DATE
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UNITED KINGDOM
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REST OF THE WORLD
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DUDLEY
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AGE
OF
ST JOHN’S
CHURCH
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ST JOHN’S CHURCH
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1967
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· Abortion and homosexuality legalised
· Donald Campbell killed in speedboat Bluebird, Coniston Water
· First local radio, Radio Leicester
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· Gibraltar votes to stay British; 12,138 votes to stay British, 44 votes for Spanish rule
· First human heart transplant, Cape Town
· Anti-Vietnam war demonstrations, USA
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127 years old
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1968
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· National Provincial and Westminster banks merge to form National Westminster bank
· Alan Sugar founds Amstrad computer company
· First episode, Dads Army
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· Martin Luther King, civil rights campaigner, assassinated, USA
· Earthquake in Iran, 20,000 killed
· Richard Nixon elected president, USA
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128 years old
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1969
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· British Trans-Arctic Expedition complete first surface crossing of frozen Arctic ocean, 3620 miles in 464 days
· British troops to Northern Ireland to keep order following riots Protestants and Catholics
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· First flight of a Boeing 747, USA
· First flight Concorde, France and Britain
· First men walk on the moon, USA
· Judy Garland dies
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129 years old
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1970
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· Conservatives win election, Edward Heath becomes Prime Minister
· The Railway Children, film
Half crown ceases to be legal tender
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· First video cassette recorders, Japan
· Earthquake, Peru, 70,000 killed
· Storms and floods kill 500,000, Bangladesh
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130 years old
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1971
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· Britain changes to decimal currency, 15th Feb
· House of Comons votes in favour of joining the Common Market
· Greenpeace founded, environmental protection awareness
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· Idi Amin becomes ruler of Uganda
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131 years old
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1972
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· Congegational Church and Presbyterian Church vote to form a United Reform Church
· State of emergency after month long miner’s strike
· 100th British soldier dies in Northern Ireland
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· First electronic pocket calculator, USA
· General Amin starts to expel 8000 Asians, Uganda
· President Nixon authorises $5.5 billion space shuttle programme
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132 years old
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1973
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· Britain, Denmark and Ireland join the Common Market
· Women allowed on floor of London Stock Exchange for the first time
· Princess Anne and Mark Phillips marry
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· Fax machines, Japan
· First colour photocopier, Japan
· East and West Germany establish diplomatic relations
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133 years old
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1974
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· Boundary changes to counties, England and Wales, four new counties created, Avon, Cleveland, Humberside and Cumbria
· 3 day week to conserve energy during miner strike
· Ceefax started by the BBC
· Final epispode of Monty Python,BBC2
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· Brisbane, Australia, floods and cyclone, 5 killed, 8000 homeless
· India explodes first atomic bomb
· Hundreds of thousands die in famine, Bangladesh
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134 years old
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1975
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· Total civilians killed in Northern Ireland reaches 1000
· Leslie Whittle kidnapped by Donald Neilson
· Charlie Chaplin knighted
· Lord Lucan found guilty in absentia of murdering nanny Sandra Rivett
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· Vietnam war ends. 56,000 Americans killed and 1.3 million Vietnamese
· Betamax and VHS video formats
· Bill Gates forms Microsoft Corporation
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135 years old
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1976
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· National Exhibition Centre opened, Birmingham
· Longest running play in London, The Mousetrap reaches its 10,000th performance
· First commercial Concorde flight
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· India raises minimum age for marriage, men from 18 to 21, women from 15 to 18
· Khmer Rouge leader becomes Prime Minister, Cambodia
· Worst drought, in Europe
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136 years old
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