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1971
1971 is a common year starting on Friday (click for link to calendar).
Events
January
February
March
April
May
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May 1 - Amtrak begins operation of intercity rail passenger service in the United States
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May 1 Ceylonese government promises amnesty for those guerillas who surrender before April 5
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May 2 in Ceylon left-wing guerillas launch a series of assaults against public buildings
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May 3 Harris public opinion poll claims that 60% of Americans are against the war in Vietnam
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May 3 East German leader Walter Ulbricht resigns as a party leader but retains the positions of the head of state
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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.
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May 3 - All Things Considered, National Public Radio's flagship news program, broadcasts for the first time.
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May 5 US dollar floods the European currency markets and threatens especially the Deutsche Mark Central banks of Austria, Belgium, Netherlands and Switzerland stop the currency trading
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May 6 Ceylon government begins a major offensive against the People's Liberation Front
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May 9 Launch of Mariner 8 fails
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May 12 Earthquake in Turkey destroys most of the city of Burdur
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May 15 Israeli ambassador to Turkey, Efraim Elrom , is kidnapped. He is found killed in Istanbul May 25
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May 16 Coup attempt exposed and foiled in Egypt
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May 19 - Mars probe program: Mars 2 is launched by the Soviet Union
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May 26 Austria and People's Republic of China form diplomatic relations
- May 26 - Qantas agrees to pay $500,000 to Bomb hoxar-extortionist Mr Brown (Peter Marcini) (Later Arrested)
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May 27 Six armed passengers hijack Romanian passenger plane and force it to fly to Vienna
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May 28 Portugal resigns from UNESCO
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May 30 - Mariner program: Mariner 9 is launched toward Mars
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May 31 - The birth of a new country, Bangladesh, from territory formerly part of Pakistan.
June
July
August
September
October
November
December
unknown dates
Year in topic
Births
January-April
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January 8 - Jason Giambi, Major League Baseball All-Star
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January 11 - Mary J. Blige, pop singer
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January 17 - Kid Rock, singer
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January 18 - Jon Davis, singer of the rock group Korn
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January 19 - Shawn Wayans, actor, writer, producer
- January 19 - John Wozniak, singer, songwriter of Marcy Playground
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January 21 - Alan McManus, Scottish snooker player
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January 25 - Luca Badoer, Formula One driver from Italy
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January 27 - Fann Wong, Chinese actress, singer, model (Shanghai Knights)
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February 1 - Jill Kelly, erotic actress
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February 3 - Sarah Kane, playwright
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February 17 - Denise Richards.
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February 25 - Sean Astin, actor
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February 26 - Erykah Badu, singer
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March 5 - John Frusciante, musician, former member of Red Hot Chili Peppers
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March 10 - Ugonna Wachuku, creative writer, author
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March 11 - Johnny Knoxville, ("Jackass"), television personality
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March 27 - David Coulthard, Formula One racing driver
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March 31 - Ewan McGregor, actor
- March 31 - Pavel Bure, hockey player
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April 1 - Method Man, musician
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April 2 - Todd Woodbridge, tennis player
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April 17 - Selena Quintanilla, famous Mexican-American tejano music singer (died 1995)
May-August
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May 17 - Mαxima Zorreguieta, wife of Prince Willem-Alexander of the Netherlands
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May 20 - Tony Stewart, auto racing driver
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May 25 - Sonya Smith, actress
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May 26 - Matt Stone, co-creator of South Park
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May 27 - Paul Bettany, actor
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June 2 - Anthony Montgomery, actor (Star Trek: Enterprise)
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June 5 - Mark Wahlberg ("Marky Mark"), actor, singer
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June 8 - Troy Vincent, American football player
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June 8 - Marco of Alexandria, Experimental Expressionist Painter
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June 10 - Joel Hailey, aka JoJo of Jodeci, R&B singer
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June 16 - Tupac Shakur, rapper, poet, actor (d. 1996)
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June 22 - Kurt Warner, two-time NFL MVP
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July 1 - Missy "Misdemeanor" Elliott, hip hop artist
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July 9 - Marc Andreessen, software developer - co-author of Mosaic and cofounder of Netscape
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July 12 - Kristi Yamaguchi, figure skater
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July 17 - Cory Doctorow, author, activist
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July 22 - Kristine Lilly, American soccer star; all-time leader in international matches played (men or women)
