1970

1970
The Jugg Brothers broadcast in the Comedy Playhouse strand. The first episode of The Six Wives Of Henry VIII broadcast on BBC2. Unix time became the standard for timestamps in computer programming. Don Sharp's Taste Of Excitement - starring Eva Renzi, David Buck and Peter Vaughan, Arnold Miller's A Touch of The Other - starring Hélène Françoise, Kenneth Cope and Shirley Anne Field and Burgess Meredith's The Yin & Yang Of Mister Go - starring James Mason and Jeff Bridges - premiered.
The first UK broadcast of The Banana Splits. Federico Fellini's La Strada shown in BBC2's Italian Cinema strand. The Temptations' 'I Can't Get Next To You'/'Running Away (Ain't Gonna Help You)', Winston Groovey's 'Leaving Me Standing'/'Little Girl', John & Beverley Martyn's 'John The Baptist'/'The Ocean', White Plains' 'My Baby Loves Lovin'/'Show Me Your Hand' and Grapefruit's 'Lady Godiva (Come Home)'/'Thunder & Lightning' released. California became the first state to permit 'no-fault divorce', in which a divorce could be granted without the petitioner having to allege misconduct on the part of their spouse. Other states would enact similar legislation, with dissolution of marriage being allowed simply on grounds of 'irreconcilable differences' between the partners. Frank Pierson's The Looking Glass War - starring Christopher Jones, Pia Degermark, Ralph Richardson, Anthony Hopkins, Susan George and Ray McAnally - premiered. Arsenal signed nineteen year old Peter Marinello for one hundred thousand pounds. Despite a promising start, over the next three years it turned out to be a disastrous move for both club and player. The first episodes of Manhunt (Fare Forward Voyagers) and Aquarius and the Randall & Hopkirk (Deceased) episode When The Spirit Moves You broadcast on LWT.

Jon Pertwee replaced Patrick Troughton as The Doctor in Spearhead From Space featuring The Autons first appearance on Doctor Who. The first episodes of It's Cliif Richard and Vanity Fair broadcast. The first episode of Madeira broadcast in BBC2's Gardener's World strand. The Beatles (or, the remaining three of them, anyway) began their final recording session at Abbey Road, cutting 'I, Me, Mine' and doing some overdubs for 'Let It Be'. John Lennon was missing - he and Yoko Ono were in Denmark - having previously told Paul, George and Ringo that he 'wanted a divorce.' Syd Barrett's The Madcap Laughs and Robin Gibb's 'August October'/'Give Me A Smile' released. Fyfe Robertson appeared on Desert Island Discs. Highlights of the FA Cup Third Round included Carlisle United's goalless draw at Nottingham Forest, Middlesbrough's two-one defeat of West Ham United and Bradford City's two-two draw with Tottenham Hotspur (featured, along with two others games, on Match of The Day). Queen's Park Rangers defeated South Shields four-one whilst two of the other surviving minor-league sides, Hillingdon Borough and Sutton United met and shared a goalless drew. Swindon Town won four-nil at Blackburn Rovers, Barry Endean scored twice as Watford had a two-one victory at Bolton Wanderers, Chelsea beat Birmingham City three-nil and Fourth Divisioin Chester knocked out Bristol City two-one (Keith Webber hitting both). Promotion-chasing Sheffield United defeated First Division high-flyers Everton by the same score. Robin Gibb's 'August October'/'Give Me A Smile' released.
