Historical Events in 1971 (Part 3)

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• Aug 26 MLB Baltimore Orioles' Don Buford struck out 5 times in a game
• 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 30 WNPI TV channel 18 in Norwood, NY (PBS) begins broadcasting
• Aug 31 Adrienne Beames runs female world record marathon (2:46:30)
• Aug 31 An inquiry into allegations of brutality by the security forces against those interned without trial in Northern Ireland is announced

• Sep 1 Rolling Stones sue manager Allen Klein
• 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 psychiatrist's office in Los Angeles, but failed to find his file
• Sep 4 Alaskan 727 crashes into Chilkoot Mountain, kills 109 (Alaska)
• Sep 5 Astros pitcher J R Richard debut, strikes out 15 Giants in a 5-3 win
• Sep 5 NY Mets Don Hahn hits 1st inside the park homer at Phillies Vet

• 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 9 Apple Records releases John Lennon's second solo studio album, "Imagine" in US; it tops the charts in US, UK, Australia, and 3 other countries
• Sep 9 John Lennon and Yoko Ono appear on Dick Cavett Show (ABC-TV)
• Sep 9 NHL great Gordie Howe retires (for the first time), after 25 seasons with the Detroit Red Wings
• Sep 10 KVUE TV channel 24 in Austin, Texas (ABC) begins broadcasting
• 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 WIIQ TV channel 41 in Demopolis, AL (PBS) begins broadcasting
• Sep 13 World Hockey Association forms
• Sep 14 Cleveland Indians & Washington Senators, play 20 innings
• Sep 14 Two British soldiers are killed in separate shooting incidents in County Tyrone, Northern Ireland
• Sep 15 1st broadcast of "Columbo" starring Peter Falk on NBC
• 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 21 AL OKs Washington Senator move to Arlington (Texas Rangers)
• 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 24 Houston Astros beat San Diego Padres, 2-1, in 21 innings

• 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 26 WGBY TV channel 57 in Springfield, MA (PBS) begins broadcasting
• 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 NY Times reports growing interest of white youth in black gospel music
• Sep 28 UK passes the Misuse of Drugs Act banning the medicinal use of cannabis.
• Sep 29 "McMillan & Wife" debuts on NBC-TV
• 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
• Sep 30 Last Washington Senator home game, Yanks win career 5th forfeit game Yanks trailing 4-2 in 9th with 2 outs, fans rush field
• Oct 1 Joseph Luns becomes secretary-general of NATO
• Oct 1 Walt Disney World opens in Bay Lake, Florida
• Oct 2 Homing pigeon averages a record 133kph in an 1100km race in Australia

• Oct 4 Borden's opens a turn-of-century ice cream parlor at Disney World
• Oct 4 KMPH TV channel 26 in Visalia-Fresno, CA (IND) begins broadcasting
• 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 Apple Records releases John Lennon's second solo studio album, "Imagine" in UK; it tops the charts in US, UK, Australia, and 3 other countries
• Oct 8 John Lennon releases his megahit single "Imagine"
• Oct 8 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site

• Oct 9 USSR performs nuclear test at the Semipalatinsk Test Site in northeast Kazakhstan
• Oct 11 Frank McGee becomes news anchor of Today Show
• Oct 11 Switzerland recognizes North Vietnam
• Oct 13 WTZH TV channel 24 in Meridian, MS (CBS) suspends broadcasting
• 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 15 World's first arcade video game Computer Space developed by Syzygy first demonstrated at the MOA Show in the US
• 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 the Semipalatinsk Test Site in northeast Kazakhstan
• 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 23 WXLT (now WWSB) TV channel 40 in Sarasota-Bradenton, FL (ABC) begins
• 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 John Lennon and Yoko Ono record the single "Happy Xmas (War is Over)" in NYC

• 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 2 Baltimore Orioles pitcher Pat Dobson no-hits the Yomiuri Giants, 2 - 0; first no-hitter in history of exhibition play between American and Japanese teams

• Nov 3 "Play Misty For Me" premieres
• Nov 5 Bolivia passes death penalty for political kidnapping
• Nov 5 NBA's LA Lakers starts a 33 game consecutive victory streak
• 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 19 Disney World's Fort Wilderness opens
• 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 NY Rangers scores a NHL record 8 goals in 1 period
• 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 23 Danny Murtaugh, manager of MLB world champions Pittsburgh Pirates, announces his retirement
• 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 a plane, extorts $200,000 in ransom, jumps out of the plane over Washington State and is never seen again
• Nov 24 Braves catcher-infielder Earl Williams, wins NL Rookie of Year
• Nov 24 Prison rebellion at Rahway State Prison, New Jersey
• Nov 25 37th Heisman Trophy Award: Pat Sullivan, Auburn (QB)

• 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 1st pro golf championship at Walt Disney World
• Nov 29 USSR performs nuclear test at the Semipalatinsk Test Site in northeast Kazakhstan

• 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 1 John Lennon and Yoko Ono release single "Happy Xmas (War is Over)" in the US
• Dec 2 Frank Robinson is traded from the Baltimore Orioles to the Los Angeles Dodgers
• Dec 2 Soviet space probe Mars 3 is first to soft land on Mars
• Dec 2 Trucial States Abu Dhabi, Ajman, Dubai, Fujairah, Sharjah and Umm Al Quwain form the United Arab Emirates and declare independence from the United Kingdom

• 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 Montreux Casino, in Montreux, Switzerland, burns down to the ground after a fan fires a flare gun during concert by Frank Zappa and The Mothers of Invention; incident inspires rock band Deep Purple's song "Smoke on the Water"
• 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 Ian Dury performs his first gig with Kilburn and the High Roads at Croydon School of Art
• Dec 5 KCBJ (now KMIZ) TV channel 17 in Columbia, MO (ABC) 1st broadcast
• 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 7 Wings release their 1st album "Wild Life"

• 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 U.S. premiere of "Nicholas and Alexandra", film adaptation of Robert K. Massie's best selling novel
• Dec 14 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
• Dec 15 USSR performs nuclear test at the Semipalatinsk Test Site in northeast Kazakhstan
• Dec 16 Don McLean's 8+ minute version of "American Pie" released
• 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

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