1971
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| Years : | 1968 1969 1970 1971 1972 1973 1974 |
| Centuries: | 19th century · 20th century · 21st century |
| Decades: | 1940s 1950s 1960s 1970s 1980s 1990s 2000s |
| Years: | 1968 1969 1970 1971 1972 1973 1974 |
Contents |
[edit] Births
- January 8 - Jason Giambi, Major League Baseball All-Star
- January 9 - Scott Thornton, National Hockey League Left Winger
- January 11 - Mary J. Blige, pop singer
- January 17 - Kid Rock, singer
- January 18 - Jon Davis, singer of the rock group Korn
- January 19 - Shawn Wayans, actor, writer, producer
- John Wozniak, singer, songwriter of Marcy Playground
- January 21 - Alan McManus, Scottish snooker player
- January 25 - Luca Badoer, Formula One driver from Italy
- January 27 - Fann Wong, Chinese actress, singer, model (Shanghai Knights)
- February 1 - Jill Kelly, erotic actress
- February 3 - Sarah Kane, English playwright (died 1999)
- February 17 - Denise Richards, actor
- February 25 - Sean Astin, actor
- February 26 - Erykah Badu, singer
- February 28 - Tristan Louis, writer
- March 5 - John Frusciante, musician, former member of Red Hot Chili Peppers
- March 10 - Ugonna Wachuku, creative writer, author
- March 11 - Johnny Knoxville, ("Jackass"), television personality
- March 27 - David Coulthard, Formula One racing driver
- March 31 - Pavel Bure, hockey player
- Ewan McGregor, actor
- April 1 - Method Man, musician
- April 2 - Todd Woodbridge, tennis player
- April 16 - Selena Quintanilla, Mexican-American tejano music singer and murder victim (died 1995)
- May 26 - Ivan O. Godfroid, writer
- Uno introduced.
[edit] Deaths
- January 5 - Douglas Shearer, film sound engineer
- January 6 - Sonny Liston, American boxer
- January 9 - Elmer Flick, baseball player (born 1876)
- January 10 - Coco Chanel, fashion designer
- January 19 - Harry Shields, jazz musician (born 1899)
- January 20 - Gilbert M. 'Broncho Billy' Anderson, actor, director, writer, and producer
- January 27 - Jacobo Arbenz, President of Guatemala (born 1913)
- January 28 - Donald Winnicott, British psychoanalyst
- February 11 - Whitney Young Jr, National Urban League director
- February 25 - Theodor Svedberg, Swedish chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1884)
- February 26 - Fernandel, French comedian
- March 6 - Thurston Dart, English harpsichordist and conductor (born 1921)
- March 8 - Harold Lloyd, silent screen comedian
- March 11 - Philo T. Farnsworth, television pioneer
- March 16 - Thomas Dewey, American Presidential candidate
- April 3 - Joseph Valachi, gangster (born 1904)
- April 6 - Igor Stravinsky, composer
- April 19 - Earl Thomson, Canadian athlete
- April 21 - Papa Doc Duvalier, President of Haiti
- July 6 - Louis Armstrong, American musician
[edit] Events
- January 1 - British divorce Reform Act comes into force
- January 2 - 66 die in stairway crush at Rangers v Celtic football match, Glasgow, Scotland. See Ibrox disaster.
- January 2 - A ban on television cigarette advertisements goes into effect in the United States.
- January 3 - BBC Open University begins in the United Kingdom
- January 7 - Howard Hughes breaks his silence to announce that his supposed biography is a forgery.
- January 8 – Tupamaros kidnap Geoffrey Jackson, British ambassador to Uruguay, in Montevideo; they keep him captive until September
- January 9 – Uruguayan president Jorge Pacheco Areco demands emergency powers for 90 days due to kidnappings and receives them the next day
- January 14 – 70 Brazilian political prisoners released in Santiago. Giovanni Enrico Bucher is released January 16
- January 15 - Aswan Dam officially opened
- January 18 – Strikes in Poland demand resignation of interior minister Kazimierz Switala. He resigns January 23 and is replaced by Franciszek Szlachcic
- January 19 – Representatives of 23 western oil companies begin negotiations with OPEC in Tehran to stabilize oil prices. February 14 they sign a treaty with six Persian Gulf countries
- January 19 - No, No Nanette premieres (46th Street Theatre, New York City)
- January 24 – Guinean government sentences to death 92 Guineans who helped Portuguese troops in the failed landing attempts in November 1970. 72 are sentenced to hard labor for life. 58 of the sentenced are hanged the next day
- January 25 - Charles Manson and three female "family members" are found guilty of the 1969 murder of Sharon Tate and others at Sharon's house
- January 25 - Idi Amin leads a coup deposing Milton Obote and becomes Uganda's president
- January 25 - Himachal Pradesh becomes the 18th Indian state
- January 31 - Apollo program: US spaceflight Apollo 14, commanded by Alan Shepard, lifts off on the third successful lunar landing mission.
