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1971 was a common year ... The world population increased by 2.1% this year, the highest increase in history. [1] Events. January. January 2 – 66 people are ...
The U.S. dollar is devalued for the second time in history. Capitol Reef National Park is established. December 21 – In Cleveland Ohio , an African-American man named Tyrone Howard, the father of actor Terrence Howard , stabs and kills a White man named Jack Fitzpatrick during a dispute while waiting in line to meet Santa with their ...
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 15th August 1971 in response to increasing inflation. [1] [2]
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 storm remains to date the deadliest tropical cyclone in world history. On October 29, 1971, the 1971 Odisha cyclone in the Bay of Bengal, in the Indian state of Odisha, killed 10,000 people. June, 1972, Hurricane Agnes hit the east coast of the United States, resulting in 128 deaths and causing over $2.1 billion in damage.
The format, approved as a separate category in 1975 by the International Cricket Council for the inauguration of the Cricket World Cup, was an unintended consequence of the and was an adaptation of limited overs cricket that had been created in India in 1951, and happened after heavy rains had stopped the third test cricket match of the 1970 ...
We consider that brutality is an inhuman or savage form of curelty. We do not think that happened here." [71] Born: Waqar Younis, bowler for and captain of the Pakistan Test Cricket team and cricketer, in Burewala, Punjab province. [72] Died: Edie Sedgwick, 28, American actress and associate of Andy Warhol, of a barbiturate overdose [73]
The three Soyuz 11 cosmonauts become the first humans in history to step aboard an orbiting space station after their capsule successfully docked with Salyut 1. [29] All but three of 30 people on Allegheny Airlines Flight 485 died when the Convair CV-580 crashed on landing at New Haven, Connecticut and the plane burst into flames. The aircraft ...