WHAT ALL HAPPENED JANUARY TO MARCH 1971
Find out what all happened January to March 1971

The international Ramsar Convention for the conservation and sustainable utilization of wetlands is signed in Ramsar, Mazandaran, Iran. (2. February 1971)

East Pakistan declares its independence from Pakistan to form the People's Republic of Bangladesh and the Bangladesh Liberation War begins. (26. March 1971)

My Lai massacre: Lieutenant William Calley is convicted of premeditated murder and sentenced to life in prison. (29. March 1971)

In Peru a landslide crashed into Lake Yanahuani, killing 200 people at the mining camp of Chungar. (18. March 1971)

Idi Amin leads a coup deposing Milton Obote and becomes Uganda's president. (25. January 1971)

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

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

The Winter Soldier Investigation, organized by the Vietnam Veterans Against the War to publicize war crimes and atrocities by Americans and allies in Vietnam, begins in Detroit, Michigan. (31. January 1971)

The Singapore Declaration, one of the two most important documents to the uncodified constitution of the Commonwealth of Nations, is issued. (22. January 1971)

The Convention on Psychotropic Substances is signed at Vienna. (21. February 1971)

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

The first unit of the Pickering Nuclear Generating Station, the first commercial nuclear power station in Canada, goes online. (25. February 1971)

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

U.N. Secretary General U Thant signs United Nations proclamation of the vernal equinox as Earth Day. (26. February 1971)

Charles Manson and three female "Family" members are found guilty of the 1969 Tate-LaBianca murders. (25. January 1971)

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

Bowing to international pressure, President of Pakistan Zulfikar Ali Bhutto releases Bengali leader Sheikh Mujibur Rahman from prison, who had been arrested after declaring the independence of Bangladesh. (8. January 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)

A Los Angeles, California jury recommends the death penalty for Charles Manson and three female followers. (29. March 1971)

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