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1971 was a common year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar, the 1971st year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 971st year of the ...
Events from the year 1971 in the United States. Incumbents. Federal government. President: Richard Nixon (R-California) Vice President: Spiro Agnew (R-Maryland)
1971 – The landmark situation comedy, All in the Family, premieres on CBS. 1971 – The 26th Amendment is ratified, allowing 18-year-olds to vote. 1971 – In New York Times Co. v. United States, the Supreme Court rules that the Pentagon Papers may be published, rejecting government injunctions as unconstitutional prior restraint.
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.
January 1 – President Nixon spends New Year's Day at Camp David with his family and aides. [1]January 2 – The White House releases the text of a message sent to Congress by President Nixon the previous day alongside his vetoing of a bill raising the pay for roughly 850,000 federal workers.
The disaster happened as workers were pouring the concrete on the top floor of the building, located in the Brighton neighborhood of Boston. Despite the height of the building, only four construction workers were killed, all in the basement garage. Another 30 workers were injured. [137] [138] Himachal Pradesh became the 18th of the states of ...
The World Economic Forum annual meeting, a yearly gathering of global elites famously held in Davos, Switzerland, is more than halfway through, with President Donald Trump set to take the virtual ...
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