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1971: Selected Headlines [1]
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Date: 2023-01-15
Iron Butterfly. Or, is it wooden?
I have been having emotional troubles, lately. Then, I began to feel overwhelmed, by the chore, of going through the 100 top songs of 1971. So, I decided to do the headlines, only. I can do the songs, next week.
Okay, here is the link to the headlines, of 1971:
en.wikipedia.org/…
January 2 – 66 people are killed and over 200 injured during a crush in Glasgow, Scotland.
My parents were similar to Archie and Edith. But smarter. Making folks seem stupid, makes for funny jokes. And my father was not a white supremacy bigot. His personality, and politics, was similar to Richard Nixon.
January 25 — In Los Angeles, Charles Manson and 3 female "Family" members are found guilty of the 1969 Tate–LaBianca murders.
February 5 – Apollo 14 lands on the Moon.
Over and over, we kept going to the moon.
February 9 — The 6.5–6.7 M w Sylmar earthquake hits the Greater Los Angeles Area with a maximum Mercalli intensity of XI (Extreme), killing 64 and injuring 2,000.
February 9 — Satchel Paige becomes the first Negro league player to become voted into the Baseball Hall of Fame.
Satchel Paige was from Kansas City, Missouri.
I was born in Kansas City, Missouri.
Between February 21 and 22, an outbreak of nineteen tornadoes rage across the Mississippi Delta in Mississippi and Louisiana, killing 123 people.
Nineteen tornadoes? I live in Kansas. We get tornadoes, but not nineteen, all at once. Usually, nobody is killed or injured. The tornado just takes out a few houses. Or touches down in a wheat field, and does no big damage.
February 28 – Evel Knievel sets a world record and jumps 19 cars on a motorbike in Ontario, California.
He truly knew how to put on a show.
March 1 A bomb explodes in the men's room at the United States Capitol; the Weather Underground claims responsibility.
In Belfast, a Led Zeppelin show includes the first public performance of "Stairway to Heaven," a song from the band's fourth album.
Okay, so that song should be in the music diary, next week.
Okay, a song or two from that, as well?
April 20 — National Public Radio (NPR) airs its first broadcast.[16]
I used to listen to that, a lot. I need to see, if I can get access to it, on the internet. Likely so.
April 24 — An estimated 200,000 people in Washington, D.C. and a further 125,000 in San Francisco march in protest against the Vietnam War.[18]
May 1 Amtrak begins intercity rail passenger service in the United States.
I always knew that Amtrak was new, in my lifetime. (I was born in 1955). I did not recall what year. Now I know. Before my wife, Tonia, died, in March of 2022, almost a year ago, we were hoping to take a trip, on Amtrak. Now, I will have to do it, without her. I may get my nephew to come along.
May 3 — The Harris Poll finds that 60% of Americans are against the Vietnam War.
Some folks used to say, “What if they gave a war, and nobody came?”
1971 May Day Protests: Anti-war militants attempt to disrupt government business in Washington, D.C.; police and military units arrest as many as 12,000, most of whom are later released.
I do not think they broke windows, or smeared shit on the walls.
They failed to give us a body count, for that first earthquake, but, assuming some folks died, this is death in Turkey, and more and more, of the same.
When I was a very young voter, with just about zero understanding about what Democrats and Republicans tend to support, I voted for Reagan, in 1980, and 1984. And, George Herbert Walker Bush, in 1988. I finally started voting for Democrats, with Bill Clinton, in 1992. I was 37 years old. That makes me want to raise the voting age to 30.
July 10–11 – Coup attempt in Morocco: 1,400 cadets take over the king's palace for three hours and kill 28 people; 158 rebels die when the king's troops storm the palace (ten high-ranking officers are later executed for involvement).
I was raised with three older sisters. They were smart, and self-confident. They seemed very liberated. But, I understand, the rest of the world, needed to start showing them the proper respect, and that is what the Women’s Liberation Movement was about.
July 19 – The South Tower of the World Trade Center in New York City tops out at 1,362 feet (415 m), making it the second-tallest building in the world.
Tall buildings, especially that tall, are not sensible, not practical. Hollywood made a movie, released about this time, called, Towering Inferno. The lesson of the movie was: there is no way to fight fires, in tall buildings, above a certain height. That was shown to be true, on the 11th of September, 2001.
But, they keep building them, just about as tall.
A dune buggy? They got a dune buggy, for entertainment? On the Moon? Wow. I recall photos, of them driving around.
This is why I want America to totally legalize the cannabis. I do not like anything about cannabis, (I know, eases suffering for folks who are terminal, but, aside from that), but if a person is not dangerous, please do not lock him up. Plus, make prisons better. Less folks in prison, and make them better, to deal with those who are dangerous, without creating a riot, and getting innocent hostages killed.
10,000 dead. Man. Makes me glad I am in Kansas, with our tornadoes.
I have been reading about Taiwan, now, in 2023. China has hinted at the idea of attacking Taiwan? As if those two countries, so far, have not figured out the proper respect for each other. China could not allow Taiwan, to sit, symbolically, at the UN, side by side, in 1971.
October 29 – Vietnam War – Vietnamization: The total number of American troops still in Vietnam drops to a record low of 196,700 (the lowest since January 1966).
Erin Pizzey establishes the world's first domestic violence shelter in Chiswick, London.[34][35]
What? The first, in the world? In 1971? That is depressing.
November 10 – In Cambodia, Khmer Rouge forces attack Phnom Penh and its airport, killing 44, wounding at least 30 and damaging 9 airplanes.
Getting messy, over there.
November 12 – Vietnam War – Vietnamization: U.S. President Richard M. Nixon sets February 1, 1972, as the deadline for the removal of another 45,000 American troops from Vietnam.
The trend was, get out of southeast Asia.
The new ones are better, now.
Hey! we all know that song, and, every time I hear it, I realize it is referring to a concert, and a fire. So, there it is.
December 20 – Two groups of French doctors involved in humanitarian aid merge to form Médecins Sans Frontières.
English translation: Doctors Without Borders.
Ray Tomlinson sends the first ARPANET e-mail between host computers,[40] in late 1971 [41]
And, right here, right now, we are doing the same thing. Just a little fancier.
Okay, while working on this diary, I was playing a song from last week, and the YouTube system, brought this song in, right after. It is long, and it is nice. Enjoy:
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