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The following is the 1971–72 network television schedule for the three major English language commercial broadcast networks in the United States. The schedule covers primetime hours from September 1971 through August 1972. The schedule is followed by a list per network of returning series, new series, and series cancelled after the 1970–71 ...
August 15, 1971: Emirate of Bahrain declares independence August 31, 1971: The old British penny, worth 1/240th, discontinued as decimalisation begins August 22, 1971: Colonel Hugo Banzer leads revolution to overthrow president of Bolivia August 2, 1971: Apollo 15 astronaut David Scott's replicates Galileo's experiment on the Moon
August 1971 events in the United States (1 C, 5 P) This page was last edited on 27 January 2020, at 08:52 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative Commons ...
The Nixon shock was the effect of a series of economic measures, including wage and price freezes, surcharges on imports, and the unilateral cancellation of the direct international convertibility of the United States dollar to gold, taken by United States president Richard Nixon on 15 August 1971 in response to increasing inflation.
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August 7 – Apollo 15 returns to Earth. August 11 – Construction begins on the Louisiana Superdome in New Orleans. August 15 – President Richard Nixon announces that the United States will no longer convert dollars to gold at a fixed value, effectively ending the Bretton Woods system. He also imposes a 90-day freeze on wages, prices and rents.
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January 15, 1968 (second incarnation) April 15 San Francisco, California: KUDO: 38 Independent December 28, 1968 Returned to the air as KVOF-TV on October 4, 1974. September 15 Jacksonville, Illinois: WJJY-TV: 14 ABC: August 18, 1969 Unknown date Muncie, Indiana: WLBC-TV: 49 NBC (primary) ABC (secondary) June 14, 1953