1971

Cigarette advertisements banned on TV

"All in the Family" premieres on CBS featuring
1st toilet flush on TV

Super Bowl V: Baltimore Colts-16, Dallas
Cowboys-13 in Miami Superbowl

In Los Angeles, Charles Manson and 3 female
"family members" are found guilty of the 1969
murder of Sharon Tate and others at her house.

Apollo 14 lander Antares lands on Moon (Shepard
and Mitchell)

Joe Frazier beats Muhammad Ali in 15, retains
heavyweight boxing title

"Benny Hill Show" tops TV ratings

The Doors musician Jim Morrison is found dead in
his Paris, France apartment.

The four billionth baby is born

Construction begins on the Louisiana Superdome
in New Orleans.

Walt Disney World opens in Florida.

Legendary Southern Rock guitarist and Allman
Brothers Band founding member Duane Allman is
killed in a motorcycle accident in Macon,
Georgia.

Led Zeppelin releases their untitled fourth
album, sometimes called Led Zeppelin IV or
Runes. The album contains such hits as "When the
Levee Breaks", "Rock and Roll", and the most
requested rock song of all time, "Stairway To
Heaven". Led Zeppelin IV will become the fourth
best selling album of all time with sales of 22
million copies, and a source of inspiration for
generations of rock artists to come.

Intel releases the world's first microprocessor, the Intel 4004.

The Montreux Casino burns down during a Frank Zappa concert. The event is memorialized in the Deep Purple song "Smoke on the Water". The casino will be rebuilt in 1975.

President Nixon raised milk price supports. The dairy industry subsequently contributed $2 million to his reelection campaign.

Fifteen hundred armed police killed 31 prisoners and 9 hostages while retaking control of Attica State Prison in New York State. The prisoners had held the prison for 4 days and pressed their grievances. A State appointed commission, the McKay Commission, placed responsibility for the tragedy on Gov. Nelson Rockefeller (who refused to go the prison), prison officials, and conditions within the prison system.

Deaths:
Audie Murphy, American World War II hero and actor (b. 1924)
Jim Morrison, American singer, songwriter, and poet (b. 1943)
Louis Armstrong, American jazz trumpeter (b. 1901)