Centuries: Year in Review 20th Century |
Centuries: Year in Review 20th Century (19th century - 20th century - 21st century) |
19th century - 20th century - 21st century |
Decades: 1920s 1930s 1940s 1950s 1960s - 1970s - 1980s 1990s 2000s |
Decades: 1890s - 1900s - 1910s - 1920s - 1930s - 1940s - 1950s - 1960s - 1970s - 1980s - 1990s - 2000s 1971 1972 1973 1974 1975 1976 1977 1978 1979 1980 1981 |
Years: 1971 1972 1973 1974 1975 - 1976 - 1977 1978 1979 1980 1981 |
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*September 7 - Shannon Elizabeth, actress. *Judit Polgar, best woman chess player in history. |
*January - [Zhou Enlai]?, prime minister of China, of cancer |
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*[Ulrike Meinhof]? of the Red Army Faction commits suicide *August 4 - First outbreak of [Legionaire's disease]? kills 29 at the American Legion convention in Philadelphia *September 21 - Orlando Letelier assasinated in Washington, D.C. by agents of Chilean dictator [Augusto Pinochet]? *Werner Karl Heisenberg, physicist *Paul Robeson, American actor, singer, writer and political and civil rights activist. *Martin Heidegger, German philosopher *Bernard Montgomery, British field marshal |
*February 24 - Cuba's current constitution enacted. |
*April 25 - Portugal's new constitution enacted |
*August 4 - First outbreak of [Legionaire's disease]? kills 29 at the American Legion convention in Philadelphia |
* Military Junta in power in Argentina. |
*Military Junta in power in Argentina. *September 17 - Space Shuttle Enterprise rolled out *September 21 - Seychelles joins the United Nations |
*December 1 - Angola joins the United Nations *December 15 - Samoa joins the United Nations *First [laser printer]? introduced by IBM - the IBM 3800 *Cray-1?, the first commercially developed supercomputer?, invented by Seymour Cray *California's sodomy law repealled. *The term memetics first proposed by Richard Dawkins in his book The Selfish Gene. *Toronto Blue Jays created *[Copyright Act of 1976]? extends copyright duration for an additional 20 years *Diffie-Hellman cryptography proposed |
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Sport *January 18 - Super Bowl X Pittsburgh Steelers (21) def. Dallas Cowboys (17) |