Timeline February 1971

Events in February 1971 5

• 1971 Apollo 14 Moon Landing Third crewed Moon landing Alan Shepard and Edgar Mitchell landed in the Fra Mauro highlands while Stuart Roosa orbited in the command module. Shepard became the fifth person to walk on the Moon and hit two golf balls on the lunar surface. The mission restored public confidence in NASA after the Apollo 13 failure.
• 1971 Co-founds the Groupe d'Information sur les Prisons Activist group documents prison conditions and amplifies inmates' voices Foucault co-founded the Groupe d'Information sur les Prisons (GIP) with Daniel Defert and others, an activist collective that gathered testimony from prisoners and publicized conditions inside French jails. Rather than speaking for prisoners, the GIP aimed to give them the means to speak for themselves, a model of activism that directly informed the analysis of disciplinary power in his next major book.
• 1971 The Temptations release Just My Imagination Kendricks' farewell Number one as Eddie Kendricks and Paul Williams leave.
• 1971 Introduction of Women's Suffrage Late Democracy Switzerland was one of the last Western countries to grant women the right to vote at the federal level.
• 1971 Carole King releases Tapestry Best-selling album Number one for 15 weeks, one of the best-selling albums ever.