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  • U.S.
    1971
    Computer

    The First single-chip microprocessor

    U.S.
    1971

    The first single-chip microprocessor was the Intel 4004, designed and realized by Ted Hoff, Federico Faggin, and Stanley Mazor at Intel.




  • Pennsylvania, U.S.
    1971
    Microprocessor

    Pico Electronics and General Instrument (GI) Introduced Their First Collaboration In ICs

    Pennsylvania, U.S.
    1971

    In 1971, Pico Electronics and General Instrument (GI) introduced their first collaboration in ICs, a complete single chip calculator IC for the Monroe/Litton Royal Digital III calculator. This chip could also arguably lay claim to be one of the first microprocessors or microcontrollers having ROM, RAM and a RISC instruction set on-chip. The layout for the four layers of the PMOS process was hand drawn at x500 scale on mylar film, a significant task at the time given the complexity of the chip.




  • Oregon, U.S.
    1971
    Nike, Inc.

    The Relationship between BRS and Onitsuka Tiger Was Nearing an End

    Oregon, U.S.
    1971

    By 1971, the relationship between BRS and Onitsuka Tiger was nearing an end. BRS prepared to launch its own line of footwear, which would bear the Swoosh newly designed by Carolyn Davidson.




  • Nashville, Tennessee, U.S.
    1971
    Muhammad Yunus

    Obtaining His PhD In Economics

    Nashville, Tennessee, U.S.
    1971

    He obtained his PhD in economics from the Vanderbilt University Graduate Program in Economic Development (GPED) in 1971.




  • California, U.S.
    1971
    Microprocessor

    Intel's Version of The 1201 Microprocessor arrived

    California, U.S.
    1971

    Intel's version of the 1201 microprocessor arrived in late 1971, but was too late, slow, and required a number of additional support chips. CTC had no interest in using it.




  • Nashville, Tennessee, U.S.
    1971
    Muhammad Yunus

    He published the Bangladesh Newsletter

    Nashville, Tennessee, U.S.
    1971

    During the Bangladesh Liberation War in 1971, Yunus founded a citizen's committee and ran the Bangladesh Information Center, with other Bangladeshis in the United States, to raise support for liberation. He also published the Bangladesh Newsletter from his home in Nashville.




  • New Jersey, U.S.
    1971
    Linux

    Unix Release

    New Jersey, U.S.
    1971

    Unix was First released in 1971, Unix was written entirely in assembly language, as was common practice at the time.


  • Georgia, U.S.
    Tuesday Jan 12, 1971
    Jimmy Carter

    Governor of Georgia

    Georgia, U.S.
    Tuesday Jan 12, 1971

    Carter was sworn in as the 76th Governor of Georgia on January 12, 1971.


  • New York, U.S.
    1971
    Donald Trump

    The Trump Organization

    New York, U.S.
    1971

    In 1971, he was named president of the family company and renamed it The Trump Organization.


  • U.S.
    1971
    Thanksgiving

    Columbus Day

    U.S.
    1971

    Since 1971, when the American Uniform Monday Holiday Act took effect, the American observance of Columbus Day has coincided with the Canadian observance of Thanksgiving.


  • New York City, New York, U.S.
    Monday Feb 8, 1971
    New York Stock Exchange

    NASDAQ was founded and competes with the NYSE as the world's first electronic stock market

    New York City, New York, U.S.
    Monday Feb 8, 1971

    In 1971, the NASDAQ was founded and competes with the NYSE as the world's first electronic stock market. To date, the NASDAQ is the second-largest exchange in the world by market capitalization, behind only the NYSE.


  • U.S.
    1971
    1973 oil crisis

    Nixon imposed a price ceiling on oil in 1971

    U.S.
    1971

    Nixon imposed a price ceiling on oil in 1971 as demand for oil was increasing and production was declining, which increased dependence on foreign oil imports as consumption was bolstered by low prices.


  • Madison Square Garden, New York, U.S.
    Monday Mar 8, 1971
    Muhammad Ali Clay

    1st Fight against Frazier

    Madison Square Garden, New York, U.S.
    Monday Mar 8, 1971

    Ali and Frazier's first fight, held at the Garden on March 8, 1971, was nicknamed the "Fight of the Century", due to the tremendous excitement surrounding a bout between two undefeated fighters, each with a legitimate claim as heavyweight champions.


