02 Jan	Sixty-six die in Scottish football disaster
12 Jan	British minister's home bombed
23 Jan	Britain allowed to sell arms to S Africa
25 Jan	Idi Amin ousts Uganda president
06 Feb	Man plays golf on the Moon
07 Feb	Swiss women get the vote
15 Feb	D-Day delivers new UK currency
24 Feb	UK restricts Commonwealth migrants
01 Mar	Workers down tools over union rights
08 Mar	Post strike ends with pay deal
29 Mar	Manson sent to gas chamber
29 Mar	Calley guilty of My Lai massacre
22 Apr	Haitian dictator dies
27 Apr	Protest disrupts Welsh language trial
11 May	Britain's oldest tabloid closes
12 May	Row rocks Rolling Stone wedding
15 Jun	Councils defy Thatcher milk ban
30 Jun	Space mission ends in tragedy
03 Jul	Doors' singer Jim Morrison found dead
08 Jul	British troops shoot Londonderry rioters
13 Jul	Death for Moroccan rebel leaders
14 Jul	Suicide note reveals murder confession
15 Jul	Seals shot by government decree
01 Aug	Apollo 15 finds rock from birth of Moon
06 Aug	Sailor's record 'wrong way' voyage
09 Aug	NI activates internment law
15 Aug	'V-sign' costs rider victory
09 Sep	British diplomat freed after eight months
30 Sep	'I arrested a KGB superspy'
13 Oct	Army blasts N Ireland border roads
23 Oct	Two women shot at Belfast checkpoint
31 Oct	Bomb explodes in Post Office tower
13 Nov	American probe orbits Mars
22 Nov	Six dead in Scottish mountain tragedy
28 Nov	Farmer cracks 'major smuggling ring'
03 Dec	Pakistan intensifies air raids on India
04 Dec	Bomb demolishes crowded Belfast pub
30 Dec	Iranians deported from Iraq