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Patty Ellen MAYES
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   Date  Event(s)
1 1963 
  • France vetoes Britain's entry into EEC
  • Jan 1963: Cold weather forces cancellation of most football matches (only 4 English First Division matches in the month) – the first 'pools panel' created
  • 27 Mar 1963: Beeching Report on British Railways (the 'Beeching Axe')
  • 1 Aug 1963: Minimum prison age raised to 17
  • 8 Aug 1963: 'Great Train Robbery' on Glasgow to London mail train
  • 17 Sep 1963: Fylingdales (Yorks) early warning system operational
  • 18 Nov 1963: Dartford Tunnel opens
  • 23 Nov 1963: First episode of "Dr Who" on BBC TV
2 1964 
  • 1 Jan 1964: First 'Top of the Pops' on BBC TV
  • 9 Apr 1964: First Greater London Council (GLC) election
  • 21 Apr 1964: BBC2 TV launched
  • 22 Aug 1964: "Match of the Day" starts on BBC2
  • 4 Sep 1964: Forth road bridge opens
3 1965 
  • Britain enacts first Race Relations Act
  • 7 Feb 1965: First US raids against North Vietnam
  • 7 Apr 1965: Winston Churchill dies
  • 1 Aug 1965: TV cigarette advertising banned in Britain
  • 8 Oct 1965: Post Office Tower operational in London
  • 28 Oct 1965: Death penalty for murder suspended in Britain for five-year trial period, then abolished 18 Dec 1969
  • 22 Dec 1965: 70mph speed limit introduced on British roads
4 1966 
  • 14 Feb 1966: Australia converts from £ to $
  • 3 May 1966: "The Times" begins to print news on its front page in place of classified advertisements
  • 30 Jul 1966: World Cup won by England at Wembley (4-2 in extra time v West Germany)
  • 8 Sep 1966: First Severn road bridge opens
  • 21 Oct 1966: Aberfan disaster – slag heap slip kills 144, incl. 116 children
  • 1 Dec 1966: First Christmas stamps issued in Britain
5 1967 
  • 4 Jan 1967: Donald Campbell dies attempting to break his world water speed record on Conniston Water – his body and Bluebird recovered in 2002
  • 18 Mar 1967: "Torrey Canyon" oil tanker runs aground off Lands End – first major oil spill
  • 28 May 1967: Francis Chichester arrives in Plymouth after solo circumnavigation in Gipsy Moth IV (he was knighted 7th July at Greenwich by the queen using the sword with which Elizabeth I had knighted Sir Francis Drake four centuries earlier
  • 27 Jun 1967: First withdrawal from a cash dispenser (ATM) in Britain – at Enfield branch of Barclays
  • 1 Jul 1967: First colour TV in Britain
  • 14 Aug 1967: Offshore pirate radio stations declared illegal by the UK
  • 20 Sep 1967: "QE2" launched on Clydebank
  • 27 Sep 1967: "Queen Mary" arrives Southampton at end of her last transatlantic voyage
  • 30 Sep 1967: BBC Radios 1, 2, 3 & 4 open – first record played on Radio 1 was the controversial "Flowers in the Rain" by 'The Move'
  • 5 Oct 1967: Introduction of majority verdicts in English courts
6 1968 
  • 18 Feb 1968: British Standard Time introduced – Summer Time became permanent but arguments prevailed and Britain reverted to GMT in October 1971
  • 18 Apr 1968: London Bridge sold (and eventually moved to Arizona) – modern London Bridge, built around it as it was demolished, was opened in Mar 1973
  • 20 Apr 1968: Enoch Powell 'Rivers of Blood' speech on immigration
  • 23 Apr 1968: Issue of 5p and 10p decimal coins in Britain
  • 29 May 1968: Manchester United first English club to win the European Cup
  • 11 Aug 1968: Last steam passenger train service ran in Britain (Carlisle–Liverpool)
  • 16 Sep 1968: Two-tier postal rate starts in Britain
  • 5 Oct 1968: Beginning of disturbances in N Ireland
7 1969 
  • 2 Mar 1969: Maiden flight of 'Concorde', at Toulouse
  • 7 Mar 1969: Victoria Line tube opens in London
  • 17 Apr 1969: Voting age lowered from 21 to 18
  • 2 May 1969: Maiden voyage of liner Queen Elizabeth 2 (QE2)
