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3.8%
A top league footballer earned £5,200
A GP earned £2,964
Average annual pay for men was £1,220
Average house price £3,840
Gallon of petrol 5 shillings (25p)
Pint of beer 2s (10p)
Off-the-peg Burtons
suit £15
1966 Births
January
12 Rob Zombie, musician, artist, writer
January 13 Patrick Dempsey, actor
January 17 Shabba Ranks, singer
February 9 Ellen van Langen, Dutch athlete
February 11 Patrick Kuhnen, West German tennis player
February 11 Stephen Gregory, actor
February 20 Cindy Crawford, model
February 22 Brian Andrew Greig, statesman
February 24 Billy Zane, actor
February 25 Samson Kitur, Kenyan athlete
March 10 Edie Brickell, singer
March 25 Tom Glavine, baseball pitcher
March 31 Roger Black, British athlete
April 14 Greg Maddux, baseball pitcher
April 18 Trine Hattestad, Norwegian javelin thrower
April 28 John Daly, American golfer
April 29 Phil Tufnell, cricketer
May 10 Jonathan Edwards, British triple jumper
May 12 Stephen Baldwin, actor
May 16 Janet Jackson, singer
May 16 Thurman Thomas, American football player
May 24 Eric Cantona, French footballer
May 26 Helena Bonham Carter, actress
June 8 Julianna Margulies, actress
June 18 Kurt Browning, figure skater
June 21 Rudi Bakhtiar, journalist
June 27 J. J. Abrams, television writer and producer
June 28 John Cusack, actor
June 30 Mike Tyson, boxer
July 3 Moises Alou, Major League Baseball player
July 14 Matthew Fox, actor
August 7 Jimmy Wales, founder of Wikipedia
August 11 Juan Maria Solare, classical music composer
August 14 Halle Berry, actress
August 19 Lee Ann Womack, country music musician
September 4 Yanka Dyagileva, Russian punk-rock singer
September 21 Kiefer Sutherland, actor
October 24 Roman Abramovich, Russian oligarch and oil magnate
October 27 Matt Drudge, Internet journalist
October 28 Steve Atwater, American football player
November 12 David Schwimmer, American actor
November 14 Curt Schilling, baseball pitcher
November 17 Sophie Marceau, actress
November 17 Jeff Buckley, singer
December 7 C. Thomas Howell, actor
December 7 Linn Ullmann, Norwegian journalist and author
1966
Deaths
January
1 Vincent Auriol, French president
January 11 Alberto Giacometti, Italian sculptor
January 11 Lal Bahadur Shastri, Indian prime minister
January 11 Hannes Kolehmainen, Finnish long-distance runner
January 14 Barry Fitzgerald, actor
January 14 Bill Carr, American athlete
January 15 Sergei Korolev, space scientist
January 18 Kathleen Norris, writer
February 1 Buster Keaton, American actor and film director
February 1 Hedda Hopper, gossip columnist
February 10 Billy Rose, composer, band leader
February 20 Chester Nimitz, American admiral
February 28 Charles Bassett and Elliott See, astronauts
March 1 Fritz Houtermans, physicist
March 3 Maxfield Parrish, artist
March 3 William Frawley, actor
March 5 Anna Ahmatova, poetess
March 8 William Waldorf Astor, 3rd Viscount Astor, British parliamentarian
March 8 George Cornell, gangster
April 2 C.S. Forester, English author
April 3 Battista Pininfarina, car designer
April 10 Evelyn Waugh, author
April 13 Georges Duhamel, author
April 13 Abdul Salam Arif, Iraqi president
May 16 Randolph Turpin, boxer
May 22 Tom Goddard, Gloucestershire cricketer
June 1 Papa Jack Laine, jazz musician
June 6 James Meredith, civil rights campaigner
June 7 Claudette Orbison, wife of Roy
June 7 Jean Arp, Alsatian sculptor, painter, and poet
June 8 Anton Melik, Slovene geographer
June 12 Hermann Scherchen, Austrian conductor
June 21 Reg Calvert, pirate radio station owner
June 29 Ronald Shiner, actor
June 30 Giuseppe Farina, Italian F1 driver
July 2 Jan Brzechwa, Polish poet
July 6 Sad Sam Jones, Major League Baseball player
July 7 George de Hevesy, chemist; Nobel-laureate
July 18th Bobby Fuller, singer
July 24 Montgomery Clift, actor
August 3 Lenny Bruce, American comedian
August 6 Cordwainer Smith, science fiction author
September 5 Dezso Lauber, Hungarian sportsman
September 6 Margaret Sanger, birth control advocate
