Biggest Events of the Year 1971

The Top Ten

1 The United Arab Emirates is formed

2 Inoue Daisuke invents the the Karaoke machine

3 Intel introduces the 4004, the first microprocessor

4 Britain adopts decimal currency

5 Launch of Salyut 1, first human-made space station

6 Cigarette advertisements are banned on American television

7 Apollo 14 lands on the Moon

8 Twenty-sixth Amendment to the United States Constitution, lowering the voting age from 21 to 18 years

9 Jacquelyn Helton dies at age 20, from cancer

Inspiration for both the movie & the book entitled 'Sunshine. '

10 A landslide at Chungar, Peru crashes into Lake Yanahuani killing 200

The Contenders

11 War Between Pakistan and India

12 Joe Frazier defeats Muhammad Ali in The Fight of the Century

How big was this event? Ask the celebrities who we're there and even behind the scenes. When you look at the great in ring color shots of Ali and Frazier in action, some of which we're taken by a music legend, Frank Sinatra who did his work for Life Magazine. Even Burt Lancaster got in to this event as a color commentator for the event. Yes, it was a mega event and the World stopped for a few hours to see Joe Frazier victorious.
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13 Apollo 15 astronauts become the first to ride in a lunar rover

14 Corey Haim was born

15 Helen Betty Osborne is murdered by 4 boys in The Pas, Manitoba

16 The Ed Sullivan Show aired its last episode

17 A Clockwork Orange is released

18 Roy O. Disney dies

19 Led Zeppelin IV is released

20 The Day the Music died is immortalized through the song, American Pie

21 Disney Magic Kingdom in Florida opens

22 Death of Jim Morrison

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