  • 31 Jul 1969: Halfpenny ceases to be legal tender in Britain
  • 14 Aug 1969: Civil disturbances in Ulster – Britain sends troops to support civil authorities
  • 7 Sep 1969: First episode of "Monty Python's Flying Circus" recorded
  • 14 Oct 1969: 50p coin introduced in Britain (reduced in size 1998)
8 1970 
  • Boeing 747 (Jumbo jet) goes into service
  • 17 Jun 1970: Decimal postage stamps first issued for sale in Britain
  • 19 Jun 1970: Edward Heath becomes Prime Minister
  • 30 Jul 1970: Damages awarded to Thalidomide victims
  • 19 Sep 1970: First Glastonbury Festival held
  • 20 Nov 1970: Ten shilling note (50p after decimalisation) goes out of circulation in Britain
9 1971 
  • Banking and Financial Dealings Act – replaced the Bank Holidays Act of 1871
  • Sunday becomes the seventh day in the week as UK adopts decision of the International Standardisation Organisation (ISO) to call Monday the first day
  • 'Greenpeace' founded
  • Rolls-Royce declared bankrupt
  • 3 Jan 1971: Open University starts
  • 15 Feb 1971: Decimalisation of coinage in UK and Republic of Ireland
  • 9 Aug 1971: Internment without trial introduced in N Ireland
  • 28 Oct 1971: Parliament votes to join Common Market (joined 1973)
  • 28 Oct 1971: UK launches its first (and only) satellite, Prospero
10 1972 
  • Britain imposes direct rule in Northern Ireland
  • Strict anti-hijack measures introduced internationally, especially at airports
  • Dutch Elm disease devastates trees across UK
  • Domestic video cassette recorders introduced
  • 30 Jan 1972: 'Bloody Sunday' in Derry, Northern Ireland
  • 28 May 1972: Duke of Windsor (ex-King Edward VIII) dies in Paris
11 1973 
  • 1 Jan 1973: Britain enters EEC Common Market (with Ireland and Denmark)
  • 17 Mar 1973: Modern London Bridge opened by the Queen
  • 1 Apr 1973: VAT introduced in Britain
  • 26 Sep 1973: Concorde makes its first non-stop crossing of the Atlantic in record-breaking time
  • 14 Oct 1973: Marriage of Princess Anne and Captain Mark Phillips in Westminster Abbey
  • 31 Dec 1973: Miners strike and oil crisis precipitate 'three-day week' (till 9 Mar 1974) to conserve power
12 1974 
  • New counties formed in Britain after re-organisation of some county boundaries
  • 1 Jun 1974: Flixborough disaster: explosion at chemical plant kills 28 people
  • 7 Nov 1974: Lord Lucan disappears
  • 21 Nov 1974: Birmingham pub bombings by the IRA
13 1975 
  • Unemployment in Britain rises above 1M for first time since before WW2
  • 11 Feb 1975: Margaret Thatcher becomes leader of Conservative party (in opposition)
  • 28 Feb 1975: Moorgate tube crash in London – over 43 deaths, greatest loss of life on the Underground in peacetime. The cause of the incident was never conclusively determined
  • 4 Mar 1975: Charlie Chaplin knighted
  • 5 Jun 1975: UK votes in a referendum to stay in the European Community
  • 29 Oct 1975: 'Yorkshire Ripper' commits his first murder
  • 3 Nov 1975: First North Sea oil comes ashore
  • 29 Nov 1975: The name 'Micro-soft' coined by Bill Gates (Microsoft' became a Trademark the following year)
  • 27 Dec 1975: Equal Pay Act and Sex Discrimination Act come into force
14 1976 
  • 'Cod War' between Britain and Iceland
  • Deaths exceeded live births in E&W for first time since records began in 1837
  • James Callaghan becomes Prime Minister
  • National Theatre opens in London
  • 21 Jan 1976: Concorde enters supersonic passenger service
  • 1 Apr 1976: Apple Computer formed by Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak
  • 6 Aug 1976: Drought Act 1976 comes into force — the long, hot summer
15 1977 
  • 2 Mar 1977: "Red Rum" wins a third Grand National
  • 25 May 1977: George Lucas' film "Star Wars" released
  • 5 Jun 1977: Apple II, the first practical personal computer, goes on sale
  • 7 Jun 1977: Queen's Silver Jubilee celebrations in London