September 6 Hendrik Verwoerd, prime minister of South Africa
September 11 C. E. Woolman, founder of Delta Air Lines
September 17 Fritz Wunderlich, tenor
September 28 Andre Breton, founder of surrealism
September 28 Eric Fleming, actor
October 7 Johnny Kidd, singer
October 18 Elizabeth Arden, beautician, and cosmetics entrepreneur
October 26 Alma Cogan, singer
November 2 Mississippi John Hurt
November 19 Arthur Haynes, actor
November 23 Sean T. O'Kelly, second President of Ireland
December 15 Walt Disney
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The Psychedelic
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4,000 people attend a memorial service for Richard Dimbleby at Westminster
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Pakistani-Indian peace negotiations end successfully in Moscow
Conference about the situation in Rhodesia begins in Lagos
Indian prime minister Lal Bahadur Shastri dies
Barclays announce plans for the Barclaycard credit card
Three visiting MPs are attacked by 400 supporters of Prime Minister Ian
Smith at a meeting in Salisbury.
Three visiting Labour M.P.s are expelled from Rhodesia
The TRIPS festival, considered to be the start of the Hippie movement
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Moscow announces that Sergei Korolev is dead
A B-52 bomber collides with a jet tanker over Spain, dropping three 70-kiloton
hydrogen bombs
Robert Menzies resigns as Australian Prime Minister after a record 16
years in office
Indira Gandhi is elected Prime Minister of India
Hungary sees demonstrations against high food prices
Beatle George Harrison marries model Patti Boyd
Italian Prime Minister Aldo Moro resigns as a result of a power struggle
within his party
Harold Holt becomes Prime Minister of Australia
Film actress Hedy Lamarr is arrested for shoplifting in Los Angeles
The Road Safety Act is passed which leads to the use of the breathalyser
The United Kingdom ceases all trade with Rhodesia
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Premium Bond winner was Norman Jepson
Silent comedy star Buster Keaton dies aged 70
Hollywood columnist Hedda Hopper dies
Soviet probe Luna 9 is the first artificial satellite to 'land' on the
moon
A Japanese passenger jet crashes into Tokyo Bay killing 133
The Who and The Kinks perform on the last 'Shindig' show on ABC television
Freddie Laker sets up an airline to cater for the package holiday market
The government announces plans to build a fast-breeder reactor at Dounreay,
Scotland
Soviet writers Yuli Daniel and Andrei Sinjavski are imprisoned for anti-Soviet
writings
The Belgian government resigns
The Australian Dollar is introduced at an exchange rate of two dollars
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The UK Naval minister, Christopher Mayhew, resigns
The British musicians' union proposes that miming be banned from television
shows
The Merseybeats disband
A military coup in Syria replaces the government with a Ba'athist regime
A military coup occurs in Ghana while president Kwame Nkrumah is abroad
US astronauts Charles Bassett and Elliott See are killed in aircraft crash
Liverpool's 'Cavern Club' closes
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The Russian
craft Venera (Venus) III is the first to land (crash) on another planet
The government announces plans for decimalisation
Actor William Frawley who played Fred Mertz in 'I Love Lucy' dies
John Lennon says, "We (The Beatles) are more popular than Jesus"
Ronnie Kray shoots rival gangster George Cornell
Australia announces that it will substantially increase its number of
troops in Vietnam
An IRA bomb destroys Nelson's Pillar in Dublin, Eire
Crown Princess Beatrix of the Netherlands marries German Claus von Amsberg
Charles De Gaulle states that French troops will be taken out of NATO
and French bases closed
Gemini 8 docks with the Agena target satellite
The Alvin submarine finds one of the missing American hydrogen bombs lost
near Spain
Arkle wins the Cheltenham Gold Cup for the third year in succession
