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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1977
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· Queen Elizabeth II silver jubilee
· Charlie Chaplin dies
· Punk music era starts
· Firemen first ever strike
· Marc Bolan killed in car crash
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· Elvis Presley dies, USA
· Neutron bomb developed, kills people but leaves buildings intact, USA
· Star Wars, film
· Bing Crosby dies
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137 years old
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1978
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· Jeremy Thorpe, former leader of the Liberal Party charged with conspiracy to murder Norman Scott. Later cleared.
· First test tube baby
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· Spain becomes a democracy after 40 years of dictatorship
· Grease, film
· Karol Wojtyla becomes first non Italian Pope in 456 years
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138 years old
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1979
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· Margaret Thatcher becomes first woman Prime Minister
· Earl Mountbatten killed by the IRA
· Sir Anthony Blunt exposed as a one time Soviet spy
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· First CD, Dutch/Japanese
· Whites in Rhodesia (Zimbabwe) vote to ratify new constitution which extends the franchise to the black community
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139 years old
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1980
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· John Lennon shot dead in New York, 8th Dec
· Sir William ‘Billy’ Butlin, founder of Butlins, dies
· Radio Caroline ceases transmission after ship sinks
British Steel national strike
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· Robert Mugabe becomes president of Zimbabwe
· World Health Organisation announces that smallpox has been eradicated
· Ronald Reagan becomes President, USA
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140 years old
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1981
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· Prince of Wales marries Lady Diana Spencer
· Peter Sutcliffe, the Yorkshire Ripper found guilty of murdering 13 women and attempted murder of 7 others
· Steve Davies wins first world title, snooker
· Race riots, Brixton and other areas
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· World population reaches 4.5 billion
· Airbags invented, Daimler Benz
· First clones (three baby mice), Swiss
· Elizabeth Canham, become first British woman to become a priest, USA
· AIDS identified, quickly spreads wordlwide
· IBM launch Personal Computer (PC)
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141 years old
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1982
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· Falklands War, after Argentine forces seize South Georgia
· Pope John Paul II visits Britain, first ever Pope to visit
· Henry VIII’s warship Mary Rose, sunk in 1545 raised in the Solent
· Disease kills 20 million elm trees
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· Princess Grace of Monaco dies in car crash
· Film, Schindlers List
· Israeli troops invade Lebanon, besiege Beirut
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142 years old
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1983
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· Neil Kinnock elected leader of the Labour Party
· Danish fishermen invade British waters
· First breakfast time TV, Good Morning
· Seatbelt use becomes mandatory
· Over a million people protest against nuclear weapons, CND march, London
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· 8mm Camcorders invented
· President Reagan calls the USSR ‘an evil empire’.
· An American Boeing 747 carrying 269 passengers strays into Soviet air space and is shot down - no survivors
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143 years old
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1984
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· National Union of Mineworkers strike
· York Minster badly damaged by fire caused by lightning
· Richard Burton dies
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· 500 people killed after toxic gas leak, Bhopal, India
· Macintosh computer with mouse is launched
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144 years old
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1985
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· Coal strike ends after almost a year
· British scientists report a huge hole in the ozone layer over Antartica, stimulating concern that industrialisation may need to be limited
· Live Aid concert to help famine victims in Ethiopia raises $60million
· First CCTV camera, Bournemouth
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· Windows launched by Microsoft
· Ronald Reagan elected to second term as President, USA
· Mikhail Gorbachev becomes president, Russia
· French secret agents sink Greenpeace ship in New Zealand
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145 years old
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1986
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· UK and France announce plans to build channel tunnel
· Prince Andrew marries Sarah Ferguson
· Harold Macmillam dies aged 92
· Bus deregulation except in Greater London and Northern Ireland
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· World oil prices collapse, world recession on the way
· US national debt exceeds 2 trillion dollars
· Chernobyl nuclear power station explodes
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146 years old
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