Timeline Wednesday 24 November 1971

Events on Wednesday 24 November 1971 2

• 1971 D.B. Cooper Hijacking Unidentified hijacker parachutes from a Boeing 727 with ransom cash A man using the alias Dan Cooper hijacked a Northwest Orient Airlines flight, extorted $200,000 in ransom, and parachuted from the plane over Washington state, never to be identified or found. It remains the only unsolved air piracy case in American aviation history. Portions of the ransom money later surfaced along the Columbia River in 1980.
• 1971 The Kinks release Muswell Hillbillies Music hall and country A tribute to their working-class north London roots.