November 1971

[November 1], 1971 (Monday)

• The Toronto Sun begins publication. On the same day, The Body Politic, Canada's first significant gay magazine, publishes its first issue.
• Died: Mikhail Romm, 70, Russian film director; Absalom Willis Robertson, 84, American lawyer and politician

  [November 2], 1971 (Tuesday)

• Gerhard Herzberg is awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry.
• Abu Taher takes command of the 11th Sector in the northern front in the Bangladeshi uprising.

  [November 3], 1971 (Wednesday)

• Publication of the first UNIX Programmer's Manual.
• Première of Clint Eastwood's film Play Misty for Me
• Born: Unai Emery, Spanish football manager and former player, in Hondarribia

  [November 4], 1971 (Thursday)

• Emma Groves, Irish mother of eleven, is hit in the face by a rubber bullet and blinded; she spends the rest of her life campaigning against their use.
• Born: Vladimer Chachibaia, Georgian military leader
• Died: Guillermo León Valencia, 62, former President of Colombia

  [November 5], 1971 (Friday)

• Born: Jonny Greenwood, English musician and composer, in Oxford

  [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)

• The Soviet satellite Kosmos 347 re-enters earth's atmosphere.
• Born: Robin Finck, American lead guitarist of Nine Inch Nails, in Park Ridge, New Jersey

  [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, the band's biggest selling album, and the fourth best selling album of all time.

  [November 9], 1971 (Tuesday)

• In Westfield, New Jersey, accountant John List murders his mother, wife and three children. He remains in hiding for the next eighteen years.
• Born: Dimitris Kontopoulos, Greek songwriter, in Athens
• Died: Friedrich Günther, Prince of Schwarzburg, 70; the House of Schwarzburg becomes extinct.

  [November 10], 1971 (Wednesday)

• In Cambodia, Khmer Rouge forces attack Phnom Penh and its airport, killing 44, wounding at least 30 and damaging nine fixed-wing aircraft.
• Born: Big Pun, American rapper, in New York City ; Niki Karimi, Iranian actress and director, in Tehran

  [November 11], 1971 (Thursday)

• A man-made earthslide at Kawasaki, Japan, kills fifteen people.
• The asteroid 1920 Sarmiento is discovered by J. and Carlos Ulrrico Cesco.
• Born: David DeLuise, American actor and director, in Burbank, California, the youngest son of Dom DeLuise and Carol Arthur.
• Died: A. P. Herbert, 81, English humorist

  [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.

  [November 13], 1971 (Saturday)

• Mariner program: Mariner 9 becomes the first spacecraft to enter Mars orbit successfully.

  [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)

• Intel releases the world's first microprocessor, the Intel 4004.
• Britain's Foreign Secretary Alec Douglas-Home arrives in Salisbury, capital of Rhodesia, to discuss proposals for a political settlement.

  [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

  [November 17], 1971 (Wednesday)

• In Thailand, Field Marshal Thanom Kittikachorn stages a coup d'état against his own government.
• Died: Gladys Cooper, 82, English actress

  [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

  [November 19], 1971 (Friday)

• Opening of Disney's Fort Wilderness Resort & Campground at Orlando, Florida.

  [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.

  [November 21], 1971 (Sunday)

• Fighting breaks out in the Boyra peninsula, signalling the start of the Indo-Pakistani War

  [November 22], 1971 (Monday)

• Six climbers die attempting to scale Cairn Gorm in Scotland.
• Died: József Zakariás, Hungarian footballer, 47

  [November 23], 1971 (Tuesday)

• The People's Republic of China takes the Republic of China's seat on the United Nations Security Council.

  [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.
• 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)

• Denmark establishes diplomatic relations with Vietnam.
• Born: Christina Applegate, American actress, in Hollywood, to record producer Robert W. Applegate and singer/actress Nancy Lee Priddy; Dražen Erdemović, Bosnian war criminal, in Tuzla
• Died: Leonard W. Murray, 75, Canadian naval commander

  [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. Fred Quilt, a 55-year-old leader of the Tsilhqot'in First Nation, is arrested on charges of drunk driving. 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. 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)

• The Soviet Union launches the satellites Kosmos 458 and Kosmos 459.
• The Soviet Union performs a nuclear test at its Semipalatinsk Test Site.
• Died: Heinz Tiessen, 84, German composer; Edith Tolkien, 82, wife of J. R. R. Tolkien

  [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.