* Atlas Computer ( Manchester ) ( 1962 – 1971 ), an early computer built at the University of Manchester

* 1971 – Lou Merloni, American baseball player

* 1971 – Sanjay Suri, Indian actor and model

* 1971 – Nick Hexum, American singer and musician ( 311 )

* 1971 – Nicholas Brendon, American actor

* 1971 – Shannen Doherty, American actress, producer, director, and author

* 1971 – John Boyne, Irish novelist

* 1971 – Darren Emerson, English DJ ( Underworld )

* 1971 – An attempted coup fails in the African nation of Chad.

* 1971 – Julian Cheung, Hong Kong actor and singer

* 1971 – Ernest Faber, Dutch footballer and coach

* 1971 – Aygül Özkan, German politician

* 1882 – Ernst Eklund, Swedish actor ( d. 1971 )

* 1886 – Edward Ballantine, American composer ( d. 1971 )

* 1971 – Merrin Dungey, American actress

* 1971 – Scott Minto, English footballer

* 1971 – Piyal Wijetunge, Sri Lankan cricketer

* 1971 – The Troubles: The British security forces in Northern Ireland launch Operation Demetrius.

* 1971 – Mack 10, American rapper and actor ( Westside Connection )

* 1971 – James Kim, American journalist and technology expert ( d. 2006 )

* 1971 – Mark Povinelli, American actor

* 1971 – Davide Rebellin, Italian cyclist

* 1971 – Nikki Ziering, American model and actress

* 1943 – Michael Willetts, English soldier, George Cross recipient ( d. 1971 )

* 1971 – Moritz Bleibtreu, German actor

A special Negro league committee selected Satchel Paige in 1971, followed by ( in alphabetical order ) Cool Papa Bell, Oscar Charleston, Martín Dihigo, Josh Gibson, Monte Irvin, Judy Johnson, Buck Leonard and John Henry Lloyd.

" Paige was the first inducted in 1971.

From 1971 to 1975, Paige served as head football coach at Texas Southern University, and served as the university's athletic director from 1971 to 1980.

Starting in 1971, Paige Rense served as the magazine's editor-in-chief.

* 1971 – Sierra Leone becomes a republic, and Siaka Stevens the president.

Sometimes a head of state assumes office as a state becomes legal and political reality, before a formal title for the highest office is determined ; thus in the since 1 January 1960 independent republic Cameroon ( Cameroun, a former French colony ), the first President, Ahmadou Babatoura Ahidjo, was at first not styled président but ' merely ' known as Chef d ' état ( literal French for ' Head of State ') until 5 May 1960 ; in Uganda, military coup leader since 25 January 1971 Idi Amin was formally styled military head of State till 21 February 1971, only from then on regular ( but unconstitutional, not elected ) President.

* 1971 – Idi Amin leads a coup deposing Milton Obote and becomes Uganda's president.

* 1971 – Himachal Pradesh becomes the 18th Indian state.

* The Flying Sorcerers ( 1971, with David Gerrold ), previously serialised as " The Misspelled Magishun ", includes portraits of other SF authors — e. g. the lead character name becomes translated into the local language as " As a color, shade of purple-gray " ( or Purple for short ), that is, " As-A-Mauve "

* 1965 – Joseph Désiré Mobutu seizes power in the Congo and becomes President ; he rules the country ( which he renames Zaire in 1971 ) for over 30 years, until being overthrown by rebels in 1997.

* 1967 – The Pakistan Peoples Party is founded by Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto who becomes its first Chairman later as the Head of state and Head of government after the 1971 Civil War.

* 1971 – Led Zeppelin releases " Led Zeppelin IV ," which becomes the third-best-selling album ever in the US.

* 1971 – The American space probe, Mariner 9, becomes the first spacecraft to orbit another planet successfully, swinging into its planned trajectory around Mars.

* 1971 – The Egyptian Constitution becomes official.

* 1971 – Qatar becomes an independent state

* Idi Amin, President of Uganda from 1971 to 1979, after rising to power in a coup becomes infamous for his brutal dictatorship in Uganda.

* 1971 – The Mariner 9 Mars spacecraft becomes the first to successfully orbit another planet.

* February 24 – Having been released one week before, The Eagles ' Their Greatest Hits ( 1971 – 1975 ) compilation becomes the first album in history to be certified platinum by the RIAA.

* April 23-Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song becomes the highest-grossing independent film of 1971.

* 1971 – Nabisco becomes the corporate name.

These speculations were confirmed in 1971, when experiments performed by Douglas D. Osheroff showed that helium-3 becomes a superfluid below 0. 0025 K. It was soon verified that the superfluidity of helium-3 arises from a BCS-like mechanism.

However, his second short story collection Fall Into Time was recently published by the Bizarro publisher Eraserhead Press, and includes the story " Noam Chomsky and the Timebox " about a tech blogger who travels back in time and becomes obsessed with a twenty-two minute period in the Chicago O ' Hara Airport on November 16th, 1971, when Noam Chomsky and Terence McKenna nearly met.

* J. M. Richards becomes editor of the Architectural Review ( London ), continuing until 1971.

1971 – Cyclotron assembly begins, Reginald Richardson becomes director of TRIUMF

Blauner later becomes a successful film producer with movies such as Easy Rider ( 1969 ) and The Last Picture Show ( 1971 ).

William Friedkin's evident attempt to fashion a West Coast equivalent of his 1971 The French Connection is engrossing and diverting enough on a moment-to-moment basis but is overtooled ... Friedkin keeps dialog to a minimum, but what conversation there is proves wildly overloaded with streetwise obscenities, so much so that it becomes something of a joke ".

Crawford himself was fondest of Khaled: A Tale of Arabia ( 1891 ), a story of a genie ( genius is Crawford's word ) who becomes human, which was reprinted ( 1971 ) in the Ballantine Adult Fantasy series of the early 1970s.