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1971 Calendar

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•  January 27, 1971 – New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Metal Pig in Chinese astrology.
•  February 15, 1971 – The decimalisation of British coinage is completed on Decimal Day.
•  March 12, 1971 – The March 12 Memorandum is sent to the Demirel government of Turkey and the government resigns.
•  May 1, 1971 – Amtrak (the National Railroad Passenger Corporation) takes over operation of U.S. passenger rail service.
•  August 9, 1971 – The Troubles: The British security forces in Northern Ireland launch Operation Demetrius. Hundreds of people are arrested and interned, thousands are displaced, and twenty are killed in the violence that followed.
•  August 10, 1971 – The Society for American Baseball Research is founded in Cooperstown, New York.
•  August 22, 1971 – J. Edgar Hoover and John Mitchell announce the arrest of 20 of the Camden 28.
•  September 4, 1971 – Alaska Airlines Flight 1866 crashes near Juneau, Alaska, killing all 111 people on board.
•  November 12, 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.
•  December 18, 1971 – Capitol Reef National Park is established in Utah.

•  January 7, 1971 – C.W. Anderson, American professional wrestler
•  January 20, 1971 – Brian Giles, American baseball player
•  February 11, 1971 – Damian Lewis, British actor
•  March 11, 1971 – Martin Ručinský, Czech ice hockey player
•  May 27, 1971 – Glenn Ross, Northern Irish strongman
•  June 3, 1971 – Carl Everett, American baseball player
•  June 15, 1971 – Edwin Brienen, Dutch director
•  August 12, 1971 – Michael Ian Black, American comedian
•  August 28, 1971 – Raul Marquez, Mexican-born American boxer
•  November 7, 1971 – Robin Finck, American musician