WHAT HAPPENED IN 1971.
Look what happened the 1971.

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

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

Sold, dismantled and moved to the United States, London Bridge reopens in Lake Havasu City, Arizona. (10. October 1971)

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

The Nepal Stock Exchange collapses. (20. October 1971)

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

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

Britain launches the satellite Prospero into low Earth orbit atop a Black Arrow carrier rocket, the only British satellite to date launched by a British rocket. (28. October 1971)

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

The United States Atomic Energy Commission tests the largest U.S. underground hydrogen bomb, code-named Cannikin, on Amchitka Island in the Aleutians. (6. November 1971)

In Cambodia, Khmer Rouge forces attack the city of Phnom Penh and its airport, killing 44, wounding at least 30 and damaging nine aircraft. (10. November 1971)

Vietnam War: As part of Vietnamization, US President Richard M. Nixon sets February 1, 1972 as the deadline for the removal of another 45,000 American troops from Vietnam. (12. November 1971)

Enthronment of Pope Shenouda III as Pope of Alexandria. (14. November 1971)

Mariner 9 enters orbit around Mars. (14. November 1971)

Intel releases the world's first commercial single-chip microprocessor, the 4004. (15. November 1971)

Indian troops, partly aided by Mukti Bahini (Bengali guerrillas), defeat the Pakistan army in the Battle of Garibpur. (21. November 1971)

Representatives of the People's Republic of China attend the United Nations, including the United Nations Security Council, for the first time. (23. November 1971)

During a severe thunderstorm over Washington state, a hijacker calling himself Dan Cooper (aka D. B. Cooper) parachutes from a Northwest Orient Airlines plane with $200,000 in ransom money. He has never been found. (24. November 1971)