10 events found for 1971
Salyut 1, the first space station, was launched from the Baikonur Cosmodrome near Tyuratam in the Soviet Union
The Rolling Stones released Sticky Fingers, the first album on their own label, Rolling Stones Records
Erich Honecker became First Secretary of the Socialist Unity Party of Germany, the governing party of East Germany
Hughes Airwest Flight 706 collided with a US Marine Corps jet near Duarte, California, killing 50 people
Vietnam War: Australian forces attacked a heavily fortified North Vietnamese base camp at the Battle of Long Khánh
The New York Times published the first excerpts from the Pentagon Papers, a 7,000-page classified Department of Defense
Emerson, Lake & Palmer released the progressive rock album Tarkus
The Soyuz 11 spacecraft experienced uncontrolled decompression during preparations for reentry, killing Soviet cosmonaut
After visiting several Asian communist countries, Romanian leader Nicolae Ceaușescu (pictured) gave a speech on a…