WHAT ALL HAPPENED FEBRUARY TO NOVEMBER 1971
Find out what all happened February to 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)

The United States Emergency Broadcast System is accidentally activated in an erroneous national alert. (20. February 1971)

The Dahlerau train disaster, the worst railway accident in West Germany, kills 46 people and injures 25 near Wuppertal. (27. May 1971)

A bomb explodes in a men's room in the United States Capitol: the Weather Underground claims responsibility. (1. March 1971)

The NASDAQ stock market index opens for the first time. (8. February 1971)

During a severe thunderstorm over Washington state, a hijacker calling himself Dan Cooper (aka D. B. Cooper) parachutes from a Northwest Orient Airlines plane with $200,000 in ransom money. He has never been found. (24. November 1971)

The first unit of the Pickering Nuclear Generating Station, the first commercial nuclear power station in Canada, goes online. (25. February 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)

President of Pakistan Yahya Khan indefinitely postpones the pending national assembly session, precipitating massive civil disobedience in East Pakistan. (1. March 1971)

The first Pacific Islands Forum (then known as the "South Pacific Forum") is held in Wellington, New Zealand, with the aim of enhancing cooperation between the independent countries of the Pacific Ocean. (5. August 1971)

Right to vote: the Twenty-sixth Amendment to the United States Constitution, lowering the voting age from 21 to 18 years, is formally certified by President Richard Nixon. (5. July 1971)

The Troubles: The British Army in Northern Ireland launches Operation Demetrius. Hundreds of people are arrested and interned, thousands are displaced, and twenty are killed in the violence that followed. (9. August 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)

President Richard Nixon completes the break from the gold standard by ending convertibility of the United States dollar into gold by foreign investors. (15. August 1971)

The Freetown Christiania was founded. (26. September 1971)

Having weakened after making landfall in Nicaragua the previous day, Hurricane Irene regains enough strength to be renamed Hurricane Olivia, making it the first known hurricane to cross from the Atlantic Ocean into the Pacific. (20. September 1971)

Apollo program: Apollo 15 Mission – David Scott and James Irwin on the Apollo Lunar Module module Falcon land on the Moon with the first Lunar Rover. (30. July 1971)

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

The All India Forward Bloc holds an emergency central committee meeting after its chairman, Hemantha Kumar Bose, is killed 3 days earlier. P.K. Mookiah Thevar is appointed as the new chairman. (24. February 1971)

Oman joins the Arab League. (29. September 1971)