About the day » Thursday December 2, 1971Calender converter

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• Adam T Markham, Cedar Falls, Black Hawk County, Iowa († 1992)
• Marjon Hoeve, Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Nederland († 1972)
• Annette Cornelia van Verseveld, Lienden († 2020)

• Alida Maria Ooms (94), Schiedam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Alberdina Pol (89), Emmen, Drenthe, Nederland
• Albertus SANTING (55), Nieuw-Weerdinge (Emmen) Drenthe Netherlands
• (65), Lisse, Netherlands
• Abram Cornelis Oorebeek (82), Spijkenisse, Nissewaard, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Bertho Charles Constant Margaretho Marie van Suchtelen (86), Oegstgeest
• Antoinetta Josephina Hubertina Orval (69), Tegelen, Limburg, Nederland
• Albertus Santing (55), Emmen
• Albert Jan Dierdorp (67), Amsterdam Noord Holland Nederland
• Anna Maria Wouters (89)

• 1969 » Pavel Loskutov, Estonian runner
• 1969 » Yang Hyun-suk, South Korean singer-songwriter and producer
• 1970 » Maksim Tarasov, Russian pole vaulter
• 1970 » Treach, American rapper and actor
• 1971 » Francesco Toldo, Italian footballer
• 1971 » Jüri Reinvere, Estonian-German composer and poet
• 1971 » Mine Yoshizaki, Japanese illustrator
• 1971 » Rachel McQuillan, Australian tennis player
• 1971 » Wilson Jermaine Heredia, American actor and singer
• 1972 » Sergejs Žoltoks, Latvian ice hockey player († 2004)

• 1966 » Giles Cooper, Irish author, playwright, and screenwriter (b. 1918)
• 1966 » L. E. J. Brouwer, Dutch mathematician and philosopher (b. 1881)
• 1969 » José María Arguedas, Peruvian anthropologist, author, and poet (b. 1911)
• 1969 » Kliment Voroshilov, Ukrainian-Russian marshal and politician, 3rd Head of State of The Soviet Union (b. 1881)
• 1974 » Max Weber, Swiss lawyer and politician (b. 1897)
• 1976 » Danny Murtaugh, American baseball player and manager (b. 1917)
• 1980 » Chaudhry Muhammad Ali, Indian-Pakistani lawyer and politician, 4th Prime Minister of Pakistan (b. 1905)
• 1980 » Romain Gary, Lithuanian-French author, director, and screenwriter (b. 1914)
• 1981 » Wallace Harrison, American architect, co-founded Harrison & Abramovitz (b. 1895)
• 1982 » Marty Feldman, English actor and comedian (b. 1933)

• Koningin Juliana (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from September 4, 1948 till April 30, 1980 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
• In The Netherlands , there was from April 5, 1967 to Tuesday, July 6, 1971 the cabinet De Jong, with P.J.S. de Jong (KVP) as prime minister.
• In The Netherlands , there was from April 5, 1967 to Tuesday, July 6, 1971 the cabinet Biesheuvel I, with Mr. B.W. Biesheuvel (ARP) as prime minister.
• The Netherlands had about 13.1 million citizens.
• February 15 » The decimalisation of British coinage is completed on Decimal Day.
• February 24 » The All India Forward Bloc holds an emergency central committee meeting after its chairman, Hemantha Kumar Bose, is killed three days earlier. P.K. Mookiah Thevar is appointed as the new chairman.
• March 25 » The Army of the Republic of Vietnam abandon an attempt to cut off the Ho Chi Minh trail in Laos.
• June 13 » Vietnam War: The New York Times begins publication of the Pentagon Papers.
• July 30 » An All Nippon Airways Boeing 727 and a Japanese Air Force F-86 collide over Morioka, Iwate, Japan killing 162.
• September 13 » State police and National Guardsmen storm New York's Attica Prison to quell a prison revolt, which claimed 43 lives.

The temperature on December 2, 1971 was between 1.7 °C and 6.2 °C and averaged 4.0 °C. There was -0.1 mm of rain. There was 0.6 hours of sunshine (7%). The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the east-southeast.