Page 15: Historical Events In 1971
Thursday, 02 July 2026
Dec 13 John Sinclair (sentence 10 yrs, sold 2 marijuana joints) is freed 


Dec 13 Max Mell, Austria artillery officer/literary, dies at 88. 


Dec 14 Golden Gate Bridge lights out all night due to power failure 


Dec 16 Pakistan army surrenders to Indian army in Bangladesh. 


Dec 17 Cease-fire between India and Pakistan in Kashmir 


Dec 17 Radio Bangladesh begins transmitting. 


Dec 18 Aleksandr T Tvardovski, Russ editor in chief (Novyj Mir), dies at 61 


Dec 18 People United To Save Humanity (PUSH) forms by Jesse Jackson in Chic. 


Dec 19 "Inner City" opens at Barrymore Theater NYC for 97 performances. 


Dec 20 Roy O Disney, Brother of Walt, dies of cerebral hemorrhage at 78. 


Dec 21 UN Security Council chooses Kurt Waldheim as 4th secretary general. 


Dec 22 Godfried Jan Arnold Bomans, Dutch writer (Eric), dies at 58 


Dec 22 UN General Assembly ratifies Kurt Waldheim as secretary-general 


Dec 23 Carlo Jachino, composer, dies at 84. 


Dec 24 Peruvian Airlines Electra crashes at headwaters of Amazon, killing all except Juliane Margaret Koepcke are discovered 10 days later. 


Dec 25 Byron Arnold, composer, dies at 70 


Dec 25 Worst hotel fire in history results in the deaths of 163 at Taeyokale Hotel in Seoul 


Dec 26 Air Canada jet on flight from Thunder Bay to Toronto hijacked to Cuba 


Dec 26 Robert Lowery, actor (Circus Boy, Pistols 'n' Petticoats), dies at 57 


Dec 28 Maximilian Raoul Walter Steiner, composer, dies at 83 


Dec 29 Stuart Holmes, dies of stomach ailment at 87 


Dec 30 Dorothy Comingore, actress (Citizen Kane), dies after illness at 58 


Dec 31 Peter Deuel, actor (Gidget, Love on a Rooftop), commits suicide at 31 


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