  • New York, U.S.
    Thursday Mar 18, 1971
    Igor Stravinsky

    Stravinsky was taken to the Hospital

    New York, U.S.
    Thursday Mar 18, 1971

    On 18 March 1971, Stravinsky was taken to Lenox Hill Hospital with pulmonary edema where he stayed for ten days.


  • 920 Fifth Avenue, New York, New York, U.S.
    Monday Mar 29, 1971
    Igor Stravinsky

    Stravinsky moved into a Newly Furbished Apartment

    920 Fifth Avenue, New York, New York, U.S.
    Monday Mar 29, 1971

    On 29 March, he moved into a newly furbished apartment at 920 Fifth Avenue, his first city apartment since living in Paris in 1939.


  • 920 Fifth Avenue, New York, New York, U.S.
    Sunday Apr 4, 1971
    Igor Stravinsky

    The Edema Returned

    920 Fifth Avenue, New York, New York, U.S.
    Sunday Apr 4, 1971

    After a period of well being, the edema returned on 4 April and Vera insisted that medical equipment should be installed in the apartment.


  • 920 Fifth Avenue, New York, New York, U.S.
    Tuesday Apr 6, 1971
    05:20:00 AM
    Igor Stravinsky

    Death

    920 Fifth Avenue, New York, New York, U.S.
    Tuesday Apr 6, 1971
    05:20:00 AM

    Stravinsky stopped eating and drinking and died at 5:20 a.m. on 6 April at the age of 88. The cause on his death certificate is heart failure. A funeral service was held three days later at Frank E. Campbell Funeral Chapel. As per his wishes, he was buried in the Russian corner of the cemetery island of San Michele in northern Italy, several yards from the tomb of Sergei Diaghilev.


  • Manhattan, New York, U.S.
    1971
    Stan Lee

    Anti drugs Awareness

    Manhattan, New York, U.S.
    1971

    The U. S. Department of Health, Education and Welfare had asked Lee to write a comic-book story about the dangers of drugs and Lee conceived a three-issue subplot in The Amazing Spider-Man #96–98 (cover-dated May–July 1971), in which Peter Parker's best friend becomes addicted to prescription drugs. The Comics Code Authority refused to grant its seal because the stories depicted drug use; the anti-drug context was considered irrelevant. With Goodman's cooperation and confident that the original government request would give him credibility, Lee had the story published without the seal. The comics sold well and Marvel won praise for its socially conscious efforts. The CCA subsequently loosened the Code to permit negative depictions of drugs, among other new freedoms.


  • U.S.
    Friday Jun 18, 1971
    Nike, Inc.

    The Swoosh Was First Used by Nike

    U.S.
    Friday Jun 18, 1971

    The Swoosh was first used by Nike on June 18, 1971.


  • Washington D.C.,U.S.
    Saturday Jun 19, 1971
    Jimmy Hoffa

    Resignation

    Washington D.C.,U.S.
    Saturday Jun 19, 1971

    While still in prison, Hoffa resigned as the head of the Teamsters Union, on June 19, 1971.


  • Connecticut, U.S.
    Jul, 1971
    KFC

    Heublein

    Connecticut, U.S.
    Jul, 1971

    In July 1971, Brown sold the company to Heublein based in Connecticut, a packaged food and drinks corporation, for US$285 million.


  • Manhattan, New York, U.S.
    Tuesday Jul 6, 1971
    Louis Armstrong

    Death

    Manhattan, New York, U.S.
    Tuesday Jul 6, 1971

    Against his doctor's advice, Armstrong played a two-week engagement in March 1971 at the Waldorf-Astoria's Empire Room. At the end of it he was hospitalized for a heart attack. He was released from the hospital in May, and quickly resumed practicing his trumpet playing. Still hoping to get back on the road, Armstrong died of a heart attack in his sleep on July 6, 1971, a month before his 70th birthday.


