1971 is a common year starting on Friday (click for link to calendar).
Events
January
February
March
April
May
- May 1 - Amtrak begins operation of intercity rail passenger service in the United States
- May 1 Ceylonese government promises amnesty for those guerillas who surrender before April 5
- May 2 in Ceylon left-wing guerillas launch a series of assaults against public buildings
- May 3 Harris public opinion poll claims that 60% of Americans are against the war in Vietnam
- May 3 East German leader Walter Ulbricht resigns as a party leader but retains the positions of the head of state
- May 3 - Anti-war militants attempt to disrupt government business in Washington, D.C.; police and military units arrest as many as 12,000, most of whom are later released.
- May 3 - All Things Considered, National Public Radio's flagship news program, broadcasts for the first time.
- May 5 US dollar floods the European currency markets and threatens especially Deutchmark Central banks of Austria, Belgium, Netherlands and Switzerland stop the currency trading
- May 6 Ceylon government begins a major offensive against the People's Liberation Front
- May 9 Launch of Mariner 8 fails
- May 12 Earthquake in Turkey destroys most of the city of Burdur
- May 15 Israeli ambassador to Turkey, Efraim Elrom, is kidnapped. He is found killed in Istanbul May 25
- May 16 Coup attempt exposed and foiled in Egypt
- May 19 - Mars probe program: Mars 2 is launched by the Soviet Union
- May 26 Austria and People's Republic of China form diplomatic relations
- May 27 Six armed passengers hijack Romanian passenger plane and force it to fly to Vienna
- May 28 Portugal resigns from UNESCO
- May 30 - Mariner program: Mariner 9 is launched toward Mars
- May 31 - The birth of a new country, Bangladesh, from territory formerly part of Pakistan.
June
- June - The Pentagon Papers are published.
- June 1 - Vietnam War: Vietnam Veterans for a Just Peace, claiming to represent the majority of U.S. veterans who served in southeast Asia, speak against war protests
- June 6 - Soyuz program: Soyuz 11 launches.
- June 10 USA ends trade embargo of China
- June 13 - Vietnam War: The New York Times begins to publish the Pentagon Papers. [1] (http://usinfo.state.gov/usa/infousa/facts/democrac/48.htm)
- June 14 - Norway begins oil production in North Sea.
- June 17 - Representatives of Japan and the United States sign the Okinawa Reversion Agreement, setting out a plan where the U.S. would return control of Okinawa.[2] (http://www.niraikanai.wwma.net/pages/archive/rev71.html)
- June 20 Britain announces that Soviet space scientist Anatoli Fedosejev has been granted asylum
- June 21 Britain begins new negotiations for EEC membership in Luxembourg
- June 25 Madagascar accuses USA of being connected to the plot to oust the current government USA recalls its ambassador
- June 28 - Black assassin Jerome A. Johnson shoots Joe Colombo to the head in a middle of a Italian-American rally. Colombo goes into coma
- June 30 - The crew of the Soyuz 11 spacecraft are killed when their air supply leaks out through a faulty valve.
July
August
September
October
November
December
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Year in topic
Births
January-April
- January 8 - Jason Giambi, Major League Baseball All-Star
- January 11 - Mary J. Blige, pop singer
- January 17 - Kid Rock, singer
- January 19 - Shawn Wayans, actor, writer, producer
- January 19 - John Wozniak, singer, songwriter of Marcy Playground
- February 1 - Jill Kelly, erotic actress
- February 3 - Sarah Kane, playwright
- February 15 - Renιe O'Connor, actress, director
- February 17 - Denise Richards.
