after an unsuccessful coup, dies in a mysterious air crash.
Wladyslaw Gomulka, former Pol. Communist Party boss, suspended from Party's Central Committe.
US and USSR sign treaty banning nuclear weapons on the ocean floor.
Algeria seizes majority control of all French oil and gas interests
within its borders but promises restitution.
US Congress votes to end funding of the supersonic transport project.
Korean President Chung Hee Park re-elected to a 3rd term.
Erich Honecker succeeds Walter Ulbricht as head of E. Germany's Communist Party.
Japan announces a self-imposed quota on its textile exports to the US.
A cyclone and tidal wave kill an estimated 10,000 people in Bengal.
Science, Technology, Growth
US Apollo 14 and 15 crews become the 3rd and 4th groups to explore the moon's surface.
Nobel Prize for Medicine: Earl W. Sutherland (US)
Nobel Prize for Physics: Dennis Gabor
US satellite Matiner 9, orbits Mars.
Three Russian cosmonauts die when their Soyuz 11 capsule developes
USSR soft-lands a space capsule on Mars.
The 327,400-ton tanker "Nisseki Maru" is launched in Japan, the largest ship built to date.
Dr. Choh Hao Li, at the Univ. of California, synthesizes the hormones that controls human growth.
American astronomers discover two "new" galaxies adjacent to earth's own galaxy, the Milky Way.
The US Atomic Energy Agency explodes a hydrogen bomb beneath Amchitka Island, Alaska.
Gigarette advertisements are banned from US television.
Baltimore Colts defeat Dallas Cowboys, 16-3 to win Super Bowel.
Rolls-Royce Ltd., declares bankruptcy.
William G. Wilson, founder of Alcoholics Anonymous dies.
Joe Frazier outpoints Muhammad Ali to retain world heavyweight boxing championship.
James Cash Penney, department store founder dies.
Audie Murphy, American World War II hero dies.
Montreal Conadians defeat Chicago Black Hawks to win hockey's Stanley Cup.
Milwaukee Bucks defeat Baltimore Bullets to win NBA championship.
Hank Aaron hits his 600th career home run, the 3rd player ever to reach that mark.
Pittsburgh Pirates win World Series over Baltimore Orioles, 4-3.
US devalues dollar; Japan and most European countries revalue their currencies upwards.
"Canonero II" wins Preakness and Kentucky Derby.
Tennis star Billy Jean King becomes first woman athlete to win $10,000 in a single year.
Charles Manson and 3 codefendants found guilty of Sharon Tate murder.
Los Angeles earthquake kills 60 and causes $1 billion in damages.
Postal strike leaves Britons without mail for 47 days.
Legalized offtrack betting entroduced in New York.
Amtrek begins to operate US passenger railroads.
Tricia Nixon marries Edward Finch Cox.
"Look" magazine folds.
20 bodies discovered buried in Yorba Linda, Ca.; Juan Corona, a farm labor contactor, accused of the murders.
10 guards and 32 prisoners are killed when police storm Attica prison following a 5 day uprising.
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