The Jules Rimet World Cup trophy is stolen from Central Hall, Westminster
The Pope and the Archbishop of Canterbury, meet in Rome - the first official
meeting for 400 years
The World Cup trophy is found in a garden in South London by 'Pickles'
the dog
Indira Gandhi visits Washington DC
P.J.Proby leaves Britian after his visa expires
Labour, under Harold Wilson, are re-elected in a General Election
The USSR launches Luna 10 which will become the first space probe to orbit
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'Sophia Loren
and Carlo Ponti marry for the second time, the first being declared void
The British Airports Authority is formed
The Indonesian army demands that the country rejoin the United Nations
Author C.S. Forester dies
The Soviet Union's Luna 10 becomes the first spacecraft to orbit the Moon
'Pirate' Radio Scotland changes its name to Radio Ireland after a relocation
of the ship
The USA recovers a 'lost' H-bomb from the Mediterranean sea floor
Leonid Brezhnev is elected secretary-general of the USSR communist party
Evelyn Waugh dies
Surf rocker Jan Berry crashes his Corvette into a parked truck
The first B-52 bombing on North Vietnam commences
The Lovin' Spoonful make their British debut at the Marquee Club
Johnny Kidd disbands his group 'The Pirates'
Roberta Bignay becomes the first woman to run in the Boston Marathon
An artificial heart is installed in the chest of Marcel DeRudder in a
Houston hospital
The opening of the Parliament of the United Kingdom is televised for the
first time
The city of Tashkent is destroyed by a huge earthquake
L.K. O'Brien is appointed Governor of The Bank of England
Pope Paul VI and Soviet premier Gromyko meet in the Vatican - the first
meeting between the Catholic Church and Soviet Union
The number of US troops in Vietnam totals 250.000
A regular hovercraft service begins across the English Channel from Dover
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The Beatles
play their last British concert, at the Empire Pool in Wembley
Pirate station Britain Radio starts test broadcasts
Brady and Hindley are found guilty and sentenced to life imprisonment
for the 'Moors Murders'
The Rolling Stones release 'Paint it Black'
The 44 day seamens' strike causes the government to declare a state of
emergency
The South Vietnamese army besieges Da Nang
Essex play Somerset on the first day of Sunday play in County Cricket
Ex-World Champion boxer Randolph Turpin is found shot dead at his flat
in Leamington Spa
The Beach Boys' 'Pet Sounds' album is released
The revolving restaurant at the top of the Post Office tower opens
The Who's Keith Moon is injured when accidentally struck by Pete Townshend
during a 'wild' routine
Henry Cooper loses his world boxing title rematch with Muhammad Ali in
the 6th round due to cuts
248 die when soccer fans from Peru and Argentina clash in Lima
Guyana achieves independence
Six French fighter planes crash above Spain
Fidel Castro announces martial law in Cuba because of possible US attack
The Indonesian and Malayan governments declare that the Indonesian Confrontation
is over
300 US airplanes bomb North Vietnam
Graham Hill wins the Indianapolis 500 car race
The US launches Surveyor 1 to the Moon
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Petroleum announce the finding of a huge gas field in the North Sea off
the Humber estuary
The US space probe Surveyor 1 lands on the Moon - the first soft landing
on another world
Joacim Balaguer is elected president of the Dominican Republic
Eugene Cernan completes his second U.S. spacewalk during the Gemini 9 mission
James Meredith, the first black student at Mississippi University and civil
rights activist, is shot by a sniper on a lone Civil Rights march across
Mississippi
Roy Orbison's wife Claudette dies following a motorcycle accident
The US Supreme Court rules in the Miranda case that police must inform suspects
of their rights before questioning them
The Beatles appear 'live' on 'Top of the Pops' for the first and only time