The first episode of Ivanhoe and Ian Fleming: Creator Of The James Bond Myth broadcast in the Omnibus strand. The Battle Of Cable Street broadcast in BBC2's Yesterday's Witness stand, featuring an interview with despicable old fascist stinker Baronet Oswald Ernald Mosley. Dustin Hoffman was interviewed on Film Night. In Houston, NASA's Deputy Chief George Low announced a revision in the Apollo Moon exploration schedule and the cancellation of the proposed Apollo 20 which would have taken place in 1975. Low said that Apollo's 13, 14, 15 and 16 would land before the end of 1971, that the Apollo programme would then pause for the launch of the Skylab space station in July 1972 and subsequent missions to Skylab and that Apollo 17, 18 and 19, with longer stays on the Moon, would take place in 1973 and 1974. According to the original NASA schedule, Apollo 20 would have been launched in December 1972 and would have landed at the Copernicus crater with astronauts Don Lind, Jack Lousma and Stuart Roosa. Roosa later piloted the Apollo 14 mission, Lousma would pilot the Skylab 3 mission and Lind would be a mission specialist on a 1985 flight of space shuttle Challenger. Apollo 19, rescheduled for December 1973, was cancelled in September. Keith Moon ran over and killed his bodyguard and chauffeur, Neil Boland, after fleeing from a hostile crowd of skinhead youths in Hatfield, Hertfordshire. Boland had driven Moon's Bentley to Hatfield so that Moon, his wife and two friends could attend the opening of the Red Lion discothèque and Boland had left the car to keep the crowd away. The death of Boland, who was dragged underneath the Bentley, was subsequently ruled to be accidental by investigators. John Peel presented the first episode of Radio 1's The Sunday Show featuring Family and - not unexpectedly - Tyrannosaurus Rex. Delbert Mann's adaptation of David Copperfield - starring Richard Attenborough, Cyril Cusack, Edith Evans, Pamela Franklin, Susan Hampshire, Wendy Hiller, Ron Moody and Laurence Olivier - premiered.
The first episodes of Chingachook, A Question Of Sport and BBC2's Barry Humphries' Scandals broadcast. The first UK broadcast of Dastardly & Muttley In Their Flying Machines. The first episode of Radio 4's India In The Seventies broadcast. Jerzy Skolimowski's The Adventures Of Gerard - starring Peter McEnery, Claudia Cardinale, Eli Wallach and Jack Hawkins - premiered. The World In Action episode Progress Report broadcast.
So You Think You Know The New Laws? and BBC2's Hassan broadcast. Richard Donner's Twinky - starring Charles Bronson and Susan George - premiered. Carlisle United defeated Nottingham Forest two-one in an FA Cup replay, George McVitie netting the winner. The World In Action episode Frontline Africa broadcast.
Desmond McCarthy and Johnny Byrne's The Season Of The Witch - starring Julie Driscoll, Paul Nicholls and Robert Powell - broadcast in The Wednesday Play strand. Dick Van Dyke & The Other Woman broadcast on BBC2. A controversial episode on the CBS police drama Hawaii Five-O was broadcast for the first and only time in the US. Bored, She Hung Herself was about a girl who was believed to have committed suicide under the diabolic influence of her mystic boyfriend. The theme of autoerotic asphyxiation was described for the first time on television. After one viewer allegedly 'died trying the same technique,' the episode was never rebroadcast and would be omitted from syndicated reruns of the popular long-running series. In the FA Cup, Derby County, Stoke City and Tottenham Hotspur all overcame lower-league opposition at the second attempt; four-one against Preston North End, three-two over Oxford United and five-nil versus Bradford City respectively. The first episodes of Kate - Dear Monica - and Redgauntlet broadcast on Thames.
An Officer & A Gentleman broadcast in the Comedy Playhouse strand. The first episode of Week Ending broadcast on Radio 4. Jack Gold's The Reckoning - starring Nicol Williamson, Ann Bell, Rachel Roberts and Zena Walker - premiered. The James Gang's 'Funk Number Forty Eight'/'Collage' released.
Waterline: The Sixpenny Settlers broadcast on BBC2. Edison Lighthouse's 'Love Grows (Where My Rosemary Goes)'/'Every Lonely Day', Ferris Wheel's 'Can't Stop Now'/'I Know You Well', The Maytals' 'Pressure Drop'/Beverley's All Stars' 'Smoke Screen' and Candy Choir's 'Why Do You Cry My Love?'/'Lucky Jim' released. The Randall & Hopkirk (Deceased) episode Somebody Just Walked Over My Grave broadcast on LWT. Maurice Hatton's Praise Marx & Pass The Ammunition - starring John Thaw, Edina Ronay, Louis Mahoney and Helen Fleming - premiered.
