1971 - 1971
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| 1 | 1971 | - 1971—1971:
Banking and Financial Dealings Act - replaced the Bank Holidays Act of 1871
- 1971—1971:
Sunday becomes the seventh day in the week as UK adopts decision of the International
Standardisation Organisation (ISO) to call Monday the first day
- 1971—1971:
'Greenpeace' founded
- 1971—1971:
Rolls-Royce declared bankrupt
- 3 Jan 1971—3 Jan 1971:
Open University starts
- 15 Feb 1971—15 Feb 1971:
Decimalisation of coinage in UK and Republic of Ireland
- 9 Aug 1971—9 Aug 1971:
Internment without trial introduced in N Ireland
- 28 Oct 1971—28 Oct 1971:
Parliament votes to join Common Market (joined 1973)
- 28 Oct 1971—28 Oct 1971:
UK launches its first (and only) satellite, Prospero
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