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| The Manchester United team suffer this catastrophe on their way back from a European Cup tie in Belgrade. | |
| The government announces plans to close the 300 year old dockyards at this Kent town. | |
| Bertrand Russell launches this organisation, which sets itself against nuclear weapons. | |
| Sir Vivian Fuchs leads a British team to the first crossing of this continent, in 99 days. | |
| This BBC organisation is set up to provide sound effects for its radio shows. | |
| The Life Peerages Act allows for women to sit in this Parliamentary body for the first time. | |
| This Bolton Wanderers striker scores both goals as they win the FA Cup for a fourth time with a 2-0 victory over Manchester United. | |
| This youth awards programme, rewarding adolescents and young adults for completing a series of self-improvement exercises, is presented for the first time at Buckingham Palace. | |
| The Queen officially reopens this London airport. | |
| These devices, used to collect payment in return for the right to leave one's car in a particular area, are first installed in the UK. | |
| British paratroopers arrive in this Middle Eastern country after King Hussein asked for help against pressure from Iraq. | |
| Cardiff hosts this interntional sports event. | |
| This musician's debut single ''Move It'' is released, and reaches No. 2 in the charts; it is regarded as being one of the first authentic rock and roll songs from outside the USA | |
| The first of these ''wars'' between the UK and Iceland breaks out. | |
| The soveriegnty of this festive island is transferred from the UK to Australia. | |
| This long-running BBC sports programme airs for the first time. | |
| This Michael Bond-created ursine from Peru features in his first story. | |
| This long-running BBC children's TV show airs for the first time. | |
| This man sets the world water speed record, at 248.62 mph. | |
| The first exhibition in the world of these electronic items is held at Earl's Court. | |
| Harold Macmillan opens this road, Britain's first motorway. | |
| Subscriber Trunk Dialling is inaugurated by the Queen when she makes a call from Bristol to this Scottish city. | |
| Frederick Sanger wins his first Nobel Prize in Chemistry, ''for his work on the structure of proteins, especially that of ____''. | |
