1971: Difference between revisions

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January 25 - Idi Amin Dada deposes Milton Obote in a successful coup d'etat and declares himself President of Uganda.
February 7 - A soldier named Robert Curtis is shot dead by the IRA.
March 12 - Hafez al-Assad declares himself President of Syria.
April 25 - The first victim of the Freeway Phantom, 13-year old Carol Denise Spinks, is found murdered behind St. Elizabeths Hospital on a grassy embankment next to the northbound lanes of I-295, about 1,500 feet south of Suitland Parkway in Washington D.C.
May 3 - Erich Honecker succeeds Walter Ulbricht as General Secretary of the Socialist Unity Party of Germany.
July 23 - William Tolbert is elected President of Liberia.
August 18 - Hugo Banzer takes power in Bolivia in a successful military coup.
September 30 - The Democratic Unionist Party is founded by Ian Paisley.
November 24 - A man calling himself "D. B. Cooper" hijacks a Boeing 727 aircraft in the northwest United States, in the airspace between Portland, Oregon, and Seattle, Washington, extorting $200,000 in ransom before parachuting off the plane to an unknown fate.
December 20 - Yahya Khan resigns as President of Pakistan.
Unknown - The Japanese Red Army is founded.

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 == Births ==
+=== Villain births ===
 * January 12 - [[Alfredo Beltrán Leyva]] & [[Peter Madsen]]
 * March 7 - [[Todd Kohlhepp]]
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 * December 15 - [[Tawana Brawley]]
 * December 19 - [[Amy Locane]]
+=== Victim births ===
+* October 8 - Phillip DeVine
 == Deaths ==