Timeline Sunday 13 June 1971

Events on Sunday 13 June 1971 2

• 1971 – 1973 First retirement -- then the return Sinatra announces his retirement at a star-studded Los Angeles concert on 13 June 1971 -- delivering a characteristically emotional farewell and leaving the stage to a standing ovation. The retirement lasts less than two years. He returns in 1973 with the album 'Ol' Blue Eyes Is Back' and a television special, driven by restlessness and the realisation that he has nothing to do if not perform. The return is commercially successful; the musical quality of his post-retirement work is uneven but occasionally transcendent.
• 1971 Pentagon Papers Published Leaked Vietnam War documents expose government deception The New York Times began publishing a classified Department of Defense history of US involvement in Vietnam, leaked by analyst Daniel Ellsberg. The papers revealed that successive administrations had misled the public about the war's scope and chances of success. The Nixon administration's attempt to block publication was rejected by the Supreme Court.