[[File:1971 Events Montage.jpg|300x300px|thumb|Clockwise from top-left: [[Idi Amin]] led a [[1971 Ugandan coup d'état|coup d'état]] against the government of President [[Milton Obote]] in [[Uganda]]; [[Intel]] produces the first commercial [[Intel 4004|microprocessor]]; a [[Japan Air Self-Defense Force|JASDF]] [[F-86F Sabre]] jet fighter collided with [[All Nippon Airways Flight 58]], causing both aircraft to crash and killing 162; the ''[[Pentagon Papers]]'' revealed that the U.S. had secretly enlarged the scope of its actions in the [[Vietnam War]] with coastal raids on North Vietnam and Marine Corps attacks; the [[United Arab Emirates]] is founded; the [[floppy disk]] is introduced; [[Soviet Union]] launches the first [[Salyut 1|space station]]; members of the [[Pakistan Armed Forces]] and supporting pro-Pakistani Islamist militias from [[Jamaat-e-Islami]] [[Bangladesh genocide|killed]] 300,000-3,000,000 people and raped 200,000-400,000 Bengali women.]]