1971

Centuries: Year in Review 20th Century

19th century - 20th century - 21st century

Decades: 1890s - 1900s - 1910s - 1920s - 1930s - 1940s - 1950s - 1960s - 1970s - 1980s - 1990s - 2000s

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 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.
• May 31 The birth of a new country, Bangladesh. It is out of territory formerly part of Pakistan
• 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

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]?