Top News Stories from 1971

World Events

• A military junta led by Major General Idi Amin siezes power in Uganda (Jan. 25).
• Mao Zedong invites the US ping-pong team to visit Beijing (Apr. 6).
• Nixon ends the US trade embargo against China. (Apr. 14).
• Erich Honecker assumes leadership of the East German Communist Party after Walter Ulbricht's resignation (May).
• India and the USSR sign a 20-year friendship pact (Aug. 9).
• President Mobutu renames the Democratic Republic of Congo, establishing Zaire (Oct. 27).

U.S. Events

• US Supreme Court rules unanimously that busing of students may be ordered to achieve racial desegregation (April 20).
• Anti-war militants attempt to disrupt government business in Washington (May 3)—police and military units arrest as many as 12,000; most are later released.
• Pentagon Papers published (June 13).
• Twenty-sixth Amendment to US Constitution lowers voting age to 18. (June 30).

Economics

Sports

Super Bowl

Baltimore d. Dallas

World Series

Pittsburgh d. Baltimore

NBA Championship

Milwaukee d. Baltimore Bullets

Stanley Cup

Montreal d. Chicago

Wimbledon

Women: Evonne Goolagong d. M. Court (6-4 6-1)
Men: John Newcombe d. S. Smith (6-3 5-7 2-6 6-4 6-4)

Kentucky Derby Champion

Canonero II

NCAA Basketball Championship

UCLA d. Villanova

NCAA Football Champions

Nebraska (13-0-0)

Entertainment

Events

• All in the Family debuts on CBS and introduces a trend in socially conscious programming.
• Jim Morrison dies in Paris at age 27. (July 3).
• The Allman Brothers' Duane Allman dies in a motorcycle accident at age 24. (Oct. 29).
• The Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts opens in Washington, D.C. with the premiere of Leonard Bernstein's Mass.

Movies

• A Clockwork Orange, The French Connection, The Last Picture Show, Fiddler on the Roof, McCabe & Mrs. Miller

Books

• E.M. Forster, Maurice
• John Hawkes, Blood Oranges
• Frank O'Hara, The Collected Poems
• Bernard Malamud, The Tenants
• Cynthia Ozick, The Pagan Rabbi and Other Stories
• Wallace Stegner, Angle of Repose

Science

• Intel introduces the microprocessor. Background: Computers and Internet
• Cho Hao Li synthesizes the growth hormone somatotropin. Background: Health & Nutrition
• Mariner IX, orbitting Mars, takes revealing pictures of the planet's surface. Background: US Unstaffed Planetary and Lunar Programs

Death

• J.C. Penney
• Igor Stravinsky