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'''1971''' was a [[year]].

==Events==
===Dated===
In [[Maryland]] on [[24 March]], [[Dr]] [[Liz Shaw|Elizabeth Shaw]] formally opened the Trainor Foundation building in honour of her recently-deceased friend, Dr [[Bernard Trainor]]. ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|The Devil Goblins from Neptune (novel)}})

On [[19 April]], [[Earth]] launched its first [[space station]], [[Salyut 1]]. ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|Time Traveller's Diary (novel)}})

During the summer, the [[Cod War]] was fought between the [[United Kingdom]] and [[Iceland]]. ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|Who Killed Kennedy (novel)}})

===Undated===
[[Agatha Christie]] was made a [[Dame Commander]] of the [[Order of the British Empire]]. ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|The Time Traveller's Almanac (reference book)}})

A military [[satellite]] designated ''[[Haw-Haw]]'' was placed in orbit by a [[Great Britain|British]] military [[Black Star]] [[rocket]] to jam [[Alien|extraterrestrial]] signals and broadcasts. It was controlled by [[Space Security]]. ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|The Dying Days (novel)}})

The [[Second Doctor]] and [[Jamie McCrimmon]] fought the [[Quark]]s in [[New York City]]. ([[COMIC]]: {{cs|Martha the Mechanical Housemaid (comic story)}})

Reports from the [[Soviet Union]] suggested that the health of [[Nikita Khrushchev]], the former [[General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union]], was failing. Although he had been removed from that office in [[1964]], he still exercised considerable influence over the [[Politburo]]. ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|Who Killed Kennedy (novel)}})

[[Sarah Jane Smith]] visited the [[Sistine Chapel]] on a tour. ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|Managra (novel)}})

A [[Dalek]] craft landed on [[the Moon]] and captured several [[human]]s. [[Jeff Stone]] saw the remains of the craft in a [[museum]] in the Dalek capital city on [[Skaro]] in [[2400]]. ([[COMIC]]: {{cs|City of the Daleks (comic story)}})

==Births and deaths==
===Dated===
During the summer, musician [[Louis Armstrong]] died. ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|Who Killed Kennedy (novel)}})

On [[24 December]], [[Carmen (Be Forgot)|Carmen]] died. ([[COMIC]]: {{cs|Be Forgot (comic story)}})

===Undated===
As part of her punishment for creating the [[Thirteen-Day Republic]], Cousin [[Anastasia Romanov|Anastasia]] died her first death in [[Kazan]] in 1971. ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|The Book of the War (novel)}})

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