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4-Jan-70
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Violence flares in
Northern Ireland
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|
8-Jan-70
|
4000 estimated to have
died due to asian flu outbreak in the UK
|
|
22-Jan-70
|
First PAN-AM 747 flight
from New York to London Heathrow
|
|
10-Feb-70
|
39 killed in avalance in
French Alps
|
|
21-Feb-70
|
47 killed in plane crash
in Switzerland
|
|
1-Mar-70
|
Rhodesia breaks last
links with Britain
|
|
2-Mar-70
|
Dr Timothy Leary who
coined the phrase "Turn on, tune in and drop out"
sentenced to 10 years in jail for smoking cannabis
|
|
4-Mar-70
|
57 lives lost as French
submarine sinks in Mediterranian
|
|
28-Mar-70
|
Earthquake in Turkey
claims 600 lives
|
|
4-Apr-70
|
Gay Trip wins Grand
National
|
|
10-Apr-70
|
Paul McCartney leaves
the Beatles
|
|
11-Apr-70
|
Apollo 13 launched for
3rd moon trip. Mission abandoned after two days after oxygen
supply problem
|
|
4-May-70
|
4 students shot dead by
National Guard during anti-war protest at Kent State University,
Ohio, US
|
|
12-May-70
|
6 shot dead at Rally in
Georgia, US
|
|
1-Jun-70
|
Earthquake in Peru kills
over 30,000
|
|
9-Jun-70
|
Yassa Arafat becomes PLO
leader
|
|
14-Jun-70
|
West Germany beat
England 3-2 and knock them out of World Cup
|
|
19-Jun-70
|
Edward Heath new UK
Prime Minister after Conservative election win
|
|
29-Jun-70
|
US Troops pull out of
Camobodia
|
|
3-Jul-70
|
112 die in plane crash
in Spain
|
|
4-Apr-70
|
John Newcombe and
Margaret Court Wimbledon tennis champions
|
|
16-Jul-70
|
Thousands of dockworkers
strike in London
|
|
30-Jul-70
|
Thalidomide victims
receive compensation in UK
|
|
9-Aug-70
|
Plane crash in Peru
claims 99 lives
|
|
19-Aug-70
|
UK soap opera,
Coronation Street celebrates 1000 episodes
|
|
18-Sep-70
|
Jimi Hendrix found dead
|
|
4-Oct-70
|
Janis Joplin dies
|
|
8-Oct-70
|
Aleksandr Solzhenitzyn
wins Nobel Prize for Literature
|
|
10-Oct-70
|
Fiji gains independence
|
|
1-Nov-70
|
142 killed in fire at
French night club
|
|
10-Nov-70
|
Henry Cooper wins
European Heavyweight Boxing Championship
|
|
12-Nov-70
|
French leader Charles
DeGaulle dies
|
|
19-Nov-70
|
150,000 lives lost in
cyclone and tidal wave in Pakistan
|
|
1-Dec-70
|
Divorce becomes legal in
Italy
|
|
18-Dec-70
|
Thousands evacuated in
Nevada US after atomic leak
|
|
11-Jan-71
|
First divorce in UK on
sole grounds of "Irretrievable Breakdown" granted
|
|
12-Jan-71
|
North Sea oil
discoveries in UK
|
|
25-Jan-71
|
Charles Manson and three
of his followers found guilty of the Helter Skelter murders
|
|
25-Jan-71
|
Idi Amin gains power in
Uganda
|
|
31-Jan-71
|
Apollo 14 launched
|
|
3-Feb-71
|
24 killed in explosion
at arms factory in Georgia, US
|
|
7-Feb-71
|
Women gain right to vote
in Switzerland
|
|
10-Feb-71
|
Earthquaake in Los
Angeles, US kills 51
|
|
15-Feb-71
|
Britain changes to
