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(Saturday, May 1, 1971) — Jesus Christ Superstar by Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice is #1 on Billboard 200’s album chart for the second of three weeks (February 20, May 1/8, 1971).
Category Archives: 1970s
Starr’s second ‘It Don’t Come Easy’ video debuts
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(Thursday, April 29, 1971, 7:05 p.m.) — The second video for Ringo Starr’s It Don’t Come Easy single, shot in Norway, premiered tonight in the UK on BBC1’s Top of the Pops
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Tonight on TV: ‘Green Acres’ finale
(Tuesday, April 27, 1971, 8 p.m. ET) — Oliver contacts Carol, his one-time secretary, to find out where she’d had his watch repaired years earlier on the final episode of Green Acres. the American sitcom TV series starring Eddie Albert and Eva Gabor as a couple who move from New York City to a country farm. It aired for six seasons on CBS-TV.
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Starr films appearance on ‘Cilla’
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(Tuesday, April 27, 1971) — Former Beatle Ringo Starr films an appearance for the TV show “Cilla” in Norway, which would air on Saturday, November 27, 1971.
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Starr’s first ‘It Don’t Come Easy’ video debuts
(Thursday, April 22, 1971) — The first video for Ringo Starr’s It Don’t Come Easy single premiered tonight in the UK on Top of the Pops.
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High Court Backs School Busing For Integration
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This video tells the story of the integration of the Charlotte-Mecklenburg school system during the 1960's and 70's.
(Tuesday, April 20, 1971) — The U.S. Supreme Court, in Swann v. Charlotte-Mecklenburg Board of Education, today unanimously upheld the use of busing to achieve racial desegregation in schools.
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‘Patton’ chosen as Oscar’s Best Picture
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(Thursday, April 15, 1971) — Patton, a biographical war film about U.S. General George S. Patton during World War II, wins Best Picture at the 43rd Academy Awards at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion in Los Angeles. The film’s lead, George C. Scott, became the first actor to reject an Oscar, claiming that the Academy Awards were “a two-hour meat parade, a public display with contrived suspense for economic reasons.”
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George C. Scott winning Best Actor for "Patton"
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Ingmar Bergman receiving the Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award
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Quincy Jones accepting an Oscar on behalf of The Beatles
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Season One Finale: ‘All In The Family’
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(Tuesday, April 6, 1971, 9:30 p.m. ET) — Edith accepts an invitation for the Bunkers to have supper at the Jeffersons on the season one finale of the TV sitcom All In The Family.
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Tonight on TV: ‘Adam-12′ season 3 finale
(Monday, April 5, 1971) — A safecracker gets into buildings without any evidence of forcible entry in the season 3 finale of the TV series Adam-12.
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TV series finale: ‘Hogan’s Heroes’
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(Sunday, April 4, 1971, 7:30 p.m. ET) — In the final episode of Hogan’s Heroes, an American television sitcom set in a German prisoner of war (POW) camp during the Second World War, Hogan becomes the partner of a beautiful underground agent when he and his men team up with the underground to destroy a guided missile battery.
