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

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

New York Police Officer Frank Serpico is shot during a drug bust in Brooklyn and survives to later testify against police corruption. Many believe the incident proves that NYPD officers tried to kill him. (3. February 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)

The Pakistan Army massacres at least 71 Hindus in Burunga, Sylhet, Bangladesh. (26. May 1971)

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

Astronauts land on the moon in the Apollo 14 mission. (5. 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)

In accordance with the Uniform Monday Holiday Act passed by the U.S. Congress in 1968, observation of Memorial Day occurs on the last Monday in May for the first time, rather than on the traditional Memorial Day of May 30. (31. May 1971)

Vietnam War: Vietnam Veterans Against the War begin a five-day demonstration in Washington, D.C.. (19. April 1971)

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

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

Bangladesh Liberation War: The Pakistan Army massacre over 1,000 people in Keraniganj Upazila, Bangladesh. (1. April 1971)

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

Mars probe program: Mars 2 is launched by the Soviet Union. (19. May 1971)

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

Doctors in the first Dutch abortion clinic (the Mildredhuis in Arnhem) start to perform aborti provocati. (27. February 1971)

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

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

The March 12 Memorandum is sent to the Demirel government of Turkey and the government resigns. (12. March 1971)