Angola-Vietnam relations were established in August 1971, four years before Angola gained its independence, when future President of Angola Agostinho Neto visited Vietnam.

* 1971 – President Richard Nixon completes the break from the gold standard by ending convertibility of the United States dollar into gold by foreign investors.

* 1971 – François Duvalier, Haitian politician, 40th President of Haiti ( b. 1907 )

* 1971 – President Richard Nixon announces his decision to increase the rate of American troop withdrawals from Vietnam.

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.

The departure of Uganda's President Milton Obote to the 1971 CHOGM allowed Idi Amin to overthrow Obote's government.

* 1971 – Pakistan President Yahya Khan announces the formation of a Coalition Government at Centre with Nurul Amin as Prime Minister and Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto as Vice-Prime Minister.

The Eisenhower Medical Center in Rancho Mirage, California was named after the President in 1971.

* 1971 – Zulfikar Ali Bhutto takes over as the fourth President of Pakistan.

* 1971 – Idi Amin replaces President Milton Obote as leader of Uganda.

In March 1971 elements of the military were deployed to Freetown in Sierra Leone after the Sierra Leonean President, Stevens, appeared to start losing his control of the military.

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 — Myron Tribus ( Senior Vice President, Xerox Corp .)

moved to Pittsburgh in 1971 when he was promoted to Senior Vice President for the North America and Pacific region, and by 1973, R. Burt Gookin and Jack Heinz made him COO and President.

* 1971 – President Richard Nixon declares the U. S. War on Drugs.

* 1971 – Right to vote: the Twenty-sixth Amendment to the United States Constitution, lowering the voting age from 21 to 18 years, is formally certified by President Richard Nixon.

* 1971 – Bowing to international pressure, President of Pakistan Zulfikar Ali Bhutto releases Bengali leader Sheikh Mujibur Rahman from prison, who had been arrested after declaring the independence of Bangladesh.

President Tolbert ( 1971 – 80 ) continued to suppress opposition harshly.

In 1970 Hastings Banda was declared President for life of the MCP, and in 1971 Banda consolidated his power and was named President for life of Malawi itself.

* 1971 – President of Pakistan Yahya Khan indefinitely postpones the pending national assembly session, precipitating massive civil disobedience in East Pakistan.

* Intervista a Salvador Allende: La forza e la ragione ( 1971 )

Allende ’ s first step in early 1971 was to raise minimum wages ( in real terms ) for blue-collar workers by 37 %- 41 % and 8 %- 10 % for white-collar workers.

Allende raised wages on a number of occasions throughout 1970 and 1971, but these wage hikes were negated by the in-tandem inflation of Chile's fiat currency.

In 1971, he gave conferences at universities in Dayton, Ohio, Boston, and the Council of the Americas in New York, denouncing in all of them the actions of the Allende government that were violating the Constitution and the laws of Chile.

In 1971, during the government of Salvador Allende, Revised Statutes of the UTE were approved.

During his presidency, Allende nationalized US copper firms ( in July 1971 ), nationalized banks and other large industries such as Purina, and sped up land distribution ( by 1972, peasants lived in approximately 1700 rural properties ).

González's influence in a now more left-leaning Radical Party was decreasing, and in 1971 he resigned from the party, angered by its support for socialist Salvador Allende.

In 1971, President Richard Nixon and Médici discussed coordinating their efforts to overthrow Cuba's Fidel Castro and Chile's Salvador Allende.

In addition to the earlier-discussed provision of employment, Allende also raised wages on a number of occasions throughout 1970 and 1971.

Project Cybersyn was a Chilean attempt in the years 1971 – 1973 ( during the government of President Salvador Allende ) to construct a top-down command and control decision support system to aid in the management of the national economy.

From 1971 to 1973, Cooper served as the Spanish-English translator for Chilean Socialist, Marxist, Leninist president Salvador Allende.

This type of manifestation started in 1971 in Chile, against the shortages of industrial products during the administration of Salvador Allende ..

Cacerolazos began in Chile in 1971 in protest at shortages during the Salvador Allende administration.

In 1971, president Salvador Allende declared Chacabuco a Historic Monument of Chile, at which point restoration began.

