WHAT ALL HAPPENED FEBRUARY TO APRIL 1971
Find out what all happened February to April 1971

Launch of Salyut 1, the first space station. (19. April 1971)

President Richard Nixon announces his decision to increase the rate of American troop withdrawals from Vietnam. (7. April 1971)

The Army of the Republic of Vietnam abandon an attempt to cut off the Ho Chi Minh trail in Laos. (25. March 1971)

The Sylmar earthquake hits the San Fernando Valley area of California. (9. February 1971)

The People's Republic of Bangladesh forms, under Sheikh Mujibur Rahman at Mujibnagor. (17. April 1971)

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

Bangladesh Liberation War: The Pakistan Army and Razakars massacre approximately 3,000 Hindu emigrants in the Jathibhanga area of East Pakistan (now Bangladesh). (23. April 1971)

Sierra Leone becomes a republic, and Siaka Stevens the president. (19. April 1971)

Apollo program: Apollo 14 returns to Earth after the third manned Moon landing. (9. February 1971)

In Sri Lanka, Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna launches a revolt against the United Front government of Sirimavo Bandaranaike. (5. April 1971)

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

Eighty-seven countries, including the United States, United Kingdom, and Soviet Union, sign the Seabed Arms Control Treaty outlawing nuclear weapons on the ocean floor in international waters. (11. February 1971)

Satchel Paige becomes the first Negro League player to be voted into the Baseball Hall of Fame. (9. February 1971)

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

Soyuz 10 docks with Salyut 1. (24. April 1971)

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

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

South Vietnamese ground troops launch an incursion into Laos to try to cut off the Ho Chi Minh trail and stop communist infiltration. (8. February 1971)

Ping-pong diplomacy: In an attempt to thaw relations with the United States, the People's Republic of China hosts the U.S. table tennis team for a week-long visit. (10. April 1971)

Bangladesh Liberation War: Beginning of Operation Searchlight by the Pakistani Armed Forces against East Pakistani civilians. (25. March 1971)