Timeline March 1971

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• 1893 – 1971 Harold Lloyd (1893-1971) Died 8 March 1971, aged 77 Harold Lloyd was one of the most popular and prolific stars of silent-era comedy, known for death-defying physical stunts such as hanging from a clock face in Safety Last!. He rivaled Charlie Chaplin and Buster Keaton in box-office popularity during the 1920s. He later became a philanthropist and photography enthusiast.
• 1901 – 1971 Bebe Daniels (1901-1971) American actress, Harold Lloyd's first leading lady, who later became a radio star in Britain.
• 1902 – 1971 Arne Jacobsen Architectural Master A pioneer of Danish Modernism, designer of the "Egg" chair and Aarhus City Hall.
• 1921 – 1971 Whitney Young (1921-1971) Died 11 March 1971, aged 49 Whitney Young led the National Urban League and was a key strategist of the American civil rights movement, working to open corporate and government employment to Black Americans. He helped plan the 1963 March on Washington. He died of a heart attack while swimming in Lagos, Nigeria.
• 1971 Moves to Paris March 1971, with Pamela Courson Took an extended break from The Doors and relocated to Paris with Pamela Courson in March 1971 — intending to focus on writing poetry, escape the pressures of fame, and find anonymity away from the United States.
• 1971 James Taylor on the cover of Time The new rock Time presents him as the face of the singer-songwriter era.
• 1971 Weather Underground Bombs US Capitol Radical group attacks the Capitol building in protest of the Vietnam War The Weather Underground detonated a bomb in a restroom on the Senate side of the US Capitol, causing damage but no injuries, in protest of the US invasion of Laos. The group claimed responsibility in a call warning of the attack beforehand. It was one of several bombings the radical left-wing organization carried out in the early 1970s.
• 1971 Wilson Pickett headlines Soul to Soul in Ghana Accra Plays to a huge crowd at Ghana's independence anniversary.
• 1971 Bebe Daniels dies in London Bebe Daniels dies aged 70.
• 1971 Janis Joplin's Me and Bobby McGee reaches number one Kris Kristofferson song Her only number one single, posthumous.
• 1971 Bangladesh Liberation War Pakistan's civil war ends in Bangladeshi independence Following a Pakistani military crackdown on Bengali nationalists, the Mukti Bahini waged a nine-month war for independence. India intervened militarily in December, and Pakistani forces surrendered in Dhaka on 16 December 1971. The war created the new nation of Bangladesh and one of the largest refugee crises of the century.
• 1971 – present David Coulthard DC Thirteen-time race winner who drove for Williams, McLaren, and Red Bull.
• 1971 Charles Manson Sentenced to Death Cult leader condemned for the Tate-LaBianca murders Charles Manson and three followers were sentenced to death for orchestrating the 1969 murders of Sharon Tate and six others in Los Angeles. California's abolition of the death penalty the following year commuted the sentences to life imprisonment. The trial and murders became emblematic of the end of 1960s countercultural optimism.
• 1971 Lieutenant Calley Convicted of My Lai Massacre US officer found guilty of murdering Vietnamese civilians A military court-martial convicted Lieutenant William Calley of premeditated murder for his role in the 1968 My Lai massacre, in which US soldiers killed hundreds of unarmed Vietnamese villagers. He was sentenced to life in prison, later reduced, and served only a few years under house arrest. The case became a symbol of the atrocities and moral costs of the Vietnam War.
• 1971 Starbucks Founded Coffee retailer opens its first store in Seattle Starbucks opened its first store in Seattle's Pike Place Market, selling whole-bean coffee, tea and spices. Founded by Jerry Baldwin, Zev Siegl and Gordon Bowker, the company later grew under Howard Schultz into the world's largest coffeehouse chain. It became a defining symbol of American coffee culture.