decimal currency
|
|
1-Mar-71
|
Millions of workers
strike in protest at new UK anti-union bill
|
|
8-Mar-71
|
Frazier beats Ali in
World Heavyweight Boxing Championship
|
|
8-Mar-71
|
Silent film star Harold
Lloyd dies
|
|
19-Mar-71
|
250 killed in Peru
avalanch
|
|
16-May-71
|
32 miners killed in
explosion in West Pakistan
|
|
22-May-71
|
600 die in Turkey
earthquake
|
|
23-May-71
|
Jackie Stewart wins
Monaco Grand Prix
|
|
8-Jun-71
|
British Railways look at
plans for new Advanced Passenger Train
|
|
30-Jun-71
|
3 Russain Cosmonauts
found dead when spacecraft returns
|
|
2-Jul-71
|
Evonne Goolagong wins
Wimbledon Tennis Championship
|
|
3-Jul-71
|
Doors leader Jim
Morrison dies
|
|
6-Jul-71
|
Jazz veteran Louis
Armstrong dies
|
|
9-Jul-71
|
Earthquake kills 90 in
Chile
|
|
30-Jul-71
|
162 die in plane crash
in Japan, the worst on record at this time
|
|
25-Aug-71
|
Three days of violence
in Belfast leave 23 dead
|
|
4-Sep-71
|
109 die in Alaskan plane
crash
|
|
11-Sep-71
|
Fomrer Soviet leader
Nikita Khrushchev dies
|
|
13-Sep-71
|
Jazz ace Duke Ellington
tours Soviet Union
|
|
28-Oct-71
|
British Parliament vote
to join EEC
|
|
2-Nov-71
|
6000 die in India tidal
wave and hurricane
|
|
13-Nov-71
|
US spacecraft Marriner 9
orbits Mars
|
|
15-Nov-71
|
China joins United
Nations
|
|
26-Nov-71
|
Education authority
stops use of cane as punishment in London Schools
|
|
4-Dec-71
|
Explosion in Belfast pub
kills 13
|
|
17-Dec-71
|
Pakistan/India war ends
|
|
25-Dec-71
|
156 die in hotel fire in
Seoul
|
|
9-Jan-72
|
Fire destroys Queen
Elizabeth liner (QE1)
|
|
22-Jan-72
|
Britain,Ireland, Denmark
and Norway to join EEC
|
|
30-Jan-72
|
13 killed and many
wounded in Northern Ireland during a civil rights march - the day
would later be referred to as Bloody Sunday.
|
|
2-Feb-72
|
Winter Olympics start in
Tokyo
|
|
4-Feb-72
|
Britain recognises
independence of Bangladesh
|
|
9-Feb-72
|
Industrial unrest in
Britain leads to state of emergency being declared. Edward Heath
imposes three day working week and country suffers power cuts as
power stations are closed to conserve energy.
|
|
22-Feb-72
|
7 killed in car bomb
attack at Aldershot barracks
|
|
2-Mar-72
|
Pioneer 10 spacecraft
launched to explore Jupiter
|
|
24-Mar-72
|
Edward Heath imposed
direct rule on Northern Ireland
|
|
11-Apr-72
|
Paul McCartney fined for
importing cannabis into Sweden
|
|
17-Apr-72
|
Film "The
Godfather" makes 26 million dollars within first few days of
premier
|
|
20-Apr-72
|
Apollo 16 lands on the
moon
|
|
22-May-72
|
President Richard Nixon
become first US President to visit Russia
|
|
22-May-72
|
Ceylon becomes Sri Lanka
after independence
|
|
25-May-72
|
Joe Frazier retains
Heavyweight boxing title after beating Ron Stander
|
|
28-May-72
|
Duke of Windsor who
reigned briefly as King Edward VIIII, abdicating to marry Wallace
Simpson, dies
|
|
6-Jun-72
|
422 killed in
underground mine explosion in Rhodesia
