April 1971

Friday 02:

The final broadcast of Dark Shadows aired on ABC-TV.

Saturday 03:

In Dublin, Ireland, Séverine wins the sixteenth Eurovision Song Contest for Monaco singing "Un banc, un arbre, une rue" (A bench, a tree, a street).

Thursday 08:

a 6 pound meteorite struck the home of Robert and Wanda Donahue in Wethersfield, Connecticut

Monday 19:

Launch of Salyut 1, first human-made space station.

Thursday 22:

John Kerry, dressed in combat fatigues, testifies on his views of the Vietnam War before the United States Senate Foreign Relations Committee