January 9 » Hallam Tennyson, 2nd Baron Tennyson, son of the poet Alfred Tennyson, becomes the second Governor-General of Australia.
March 2 » In New York City the Martha Washington Hotel opens, becoming the first hotel exclusively for women.
June 16 » The Ford Motor Company is incorporated.
July 1 » Start of first Tour de France bicycle race.
October 6 » The High Court of Australia sits for the first time.
December 30 » A fire at the Iroquois Theater in Chicago, Illinois kills at least 605.
Day of death March 12, 1971
The temperature on March 12, 1971 was between -0.1 °C and 9.3 °C and averaged 3.8 °C. There was 6.2 mm of rain during 6.8 hours. There was -0.1 hours of sunshine (0%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the southwest. Source: KNMI
January 12 » The Harrisburg Seven: Rev. Philip Berrigan and five other activists are indicted on charges of conspiring to kidnap Henry Kissinger and of plotting to blow up the heating tunnels of federal buildings in Washington, D.C.
January 25 » Charles Manson and three female "Family" members are found guilty of the 1969 Tate–LaBianca murders.
February 2 » The international Ramsar Convention for the conservation and sustainable utilization of wetlands is signed in Ramsar, Mazandaran, Iran.
February 20 » The United States Emergency Broadcast System is accidentally activated in an erroneous national alert.
October 27 » The Democratic Republic of the Congo is renamed Zaire.
November 23 » Representatives of the People's Republic of China attend the United Nations, including the United Nations Security Council, for the first time.
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