The first episode of Disco 2 broadcast, introduced by Tommy Vance. Match Of The Day featured the draw for the World Cup live from Mexico City and highlights of Leeds United's memorable five-two win against Chelsea at Stamford Bridge. Everton remained top of the First Division with a three-nil victory over Ipswich Town. Thirty five goals were scored in the nine First Division matches that survived the atrocious weather, West Ham United winning three-two at Sheffield Wednesday (Martin Peters scoring twice) and Tottenham Hospur beat Derby County two-one. Jeff Astle hit a hat-trick as West Brom defeated Crystal Palace three-two and Manchester United beat Arsenal two-one - Willie Morgan and Carlo Sartori on-target for the hosts, debutant Peter Marinello, replying for The Gunners. Cardiff City topped the Second Division following a three-nil victory over Sheffield United. Third Division leaders luton Town got a five-one hiding at Shrewsbury Town. Bury annihilated Tranmere rovers eight-nil (George Jones scoring four). This also saw the league debut of Terry McDermott, the first of five hundred and twenty three games, for Bury, Newcastle United, Liverpool and England, in a career which lasted until 1984. Medicine Head and Savoy Brown featured on Top Gear. The launch of the first insured American space rocket was aborted at the last moment. The successful launch of the Delta M booster rocket was covered by a casualty and liability insurance policy which would pay for damages if the rocket failed and damaged its payload, a commercial communications satellite. The Intelsat 3-6 was successfully launched five days later. Leonard Sachs appeared on Desert Island Discs.
The first episodes of BBC2's Germinal and Management In The Seventies broadcast. In one of Australia's most famous mysteries, Cheryl Grimmer, a three-year-old, was kidnapped from a beach in Wollongong, New South Wales. A suspect would be arrested forty seven years later, based on a confession that he had made in a police interview, but the charges were dropped after a judge ruled that the confession could not be admitted at the trial. La Residencia, a horror film written and directed by Narciso Ibáñez Serrador, opened in Spanish cinemas and quickly became the most popular movie in that nation's history. Chicken Shack featured on Radio 1's The Sunday Show.
The first episode of Hardy Heating Company Ltd broadcast on BBC2. Wanderers In Space broadcast in The Sky At Night strand. General Odumegwu Ojukwu, President of Biafra, fled from the secessionist state which he had created flying out of Uli, the republic's only airfield, minutes before Nigerian bombers arrived. Ojukwu claimed in a pre-recorded radio broadcast that he was travelling 'to explore with our friends all the new peace proposals further' and placed Major General Philip Effiong in command of the government in his absence. Ojukwu went into exile in the Côte d'Ivoire and was granted political asylum by Ivorian President Félix Houphouët-Boigny. He would remain in exile until 1982, returning to Nigeria after being pardoned by President Shehu Shagari. Thrice postponed, Brentwood Town's FA Cup tie with Northampton Town was finally played (The Cobblers winning one-nil). In various replays, Aldershot knocked out Second Division Huddersfield Town three-one (veteran Jimmy Melia scoring twice), Liverpool beat Coventry City thre-nil and Sutton United advanced to the Fourth Round, four-one winners against Hillingdon Borough at Gander Green Lane. Trevor Bladon hit twice with Mick Meadows and Terry Howard adding to the score. The World In Action episode The Twenty Two Year Itch broadcast.

The first episode of BBC2's The Public Purse broadcast. The Duke and Duchess of Windsor (close personal friends of Herr Hitler) were interviewed by Kenneth Harris. Fourteen black and two white inmates from the maximum-security section of California's Soledad Prison were released into a recreation yard. Officer Opie Miller, an expert marksman armed with a rifle, watched over the inmates from a guard tower. A fist fight ensued and Miller opened fire on the prisoners. Three black inmates were killed in the shooting: WL Nolen and Cleveland Edwards died in the yard, while Alvin Miller died in the prison hospital hours later. A white inmate, Billy Harris, was wounded in the groin and lost a testicle. NASA Administrator Thomas Paine announced further changes in the manned space programme because of a reduced budget, including the lay-off of fifty thousand NASA employees. Kilmarnock were knocked out of the Inter-Cities Fairs Cup at the Third Round stage, losing two-nil to Dinamo Bacău in Romania. Arsenal, however reached the Quarter-Finals, Jon Sammels scoring the winner against Rouen. Middlesbrough thrashed Blackburn Rovers four-one in the Second Division.
