Twelve years later, in 1971, Don McLean released his single, " American Pie ”, to commemorate Buddy Holly ’ s death and further accentuate the loss of the United States ’ innocence.

Don McLean's popular 1971 ballad " American Pie " is inspired by Holly and the day of the plane crash.

Disco hit the television airwaves with Soul Train in 1971 hosted by Don Cornelius, then Marty Angelo's Disco Step-by-Step Television Show in 1975, Steve Marcus ' Disco Magic / Disco 77, Eddie Rivera's Soap Factory and Merv Griffin's Dance Fever, hosted by Deney Terrio, who is credited with teaching actor John Travolta to dance for his upcoming role in the hit movie Saturday Night Fever.

* 1971 – Don Maxwell, Canadian cricketer

In 1971, Papa Doc entered into 99-year contract with Don Pierson representing Dupont Caribbean Inc. of Texas for a free port project on the old buccaneer stronghold of Tortuga island located some off the north coast of the main Haitian island of Hispaniola.

Don Daglow created the first computer baseball game ( 1971 ) and Dungeon ( 1975 ), the first role-playing video game on a PDP-10.

At their first concert, They Might Be Giants performed under the name El Grupo De Rock and Roll, because the show was a Sandinista rally in Central Park, and all of the audience members spoke Spanish Soon discarding this title, the band assumed the name of a 1971 film They Might Be Giants ( starring George C. Scott and Joanne Woodward ), which is in turn taken from a Don Quixote passage about how Quixote mistook windmills for evil giants.

In 1971 Don Phillips began experimenting in his basement with the new fibers to design some sort of fishing rod.

* American Pie ( album ), a 1971 album by Don McLean

The accident was later depicted in the 1971 Don McLean song " American Pie ".

The syndicated television series Soul Train, created hosted by Chicago native Don Cornelius, debuted in 1971.

On December 10, 1971, Ryan was traded to the California Angels along with pitcher Don Rose, catcher Francisco Estrada and outfielder Leroy Stanton for shortstop Jim Fregosi ( who would later manage Ryan in Anaheim ).

The Eagles are an American rock band formed in Los Angeles, California in 1971 by Glenn Frey, Don Henley, Bernie Leadon, and Randy Meisner.

The band formed when Linda Ronstadt and then-manager John Boylan recruited session musicians Glenn Frey and Don Henley in the spring of 1971.

After the 1971 season, McLain was traded to the Oakland Athletics for journeyman pitcher Jim Panther and prospect Don Stanhouse ( who would go on to have a few good years as the Baltimore Orioles ' closer in the late 1970s ).

Following this period of controversy, the group reconvened in San Francisco in January 1971 with jazz writer / saxophonist Don Heckman serving as their producer and, with Dave Bargeron replacing Jerry Hyman, recorded material that would comprise their fourth album, BS & T 4 ( June 1971 ).

* Blood, Sweat & Tears 4 ( 1971 ) Producers: Don Heckman, Roy Halee and Bobby Colomby ( RIAA: Gold ) # 10

* Don Grady, Robert " Robbie " Douglas ( 1960 – 1971 )

He graduated high school in 1971, and is also a graduate of Don Galloway Detective School and has a detective license from Panama signed by Manuel Noriega.

The original announcer was Don Murray-Henderson, who was with the programme until his death in 1971.

Don DeLillo, who rose to literary prominence with the publication of his 1985 novel, White Noise, a work broaching the subjects of death and consumerism and doubling as a piece of comic social criticism, began his writing career in 1971 with Americana.

In 1971 the band appeared in a Western film starring Don Johnson as an outlaw gang called the Crackers.

Don McLean covered the song as ' Babylon ', which was the final track on his 1971 album, American Pie.

His efforts after Get Smart were less successful, including the comedy series The Partners ( 1971 – 1972 ), a self-titled game show called Don Adams ' Screen Test ( 1975 – 1976 ) and three attempts to revive the Get Smart series in the 1980s.

* 1971 – Carlos Pérez, Dominican baseball player

* 1971 – Carlos Rogers, American basketball player

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 ).

* 1971 – Carlos Atanes, Spanish film director

* 1896 – Carlos P. Garcia, 8th President of the Philippines ( 1957 – 1960 ) ( d. 1971 )

* 1937 – Carlos Lamarca, Brazilian military turned guerrilla leader ( d. 1971 )

* November 4 – Carlos P. Garcia, president of the Philippines ( d. 1971 )

* October 23 – Carlos Lamarca, Brazilian military turned guerrilla leader ( d. 1971 )

In 1971 the British movie A Clockwork Orange was released with a synth soundtrack by American Wendy Carlos.

Carlos Hernández ( born January 23, 1971 in Los Angeles, California ) is a retired Salvadoran American boxer.

With Bun E. Carlos joining on drums, Fuse moved to Philadelphia in 1971.

* Carlos ( 1971 )

After a career of successes and excesses undermined, Carlos " Morocho " Herández, met the end and defeat when measured in London, on 11 May 1971 to Scot Ken Buchanan, to whom fell by TKO in the 8th round.

McCurry attended San Carlos High School on the San Francisco Peninsula from 1969 to 1971 and then transferred to the racially diverse Ravenswood High School in East Palo Alto, where he graduated in 1972.

Prominent architects, such as Juan Nakpil ( a National Artist of the Philippines for architecture ) and Carlos Raúl Villanueva, had been involved in designing INC churches while the Engineering and Construction Department of INC, established in 1971, oversees the uniformity in design of church buildings.

* Carlos Ventosa ( born 1971 ), Spanish backstroke swimmer

The position of the PS at first ,, of the government of the UP, was radicalized with the choice of the party's direction, chosen in the XXIII Congress, carried out in the Serene One in January 1971, by the senator Carlos Altamirano Orrego ; who proclaimed that the party he should transform into " the Chilean vanguard in the march toward the socialism ".

* Carlos Altamirano Orrego ( general secretary between 1971 and 1979 )

* José Laurel, Jr., ( August 27, 1912-March 18, 1998 ) Member of the Philippine National Assembly from Batangas from 1943 to 1944, Congressman from Batangas ' Third District from 1941 to 1957 and from 1961 to 1972, Speaker of the House of Representatives of the Philippines from 1954 to 1957 and from 1967 to 1971, Assemblyman of Regular Batasang Pambansa from 1984 to 1986, Member of the Philippine Constitutional Commission of 1986 from June 2 to October 15, 1986 and a running-mate of Carlos P. Garcia of the Nacionalista Party in Philippine presidential election of 1957, placed second in the vice-presidential race against Diosdado Macapagal of Liberal Party ( Philippines )

Instead, under Melendez's leadership ( and that of Carlos Antonio Suarez, also known as Carlos Melendez ), they were instrumental in achieving a moderately successful truce among South Bronx and other New York-area gangs at the Hoe Avenue peace meeting which occurred December 8, 1971.

Carlos Enrique Díaz de León ( 1910 – 1971 ) was the provisional President of Guatemala from 27 June 1954 to 28 June 1954.

Juan Carlos Pulido Valera ( born August 5, 1971 in Caracas, Venezuela ) is a former relief pitcher in Major League Baseball who played for the Minnesota Twins in 1994 and between 2003 – 2004.

In 1971 he married journalist Gloria Pachón Castro and had three children Juan Manuel, Claudio Mario and Carlos Fernando.