WTF Happened in 1971?
January 5 – The first ever One Day International cricket match is played between Australia and England at the Melbourne Cricket Ground.
February 4
In Britain, Rolls-Royce goes bankrupt and is nationalised.
ebruary 15 – Decimal Day: The United Kingdom and Ireland both switch to decimal currency (see also decimalisation).[2]
February 21
The Convention on Psychotropic Substances is signed at Vienna.
February 28 – Evel Knievel sets a world record and jumps 19 cars on a motorbike in Ontario, California.
March 1
A bomb explodes in the men's room at the United States Capitol; the Weather Underground claims responsibility.
March 6 – A fire in a mental hospital in Burghölzli, Switzerland
Summary: Cricket, bankruptcy, Britain doing British things, psychotropics, crazy person jumps 19 cars (on said psychotropics?), meteorologist bombs the toilet, and more crazy people light the place up...