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| 28 Jan |
Radiation alert following B-52 crash |

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| 31 Jan |
Americans alarmed by 'Tet Offensive' |

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| 04 Feb |
More Kenyan Asians flee to Britain |

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| 05 Feb |
Trawler sinks - 18 feared dead |

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| 19 Feb |
Damages for thalidomide children |

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| 24 Feb |
South Vietnamese recapture Hue |

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| 26 Feb |
Hospital blaze kills 21 patients |

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| 04 Apr |
Martin Luther King shot dead |

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| 06 Apr |
United States erupts in race violence |

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| 07 Apr |
Jim Clark killed in car smash |

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| 10 Apr |
Dozens die in NZ ferry disaster |

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| 14 Apr |
Berlin student unrest worsens |

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| 20 Apr |
Powell slates immigration policy |

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| 23 Apr |
Decimal coins reach the high street |

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| 03 May |
Surgeons conduct UK's first heart transplant |

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| 13 May |
Workers join Paris student protest |

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| 24 May |
De Gaulle: 'Back me or sack me' |

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| 29 May |
Manchester Utd win European Cup |

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| 04 Jun |
Dover begins bird purge |

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| 05 Jun |
Robert Kennedy injured in shooting |

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| 08 Jun |
James Earl Ray quizzed over King death |

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| 11 Jun |
French student rebel arrives in UK |

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| 21 Jun |
Egg board 'should be scrapped' |

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| 24 Jun |
Rail go-slow begins |

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| 04 Jul |
Alec Rose sails home |

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| 29 Jul |
Pope renews birth control ban |

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| 21 Aug |
Russia brings winter to 'Prague Spring' |

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| 16 Sep |
Post Office backs first class service |

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| 27 Sep |
Musical Hair opens as censors withdraw |

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| 02 Oct |
Student riots threaten Mexico Olympics |

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| 02 Oct |
Birth of sextuplets stuns Britain |

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| 05 Oct |
Londonderry march ends in violence |

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| 17 Oct |
Black athletes make silent protest |

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| 27 Oct |
Police clash with anti-war protesters |

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| 06 Nov |
Nixon wins close contest for president |

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| 26 Nov |
Race discrimination law tightened |

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| 30 Nov |
Shops told to stop conning customers |

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| 17 Dec |
Mary Bell found guilty of double killing |

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| 24 Dec |
First astronauts orbit Moon |
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