| Jan 13, 1971 - The 1964 Gulf of Tonkin resolution, which amounted to a declaration of war against Vietnam, was repealed by Congress. |
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| May 28, 1971 - America's most decorated soldier, 1st Lt. Audie Leon Murphey dies in a plane crash near Roanoke, Va. |
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