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('''
MCMLXXI ''') was a
Common Year Starting On Friday (the link is to a full 1971 calendar).
- March 1 - Bomb explodes in men's room in the White House - Weather Underground claims responsibility.
- March 1 - Pakistani President Yahya Khan indefinitely postponed the pending national assembly session, precipitating massive civil disobedience in East Pakistan .
- March 1 - Canadian John Robarts ends his term of office as 17th Premier Of Ontario
- March 5 – Pakistan i army occupies the East Pakistan
- March 7 – Strike of British postal workers ends after 47 days
- March 10 - Twenty-sixth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution lowers voting age to 18.
- March 12 - Hafez Al-Assad becomes president of Syria .
- March 16 – Government of Trygve Bratteli in Norway
- March 18 - A landslide at Chungar , Peru crashes into Lake Yanahuani killing 200
- March 23 – Military coup in Argentina – general Alejandro Lanusse takes power
- March 25 – Pakistan i army starts massive killing in East Pakistan , which is now Bangladesh , after an open, non-democratic denial by Pakistani president Yahiya Khan, a military ruler, of election results that gave Awami League an overwhelming majority in the parliament.
- March 26 - East Pakistan (now Bangladesh ) declared its independence.
- March 29 - Filming begins on ''The Godfather''. Shooting starts on Francis Ford Coppola's ''The Godfather''. The movie, released in 1972, won Oscars for Best Picture, Best Actor, and Best Screenplay.
- March 29 - William Calley is found guilty of 22 murders in My Lai Massacre and sentenced to life in prison. He is later pardoned.
- March 29 - A Los Angeles, California jury recommends the Death Penalty for Charles Manson and three female followers.
- April 1 - United Kingdom lifts all Restrictions On Gold Ownership
- April 5 – In Ceylon , a group calling themselves the People’s Liberation Front begin a rebellion against the Bandaranaike government
- April 5 – Chile and East Germany form Diplomatic Relations
- April 5 - Mount Etna erupts
- April 7 – Greece releases 261 Political Prisoner s, 50 of which are sent to internal exile
- April 8 – Right-wing coup attempt exposed in Laos
- April 9 - Charles Manson is sentenced to death but the sentence is commuted to life imprisonment.
- April 12 – Palestinians retreat from Amman to north of Jordan
- April 17 – Bangladesh makes official Declaration Of Independence but Pakistan i troops continue the fighting
- April 17 - Libya , Syria and Egypt sign an agreement to form a Confederation .
- April 19 – Government of Bangladesh flees to India
- April 19 – Sierra Leone becomes a Republic
- April 19 – Unemployment in UK is 3.4%
- April 19 - Soviet Union launches Saljut I .
- April 19 - Followers of Charles Manson , the Manson Family , are sentenced to gas chamber.
- April 20 - Supreme Court Of The United States rules unanimously that busing of students may be ordered to achieve racial Desegregation .
- April 20 – Cambodia n (renamed the Khmer Republic) Prime Minister Lon Nol resigns, but remains effectively in power until the next elections
- April 21 – Siaka Stevens is elected the first president of Sierra Leone
- April 21 – François Duvalier , president of Haiti , dies—his son Jean-Claude Duvalier follows him as President-for-life
- April 24 – Soyuz 10 docks with Salyut 1
- April 24 – 500,000 people in Washington DC and 125,000 in San Francisco march against the Vietnam War
- April 24 - Tsunami 85 m high rises over Ryukyu Islands in Japan. It throws a 750-ton block of Coral 2.5 km inland
- April 25 – Todor Zhivkov re-elected as the leader of the Bulgaria n communist party
- April 25 – Franz Jonas re-elected as the new chancellor of Austria
- April 26 – Government of Turkey declares the State Of Siege in 11 provinces, Ankara included, because of violent Demonstration s
- April 29 – Bolivia nationalizes American-owned zinc mine of Matilde
- April 29 - The third anniversary of the Broadway musical '' Hair '' was celebrated with a concert at a Central Park bandshell.
- May 1 - Amtrak begins operation of inter-city rail passenger service in the United States
- May 1 – Ceylon ese government promises Amnesty for those guerillas who surrender before April 5
- May 2 – in Ceylon left-wing guerillas launch a series of assaults against public buildings
- May 3 – Harris public opinion poll claims that 60% of Americans are against the War In Vietnam
- May 3 – East German leader Walter Ulbricht resigns as a party leader but retains the positions of the head of state
- 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 3 - '' All Things Considered '', National Public Radio 's flagship news program, broadcasts for the first time.