  • Columbus, Georgia, U.S
    Thursday Jul 8, 1971
    Jimmy Carter

    Georgia Human Rights Council

    Columbus, Georgia, U.S
    Thursday Jul 8, 1971

    On July 8, 1971, during an appearance in Columbus, Georgia, Carter stated his intent to establish a Georgia Human Rights Council that would work toward solving issues within the state ahead of any potential violence.


  • U.S.
    1971
    International Monetary Fund

    Nixon Shock

    U.S.
    1971

    The Bretton Woods exchange rate system prevailed until 1971 when the United States government suspended the convertibility of the US$ (and dollar reserves held by other governments) into gold. This is known as the Nixon Shock.


  • Michigan, U.S.
    1971
    Xanax

    Xanax Patented

    Michigan, U.S.
    1971

    In 1971, Alprazolam was patented, sold under the brand name Xanax.


  • U.S.
    Sunday Aug 15, 1971
    1973 oil crisis

    President Richard Nixon orders 90-day nationwide freeze on all wages, prices, salaries and rents

    U.S.
    Sunday Aug 15, 1971

    U.S. Government institutes Phase I price controls. Invoking the powers granted to the president by the Economic Stabilization Act of 1970, President Richard Nixon orders a 90-day nationwide freeze on all wages, prices, salaries, and rents.


  • Dallas, Texas, U.S.
    Friday Sep 17, 1971
    Microprocessor

    TMS 1802NC

    Dallas, Texas, U.S.
    Friday Sep 17, 1971

    The TMS1802NC was announced September 17, 1971 and implemented a four-function calculator. The TMS1802NC, despite its designation, was not part of the TMS 1000 series; it was later redesignated as part of the TMS 0100 series, which was used in the TI Datamath calculator. Although marketed as a calculator-on-a-chip, the TMS1802NC was fully programmable, including on the chip a CPU with an 11-bit instruction word, 3520 bits (320 instructions) of ROM and 182 bits of RAM.


  • U.S.
    1971
    1973 oil crisis

    US had information

    U.S.
    1971

    In 1971, the US had information that the Arab states were willing to implement another embargo.


  • U.S.
    Monday Oct 25, 1971
    United Nations

    Chinese seat on the Security Council

    U.S.
    Monday Oct 25, 1971

    With the spread of decolonization in the 1960s, the organization's membership saw an influx of newly independent nations. In 1960 alone, 17 new states joined the UN, 16 of them from Africa. On 25 October 1971, with opposition from the United States, but with the support of many Third World nations, the mainland, communist People's Republic of China was given the Chinese seat on the Security Council in place of the Republic of China that occupied Taiwan; the vote was widely seen as a sign of waning US influence in the organization.


  • Alexandria, Virginia, U.S.
    1971
    3D printing

    Johannes F Gottwald patented the Liquid Metal Recorder

    Alexandria, Virginia, U.S.
    1971

    In 1971, Johannes F Gottwald patented the Liquid Metal Recorder, US3596285A, a continuous Inkjet metal material device to form a removable metal fabrication on a reusable surface for immediate use or salvaged for printing again by remelting. This appears to be the first patent describing 3D printing with rapid prototyping and controlled on-demand manufacturing of patterns.


  • New York, U.S.
    1971
    Xerox

    Archie McCardell was named president of the company

    New York, U.S.
    1971

    Archie McCardell was named president of the company in 1971.


  • U.S.
    1971
    Xerox

    David T. Kearns as a Xerox executive

    U.S.
    1971

    David T. Kearns, a Xerox executive since 1971, took over as CEO in 1982. The company was revived in the 1980s and 1990s, through improvement in quality design and realignment of its product line. Attempting to expand beyond copiers, in 1981 Xerox introduced a line of electronic memory typewriters, the Memorywriter, which gained 20% market share, mostly at the expense of IBM.


  • U.S.
    Nov, 1971
    1973 oil crisis

    U.S. Phase II price controls begin

    U.S.
    Nov, 1971

    U.S. Phase II price controls begin. The plan is to allow for gradual 2-3 percent annual price increases, however, domestic petroleum prices remain at Phase I levels.


