November 1971

November 1, 1971 (Monday)

November 2, 1971 (Tuesday)

November 3, 1971 (Wednesday)

November 4, 1971 (Thursday)

November 5, 1971 (Friday)

November 6, 1971 (Saturday)
  • Operation Grommet: The U.S. tests a thermonuclear warhead at Amchitka Island in Alaska, code-named Project Cannikin. At around 5 megatons, it is the largest ever U.S. underground detonation.

November 7, 1971 (Sunday)

November 8, 1971 (Monday)
  • Led Zeppelin release their officially untitled fourth studio album; it goes on to become the biggest selling album of the year (1972), the band's biggest selling album, and the fourth best selling album of all time.

November 9, 1971 (Tuesday)

November 10, 1971 (Wednesday)

November 11, 1971 (Thursday)

November 12, 1971 (Friday)
  • Vietnam War – Vietnamization: U.S. President Richard M. Nixon sets February 1, 1972, as the deadline for the removal of another 45,000 American troops from Vietnam.
  • Paul Joseph Cini hijacks an Air Canada plane, but is later arrested without incident.
  • Official opening of the History House at 133 Macquarie Street, Sydney.[6]

November 13, 1971 (Saturday)

November 14, 1971 (Sunday)
  • Pope Shenouda III of Alexandria is enthroned.
  • Born: Adam Gilchrist, Australian cricketer, in Bellingen, New South Wales

November 15, 1971 (Monday)

November 16, 1971 (Tuesday)
  • The British Government commissions a committee of inquiry chaired by Lord Parker, the Lord Chief Justice of England to look into the legal and moral aspects of the use of the five techniques of interrogation in Northern Ireland.
  • Born: Waqar Younis, Pakistani cricketer
  • Died: Edie Sedgwick, 28, American actress (barbiturate overdose)

November 17, 1971 (Wednesday)

November 18, 1971 (Thursday)
  • Procol Harum Live with the Edmonton Symphony Orchestra is recorded at the Northern Alberta Jubilee Auditorium, in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.
  • Died: Junior Parker, 39, blues musician (during brain surgery)

November 19, 1971 (Friday)

November 20, 1971 (Saturday)
  • A bridge still in construction, called Elevado Engenheiro Freyssinet, falls over the Paulo de Frontin Avenue, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; 48 people are killed and several injured. Reconstructed, the bridge is now part of the Linha Vermelha elevate.
  • Women from all over the US show support for abortion rights with marches on Washington D C. and San Francisco. A new organization, WONAAC, called for the marches. WONAAC was formed by a national conference of more than 1000 women that convened for a week in New York City in July 1971.[7][8][9]

November 21, 1971 (Sunday)
  • Fighting breaks out in the Boyra peninsula, signalling the start of the Indo-Pakistani War[10]

November 22, 1971 (Monday)

November 23, 1971 (Tuesday)

November 24, 1971 (Wednesday)
  • During a severe thunderstorm over Washington, a man calling himself D. B. Cooper parachutes from the Northwest Orient Airlines plane he hijacked, with US$200,000 in ransom money, and is never seen again (as of March 2008, this case remains the only unsolved skyjacking in history).
  • A Brussels court sentences pretender Alexis Brimeyer to 18 months in jail for falsely using a noble title; Brimeyer has already fled to Greece.
  • Rhodesian Prime Minister Ian Smith and British Foreign Secretary Alec Douglas-Home sign an agreement on proposals for a political settlement.
  • Muswell Hillbillies, an album by British rock band The Kinks is released, their first for RCA Records.

November 25, 1971 (Thursday)

November 26, 1971 (Friday)
  • Yes's classic album Fragile, is released in the UK. It is the first to feature their new keyboard player Rick Wakeman.
  • The US National Park Service acquires the Joseph Bailly Homestead in Porter, Indiana.
  • Died: Giacomo Alberione, 87, Italian priest, founder of the Society of St. Paul and the Daughters of St. Paul; Bengt Ekerot, 51, Swedish actor, best known for his role as Death in Ingmar Bergman's The Seventh Seal; Palwankar Vithal, Indian cricketer

November 27, 1971 (Saturday)
  • The USSR's Mars 2 probe impacts the Martian surface due to a computer malfunction.

November 28, 1971 (Sunday)
  • The Royal Canadian Mounted Police receive a call about a pickup truck blocking Highway 20 around Alexis Creek near Williams Lake.[12] Fred Quilt, a 55-year-old leader of the Tsilhqot'in First Nation, is arrested on charges of drunk driving.[13] RCMP constables Daryl Bakewell and Peter Eakins find Fred Quilt along with three other members of his family in the pickup. The RCMP constables later allege that the four were "extremely intoxicated" and that Quilt had to be pulled from the truck and fell to the ground, falling again as he was being taken to the police truck in which the four were driven to the nearby Anahim Reserve.[14] Quilt dies two days later, and the Fred Quilt inquiry follows.
  • Died: Wasfi al-Tal, 52, Prime Minister of Jordan, assassinated by members of Black September on the steps of the Sheraton Hotel, Cairo, where he was attending an Arab League summit meeting.
  • Died: Thirty-four men from US Army 1/327th HHC/A.co and C are killed when a CH-47 Chinook helicopter crashes on the western slope of Mum Kun Sac Mountain 8 miles west of Phu Loc south VN. The wreckage is not discovered until December 2nd.

November 29, 1971 (Monday)

November 30, 1971 (Tuesday)
  • Siege of Abu Musa and the Greater and Lesser Tunbs by Iranian marines. Arab police shoot three Iranian marines and injure one; four Arab policemen are killed. Iran retains control of the islands.
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References
  1. "From 1971: When the Toronto Sun rose after the Telegram fell". CBC News. November 1, 2018. Retrieved August 7, 2019.
  2. Aleksandr Mikhaĭlovich Prokhorov (1973). Great Soviet Encyclopedia. Macmillan. p. 268.
  3. The New York Times Biographical Service. New York Times & Arno Press. November 1971. p. 3981.
  4. The Guardian article on Emma Groves Archived 2 February 2011 at WebCite
  5. "What Happened in November 1971". OnThisDay.com. Retrieved 24 March 2016.
  6. "Official opening, History House, 133 Macquarie Street, Sydney, 12 November, 1971 / Royal Australian ... - National Library of Australia". Retrieved 24 March 2016.
  7. "Misc 22 October 1971". Newspaperarchives.vassar.edu. Retrieved 24 March 2016.
  9. "Wonaac National Newsletter" (PDF). Womenshealthinwomenshands.org. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2015-02-27. Retrieved 2016-03-31.
  10. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on November 18, 2011. Retrieved January 19, 2012.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  11. ""1971: Six dead in Scottish mountain tragedy", BBC On This Day". BBC News. November 22, 1971. Retrieved 2008-02-02.
  12. Dawson 1998, p. 100
  13. Clement 2009, p. 75
  14. Province 1972, p. Cover.
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