Historical Events in 1971 (Part 2)

Events 201 - 400 of 633

• Apr 11 WBFF TV channel 45 in Baltimore, MD (IND) begins broadcasting
• Apr 14 Fort Point, San Francisco dedicated as a national historic site

• Apr 14 US Supreme Court upheld busing as means of achieving racial desegregation

• Apr 17 Egypt, Libya & Syria form federation (FAR)

• Apr 19 Sierra Leone becomes a republic (National Day)
• Apr 19 USSR Salyut 1 launched; 1st manned lab in orbit

• Apr 20 US Supreme Court upholds use of busing to achieve racial desegregation
• Apr 21 Original Codex Reguis (with Edda-liederen) returns to Iceland
• Apr 22 Soviet spacecraft Soyuz 10 launched
• Apr 22 Soyuz 10 launches as the world's first mission to the first-ever space station (the Salyut 1) however the docking was unsuccessful and the cosmonauts returned to Earth
• Apr 23 Columbia University operations virtually end, by student strike
• Apr 24 Soyuz 10 returns to Earth
• Apr 25 About 200,000 anti-Vietnam War protesters march on Washington, D.C.
• Apr 25 The Northern Ireland census is held
• Apr 25 US canal rights in Nicaragua & rights to Corn Islands expire
• Apr 25 USSR performs nuclear test at the Semipalatinsk Test Site in northeast Kazakhstan
• Apr 26 Heaviest rains ever in Bahia district of Brazil, 15" in 24 hrs
• Apr 26 San Francisco lightship replaced by automatic buoy
• Apr 26 Turkey state of siege proclaimed

• Apr 28 Dutch social democratic party/D'66/DS'70 win parliamentary election
• Apr 28 Samuel Lee Gravely Jr. becomes 1st black admiral in US Navy
• Apr 29 Boeing receives contract for Mariner 10, Mercury exploration
• Apr 29 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
• May 1 Amtrak Railroad begins operation
• May 1 Rolling Stones release single "Brown Sugar"
• May 3 "All Things Considered" premieres on 112 National Public Radio stations
• May 3 Erich Honecker succeeds Walter Ulbricht as East German communist party leader
• May 3 Pulitzer prize for General Non-Fiction awarded to John Toland for "The Rising Sun"
• May 3 US National Public Radio begins programming with newscast "All Things Considered"
• May 3 US President Nixon administration authorizes arrest of 13,000 anti-war protesters in 3 days
• May 5 Race riot in Brownsville section of Brooklyn (NYC)

• May 9 American Beth Bonner runs female world record marathon (3:01:42) in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
• May 9 Friends of Earth return 1500 non-returnable bottles to Schweppes
• May 9 Largest walk in crowd (31,626) in Baltimore Oriole history
• May 10 US special delivery rates go from 45 cents to 60 cents
• May 11 Cleveland's pitcher Steve Dunning hits a grand slam off Oakland Athletics pitcher Diego Seguí
• May 13 Grace Slick of Jefferson Airplane seriously injured in a car accident
• May 15 Irish Republican Army member William 'Billy' Reid is shot dead by British soldiers in Belfast
• May 15 Radio Nordsee International's ship bombed

• May 16 Bulgaria adopts its constitution
• May 16 US 1st class postage now costs 8 cents (was 6 cents)
• May 17 Stephen Schwartz' musical "Godspell" premieres off-Broadway
• May 17 Washington State bans sex discrimination
• May 18 Bulgarian constitution comes into effect

• May 18 US President Richard Nixon rejects 60 demands of Congressional Black Caucus
• May 18 Vampire rapist Wayne Boden's last victim found in Calgary, Alberta
• May 19 USSR launches Mars 2, becomes the 1st spacecraft to crash land on Mars
• May 20 Pentagon reports blacks constitute 11% of US soldiers in SE Asia

• May 21 National Guard mobilizes to quell riot in Chattanooga, Tennessee
• May 22 A British soldier is killed by members of the Official Irish Republican Army in Belfast
• May 23 American rock group Iron Butterfly ("In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida") disbands
• May 24 A commuter bus plunges into Panama Canal, killing 38 of 43 aboard
• May 25 The Provisional Irish Republican Army throw a time bomb into Springfield Road British Army base in Belfast, killing British Army Sergeant Michael Willetts and wounding seven officers
• May 25 USSR performs nuclear test at the Semipalatinsk Test Site in northeast Kazakhstan

• May 28 USSR Mars 3 launched, 1st spacecraft to soft land on Mars
• May 29 "Court Room" by Clarence Carter hits #61
• May 30 36 hospitalized during Grateful Dead concert; drunk LSD apple juice
• May 30 Train crash at Duivendrecht, Netherlands, 5 die
• May 30 US Mariner 9 1st satellite to orbit Mars launched

