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  1. 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

    • The Book of Mormon is published , Joseph Smith publishes his translation of the Book of Mormon in 1830. It was also the year that the church was consecrated.
    • The French Foreign Legion , Founded by Louis-Philippe of France, the Legion was formally recognized as part of the country's fighting forces on March 9th, 1831.
    • The Treaty of Constantinople , This is the treaty that resulted from 1932's Constantinople Conference between France, Britain, Russia and the Ottoman Empire.
    • The Falkland Islands retaken , An Argentine settlement on the East Falkland had been attacked by the USS Lexington in 1831, and was destroyed for impounding three American seal hunting ships.
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    • 1st January » Cigarette advertising e.g advertisements are banned on American television.
    • 1st January » Hellenic Railways Organisation, the Greek national railway company, is founded.
    • 2nd January » The second 1971 Ibrox disaster Ibrox disaster kills 66 fans at a Rangers F.C. Rangers-Celtic F.C. Celtic association football (soccer) match.
    • 8th January » Bowing to international pressure, President of Pakistan Zulfikar Ali Bhutto releases Bengali people or Bengali leader Sheikh Mujibur Rahman from prison, who had been arrested after declaring the independence of Bangladesh.
  3. March 1 - a bomb exploded in the Senate Wing of the US Capitol. A radical protest group calling themselves the Weather Underground, or the Weathermen, claimed responsibility. May 30 - the United States launched Mariner 9, an unmanned spacecraft. It was able to send back pictures of Mars.

  4. 1804. The Year New Jersey Abolishes Slavery. The Lewis and Clark Expedition. Napoleon Bonaparte Coronation. Twelfth Amendment To The Constitution. First Working Full Size Railway Steam Locomotive. 1805. The Battle of Austerlitz. Death Of Admiral Nelson During The Battle of Trafalgar.

  5. Jun 28, 2018 · Universal History Archive/Getty Images. Dr. James Marion Sims, a pioneering American gynecologist, is often credited with establishing the country’s first women’s hospital in Manhattan in 1855 ...

  6. Transpennine enlightenment: Literary and philosophical societies in the north of England, 1780-1800. This thesis is primarily concerned with the first two decades of the Manchester Literary and Philosophical Society, founded in 1781. Well known to historians of science and medicine, the society has….