My Lai Massacre: William Calley Convicted of Murder, March 29, 1971
Date: March 29, 1971
Date: March 29, 1971
Operation Lam Son 719: South Vietnamese General Do Cao Tri was killed in a helicopter crash en route to taking control of the faltering campaign. Date: February 23, 1971 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on February 23 📅 Events on this day in 1971 📅 On This Day (Today) More events from…
Prior to re-entry (following a record-setting stay aboard the Soviet Union's Salyut 1 space station), the crew capsule of the Soyuz 11 spacecraft depressurizes, killing the three cosmonauts on board. Georgy Dobrovolsky, Vladislav Volkov and Viktor Patsayev are the first humans to die in space. Date: June 29, 1971 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅…
Launch of Salyut 1, the first space station. Date: April 19, 1971 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on April 19 📅 Events on this day in 1971 📅 On This Day (Today) More events from 1971Khmer Rouge Intensify Cambodian Civil War Assaults, Capture Kompong Thmar, December 1, 1971UK and Ireland Decimalisation Completed…
U.S. president Richard Nixon in a televised press conference called drug abuse "America's public enemy number one", starting the war on drugs. Date: June 17, 1971 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on June 17 📅 Events on this day in 1971 📅 On This Day (Today) More events from 1971Apollo 15 Launch,…
An All Nippon Airways Boeing 727 and a Japanese Air Force F-86 collide over Morioka, Iwate, Japan, killing 162. Date: July 30, 1971 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on July 30 📅 Events on this day in 1971 📅 On This Day (Today) More events from 1971Vietnamization: Nixon Orders 45,000 U.S. Troop…
Pakistani forces massacre over 200 civilians, mostly Bengali Hindus, in the Bagbati massacre. Date: May 27, 1971 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on May 27 📅 Events on this day in 1971 📅 On This Day (Today) More events from 1971Attica Prison Uprising Ends in Deadly Assault, September 13, 1971Bangladesh Liberation War…