* Conversation with Allende ( 1971 )

In June 1971, Frank O ' Farrell was appointed as manager, but lasted less than 18 months before being replaced by Tommy Docherty in December 1972.

Although Admiral Aziz Mirza ( a life-long friend of Musharraf shared the dorm with the admiral in 1960s and graduated together from the academy ) was appointed by Prime minister Nawaz Sharif, Mirza remained extremely supportive to Musharraf's coup and was also a close friend of Musharraf since 1971 when both participate in an joint operations against Indian Army.

In addition to the Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 1962, which he shared with John Kendrew for their studies of the structures of hemoglobin and globular proteins, Max Perutz received a number of other important honors: he was appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire in 1963, received the Österreichisches Ehrenzeichen für Wissenschaft und Kunst in 1967, the Royal Medal in 1971, the Copley Medal in 1979, the Companions of Honour in 1975, and the Order of Merit in 1989.

Thurmond appointed Thomas Moss, an African American, to his staff in 1971, described as the first such appointment by a member of the South Carolinian congressional delegation ( it was incorrectly reported by many sources as the first senatorial appointment of an African American, but Mississippi Senator Pat Harrison had hired clerk-librarian Jesse Nichols in 1937 ).

He became the new leader of the VVD: in 1971 he became the new Parliamentary group leader, and in 1972 he was appointed lijsttrekker.

Gorton was appointed a Privy Counsellor in 1968, a Companion of Honour in 1971, a Knight Grand Cross of the Order of St Michael and St George in 1977 and a Companion of the Order of Australia in 1988.

* Roberto Calvi, general manager of Banco Ambrosiano since 1971, appointed chairman from 1975 to his death in June 1982.

In 1971, Calvi became general manager, and in 1975 he was appointed chairman.

In 1971, Luns was appointed as NATO Secretary-General.

His rule became increasingly erratic and authoritarian: he appointed himself Marshal ( a title previously unknown in Cambodia ) in April 1971, and in October suspended the National Assembly, stating he would " no longer play the game of democracy ".

The Historical Sites Committee was formed in 1971 and members are appointed by the governing body to administer municipally owned historic landmarks.

In addition to his knighthood, Bliss was appointed KCVO ( 1969 ) and CH ( 1971 ).

He was appointed a CBE in 1946, knighted in 1957, and was awarded the Order of Merit in 1971.

In 1971, the City of Austin created the Town Lake Beautification Project and appointed Lady Bird Johnson as the project's honorary chairman.

In October 1971, as the Troubles worsened, Gerard Newe had been appointed as a junior minister at Stormont, in an attempt to improve community relations.

Oaks left the University of Chicago Law School upon being appointed President at Brigham Young University in 1971.

Bowra was knighted in 1951, and was appointed a Companion of Honour in 1971.

During his papacy, he appointed the first-ever bishops to preside over North American dioceses, which now contain over two hundred parishes ( 200 in the United States, 23 in Canada and one in Mexico ), up from four in 1971.

An Administrator was appointed to the Islands from 1887, and replaced by a Governor in 1971 when the Islands were created a distinct territory.

Besides serving as premier, Schreyer was the appointed Minister of Finance between 1972 and 1975, and the minister responsible for Manitoba Hydro from 1971 to 1977.

Four years later, in the 1971 election, Getty was re-elected by more than 3, 500 votes in the new riding of Edmonton-Whitemud and was appointed Minister of Federal and Intergovernmental Affairs in the new Lougheed majority government.

After the death of Samuel Bronfman in 1971, Edgar M. Bronfman was named Chairman and Chief Executive Officer ( CEO ) until June 1994 when his son, Edgar Bronfman, Jr., was appointed CEO.

He was defeated by George Colley in a vote for the position of Joint Honorary Treasurer at the 1971 Ardfheis, while his constituency colleague, Liam Cunningham, had been appointed a Parliamentary Secretary in the cabinet reshuffle.

He captained the All Blacks a number of times-though never a regular captain, he holds the record of longest period of captaincy ( not consecutive games ), from the first date ( 1960 ) he was appointed captain to the last match he captained ( 1971 ).