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July 23 - Dalvin DeGrate aka Mr. Dalvin of Jodeci, R&B singer and producer
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August 4 - Jeff Gordon, NASCAR racing driver
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August 6 - Merrin Dungey, actress
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August 10 - Roy Keane, Irish international footballer
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August 12 - Pete Sampras, tennis player
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August 17 - Jorge Posada, Major League Baseball All-Star
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August 26 - Thalνa, Mexican actress
September-December
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September 1 - Hakan Sόkόr, Turkish football star
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September 2 - Tommy Maddox, American football quarterback
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September 8 - Brooke Burke, model
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September 13 - Stella McCartney, British fashion designer
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September 18 - Lance Armstrong, cyclist, six-time Tour de France winner
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September 11 - Richard Ashcroft, singer
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September 20 - Henrik Larsson, Swedish football star
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September 25 - John Lynch, American football player
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October 13 - Sacha Baron Cohen, comic
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October 14 - Jorge Costa, football player
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October 25 - Pedro Martνnez, baseball pitcher, three-time Cy Young Award winner
- October 25 - Midori, Japanese violinist
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October 29 - Winona Ryder, actress
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November 24 - Keith Primeau, Canadian NHL star
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November 25 - Christina Applegate, actress
- November 25 - Magnus Arvedson, hockey player
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December 19 - Tiffany Towers, pornographic actress
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November 30 - Ivαn "Pudge" Rodrνguez, baseball player
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December 24 - Ricky Martin, singer
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December 25 - Dido, singer
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December 28 - Frank Sepe, bodybuilder and male model
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December 31 - Brent Barry, NBA basketball player
Deaths
January-April
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January 5 - Douglas Shearer, pioneer motion-picture sound engineer
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January 6 - Sonny Liston (date he was found dead)
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January 9 - Elmer Flick, baseball player (b. 1876)
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January 10 - Gabrielle Chanel, aka Coco Chanel, fashion designer
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January 11 - Jose Arigo,"psychic surgeon"
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January 19 - Harry Shields, jazz musician (b. 1899)
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January 20 - Gilbert M. 'Broncho Billy' Anderson, actor, director, writer, producer
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January 27 - Jacobo Arbenz, president of Guatemala (b. 1913)
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January 28 - Donald Winnicott, British psychoanalyst
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February 11 - Whitney Young Jr , National Urban League director.
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February 26 - Fernandel, French comedian
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March 6 - Thurston Dart, English harpsichordist and conductor (b. 1921)
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March 8 - Harold Lloyd, silent screen comedian
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March 11 - Philo T. Farnsworth, television pioneer
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March 16 - Thomas Dewey, candidate for President of the United States in 1944 and 1948
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April 6 - Igor Stravinsky, composer
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April 19 - Earl Thomson, Canadian athlete
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April 21 - Papa Doc Duvalier, despotic President of Haiti.
May-September
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May 11 - Sean Lemass, former Taoiseach of the Republic of Ireland
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May 12 - Heinie Manush, Baseball Hall of Famer (b. 1901)
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May 15 - Sir Tyrone Guthrie, director, producer, writer
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May 19 - Ogden Nash, poet
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May 28 - Audie Murphy, World War II hero, actor
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June 1 - Reinhold Niebuhr, American theologist (b. 1892)
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June 10 - Michael Rennie, actor (b. 1909)
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June 30 - Viktor Patsayev, Georgi Dobrovolski, and Vladislav Volkov, Soyuz 11 cosmonauts
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July 3 - Jim Morrison, American singer, songwriter and poet.
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July 4 - August Derleth, American author and anthologist.
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July 6 - Louis Armstrong, jazz musician
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July 7 - Claude Gauvreau, Quebec playwright, poet and polemist
- July 7 - Ub Iwerks, American animator
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July 19 - John Jacob Astor, 1st Baron Astor of Hever, British businessman
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August 25 - Ted Lewis, jazz musician, entertainer (b. 1890)
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September 11 - Nikita Sergeevich Khrushchev, Soviet politician and leader. He was buried without official honours.
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September 12 - Lin Biao, China's defense minister. Air crash in suspicious circumstances
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September 19/ 20- William F. Albright, American archeologist and Biblical scholar.
October-December
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