  • 22 Nov 1977: Regular supersonic Concorde service betweeen London and NY inaugurated
16 1978 
  • 8 Apr 1978: Regular broadcast of proceedings in Parliament starts
  • 1 May 1978: First May Day holiday in Britain
  • 25 Jul 1978: World's first 'test tube' baby, Louise Browne born in Oldham
  • 30 Nov 1978: Publication of The Times suspended – industrial relations problems (until 13 Nov 1979)
17 1979 
  • 1 Mar 1979: 32.5% of Scots vote in favour of devolution (40% needed) – Welsh vote overwhelmingly against
  • 30 Mar 1979: Airey Neave killed by a car bomb at Westminster
  • 31 Mar 1979: Withdrawal of the Royal Navy from Malta
  • 4 May 1979: Margaret Thatcher becomes first woman UK Prime Minister
  • 1 Jul 1979: Sony introduces the Walkman
  • 27 Aug 1979: Lord Mountbatten and 3 others killed in bomb blast off coast of Sligo, Ireland
  • 18 Sep 1979: ILEA votes to abolish corporal punishment in its schools
18 1980 
  • 5 May 1980: SAS storm Iranian Embassy in London to free hostages
  • 8 Dec 1980: John Lennon assassinated in New York
19 1981 
  • 25 Jan 1981: Launch of SDP by 'Gang of Four' in Britain
  • 29 Mar 1981: First London marathon run
  • 11 Apr 1981: Brixton riots in South London – 30 other British cities also experience riots
  • 25 Apr 1981: Worst April blizzards this century in Britain
  • 27 Apr 1981: First use of computer mouse (by Xerox PARC system)
  • 29 Jul 1981: Wedding of Prince Charles and Lady Diana Spencer (divorced 28 Aug 1996)
  • 12 Aug 1981: IBM launches the first PC
  • 12 Aug 1981: IBM launches its PC — starts the general use of personal computers
20 1982 
  • 26 Jan 1982: Unemployment reached 3 million in Britain (1 in 8 of working population)
  • 5 Feb 1982: Laker Airways collapses
  • 19 Feb 1982: DeLorean Car factory in Belfast goes into receivership
  • 18 Mar 1982: Argentinians raised flag in South Georgia
  • 2 Apr 1982: Argentina invades Falkland (Malvinas) Islands
  • 5 Apr 1982: Royal Navy fleet sails from Portsmouth for Falklands
  • 2 May 1982: British nuclear submarine HMS Conqueror sinks Argentine cruiser General Belgrano
  • 28 May 1982: First land battle in Falklands (Goose Green)
  • 14 Jun 1982: Ceasefire in Falklands
  • 21 Jun 1982: Prince William is born
  • 20 Jul 1982: IRA bombings in London (Hyde Park and Regents Park)
  • 19 Sep 1982: Smiley emoticon :-) said to have been used for the first time
  • 11 Oct 1982: "Mary Rose" raised in the Solent (sank in 1545)
  • 31 Oct 1982: Thames Barrier raised for first time (some say first public demonstration Nov 7)
  • 2 Nov 1982: Channel 4 TV station launched – first programme 'Countdown'
  • 4 Nov 1982: Lorries up to 38 tonnes allowed on Britain's roads
  • 12 Dec 1982: Women's peace protest at Greenham Common (Cruise missiles arrived 14 Nov 1983)
21 1983 
  • First female Lord Mayor of London elected (Dame Mary Donaldson)
  • 17 Jan 1983: Start of breakfast TV in Britain
  • 31 Jan 1983: Seat belt law comes into force
  • 21 Apr 1983: £1 coin into circulation in Britain
  • 7 Oct 1983: Plans to abolish GLC announced
  • 26 Nov 1983: Brinks Mat robbery: 6,800 gold bars worth nearly £26 million are stolen from a vault at Heathrow Airport
22 1984 
  • 6 Mar 1984: Miners strike begins
  • 17 Apr 1984: Police Constable Yvonne Fletcher killed by gunfire from the Libyan Embassy in London
  • 22 Jun 1984: Inaugural flight of Virgin Atlantic
  • 9 Jul 1984: York Minster struck by lightning – the resulting fire damaged much of the building but the "Rose Window" not affected
  • 12 Oct 1984: IRA bomb explodes at Tory conference hotel in Brighton – 4 killed
  • 24 Oct 1984: Miners' strike — High Court orders sequestration of NUM assets
  • 3 Dec 1984: British Telecom privatised – shares make massive gains on first day's trading
  

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