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Events

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.
March 21 - The 1971 Bangladesh Genocide is initiated by Pakistani dictator Yahya Khan as a means of suppressing Bengali calls for self-determination.
March 26 - Beginning of Operation Searchlight.
March 31 - William Calley is sentenced to life in prison for his role in the My Lai Massacre; three days later, President Richard Nixon commutes his sentence to house arrest.
April 1 - The Fatherland and Liberty Nationalist Front is founded.
April 22 - Jean-Claude Duvalier takes office as President of Haiti following the death of his father François Duvalier. Duvalier is only 19 when he takes office, making him the youngest president in the world at the time.
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.
May 25 - End of Operation Searchlight.
June 8 - Chilean politician and former Minister of the Interior Edmundo Pérez Zujovic is assassinated by three members of the Organized Vanguard of the People.
June 10 - The El Halconazo massacre takes place in Mexico City.
July 23 - William Tolbert is elected President of Liberia.
August 18 - Hugo Banzer takes power in Bolivia in a successful military coup.
September 1 - Muammar Gaddafi enters into a political union with Egypt and Syria, known as the Federation of Arab Republics.
September 30 - The Democratic Unionist Party is founded by Ian Paisley.
October 27 - Mobutu Sese Seko renames the Democratic Republic of the Congo as the Republic of Zaire.
November 9 - John List murders his wife, mother, and three children at their home in Westfield, New Jersey, before going on the run.
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.
November 28 - Jordanian Prime Minister Wasfi Tal is assassinated by Black September.
December 16 - The Bangladesh Genocide comes to an end. Bangladesh formally declares independence from Pakistan.
December 20 - Yahya Khan resigns as President of Pakistan.
Unknown - The Japanese Red Army is founded.
Unknown - Provo Canyon School is founded.
Unknown - The Covenant, The Sword, and the Arm of the Lord is founded.

Births

Villain births

January 12 - Alfredo Beltrán Leyva & Peter Madsen
February 16 - Michael Avenatti
March 7 - Todd Kohlhepp
April 2 - Lorenzo Fayne
April 21 - Anwar al-Awlaki
June 4 - Joseph Kabila
June 27 - Dipendra of Nepal
July 26 - Kendall Francois
July 28 - Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi
August 14 - Chris Nelloms
September 1 - Christina Marie Riggs
September 26 - Susan Smith
September 30 - Joshua Blahyi (General Butt Naked)
November 9 - Ronald Baquiran Bae
November 11 - Wade Michael Page
December 15 - Tawana Brawley
December 19 - Amy Locane

Victim births

January 18 - Junko Furuta
April 16 - Selena Quintanilla-Perez
May 10 - Kim Jong-nam
May 28 - Krista Harrison
June 16 - Tupac Shakur
October 8 - Phillip DeVine
November 5 - Teri Jo Bradish

Deaths

Villain deaths

February 5 - Mátyás Rákosi
April 21 - François Duvalier
May 15 - Billy Reid
June 28 - Franz Stangl
August 29 - Nathan Leopold
September 11 - Nikita Khrushchev
October 10 - Nardong Putik

Victim deaths

April 25 - Carol Spinks
June 8 - Edmundo Pérez Zujovic
July 8 - Darlenia Denise Johnson
July 27 - Brenda Faye Crockett
October 1 - Nenomoshia Yates
November 9 - Helen, Alma, Patricia, Frederick, and John List, Jr.
November 15 - Brenda Woodward
November 28 - Wasfi Tal

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 * March 12 - [[Hafez al-Assad]] declares himself President of Syria.
 * March 21 - The [[1971 Bangladesh Genocide]] is initiated by Pakistani dictator [[Yahya Khan]] as a means of suppressing Bengali calls for self-determination.
+* March 26 - Beginning of [[Operation Searchlight]].
 * March 31 - [[William Calley]] is sentenced to life in prison for his role in the [[My Lai Massacre]]; three days later, President [[Richard Nixon]] commutes his sentence to house arrest.
 * April 1 - The [[Fatherland and Liberty Nationalist Front]] is founded.
@@ Line 11: / Line 12: @@
 * April 25 - The first victim of the [[Freeway Phantom]], 13-year old Carol Denise Spinks, is found [[murder]]ed  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]].
+* May 25 - End of [[Operation Searchlight]].
 * June 8 - Chilean politician and former Minister of the Interior Edmundo Pérez Zujovic is assassinated by three members of the [[Organized Vanguard of the People]].
 * June 10 - The ''[[El Halconazo]]'' massacre takes place in Mexico City.