Historical Events In 1971
Feb 05 The US Apollo 14 (Shepard and Mitchell onboard) lands on the Moon
Feb 21 Series of tornadoes cuts through Mississippi & Louisiana killing 117
Feb 08 South Vietnamese troops invade Laos
Feb 19 Paul McCartney releases "Another Day" in UK
Feb 20 National Emergency Center erroneously orders US radio &TV stations to go off the air; The mistake wasn't resolved for 30 minutes
Feb 22 Lieutenant General Hafiz al-Assad becomes President of Syria
Feb 16 Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau, under opposition attack in the Commons, utters an apparently unparliamentary expression that he later describes as "fuddle-duddle" we all know what it really was
Feb 15 Britain changes its currency to the decimal system
Feb 09 First British soldier killed in Northern Ireland
Feb 04 Apollo 14 lander Antares lands on Moon (Shepard &Mitchell)
Feb 26 Ottawa starts program to raise Francophone numbers in the Canadian Armed Forces to at least 28%
Feb 23 Boston Bruins begin 13 NHL game win streak
Feb 07 Women win the right to vote in Switzerland
Feb 09 Quake in San Fernando Valley kills 65 &causes over $˝ billion damage
Feb 13 Golfing Vice President Spiro Agnew hits 2 tee shots into the crowd, injuring 2
Apr 04 Marine clay under houses liquifies, 31 die (St-Jean-Vianney Qu‚bec)
Apr 05 WNJT TV Channel 52 in Trenton NJ (PBS) begins broadcasting
Apr 23 Columbia University operations virtually end, by student strike
Apr 18 Howard Hughes billionaire, dies
Apr 05 Mount Etna erupts in Sicily Italy
Apr 21 Edmund Lowe actor (Front Page Detective), dies at 81
Apr 09 Ringo releases "It Don't Come Easy" in UK
Apr 19 The Soviet Union launch the first manned spacelab, Salyut 1
Apr 10 US table tennis team arrives in China PR
Apr 08 US/Canada ISIS 2 launched to study ionosphere
Apr 01 US/Canada ISIS 2 launched to study ionosphere
Apr 20 US Supreme Court upholds use of busing to achieve racial desegregation
Apr 29 Boeing receives contract for Mariner 10, Mercury exploration
Apr 08 United Kingdom lifts all restrictions on gold ownership
Apr 15 43rd Academy Awards presented
Apr 29 Bill Graham closes down the Fillmore & Fillmore East
Apr 14 Fort Point, SF dedicated as a national historic site
Apr 23 Soyuz 10 launched; cosmonauts become first in Salyut 1 space station
Apr 28 T Smirnova discovers asteroid #2093 Genichesk
Apr 22 Soyuz 10 launched
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