May 26 » Charles Dow publishes the first edition of the Dow Jones Industrial Average.
June 15 » The deadliest tsunami in Japan's history kills more than 22,000 people.
June 28 » An explosion in the Newton Coal Company's Twin Shaft Mine in Pittston, Pennsylvania results in a massive cave-in that kills 58 miners.
December 14 » The Glasgow Underground Railway is opened by the Glasgow District Subway Company.
Day of death September 28, 1971
The temperature on September 28, 1971 was between 5.3 °C and 17.1 °C and averaged 11.6 °C. There was -0.1 mm of rain. There was 2.7 hours of sunshine (23%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 1 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the east-southeast. Source: KNMI
May 27 » The Dahlerau train disaster, the worst railway accident in West Germany, kills 46 people and injures 25 near Wuppertal.
May 31 » In accordance with the Uniform Monday Holiday Act passed by the U.S. Congress in 1968, observation of Memorial Day occurs on the last Monday in May for the first time, rather than on the traditional Memorial Day of May 30.
July 30 » Apollo program: Apollo 15 Mission: David Scott and James Irwin on the Apollo Lunar Module Falcon land on the Moon with the first Lunar Rover.
September 11 » The Egyptian Constitution becomes official.
November 6 » The United States Atomic Energy Commission tests the largest U.S. underground hydrogen bomb, code-named Cannikin, on Amchitka Island in the Aleutians.
December 4 » The Indian Navy attacks the Pakistan Navy and Karachi.
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