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1971
 
    
19-year-old Aboriginal tennis player Evonne Goolagong wins the singles title at Wimbledon       
1971
 
   
Gerry Adams is imprisoned for suspected IRA links but is released for lack of evidence      
1971
 
    
The Chilean poet Pablo Neruda wins the Nobel Prize for Literature       
1971
 
     
In the Apollo 15 mission US astronauts David Scott and James Irwin drive the vehicle Rover-1 on the surface of the moon        
1971
 
  
Internment without trial, reintroduced in Ulster to deal with the developing crisis, is used at first only against Catholics suspected of terrorism     
1971
 
     
Stanley Kubrick directs Malcolm McDowell in a film of Anthony Burgess's novel A Clockwork Orange        
1971
 
    
British artist David Hockney paints a striking triple portrait in Mr and Mrs Clark and Percy       
1971
 
   
Greenpeace is founded in Canada to campaign against US nuclear testing      
1971
 
    
Andrew Lloyd Webber's Jesus Christ Superstar is staged a year after being released as a record       
1971
 
    
95-year-old Spanish cellist Pablo Casals conducts in New York his Hymn to the United Nations