South Vietnamese ground troops launch an incursion into Laos to try to cut off the Ho Chi Minh trail and stop communist infiltration into the country. Date: February 8, 1971 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on February 8 📅 Events on this day in 1971 📅 On This Day (Today)
Astronauts land on the Moon in the Apollo 14 mission. Date: February 5, 1971 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on February 5 📅 Events on this day in 1971 📅 On This Day (Today)
New York Police Officer Frank Serpico is shot during a drug bust in Brooklyn and survives to later testify against police corruption. Date: February 3, 1971 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on February 3 📅 Events on this day in 1971 📅 On This Day (Today)
The international Ramsar Convention for the conservation and sustainable utilization of wetlands is signed in Ramsar, Mazandaran, Iran. Date: February 2, 1971 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on February 2 📅 Events on this day in 1971 📅 On This Day (Today)
Idi Amin replaces President Milton Obote as leader of Uganda. Date: February 2, 1971 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on February 2 📅 Events on this day in 1971 📅 On This Day (Today)
The Winter Soldier Investigation, organized by the Vietnam Veterans Against the War to publicize alleged war crimes and atrocities by Americans and allies in Vietnam, begins in Detroit. Date: January 31, 1971 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on January 31 📅 Events on this day in 1971 📅 On This Day (Today)
Apollo program: Apollo 14: Astronauts Alan Shepard, Stuart Roosa, and Edgar Mitchell, aboard a Saturn V, lift off for a mission to the Fra Mauro Highlands on the Moon. Date: January 31, 1971 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on January 31 📅 Events on this day in 1971 📅 On This Day…
The last of its many UFO sightings is made at Pudasjärvi, Finland. Date: January 29, 1971 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on January 29 📅 Events on this day in 1971 📅 On This Day (Today)
Idi Amin leads a coup deposing Milton Obote and becomes Uganda's president. Date: January 25, 1971 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on January 25 📅 Events on this day in 1971 📅 On This Day (Today)
Charles Manson and four "Family" members (three of them female) are found guilty of the 1969 Tate–LaBianca murders. Date: January 25, 1971 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on January 25 📅 Events on this day in 1971 📅 On This Day (Today)