The Whalers franchise was born in November 1971 when the World Hockey Association awarded a franchise to New England businessmen Howard Baldwin, John Coburn, W. Godfrey Wood and William Edwin Barnes, to begin play in Boston.

(), also known as A Fistful of Dynamite and Once Upon a Time … the Revolution, is a 1971 Zapata Western film directed by Sergio Leone and starring Rod Steiger and James Coburn.

He also played a redneck thug harassing well-meaning teenagers in the drama Bless the Beasts & Children ( 1971 ), appeared in Black Gunn ( 1972 ) and One Little Indian ( 1973 ), was leaning on hustler James Coburn to repay his debts in Hard Times ( 1975 ), and contributed another icy performance as Duffy in Chinatown ( 1974 ).

( 1971 ), with Rod Steiger and James Coburn, which played almost paradoxically as both an endorsement and criticism of the revolutionary politics of some of its peers, as it portrayed the revolution in a less romanticized manner than a lot of other films in the genre.

In 1971, Trumbo directed the film adaptation of his novel Johnny Got His Gun, which starred Timothy Bottoms, Diane Varsi, Jason Robards and Donald Sutherland.

In 1971, after the success of a TV movie named The City, where Quinn played Mayor Thomas Jefferson Alcala, he starred in the single-season ABC television series entitled The Man and the City.

He starred in the ABC television series The Smith Family between 1971 and 1972.

She starred in a string of above average and successful comedies starting with There's a Girl in My Soup ( 1970 ), $ ( 1971 ), and Butterflies Are Free ( 1972 ).

In 1971, he starred in another show, Porky Pig and Friends.

In 1985 Smiffy has appeared in two spin-off strips the first called Says Smiffy, which ran from 1971 – 1972, and the second called Simply Smiffy, which ran from 1985 – 1987, where he starred alongside his brother Normal Norman.

Steiger also starred in the film version of Kurt Vonnegut's play Happy Birthday, Wanda June ( 1971 ).

From 1971 to 1986, she had a long-term relationship with actor Timothy Dalton, with whom she had starred in the film Mary, Queen of Scots.

Expresso Bongo, Staircase and Amadeus were filmed with other actors, but Scofield starred in the screen versions of A Man for All Seasons ( 1966 ) and King Lear ( 1971 ).

In 1971, Sonny and Cher starred in their first television special, The Nitty Gritty Hour, a mixture of slapstick comedy, skits, and live music.

Harris starred in the Man in the Wilderness in 1971, Juggernaut in 1974 ( a British suspense movie about the hijacking of an ocean liner ), in 1976 in The Cassandra Crossing, along with the actresses Sophia Loren and Ava Gardner, and in a B-movie, Orca, in 1977.

Gere first worked professionally at the Provincetown Playhouse on Cape Cod in 1971 where he starred in Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead.

Peter Lawford starred in a television movie, Ellery Queen: Don't Look Behind You, in 1971.

In the following years, she starred in Fahrenheit 451 ( 1966 ), Far from the Madding Crowd ( 1967 ), Petulia ( 1968 ), McCabe & Mrs. Miller ( 1971 ), Don't Look Now ( 1973 ), and Heaven Can Wait ( 1978 ).

Christie also starred in The Go-Between ( 1971 ), Don't Look Now ( 1973 ), and Demon Seed ( 1977 ).

The show starred actress and singer Diahann Carroll, and ran for 86 episodes on NBC from September 17, 1968 to March 23, 1971.

Jeremy Gelbwaks ( born May 22, 1961 ; Los Angeles, California ) was a child actor who starred in the television series The Partridge Family from 1970 to 1971.

Johnson also starred in the 1971 episode of " Rod Serling's Night Gallery " entitled " The Flip-Side of Satan.

In 1971, Midler starred in the first professional production of The Who's rock opera Tommy, with director Richard Pearlman and the Seattle Opera.

In 1971, she starred in The Anderson Tapes ( with Sean Connery ), The Burglars, and Such Good Friends, receiving a Best Actress Golden Globe nomination for the last performance.

In 1971, Field starred in Maybe I'll Come Home in the Spring with David Carradine and a soundtrack by Linda Ronstadt.

Two movies in which he had starred, 200 Motels and Blindman, had been released at the end of 1971, and before starting on this one, he had just finished work on his directional debut, the T. Rex documentary Born to Boogie.

In 1971 he launched his eldest son Randhir Kapoor in Randhir's acting and directorial debut Kal Aaj Aur Kal which also starred Raj's father Prithviraj Kapoor as well as Randhir's would-be-wife Babita.

In 1971 he made a cameo appearance in Bunny O ' Hare, which starred Bette Davis and Ernest Borgnine.

Savage Guns ( originally titled Era Sam Wallach ... lo chiamavano ' così sia, and also known as His Name Was Sam Walbash, But They Call Him Amen ) is a low-quality spaghetti western from 1971, directed by Demofilo Fidani and starring Robert Woods and Gordon Mitchell.

