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1971
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World Events
U.S. Events
Economics
US GDP (1998 dollars): $1,125.40 billion Federal spending: $210.17 billion Federal debt: $408.2 billion Median Household Income (current dollars): $9,028 Consumer Price Index: 40.5 Unemployment: 4.9% Cost of a first-class stamp: $0.06 ($0.08 as of 5/16/71)
Sports
Super BowlBaltimore d. Dallas (16-13)World SeriesPittsburgh d. Baltimore (4-3)NBA ChampionshipMilwaukee d. Baltimore Bullets (4-0)Stanley CupMontreal d. Chicago (4-3)WimbledonWomen: Evonne Goolagong d. M. Court (6-4 6-1) Men: John Newcombe d. S. Smith (6-3 5-7 2-6 6-4 6-4)Kentucky Derby ChampionCanonero IINCAA Basketball ChampionshipUCLA d. Villanova (68-62)NCAA Football ChampionsNebraska (13-0-0)
Entertainment
Entertainment Awards
Pulitzer Prizes Music: Synchronisms No. 6 for Piano and Electronic Sound, Mario Davidowsky Drama: The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds, Paul Zindel Oscars awarded in 1971 Academy Award, Best Picture: Patton, Frank McCarthy, producer (Twentieth Century-Fox) Nobel Prize for Literature: Pablo Neruda (Chile) 1971 Emmy Awards 1971 Tony Awards Grammys awarded in 1971 Record of the Year: "Bridge Over Troubled Water," Simon and Garfunkel Album of the Year: Bridge Over Troubled Water, Simon and Garfunkel (Columbia) Song of the Year: "Bridge Over Troubled Water," Paul Simon, songwriter Miss America: Phyllis Ann George (TX) More Entertainment Awards...
Events- All in the Family debuts on CBS and introduces a trend in socially conscious programming.
- Jim Morrison dies in Paris at age 27. (July 3).
- The Allman Brothers' Duane Allman dies in a motorcycle accident at age 24. (Oct. 29).
- The Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts opens in Washington, D.C. with the premiere of Leonard Bernstein's Mass.
Movies- A Clockwork Orange, The French Connection, The Last Picture Show, Fiddler on the Roof, McCabe & Mrs. Miller
Books
Science
Nobel Prizes in Science
Chemistry: Gerhard Herzberg (Canada), for contributions to knowledge of electronic structure and geometry of molecules, particularly free radicals Physics: Dennis Gabor (UK), for invention of holographic method of three-dimensional imagery Physiology or Medicine: Earl W. Sutherland, Jr. (US), for research on how hormones work
Deaths
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