March 1971 calendar

Events

• 01 Mar 1971 Clandestine Radio Deutsche Reich (Germany) begins transmitting on FM
• 03 Mar 1971 South African Broadcasting Corp lifts its ban on the Beatles.
• 04 Mar 1971 "City Command" kidnaps four US military men at Ankara, Turkey.
• 05 Mar 1971 The Pakistani army occupies East Pakistan.
• 06 Mar 1971 A fire in a mental hospital at Burghölzli, Switzerland, kills 28 people.
• 07 Mar 1971 Egypt refuses to renew the Suez ceasefire.
• 08 Mar 1971 Milwaukee Bucks win their 20th straight NBA game (team record).
• 09 Mar 1971 J M Noreiga takes 9-95 West Indies versus India at Port-of-Spain.
• 10 Mar 1971 US Senate approves amendment lowering voting age to 18.
• 12 Mar 1971 Syrian premier Hafez Assad elected President.
• 13 Mar 1971 Live at Fillmore East recorded
• 14 Mar 1971 Barbra Streisand appears on The Burt Bacharach Special on CBS TV
• 15 Mar 1971 CBS TV announces it is dropping Ed Sullivan Show
• 16 Mar 1971 KDCD TV channel 18 in Midland, TX (IND) suspends broadcasting
• 17 Mar 1971 Edward Henry of Morristown, New Jersey, is first person to win US$1 million in a State lottery.
• 18 Mar 1971 In Peru a landslide crashes into Lake Yanahuani, killing 200 at the mining camp of Chungar.
• 19 Mar 1971 Philadelphia 76ers outscore Cincinnati Royals 90-8 in one half.
• 20 Mar 1971 Boston Bruins win 13th straight NHL game.
• 21 Mar 1971 Vermont seasonal snowfall totals 132.2 10892
• 23 Mar 1971 General Alejandro Lanusse of Argentina takes power in a military coup.
• 25 Mar 1971 Boston Patriots become New England Patriots.
• 26 Mar 1971 Benny Hill Show tops TV ratings
• 27 Mar 1971 East Pakistan (now Bangladesh) independence is repeatedly declared by Army Major (later President of Bangladesh) Ziaur Rahman on behalf of Sheikh Mujibur Rahman from Kalurghat Radio Station, Chittagong.
• 28 Mar 1971 25th Tony Awards: Sleuth and Company win.
• 29 Mar 1971 Royal Albert Hall opens
• 31 Mar 1971 William Calley sentenced to life for Mi Lai Massacre

Famous Birthday

• Ewan McGregor

  Scottish actor who made a film debut in 1994, playing a bit part in Bill Forsyth's episodic "Being Human.

• Jon Hamm

  American actor.

• Johnny Knoxville

  American stunt performer, comedian, actor, screenwriter and film producer.

• Timbaland
• Nathan Fillion

  Canadian actor.

• Method Man (actor)
• Peter Sarsgaard

  American actor.

• Penny Lancaster

  English model and photographer.

• Mark Consuelos

  Spanish-American actor and producer.

• Annabeth Gish

  American actress.

• Yasmeen Ghauri

  Canadian model.

• Stefano Accorsi

  Italian actor, married to French model and actress Laetitia Casta.

• Nadja Auermann

  German model and actress.

• Frédérique Bedos
• Keegan-Michael Key

  Comedian.

• Karen McDougal

  Gary, Indiana -- Playmate (Dec, 1997).

• David Coulthard

  Scottish race car driver, eclipsing Damon Hill in a 1997 championship.

• Grégori Dérangère
• Sébastien Godefroid

  Belgian sailor.

• Matthew Vaughn

  English director producer and screenwriter.

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Famous Deaths

• Bebe Daniels

  American actress, awarded the highest U.S.

• Whitney Young

  American civil rights activist (d. 1971).

• Thomas E Dewey

  Ohio, United States -- 1st Catholic Presidential Candidate 1944, 1948 (R).

• Mabel Wheeler Daniels

  Composer, dies at 92.

• Piero Coppola

  Composer, dies at 82.

• Martin Bodmer

  Writer.

• Armin Loos

  Composer, dies at 67.

• Felix Wolfes

  Composer, dies at 78.

• Liselotte Liselot Beekmeyer

  Dutch actress (Child Crying), dies at 31.

• Selmer Jackson

  Actor (Life & Legend of Wyatt Earp), dies at 82.

• Pope Cyril VI of Alexandria

  Coptic Orthodox Patriarch (Born 1902).

• Philo T Farnsworth

  American television pioneer (Born 1906).

• Mary Dorna

  Dutch author, dies at age 79.

• Charles W Engelhard US silver multi-millionaire

  dies at age 54.

• Whitney M Young Jr

  leader (National Urban League 1961-71), dies at age 49.

• Rockwell Kens

  US artist/painter/illustrator, dies at age 88.

• Jan Greshoff

  Dutch journalist, poet, and literary critic.

• Simon Vestdijk

  Dutch writer, a novelist, essayist and historian with a cynical style; he was an aggressive opponent of middle-class mores.

• Thurston Dart

  English pianist conductor and musicologist (d. 1971).

• Dhirendranath Datta

  Pakistani lawyer and politician (d. 1971).

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Top #5 songs in the USA

1. The Osmonds - One Bad Apple
2. Janis Joplin - Me And Bobby McGee
3. Jackson 5 - Mama's Pearl
4. Tom Jones - She's A Lady
5. The Temptations - Just My Imagination (Running Away With Me)

Top #5 songs in the UK

1. Mungo Jerry - Baby Jump
2. T Rex - Hot Love
3. Paul McCartney - Another Day
4. Lynn Anderson - Rose Garden
5. George Harrison - My Sweet Lord