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  • Timor-Leste
    1971
    Xanana Gusmão

    Gusmão Completed His National Service

    Timor-Leste
    1971

    In 1971, Gusmão completed his national service, his son was born, and he became involved with a nationalist organisation headed by José Ramos-Horta. For the next three years he was actively involved in peaceful protests directed at the colonial system.




  • Tokyo, Japan
    1971
    Mobile Phones

    The First automatic analog Cellular Systems

    Tokyo, Japan
    1971

    First automatic analog cellular systems deployed were NTT's system first used in Tokyo in 1979, later spreading to the whole of Japan, and NMT in the Nordic countries in 1981.




  • Finland
    1971
    Mobile Phones

    ARP System

    Finland
    1971

    In 1971 Finland had a system called ARP which was also manual as was the Swedish MTD.




  • Yugoslavia
    1971
    Josip Broz Tito

    Re-elected as President of Yugoslavia by the Federal Assembly for the sixth time

    Yugoslavia
    1971

    In 1971, Tito was re-elected as President of Yugoslavia by the Federal Assembly for the sixth time.




  • 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.




  • Virginia, United States
    1971
    Patch Adams

    Adams earned his Doctor of Medicine in 1971

    Virginia, United States
    1971

    Adams began medical school without an undergraduate degree, and earned his Doctor of Medicine degree at Virginia Commonwealth University (Medical College of Virginia) in 1971.




  • Southern Sudan
    1971
    First Sudanese Civil War

    Joseph Lagu Formed a Successful Coup d'état against Gordon Muortat

    Southern Sudan
    1971

    In 1971, former army lieutenant Joseph Lagu formed a successful coup d'état against Gordon Muortat with help from Israel, which pledged him their support. He then gathered all the guerilla bands under his Southern Sudan Liberation Movement (SSLM).


  • Bangladesh
    1971
    Muhammad Yunus

    Returning home

    Bangladesh
    1971

    Inspired by the birth of Bangladesh in 1971, Yunus returned home in 1972, to help Mujib rebuild the nation shattered by a long and bloody war.


  • West Germany
    1971
    Martin Bormann

    The West German Government Declared That Its Hunt For Bormann Was Over

    West Germany
    1971

    The West German government declared that its hunt for Bormann was over in 1971.


  • 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.


  • Toronto, Canada
    1971
    Computer animation

    Metadata

    Toronto, Canada
    1971

    The National Film Board of Canada, already a world center for animation art, also began experimentation with computer techniques in 1969. The most well-known of the early pioneers with this was artist Peter Foldes, who completed Metadata in 1971. This film comprised drawings animated by gradually changing from one image to the next, a technique is known as "interpolating" (also known as "inbetweening" or "morphing").


  • Chile
    1971
    Meditation

    Claudio Naranjo's Meditation

    Chile
    1971

    In 1971, Claudio Naranjo noted that "The word 'meditation' has been used to designate a variety of practices that differ enough from one another so that we may find trouble in defining what meditation is." There remains no definition of necessary and sufficient criteria for meditation that has achieved universal or widespread acceptance within the modern scientific community, as one study recently noted a "persistent lack of consensus in the literature" and "seeming intractability of defining meditation". Since then many attempts have been made to define meditation.


  • 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.


  • Vienna, Austria
    Wednesday Feb 3, 1971
    1973 oil crisis

    " a complete and total embargo "

    Vienna, Austria
    Wednesday Feb 3, 1971

    OPEC mandates " a complete and total embargo " against any company that rejects the 55 percent tax rate.


  • 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.


  • Hillsboro, West Virginia, U.S.
    Feb, 1971
    Patch Adams

    Patch and friends founded the Zanies

    Hillsboro, West Virginia, U.S.
    Feb, 1971

    Patch, Linda, and friends founded the Gesundheit! Institute (originally known to many as the Zanies), which ran as a free community hospital from 1971 to 1984.


  • 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.


