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

Apollo program: Apollo 15 astronauts become the first to ride in a lunar rover. (31. July 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)

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)

After only three years in business, rock promoter Bill Graham closes the Fillmore East in New York, New York, the "Church of Rock and Roll". (27. June 1971)

The Society for American Baseball Research is founded in Cooperstown, New York. (10. August 1971)

Charles Manson is sentenced to death (later commuted life imprisonment) for conspiracy to commit the Tate/LaBianca murders. (19. April 1971)

The decimalisation of British coinage is completed on Decimal Day. (15. February 1971)

The Freetown Christiania was founded. (26. September 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 United States Emergency Broadcast System is accidentally activated in an erroneous national alert. (20. February 1971)

Vietnam War: Backed by American air and artillery support, South Vietnamese troops invade Laos. (13. February 1971)

Oman joins the United Nations. (7. October 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)

J. Edgar Hoover and John Mitchell announce the arrest of 20 of the Camden 28. (22. August 1971)

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

The international Ramsar Convention for the conservation and sustainable utilization of wetlands is signed in Ramsar, Mazandaran, Iran. (2. February 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)

An All Nippon Airways Boeing 727 and a Japanese Air Force F-86 collide over Morioka, Iwate, Japan killing 162. (30. July 1971)

Sold, dismantled and moved to the United States, London Bridge reopens in Lake Havasu City, Arizona. (10. October 1971)