What Happened on January 2, 1971

• Spectator crush at Ibrox Park in Glasgow, Scotland as Rangers supporters leave the ground with home team 0-1 behind to Old Firm rivals Celtic; 66 deaths and more than 200 injuries; Rangers score late for 1-1

• Aamer Nazir, Pakistani cricket fast bowler (6 Tests, 20 wickets; 9 ODIs; Lahore CC), born in Lahore, Punjab, Pakistan
• James Havens, American-Japanese radio 'navigator' (DJ), and singer-songwriter, born in Yokosuka, Japan
• Renée Elise Goldsberry, American actress and singer (Hamilton), born in San Jose, California
• Taye Diggs, American actor (How Stella Got Her Groove Back, The Best Man), born in Newark, New Jersey

• Lloyd Hall, African-American chemist and pioneer in food chemistry (science of food preservation), dies at 76
• Richard Maxwell (Dick) Haldane, South African trade unionist, dies at 62
• Willard Maas, American educator andexperimental filmmaker (b. 1906)

Holidays: Day after New Year's Day (New Zealand), New Year Holiday (United Kingdom)

• #1 Song: My Sweet Lord/Isn't It A Pity - George Harrison
• #1 Song: I Hear You Knocking - Dave Edmunds