| 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 |
US GDP (1998 dollars): $1,125.40 billion
Federal spending: $210.17 billion
Federal debt: $408.2 billion
Median Household Income
(current dollars): $9,028
Consumer Price Index: 40.5
Unemployment: 4.9%
Cost of a first-class stamp: $0.06 ($0.08 as of 5/16/71)
| Sports |
Super Bowl
Baltimore d. Dallas (16-13)
World Series
Pittsburgh d. Baltimore (4-3)
NBA Championship
Milwaukee d. Baltimore Bullets (4-0)
Stanley Cup
Montreal d. Chicago (4-3)
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 (68-62)
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
| Deaths |
- J.C. Penney
- Igor Stravinsky
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