- February 18 - Paolo Sammut, Ghosthunter, author and occultist
- February 25 - Sean Astin, actor
- February 26 - Erykah Badu, singer
- 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 - Ewan McGregor, actor
- March 31 - Pavel Bure, hockey player
- April 1 - Method Man, musician
- April 3 - Picabo Street, Olympic gold-medalist skier
- April 17- Selena Quintanilla, famous Mexican-American tejano music singer (died 1995)
May-August
- May 17 - Mαxima Zorreguieta, wife of Prince Willem-Alexander of the Netherlands
- May 20 - Tony Stewart, auto racing driver
- May 25 - Sonya Smith, actress
- May 26 - Matt Stone, co-creator of South Park
- May 27 - Paul Bettany, actor
- June 2 - Anthony Montgomery, actor (Star Trek: Enterprise)
- June 5 - Mark Wahlberg ("Marky Mark"), actor, singer
- June 16 - Tupac Shakur, rapper, poet, actor (d. 1996)
- June 22 - Kurt Warner, two-time NFL MVP
- July 1 - Missy "Misdemeanor" Elliott, hip hop artist
- July 9 - Marc Andreessen, software developer - co-author of Mosaic and cofounder of Netscape
- July 12 - Kristi Yamaguchi, figure skater
- July 17 - Cory Doctorow, author, activist
- July 22 - Kristine Lilly, American soccer star; all-time leader in international matches played (men or women)
- August 4 - Jeff Gordon, NASCAR racing driver
- August 6 - Merrin Dungey, actress
- August 12 - Pete Sampras, tennis player
- August 17 - Jorge Posada, Major League Baseball All-Star
- August 26 - Thalνa, Mexican actress
September-December
- September 1 - Hakan Sόkόr, Turkish football star
- September 2 - Tommy Maddox, American football quarterback
- September 8 - Brooke Burke, model
- September 18 - Lance Armstrong, cyclist, five-time Tour de France winner
- September 11 - Richard Ashcroft, singer
- September 20 - Henrik Larsson, Swedish football star
- October 13 - Sacha Baron Cohen, comic
- October 14 - Jorge Costa, football player
- October 25 - Pedro Martνnez, baseball pitcher, three-time Cy Young Award winner
- October 29 - Winona Ryder, actress
- November 24 - Keith Primeau, Canadian NHL star
- November 25 - Christina Applegate, actress
- November 25 - Magnus Arvedson, hockey player
- November 30 - Ivan "Pudge" Rodriguez, baseball player
- December 24 - Ricky Martin, singer
- December 25 - Dido, singer
- December 28 - Frank Sepe, bodybuilder and male model
- December 31 - Brent Barry, NBA basketball player
Deaths
January-April
- January 5 - Douglas Shearer, pioneer motion-picture sound engineer
- January 6 - Sonny Liston (date he was found dead)
- January 9 - Elmer Flick, baseball player (b. 1876)
- January 10 - Gabrielle Chanel, aka Coco Chanel, fashion designer
- January 11 - Jose Arigo,"psychic surgeon"
- January 19 - Harry Shields, jazz musician (b. 1899)
- January 20 - Gilbert M. 'Broncho Billy' Anderson, actor, director, writer, producer
- January 28 - Donald Winnicott, British psychoanalyst
- February 11 - Whitney Young Jr, National Urban League director.
- February 26 - Fernandel, French comedian
- March 8 - Harold Lloyd, silent screen comedian
- March 11 - Philo T. Farnsworth, television pioneer
- March 16 - Thomas Dewey, candidate for President of the United States in 1944 and 1948
- April 6 - Igor Stravinsky, composer
- April 19 - Earl Thomson, Canadian athlete
- April 21 - Papa Doc Duvalier, despotic President of Haiti.
May-September
- May 11 - Sean Lemass, former Taoiseach of the Republic of Ireland
- May 12 - Heinie Manush, Baseball Hall of Famer (b. 1901)
- May 15 - Sir Tyrone Guthrie, director, producer, writer
- May 19 - Ogden Nash, poet
- May 28 - Audie Murphy, World War II hero, actor
- June 10 - Michael Rennie, actor (b. 1909)
- June 30 - Viktor Patsayev, Georgi Dobrovolsky, and Vladislav Volkov, Soyuz 11 cosmonauts
- July 3 - Jim Morrison, American singer, songwriter and poet.
- July 4 - August Derleth, American author and anthologist.
- July 6 - Louis Armstrong, jazz musician
- July 7 - Claude Gauvreau, Quebec playwright, poet and polemist
- July 7 - Ub Iwerks, American animator
- July 19 - John Jacob Astor, 1st Baron Astor of Hever, British businessman
- August 25 - Ted Lewis, jazz musician, entertainer (b. 1890)
- September 11 - Nikita Sergeevich Khrushchev, Soviet politician and leader. He was buried without official honors.
- September 12 - Lin Biao, China's defense minister. Air crash in suspicious circumstances
- September 19/ 20- William F. Albright, American archeologist and Biblical scholar.
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