Remember 1971?
Above is our first advertisement in The Herald 22nd January 1971!
Other significant events from 1971...
- 25th Jan - Charles Manson & 3 women followers convicted of Tate-LaBianca murders
- 2nd Feb - Idi Amin ousts Milton Obote to become dictator of Uganda
- 4th Feb - Rolls-Royce went bankrupt and is nationalised
- 15th Feb - Decimalisation: Ireland and the United Kingdom both switched to decimal currency
- 5th Mar - "Stairway to Heaven" by Led Zeppelin is first played live at Ulster Hall, Belfast
- 8th Mar - Joe Frazier beats Muhammad Ali in 15, retains heavyweight boxing title at Madison Sq Garden
- 19th April - Unemployment reached a post-Second World War high of nearly 815,000
- 8th May - Arsenal FC beats Liverpool F.C. 2-1 to win the English FA Cup, thus completing the league and cup 'double'
- 20th May - Chelsea F.C., last year's FA Cup winners, won the European Cup Winners' Cup with a 2-1 win over Real Madrid
- 14th June - Education Secretary Margaret Thatcher ("Thatcher The Milk Snatcher") ends free school milk for children over the age of seven in the UK
- 3rd July - Jim Morrison, lead singer of The Doors is found dead in his bathtub in Paris
- 6th Aug - Chay Blyth became the first person to sail around the world east to west against the prevailing winds
- 15th Aug - Jackie Stewart becomes Formula One World Drivers' Champion
- 3rd Sep - Qatar gained independence from the United Kingdom
- 1st Oct - Godfrey Hounsfield's invention, the CAT scan, was used for the first time on a patient at a hospital in Wimbledon
- 1st Oct - The Walt Disney World Resort opens in Florida
- 14th Oct - Greenpeace is founded in Vancouver, Canada
- 28th Oct - The House of Commons voted in favour of joining the EEC
- 31st Oct - A IRA bomb exploded at the top of the Post Office Tower in London
- 10th Nov - The Spaghetti Junction motorway interchange was opened north of Birmingham city centre
- 30th Dec - The seventh James Bond film - Diamonds Are Forever - was released starring Sean Connery
Inflation stood at a 30-year high of 8.6%
Oil overtook coal as the most consumed fuel in Britain for the first time
Births
- 20th Jan - Gary Barlow
- 16th Feb - Amanda Holden
- 7th Mar - Rachel Weisz
- 27th Mar - David Coulthard
- 31st Mar - Ewan McGregor
- 18th April - David Tennant
- 23rd May - George Osborne
- 31st Aug - Kirstie Allsopp
- 13th Sep - Stella McCartney
- 13th Oct - Sacha Baron Cohen
