Japanese student protest, Zenkyoto (全学共闘会議) with bamboo spears and their iconic helmets / near Tokyoís Hibiya Park / Oct. 21, 1971 /

In front of St Margaret’s hospital, Darlinghurst, Australia, a nun runs to get medical attention for a young boy who had consumed his mother’s prescription medication. Photo by Mervyn Bishop, 1971

1971, A Little Boy Running Away From Injection , Terrified of Being Vaccinated Against Cholera at a Refugee Camp Outside Calcutta,India

Refugees during the Bangladesh genocide perpetrated by Pakistan. Up to 3,000,000 people were murdered and 10 million people fled to India. Hundreds of thousands rapes were recorded after Bangladeshi women were declared to be public property by Pakistani religious authorities. 1971

Queen Elizabeth II Riding in the Trooping The Colour Parade in 1971.

American soldier John Kerry, spokesman for the VVAW (Vietnam Veterans Against the War), speaks to the press at an outdoor event in Washington D.C., April 21, 1971.

Indian PM Indira Gandhi reviews Indian soldiers at the Red Fort following the decisive victory of the 1971 war

Chevrolet Vega being loaded on a rail car, specially designed to vertically transport 30 per car. 1971

Actress Tippi Hedren playing in the pool with her pet lion, Neil (1971)

A policeman breaks a soccer fan's glasses, Belfast, 1971

Margaret Trudeau, Pat Nixon, and four month old Justin Trudeau in the White House - April 1971

Hunter S. Thompson and Oscar Zeta Acosta at Caesar’s Palace, 1971

Man on a pole at World Pole Sitting Championships, Roelofarendsveen, The Netherlands, 9 August 1971

The mask alleged to have been worn by sex offender Edward Paisnel aka "The Beast Of Jersey" when he committed a number of sex crimes on Jersey, 25th November 1971.

Frank Herbert signing copies of Dune, the best-selling Sci-Fi novel of all-time, 1971

50 years ago today, at the end of their second EVA (extravehicular activity), the Apollo 15 astronauts set up an American flag on the Moon, 1971. A crossbar at the top gives the flag the appearance of flying in the wind.

10/24, 1971, Detroit Michigan: 28 yr. old Detroit Lions receiver Chuck Hughes is rushed off the field at Tiger Stadium after collapsing during a game against the Chicago Bears. In the plaid trousers is Dr. Eugene Boyle, an anesthesiologist who rushed down from the upper deck to assist.

The Twin Towers under construction at the World Trade Center, 1971

Mao Tse Tung wearing a “Poncho de Huaso”, typical clothing from the Central Zone of Chile. Next to the Chilean ambassador in the Soviet Union, Guillermo del Pedregal. 1971

Trooper Rhett Peacock from the Australian SAS, flicks the bird to his colleague whilst on patrol in South Vietnam, 1971.

Soldiers from the Indian Army, at a sign saying „Welcome to 'What Was' Pakistan, By Courtesy The Golden Hawk” on the border of India and East Pakistan. During the Bangladesh Liberation War and Indo-Pakistan War of 1971, photo c. December 1971.

A commemorative plaque placed on the moon by the Apollo 15 crew to posthumously honor 14 NASA astronauts and USSR cosmonauts. 1971.

A female IRA volunteer with her AR18 'Armalite'. West Belfast Ireland. 1971.

Sideburns, mini skirts and big old computers at the Atlas Computer Laboratory in Harwell. England, 1971.

U.S. soldier Varnado Simpson arrives to testify at the trial of William Calley, who is charged with massacring hundreds of civilians in Vietnam. Simpson never testified to avoid implicating himself. He later confessed to killing at least 20 civilians, including children, Georgia, 1971 .

People celebrating and thanking Indian troops for liberating Bangladesh. India-Pakistan War of 1971

A female IRA volunteer with her AR18 'Armalite'. West Belfast Ireland. 1971.

Circumcision was used by Pakistani soldiers to identify whether men were Hindus or not during Bangladesh’s War of Independence, 1971.

50 years ago today, Disney World officially opened with the Magic Kingdom theme park in Orlando, Florida on October 1, 1971. The opening helped revolutionized the theme park industry in the Orlando area.

Participants of the infamous Stanford Prison Experiment. Volunteers were assigned to be either "guards" or "prisoners" by the flip of a coin, in a mock prison. 1971

The meeting of two enemies (Castro and Pinochet) in Santiago, Chile - 1971 - 700x368

A policeman restrains a Schoolchildren outside County Hall in Lambeth, where schoolchildren were demonstrating in support of the demands put forward by the Schools Action Union, in 1971

My Dad, a combat medic, in the Vietnam War after a brutal night when North Vietnamese attacked their fire support base (1971)

A Chimpanzee Feeding a Leopard Cub, 1971, Southam Park Zoo,

Soviet soldier. USSR, 1971

Northern Ireland, 1971: Young girl on roller skates talks to a soldier on patrol.

The hippies and the nuns - Goa, India 1971.

March 1, 1971, The Weather Underground set off a bomb in the US Capitol building

Queen Elizabeth II and Japanese Emperor Hirohito, ride a carriage from Victoria Station to Buckingham Palace. London, England (1971)

Sergeant Danny Wright, a patrol Commander in the Australian Special Air Service Regiment (SAS) enjoys a hard earned drink to celebrate his last patrol in Vietnam. Nui Dat, 1971

A nurse from British charity War on Want attempts to vaccinate a terrified boy against cholera during an outbreak of the disease at a refugee camp outside Kolkata during the Bangladesh Liberation War, June 1971.

Syd Barrett, founder and original frontman of Pink Floyd, 1971, a year before his complete withdrawal from the music industry.

Child waiting for his parents to come home. Glasgow tenement, 1971.

The Leg Beauty Contest in Moda, İstanbul, Turkey (1971)

50 years ago today, astronauts Shepard and Mitchell landed on the moon with Apollo 14, 1971

A 14-year-old Osama bin Laden (far right) with friends during his study in Oxford, 1971.

Men drink from "oversized" drinking glasses during the heatwave in Paris; Photo: Keystone Photo Agency; France - Paris, 1971

George H.W. Bush with daughter Dorothy, at home in 1971

Queen Elizabeth II riding in a carriage to Buckingham Palace with Emperor Hirohito in 1971.

Three Soviet cosmonauts died in biggest accident in Soviet space history, 30-June-1971