9 January 1971KidnapGeoffrey Jackson
Kidnapped by Uruguyan terrorists
Historical records for Great Britain in 1971, rendered directly from the World History Database and ordered by month, day and event.
Kidnapped by Uruguyan terrorists
Speaks in the Commons debate on the European Economic Community as his opposition to British membership becomes increasingly prominent.
Continues his parliamentary attack on entry into the European Economic Community during a second day of Commons debate.
Releases Long Player with Faces as the band's reputation grows on both sides of the Atlantic.
Keegan makes his Liverpool debut against Nottingham Forest at Anfield and scores after just 12 minutes
Britain replaces pounds, shillings and pence with a decimal currency of one hundred new pence.
Oversees decimalisation as Britain changes its currency system.
Decimal coins replace shillings & pence, known as "D-Day"
Releases the single, "What Is Life?" in America
Sings on The Yes Album as the group reaches a wider progressive rock audience.
Makes his Yes studio debut on The Yes Album, helping define the classic sound.
Third Division Villa reaches Wembley before losing the League Cup final to Tottenham Hotspur.
Authorises state action after Rolls Royce enters financial crisis.
Birth of Elizabeth Scarlett Jagger, Jerry Hall, gives birth to Mick Jaggers daughter Elizabeth Scarlett Jagger
Birth of Elizabeth Scarlett Jagger, Jerry Hall, gives birth to Mick Jagger's daughter Elizabeth Scarlett Jagger
Speaks during debate on the Immigration Bill, continuing his campaign for stricter controls on immigration.
Demonstrators demand the arrest of IRA leaders
Demonstrators demand the arrest of IRA leaders
Government record concerning the IRA: Demonstrators demand the arrest of IRA leaders
Historical IRA record under Conservative Party Government: Demonstrators demand the arrest of IRA leaders
IRA context for Edward Richard George Heath: Demonstrators demand the arrest of IRA leaders
Government record concerning the IRA: Demonstrators demand the arrest of IRA leaders
Historical IRA record under Conservative Party Government: Demonstrators demand the arrest of IRA leaders
IRA context for Edward Richard George Heath: Demonstrators demand the arrest of IRA leaders
1,800 more troops are sent to Northern Ireland
Appointed Prime Ministrer of Northern Ireland
Appointed Prime Ministrer of Northern Ireland
The top rate of tax is reduced to 75%. Selective employment tax is halved. Child allowances & old age pensions are increased
Appears on Top of the Pops wearing glitter and satin, a performance often cited as glam rock's breakthrough moment.
Performs Hot Love on Top of the Pops, helping turn T. Rex into a major pop phenomenon.
The Rolling Stones launch their own label with the release of Brown Sugar.
Releases The Man Who Sold the World in Britain, marking an important step toward his glam and hard rock period.
The Rolling Stones release Sticky Fingers.
The Government decides to build the 3rd London airport at Foulness
Plays his final game for Blackpool in front of a crowd of over 30,000 against Manchester United at Bloomfield Road
Heads the winning goal at Tottenham Hotspur as Arsenal secure the league championship.
Scores Arsenal's extra-time equaliser before Charlie George strikes the winning goal against Liverpool.
Captains Arsenal through the league and FA Cup Double-winning campaign.
Mick Jagger marries Bianca Perez Morena de Macias, cannot remember her whole name so she becomes known as Bianca Jagger
Releases Every Picture Tells a Story, his major solo breakthrough.
Becomes father to Duncan Jones, inspiring the song Kooks on Hunky Dory.
Labour turn a Tory majority of 10,874 to a Labour majority of 1,868
John Lennon & Yoko Ono jam with Frank Zappa at the Fillmore East in New York City, recorded for subsequent release on the Plastic Ono Band album "Sometime in New York City"
15-29 June, protests about withdrawal of milk to state schools
Release Won't Get Fooled Again.
