* 1971 – Jorge Eduardo Costilla Sánchez, Mexican drug smuggler

* 1971 – Alejandra Barros, Mexican actress

* 1971 – Alejandro Fernández, Mexican singer

* 1971 – Oro, Mexican professional wrestler ( d. 1993 )

* 1971 – Paulina Rubio, Mexican singer and actress

* Al Madrigal ( born 1971 ), American stand-up comedian and actor of Mexican descent

* 1971 – Horacio Sandoval, Mexican illustrator

By 1971, the CTW hired Hispanic actors, production staff, and researchers, and by the mid-1970s, Morrow reported that " the show included Chicano and Puerto Rican cast members, films about Mexican holidays and foods, and cartoons that taught Spanish words ".

These models have the larger windshield, rear window, door and quarter glass starting in 1971 ; and the rear window from 1965 to 1971 German built models was used on the Mexican models from 1972 to 1985, when it was replaced with the larger rear window used on 1972 and later German built Beetles.

In 1971, Campanella was elected to the Mexican League Hall Of Fame.

* Thalía (, with stress placed on second syllable ) is the professional name for Ariadna Thalía Sodi Miranda ( b. 1971 ), a Mexican pop-star whose songs and albums frequently occupy top-ten spots in the Billboard Latin charts.

Adamari López Torres ( born May 18, 1971 in Humacao, Puerto Rico ) is a Puerto Rican actress famous for participating in several Puerto Rican and Mexican soap operas.

* Oro ( wrestler ), Jesús Javier Hernández Solís ( 1971 – 1993 ), Mexican professional wrestler

In 1971, Coburn starred in the spaghetti western Duck, You Sucker !, directed by Sergio Leone, as an Irish explosives expert and revolutionary who has fled to Mexico during the time of the Mexican Revolution in the early 20th century.

He became a Mexican citizen in 1971.

He acquired Mexican nationality in 1971.

Paulina Susana Rubio Dosamantes ( born 17 June 1971 ) is a Mexican singer, actress, hostess, model and businesswoman.

In 1971 a Mexican presidential order turned 614, 000 hectares over to the Lacandon Community, thereby recognizing the land rights of this relatively small group of indigenous forest dwellers over the more numerous settlers, who had been enouraged to colonize the Lacandon Forest under previous government policies.

Rosana Franco ( born c. 1971 ) is a Mexican news person, as well as a sportscaster for Spanish-language television channel Univision.

While she would appear in a handful of films throughout the seventies, including The Children of Sanchez ( 1978 ), with the Mexican legends Anthony Quinn and Dolores del Río, Mendez truly came into her own in Mexican television starting with a small part in Muchacha italiana viene a casarse ( 1971 ) with Angelica María.

* Antonio Sánchez ( drummer ) ( born 1971 ), Mexican jazz drummer, known for his contribution to the Pat Metheny Group and the Pat Metheny Trio

Four times ( 1971, 1981, 1983, and 1996 ) the Mexican Union of Teatrical and Musical broadcasters named him the most distinguished artist of the year.

* 1971 – In Sri Lanka, Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna launches insurrection against the United Front government of Sirimavo Bandaranaike.

All of these were revoked by the government of India in 1971, at the time when these privileges were revoked from all erstwhile princes.

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.

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

* 1971 – Cambodian Civil War: Khmer Rouge rebels intensify assaults on Cambodian government positions, forcing their retreat from Kompong Thmar and nearby Ba Ray.

* In the March 1971 issue of the magazine Shogaku 4-nensei: Because visitors from the future were causing too much trouble, the government in the 22nd Century passed a bill to ban time-travelling altogether, meaning Doraemon would have to return to his time era.

The name London Docklands was used for the first time in a government report on redevelopment plans in 1971 but has since become virtually universally adopted.

The exile government took oath on 17 April 1971 at Mujib Nagar, within East Pakistan territory of Kustia district and formally formed the government.

In 1971 Parliament reconvened, and a new government coalition, the National Front ( Barisan Nasional ), took office.

The government ’ s response was the New Economic Policy of 1971, which was to be implemented through a series of four five-year plans from 1971 to 1990.

The Bretton Woods system prevailed until 1971, when the U. S. government suspended the convertibility of the dollar ( and dollar reserves held by other governments ) into gold.

This relationship changed with the election of the Malta Labour Party government in June 1971, led by Dom Mintoff.

In 1971, Austrian School libertarian economist Murray Rothbard criticized Friedman's efforts to make the government more efficient as detrimental to individual liberty, concluding "... as we examine Milton Friedman ’ s credentials to be the leader of free-market economics, we arrive at the chilling conclusion that it is difficult to consider him a free-market economist at all.

* 1967 – The Pakistan Peoples Party is founded by Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto who becomes its first Chairman later as the Head of state and Head of government after the 1971 Civil War.

As the rural economy steadily lost ground and caused dissent among the farmers, however, the government decided to implement measures to increase farm productivity and income by instituting the Saemauel Movement (" New Village Movement ") in 1971.

On March 23, 1971, soldiers loyal to the executed Brigadier John Amadu Bangura held a Mutiny in Freetown and other parts of the country in opposition of Stevens ' government.

Guinean troops requested by Stevens to support his government were in the country from 1971 to 1973.

From 1971 Nimeiri led a more civilian-based government.

The municipality consists of a lot of former local government units and was formed in 1971.

In November 1971, General Yahya Khan ordered Pakistan Army Corps of Military Police to led the arrest of both Bhutto and Rehman and ordered an action to be taken against the East-Pakistan's military government.

Operation Searchlight ordered by Yahya was a planned military pacification carried out by the Pakistan Army to curb the Bengali nationalist movement in erstwhile East Pakistan in March 1971 Ordered by the government in West Pakistan, this was seen as the sequel to Operation Blitz which had been launched in November 1970.

Following the United States ' measures to devalue the dollar in the summer of 1971, the Japanese government agreed to a new, fixed exchange rate as part of the Smithsonian Agreement, signed at the end of the year.

* World's longest serving unelected head of government: Prince Khalifa bin Salman Al Khalifa, Prime Minister of Bahrain since 1971.