The hit movies were the horror film Willard, the Western Big Jake, the action drama Billy Jack and the musical Fiddler on the Roof.
The female sex eymbols, hotties and fashion icons were Dyan Cannon, Veronica Carlson, Catherine Deneuve, Goldie Hawn, Ann-Margret, Diana Ross, Tannia Rubiano, Tina Turner and Raquel Welch.
I did not make the list of sex symbols, leading men and Hollywood hunks, but Richard Roundtree, Jim Morrison, Mick Jagger, Warren Beatty, Sean Connery and Elvis Presley did.
D.B. Cooper hijacked a plane in the northwest United States, obtained $200,000 in ransom money and parachuted into the night, never to be heard from again; to this day nobody knows the real story.
After the Watergate scandal broke, Richard Nixon still won the 1972 election by winning 49 out of 50 states.
Charles Manson and three of his followers were convicted of murdering actress Sharon Tate and six others in 1969.
Audie Murphy was an American soldier, actor, songwriter, and rancher who was one of the most decorated American combat soldiers of World War II died when the private plane in which he was a passenger crashed northwest of Roanoke, Virginia, in conditions of rain, clouds, fog and zero visibility. The pilot and four other passengers were also killed.
Rock and Roll stars Duane Allman (motorcycle crash) and Jim Morrison (officially heart failure, some suggest it was a drug overdose) died.
Chess players lost in 1971 were IM Hans Mueller (1896-1971) the 1947 Austrian champion; IM Emil Richter (1894-1971) the Czech champion in 1948; IM Olaf Barda (1909-1971) a 6-time Norwegian champion and correspondence GM; IM Carel Benjamin van den Berg (1924-1971), the Dutch CC champion in 1943; Jose Joaqin the Mexican champion in 1957; oviet GM Alexander Zaitsev (1935-1971) died of thrombosis after having a leg lengthened.
It was also the year Bobby Fischer annihilated Mark Taimanov and Bent Larsen 6-0 in the Candidates matches. Tigran Petrosian fared a little better; Fischer beat him by a score of +5 -1 =3 making him the challenger for the world championship.
Long forgotten was the 1971/72 annual international tournament at Reggio Emilia, Italy, that was won by an untitled Andrew Soltis; he was awarded the IM title two years later and the GM title in 1980. 
The tournament was not especially strong with only one GM (Damjanovic) and three IMs (Masic, Kovacs and Garcia). IM Enrico Paoli was entered, but dropped out to make room for Lombard; Paoli then served as TD instead.
Soltis made the IM norm, but was 4 games short of the 30 games he needed for the title. The Swiss player Andre Lombard just missed qualifying for the title when he lost in the penultimate round to Richter of Israel.
Soltis' opponent in the following game was Renato Cappello (born 1952), an Italian FM.
Andrew Soltis–Renato Cappello1–0C17Reggio EmiliaReggio Emilia ITA27.12.1971()tockfish 15
French Defense 1.e4 e6 2.d4 d5 3.c3 b4 4.e5 c5 5.dxc5 This was one
of Soltis' opening experiments in this tournament. His evaluation of this
unusual move is that is is not as bad as its unpopularity would indicate and
leads to a good attacking position for white. Almost always seen here is 5.a3 c6 6.f3 d4 An innovation and not a bad one. Book lines here are 6...Nge7
and 6...f6. 7.a3 a5 8.b4 xb4 Soltis was critcal of this calling it a bad
idea and recommended 8...dxc3 instead. Stockfish suggests that both moves are
of nearly equal merit, but finds the text slightly preferable. 8...dxc3 9.bxa5 xd1+ 10.xd1 ge7 11.a6 with roughly equal chances. 9.axb4 xb4 10.b5+ d7 11.0-0 11.xd4 This is also quite playable. xc3+ 12.xc3 xb5 13.b3 Black is slightly better. White should have played 13.Nd4 with
equality. Amdouni,Z (2290)-Rian, M (2048) Sousse 2019 11...xc3 12.b1 xb5 13.xb5 d7 14.b3 e7 14...h6 This was recommended by Soltis because it
prevents his next move,but it is actually nor better or worse than the text.
In either case black has equal play. 15.b2 xb2 16.xb2 e7 17.xd4 xd4 18.xd4 c6 18...b6 19.cxb6 axb6 20.xb6 0-0 is drawn. 19.xc6 bxc6 20.a2 a5 21.fa1 draws 15.g5 d5 16.h5 g6 Soltis correctly labels
this move ghastly idea because it leaves black's K-side permanently weak. 16...a5 Soltis suggested 16...h6 at once. 17.a3 h6 18.e4 0-0 19.f6+ gxf6 20.xh6 fxe5 draws. 17.f3 17.h6 was better because after 0-0-0 18.e4 b8 19.d6 white has excellent prospects. 17...d3 This
tactically flawed. 17...0-0 As dangerous as this looks it keeps white's
advantage at a minimum. 18.e4 f5 19.exf6 a5 20.h6 f7 21.d6 xf6
White's active piece play compensates for his P minus. 18.e4 xe5 19.c4 f5 20.cxd5 fxe4 21.xe4 g7 22.d6 b8 White is winning, but Soltis spent half
an hour looking for a constructive winning plan without allowing black any
counterplay. 23.c6 This packs a punch! xd6 24.a3 e5 25.c7
Equally good was 25.Qxd3 c8 26.a4+ b5 The only move. 26...f7 27.d7+ f6 28.e7+ f7 29.g5+ g8 30.xc8+ f7 31.d7+ g8 32.c8+ mates in 3 27.xb5 27.a6 was even more persuasive. xc7 28.xb5 f6 29.d6 e7 30.c6+ wins. 27...d4 Soltis overlooked that this move which allows the
Q to retreat to d7 in time to hold the position together a bit longer. Black K
is caught in the center and as soon as white gets his Rs into play, black will
be finished. 28.a6 d7 29.b3 Much simpler than the suggested engine move.
29.d1 was technically best, meaning it's preferred by engines, but it
leads to a position a human would not want to play! f7 30.b3 xc7 31.bxd3 c6 32.f3+ f6 33.xf6+ xf6 34.b2+ f7 35.xc6 xc6 36.xh8 with a
technical, but very difficult, win. 29...xc7 30.xd3 c6 31.a5 f6
32.d6 c4 33.xe6+ Capello had
overlooked this fine move. xe6 33...f7 loses to 34.xf6+ xf6 35.b2+ e7 36.e5+ d7 37.xh8 c6 38.e5 b7 39.c8+ d5 40.d1+ 34.xc7 e7 35.b8+ d8 36.d1 f7 37.b7+ e8 38.b5+ Black resigned. 1–0
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