  • Tehran, Iran
    Sunday Feb 14, 1971
    1973 oil crisis

    Tehran Price Agreement of 1971

    Tehran, Iran
    Sunday Feb 14, 1971

    Under the Tehran Price Agreement of 1971, the posted price of oil was increased and, due to a decline in the value of the US dollar relative to gold, certain anti-inflationary measures were enacted.


  • New York City, New York, U.S.
    Thursday Feb 18, 1971
    New York Stock Exchange

    Non-profit corporation was formed

    New York City, New York, U.S.
    Thursday Feb 18, 1971

    On February 18, 1971, the non-profit corporation was formed, and the number of board members was reduced to twenty-five.


  • Chicago, Illinois, United States
    1971
    Ted Kaczynski

    Kaczynski moved to Lombard

    Chicago, Illinois, United States
    1971

    After resigning from Berkeley, Kaczynski moved to his parents' home in Lombard, Illinois. Two years later, in 1971, he moved to a remote cabin he had built outside Lincoln, Montana, where he could live a simple life with little money and without electricity or running water, working odd jobs and receiving significant financial support from his family.


  • Algeria
    Feb, 1971
    1973 oil crisis

    Algeria nationalizes 51 percent of French oil concessions

    Algeria
    Feb, 1971

    Algeria nationalizes 51 percent of French oil concessions.


  • India
    Sunday Feb 28, 1971
    Indira Gandhi

    Indian General election

    India
    Sunday Feb 28, 1971

    Indira Gandhi won the 1971 Indian general election.


  • Japan
    Mar, 1971
    Microprocessor

    Delivering The First Production Units of The 4004 To Busicom

    Japan
    Mar, 1971

    Production units of the 4004 were first delivered to Busicom in March 1971 and shipped to other customers in late 1971.


  • Royal Air Force, Cranwell, England
    Monday Mar 8, 1971
    Prince Charles

    The Royal Air Force College Cranwel

    Royal Air Force, Cranwell, England
    Monday Mar 8, 1971

    Charles followed family tradition when he served in the Royal Air Force and Royal Navy. During his second year at Cambridge, he requested and received Royal Air Force training. On 8 March 1971, he flew himself to the Royal Air Force College Cranwell to train as a jet pilot.


  • 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.


  • (then Germany)
    1971
    Holy Roman Empire

    Roman-German Empire

    (then Germany)
    1971

    In the modern period, the Empire was often informally called the German Empire (Deutsches Reich) or Roman-German Empire (Römisch-Deutsches Reich). After its dissolution through the end of the German Empire, it was often called "the old Empire" (das alte Reich). Beginning in 1923, early-twentieth century German nationalists and Nazi propaganda would identify the Holy Roman Empire as the First Reich (Reich meaning empire), with the German Empire as the Second Reich and either a future German nationalist state or Nazi Germany as the Third Reich.


  • 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.


  • Tripoli, Libya
    Friday Apr 2, 1971
    1973 oil crisis

    The agreement raises posted prices of oil delivered to the Mediterranean from $2.55 to $3.45 per barrel

    Tripoli, Libya
    Friday Apr 2, 1971

    Libya concludes five weeks of negotiations with Western oil companies in Tripoli on behalf of itself, Saudi Arabia, Algeria, and Iraq. The agreement raises posted prices of oil delivered to the Mediterranean from $2.55 to $3.45 per barrel; provides for a 2.5 percent annual price increase plus inflation allowance; raises the tax rate from a range of 50-58 percent to 60 percent of the posted price.


  • 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.


  • England, United Kingdom
    1971
    Freddie Mercury

    Mercury chose the name "Queen" for the new band

    England, United Kingdom
    1971

    They (Smile) were joined by bassist John Deacon in 1971. Despite the reservations of the other members and Trident Studios, the band's initial management, Mercury chose the name "Queen" for the new band.


  • 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.


  • London, England
    Wednesday Jun 2, 1971
    Johan Cruyff

    The European Cup

    London, England
    Wednesday Jun 2, 1971

    On 2 June 1971, in London, Ajax won the European Cup by defeating Panathinaikos 2–0. He signed a seven-year contract at Ajax. At the end of the season, he was named the Dutch and European Footballer of the Year for 1971.


