Date: March 10, 1971
U.N. Secretary-General U Thant signs United Nations proclamation of the vernal equinox as Earth Day. Date: February 26, 1971 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on February 26 📅 Events on this day in 1971 📅 On This Day (Today) More events from 1971Concert for Bangladesh: George Harrison’s Madison Square Garden Benefit, August…
Cigarette advertisements are banned on American television. Date: January 1, 1971 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on January 1 📅 Events on this day in 1971 📅 On This Day (Today) More events from 1971U.S. Ends Alcatraz Native Occupation, Forcibly Removes Holdouts June 11, 1971Doctors Without Borders Founded in Paris, France, December…
The Troubles: In Northern Ireland, the British authorities launch Operation Demetrius. The operation involves the mass arrest and internment without trial of individuals suspected of being affiliated with the Irish Republican Army (PIRA). Mass riots follow, and thousands of people flee or are forced out of their homes. Date: August 9, 1971 Read more on…
Mariner program: Mariner 9 is launched to map 70% of the surface, and to study temporal changes in the atmosphere and surface, of Mars. Date: May 30, 1971 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on May 30 📅 Events on this day in 1971 📅 On This Day (Today) More events from 1971Australian…
The Harrisburg Seven: Rev. Philip Berrigan and five other activists are indicted on charges of conspiring to kidnap Henry Kissinger and of plotting to blow up the heating tunnels of federal buildings in Washington, D.C. Date: January 12, 1971 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on January 12 📅 Events on this day…
Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, political leader of then East Pakistan (present day-Bangladesh), delivers his historic 7th March speech in the Racecourse Field (Now Suhrawardy Udyan) in Dhaka. Date: March 7, 1971 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on March 7 📅 Events on this day in 1971 📅 On This Day (Today) More events…