  • California, U.S.
    Monday Nov 15, 1971
    Microprocessor

    The First Commercially Available Microprocessor

    California, U.S.
    Monday Nov 15, 1971

    The Intel 4004 is generally regarded as the first commercially available microprocessor, and cost US$60 (equivalent to $371.19 in 2018). The first known advertisement for the 4004 is dated November 15, 1971 and appeared in Electronic News. The microprocessor was designed by a team consisting of Italian engineer Federico Faggin, American engineers Marcian Hoff and Stanley Mazor, and Japanese engineer Masatoshi Shima.


  • Seattle, Washington, U.S.
    1971
    Ted Bundy

    Ted met Ann Rule

    Seattle, Washington, U.S.
    1971

    In 1971, Ted took a job at Seattle's Suicide Hotline Crisis Center, where he met and worked alongside Ann Rule, a former Seattle police officer. An aspiring crime writer, she would later write one of the definitive Bundy biographies, The Stranger Beside Me. Rule saw nothing disturbing in Bundy's personality at the time, and described him as "kind, solicitous, and empathetic".


  • Sunnyvale, California, United States
    Dec, 1971
    Atari, Inc.

    Computer Space

    Sunnyvale, California, United States
    Dec, 1971

    In 1971, Nolan Bushnell and Ted Dabney founded a small engineering company, Syzygy Engineering, that designed Computer Space, the world's first commercially available arcade video game, for Nutting Associates.


  • U.S.
    Dec, 1971
    Jimmy Hoffa

    The Commutation from President Nixon Was Conditional

    U.S.
    Dec, 1971

    While Hoffa regained his freedom, the commutation from President Nixon was conditional upon that he cannot "engage in the direct or indirect management of any labor organization" until March 6, 1980.


  • Lewisburg, Pennsylvania, U.S.
    Thursday Dec 23, 1971
    Jimmy Hoffa

    Released from Prison

    Lewisburg, Pennsylvania, U.S.
    Thursday Dec 23, 1971

    On December 23, 1971, less than five years into his 13-year sentence, Hoffa was released from prison when President Richard Nixon commuted his sentence to time served.


  • U.S.
    1971
    Computer

    The First single-chip microprocessor

    U.S.
    1971

    The first single-chip microprocessor was the Intel 4004, designed and realized by Ted Hoff, Federico Faggin, and Stanley Mazor at Intel.


  • Pennsylvania, U.S.
    1971
    Microprocessor

    Pico Electronics and General Instrument (GI) Introduced Their First Collaboration In ICs

    Pennsylvania, U.S.
    1971

    In 1971, Pico Electronics and General Instrument (GI) introduced their first collaboration in ICs, a complete single chip calculator IC for the Monroe/Litton Royal Digital III calculator. This chip could also arguably lay claim to be one of the first microprocessors or microcontrollers having ROM, RAM and a RISC instruction set on-chip. The layout for the four layers of the PMOS process was hand drawn at x500 scale on mylar film, a significant task at the time given the complexity of the chip.


  • Oregon, U.S.
    1971
    Nike, Inc.

    The Relationship between BRS and Onitsuka Tiger Was Nearing an End

    Oregon, U.S.
    1971

    By 1971, the relationship between BRS and Onitsuka Tiger was nearing an end. BRS prepared to launch its own line of footwear, which would bear the Swoosh newly designed by Carolyn Davidson.


  • Nashville, Tennessee, U.S.
    1971
    Muhammad Yunus

    Obtaining His PhD In Economics

    Nashville, Tennessee, U.S.
    1971

    He obtained his PhD in economics from the Vanderbilt University Graduate Program in Economic Development (GPED) in 1971.


  • California, U.S.
    1971
    Microprocessor

    Intel's Version of The 1201 Microprocessor arrived

    California, U.S.
    1971

    Intel's version of the 1201 microprocessor arrived in late 1971, but was too late, slow, and required a number of additional support chips. CTC had no interest in using it.


  • Nashville, Tennessee, U.S.
    1971
    Muhammad Yunus

    He published the Bangladesh Newsletter

    Nashville, Tennessee, U.S.
    1971

    During the Bangladesh Liberation War in 1971, Yunus founded a citizen's committee and ran the Bangladesh Information Center, with other Bangladeshis in the United States, to raise support for liberation. He also published the Bangladesh Newsletter from his home in Nashville.


