What Happened in Sep 1971

The Bee Gees release Trafalgar

Trafalgar is the Bee Gees' ninth album (seventh internationally), released in September 1971. The album was a moderate hit in the United States,... Read more

The "White House Plumbers" Burglarize a Psychiatrist's Office to Find Files on Daniel Ellsberg

The White House Plumbers, sometimes simply called the Plumbers, were a covert White House Special Investigations Unit established July 24, 1971... Read more

Alaska Airlines Flight 1866 Crashes Near Juneau

Alaska Airlines Flight 1866 was the first fatal jet airliner crash of Alaska Airlines (sometimes incorrectly cited as the first fatal crash... Read more

John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts Opens

The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts (on the building itself called the John F. Kennedy Memorial Center for the Performing Arts, and... Read more

Inmates at Attica Correctional Facility Rise Up to Seize Control of the Prison

The Attica Prison riot occurred at the Attica Correctional Facility in Attica, New York, United States in 1971. The riot was based in part upon... Read more

Deep Purple release Fireball

Fireball is an album by English rock band Deep Purple, released in 1971. It was their fifth studio album, and the second with the classic Mk II... Read more

Lance Armstrong is born

Armstrong was born on September 18, 1971, in Plano, Texas, a northern suburb of Dallas. At the age of 12, he began his sporting career as a... Read more

Aretha Franklin Releases "Aretha's Greatest Hits"

Aretha's Greatest Hits is a 1971 greatest hits album by Aretha Franklin. Read more