Says LEAs may use the 1944 education act to retain grammar schools
Upper Clyde Shipbuilders is declared insolvent & its liquidation announced
John Lennon cuts Imagine at his home studio, the anthemic title track is inspired by a message in Yoko Onos book "Grapefruit"
Plays bass and shapes the darker lyrical direction on Master of Reality.
Uses lower tunings on Master of Reality, deepening the heavy sound that influences later metal bands.
Releases the single, "Bangla Desh" in America
Militant shop stewards occupy the four UCS shipyards
Invites Dylan to perform at the Concert for Bangladesh.
Strike ballots & cooling off periods before strike action become statutory. Only registered unions are entitled to legal protection
Release Who's Next with Baba O'Riley.
Release the album Who's Next.
Faces escalating conflict in Northern Ireland and pressure for stronger security policy.
Releases Electric Warrior, a landmark album in the development of glam rock.
Electric Warrior uses cover artwork by Hipgnosis, based on a photograph by Kieron Spud Murphy.
The cover artwork for Electric Warrior was designed by British art design group Hipgnosis, based on a photo taken by Kieron "Spud" Murphy at a T. Rex concert at the Albert Hall, Nottingham on 14 May 1971
Birth of Jade Jagger, Bianca Jagger, gives birth to Mick Jaggers daughter Jade Jagger
Birth of Jade Jagger, Bianca Jagger, gives birth to Mick Jagger's daughter Jade Jagger
Votes for European Community entry and helps rally pro-European Labour Members of Parliament.
Defies Labour's official position during the decisive Commons vote on European entry.
Labour members vote Livingstone Vice Chairman of the Housing Committee on the Lambeth London Borough Council, his first job in local Government
Willoughby Harry Thompson becomes first Governor of Montserrat
Montserrat gains a separate governor under the British monarch
Britain annexes Rockall
Britain annexes Rockall
Pink Floyd release Meddle, featuring Echoes as a major long-form composition
Release Behind Blue Eyes as a single.
Releases the untitled fourth Led Zeppelin album.
Makes his Genesis studio debut on Nursery Cryme as drummer and backing vocalist.
Makes his Genesis studio debut on Nursery Cryme, adding distinctive lead guitar textures.
Douglas-Home opend talks with Ian Smith
Douglas-Home opens talks with Ian Smith
The Compton Report rejects allegations of brutality in internment camps
Releases A Nod Is As Good As a Wink with Faces, including the hit Stay With Me.
Agreement is reached on the new Rhodesian constitution
Agreement is reached on the new Rhodesian constitution
Agreement is reached on the new Rhodesian constitution
Agreement is reached on the new Rhodesian constitution
The Kinks release Muswell Hillbillies.
Wilson proposes unification of Ireland within 15 years
Makes his Yes studio debut on Fragile during the band's international breakthrough.
"Meddle" is released
"Meddle" is released
Leaves Fly Records after a dispute over Jeepster and joins EMI, gaining the T. Rex Wax Co label.
Joins Uriah Heep as the drummer, 1971-1979
An explosion in a public house in Belfast kills 15
The African National Council is formed to reject the Anglo-Rhodesia settlement
Releases Hunky Dory, including Changes, Life on Mars?, Queen Bitch and Oh! You Pretty Things.
Scores Arsenal's extra-time winner against Liverpool to complete the League and Cup Double.
Winner of the Oscar for best actress, "Women In Love"
Produces Acquiring the Taste, the second Gentle Giant album.
Captains Britains winning team for the Admirals Cup
Captains Britains winning Admirals Cup yachting team
Animals Act 1971 reforms civil liability for animals and dangerous livestock
Releases first solo single
Tebbit reduces Pauline Jones sentence from 3yrs to 21 months. Pauline Jones had kidnapped a baby after a miscarriage & was given 3 yrs
Appears in Bedknobs and Broomsticks
Screenwrites Bermondsey
Drummer Bill Legend joins T. Rex during the expansion into the classic electric line-up.
Creates the complex riff structure behind Black Dog.
Sings Black Dog on the fourth album.
Hawking proves that the area of a classical black-hole event horizon cannot decrease.