  • New Jersey, U.S.
    1971
    Linux

    Unix Release

    New Jersey, U.S.
    1971

    Unix was First released in 1971, Unix was written entirely in assembly language, as was common practice at the time.


  • Georgia, U.S.
    Tuesday Jan 12, 1971
    Jimmy Carter

    Governor of Georgia

    Georgia, U.S.
    Tuesday Jan 12, 1971

    Carter was sworn in as the 76th Governor of Georgia on January 12, 1971.


  • New York, U.S.
    1971
    Donald Trump

    The Trump Organization

    New York, U.S.
    1971

    In 1971, he was named president of the family company and renamed it The Trump Organization.


  • U.S.
    1971
    Thanksgiving

    Columbus Day

    U.S.
    1971

    Since 1971, when the American Uniform Monday Holiday Act took effect, the American observance of Columbus Day has coincided with the Canadian observance of Thanksgiving.


  • New York City, New York, U.S.
    Monday Feb 8, 1971
    New York Stock Exchange

    NASDAQ was founded and competes with the NYSE as the world's first electronic stock market

    New York City, New York, U.S.
    Monday Feb 8, 1971

    In 1971, the NASDAQ was founded and competes with the NYSE as the world's first electronic stock market. To date, the NASDAQ is the second-largest exchange in the world by market capitalization, behind only the NYSE.


  • U.S.
    1971
    1973 oil crisis

    Nixon imposed a price ceiling on oil in 1971

    U.S.
    1971

    Nixon imposed a price ceiling on oil in 1971 as demand for oil was increasing and production was declining, which increased dependence on foreign oil imports as consumption was bolstered by low prices.


  • Madison Square Garden, New York, U.S.
    Monday Mar 8, 1971
    Muhammad Ali Clay

    1st Fight against Frazier

    Madison Square Garden, New York, U.S.
    Monday Mar 8, 1971

    Ali and Frazier's first fight, held at the Garden on March 8, 1971, was nicknamed the "Fight of the Century", due to the tremendous excitement surrounding a bout between two undefeated fighters, each with a legitimate claim as heavyweight champions.


  • New York, U.S.
    Thursday Mar 18, 1971
    Igor Stravinsky

    Stravinsky was taken to the Hospital

    New York, U.S.
    Thursday Mar 18, 1971

    On 18 March 1971, Stravinsky was taken to Lenox Hill Hospital with pulmonary edema where he stayed for ten days.


  • 920 Fifth Avenue, New York, New York, U.S.
    Monday Mar 29, 1971
    Igor Stravinsky

    Stravinsky moved into a Newly Furbished Apartment

    920 Fifth Avenue, New York, New York, U.S.
    Monday Mar 29, 1971

    On 29 March, he moved into a newly furbished apartment at 920 Fifth Avenue, his first city apartment since living in Paris in 1939.


  • 920 Fifth Avenue, New York, New York, U.S.
    Sunday Apr 4, 1971
    Igor Stravinsky

    The Edema Returned

    920 Fifth Avenue, New York, New York, U.S.
    Sunday Apr 4, 1971

    After a period of well being, the edema returned on 4 April and Vera insisted that medical equipment should be installed in the apartment.


  • 920 Fifth Avenue, New York, New York, U.S.
    Tuesday Apr 6, 1971
    05:20:00 AM
    Igor Stravinsky

    Death

    920 Fifth Avenue, New York, New York, U.S.
    Tuesday Apr 6, 1971
    05:20:00 AM

    Stravinsky stopped eating and drinking and died at 5:20 a.m. on 6 April at the age of 88. The cause on his death certificate is heart failure. A funeral service was held three days later at Frank E. Campbell Funeral Chapel. As per his wishes, he was buried in the Russian corner of the cemetery island of San Michele in northern Italy, several yards from the tomb of Sergei Diaghilev.


