Editing 1971 (section)

=== July ===
{{Main|July 1971}}
[[File:World Trade Center Skyline at Night (29143322320).jpg|thumb|right|[[World Trade Center (1973–2001)|World Trade Center]], Lower Manhattan, 1971]]
* July – [[Nordic Council]] secretariat inaugurated.
* [[July 3]] – [[Jim Morrison]], lead singer of [[The Doors]], dies of a [[heart failure]] at the age of [[27 Club|27]] in the bathtub of his apartment on the 3rd floor of the [[Rue Beautreillis]] 17 in [[Paris]], [[France]].
* [[July 4]]
** [[Michael S. Hart]] posts the first [[e-book]], a copy of the [[United States Declaration of Independence]], on the [[University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign]]'s [[mainframe computer]], the origin of [[Project Gutenberg]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Gutenberg:The_History_and_Philosophy_of_Project_Gutenberg_by_Michael_Hart|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060830193319/http://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Gutenberg:The_History_and_Philosophy_of_Project_Gutenberg_by_Michael_Hart|url-status=dead|archive-date=August 30, 2006|publisher=Project Gutenberg|title=The History and Philosophy of Project Gutenberg|first=Michael|last=Hart |access-date=2011-10-05 |date=August 1992}}.</ref>
** The first plane lands at [[Seychelles International Airport]] in [[Victoria, Seychelles]] ([[Mahé, Seychelles|Mahe]]).<ref>{{cite book|author=Donald Taylor|title=Launching Out Into the Deep: The Anglican Church in the History of the Seychelles to 2000 AD|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=BWUmAQAAIAAJ|year=2005|publisher=Board of Church Commissioners, Diocese of Seychelles|isbn=978-99931-66-01-6|page=620}}</ref>
* [[July 5]] – [[Right to vote]]: The [[Twenty-sixth Amendment to the United States Constitution]], formally certified by President [[Richard Nixon]], lowers the voting age from 21 to 18.
* [[July 6]] – [[Hastings Banda]] is proclaimed [[President for Life]] of [[Malawi]].
* [[July 9]] – The United Kingdom increases the number of its troops in [[Northern Ireland]] to 11,000.
* [[July 10]]–[[July 11|11]] – Coup attempt in [[Morocco]]: 1,400 cadets take over the king's palace for three hours and kill 28 people; 158 rebels die when the king's troops storm the palace (ten high-ranking officers are later executed for involvement).
* [[July 10]] – [[Gloria Steinem]] makes her [[Address to the Women of America]].
* [[July 11]] – [[Copper]] mines in [[Chile]] are nationalized.
* [[July 13]]
** [[Ólafur Jóhannesson]] forms a government in [[Iceland]].
** [[Jordan]]ian army troops launch an offensive against Palestinian guerillas in Jordan.
** The [[Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia|Yugoslavia]]n government begins allowing foreign companies to take their profits from the country.
** [[Reggie Jackson]]'s long [[home run]], which hits a transformer on the roof of [[Tiger Stadium (Detroit)|Tiger Stadium]], helps the [[American League]] defeat the [[National League (baseball)|National League]] 6–4 in the [[Major League Baseball]] [[1971 Major League Baseball All-Star Game|All-Star Game]] in [[Detroit, Michigan|Detroit]].
* [[July 14]] – [[Libyan Arab Republic|Libya]] severs its diplomatic ties with [[Morocco]].
* [[July 15]] – American President [[Richard Nixon]] announces his [[1972 Nixon visit to China|1972 visit to China]].
* [[July 17]] – Italy and Austria sign a treaty that ends the dispute (''Südtirolfrage'') regarding [[South Tyrol]].
* [[July 18]] – The [[Trucial States]] are formed in the [[Persian Gulf]].
* [[July 19]] – The [[List of tenants in 2 World Trade Center|South Tower]] of the [[World Trade Center (1973–2001)|World Trade Center]] in [[New York City]] tops out at {{convert|1,362|ft|m}}, making it the second-tallest building in the world.
* [[July 19]]–[[July 23|23]] – Major [[Hashem al Atta|Hashem al-Atta]] ousts Jaafar Muhammad al-Nimeiri in a military coup in [[Sudan]]. Fighting continues until [[July 22]], when pro-Nimeiri troops regain power. Al-Atta and three officers are executed.
* [[July 22]]
** A [[BOAC]] flight from London to Khartoum is ordered to land at [[Benghazi|Benghazi, Libya]], where two leaders of the unsuccessful Sudanese coup, travelling as passengers, are forced to leave the plane and are subsequently executed.<ref>{{cite news|title=A government hijacking|url=http://www.flightglobal.com/pdfarchive/view/1971/1971%20-%201336.html|access-date=2011-11-13|newspaper=[[Flight International]]|date=1971-07-29|page=150|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120311052001/http://www.flightglobal.com/pdfarchive/view/1971/1971%20-%201336.html|archive-date=2012-03-11|url-status=live}}</ref>
** A [[Solar eclipse of July 22, 1971|partial solar eclipse]] is visible from Asia and North America, and is the 70th and final solar eclipse of [[Solar Saros 116]].
* [[July 24]] – [[Georgina Rizk]] of [[Lebanon]] is crowned [[Miss Universe 1971]].
* [[July 25]]–[[July 30|30]] – [[Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli]] records two [[Debussy]] works in [[Munich]] for [[Deutsche Grammophon]], his fifth recording.
* [[July 26]] – [[Apollo 15]] (carrying astronauts [[David Scott]], [[Alfred Worden]] and [[James Irwin]]) is launched.
* [[July 28]] – [[Abdel Khaliq Mahjub]], [[Sudan]]ese communist leader, is hanged.
* [[July 29]] – The United Kingdom opts out of the [[Space Race]] with the cancellation of its [[Black Arrow]] launch vehicle.
* [[July 30]] – In Japan, [[All Nippon Airways Flight 58|an All Nippon Airways]] [[Boeing 727]] collides with a Japanese fighter jet; 162 people are killed.
* [[July 31]] – [[Apollo 15]] astronauts [[David Scott]] and [[James Irwin]] become the first to ride in the [[Lunar Roving Vehicle]], a day after landing on the Moon.