Attica, D.B.
Cooper, San Fernando Earthquake, Pentagon Papers - 1971
A deadly riot at Attica, the successful
hijacking by D.B. Cooper, the publication of the Pentagon Papers,
the on-going protests against the Vietnam war, an earthquake
near Los Angeles, and a war between India and Pakistan were the
major stories on 1971.
January 1:
Advertising of cigarettes on radio and television ceases as the Public
Health Cigarette Smoking Act goes into effect.
January 25:
Uganda's President Milton Obote is overthrown by Idi Amin.
February 9:
An
earthquake centered 40 miles north of Los Angeles leaves 64 dead.
March 14:
Carole
King is the big winner at the Grammy
Awards held in Los Angeles.
April 17:
The United States table tennis team ends its week-long visit to China.
May 5:
More than 12,000 were arrested during three days of anti-war protests
in the Washington, D.C. Thousands were imprisoned in the Washington
Coliseum.
June 30:
Three
Soviet Soyuz 11 cosmonauts die when their oxygen supply
leaks due to a faulty valve during re-entry.
June 30:
The Supreme Court gives the go ahead for the New York Times and
Washington Post to resume publication of the Pentagon Papers.
July 1:
Ratification of the
26th Amendment to the Constitution, which granted voting rights to
18-year-olds, was completed when the legislature of the 38th State,
North Carolina, ratified it.
July 3:
Elections are held in Indonesia for the first time in 16 years.
August 15:
President Nixon orders a 90 day wage and price freeze.
September 13:
Over 1,000 state troopers storm and take back the state prison in
Attica, New York, leaving 10 hostages and 30 convicts dead.
October 23:
The United Nations recognizes the communists in Peking (Beijing) as
the legitimate government of China in a vote opposed by the United
States.
November 13:
Mariner
9 becomes the first space probe to orbit another planet as it
encounters Mars.
November 15:
The People's Republic of China
is seated at the United Nations for the first time.
November 24:
Hijacker
D.B. Cooper parachutes out of a 727 with $200,000 at 10,000 feet
and is never seen again.
December 3:
War breaks out between Pakistan and India over Kashmir.
December 10:
William Rehnquist becomes the fourth Nixon Supreme Court appointee to
be confirmed by Congress.
December 17:
A 15-day war between India and Pakistan over Bangladesh ends.
December 22:
Austrian Kurt
Waldheim is chosen as secretary-general of the United Nations.
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