The first episode of Solo broadcast on BBC2. Mille Miglia broadcast in The Wednesday Play strand. Diana Ross & The Supremes gave their farewell concert at the Frontier Hotel in Las Vegas. The last song performed by Ross, Mary Wilson and Cindy Birdsong was 'Someday We'll Be Together'. Ross began her solo career on 12 February, in Vancouver. Her place in The Supremes was filled by Jean Terrell. Daniel Haller's The Dunwich Horror - starring Dean Stockwell, Talia Shire and Sandra Dee - premiered. England and the Netherlands drew nil-nil in a friendly international at Wembley. Nottingham Forest's Ian Storey-Moore made his England debut. Scotland's last representatives in the Inter-Cities Fair Cup, Dunfermline Athletic, went out in agonising fashion, beating Anderlecht three-two at East End Park (George McLean scoring twice) but losing the Third Round tie on the away-goals rule. A vtial away-goal by Pop Robson sent holders Newcastle United through to the Quarter-Final, folowing a one-all draw with Southampton at The Dell. The Champions episode To Trap A Rat broadcast on Thames.
Whos's Your Friend? broadcast in the Comedy Playhouse strand. The first episode of BBC2's Man In Society broadcast. Will Owen, the Labour MP who had represented Morpeth since 1954, was arrested on charges of espionage. In addition to his parliamentary duties, Owen was the chairman of a Mayfair travel agency, Berolina, which specialised in tourism to East Germany. Jock Wilson, the Commander of Scotland Yard, personally charged Owen with communicating information 'useful to an enemy.' Michael Brody, who had inherited twenty six million dollars at the age of twenty one, announced at a press conference in New York that he intended to give away 'a large part' of his fortune to 'anyone who needed the money bad enough.' After three days of giving away thousands of dollars to strangers, he called a halt to the plan and claimed that he had made the announcement while he was 'tripped-out on drugs.' Alan Suddick, Fred Pickering and Mickey Burns were on-target as Blackpool knocked Arsenal out of the FA Cup, three-two, in a Third Round replay. York City overcame Cardiff City three-one at the third attempt to reach the fourth Round.
The first episode of Len & The River Mob broadcast in the Look & Read strand. Mister Aston Martin broadcast in the Wheelbase strand. The Jackson Five's 'I Want You Back'/'Who's Lovin' You?', The Chads' 'Dearest Belinda'/'Laurelwood Carnival Fair', Abel Mann's 'The Sun In My Morning'/'It's So Easy', Consortium's 'Melanie Cries Alone'/'Copper Coloured Years', Benny & Tina's 'This Love Is Real'/'Over My Dead Body', Tyrannosaurus Rex's 'By The Light Of The Magical Moon'/'Find A Little Wood' and The Fantastics' 'Waiting Round For Heartaches'/'Ask The Lonely' released. Colonel Muammar Gaddafi, who led the revolution which established the Libyan Arab Republic the previous September, named himself as the new Prime Minister of Libya, forcing out Mahmud Suleiman Maghribi. The Randall & Hopkirk (Deceased) episode Could You Recognise The Man Again? broadcast on LWT.
The first UK TV showing of White Witch Doctor. Maurice Edelman's The Chief Whip Sends His Regards broadcast in BBC2's Thirty-Minute Theatre strand. The Edgar Broughton Band ('Old Gohper', 'Officer Dan', 'There's No Vibrations, But Wait', 'The Moth') and Principal Edward's Magic Theatre featured on Top Gear. Val Doonican appeared on Desert Island Discs. In the First Division Chelsea won three-nil at Arsenal. Leeds United beat Coventry City three-one. Aston Villa slipped to bottom of the Second Division after losing five-three at home to Portsmouth. Carlisle United beat Birmingham City four-three. Sheffield United returned to the top following a two-nil victory over Preston North End. Third Division promotion-chasers Luton Town lost, two-nil, at home to PLymouth Argyle (featured on Match Of The Day). They were replaced at the top by Orient who won one-nil at Torquay United. Barnsley thrashed Gillingham five-one and Rotherham United hammered Barrow five-nil. Trevor Womble scored twice. Hartlepool beat Peterborough United four-two in the Fourth Division.
