Search results
People also ask
What events happened in 1971?
What happened on September 11 1971?
What happened in 1970?
What happened on April 11th 1970?
1971 Major News Events in History. The New York Times begins to publish sections of the Pentagon Papers ; The Voting Age in the United States is lowered to 18 yrs old when the 26th Amendment to the US Constitution is ratified; Border battles between India and Pakistan erupt into full-scale war; The Walt Disney World Theme Park is opened in Florida
1971. Jan uary. Feb ruary. Mar ch. Apr il. May. Jun e. Jul y. Aug ust. Sep tember. Oct ober. Nov ember. Dec ember. Events. Birthdays. Deaths. Events 1 - 200 of 420. Jan 1 Cigarette advertisements banned on TV. Jan 4 Dr Melvin H Evans inaugurated as 1st elected governor of Virgin Is. Jan 5 1st one-day international, Australia v England at the MCG.
- January 2, 1971 – The second Ibrox disaster kills 66 fans at a Rangers-Celtic association football (soccer) match.
- January 12, 1971 – The Harrisburg Seven: The Reverend Philip Berrigan and five others are indicted on charges of conspiring to kidnap Henry Kissinger and of plotting to blow up the heating tunnels of federal buildings in Washington, D.C.
- January 21, 1971 – The current Emley Moor transmitting station, the tallest free-standing structure in the United Kingdom, begins transmitting UHF broadcasts.
- January 25, 1971 – Charles Manson and three female “Family” members are found guilty of the 1969 Tate-LaBianca murders.
What Happened in 1971 History. The U.S. voting age is lowered from 21 to 18 years old when the 26th amendment is ratified. The Walt Disney World Resort is opened in Orlando, Florida. The Pentagon Papers are published by the New York Times. Qatar and Sierra Leone become independent from England.
The year 1971. Events: October 1 Walt Disney World opens in Orlando, Florida, October 10 The London Bridge reopens in Lake Havasu City, Arizona after being sold, take apart, shipped, and rebuilt. November 14 Mariner 9 reaches Mars and becomes the first spacecraft to orbit another planet.
June 17 - the Japanese Foreign Minister, Kiichi Aichi and US Secretary of State, William P Rogers signed a treaty returning Okinawa and other Ryukyu islands to Japan after American occupation in the Second World War. The US retained eighty-eight military installations on the islands.
What happened in 1970 Major News Stories include Major News Stories include Concorde first supersonic flight, Jumbo Jet goes into service, Isle of Wight Festival, Chicago Seven found guilty, Aswan High Dam completed, US and the UK lowers the voting age to 18, 100,000 demonstrate in Washington DC against the Vietnam War, First Earth Day, Beatles ...