* 1971 – Tupac Shakur, American rapper, producer, and actor ( Digital Underground ) ( d. 1996 )

* September 13 – Tupac Shakur, American rapper and actor also known as " 2Pac " ( b. 1971 )

Between 1971 and 1973, Shakur was accused of several crimes and made the subject of a multi-state manhunt.

On April 6, 1971, Shakur was shot in the stomach during a struggle with a guest at the Statler Hilton Hotel in Midtown Manhattan and was arrested on a string of charges.

Following an August 23, 1971, bank robbery in Queens, Shakur was sought for questioning, and a photograph of a woman ( who was later alleged to be Shakur ) with thick rimmed black glasses, a high hairdo pulled tightly over her head, and a steadily pointed gun became ubiquitous in banks and full page print ads paid for by the New York Clearing House Association.

On December 21, 1971, Shakur was named as one of four suspects by New York City police in a hand grenade attack that destroyed a police car and slightly injured two patrolmen in Maspeth, Queens ; a 13-state alarm was issued three days after the attack when a witness identified Shakur and Andrew Jackson from FBI photographs.

Atlanta law enforcement officials said that Shakur and Jackson had lived together for several months in Atlanta, Georgia, in the summer of 1971.

In 1972, Shakur was the subject of a nationwide manhunt after the FBI alleged that she was the " revolutionary mother hen " of a Black Liberation Army cell that had conducted a " series of cold-blooded murders of New York City police officers ", including the " execution style murders " of New York Police Officers Joseph Piagentini and Waverly Jones on May 21, 1971 and Gregory Foster and Rocco Laurie on January 28, 1972.

This started the Bangladesh Liberation War in which the freedom fighters, joined in December 1971 by 400, 000 Indian soldiers, faced the Pakistani Armed Forces of 365, 000 plus Paramilitary and collaborationist forces.

He later joined the senior staff of the publisher, the Foundation for Economic Education ( FEE ), 1971 – 73.

In 1971, Lemmy joined the space rock band, Hawkwind, who were based in Ladbroke Grove, London, as a bassist and vocalist.

In 1971, Barış Manço joined as vocalist and the band was renamed Manchomongol.

Hart joined the Grateful Dead in September 1967, and left in February 1971 when he extricated himself from the band, due to conflict between band management and Mickey's father.

Desmond also joined The Modern Jazz Quartet for a Christmas concert in 1971 at the New York Town Hall.

When the U. K. announced a policy in 1968 ( reaffirmed in March 1971 ) of ending the treaty relationships with the Persian Gulf sheikdoms, Qatar joined the other eight states then under British protection ( the seven trucial sheikdoms — the present United Arab Emirates -- and Bahrain ) in a plan to form a union of Arab emirates.

Civil rights leader Julian Bond soon joined Dees and Levin and served as president of the board between 1971 and 1979.

SU joined the West Coast Conference in 1971.

In 1971 she joined the Social Democratic Party and worked as a lawyer in the Central Organisation of Finnish Trade Unions until she was elected to parliament in 1979.

In 1971, Foster joined Rose Law Firm in Little Rock, Arkansas, and in 1974 was made partner, one of only nine in the firm at the time.

When Lennon was invited to play with Frank Zappa at the Fillmore on June 5, 1971, Ono joined in as well.

He joined the Canberra press gallery in 1971 and became chief political correspondent for The Australian from 1974 to 1975.

He came from a political family: his father James Herbert Wilson ( December 1882 – 1971 ) was a works chemist who had been active in the Liberal Party and then joined the Labour Party.

Bhutan joined the Colombo Plan in 1962, International Postal Union in 1969 and became a member of the United Nations in 1971.

He first joined Yes in 1971 to replace Tony Kaye, and left the group in 1974 to work on his solo career.

In 1971, Wakeman joined the progressive rock band Yes, replacing their organist Tony Kaye.

American musician Bob Welch joined the British blues-rock band Fleetwood Mac in 1971, after the departure of founder Peter Green.

After four years at the University of Kansas residing at Stephenson Scholarship hall, James joined the Army in 1971.