Black Sabbath release the Album, "Volume 4". Black Sabbath release the Album, "Master of Reality"
Makes his feature-film directing debut with Bleak Moments, an intimate drama about loneliness and family responsibility.
Appointed manager of Bolton Wanderers in 1971, leading them to promotion to the Second Division in the 1972-73 season as 3rd Division champions
Anthony Barber presents the 1971 Budget to the House of Commons as Chancellor of the Exchequer.
The 1971 Budget under Anthony Barber sets out the Government's taxation, expenditure and borrowing plans.
The Pythons release the film, "And Now For Something Completely Different"
The Pythons release the film, "And Now For Something Completely Different"
The Pythons release the film, "And Now For Something Completely Different"
The Pythons release the film, "And Now For Something Completely Different"
The Pythons release the film, "And Now For Something Completely Different"
The Pythons release the film, "And Now For Something Completely Different"
2 benefit concerts at New Yorks Madison Square Garden for the people of Bangladesh
Releases Album, "Eric Clapton". Clapton features in "Concert for Bangladesh"
Courts Act 1971 reforms courts and creates the Crown Court in England and Wales
With Louise Webster, measures the binary motion of HDE 226868 and strengthens the case for a massive unseen companion in Cygnus X-1.
With Paul Murdin, identifies HDE 226868 as the optical counterpart of Cygnus X-1 and finds evidence for an unseen massive companion.
Leaves Yes after The Yes Album as the band seeks broader keyboard textures.
Founder Member of Derek & the Dominos
Directs Diamonds Are Forever
Produces Electric Warrior, the album that makes T. Rex central to the glam rock movement.
Founder Member of Electric Light Orchestra
Founder Member of Electric Light Orchestra
Releases Album, "Eric Clapton". Clapton features in "Concert for Bangladesh"
Supports British entry into the European Communities despite Labour divisions.
Healey participates in Labour’s internal debate over British membership of the European Communities.
Releases "Every Picture Tells a Story"
Leeds win the Fairs Cup
Sings on Fireball as Deep Purple builds on the success of Deep Purple in Rock.
Plays bass on Fireball, the band's 1971 studio album and a major release by the Mark II line-up.
Drives the title track Fireball with fast double-bass drumming, giving the album its urgent opening sound.
George Harrison purchases Friar Park for 200,000 pounds
Joins Genesis as guitarist, completing the classic Gabriel-era line-up.
Stars in Get Carter
Releases Get It On with There Was A Time and Raw Ramp.
In Search of Space, brings greater commercial success, reaching number 18 on the UK album charts, and also sees the bands image and philosophy take shape, courtesy of graphic artist Barney Bubbles and underground press writer Robert Calvert
In Search of Space, brings greater commercial success, reaching number 18 on the UK album charts, and also sees the bands image and philosophy take shape, courtesy of graphic artist Barney Bubbles and underground press writer Robert Calvert
Science fiction author Michael Moorcock and dancer Stacia also start contributing to the band
Science fiction author Michael Moorcock and dancer Stacia also start contributing to the band
Receives the Henry Norris Russell Lectureship from the American Astronomical Society.
Releases Hot Love, which becomes his first UK number one hit.
Produces Hot Love, one of T. Rex's biggest early glam rock singles.
Releases the album Hunky Dory.
Releases the single & album, "Imagine"
Immigration Act 1971 creates a new immigration control framework and right of abode rules
Industrial Relations Act 1971 creates a statutory framework for industrial relations and trade union registration
Releases Jeepster with Lifes A Gas during the Electric Warrior period.
Joins The Kinks as keyboard player.
Inspired to form Kilburn & the High Roads following the death of his hero Gene Vincent
Stars in, "King Lear"
Issues King Of The Mountain Cometh as part of the Hot Love single release.
Spurs win the League Cup
McLaren and his girlfriend, the designer Vivienne Westwood, opened a London clothing shop called Let It Rock on the King's Road
McLaren and his girlfriend, the designer Vivienne Westwood, opened a London clothing shop called Let It Rock on the King's Road
The Lifehouse project is abandoned as a completed multimedia work.