|
|
18-Jun-72
|
118 die in UK plane
crash
|
|
9-Jul-72
|
Stan Smith and Billie
Jean King become Wimbledon tennis champions
|
|
12-Aug-72
|
US launch heavy air
raids on North Vietnam
|
|
14-Aug-72
|
156 die in Berlin plane
crash
|
|
15-Aug-72
|
Ethiopia pulls out of
Munich Olympics in protest at Rhodesia
|
|
26-Aug-72
|
Munich Olympics open
|
|
31-Aug-72
|
Mark Spitz wins five
gold medals in Olympics
|
|
5-Sep-72
|
Terrorists kill 11 from
Isreal olympic team
|
|
12-Sep-72
|
Icelandic gunboats sink
two British Trawlers in fishing dispute know as the "Cod
War"
|
|
21-Sep-72
|
Asians expelled from
Uganda arrive in Britain
|
|
6-Oct-72
|
147 die in Mexican train
crash
|
|
10-Oct-72
|
John Betjeman becomes
Poet Laureate
|
|
14-Oct-72
|
170 killed in Russain
plane crash
|
|
23-Oct-72
|
Access
Credit cards launched in Britain
|
|
25-Oct-72
|
Cod War prompts Iceland
to boycott British goods
|
|
3-Nov-72
|
East Germany releases
30,000 politcal prisoners
|
|
6-Nov-72
|
Wage freeze imposed in
Britain in attempt to combat inflation
|
|
8-Nov-72
|
Nixon wins US election
|
|
16-Nov-72
|
Soviet Union agrees to
sale of Pepsi Cola from next year
|
|
3-Dec-72
|
155 die in Canary
Islands plane crash
|
|
11-Dec-72
|
Apollo 17 lands on moon
|
|
25-Dec-72
|
10,000 lives lost in
Nicaraguan earthquake
|
|
26-Dec-72
|
Former US President
Harry Truman dies
|
|
22-Jan-73
|
Former US President
Lyndon B Johnson dies
|
|
27-Jan-73
|
US agrees to end to
fighting in Vietnam
|
|
14-Feb-73
|
First US Prisoners of
War fly home from Vietnam
|
|
16-Mar-73
|
Queen opens new London
Bridge
|
|
26-Mar-73
|
Death of UK playwright
& humourist Noel Coward
|
|
8-Apr-73
|
Artist Picasso dies
|
|
29-May-73
|
Thomas Bradley becomes
first black Mayor of Los Angeles
|
|
16-Jun-73
|
Soviet President
Breshnev visits USA
|
|
7-Jul-73
|
Jan Kodes and Billie
Jean King become this years' Wimbledon tennis champions
|
|
10-Jul-73
|
Bahamas gain
independence
|
|
11-Jul-73
|
122 die in Paris air
crash
|
|
14-Aug-73
|
US ends bombing in
Cambodia
|
|
28-Aug-73
|
Over 500 die in Mexican
earthquake
|
|
8-Oct-73
|
UK Prime Minister Edward
Heath imposes 7% pay increase limit
|
|
11-Nov-73
|
Egypt & Israel sign
cease fire agreement
|
|
5-Dec-73
|
UK Government impose 50
miles per hour speed limit to reduce fuel consumption
|
|
17-Dec-73
|
Three day working week
comes into force in Britain again, as industrial unrest deepens
|
|
6-Jan-74
|
First UK football
matches played on Sunday due to power crisis
|
|
25-Jan-74
|
Dr Christiaan Barnard
performs first heart transplant
|
|
7-Feb-74
|
Grenada gains
independence
|
|
15-Feb-74
|
Russia expels author
Aleksandr Solzhenityn
|
|
3-Mar-74
|
345 killed in Paris air
crash
|
|
4-Mar-74
|
Labour Party gain power
in Britain. Harold
Wilson is new Prime Minister
|
|
8-Mar-74
|
Britain returns to full
working week
|
|
30-Mar-74
|
Red Rum wins Grand
National
|
|
1-Apr-74
|
National Health Service
