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Significant Events and Figures of 1971

Test your knowledge of significant events and notable figures from the year 1971 with this engaging quiz.

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1 July 31 – ________ astronauts David Scott and James Irwin become the first to ride in a lunar rover, a day after landing on the Moon.

2 ________ – Picabo Street, American skier

3 ________ – The United Kingdom increases its troops in Northern Ireland to 11,000.

4 ________, Swedish hockey player

5 ________ – Sandra Oh, Korean Canadian actress

6 July 17 – ________, Canadian author and activist

7 ________ – Kid Rock, American rock singer

8 ________ – King Curtis, American saxophonist (b.

9 Pedro Martínez, Dominican ________ player

10 Three thousand people from ________ and Derry flee to the Republic of Ireland because of the violence.

💡 Interesting Facts

  • the Turkish military coup of 1971 is known as the Coup by Memorandum.
  • the Occupational Safety and Health Act went into effect in the United States on April 28, 1971, the same day as Workers' Memorial Day.
  • the only international cricket in South Africa between 1971 and 1981 comprised 6 private tours and 1 women's test match, because no test match playing nation was willing to tour the country because of its apartheid policy.
  • the upcoming British film Hippie Hippie Shake by Beeban Kidron, which follows the 1971 obscenity trial of the Australian editor Richard Neville of satirical magazine Oz, was in development hell for nearly ten years.
  • the Bangladeshi musician and composer Samar Das, who composed over 2,000 songs and was the music director of over 50 films, also played a prominent role in the Bangladesh Liberation War in 1971.
  • the 1971 Harley-Davidson Super Glide, the first factory custom motorcycle, used an Electra Glide frame mated to Sportster forks.
  • Chandra Prakash Mainali, who led an armed Maoist revolt in eastern Nepal in 1971, later served as Minister of Local Development in 1994-95.
  • Sheffield Wednesday Ladies F.C. were formed at the Star Inn public house in Rotherham during 1971 following a charity match between men and women at the pub.
  • Suhrawardy Udyan in Dhaka was the scene of Mujibur Rahman's historic speech on March 7, 1971 that eventually led to Bangladesh's Liberation War.
  • motorcyclist Jo Siffert was killed in an end-of-season non-championship F1 race on October 24, 1971 at Brands Hatch.
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