Representative of a generation of left-wingers who criticized the old SFIO Socialist Party, he joined a Trotskyist group, the Internationalist Communist Organization ( OCI ) in the 1960s, before entering the renewed Socialist Party ( PS ) in 1971.

Bangladesh, which was part of British India until 1947, joined the Commonwealth of Nations in 1972 after its establishment as an independent nation in 1971.

The Hurricanes were formed in 1971 as the New England Whalers of the World Hockey Association ( WHA ), and joined the NHL in 1979 as part of the NHL-WHA merger, renaming themselves the Hartford Whalers.

In 1971, Kolmogorov joined an oceanographic expedition aboard the research vessel Dmitri Mendeleev.

By 1971, a new headquarters facility had been constructed, Cinnaminson and Bordentown had joined the system as branches, and a bookmobile visited areas without local facilities.

* 1971 – The People's Republic of Bangladesh forms, under Sheikh Mujibur Rahman at Mujibnagor.

* 1971 – Ping Pong Diplomacy: In an attempt to thaw relations with the United States, the People's Republic of China hosts the U. S. table tennis team for a weeklong visit.

Through the support of the Western bloc ( most Western countries continued to recognize the ROC as the sole legitimate government of China ), the Republic of China on Taiwan retained China's seat in the United Nations until 1971.

In 1971, shortly after he had switched his country's diplomatic recognition from the Republic of China to the People's Republic of China, the Australian Prime Minister, Gough Whitlam, visited Japan.

* Republic of Zaire ( 1971 – 97 )

* Republic of Ireland: Standard Time ( Amendment ) Act, 1971, section 1, and Interpretation Act 2005, section 18 ( i ).

However, in 1971, the People's Republic of China replaced the Republic of China ( Taiwan ) as permanent member of the UN Security Council.

* 1971 – The Army of the Republic of Vietnam abandon an attempt to cut off the Ho Chi Minh trail in Laos.

Nigeria and the People's Republic of China established formal diplomatic relations on February 10, 1971.

* 1971 – Representatives of the People's Republic of China attend the United Nations, including the United Nations Security Council, for the first time.

* 1971 – The United Nations seated the People's Republic of China and expelled the Republic of China ( see political status of Taiwan and China and the United Nations )

* 1971 – The Democratic Republic of the Congo is renamed Zaire.

Pedro Jaime Martínez ( born October 25, 1971 in Manoguayabo, Dominican Republic ) is a retired Major League Baseball pitcher.

On 19 April 1971, when Sierra Leone became a republic, the Royal Sierra Leone Military Force was renamed as the Republic of Sierra Leone Military Force ( RSLMF ).

* 1971 – People's Republic of China: Chairman Mao Zedong's second in command and successor Marshal Lin Biao flees the country via plane after the failure of alleged coup against Mao.

In 1971, the Republic of China was expelled by the United Nations in United Nations General Assembly Resolution 2758 and lost its memberships in all the international organizations related to UN.

In October 1971, Resolution 2758 was passed by the UN General Assembly, expelling " the representatives of Chiang Kai-shek " and replacing the China seat on the Security Council ( and all other UN organs ) with delegates from the People's Republic of China.

Moon moved to the United States in 1971, ( although he remained a citizen of the Republic of Korea ).

Between 1969 and 1971, a clandestine National Patriotic Front was established by several young intellectuals in Chişinău, totaling over 100 members, vowing to fight for the establishment of a Moldavian Democratic Republic, its secession from the Soviet Union and union with Romania.

In December 1971, following an informative note from Ion Stănescu, the President of the Council of State Security of the Romanian Socialist Republic, to Yuri Andropov, the chief of KGB, three of the leaders of the National Patriotic Front, Alexandru Usatiuc-Bulgar, Gheorghe Ghimpu and Valeriu Graur, as well as a fourth person, Alexandru Soltoianu, the leader of a similar clandestine movement in northern Bukovina ( Bucovina ), were arrested and later sentenced to long prison terms.

Erich Honecker (; 25 August 1912 – 29 May 1994 ) was a German communist politician who led the German Democratic Republic as General Secretary of the Socialist Unity Party from 1971 until 1989, serving as Head of State as well after Willi Stoph's relinquishment of that post in 1976.