WHAT ALL HAPPENED SEPTEMBER TO OCTOBER 1971
Find out what all happened September to October 1971

The start of the 2500-year celebration of Iran, celebrating the birth of Persia. (15. October 1971)

In Washington, D.C., the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts is inaugurated, with the opening feature being the premiere of Leonard Bernstein's Mass. (8. September 1971)

The Egyptian Constitution becomes official. (11. September 1971)

The Democratic Republic of the Congo is renamed Zaire. (27. October 1971)

Typhoon Nancy, with possibly the strongest winds ever measured in a tropical cyclone, makes landfall in Osaka, Japan, killing 173 people. (16. September 1971)

A gas explosion kills 22 people at a shopping center in Clarkston, East Renfrewshire, near Glasgow, Scotland. (21. October 1971)

Qatar becomes an independent state. (3. September 1971)

Alaska Airlines Flight 1866 crashes near Juneau, Alaska, killing all 111 people on board. (4. September 1971)

The United Nations seated the People's Republic of China and expelled the Republic of China (see political status of Taiwan and China and the United Nations) (25. October 1971)

Oman joins the United Nations. (7. October 1971)

Montagnard troops of South Vietnam revolt against the rule of Nguyen Khanh, killing 70 ethnic Vietnamese soldiers. (19. September 1971)

Walt Disney World opens near Orlando, Florida, United States. (1. October 1971)

The Freetown Christiania was founded. (26. September 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)

State police and National Guardsmen storm New York's Attica Prison to end a prison revolt. (13. September 1971)

Bahrain, Bhutan and Qatar join the United Nations. (21. September 1971)

In Macon, Georgia, guitarist Duane Allman is killed in a motorcycle accident. (29. October 1971)

The four-day Attica Prison riot begins, which eventually results in 39 dead, most killed by state troopers retaking the prison. (9. September 1971)

The first brain-scan using x-ray computed tomography (CT or CAT scan) is performed at Atkinson Morley Hospital in Wimbledon, London. (1. October 1971)

People's Republic of China: Chairman Mao Zedong's second in command and successor Marshal Lin Biao flees the country via plane after the failure of alleged coup against Mao. The plane crashes in Mongolia, killing all aboard. (13. September 1971)