21 events found for 1971
Salyut 1, the first space station, was launched from the Baikonur Cosmodrome near Tyuratam in the Soviet Union
The Rolling Stones released Sticky Fingers, the first album on their own label, Rolling Stones Records
Erich Honecker became First Secretary of the Socialist Unity Party of Germany, the governing party of East Germany
Hughes Airwest Flight 706 collided with a US Marine Corps jet near Duarte, California, killing 50 people
Vietnam War: Australian forces attacked a heavily fortified North Vietnamese base camp at the Battle of Long Khánh
The New York Times published the first excerpts from the Pentagon Papers, a 7,000-page classified Department of Defense
Emerson, Lake & Palmer released the progressive rock album Tarkus
The Soyuz 11 spacecraft experienced uncontrolled decompression during preparations for reentry, killing Soviet cosmonaut
After visiting several Asian communist countries, Romanian leader Nicolae Ceaușescu (pictured) gave a speech on a…
The Concert for Bangladesh, a pair of benefit concerts organised by George Harrison and Ravi Shankar for refugees of…
The English rock band the Who released Who's Next, their only album to top the UK charts.
Fighting Dinosaurs, a fossil specimen featuring a Velociraptor and a Protoceratops in combat, was unearthed in the…
The Troubles: British forces began arresting and interning suspected Irish republican militants in Northern Ireland.
Six people were killed during an escape attempt and riot at San Quentin State Prison in California; the subsequent…
Imagine, the second solo album by John Lennon (pictured), was released.
Following a failed coup attempt, Mao Zedong's second-in-command Lin Biao died in a plane crash while attempting to…
Hurricane Irene (satellite image pictured) moved into the Pacific Ocean from the Atlantic, making it the first…
Nguyễn Văn Thiệu was re-elected unopposed as President of South Vietnam.
Prospero (flight spare pictured), the first British satellite launched on a British rocket, lifted off from Launch…