Individual or family possessions: burial: 7 September 1971; Wellington, Carbon, Utah, United States Individual or family possessions: death: ; Price, Carbon, Utah, United States
June 11 » The boundaries of the Colony of New Zealand are extended by the UK to include the Cook Islands.
July 4 » William Howard Taft becomes American governor of the Philippines.
August 10 » The U.S. Steel recognition strike by the Amalgamated Association of Iron and Steel Workers begins.
August 14 » The first claimed powered flight, by Gustave Whitehead in his Number 21.
October 12 » President Theodore Roosevelt officially renames the "Executive Mansion" to the White House.
November 13 » The 1901 Caister lifeboat disaster.
Day of death September 4, 1971
The temperature on September 4, 1971 was between 7.4 °C and 22.0 °C and averaged 15.9 °C. There was 5.9 hours of sunshine (44%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the west-northwest. 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.
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.
May 20 » In the Chuknagar massacre, Pakistani forces massacre thousands, mostly Bengali Hindus.
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.
August 1 » The Concert for Bangladesh, organized by former Beatle George Harrison, is held at Madison Square Garden in New York City.
October 27 » The Democratic Republic of the Congo is renamed Zaire.
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