- May 5 – US Dollar floods the European Currency Market s and threatens especially the Deutsche Mark – The central banks of Austria , Belgium , Netherlands and Switzerland stop the currency trading
- May 6 – Ceylon government begins a major offensive against the People's Liberation Front
- May 9 – Launch of Mariner 8 fails
- May 12 – Earthquake in Turkey destroys most of the city of Burdur
- May 15 – Israel i ambassador to Turkey, Efraim Elrom , is kidnapped. He is found killed in Istanbul May 25
- May 16 – Coup attempt exposed and foiled in Egypt
- is launched by the Soviet Union
- May 26 – Austria and People's Republic Of China form diplomatic relations
- May 26 - Qantas agrees to pay $500,000 to Bomb hoaxer-extortionist Mr Brown ( Peter Marcini ) (Later Arrested)
- May 27 – Six armed passengers hijack Romania n passenger plane and force it to fly to Vienna
- May 27 - Christie's auctions diamond later known as Deepdene - it is later found to be artificially colored
- May 28 – Portugal resigns from UNESCO
- is launched toward Mars
- May 31 - The birth of a new country, Bangladesh , is declared by the government in exile from territory formerly part of Pakistan .
- November 3 - The '' UNIX Programmer's Manual'' is published
- November 6 - US nuclear bomb test in Aleuts .
- November 8 - Led Zeppelin releases their untitled fourth album. Sometimes called "Led Zeppelin IV" or "Runes". The album contains such hits as "When the Levee Breaks", "Rock and Roll" and the most requested rock song of all time, "Stairway To Heaven". "Led Zeppelin IV" would become the fourth best selling album of all time with sales of 22 million copies, and a source of inspiration for generations of rock artists to come.
- November 10 - In Cambodia , Khmer Rouge forces attack the city Phnom Penh and its airport, killing 44, wounding at least 30 and damaging nine Airplane s.
- - US President Richard M. Nixon sets February 1 , 1972 as the deadline for the removal of another 45,000 American troops from Vietnam .
- becomes the first spacecraft to enter Mars orbit successfully
- November 15 - Intel releases world's first Microprocessor , the 4004 .
- November 23 - The People's Republic Of China is given the Republic Of China 's seat on the United Nations Security Council (see China And The United Nations )
- November 24 - During a severe Thunderstorm over Washington , a man calling himself D.B. Cooper parachutes from the Northwest Orient Airlines plane he Hijacked with US$200,000 in ransom money (he was never heard from again)
- November 24 - Brussels court sentences would-be- Pretender Alexis Brimeyer to 18 months in jail for falsely using a noble title; Brimeyer has already fled to Greece
- January 1 - Bobby Holik , Czech Ice Hockey player
- January 2 - Lisa Harrison , American basketball player
- January 7 - Chavo Guerrero Jr. , American professional wrestler
- January 8 - Jason Giambi , baseball player
- January 9 - Scott Thornton , Canadian hockey player
- January 10 - Guy A. Canino , American Teacher, Writer
- January 11 - Mary J. Blige , American singer
- January 17 - Leonardo Ciampa , Italian-American composer and author
- January 17 - Kid Rock , American singer
- January 18 - Jon Davis , American singer ( Korn )
- January 19 - Shawn Wayans , American actor, writer, and producer
- January 19 - John Wozniak , American singer and songwriter ( Marcy Playground )
- January 21 - Alan McManus , Scottish snooker player
- January 25 - Luca Badoer , Italian race car driver
- January 27 - Fann Wong , Chinese actress, model, and singer ( Shanghai Knights )
- January 31 - Patrick Kielty , Northern Irish comedian and television presenter
- February 1 - Jill Kelly , American actress
- February 3 - Sarah Kane , English playwright (d. 1999 )
- February 5 - Sara Evans , American singer
- February 10 - Lisa Marie Varon , American professional wrestler
- February 13 - Mats Sundin , Swedish Ice Hockey player
- February 17 - Denise Richards , American actress
- February 20 - Jari Litmanen , Finnish footballer
- February 25 - Sean Astin , American actor
- February 26 - Erykah Badu , American singer
- February 28 - Tristan Louis , Internet entrepreneur
- March 2 - Elizabeth Lackey , Australian actress
- March 4 - Fergal Lawler , Irish drummer ( The Cranberries )
- March 4 - Nick Stabile , American actor
- March 5 - John Frusciante , American musician ( Red Hot Chili Peppers )
- March 7 - Rachel Weisz , British actress
- March 10 - Ugonna Wachuku , Nigerian writer
- March 11 - Johnny Knoxville , American television personality
- March 23 - Karen McDougal , American model
- March 26 - Behzad Ghorbani , Iranian scientist
- March 27 - David Coulthard , Scottish race car driver
- March 31 - Pavel Bure , Russian hockey player
- March 31 - Ewan McGregor , Scottish actor
- June 2 - Anthony Montgomery , American actor
- June 5 - Susan Lynch , Northern Irish actress
- June 5 - Mark Wahlberg , American actor and singer
- June 8 - Troy Vincent , American football player
- June 10 - Joel Hailey , American singer ( Jodeci )
- June 16 - Derek R. Audette , Canadian musician, artist, and poet
- June 16 - Tupac Shakur , American rapper, poet, and actor (d. 1996 )
- June 18 - Eric Vance Walton , American author, poet and cartoonist.
- June 22 - Kurt Warner , American football player
- June 25 - Neil Lennon , Northern Irish footballer
- June 27 - Dipendra Of Nepal , King Of Nepal (d. 2001 )
- June 28 - Norika Fujiwara , Japanese actress and television-personality
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