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Abortion Act
Anti-apartheid movement begins
Barbados gained independence from Britain
Beatles rise to popularity
Britain abolished capital punishment
C Day Lewis becomes British Poet Laureate
Child Poverty Action Group is founded
Clean Air Act
Common Agricultural Policy (CAP)
Commonwealth Immigration Act
Concorde makes maiden flight
Countryside Act
Cultural Revolution begins in China
Death of Ernest Hemingway (writer)
Death of Marilyn Munroe (actress)
Department of Economic Affairs
Divorce Act
Edward Heath becomes leader of the Conservatives
England wins World Cup
First British Nuclear submarines
First National Economic Plan
First North Sea Gas piped to mainland
First Notting Hill Carnival
Flower Power at its height in California
Gambia gained independence from Britain
Greater London Council created
Harold Wilson becomes P.M
Homosexual Law Reform is founded
House of Lords loses legislative powers
Industrial Training Act
Labour nationalizes the steel industry
Labour wins British elections
Labour wins narrow victory
Last hangings in Britain
Lesotho in southern Africa gained independence
Mary Quant invents the mini-skirt
National Front is formed in London
National Service abolished
Nauru gained independence from Britain
Open University is officially founded
Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) formed
Parliament votes to outlaw capital punishment
Peerage Act
Portugal loses its territories in Goa, India
Prices and Incomes Act
Race Relations Act
Race Relations Board is established
Race riots in the United States
Regional Economic Planning Committee
Rent Act
Riots in Harlem
Shelter founded to combat homelessness
strikes begin in Liverpool and London
U.S. Apollo 8 orbits moon
US Civil Rights Act becomes law
Voting age reduced to 18
Welsh Language Society founded
Willi Brandt becomes German Chanceller
Winston Churchill died in London
Women's Liberation Workshop is founded
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