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Frutos

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Helpful Moderator
NSC Patron
May 3, 2006
35,569
Northumberland
According to Wikipedia, not really very much at all.

The Miners Strike started, Apple started selling Macs, there was an industrial disaster in India, the Soviet Union didn't turn up for the Olympics and the Grand Hotel got "redecorated".

A quiet year, really.
 




Publius Ovidius

Well-known member
Jul 5, 2003
46,043
at home
Munich air disaster
 


zeetha

Well-known member
Apr 11, 2011
1,315
1969 - Man walked on the moon (or the most elaborate hoax in history was perpetrated if you're a conspiracy theorist!)
 


Wellesley

Well-known member
Jul 24, 2013
4,973
I was the main event! Oh, then somebody walked on the moon,or did they.......?
 




blueandwhitestripes

Active member
Mar 18, 2008
433
Sussex
The abolition of the death penalty in UK
1964
 








symyjym

Banned
Nov 2, 2009
13,138
Brighton / Hove actually
Twiggy becomes world-wide sensation.

The third Arab / Israeli war is fought (a.k.a. "Six Day War").

China explodes its first hydrogen bomb.

Elvis Presley and Priscilla Beaulieu are married in Las Vegas.

The "Hippie" movement declares "Summer of Love".

Che Guevara is killed in Bolivia.
 






Beach Hut

Brighton Bhuna Boy
Jul 5, 2003
71,970
Living In a Box
Kim Philby defected to Russia, Dr Beeching wrote some report about the Railways and the Beatles released their first album.
 








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