- Nelvana, an animation company is founded in Canada
- Heinrich Böll becomes the president of the International Pen Club for four years.
- Pakastan attacks India.
- Bangladesh becomes a nation.
- Masterpiece Theatre premires on PBS.
- DIC, an animation company, is founded in Paris, France
[edit] Films released
- 200 Motels
- And Now For Something Completely Different
- Billy Jack
- Clockwork Orange
- Dirty Harry
- Fiddler on the Roof
- The French Connection
- Klute
- Harold and Maude
- McCabe & Mrs. Miller
- Shaft
- THX 1138
- Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory
[edit] Hit songs
- "Joy to the World" - Three Dog Night
- "Knock Three Times" - Tony Orlando and Dawn
- "Stairway to Heaven" - Led Zeppelin
- "What's Going On" - Marvin Gaye
- "Another Day" - Paul & Linda McCartney
- "Black Dog" - Led Zeppelin
- "Black Magic Woman" - Santana
- "Brown Sugar" - The Rolling Stones
- "Coz I Love You" - Slade
- "Draggin' the Line" - Tommy James
- "Family Affair" - Sly & the Family Stone
- "Get It On" - T. Rex
- "Go Away Little Girl" - Donny Osmond
- "Got to Be There" - Michael Jackson
- "Gypsys, Tramps and Thieves" - Cher
- "How Can You Mend a Broken Heart" - The Bee Gees
- "I Woke Up in Love This Morning" - The Partridge Family
- "If You Really Love Me" - Stevie Wonder
- "Imagine" - John Lennon
- "Indian Reservation" - The Raiders
- "It Don't Come Easy" - Ringo Starr
- "It's Too Late" - Carole King
- "Maggie Mae" - Rod Stewart
- "My Sweet Lord" - George Harrison
- "Never Can Say Goodbye" - The Jackson Five
- "One Bad Apple" - The Osmonds
- "One Less Bell to Answer" - Fifth Dimension
- "Peace Train" - Cat Stevens
- "Proud Mary" - Ike & Tina Turner
- "She's a Lady" - Tom Jones
- "Sooner or Later" - The Grass Roots
- "Temptation Eyes" - The Grass Roots
- "Treat Her Like a Lady" - Cornelius Brothers & Sister Rose
- "Uncle Albert/Admiral Halsey" - Paul & Linda McCartney
- "Where Do I Begin" (Love Story) - Andy Williams
[edit] New books
- Angle of Repose - Wallace Stegner
- The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman - Ernest J. Gaines
- Being There - Jerzy Kosinski
- The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath
- The Betsy - Harold Robbins
- Bonecrack - Dick Francis
- The Book of Daniel - E. L. Doctorow
- Books Do Furnish a Room - Anthony Powell
- Crow - Ted Hughes
- The Day of the Jackal - Frederick Forsyth
- Death of the Fox - George Garrett
- The Drifters - James A. Michener
- The End of Summer - Rosamunde Pilcher
- The Exorcist - William Peter Blatty
- Grendel - John Gardner
- The Happy Hooker: My Own Story – Xaviera Hollander
- Honor Thy Father - Gay Talese
- In a Free State - V.S. Naipaul
- The Last Spike - Pierre Berton
- The Lathe of Heaven - Ursula K. Le Guin
- Lives of Girls and Women - Alice Munro
- The Naive and Sentimental Lover - John le Carré
- Natalie Natalia - Nicholas Mosley
- The Other - Thomas Tyron
- The Passions of the Mind - Irving Stone
- Rabbit Redux - John Updike
- St. Urbain's Horseman - Mordecai Richler
- A Scarcity of Love - Anna Kavan
- Sergeant Getulio - Joao Ubaldo Ribeiro
- A Theory of Justice - John Rawls
- The Winds of War - Herman Wouk
- The Winter of the Fisher - Cameron Langford
- Wheels - Arthur Hailey