Issues Lifes A Gas as the B-side to Jeepster.
Releases Album, "Mad Dogs & Englishmen"
Releases Maggie May, which becomes his first major international solo hit.
Appointed manager of Bolton Wanderers in 1971, leading them to promotion to the Second Division in the 1972-73 season as 3rd Division champions
Marries Clarissa Kaye
Under Mee, Arsenal conclude their FA Cup run by beating Liverpool 2-1.
Unsuccessfully challenges for the Deputy Leadership of the Labour Party
Appointed Minister for Aerospace
Misuse of Drugs Act 1971 creates controlled drug classes and drug offences
Records Mood for a Day, a solo guitar piece on Fragile.
Begins a long period on Labour's National Executive Committee.
Winner of the Nobel Prize for Physics, for work on holography
Awarded the OBE
Publishes The Common Market: The Case Against, setting out his constitutional and economic objections to British EEC membership.
Publishes his memoirs, entitled In My Way
Hoyle began a two-year term as President of the Royal Astronomical Society.
Issues Raw Ramp as part of the Get It On single release.
The Hague Convention of 1970 is ratified
Retires in 1971 having played 516 Football League games and netted 357 goals, an all-time record for the top flight
Rolling Stones release the album, "Sticky Fingers"
Co-writes Roundabout, one of Yes's best-known songs from the Fragile period.
Serves as President of the Royal Astronomical Society.
The American Astronomical Society recognised Hoyle's lifetime astronomical research with its Russell Lectureship.
Retires in 1971 having played 516 Football League games and netted 357 goals, an all-time record for the top flight
John Entwistle becomes the first Who member to release a solo album.
John Entwistle releases Smash Your Head Against the Wall.
Plays bass on the album Hunky Dory. Called in to replace Tony Visconti in David Bowies backing band, which would soon be known as the Spiders from Mars
Page records the guitar solo for Stairway to Heaven, later widely praised by guitar readers.
Builds Stairway to Heaven from acoustic opening to electric climax.
Plant contributes lyrics and vocals to Stairway to Heaven on the fourth Led Zeppelin album.
Bassist Steve Currie joins T. Rex during the expansion into the classic electric line-up.
Rolling Stones release the album, "Sticky Fingers"
Sings Sweet Leaf, a Master of Reality track that becomes a major Sabbath concert favourite.
Publicist BP Fallon coins T. Rextasy to describe the group's popularity as a parallel to Beatlemania.
Bassist Steve Currie and drummer Bill Legend join T.Rex
Publicist BP Fallon coins the term "T. Rextasy" as a parallel to Beatlemania to describe the groups popularity
Bassist Steve Currie and drummer Bill Legend join T.Rex
Plays saxaphone on the album Electric Warrior
Becomes manager of T.Rex and helps Marc Bolan to set up his own record label, T. Rex Wax Co, through EMI
Chelita Secunda added two spots of glitter under Bolans eyes before an appearance on Top of the Pops, the ensuing performance would often be viewed as the official birth of glam rock
Does the artwork for the album Electric Warrior
Appears in the controversial film The Devils, one of Reeds best acting roles
Releases the album The Man Who Sold the World in Britain.
Sings The Musical Box, one of the major theatrical pieces from Nursery Cryme.
Issues There Was A Time as part of the Get It On single release.
Unsuccesfully defends Richard Handyside, English publisher of The Little Red Schoolbook. Counsel at the Oz "conspiracy"
Accuses the BEA of discrimination when it says it does not employ women pilots
BBC television comedy sketch show with Ronnie Corbett & Ronnie Barker, The Two Ronnies, lasted from 1971 to 1987
Records the famous drum sound on When the Levee Breaks.
The Who release Who's Next from available Lifehouse material.
Issues Woodland Rock as part of the Hot Love single release.
Joins Yes, replacing Tony Kaye and adding Mellotron, synthesizers and virtuoso keyboard parts.
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