  • 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.


  • Paraburdoo, Western Australia
    1971
    Red Dog (Pilbara)

    Birth

    Paraburdoo, Western Australia
    1971

    Red Dog was believed to have been born in the town of Paraburdoo, Western Australia in 1971.


  • Pretoria, South Africa
    Monday Jun 28, 1971
    Elon Musk

    Birth

    Pretoria, South Africa
    Monday Jun 28, 1971

    On June 28, 1971, Elon Musk was born in Pretoria, Transvaal, South Africa. The son of Maye Musk, a Canadian model and dietitian born in Saskatchewan, Canada, and raised in South Africa, and Errol Musk, a South African electromechanical engineer, pilot, and sailor.


  • London, England
    Jul, 1971
    Mobile Phones

    Readycall

    London, England
    Jul, 1971

    In July 1971 Readycall was introduced in London by Burndept after obtaining a special concession to break the Post Office monopoly to allow selective calling to mobiles of calls from the public telephone system. This system was available to the public for a subscription of £16 month. A year later the service was extended to two other UK towns.


  • 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.


  • Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates
    Thursday Jul 15, 1971
    Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan

    The Abu Dhabi Fund For Arab Economic Development

    Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates
    Thursday Jul 15, 1971

    At the time the British withdrew from the Persian Gulf in 1971, Zayed oversaw the establishment of the Abu Dhabi Fund for Arab Economic Development; some of its oil riches were channeled to some forty less fortunate Islamic nations in Asia and Africa during the decades that followed.


  • Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
    Sunday Jul 18, 1971
    Pelé

    Last International Match

    Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
    Sunday Jul 18, 1971

    Pelé's last international match was on 18 July 1971 against Yugoslavia in Rio de Janeiro.


  • Khartoum, Sudan
    Monday Jul 19, 1971
    First Sudanese Civil War

    1971 Sudanese Coup d'état

    Khartoum, Sudan
    Monday Jul 19, 1971

    In-fighting between Marxist and non-Marxist factions in the ruling military class led to another coup in July 1971 and a short-lived administration by the Sudanese Communist Party before anti-Communist factions put Nimeiry back in control of the country.


  • Royal Oak, Auckland, New Zealand
    1971
    KFC

    First in New Zealand

    Royal Oak, Auckland, New Zealand
    1971

    In 1971, The first KFC opened in New Zealand at Royal Oak, a suburb of Auckland. Now, there exist over 100 outlets in New Zealand.


  • 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.


  • Palaiseau, France
    1971
    Bernard Arnault

    Graduation

    Palaiseau, France
    1971

    Arnault graduated from the École Polytechnique in Palaiseau, with a M.Sc, degree in 1971.


  • Vienna, Austria
    Sep, 1971
    1973 oil crisis

    Price oil in terms of a fixed amount of gold

    Vienna, Austria
    Sep, 1971

    In September 1973, President Nixon said, "Oil without a market, as Mr. Mossadegh learned many, many years ago, does not do a country much good", referring to the 1951 nationalization of the Iranian oil industry, but between October 1973 and February 1974 the OPEC countries raised by posted price fourfold to nearly $12. Because oil was priced in dollars, oil producers' real income decreased when the dollar started to float free of the old link to gold. In September 1971, OPEC issued a joint communiqué stating that from then on, they would price oil in terms of a fixed amount of gold.


  • 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.


  • Malaysia
    Sunday Sep 19, 1971
    Communist insurgency in Sarawak

    The official date of the formation of the party to coincide with the Pontianak Conference

    Malaysia
    Sunday Sep 19, 1971

    However, 19 September 1971 was chosen as the official date of the formation of the party to coincide with the Pontianak Conference, which had been held on 17–19 September 1965.


  • Vienna, Austria
    Wednesday Sep 22, 1971
    1973 oil crisis

    OPEC directs members to negotiate price increases to offset the devaluation of the U.S. dollar

    Vienna, Austria
    Wednesday Sep 22, 1971

    OPEC directs members to negotiate price increases to offset the devaluation of the U.S. dollar.


