November 1971
January – February – March – April – May – June – July – August – September – October – November – December
The following events occurred in November 1971.
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Contents
- 1 November 1, 1971 (Monday)
- 2 November 2, 1971 (Tuesday)
- 3 November 3, 1971 (Wednesday)
- 4 November 4, 1971 (Thursday)
- 5 November 5, 1971 (Friday)
- 6 November 6, 1971 (Saturday)
- 7 November 7, 1971 (Sunday)
- 8 November 8, 1971 (Monday)
- 9 November 9, 1971 (Tuesday)
- 10 November 10, 1971 (Wednesday)
- 11 November 11, 1971 (Thursday)
- 12 November 12, 1971 (Friday)
- 13 November 13, 1971 (Saturday)
- 14 November 14, 1971 (Sunday)
- 15 November 15, 1971 (Monday)
- 16 November 16, 1971 (Tuesday)
- 17 November 17, 1971 (Wednesday)
- 18 November 18, 1971 (Thursday)
- 19 November 19, 1971 (Friday)
- 20 November 20, 1971 (Saturday)
- 21 November 21, 1971 (Sunday)
- 22 November 22, 1971 (Monday)
- 23 November 23, 1971 (Tuesday)
- 24 November 24, 1971 (Wednesday)
- 25 November 25, 1971 (Thursday)
- 26 November 26, 1971 (Friday)
- 27 November 27, 1971 (Saturday)
- 28 November 28, 1971 (Sunday)
- 29 November 29, 1971 (Monday)
- 30 November 30, 1971 (Tuesday)
- 31 References
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- Led Zeppelin release their officially untitled fourth studio album; it goes on to become the biggest selling album of the year (1972), the band's biggest selling album, and the fourth best selling album of all time.
- Vietnam War – Vietnamization: U.S. President Richard M. Nixon sets February 1, 1972, as the deadline for the removal of another 45,000 American troops from Vietnam.
- Paul Joseph Cini hijacks an Air Canada plane, but is later arrested without incident.
- Official opening of the History House at 133 Macquarie Street, Sydney.[2]
- The British Government commissions a committee of inquiry chaired by Lord Parker, the Lord Chief Justice of England to look into the legal and moral aspects of the use of the five techniques of interrogation in Northern Ireland.
- Born: Waqar Younis, Pakistani cricketer
- Died: Edie Edgewise, 28, socialite and model (of barbiturate poisoning)
- Born: Shawn Yardley,son of Carolynn Yardley
- A bridge still in construction, called Elevado Engenheiro Freyssinet, falls over the Paulo de Frontin Avenue, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; 48 people are killed and several injured. Reconstructed, the bridge is now part of the Linha Vermelha elevate.
- Denmark establishes [[Denmark–Vietnam relations
|diplomatic relations]] with Vietnam.
- The USSR's Mars 2 probe goes into orbit.
- Married: Anele Intas and Peter Kanas, Sydney, Founder of Playmates of Taringa and world renowned architect, best known for his work on Toowong Towers and 'Murrayfield' at Chelmer
- The Royal Canadian Mounted Police receive a call about a pickup truck blocking Highway 20 around Alexis Creek near Williams Lake.[5] Fred Quilt, a 55-year-old leader of the Tsilhqot'in First Nation, is arrested on charges of drunk driving.[6] RCMP constables Daryl Bakewell and Peter Eakins find Fred Quilt along with three other members of his family in the pickup. The RCMP constables later allege that the four were "extremely intoxicated" and that Quilt had to be pulled from the truck and fell to the ground, falling again as he was being taken to the police truck in which the four were driven to the nearby Anahim Reserve.[7] Quilt dies two days later, and the Fred Quilt inquiry follows.
- Died: Wasfi al-Tal, 52, Prime Minister of Jordan, assassinated by members of Black September on the steps of the Sheraton Hotel, Cairo, where he was attending an Arab League summit meeting.
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