WHAT ALL HAPPENED FEBRUARY TO AUGUST 1971
Find out what all happened February to August 1971

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

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

Soyuz program: Soyuz 11 is launched. (6. June 1971)

Bahrain gains independence from the United Kingdom. (15. August 1971)

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

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

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

A midair collision between a Hughes Airwest Douglas DC-9 jetliner and a United States Marine Corps McDonnell Douglas F-4 Phantom II jet fighter near Duarte, California, claims 50 lives. (6. June 1971)

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

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

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

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

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

The crew of the Soviet Soyuz 11 spacecraft are killed when their air supply escapes through a faulty valve. (30. June 1971)

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

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

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