  • Manhattan, New York, U.S.
    1971
    Stan Lee

    Anti drugs Awareness

    Manhattan, New York, U.S.
    1971

    The U. S. Department of Health, Education and Welfare had asked Lee to write a comic-book story about the dangers of drugs and Lee conceived a three-issue subplot in The Amazing Spider-Man #96–98 (cover-dated May–July 1971), in which Peter Parker's best friend becomes addicted to prescription drugs. The Comics Code Authority refused to grant its seal because the stories depicted drug use; the anti-drug context was considered irrelevant. With Goodman's cooperation and confident that the original government request would give him credibility, Lee had the story published without the seal. The comics sold well and Marvel won praise for its socially conscious efforts. The CCA subsequently loosened the Code to permit negative depictions of drugs, among other new freedoms.


  • U.S.
    Friday Jun 18, 1971
    Nike, Inc.

    The Swoosh Was First Used by Nike

    U.S.
    Friday Jun 18, 1971

    The Swoosh was first used by Nike on June 18, 1971.


  • Washington D.C.,U.S.
    Saturday Jun 19, 1971
    Jimmy Hoffa

    Resignation

    Washington D.C.,U.S.
    Saturday Jun 19, 1971

    While still in prison, Hoffa resigned as the head of the Teamsters Union, on June 19, 1971.


  • Connecticut, U.S.
    Jul, 1971
    KFC

    Heublein

    Connecticut, U.S.
    Jul, 1971

    In July 1971, Brown sold the company to Heublein based in Connecticut, a packaged food and drinks corporation, for US$285 million.


  • Manhattan, New York, U.S.
    Tuesday Jul 6, 1971
    Louis Armstrong

    Death

    Manhattan, New York, U.S.
    Tuesday Jul 6, 1971

    Against his doctor's advice, Armstrong played a two-week engagement in March 1971 at the Waldorf-Astoria's Empire Room. At the end of it he was hospitalized for a heart attack. He was released from the hospital in May, and quickly resumed practicing his trumpet playing. Still hoping to get back on the road, Armstrong died of a heart attack in his sleep on July 6, 1971, a month before his 70th birthday.


  • Columbus, Georgia, U.S
    Thursday Jul 8, 1971
    Jimmy Carter

    Georgia Human Rights Council

    Columbus, Georgia, U.S
    Thursday Jul 8, 1971

    On July 8, 1971, during an appearance in Columbus, Georgia, Carter stated his intent to establish a Georgia Human Rights Council that would work toward solving issues within the state ahead of any potential violence.


  • U.S.
    1971
    International Monetary Fund

    Nixon Shock

    U.S.
    1971

    The Bretton Woods exchange rate system prevailed until 1971 when the United States government suspended the convertibility of the US$ (and dollar reserves held by other governments) into gold. This is known as the Nixon Shock.


  • Michigan, U.S.
    1971
    Xanax

    Xanax Patented

    Michigan, U.S.
    1971

    In 1971, Alprazolam was patented, sold under the brand name Xanax.


  • U.S.
    Sunday Aug 15, 1971
    1973 oil crisis

    President Richard Nixon orders 90-day nationwide freeze on all wages, prices, salaries and rents

    U.S.
    Sunday Aug 15, 1971

    U.S. Government institutes Phase I price controls. Invoking the powers granted to the president by the Economic Stabilization Act of 1970, President Richard Nixon orders a 90-day nationwide freeze on all wages, prices, salaries, and rents.


  • Dallas, Texas, U.S.
    Friday Sep 17, 1971
    Microprocessor

    TMS 1802NC

    Dallas, Texas, U.S.
    Friday Sep 17, 1971

    The TMS1802NC was announced September 17, 1971 and implemented a four-function calculator. The TMS1802NC, despite its designation, was not part of the TMS 1000 series; it was later redesignated as part of the TMS 0100 series, which was used in the TI Datamath calculator. Although marketed as a calculator-on-a-chip, the TMS1802NC was fully programmable, including on the chip a CPU with an 11-bit instruction word, 3520 bits (320 instructions) of ROM and 182 bits of RAM.


  • U.S.
    1971
    1973 oil crisis

    US had information

    U.S.
    1971

    In 1971, the US had information that the Arab states were willing to implement another embargo.


