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China representation debate interrupted for hrs by shouted and chaotic floor debate over sniper attack on USSR mission hq
A gray‐haired man in the Audience at the Knapp ComMission hearings yesterday gazed gently at the face of William R. Phillips, who was completing three days of testimony about his career as a bribe‐taking policeman.
Mitchell announces Nixon Adm will end its agreement to check judicial qualifications of potential Sup Ct nominees with Amer Bar Assn before formally apptg them to Ct, lr to assn
Admr Walsh requests $400,000 for consultant contract to establish system of fiscal controls and internal auditing in HDA, NYC City Planning Comm hearing
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of October 20, 1971, covering October 22, 1971.
Rod Stewart
John Lennon
Soundtrack
Santana
Carole King
1971Amanda Coetzer, South African tennis player[†]
Amanda Coetzer is a South African former professional tennis player. Coetzer finished in the WTA rankings top 20 for ten consecutive seasons (1992–2001), peaking at world No. 3. She reached three Grand Slam semifinals and one Grand Slam doubles final. Coetzer earned a reputation for regularly beating players who were ranked higher than her. By virtue of scoring so many upset wins in spite of her five-foot-two (1.58m) stature, she gained the nickname: "The Little Assassin".
1971Kornél Dávid, Hungarian basketball player[†]
Dávid Kornél is a Hungarian former professional basketball player. He is yet the only Hungarian who played in the NBA.
1971José Manuel Martínez, Spanish runner[†]
José Manuel Martínez Fernández, known as Chema Martínez, is a Spanish long-distance runner. He is married to Spanish field hockey player Nuria Moreno.
1971Jennifer Lee, American filmmaker[†]
Jennifer Michelle Lee is an American filmmaker and playwright. She served as the chief creative officer (CCO) of Walt Disney Animation Studios from 2018 to 2024, before stepping down to return to full-time filmmaking. She is best known as the writer and one of the directors of Frozen (2013) and its sequel Frozen 2 (2019), the former of which earned her an Academy Award for Best Animated Feature. Besides being the first female CCO of Walt Disney Animation Studios, Lee was the first female director of a Walt Disney Animation Studios feature film and the first female director of two feature films that each earned more than $1 billion in gross box office revenue.
In 1971, the world population was approximately 3,769,847,865 people[†]