The Mego Corporation was founded in the early 1950s by David Abrams and was mostly known prior to 1971 as a producer of dime store toys.

Starting in 1971, Under the direction of David Abram's son Martin, Mego began purchasing license rights to a variety of successful motion pictures, television programs, and comic books, and started producing lines for Planet of the Apes, Star Trek, and the Wizard of Oz.

In 1971, Martin Abrams began purchasing the license rights to popular movies, comic books and television shows for Mego Corp., a toy manufacturing company.

They switched from black to red jerseys in 1971, and the club began to wear silver pants in 1978.

Catherine Turocy began her studies in Baroque dance in 1971 as a student of dance historian Shirley Wynne.

Harbor activity is concentrated at Abidjan ( West Africa ’ s largest container port ), which has facilities that include a fishing port and equipment for handling containers, and San Pedro, a deepwater port that began operations in 1971.

Guest began his career in theatre during the early 1970s with one of his earliest professional performances being the role of Norman in Michael Weller's Moonchildren for the play's American premiere at the Arena Stage in Washington D. C. in November 1971.

A Sunday strip began on March 21, 1971.

Her strong commitment to animal welfare began in 1971, when she co-founded " Actors and Others for Animals ".

The event began mid-afternoon on Thanksgiving eve, November 24, 1971, at Portland International Airport in Portland, Oregon.

As response to this operation, the Awami League announced the declaration of independence of East Pakistan on March 26, 1971 and began an armed struggle against the Pakistan, with India staunchly supporting Awami League by the means of providing arm ammunition to its guerrilla forces.

In 1971, he began working as editor-in-chief at Guidon Games, a publisher of wargames, for which he produced the board games Alexander the Great and Dunkirk.

In 1971, Brown began recording for Polydor Records which also took over distribution of Brown's King Records catalog.

The process began by Nehru was finally completed by his daughter by the end of 1971.

India's policy of weaponisation via indigenous sources and self-sufficiency began in earnest under Nehru, completed by his daughter Indira Gandhi, who later led India to a crushing military victory over rival Pakistan in 1971.

Dalglish began his career with Celtic in 1971, going on to win four Scottish First Divisions, four Scottish Cups and one Scottish League Cup with the club.

It entered Martian orbit in November 1971 and began photographing the surface and analyzing the atmosphere with its infrared and ultraviolet instruments.

By the 1970s some Native American film roles began to show more complexity, such as those in Little Big Man ( 1970 ), Billy Jack ( 1971 ), and The Outlaw Josey Wales ( 1976 ), which depicted Native Americans in minor supporting roles.

When the NASDAQ stock exchange began trading on February 8, 1971, it was the world's first electronic stock market.

The first Limited Overs International ( LOI ) or One-Day International ( ODI ) match was played in Melbourne in 1971, and the quadrennial cricket World Cup began in 1975.

After Guralnick graduated from Boston University in 1971 with a master's degree in creative writing, he began writing books chronicling the history of blues, country, rock and roll and soul.

They began publishing books and magazines but decided to go their separate ways in 1971, after which Hell created and published Dot Books.

In 1971 Moog Music began production of the Minimoog Model D, which was among the first synthesizers that was widely available, portable, and relatively affordable.

The series, entitled " Silicon Valley in the USA ", began in the paper's issue dated January 11, 1971.

The Nomad of the Time Streams trilogy by Michael Moorock, which began in 1971 with The Warlord of the Air, was also an influential precursor .< ref >

Dutch band Focus, containing Thijs van Leer and Jan Akkerman, began to assert symphonic prog with their second album Focus II ( Moving Waves ) ( 1971 ) despite their hit song " Hocus Pocus " ( which is noted for lead singer Thijs van Leer's yodeling ).

Their album Sticky Fingers ( 1971 ) began a string of eight consecutive studio albums reaching number one in the United States.

However, after 1945, the Redskins began a slow decline that they did not end until a playoff appearance in the 1971 season.

In 1971, Joe Conforte, owner of the brothel called Mustang Ranch near Reno, managed to convince county officials to pass an ordinance which would provide for the licensing of brothels and prostitutes, thus avoiding the threat of being closed down as a public nuisance.