Batzella was essentially a hack-of-all-trades, working in a variety of genres, directing spaghetti western ( A Pistol for Django, 1971 ), war films ( When the Bell Tolls, 1970 ), erotic horror ( Nude for Satan, 1974 ), and politically very incorrect Nazi-exploitation ( Achtung!

Possibly their most famous film is the 1971 western Lo chiamavano Trinità ( They Call Me Trinity ) and the 1972 sequel Continuavano a chiamarlo Trinità ( Trinity Is STILL My Name !).

Carved from the hillside during the late 19th century and covered with rubble since the government demolished guard housing in 1971, the area has become a habitat and breeding ground for black-crowned night herons, western gulls, slender salamanders, and deer mice.

In 1971 the Cameron Langston Bridge was opened to provide access from Cedar Point to the western end of Bogue Banks and Emerald Isle.

By the time he made Red Sun in 1971 he had become somewhat more proficient in the language and his voice is heard throughout this multinational western.

She earned a second Best Actress Oscar nomination for her role as a brothel madame in Robert Altman's postmodern western McCabe & Mrs. Miller ( 1971 ).

* September 19 – The Virginian premieres on NBC, and begins a nine year run, and is the first western to air in 90-minute installments ( 1962 – 1971 )

The WCHL truly became a western league in 1971 when Estevan moved to B. C.

Modern whaling for Bryde's whales is thought to have begun from coastal stations in Japan in 1906, where it continued uninterrupted until 1987 — they were also caught offshore in the western North Pacific by both Japanese ( 1971 – 79 ) and Soviet ( 1966 – 79 ) fleets, as well as from Taiwan ( 1976 – 80 ), the Bonin Islands ( 1946 – 52 and 1981 – 87 ) and the Philippines ( 1983 – 85 ).

* Dennis Potter's television play Traitor ( 1971 ) features a central character called Adrian Harris ( John Le Mesurier ) being interviewed in his Moscow flat by western newspaper reporters, eager to get the story on his defection.

* Osceola – Die rechte Hand der Vergeltung ( 1971 ) by Konrad Petzold, an East German western with Gojko Mitić as the Native American hero.

The group co-wrote the screenplay to the comedy western, Zachariah, released in 1971.

* The 13th World Scout Jamboree was held August 2 – 10, 1971 on Asagiri Heights on the western side of Mount Fuji.

Though formerly resident on Isla Guadalupe, an island off the western coast of Mexico, it appears to have been extirpated there, with the last known record of the species on the island dating from 1971.

In 1971, Monemvasia became linked with the rest of the outside world through a bridge on the western side that connects to GR-86.

Carradine's first television appearance was in 1971, on the classic western series, Bonanza.

William ' Billy ' Dennis Weaver ( June 4, 1924 – February 24, 2006 ) was an American actor, best known for his work in television, including his role as Matt Dillon's trusty helper Chester Goode on the long-running western series Gunsmoke, as Marshal Sam McCloud on the NBC police drama McCloud, and in the 1971 TV movie Duel, the first film of director Steven Spielberg.

Founded in 1971, Kresge is located on the western edge of the UCSC campus.

The main thrust of the Indian Army during the 1971 war was directed towards the eastern theatre, with the western sector envisaged as a holding operation to prevent the Pakistan Army from achieving any success that would allow the President of Pakistan, Yahya Khan, any bargaining tool to trade against the captured territories in the east.

Alan Wray Tudyk ( born March 16, 1971 ) is an American actor known for his roles as Hoban " Wash " Washburne in the science fiction / western television series Firefly and movie Serenity, Simon in the British comedy Death at a Funeral, Steve the Pirate in DodgeBall: A True Underdog Story, Sonny in the science fiction drama I, Robot, Doc Potter in 3: 10 to Yuma, Tucker in Tucker & Dale vs Evil, and Alpha in Dollhouse.

Nonetheless, the resulting pages secured Windsor-Smith further work with Marvel, in Daredevil # 50-52 ( March – May 1969 ), a western short story, " Half Bree " ( probably the story " Outcast " eventually published in Western Gunfighters # 4, February 1971 ), and issue # 12 of Nick Fury, Agent of S. H. I. E. L. D.

Ford played southwestern Sheriff Cade for one season ( 1971 – 1972 ) in a mix of western drama and police mystery.

His first western address was given in June 1971 at the first Glastonbury Fayre, he then went to Los Angeles, New York, Washington, Canada and South Africa.

Between 1971 and 1973, reserves, public recreation areas and drainage sites were set aside in western Hamersley, and facilities were erected in quick succession-the 1st Hamersley Scout Group in 1973, the colonial-style Holy Cross Anglican Church in 1974, and a community hall at Aintree Street in 1975.

Hamersley's first school, Glendale Primary School in Glendale Avenue, opened in 1971 in the western portion of the suburb.