The following events occurred in February 1971: February 1, 1971 (Monday) The Soviet Union opened the first school in a Communist nation for business administration and for management science, long rejected as a feature of Western capitalism. The Institute for Management of the National Economy was inaugurated within the Plekhanov Russian University of Economics had been lobbied for by Dzhermen Gvishiani, the Deputy Chairman of the State Committee for Science and Technology (GKNT). Uganda's President Idi Amin ordered the dismissal of all municipal and village officials in the central African nation, firing every mayor and district councilmen because they had been appointed under the regime of the previous president, Milton Obote. People identified with Obote's political party, the Uganda People's Congress, were attacked throughout the nation. The Hague Conference on Private International Law passed its convention on the Recognition and Enforcement of Foreign Judgments in Civil and Commercial Matters. British commercial diver Michael Lally died of hypothermia and drowning due to a decompression problem while conducting a surface-orientated dive in the North Sea from the semi-submersible drill rig Ocean Viking. Another British diver, Michael Brushneen, would die exactly one month later during a dive from the same rig. Died: Raoul Hausmann, 84, Austrian artist and writer Harry Roy, 71, English bandleader Amet-khan Sultan, 50, Crimean Tartar fighting ace for the Soviet Air Force, killed in the crash of a Tupolev Tu-16 he was piloting. February 2, 1971 (Tuesday) The Ramsar Convention (the Convention on Wetlands of International Importance especially as Waterfowl Habitat), an international treaty for the conservation and sustainable use of wetlands, was signed by representatives of seven nations in Ramsar, Mazandaran, Iran. By its terms, the treaty went into effect on December 21, 1975. February 2 is now regularly observed by environmentalists as World Wetlands Day. The signing came on the same day that a meeting in the Iranian capital of Tehran, between the 10-nation Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) and representatives of 22 oil companies to negotiate a price rise in oil. Eight days after leading a coup d'état, General Idi Amin Dada ordered the dissolution of the Ugandan Parliament and declared himself President of Uganda, assuming all executive and legislative authority and pledging to begin rule by decree. February 3, 1971 (Wednesday) In Tehran, the representatives of the ten OPEC member states adopted the "XXII Conference Resolution", in which each nation pledged that by February