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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