Stetson changed its business strategy in the early 1970s, closing its Philadelphia factory in 1971 and continuing in the hat business through licensing arrangements with a number of manufacturers.

The cover art is a modified version of artist Greg Hildebrandt's piece entitled Dream 1: Crucifiers from 1971, with Black Sabbath licensing its use for the cover of Mob Rules.

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.

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

Bahrain's Prime Minister, Sheikh Khalifah bin Sulman Al Khalifah has been in the post since 1971, making him the longest serving non-elected Prime Minister.

* 1971 – Having weakened after making landfall in Nicaragua the previous day, Hurricane Irene regains enough strength to be renamed Hurricane Olivia, making it the first known hurricane to cross from the Atlantic Ocean into the Pacific.

The Deep Cameo versions of proofs from 1965 to 1971 and 1981 Type Two are highly valued because of their scarcity, high grade examples of quarters from certain years of the 1980s ( such as 1981 – 1987 ) because of scarcity in high grades due to high circulation and in 1982 and 1983 no mint sets were produced making it harder to find mint state examples, and any coin from 1981 – 1994 graded in MS67 is worth upwards of $ 1000.

The bill would have amended the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 to prohibit foreign influence in federal elections, prohibit government contractors from making expenditures with respect to such elections, and it established additional disclosure requirements with respect to spending in such elections.

At the Keilor Archaeological Site a human hearth excavated in 1971 was radiocarbon-dated to about 31, 000 years BP, making Keilor one of the earliest sites of human habitation in Australia.

The changes to the heater / windshield wiper housing and curved windshield resulted in slight redesign of the front hood, making the 1971 and 1972 Super Beetle hoods unique.

He received the International Master title in 1971, and in 1974 attained Grandmaster status, making him the Netherlands ' third after Max Euwe and Jan Hein Donner.

Princess Alexandra opened the Brixton extension on 23 July 1971, making a journey from Brixton to Vauxhall.

1971 saw the formation of the first Parish Council which assists the pastor and congregation in decision making and leadership.

A proposed merger with Solna in 1971 was never implemented, making Sundbyberg, with an area of, the smallest municipality in Sweden, but also the most densely populated.

As the lunar module pilot of Apollo 14, he spent nine hours of February 9, 1971 moon-walking on the Fra Mauro formation, making him the sixth man to walk on the Moon.

Entry level Pintos were priced on launch at around $ 1850, making the Pinto the least expensive Ford since the " Six " of 1958, undercutting GM's Chevrolet Vega and directly targeting imported models — which continued to add competitors such as the Mazda 1200 in 1971, the Subaru DL in 1972, and the Honda Civic in 1973.

The population of Dewsbury has remained broadly static over the past century-the 1911 census recorded 53, 351 people, and the 1971 census 51, 326 people, making it the fourth least populous county borough in England ( after Canterbury, Burton and Yarmouth ).

It premiered on Public Broadcasting Service ( PBS ) on January 10, 1971, making it America's longest-running weekly prime time drama series.

The Dice Man is a novel published in 1971 by George Cockcroft under the pen name Luke Rhinehart and tells the story of a psychiatrist who begins making life decisions based on the casting of dice.

Warwick, for years an aficionado of psychic phenomena, was advised by astrologer Linda Goodman in 1971 to add a small " e " to her last name, making Warwick " WARWICKe " for good luck and to recognize her married name and her spouse, actor and drummer William " Bill " Elliott.

In 1971, the Wagon-Lits company stopped running carriages itself and making revenues from a ticket supplement.

By 1971, the Association for the Promotion of Skiing was no longer making much money off the Ski Festival, and they started discussing rebuilding the entire complex.

After making his most subdued film, a commercially unsuccessful adaptation of the popular Irving Wallace novel The Seven Minutes ( 1971 ) for Fox, Meyer returned to grindhouse-style independent cinema in 1973 with the blaxploitation period piece Black Snake, which was dismissed by critics and audiences as incoherent.

His best work was in the 1960s: the critical quality of the films in which he took part diminished from the mid 1970s, with poorly regarded made-for-television films and episodic television making up the majority of his appearances, except in The Saviour, directed in 1971 by the French film critic Michel Mardore.