May 1971 calendar

Events

• 01 May 1971 Amtrak Railroad begins operation
• 02 May 1971 Sandra Haynie wins LPGA Dallas Civitan Golf Open.
• 03 May 1971 All Things Considered premieres on 112 National Public Radio stations
• 05 May 1971 Earl of Ruston opens at Billy Rose Theater NYC for 5 performances
• 06 May 1971 The Ceylon government begins a major offensive against the People's Liberation Front.
• 08 May 1971 Earl of Ruston closes at Billy Rose Theater NYC after 5 performances
• 09 May 1971 23rd Emmy Awards: All in the Family, Jack Klugman and Jean Stapleton
• 10 May 1971 US special delivery rates go from 45 cents to 60 cents
• 12 May 1971 Rolling Stone Mick Jagger weds Bianca Macias at St. Tropez Town Hall
• 13 May 1971 Grace Slick of Jefferson Airplane seriously injured in a car accident
• 15 May 1971 70, Girls, 70 closes at Broadhurst Theater NYC after 35 performances
• 16 May 1971 1st class postage now costs 8 cents
• 17 May 1971 Washington State bans sex discrimination.
• 18 May 1971 Vampire rapist Wayne Bodens last victim found
• 19 May 1971 USSR launches Mars 2, 1st spacecraft to crash land on Mars
• 20 May 1971 Pentagon reports blacks constitute 11% of US soldiers in SE Asia
• 21 May 1971 Chelsea wins 11th Europe Cup II in Athens, Greece.
• 22 May 1971 An earthquake lasting 20 seconds destroys most of Bingöl, Turkey ampndash more than 1,000 are killed, 10,000 made homeless.
• 23 May 1971 Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Suzuki Golf Internationalionale.
• 24 May 1971 A commuter bus plunges into Panam� Canal, killing 38 of 43 aboard.
• 27 May 1971 UCLA wins NCAA basketball championship.
• 28 May 1971 Paul McCartney releases his 2nd solo album Ram
• 29 May 1971 Court Room by Clarence Carter hits #61
• 30 May 1971 US Mariner 9 launched (first satellite to orbit Mars).
• 31 May 1971 WDXR (now WKPD) TV channel 29 in Paducah, KY (PBS) begins broadcasting

Famous Birthday

• Lisa Lopes

  American rapper, singer, dancer, musician, and songwriter, better known by her stage name Left Eye.

• Ajith Kumar

  Indian film actor.

• Sofia Coppola

  Director.

• Princess Máxima of the Netherlands
• Marco Rubio

  American politician, United States Senator from Florida, serving since January 2011.

• Isabelle Carré

  French actress, she won a Cesar award (best actress) for her role in "Se souvenir des belles choses" in 2001, playing with Bernard Campan.

• Paul Bettany

  English actor.

• Nicolas Ghesquière
• Idina Menzel

  American actress and singer.

• Laurel Holloman

  American actress.

• Nathalie Renoux
• Ilse de Meulemeester
• Amira Casar
• Matt Stone

  American animator and filmmaker.

• Jamie Luner

  American actress who first came to prominence on the ABC sitcom Just the Ten of Us, but is perhaps better known for her role as Lexi...

• George Osborne

  British Chancellor of the Exchequer.

• Bill Rancic
• Thessaloniki (Greece)
• Damon Dash

  American label executive.

• Misha Aznavour
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Famous Deaths

• Audie Murphy

  American actor and soldier who was the most decorated soldier of WW II with 23 awards, including the Congressional Medal of Honor.

• Audie Murphy

  American actor and soldier who was the most decorated soldier of WW II with 23 awards, including the Congressional Medal of Honor.

• Ogden Nash

  Poet / TV panelist (Masquerade Party), dies at 68.

• Jean Vilar

  French actor and stage director, his films were few, but striking.

• Glenda Farrell

  Enid, Oklahoma -- Actress (Golddiggers of 1935).

• Edith Day

  Actress (Romance of Air), dies at 75.

• Terence De Marney

  Actor (Case Thomas-Johnny Ringo), dies at 62.

• John Longden

  Actor (Man From Interpol), dies at 70.

• Chips Rafferty

  Actor (Kona Coast, Walk into Hell), dies at 62.

• Max Trapp

  Composer, dies at 83.

• Rodd Redwing

  Actor (Buffalo Bill in Tomahawk Territory), dies at 66.

• Violet Jessop

  Titanic survivor (Born 1887).

• Joseph Csaky

  Hungarian/French sculptor, dies at age 83.

• Donald Dexter Van Slyke

  US chemist (Cyanosis), dies at age 88.

• Petro Scaglione

  Italian procureur-general, killed by Mafia.

• Willem Banning

  Dutch theologist/sociologist (Karl Marx), dies at age 83.

• Bernard Wagenaar

  Netherlands/US composer, dies at age 76.

• Massimo Campigli

  Italian painter/illustrator, dies at age 75.

• Aleksandr Gennadievich Kurosh

  Russian mathematician (Born 1908).

• Marcel Dupre

  French organist and composer (Born 1886).

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Top #5 songs in the USA

1. Three Dog Night - Joy To The World
2. The Rolling Stones - Brown Sugar
3. Ocean - Put Your Hand In The Hand
4. Jackson 5 - Never Can Say Goodbye
5. Marvin Gaye - What's Going On

Top #5 songs in the UK

1. Dawn - Knock Three Times
2. The Rolling Stones - Brown Sugar / Bitch / Let It Rock
3. Dave & Ansil Collins - Double Barrel
4. R Dean Taylor - Indiana Wants Me
5. Ringo Starr - It Don't Come Easy