• May 31 WDXR (now WKPD) TV channel 29 in Paducah, KY (PBS) begins broadcasting

• Jun 4 J Luns appointed secretary-general of NATO
• Jun 4 Oakland A's beat Washington Senators, 5-3, in 21 innings
• Jun 4 Pakistani cricketer Zaheer Abbas scores 274 vs England at Edgbaston in 544 minutes
• Jun 6 Air West flight 706 collides with a US Marine Corps F-4B Phantom jet over Los Angeles killing all 49 aboard the DC-6 and the pilot of the F-4B

• Jun 6 Soyuz 11 takes 3 cosmonauts to Salyut 1 space station
• Jun 6 WHAE (now WGNX) TV channel 46 in Atlanta, Georgia (CBN) begins broadcasting
• Jun 6 Willie Mays hits record 22nd (& last) extra inning HR
• Jun 7 Soviet Soyuz 11 crew completes 1st transfer to orbiting Salyut space station
• Jun 8 General Officer Commanding the British Army Harry Tuzo, then claims that a permanent military solution to the 'troubles' in Northern Ireland could not be achieved
• Jun 8 North Vietnam demands US end aid to South Vietnam
• Jun 8 White Sox draft Danny Goodwin #1, he refuses to sign
• Jun 9 Abdul Zahir appointed premier of Afghanistan
• Jun 9 Paul McCartney's album "Ram" goes gold
• Jun 10 11 die in a train crash in Salem, Illinois
• Jun 10 44th National Spelling Bee: Jonathan Knisely wins spelling "shalloon"
• Jun 11 US & Japan sign accord to return Okinawa to Japan
• Jun 11 US ends ban on China trade
• Jun 13 "The New York Times" begins publishing excerpts from the Pentagon Papers, classified documents on the long history of the U.S. in Vietnam
• Jun 13 In defiance of a government ban, members of the Orange Order march through the mainly Catholic town of Dungiven, County Londonderry, causing a riot
• Jun 15 Vernon E Jordan Jr, appointed exec director of National Urban League
• Jun 16 Groningen soccer team forms in Groningen, Netherlands
• Jun 16 Racial disturbance in Jacksonville, Florida

• Jun 18 Social Democratic and Labour Party and Nationalist Members of Parliament refuse to attend the state opening of Stormont (North Ireland Parliament)
• Jun 19 Mayor declares state of emergency in Columbus Georgia due to racial disturbance

• Jun 21 International Court of Justice asks South Africa to pull out of Namibia
• Jun 21 MLB Cleveland Indians Ken Harrelson retires from baseball to play pro golf
• Jun 22 Pretoria court rules that the former leader of the banned Pan Africanist Congress (PAC), Robert Sobukwe, will not be allowed to use his exit permit to leave South Africa for study in the United States

• Jun 23 MLB Philadelphia Phillies Rick Wise no-hits Reds, and hits 2 HR's and 3 RBI in 4-0 win at Cincinnati
• Jun 23 WTVP TV channel 47 in Peoria, IL (PBS) begins broadcasting

• Jun 27 Bill Graham's New York rock venue Fillmore East closes down, to be succeeded by Fillmore West in San Francisco

• Jun 30 Crew of Russian space mission Soyuz 11 found dead upon arrival on earth becoming the only people to die in space
• 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 11 Chilean parliament nationalizes American copper mines
• Jul 11 Phillies Deron Johnson 3 HRs caps his 4 in a row
• 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 15 US President Richard Nixon announces he will visit the People's Republic of China

• 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 24 WUHQ TV channel 41 in Battle Creek, Michigan (ABC) begins broadcasting
• 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 28 Dutch ends censorship of "Blue Movie"
• Jul 30 38th NFL Chicago All Star Game: Baltimore 24, All Stars 17 (52,289)
• 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 4-time Eredivisie soccer champions Go Ahead from Dutch city of Deventer add 'Eagles' to famous name
• 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 1 CBS presents the first episode of BBC production "The Six Wives of Henry VIII", continuing weekly until September 5th
• Aug 1 George Harrison's benefit concerts for Bangladesh (2 shows) take place at Madison Square Garden, NYC; performers include Bob Dylan, Ringo Starr, Ravi Shankar, Eric Clapton, Billy Preston, and Leon Russell

• Aug 3 Paul McCartney announces formation of his group Wings
• 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 5 WNPE TV channel 16 in Watertown, NY (PBS) begins broadcasting
• 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 16 baseball researchers form Society for American Baseball Research
• 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 11 Harmon Killebrew hits HRs #500 & 501

• 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 Charles Lismont wins Helsinki marathon (2:13:09.0)

• 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 23 WGTU TV channel 29 in Traverse City, MI (ABC) begins broadcasting
• Aug 24 India beat England by 4 wickets, their win against the Poms

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