CIA director William F. Raborn resigns, to be succeeded by Richard Helms
Butlins open their last, and smallest, holiday camp at Barry Island
Charles De Gaulle visits the Soviet Union
Sheila Scott lands her Piper Comanche at Heathrow, completing her 33 day
round the world solo flight - the first woman to achieve it
Reg Calvert, owner of pirate radio station Radio City, is shot dead at Major
Oliver Smedley's home
Anthony Wedgewood Benn introduces legislation to outlaw pirate radio stations
In Argentina, a coup deposes president Arturo Umberto Illia and appoints
general Juan Carlos Ongania
The Barclaycard is launched, the first British-based credit card
Comedy actor Ronald Shiner dies
US planes bomb Hanoi and Haiphong
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the first English town to get 'yellow pages'
Mike D'Abo replaces Paul Jones as lead singer of pop group Manfred Mann
The first colour television transmission in Canada takes place from Toronto
North Vietnam declares general mobilization
President Lyndon B. Johnson signs the Freedom of Information Act into
US law
A Saturn 1 rocket is launched from Cape Kennedy
Malawi becomes a republic
BMC and Jaguar announce that they are to merge as British Motor Holdings
Indira Gandhi visits Moscow
Brigitte Bardot marries Gunther Sachs
Israeli and Syrian jet fighters fight over the Jordan River
American Jim Ryun sets a new mile record (3m 51s)
Prime Minister Harold Wilson imposes a pay freeze in the UK
The Cavern Club in Liverpool reopens
UN Secretary General U Thant visits Moscow
Brian Jones makes his final appearance as a Rolling Stone
At 70, Florence Nagle becomes the first licensed female racehorse trainer
The USA announces that a U-2 reconnaissance plane has disappeared over
Cuba
Bob Dylan breaks his neck in a motorcycle accident, taking 18 months to
recover
England win football's World Cup at
Wembley, beating West Germany 4-2 in extra time
Princess Alexandra gives birth to Marina Victoria Alexandra
Beatles products are burned in Alabama, USA, to protest John Lennon's
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Charles Whitman kills 16 people at the University of Texas
The Spanish government forbids any flight of British military places through
Spanish airspace
Comedian Lenny Bruce dies of a drugs overdose
Prince Philip opens the Commonwealth Games in Kingston, Jamaica
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. leads a civil rights march in Chicago
Ground-breaking takes place on the World Trade Center construction
The Ministry of Social Security is formed from the Ministries of Pensions
and National Insurance
The bridge over the Tajo River in Lisbon, Portugal, is opened
George Brown succeeds Michael Stewart as Foreign Secretary
Harry Roberts, John Duddy and Jack Whitney shoot dead three plain clothes
policemen
An earthquake in Turkey kills 2394 and injures a further 10000
U.S. spacecraft Orbiter 1 is reported to have achieved Lunar orbit
John Whitney is charged with the murder of three policemen
The New York Herald Tribune stops publication
Saudi Arabia and the UAR begin negotiations in Kuwait to end the war in
Yemen
The Tay road bridge is opened
Further earthquakes in eastern Turkey destroy whole cities
Seven men are sentenced to death in Egypt for anti-Nasser agitation
Francis Chichester begins his solo round the world voyage in Gypsy Moth
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UN Secretary-General U Thant declares that he is not going to seek re-election
John Ridgeway and Chay Blyth complete their 92-day row across the Atlantic
The South African Prime Minister Hendrik Verwoerd is assassinated in Cape
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The Severn road bridge is officially opened by Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth
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'Star Trek' premieres on NBC-TV
NATO decides to move the SHAPE headquarters to Belgium
'The Monkees' premieres on NBC-TV
Gemini XI is launched for a 71-hour flight. Charles 'Pete' Conrad, Jr.
