1971

Centuries: Year in Review 20th Century (19th century - 20th century - 21st century)

Decades: 1920s 1930s 1940s 1950s 1960s - 1970s - 1980s 1990s 2000s

Years: 1966 1967 1968 1969 1970 - 1971 - 1972 1973 1974 1975 1976

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Births

• February 17 Denise Richards
• March 31 Ewan McGregor
• August 12 Pete Sampras
• September 18 Lance Armstrong
• October 25 Pedro Martinez
• October 29 Winona Ryder
• November 25 Christina Applegate
• December 24 Ricky Martin

Deaths

• February 11 - Whitney Young Jr, National Urban League director.

Events

• January 25 - Idi Amin overthrows Milton Obote in a coup in Uganda
• February 11 - US, UK, USSR, others sign Seabed Treaty outlawing nuclear weapons.
• April 20 - United State Supreme Court rules unanimously that busing of students may be ordered to achieve racial desegregation.
• May 3 - Anti-war militants attempt to disrupt government business in Washington, D.C.; police and military units arrest as many as 12,000, most of whom are later released.
• May 31 The birth of a new country, Bangladesh. It is out of territory formerly part of Pakistan
• June - The Pentagon Papers are published
• October 25 - The United Nations admits Communist China and expels Nationalist China.
• December 3 Indian-Pakistan War
• Don't Make A Wave Committee changes its name into Greenpeace
• Intel introduces the microprocessor for micro-computers. The 4004 chip
• Twenty-sixth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution lowers voting age to 18.

Sport

• January 17 - Super Bowl V Baltimore Colts (16) def. Dallas Cowboys (13)

Arts and Entertainment]]

• January 12 All in the Family premieres on TV;it is the first sitcom

Films

• A Clockwork Orange by Stanley Kubrick
• The French Connection by William Friedkin
• Dirty Harry by Don Siegel

Nobel Prizes

• Physics - Dennis Gabor
• Chemistry - Gerhard Herzberg
• Medicine - Earl W Sutherland, Jr
• Literature - Pablo Neruda
• Peace - Willy Brandt
• Economics - Simon Kuznets