• ℛ𝒶𝓋ℯ𝓃
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    WTF Happened in 1971?

    January 5 – The first ever One Day International cricket match is played between Australia and England at the Melbourne Cricket Ground.

    February 4

    In Britain, Rolls-Royce goes bankrupt and is nationalised.

    ebruary 15 – Decimal Day: The United Kingdom and Ireland both switch to decimal currency (see also decimalisation).[2]

    February 21

    The Convention on Psychotropic Substances is signed at Vienna.

    February 28 – Evel Knievel sets a world record and jumps 19 cars on a motorbike in Ontario, California.

    March 1

    A bomb explodes in the men’s room at the United States Capitol; the Weather Underground claims responsibility.

    March 6 – A fire in a mental hospital in Burghölzli, Switzerland

    Summary: Cricket, bankruptcy, Britain doing British things, psychotropics, crazy person jumps 19 cars (on said psychotropics?), meteorologist bombs the toilet, and more crazy people light the place up…