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Fed Reserve wkly banking data show money supply continues to increase at rate well in excess of that desired by central bank; money supply averaged $227.8-billion daily in 4 wks ended Aug 18, 11.1% at seasonally adjusted annual rate; business loans at major NYC banks rose $122-million during wk
narcotic detective found slain in Bklyn identified as Sgt J V Morabito
Lindsay swears in G Schimmel, 1st woman capt in city's Police Dept; Comr Murphy comments; Schimmel's background
NYC Human Resources Admr Sugarman repts that more than 20,000 welfare recipients in last yr have fraudently obtained $1.5-million in duplicate relief checks after swearing that originals were lost or stolen; details
NYS Task Force Against Organized Crime conducts 4 raids throughout state and arrests about 50 alleged gambling operators in 10 counties from NYC to Albany; arrests, announced by NYS Deputy Atty Gen Fischer, head of task force, were made in full cooperation with local police specialists and dist attys; details; some of suspects listed
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of August 25, 1971, covering August 27, 1971.
Carole King
Paul & Linda McCartney
James Taylor
Rod Stewart
Carpenters
1971Ernest Faber, Dutch footballer and manager[†]
Ernest Anthonius Jacobus Faber is a Dutch professional football manager and former player. He is currently consulting as the technical director at A-League Men side Adelaide United, subject to his visa.
1971Kyung Lah, South Korean-American journalist[†]
Kyung I. Lah is a South Korean journalist and correspondent for CNN based in the United States.
1971Hisayuki Okawa, Japanese runner[†]
Hisayuki Okawa is a retired male long-distance runner from Japan, who won the 1995 edition of Amsterdam Marathon, clocking 2:14:00 on September 24, 1995.
1971Aygül Özkan, German lawyer and politician[†]
Aygül Özkan is a German politician of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) who has been serving as managing director of the German Property Federation (ZIA) since 2020.
1971Bennett Cerf, American publisher, co-founded Random House (born 1898)[†]
Bennett Alfred Cerf was an American writer, publisher, and co-founder of the American publishing firm Random House. Cerf was also known for his own compilations of jokes and puns, for regular personal appearances lecturing across the United States, and for his weekly television appearances for over 17 years on the panel game show What's My Line?
1971Margaret Bourke-White, American photographer and journalist (born 1906)[†]
Margaret Bourke-White was an American documentary photographer and photojournalist. She was known as an architectural and commercial photographer for the first half of her career, representing corporate clients and highlighting the success of industrial capitalism with black and white images of steel factories and skyscrapers. In 1930, she became the first foreign photographer permitted to take pictures of the Soviet Union. In 1933, NBC commissioned her to create a monumental photo mural about radio for its rotunda at 30 Rockefeller Plaza, then considered the largest photo mural in the world. The success of her corporate commissions led her to work at Fortune magazine in the 1930s. She took the photograph of the construction of Fort Peck Dam that became the cover of the first issue of Life magazine.
1971An attempted coup d'état fails in the African nation of Chad. The Government of Chad accuses Egypt of playing a role in the attempt and breaks off diplomatic relations.[†]
A coup d'état, or simply a coup , is typically an illegal and overt attempt by a military organization or other government elites to unseat an incumbent leadership. A self-coup is said to take place when a leader, having come to power through legal means, tries to stay in power through illegal means.
In 1971, the world population was approximately 3,769,847,865 people[†]