BRITAIN AND THE WORLD SINCE 1953
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| Jan1 | The age of majority is lowered in the UK from 21 to 18 years of age |
| Jan15 | In Nigeria, Biafran forces under General Effiong formally surrendered to General Yakabu Gowon. |
| Jan16 | Colonel Gaddafi becomes Prime Minister of Libya |
| Jan22 | New York-London: Pan Am makes first Boeing 747 trans-Atlantic flight |
| Feb2 | The philosopher Bertrand Russell dies of influenza in Plas Penrhyn, Merionethshire |
| Mar2 | Rhodesia declares itself a republic |
| Mar16 | Publication of complete New English Bible |
| Mar18 | The first mass work stoppage in the 195-year history of the US Post Office Department began with a walkout of letter carriers in Brooklyn and Manhattan, soon involving 210,000 of the nation's 750,000 postal employees. President Nixon declared a state of national emergency and assigned military units to New York City post offices. The stand-off ended two weeks later. |
| Apr10 | Paul McCartney announces that the Beatles have disbanded |
| Apr13 | Apollo 13 is launched but a day later the crew discover an oxygen leak and are forced to return to earth (Apr17) |
| Apr29 | U.S. troops invade Cambodia. Massive protests against the war continue in the U.S |
| May4 | At Kent State University, National Guards shoot four students dead and wound 11 during demonstrations against the Vietnam War. Five days later 100,000 people demonstrate in Washington against the war. |
| May17 | Thor Heyerdahl crosses the Atlantic Ocean on reed raft Ra |
| May27 | British expedition climbs south face of Annapurna I |
| England soccer captain, Bobby Moore arrested in Bogata, Columbia for allegedly stealing a £600 diamond bracelet on the eve of the World Cup finals in Mexico. He is released the next day. | |
| May29 | UK Parliament passes Equal Pay Act |
| Jun2 | Norway announces that it has rich oil deposits off its North Sea coast |
| Jun17 | Decimal postage stamps first issued for sale in Britain |
| Jun18 | Edward Heath is elected Prime Minister defeating the Labour government of Harold Wilson |
| Jun30 | Brazil beats Italy 4-1 in soccer's Ninth World Cup at Mexico City - the finest game of soccer that has been my pleasure to watch |
| Jul4 | Chartered Dan-Air Comet crashes into mountains north of Barcelona, Spain killing 112 Britons |
| Jul11 | The first tunnel under the Pyrenees link the French and Spanish towns of Aranoutes and Biesma |
| Jul30 | Damages awarded to Thalidomide victims |
| Aug6 | The Tenth National Jazz Pop Ballads & Blues Festival was held (until 9th August) at Plumpton Racecourse Sussex. |
| Aug17-18 | US sink 418 boxes of nerve gas into the gulf stream near the Bahamas |
| Aug26-28 | Isle of Wight Pop Festival is held - the end of an era? |
| Sep6 | A TWA and Swissair airliner are hijacked by the PFLP and landed in Dawson's Field in Jordan where they are destroyed by explosives |
| Sep13 | In Mexico for the 1970 World Cup, England captain Bobby Moore was accused of stealing a diamond bracelet - he was eventually released and all charges dropped |
| Sep18 | Jimi Hendrix dies in London from the effects of a drugs overdose. On Oct 4 Janis Joplin dies of a heroin overdose in the Landmark Hotel, Los Angeles |
| Sept25 | Kamal Abdel Nasser dies of a heart attack and is succeeded on 15 October by Anwar Sadat |
| Oct8 | Soviet author Alexander I Solzhenitsyn awarded Nobel Prize for Literature |
| Oct9 | Khmer Republic (Cambodia) declares independence |
| Oct10 | Fiji gains independence from Britain (National Day) |
| Oct24 | Salvador Allende Gossens elected President of Chile |
| Nov4 | Singer Janis Joplin (27) dies in her Hollywood hotel room |
| Nov9 | General Charles De Gaulle died at his home La Boisserie, at 7.25 in the evening. His death was sudden, caused by the breaking of a blood vessel and was kept secret for 14 hours so that the family could mourn in peace |
| Nov11 | A grant of £100 million is made by the government to a stricken Rolls Royce company |
| Nov13 | Lt Gen Hafez al-Assad becomes Prime Minister of Syria following a military coup |
| Nov17 | The Sun pictured its first Page 3 girl, Stephanie Rahn. |
| Nov20 | Ten shilling note goes out of circulation in Britain |
| Dec16 | First successful landing on Venus (USSR) |
| Dec22 | Franz Stangl the SS Commandant of Treblinka is sentenced to life imprisonment for his crimes against humanity |
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