  • London, England, United Kingdom
    1971
    Richard Branson

    Branson was questioned in connection with the selling of records declared export stock

    London, England, United Kingdom
    1971

    Branson eventually started a record shop in Oxford Street in London. In 1971, he was questioned in connection with the selling of records declared export stock. The matter was never brought before a court because Branson agreed to repay any unpaid purchase tax of 33% and a £70,000 fine. His parents re-mortgaged the family home to help pay the settlement.


  • Oxford, England, United Kingdom
    1971
    Richard Branson

    The Manor Studio

    Oxford, England, United Kingdom
    1971

    Branson bought a country estate north of Oxford in which he installed a residential recording studio, The Manor Studio.


  • 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.


  • France
    1971
    Bernard Arnault

    After Graduation

    France
    1971

    After graduation in 1971, Arnault joined his father's company (Ferret-Savinel).


  • 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.


  • United Arab Emirates
    Thursday Dec 2, 1971
    Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan

    Supreme Commander of The Armed Forces

    United Arab Emirates
    Thursday Dec 2, 1971

    After the United Arab Emirates was formed, Zayed became the Supreme Commander of The Armed Forces.


  • United Arab Emirates
    Thursday Dec 2, 1971
    Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan

    The Presidency of The UAE

    United Arab Emirates
    Thursday Dec 2, 1971

    In 1971, after occasionally difficult negotiations with the other six rulers of the Trucial States, the United Arab Emirates was formed. Zayed was appointed to the presidency of the UAE in 1971 and was reappointed on four more occasions: 1976, 1981, 1986, and 1991.


  • India – Pakistan
    Thursday Dec 2, 1971
    Indira Gandhi

    The Indo-Pakistani War

    India – Pakistan
    Thursday Dec 2, 1971

    The biggest achievement of Indira Gandhi after the 1971 election came in December 1971 with India's decisive victory over Pakistan in the Indo-Pakistani War that occurred in the last two weeks of the Bangladesh Liberation War which led to the formation of independent Bangladesh. She was hailed as Goddess Durga by opposition leader Atal Bihari Vajpayee at that time.


  • 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".


  • Libya
    Tuesday Dec 7, 1971
    1973 oil crisis

    Libya nationalizes British Petroleum concession

    Libya
    Tuesday Dec 7, 1971

    Libya nationalizes British Petroleum concession.


  • Kolkata, India
    Wednesday Dec 8, 1971
    Gita Gopinath

    Birth

    Kolkata, India
    Wednesday Dec 8, 1971

    Gita Gopinath was born on 8 December 1971 in Calcutta, India in a Malayali family. She is the younger of two daughters of T.V. Gopinath and V.C. Vijayalakshmi. Her family is related to the late A. K. Gopalan.


  • Vietnam
    1971
    Disasters with highest death tolls

    Hanoi and Red River Delta Flood

    Vietnam
    1971

    Hanoi and Red River Delta flood happened in 1971, in North Vietnam . The death toll from this flood is estimated to be in the range of 100,000 people.


  • 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.


  • Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
    Saturday Dec 25, 1971
    Justin Trudeau

    Birth

    Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
    Saturday Dec 25, 1971

    Justin Trudeau was born on Christmas Day 1971 at 9:27 pm EST at the Ottawa Civic Hospital.


  • United Kingdom
    Thursday Dec 30, 1971
    James Bond

    Diamonds Are Forever

    United Kingdom
    Thursday Dec 30, 1971

    Diamonds Are Forever is a 1971 spy film, the seventh in the James Bond series produced by Eon Productions. It is the sixth and final Eon film to star Sean Connery, who returned to the role as the fictional MI6 agent James Bond, having declined to reprise the role in On Her Majesty's Secret Service (1969).


  • Vietnam
    1971
    Vietnam War

    Military Deaths In 1971

    Vietnam
    1971

    In 1971, 2,414 Americans and 22,738 Vietnamese were killed.


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