and Richard F. Gordon, Jr. perform the first-ever direct-ascent (first
orbit) rendezvous with an Agena Target Vehicle
Balthazar Johannes Vorster becomes the new South African prime minister
Britain's first polaris submarine, H.M.S. Resolution, is launched at Barrow-in-Furness
The New Metropolitan Opera house opens in New York City
Scotland Yard arrests Ronald Edwards suspected of being involved of the
great train robbery
Jimmy Hendrix changes the spelling of his name to Jimi
Surveyor 2 crashes on the Moon
41 year-old actor Eric Fleming, who played trail boss Gil Favor in 'Rawhide',
is drowned in Peru
Bechuanaland gains independence from England, becoming Botswana
The Chevrolet Camaro (originally named Panther) is introduced
Lord Thomson buys 'The Times' newspaper
Nazis Baldur von Schirach and Albert Speer are released from Spandau Prison
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Lead singer Denny Laine quits
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Georgie Fame splits from his backing group 'The Blue Flames'
Tunisia severs diplomatic relations with the United Arab Republic
Israel applies for outer membership of the EEC
Basutoland becomes independent and takes the name Lesotho
Pop star, ex-Pirate Johnny Kidd, dies in a car crash on A58, Bury New
Road, Lancashire
The 'hippie' drug LSD is made illegal in California
France and the Soviet Union sign a treaty about cooperation in nuclear
research
The first edition of the 'International Times' underground paper is published
The city of Montreal inaugurates its metro system
Lesotho and Botswana are accepted to join United Nations
Timothy Evans is given a posthumous free pardon for the Christie murders
The Aberfan colliery slurry tip slide disaster claims the lives of 116
children and 28 adults
Spy George Blake escapes from Wormwood Scrubs prison
Spain demands that Britain stops all military flights to Gibraltar
Britain refuses to stop flights
Negotiations about the Vietnam War begin in Manila, Philippines
Spain closes its Gibraltar border to non-pedestrian traffic
Singer Alma Cogan dies of cancer
NATO moves its HQ from Paris to Brussels
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Lunar Orbiter 2 is launched
Edward Brooke becomes the first black senator to be elected in the U.S.A.
Film actor Ronald Reagan is elected Governor of California
Paul McCartney is involved in the moped accident which leads to rumours
of his death
John Lennon meets Yoko Ono at an art exposition in the Indica Gallery,
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Jack Lynch becomes the new Irish premier
Spain declares a general amnesty on crimes committed during the Spanish
Civil War
The last Gemini mission, Gemini 12 (James Lovell and 'Buzz' Aldrin), is
launched on 4-day flight
James Lovell and Buzz Aldrin splash down in Gemini 12
Harry Roberts, police murderer, is caught near London
150,000 Leonid meteors an hour visible in the skies across the United
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UN General Assembly decides to found the UN Industrial Development Organization
British comedy actor Arthur Haynes dies
The army crushes an attempted coup in Togo
400 people die of respiratory failure and heart attack during a killer
New York City smog
The Beatles begin recording sessions for the 'Sgt Pepper' album
Edgar J. Hoover announces all evidence suggests that Lee Harvey Oswald
was acting alone
The Jimi Hendrix Experience make their London debut at the Bag O' Nails
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'Pirate' station Radio 390 (Radio Invicta) closes down
The first major tidal power plant opens at Rance estuary, France
A coup in Burundi overthrows the monarchy and a republic is declared
Barbados achieves independence
The Courts declare 'pirate' station Radio Essex to be operating illegally
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The B.B.C. announces
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The first British Christmas postage stamp is issued
Harold Wilson and Rhodesian Prime Minister Ian Smith negotiate on HMS
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Georg Kiesinger is elected as West German chancellor
U Thant agrees to serve a second term as UN Secretary-General
The first geo-stationary satellite is placed in orbit over the Pacific
Barbados is accepted into the United Nations
The US and USSR sign a treaty to prohibit nuclear weapons in outer space
The first US bombing of Hanoi takes place
Clive Lloyd makes his test cricket debut v India, in Bombay, scoring 82
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Cartoon genius Walt Disney dies, aged 65
Audouin Dollfus discovers Janus, the 10th satellite of Saturn
The UN Security council approves an oil embargo against Rhodesia
The Jimi Hendrix Experience release their first single in the UK, 'Hey
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South Africa refuses to join the trade embargo against Rhodesia
Saturn's moon Epimetheus is discovered by Richard L. Walker
Harold Wilson withdraws all his previous offers to Rhodesian government
The USSR launches Luna 13, which lands in Oceanus Procellarum on the 24th
Ian Smith declares that he considers that Rhodesia is already a republic
The last edition of 'Ready Steady Go!' is broadcast
'Pirate' radio station Radio Essex closes down
Jimi Hendrix writes 'Purple Haze' backstage at the Upper Cut Club
'Pirate' Radio 390 (Radio Invicta) resumes transmitting
Walter Ulbricht talks about negotiations regarding German unification
Thieves steal millions of pounds worth of paintings from Dulwich Art Gallery,
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