April 1971 calendar

Events

• 01 Apr 1971 US / Canada ISIS 2 launched to study ionosphere
• 02 Apr 1971 Sci-fi soap opera Dark Shadows concludes an almost 5 year run
• 03 Apr 1971 Joseph Valachi, American gangster (Born 1904)
• 04 Apr 1971 Follies opens at Winter Garden Theater NYC for 524 performances
• 05 Apr 1971 Fran Phipps is 1st woman to reach North Pole
• 07 Apr 1971 President Richard Nixon announces his decision to increase the rate of American troop withdrawals from Vietnam.
• 08 Apr 1971 First legal off-track betting system begins (OTB-New York).
• 09 Apr 1971 Charles Manson is sentenced to death in 1972, the sentence for all California Death Row inmates is commuted to life imprisonment.
• 10 Apr 1971 US table tennis team arrives in China PR
• 11 Apr 1971 Johnny Johnson opens / closes at Edison Theater NYC for 1 performance
• 12 Apr 1971 Palestinians retreat from Amman to the north of Jordan.
• 14 Apr 1971 Fort Point, San Francisco dedicated as a national historic site.
• 15 Apr 1971 70, Girls, 70 opens at Broadhurst Theater NYC for 35 performances
• 17 Apr 1971 Egypt, Libya and Syria form federation (Federation of Arab Republics).
• 18 Apr 1971 Gavaskar makes 220 in second inning versus West Indies after 124 in first.
• 19 Apr 1971 Charles Manson is sentenced to death for conspiracy to commit the Tate/LaBianca murders.
• 20 Apr 1971 US Supreme Court upholds use of bussing to achieve racial desegregation.
• 21 Apr 1971 Original Codex Reguis (with Edda-liederen) returns to Iceland.
• 22 Apr 1971 Soyuz 10 launched
• 23 Apr 1971 Soyuz 10 launched; Cosmonauts become 1st in Salyut 1 space station
• 24 Apr 1971 Frank Merriwell opens / closes at Longacre Theater NYC for 1 performance
• 25 Apr 1971 US canal rights in Nicaragua and rights to Corn Islands expire.
• 26 Apr 1971 Turkey state of siege proclaimed.
• 27 Apr 1971 Curt Flood resigns from Washington Senators after 13 games and departs for Denmark.
• 28 Apr 1971 Samuel Lee Gravely Jr becomes 1st black Admiral in US Navy
• 29 Apr 1971 Bill Graham closes down Fillmore and Fillmore East
• 30 Apr 1971 25th NBA Championship: Milwaukee Bucks beat Baltimore Bullets in four games.

Famous Birthday

• Shannen Doherty

  American actress who began showbiz at 12 on "Little House on the Prairie," 1982-1983.

• Gad Elmaleh

  Most famous French humourist, actor, and film director, born to David Elmaleh, a jewish Moroccan mime artist, and to a French (Régine...

• Selena (singer)
• Guillaume Depardieu

  French noted family, the son of Gérard Depardieu.

• David Tennant

  Scottish actor.

• Krista Allen

  TV Actress.

• Bridget Moynahan

  American actress.

• Nicholas Brendon

  American actor and producer.

• Sophie Edelstein
• Jacques Villeneuve

  Canadian automobile racing driver and amateur musician.

• Eric Mabius

  American actor.

• Giorgia (singer)
• Karina Kraushaar
• Christophe Lamaison
• Alexandra Adi
• Ève Salvail
• Alejandro Fernández

  Mexican singer.

• Jamie Bamber
• Natasha Zvereva

  Belarusian tennis player.

• Edmundo Alves de Souza Neto
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Famous Deaths

• Charles F Pahud de Mortanges

  (1928, 32 Olympics - Gold Medalist), dies at 74.

• Max Drischner

  Composer, dies at 80.

• Igor F Stravinsky

  Russian composer (Le Sacre du Printemps), dies in New York at age 88.

• Roberto Lupi

  Composer, dies at 62.

• Masao Oki

  Composer, dies at 69.

• Francois "Doc" Duvalier

  Dictator of Haiti, dies at 64.

• Cecil Parker

  Actor (Court Jester, Operation Snafu), dies at 73.

• Manfred Bonnington Lee [Ellery Queen]

  detective writer, dies at age 65.

• Armand Spitz

  developer of small educational planetarium, dies.

• Elmo Roper

  pollster (Roper Poll), dies at age 70.

• Michel Briere

  Canadian ice hockey player (Born 1949).

• Gurgen Boryan

  Armenian poet and playwright (Born 1915).

• Francois ''Papa Doc'' Duvalier

  Haitian dictator (Born 1907).

• Igor Stravinsky

  Russian composer and conductor, considered by many to be one of the greatest and most versatile composers of the twentieth century.

• Juhan Smuul

  Estonian author (Born 1921).

• Ed Lafitte

  American baseball player and soldier (d. 1971).

• William Tubman

  Liberian lawyer and politician 19th President of Liberia (d. 1971).

• Wynton Kelly

  American pianist and composer (d. 1971).

• Edmund Lowe

  Actor (Front Page Detective), dies at 81.

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Top #5 songs in the USA

1. The Temptations - Just My Imagination (Running Away With Me)
2. Three Dog Night - Joy To The World
3. Janis Joplin - Me And Bobby McGee
4. Marvin Gaye - What's Going On
5. Ocean - Put Your Hand In The Hand

Top #5 songs in the UK

1. T Rex - Hot Love
2. Dawn - Knock Three Times
3. Ray Stevens - Bridget The Midget (The Queen Of The Blues)
4. The Rolling Stones - Brown Sugar / Bitch / Let It Rock
5. Dave & Ansil Collins - Double Barrel