Historical Events In 1971

Mar 06 Test Cricket debut of Sunil Gavaskar, vs West Indies at Port-of-Spain

Mar 26 Bangladesh (East Pakistan) declares its independence

Mar 10 Senate approves amendment lowering voting age to 18

Mar 23 USSR performs underground nuclear test

Mar 14 South Vietnamese troops flee Laos

Mar 14 The Rolling Stones leave England for France to escape taxes

Mar 26 "Benny Hill Show" tops TV ratings

Mar 31 South Africa national debt hits 5.45 billion

Mar 12 Syrian premier Hafez Assad elected President

Mar 04 Pierre Elliott Trudeau 1919- marries Margaret Sinclair in St. Stephen's Roman Catholic Church; first Prime Minister to marry while in office; couple divorce in 1984

Mar 01 Bomb attack on the Capitol in Washington DC

Mar 16 13th Grammy Awards Bridge over Troubled Water, Carpenters win

Mar 29 First Lieutenant William L Calley Jr found guilty in My Lai (Vietnam) massacre

Mar 03 South African Broadcasting Corp lifts its ban on the Beatles

Mar 14 Barbra Streisand appears on "The Burt Bacharach Special" on CBS TV

Mar 08 Radio Hanoi broadcasts Jimi Hendrix's "Star Spangled Banner"

Mar 19 Philadelphia 76ers outscore Cincinnati Royals 90-8 in 1 half

Mar 25 Tom Jones, "She's a Lady", goes gold

Mar 22 USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakhstan/Semipalitinsk USSR

Mar 11 Philo T. Farnsworth, television pioneer, dies

Mar 25 European council accepts Mansholt plan laying off 5 million farmers

Mar 31 The birth of Ewan McGregor, Scottish actor

Mar 15 Chatrooms make their debut on the Internet

Mar 18 200 die in landslide into Lake Yanahuani, Chungar Peru

Mar 26 "Cannon" with William Conrad premieres on CBS-TV

Mar 29 Chile President Allende nationalizes banks/copper mines

Mar 29 Development of a serum hepatitis vaccine for children announced

Mar 07 Egypt refuses to renew the Suez ceasefire

Mar 15 CBS TV announces it is dropping "Ed Sullivan Show"

Mar 22 Ottawa starts $2 million program to hire 276 Francophone graduates for public service jobs; jobs where French is 'la Langue du travail'

Mar 12 Rolling Stone Mick Jagger marries Bianca Pérez Morena de Macias

Mar 08 ‘Smokin’ Joe Frazier, of Philadelphia, won a decision over Muhammad Ali, who had been previously undefeated.

Mar 23 Dutch 2nd Chamber accept simplified divorce

Mar 16 The first SH-2D Lamps (Light Airborne Multi-Purpose System) helicopter test flight took place at Kaman's Bloomfield, Connecticut Facility

Mar 31 William L Calley Jr sentenced to life for My Lai Massacre

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