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1971
 
   
Greenpeace is founded in Canada to campaign against US nuclear testing      
1971
 
    
Andrew Lloyd Webber's Jesus Christ Superstar is staged a year after being released as a record       
1971
 
    
95-year-old Spanish cellist Pablo Casals conducts in New York his Hymn to the United Nations       
1971
 
   
India intervenes in the Pakistan civil war on the side of East Pakistan, the future Bangladesh      
1971
 
    
Peter Maxwell Davies moves to the Orkneys, where he founds (in 1977) the St Magnus Festival       
1971
 
   
The Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO), expelled from Jordan, makes a new base in Lebanon      
c. 1971
 
    
Libya's political bible is now the Green Book by Muammar al-Gaddafi       
1971
 
   
Pakistan surrenders to India within a month of Indian intervention in the war to suppress East Pakistan      
1971
 
   
With the end of the war between Pakistan and India, East Pakistan becomes independent as Bangladesh      
1971
 
   
Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto takes over as president of Pakistan, now consisting only of its western half