In Scotland, Boxing Day has been specified as an additional bank holiday since 1974, by Royal Proclamation under the Banking and Financial Dealings Act 1971.

Their cash registers were particularly popular around the time of decimalisation in Britain in early 1971, Henry having designed one of the few known models of cash register which could switch currencies from £ sd to £ p so that retailers could easily change from one to the other on or after Decimal Day.

* 1971 – " National Day " of the Kingdom of Bahrain is celebrated.

Not to be confused with Bahrain Independence Day which took place on August 15, 1971.

* 1972 – Vijay Diwas: ( Victory Day ) is commemorated every 16 December in India as it marks its military victory over Pakistan in 1971 during the Indo-Pakistani War of 1971.

* National Day, celebrates the withdrawal of United Kingdom from Bahrain, making Bahrain an independent emirate in 1971.

However December 16 is only the date on which the state celebrates the event, while the actual day on which the independence of Bahrain was declared was August 15, 1971 ( see Bahrain Independence Day )

This song is still associated with Day, and she re-recorded it on several occasions, including a version in her 1971 television special.

She largely retired from acting after The Doris Day Show, but did complete two television specials, The Doris Mary Anne Kappelhoff Special ( 1971 ) and Doris Day to Day ( 1975 ).

* 1971 – The decimalisation of British coinage is completed on Decimal Day.

* 1971 – U. N. Secretary General U Thant signs United Nations proclamation of the vernal equinox as Earth Day.

8½ inspired among others: Mickey One ( Arthur Penn, 1965 ), Alex in Wonderland ( Paul Mazursky, 1970 ), Beware of a Holy Whore ( Rainer Werner Fassbinder, 1971 ), Day for Night ( François Truffaut, 1973 ), All That Jazz ( Bob Fosse, 1979 ), Stardust Memories ( Woody Allen, 1980 ), Sogni d ' oro ( Nanni Moretti, 1981 ), Parad Planet ( Vadim Abdrashitov, 1984 ), La Pelicula del rey ( Carlos Sorin, 1986 ), Living in Oblivion ( Tom DiCillo, 1995 ), 8½ Women ( Peter Greenaway, 1999 ), Falling Down ( Joel Schumacher, 1993 ), along with the successful Broadway musical, Nine ( Maury Yeston and Arthur Kopit, 1982 ).

Until May 23, 1971, Labour Day was primarily a trade unions celebration with public rallies and marches.

* Bangladeshi Independence Day, March 26, 1971.

Not only was the first Test match played at the MCG, the first One Day International match was also played there, on 5 January 1971, between Australia and England.

* Independence Day and National Day ( Bangladesh ), celebrates the declaration of independence from Pakistan in 1971.

Noteworthy examples of the journalistic style and successful integration of fictional characters with historical events were the politico – military novels The Day of the Jackal ( 1971 ) by Frederick Forsyth and Eye of the Needle ( 1978 ) by Ken Follett.

Other examples are the Peter Marlow series, beginning with The Private Sector ( 1971 ) by Joseph Hone, which is set during Israel's Six Day War ( 1967 ) against Egypt, Jordan, and Syria, and William Garner's secret agents, the fantastic Michael Jagger, in Overkill ( 1966 ), The Deep, Deep Freeze ( 1968 ), The Us or Them War ( 1969 ) and A Big Enough Wreath ( 1974 ) and the realistic John Morpurgo in Think Big, Think Dirty ( 1983 ), Rats ' Alley ( 1984 ), and Zones of Silence ( 1986 ).

* Pakistani Air Force Day since 1971.

* Independence Day, celebrates the second independence of Qatar from Great Britain in 1971.

In Japan, war films from the Japanese perspective were popular, such as Japan's Longest Day ( 1967 ), Submarine I-57 Will Not Surrender ( 1959 ) and Battle of Okinawa ( 1971 ).

The SI second was defined in terms of the caesium atom in 1967, and in 1971 it was renamed International Atomic Time ( TAI ).

He bemoaned the fact that the book had been taken as the source material for a 1971 film that was perceived to glorify sex and violence.

# The Anglican Consultative Council ( first met in 1971 ) was created by a 1968 Lambeth Conference resolution, and meets usually at three year intervals.

In 1971 Agatha Christie was made a Dame Commander of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire.

Paul Kolton was named as president of the exchange in 1971, making him the first person to be selected from within the exchange to serve as its leader, succeeding Ralph S. Saul, who announced his resignation in March 1971.

FH Aachen, Aachen University of Applied Sciences ( AcUAS ) was founded in 1971.

The Russian A-35 anti-ballistic missile system for defense of Moscow was established in 1971, has been improved since, and is still active.

" The Abadan oil refinery was featured on the reverse side of Iran's 100-rial banknotes printed in 1965 and from 1971 to 1973.

The lowest minimum temperature was − 14. 6 ° C ( 5. 7 ° F ) at Gudgenby on 11 July 1971.

A Pakistan Air Force T-33 trainer was hijacked on August 20, 1971 before Indo-Pakistani war of 1971 in Karachi when a Bengali instructor pilot, Flight Lieutenant Matiur Rahman, knocked out the young Pilot Officer Rashid Minhas with the intention of defecting to India with the plane and national secrets.

The 1971 season was their first with a winning record.

They are also one of three teams to win the treble and the Intercontinental Cup in the same season / calendar year ; This was achieved in the 1971 – 72 season.

-short for " The Collective Consciousness Society "-which had several hit singles produced by Mickie Most, including a version of Led Zeppelin's " Whole Lotta Love ", which was used as the theme for BBC's Top Of The Pops between 1971 and 1981.

A Nobel Prize was awarded to Earl Sutherland in 1971 for discovering the key role of AC-III in human liver, where adrenaline indirectly stimulates AC to mobilize stored energy in the " fight or flight " response.

* Moviline ( Telefónica Servicios Uno since 1971, Moviline since 1994 ) was the analogue service provider for the Spanish operator.

Euan MacKie, recognizing that Thom's theories needed to be tested, excavated at the Kintraw standing stone site in Argyllshire in 1970 and 1971 to check whether the latter's prediction of an observation platform on the hill slope above the stone was correct.

Lerner was inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame in 1971.

On April 22, 1971, syndicated columnist Jack Anderson reported allegations that Capp made indecent advances to four female students when he was invited to speak at the University of Alabama in February 1968.

The Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act ( ANCSA ) was signed into law by President Richard M. Nixon on December 23, 1971, the largest land claims settlement in United States history.

In a Yale library in 1971 he met fellow law student Hillary Rodham, who was a year ahead of him.

The 1971 census was the first census in Botswana to use de facto enumeration ; this method counts people based on how many people spent census night at a specific location.

The current standard of 130 at bats, 50 innings pitched or 45 days on the active roster of a Major League club ( excluding time in military service or on the disabled list ) before September 1 was adopted in 1971.