January 1 » New York, New York annexes land from surrounding counties, creating the City of Greater New York. The four initial boroughs, Manhattan, Brooklyn, Queens, and The Bronx, are joined on January 25 by Staten Island to create the modern city of five boroughs.
August 13 » Carl Gustav Witt discovers 433 Eros, the first near-Earth asteroid to be found.
August 13 » Spanish–American War: Spanish and American forces engage in a mock battle for Manila, after which the Spanish commander surrendered in order to keep the city out of Filipino rebel hands.
September 21 » Empress Dowager Cixi seizes power and ends the Hundred Days' Reform in China.
October 6 » Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia, the largest American music fraternity, is founded at the New England Conservatory of Music.
October 18 » The United States takes possession of Puerto Rico from Spain.
Day of death October 6, 1971
The temperature on October 6, 1971 was between 0.8 °C and 14.8 °C and averaged 6.9 °C. There was 0.1 mm of rain. There was 10.2 hours of sunshine (90%). The almost cloudless was. The average windspeed was 1 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south-southeast. Source: KNMI
February 2 » Idi Amin replaces President Milton Obote as leader of Uganda.
February 20 » The United States Emergency Broadcast System is accidentally activated in an erroneous national alert.
April 19 » Launch of Salyut 1, the first space station.
July 31 » Apollo program: Apollo 15 astronauts become the first to ride in a lunar rover.
November 18 » Oman declares its independence from United Kingdom.
December 7 » Pakistan President Yahya Khan announces the formation of a coalition government with Nurul Amin as Prime Minister and Zulfikar Ali Bhutto as Deputy Prime Minister.
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