WHAT ALL HAPPENED OCTOBER TO DECEMBER 1971
Find out what all happened October to December 1971

Indo-Pakistani War of 1971: Pakistan launches a pre-emptive strike against India and a full scale war begins claiming hundreds of lives. (3. December 1971)

Zulfikar Ali Bhutto takes over as the fourth President of Pakistan. (20. December 1971)

The Democratic Republic of the Congo is renamed Zaire. (27. October 1971)

Walt Disney World opens near Orlando, Florida, United States. (1. October 1971)

The Indian Navy attacks the Pakistan Navy and Karachi. (4. December 1971)

The Montreux Casino in Switzerland is set ablaze by someone wielding a flare gun during a Frank Zappa concert; the incident would be noted in the Deep Purple song "Smoke on the Water". (4. December 1971)

The Soviet space program's Mars 2 orbiter releases a descent module. It malfunctions and crashes, but it is the first man-made object to reach the surface of Mars. (27. November 1971)

A gas explosion kills 22 people at a shopping center in Clarkston, East Renfrewshire, near Glasgow, Scotland. (21. October 1971)

Fred Quilt, a leader of the Tsilhqot'in First Nation suffers severe abdominal injuries allegedly caused by Royal Canadian Mounted Police officers; he dies two days later. (28. November 1971)

Bangladesh Liberation War: Over 200 of East Pakistan' s intellectuals are executed by the Pakistan Army and their local allies. (The date is commemorated in Bangladesh as Martyred Intellectuals Day.) (14. December 1971)

Iran seizes the Greater and Lesser Tunbs from the United Arab Emirates. (30. November 1971)

Vietnam War: As part of Vietnamization, US President Richard M. Nixon sets February 1, 1972 as the deadline for the removal of another 45,000 American troops from Vietnam. (12. November 1971)

Oman joins the United Nations. (7. October 1971)

Pakistan President Yahya Khan announces the formation of a coalition government with Nurul Amin as Prime Minister and Zulfikar Ali Bhutto as Deputy Prime Minister. (7. December 1971)

"The Troubles": The Ulster Volunteer Force bombs a Catholic-owned pub in Belfast, killing 15 civilians and wounding 17. It was the city's highest death toll from a single incident during the conflict. (4. December 1971)

Indo-Pakistani War: The Indian Navy launches an attack on West Pakistan's port city of Karachi. (8. December 1971)

In Macon, Georgia, guitarist Duane Allman is killed in a motorcycle accident. (29. October 1971)

Bangladesh Liberation War and Indo-Pakistani War of 1971: The surrender of the Pakistan Army brings an end to both conflicts. This is commemorated annually as Victory Day in Bangladesh, and as Vijay Diwas in India. (16. December 1971)

Representatives of the People's Republic of China attend the United Nations, including the United Nations Security Council, for the first time. (23. November 1971)

Britain launches the satellite Prospero into low Earth orbit atop a Black Arrow carrier rocket, the only British satellite to date launched by a British rocket. (28. October 1971)