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Premier Chou En-lai says that for Communist China to join UN it is necessary that all membership rights be 'restored,' including permanent seat on Security Council, and that Nationalists be ousted, int with Japanese Clean Govt party chmn Y Takeiri; says Japan must recognize this stand if Tokyo-Peking relations are to be restored
26th Amendment, lowering voting age to 18 in all elections, ratified; ratification took only 2 mos and 7 days, shortest time in which process has ever been accomplished
WASHINGTON, June 30 — H & R Block, Inc., which says it prepares income tax returns for eight million American annual ly, was accused by the Federal Trade Commission today of false advertising and illegally using confidential information supplied by customers.
NY Times resumes pub of series of articles on Pentagon secret study of US involvement in Vietnam
R Garvin, cousin of J A Johnson, alleged assassin of J A Colombo Sr, discloses that Johnson had told him several mos ago that he was working for Italian-Amer Civil Rights League; says that Johnson gave him telephone number where he could be reached; check by NY Times discloses that number had been recently changed; operator said that number had been switched to league number; league spokesman T Nestro denies that Johnson worked for orgn; details
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of June 30, 1971, covering July 1, 1971.
Carole King
Carpenters
The Rolling Stones
Paul & Linda McCartney
Various Artists
1971Missy Elliott, American rapper, producer, dancer and actress[†]
Melissa Arnette "Missy" Elliott, also known as Misdemeanor, is an American rapper, singer, songwriter, and record producer. She began her musical career as a member of the R&B girl group Sista during the 1990s, who were part of the larger musical collective Swing Mob—led by DeVante Swing of Jodeci. The former group's commercially unsuccessful debut album, 4 All the Sistas Around da World (1994), was released by Elektra Records and met with positive critical reception. She collaborated with album's producer and Swing Mob cohort Timbaland to work in songwriting and production for other acts, yielding commercially successful releases for 702, Aaliyah, SWV, and Total.
1971Julianne Nicholson, American actress[†]
Julianne Nicholson is an American actress. She is known for her roles in the film August: Osage County (2013) and the television series Law & Order: Criminal Intent (2006–2009), Masters of Sex (2013–2014), Eyewitness (2016), and Mare of Easttown (2021), the last of which earned her a Primetime Emmy Award.
1971William Lawrence Bragg, Australian-English physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1890)[†]
Sir William Lawrence Bragg was an Australian-born British physicist who shared the 1915 Nobel Prize in Physics with his father William Henry Bragg "for their services in the analysis of crystal structure by means of X-rays", an important step in the development of X-ray crystallography.
1971Learie Constantine, Trinidadian-English cricketer, lawyer and politician (born 1901)[†]
Learie Nicholas Constantine, Baron Constantine was a Trinidadian cricketer, lawyer and politician who served as Trinidad and Tobago's High Commissioner to the United Kingdom and became the UK's first black peer. He played 18 Test matches for the West Indies before the Second World War and took the team's first wicket in Test cricket. An advocate against racial discrimination, in later life he was influential in the passing of the 1965 Race Relations Act in Britain. He was knighted in 1962 and made a life peer in 1969.
In 1971, the world population was approximately 3,769,847,865 people[†]