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| | | The Soviets put into orbit the first space station, Salyut 1, but the crew of three die on returning to earth | |
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| 1971 |
| | | The 19-year-old Jean Claude Duvalier, succeeding his father as president of Haiti, becomes known as Baby Doc | |
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| 1971 |
| | | Duel, about a motorist terrorized by a truck driver, launches Stephen Spielberg's career as a film director in Hollywood | |
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| 1971 |
| | | With support from Moscow, Erich Honecker takes Walter Ulbricht's place as leader of East Germany | |
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| 1971 |
| | | Ian Paisley and others in northern Ireland form the Democratic Unionist Party, as the intransigent wing of Ulster Unionism | |
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| 1971 |
| | | Awami League leader Mujibur Rahman declares unilaterally that Bangladesh (East Pakistan) is an independent state | |
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| 1971 |
| | | Mobutu gives the Congo a new name, Zaire, deriving from an African word for river | |
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| 1971 |
| | | King Hussein, alarmed at the continuing power of Palestinian guerrillas within Jordan, expels the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) | |
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| 1971 |
| | | Evidence of official deception concerning US involvement in Vietnam is published in the New York Times as the Pentagon Papers | |
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| 1971 |
| | | The arrest of Mujibur Rahman, together with brutal attempts at repression, turn resistance in East Pakistan into full-scale civil war | |
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