offers free family planning advice in Britain
|
|
10-Apr-74
|
Israel Premier Golda
Meir resigns
|
|
4-May-74
|
Liverpool beat Newcastle
3-0 in FA Cup Final
|
|
11-May-74
|
20,000 lose lives in
Chinese earthquake
|
|
24-May-74
|
Jazz musician Duke
Ellington dies
|
|
3-Jun-74
|
Yitzhak Rabin becomes
new Isreal Premier
|
|
6-Jul-74
|
Jimmy Connors and Chris
Evert become Wimbledon tennis champions
|
|
20-Jul-74
|
Turkey invades Cyprus
|
|
8-Aug-74
|
President Richard Nixon
resigns over Watergate
|
|
9-Aug-74
|
Gerald Ford becomes new
US President
|
|
14-Sep-74
|
Pandas Chia-Chia and
Ching-Ching arrive at London Zoo
|
|
20-Sep-74
|
10,000 killed by Cyclone
in Honduras
|
|
29-Oct-74
|
Muhammad Ali beats
George Foreman and regains Heavyweight Boxing title
|
|
19-Nov-74
|
President Ford visits
Japan
|
|
21-Dec-74
|
Top London store Harrods
is bombed. No
fatalities
|
|
29-Dec-74
|
Earthquake in Pakistan
kills 4,700
|
|
11-Jan-75
|
Soyuz 17, Russain
spacecraft is launched which later links up with space lab.
|
|
11-Feb-75
|
Margaret Thatcher wins
leadership battle over Edward Heath, making her first woman leader
of Conservative Party
|
|
21-Feb-75
|
Three former aides to
Richard Nixon are given prison sentences for their part in the
Watergate scandal
|
|
23-Mar-75
|
Blockade of 200 miles of
UK coastline in fishermen's protest at cheap imports
|
|
25-Mar-75
|
King Faisal of Saudi
Arabia assasinated
|
|
30-Apr-75
|
Saigon surrenders to
Communists. Crowds surround US Embassy in hope of being airlifted
out by US forces
|
|
7-May-75
|
President Ford announces
end to Vietnam war
|
|
26-May-75
|
Stuntman Evil Knievel
suffers serious injuries when attempt to jump 13 busses in a car
fails
|
|
4-Jun-75
|
Drought in Ethiopia
causes widespread famine
|
|
5-Jun-75
|
Suez Canal re-opens
|
|
6-Jun-75
|
UK referendum results in
majority of Britons being in favour of staying in the Common
Market
|
|
19-Jun-75
|
Ascot
races disturbed by march of 100 striking stable boys
|
|
24-Jun-75
|
109 die in New York
plane crash at JFK airport
|
|
26-Jun-75
|
Indian Premier Indira
Gandhi convicted of election fraud
|
|
5-Jul-75
|
Arthur Ashe and Billie
Jean King become the years' Wimbledon tennis champions
|
|
19-Jul-75
|
US Apollo and Soviet
Union Soyuz spacecraft link up in space
|
|
1-Aug-75
|
Helsinki human rights
agreement signed by 35 nations
|
|
19-Aug-75
|
Cricket test match in UK
abandoned after pitch is dug up by protesters angry at jailing of
George Davies
|
|
27-Aug-75
|
Haile Selassie, former
Ethiopian Emperor dies
|
|
6-Sep-75
|
1000 killed in Turkish
earthquake
|
|
22-Sep-75
|
The second foiled
attempt at assasination of President Ford in a month occurs
|
|
30-Sep-75
|
Muhammad Ali beats Joe
Frazier and holds onto his Heavyweight Boxing title
|
|
7-Oct-75
|
John Lennon wins court
battle to stay in the USA
|
|
10-Oct-75
|
Richard Burton and
Elizabeth Taylor re-marry
|
|
22-Oct-75
|
Venera 9, Russain
