July 1971

Saturday 03:

Singer Jim Morrison of The Doors is found dead of a heart attack in his bathtub.

Monday 05:

Right to vote: the Twenty-sixth Amendment to the United States Constitution, lowering the voting age from 21 to 18 years, is formally certified by President Richard Nixon.

Sunday 11:

Copper mines in Chile nationalised.

Monday 26:

Apollo program: Launch of Apollo 15.

Friday 30:

An All Nippon Airways Boeing 727 and a Japanese Air Force F-86 collide over Morioka, Japan killing 162

Saturday 31:

Apollo program: Apollo 15 astronauts become the first to ride in a lunar rover.