| 30th July 1966 |
England win World Cup |
| 3rd December 1967 |
First heart transplant performed |
| 6th November 1968 |
Richard Nixon becomes U.S. President |
| 21st July 1969 |
First man on the moon |
| 23rd January 1970 |
First Jumbo Jet lands at Heathrow |
| 15th February 1971 |
Decimal Currency begins |
| 22nd January 1972 |
Britain joins E.E.C. |
| 14th February 1973 |
British boxer Joe Bugner loses to Muhammad Ali |
| 20th March 1974 |
Kidnap attempt on Princess Anne in The Mall |
| 11th February 1975 |
Margaret Thatcher becomes new Tory Leader |
| 31st August 1976 |
Rain ends the summer heatwave |
| 2nd April 1977 |
Red Rum completes a Grand National Hatrick |
| 16th October 1978 |
Polish Cardinal becomes Pope John-Paul II |
| 27th August 1979 |
Lord Mountbatten killed by IRA bomb |
| 5th May 1980 |
SAS storm Iranian Embassy to free hostages |
| 29th July 1981 |
700 million worldwide TV viewers watch the Royal Wedding |
| 5th April 1982 |
Royal Navy Task Force sets sail for The Falklands |
| 2nd October 1983 |
Neil Kinnock becomes new Labour Leader |
| 9th July 1984 |
York Minster set ablaze by lightning |
| 7th July 1985 |
Unseeded 17 year old Boris Becker wins Wimbledon |
| 20th January 1986 |
Space Shuttle Challenger explodes on take off |
| 16th October 1987 |
Storm of the Century lashes England |
| 21st December 1988 |
Pan Am flight 103 explodes over Lockerbie |
| 5th February 1989 |
Sky Television begins broadcasting in Britain |
| 31st March 1990 |
200,000 protest in London Poll Tax Riots |
| 17th January 1991 |
The Gulf War begins |
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