spacecraft, lands on Venus
|
|
20-Nov-75
|
Spanish leader Franco
dies, sucessor is Juan Carlos
|
|
27-Nov-75
|
Ross McWhirter is shot
dead on doorstep of his home by IRA gunman
|
|
30-Nov-75
|
UK motor racing champion
Graham Hill dies after his plane crashes
|
|
12-Dec-75
|
Six day siege by IRA on
a flat in London's Balcolme Street ends without casualties
|
|
27-Dec-75
|
Mine blast in India
kills 372 miners
|
|
29-Dec-75
|
Equal Pay and Sex
Discrimination Act become law in the UK
|
|
2-Jan-76
|
22 die as Hurricane
winds rock Britain
|
|
12-Jan-76
|
Author Agatha Christie
dies
|
|
23-Jan-76
|
Singer and racial
equality campaigner Paul Robeson dies
|
|
3-Feb-76
|
George Thomas becomes
speaker of UK House of Commons
|
|
4-Feb-76
|
Guatemala earthquake
kills 12,000
|
|
18-Feb-76
|
Race Relations bill in
UK comes into force
|
|
20-Feb-76
|
Muhammad Ali beats Jean
Pierre Coopman and holds on to Boxing title
|
|
16-Mar-76
|
Prime Minister Harold
Wilson resigns
|
|
26-Mar-76
|
Argentine President
Isabel de Peron is overthrown
|
|
3-Apr-76
|
Rag Trade wins Grand
National
|
|
5-Apr-76
|
James Callaghan becomes
new UK Prime Minister
|
|
5-Apr-76
|
Billionaire Howard
Hughes dies
|
|
30-Apr-76
|
Muhammad Ali holds onto
box title after defeating Jimmy Young
|
|
10-May-76
|
UK Liberal Party leader
Jeremy Thorpe resigns after gay allegations
|
|
24-May-76
|
Muhammad Ali beats UK
boxer Richard Dunn in title fight
|
|
6-Jun-76
|
Billionaire J Paul Getty
dies
|
|
19-Jun-76
|
Violence flares in South
Africa
|
|
26-Jun-76
|
London records record
temperature of 95 degrees as Britain swelters in heatwave
|
|
28-Jun-76
|
Seychelles gain
independence
|
|
3-Jul-76
|
Bjorn Borg and Chris
Evert are this years' Wimbledon tennis champions
|
|
4-Apr-76
|
Massive 200th birthday
celebrations as USA celebrates bi-centenial
|
|
8-Jul-76
|
9,000 die in New Guinea
earthquake
|
|
17-Jul-76
|
Montreal Olympic Games
open
|
|
20-Jul-76
|
Spacecraft Viking 1
lands on Mars
|
|
17-Aug-76
|
8,000 die in Philippines
earthquake
|
|
3-Sep-76
|
A 60 hour riot in Hull
Prison ends after £1million damage is caused
|
|
18-Sep-76
|
Chairman Mao dies
|
|
10-Sep-76
|
177 die after two planes
collide over Yugoslavia
|
|
28-Sep-76
|
Muhammad Ali holds onto
boxing title after defeating Ken Norton
|
|
1-Oct-76
|
2,500 die in Mexican
hurricane
|
|
23-Oct-76
|
Chairman Mao's widow
jailed for plotting coup
|
|
2-Nov-76
|
Jimmy Carter elected US
President
|
|
24-Nov-76
|
3,000 die in Turkish
earthquake
|
|
20-Jan-77
|
Jimmy Carter sworn in as
US President
|
|
25-Jan-77
|
250 US hostages held by
Uganda
|
|
1-Mar-77
|
US hostages freed by
Uganda
|
|
21-Mar-77
|
Indira Gandhi resigns as
Indian Premier
|
|
26-Mar-77
|
Moraji Desai becomes new
Indian Premier
|
|
28-Mar-77
|
574 die as US and Dutch
jets collide at Los Rodeos airport in Tenerrife, the world's worst
air disaster to date
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