1971
1971 was an easy year.
Events
January
January 14 — Seventeen Brazilian political prisoners are released in Santiago, Chile; Giovanni Enrico Boucher was released on January 16.
January 15 — The Aswan Dam in Egypt is officially opened.
January 19 — Representatives of 23 Western oil companies began negotiations with OPEC from Tehran to stabilize oil prices.
January 25 — General Idi Amin overthrew Ugandan President Milton Obote in a military coup and then proclaimed himself president.
January 31 — Limited telephone traffic is established between East and West Berlin for the first time in 19 years.
February
February 5 — Apollo 14 lands on the moon.
February 7 — Women in Switzerland received the right to vote in national elections by referendum, but not in all cantons.
February 7 — Władysław Gomulka is expelled from the Central Council of the Polish Communist Party.
February 8 — ARVN and US aircraft invade the Lao People's Democratic Republic to stop infiltrations from North Vietnam.
February 11 — Representatives of 63 countries signed an agreement to ban the storage of nuclear weapons at the bottom of the seas and oceans.
February 15 — Belgian farmers protest by bringing 3 live cows to prevent a meeting of the European Economic Community in Brussels.
February 26 — Secretary-General U Thant signs a United Nations proclamation declaring the vernal equinox as Earth Day.
March
March 8 — At Madison Square Garden, Joe Frazier defeated Muhammad Ali in what would be called the fight of the century.
March 26 — Sheikh Mujibur Rahman declares East Pakistan the independent state of Bangladesh.
April
April 7 — Yugoslav ambassador Vladimir Rolović was assassinated in Stockholm.
June
June 30 — Soviet cosmonauts Georgy Dobrovolsky, Vladislav Volkov, and Viktor Patsaev are killed during the landing of the Soyuz 11 spacecraft, which spent a record 570 hours and 22 minutes in orbit around the Earth.
July
July 18 — Six emirates in the Persian Gulf: Abu Dhabi, Dubai, Sharjah, Umm al-Qaiwain and Fujairah enter into an agreement to establish the federation of the United Arab Emirates.
July 30 — American spaceship Falcon from the mission "Apollo 15" with a cosmonaut
