WHAT ALL HAPPENED JANUARY TO FEBRUARY 1971
Find out what all happened January to February 1971

Eighty-seven countries, including the United States, United Kingdom, and Soviet Union, sign the Seabed Arms Control Treaty outlawing nuclear weapons on the ocean floor in international waters. (11. February 1971)

The Singapore Declaration, one of the two most important documents to the uncodified constitution of the Commonwealth of Nations, is issued. (22. January 1971)

Carole King's Tapestry album is released to become the longest charting album by a female solo artist and sell 24 million copies worldwide. (30. January 1971)

The first unit of the Pickering Nuclear Generating Station, the first commercial nuclear power station in Canada, goes online. (25. February 1971)

Charles Manson and three female "Family" members are found guilty of the 1969 Tate-LaBianca murders. (25. January 1971)

The international Ramsar Convention for the conservation and sustainable utilization of wetlands is signed in Ramsar, Mazandaran, Iran. (2. February 1971)

New York Police Officer Frank Serpico is shot during a drug bust in Brooklyn and survives to later testify against police corruption. Many believe the incident proves that NYPD officers tried to kill him. (3. February 1971)

Apollo program: Apollo 14 – Astronauts Alan Shepard, Stuart Roosa, and Edgar Mitchell, aboard a Saturn V, lift off for a mission to the Fra Mauro Highlands on the Moon. (31. January 1971)

South Vietnamese ground troops launch an incursion into Laos to try to cut off the Ho Chi Minh trail and stop communist infiltration. (8. February 1971)

Idi Amin leads a coup deposing Milton Obote and becomes Uganda's president. (25. January 1971)

Bowing to international pressure, President of Pakistan Zulfikar Ali Bhutto releases Bengali leader Sheikh Mujibur Rahman from prison, who had been arrested after declaring the independence of Bangladesh. (8. January 1971)

The second Ibrox disaster kills 66 fans at a Rangers-Celtic association football (soccer) match. (2. January 1971)

Apollo program: Apollo 14 returns to Earth after the third manned Moon landing. (9. February 1971)

The decimalisation of British coinage is completed on Decimal Day. (15. February 1971)

The All India Forward Bloc holds an emergency central committee meeting after its chairman, Hemantha Kumar Bose, is killed 3 days earlier. P.K. Mookiah Thevar is appointed as the new chairman. (24. February 1971)

The Winter Soldier Investigation, organized by the Vietnam Veterans Against the War to publicize war crimes and atrocities by Americans and allies in Vietnam, begins in Detroit, Michigan. (31. January 1971)

Hellenic Railways Organisation, the Greek national railway company, is founded. (1. January 1971)

The current Emley Moor transmitting station, the tallest free-standing structure in the United Kingdom, begins transmitting UHF broadcasts. (21. January 1971)

The NASDAQ stock market index opens for the first time. (8. February 1971)

U.N. Secretary General U Thant signs United Nations proclamation of the vernal equinox as Earth Day. (26. February 1971)