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June 17 – Representatives of Japan and the United States sign the Okinawa Reversion Agreement, whereby the U.S. will return control of Okinawa. [ 10 ] June 18 – Southwest Airlines , the most successful low cost carrier in history, begins its first flights between Dallas , Houston and San Antonio .
November 8 – The White House states its interest in the imposition of revisions made to a water pollution control bill sponsored by Senator Edmund Muskie. [ 7 ] November 16 – Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare Richardson discloses that the Nixon administration is looking into reforming the Social Security accounting system. [ 8 ]
Charles Manson is sentenced to death in the United States; in 1972, the sentence for all California death-row inmates will be commuted to life imprisonment. [13] April 20. Swann v. Charlotte-Mecklenburg Board of Education: The Supreme Court of the United States rules unanimously that busing of students may be ordered to achieve racial ...
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. 1972 – President Richard Nixon visits Mao Zedong in China, an astonishing step in formally normalizing relations between the United States and China.
1971 in the United States by state or territory (55 C) * 1971 events in the United States by month (12 C) / 1971 disestablishments in the United States (41 C, 19 P)
January 1971 events in the United States (1 C, 9 P) February 1971 events in the United States (1 C, 7 P) March 1971 events in the United States (1 C, 2 P)
United States gubernatorial elections were held in three states. In Mississippi and Kentucky , general elections took place on 2 November 1971. In Louisiana , their general election took place on 1 February 1972 after the party primaries on 6 November 1971 and a Democratic primary runoff on 18 December 1971.
1971 elections in the United States (5 C, 1 P) 0–9. 91st United States Congress (6 C, 15 P) 92nd United States Congress (6 C, 15 P) L. 1971 U.S. legislative ...