  • U.S.
    Monday Oct 25, 1971
    United Nations

    Chinese seat on the Security Council

    U.S.
    Monday Oct 25, 1971

    With the spread of decolonization in the 1960s, the organization's membership saw an influx of newly independent nations. In 1960 alone, 17 new states joined the UN, 16 of them from Africa. On 25 October 1971, with opposition from the United States, but with the support of many Third World nations, the mainland, communist People's Republic of China was given the Chinese seat on the Security Council in place of the Republic of China that occupied Taiwan; the vote was widely seen as a sign of waning US influence in the organization.


  • Alexandria, Virginia, U.S.
    1971
    3D printing

    Johannes F Gottwald patented the Liquid Metal Recorder

    Alexandria, Virginia, U.S.
    1971

    In 1971, Johannes F Gottwald patented the Liquid Metal Recorder, US3596285A, a continuous Inkjet metal material device to form a removable metal fabrication on a reusable surface for immediate use or salvaged for printing again by remelting. This appears to be the first patent describing 3D printing with rapid prototyping and controlled on-demand manufacturing of patterns.


  • New York, U.S.
    1971
    Xerox

    Archie McCardell was named president of the company

    New York, U.S.
    1971

    Archie McCardell was named president of the company in 1971.


  • U.S.
    1971
    Xerox

    David T. Kearns as a Xerox executive

    U.S.
    1971

    David T. Kearns, a Xerox executive since 1971, took over as CEO in 1982. The company was revived in the 1980s and 1990s, through improvement in quality design and realignment of its product line. Attempting to expand beyond copiers, in 1981 Xerox introduced a line of electronic memory typewriters, the Memorywriter, which gained 20% market share, mostly at the expense of IBM.


  • U.S.
    Nov, 1971
    1973 oil crisis

    U.S. Phase II price controls begin

    U.S.
    Nov, 1971

    U.S. Phase II price controls begin. The plan is to allow for gradual 2-3 percent annual price increases, however, domestic petroleum prices remain at Phase I levels.


  • California, U.S.
    Monday Nov 15, 1971
    Microprocessor

    The First Commercially Available Microprocessor

    California, U.S.
    Monday Nov 15, 1971

    The Intel 4004 is generally regarded as the first commercially available microprocessor, and cost US$60 (equivalent to $371.19 in 2018). The first known advertisement for the 4004 is dated November 15, 1971 and appeared in Electronic News. The microprocessor was designed by a team consisting of Italian engineer Federico Faggin, American engineers Marcian Hoff and Stanley Mazor, and Japanese engineer Masatoshi Shima.


  • Seattle, Washington, U.S.
    1971
    Ted Bundy

    Ted met Ann Rule

    Seattle, Washington, U.S.
    1971

    In 1971, Ted took a job at Seattle's Suicide Hotline Crisis Center, where he met and worked alongside Ann Rule, a former Seattle police officer. An aspiring crime writer, she would later write one of the definitive Bundy biographies, The Stranger Beside Me. Rule saw nothing disturbing in Bundy's personality at the time, and described him as "kind, solicitous, and empathetic".


  • Sunnyvale, California, United States
    Dec, 1971
    Atari, Inc.

    Computer Space

    Sunnyvale, California, United States
    Dec, 1971

    In 1971, Nolan Bushnell and Ted Dabney founded a small engineering company, Syzygy Engineering, that designed Computer Space, the world's first commercially available arcade video game, for Nutting Associates.


  • U.S.
    Dec, 1971
    Jimmy Hoffa

    The Commutation from President Nixon Was Conditional

    U.S.
    Dec, 1971

    While Hoffa regained his freedom, the commutation from President Nixon was conditional upon that he cannot "engage in the direct or indirect management of any labor organization" until March 6, 1980.


  • Lewisburg, Pennsylvania, U.S.
    Thursday Dec 23, 1971
    Jimmy Hoffa

    Released from Prison

    Lewisburg, Pennsylvania, U.S.
    Thursday Dec 23, 1971

    On December 23, 1971, less than five years into his 13-year sentence, Hoffa was released from prison when President Richard Nixon commuted his sentence to time served.


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