14 Jan	Heiress Lesley Whittle kidnapped
11 Feb	Tories choose first woman leader
13 Feb	Miners set for 35 per cent pay rises
27 Feb	PC murder linked to IRA bomb factory
28 Feb	Dozens killed in Moorgate Tube crash
04 Mar	Comic genius Chaplin is knighted
07 Mar	Kidnapped heiress found strangled
25 Mar	Saudi's King Faisal assassinated
25 Mar	National Front rallies against Europe
13 Apr	Beirut street battle leaves 17 dead
13 Apr	'Cambridge rapist' strikes again
21 Apr	Vietnam's President Thieu resigns
24 Apr	Baader-Meinhof blow up embassy
26 Apr	Labour votes to leave the EEC
30 Apr	Saigon surrenders
24 May	Journalists leave fallen Saigon
09 Jun	First live broadcast of Parliament
06 Jun	UK embraces Europe in referendum
12 Jun	Gandhi found guilty of corruption
19 Jun	Missing earl guilty of murder
05 Jul	Ashe's Wimbledon win makes history
19 Aug	Davis campaigners stop Test match
26 Aug	Rhodesia peace talks fail
05 Sep	London Hilton bombed
22 Sep	Bomb blasts rock Northern Ireland
24 Sep	First Britons conquer Everest
01 Oct	Muhammad Ali wins 'Thrilla in Manila'
03 Oct	London's Spaghetti House siege ends
09 Oct	Man killed in Piccadilly bomb blast
10 Oct	Liz Taylor and Richard Burton remarry
21 Oct	Herrema kidnappers under siege
29 Oct	Franco's 36-year reign ends
03 Nov	North Sea oil begins to flow
07 Nov	IRA kidnappers release industrialist
11 Nov	Divided Angola gets independence
20 Nov	Spanish dictator Franco dies
27 Nov	TV presenter Ross McWhirter shot dead
29 Nov	Graham Hill killed in air crash
06 Dec	Couple under siege in Balcombe Street
11 Dec	Attack on British vessels heightens Cod War
12 Dec	Balcombe Street siege ends
29 Dec	New laws to end battle of the sexes