Three Sisters broadcast in the Play Of The Month strand. Saga: A Dream Of Old Iceland broadcast in BBC2's The World About Us strand. The Cockney Invasion broadcast in the Yesterday's Witness strand. Savoy Brown and Free featured on Radio 1's The Sunday Show. The Tomb of Karl Marx was vandalised by explosives placed by unknown perpetrators at Highgate Cemetery. The first episode of The Simon Dee Show broadcast on LWT.
A Disease Of Our Time - Stress broadcast in the Horizon strand. Bill Dearden scored the winner in Chester's two-one victory at Bradford Park Avenue in the Fourth Division. The World In Action episode Cold Comfort, an investigation into how many of the elderly died from cold in winter because they could not afford to heat their home, broadcast.
Seamus Heaney's Door Into The Dark broadcast in the Viewpoint strand. The Greater London Council announced its plans to build the Thames Barrier at Woolwich to prevent flooding. Huddersfield Town returned to the top of the Second Division, Frank Worthington netting twice in a two-nil defeat of Queens Park Rangers. Millwall defeated Blackburn Rovers three-one (Keith Weller and Harry Cripps amongst the scorers).
Roy Minton's The Haunting Of Lionel Crane broadcast in The Wednesday Play strand. Hello Dollies! broadcast on BBC2. The government of Iraq suppressed an attempted coup against President Ahmed Hassan al-Bakr, arresting, convicting and executing twenty two people. Radio Baghdad announced the foiling of the plot at noon. Over the next several hours, a three-man court meted out the swift and merciless sentences. Civilian plotters were hanged whilst military men were shot by a firing squad.The Champions episode The Iron Man broadcast on Thames.
The first extended - forty five minute - episode of Top Of The Pops broadcast. Producer Mel Cornish said 'This will give us scope to widen our coverage of the whole pop scene. Up to now we have concentrated solely on the Top Twenty. Now we shall be broadening it to take in records from the Top Thirty.' Hosted by Tony Blackburn, it featured The Fifth Dimension, Georgie Fame, Jethro Tull, Marmalade, The Temptations, Chicago, Edwin Starr, Joe Tex, Vanity Fare, Delaney & Bonnie & Friends and Nino Tempo & April Stevens. Alan Plater's Let There Be Light broadcast in the Scene strand. The first episode of BBC2's In This Case broadcast.
The first UK TV showing of Michelangelo Antonioni's The Girl Friends on BBC2's Italian Cinema strand. Wingspan broadcast in the Wheelbase strand. The Sweet's 'All You'll Ever Get From Me'/'The Juicer', King Horror's 'Loch Ness Monster'/'Zion I', Pickettywitch's 'That Same Old Feeling'/'Maybe We've Been Loving Too Long', Cats Eyes' 'The Loser'/'Circus', Sight & Sound's 'Jose'/'Jackie' and Westland Steamboat's 'Born Under A Bad Sign'/'Missouri Train' released. The Randall & Hopkirk (Deceased) episode A Sentimental Journey broadcast on LWT.
In the Fourth Round of the FA Cup, Leeds United avoided a potential banana-skin with a six-nil win at non-league Sutton United (Allan Clarke scored four, Peter Lorimer two) one of three games featured on Match Of The Day. Manchester United beat Manchester City three-nil (Brian Kidd netting twice). Third Division Mansfield Town won two-nil at Blackpool, Derby County beat Sheffield united three-nil, Gillingham thrashed Peterborough United five-one and Arthur Horsfield scored twice in Swindon Town's four-two victory over Chester. Two First Division sides were knocked out by lower-league sides; struggling Sheffield Wednesday lost two-one at home to Fourth Division Scunthorpe United. The Irons' John Barker equalised Jack Whitman's opener with a diving header, suffering concussion in the act of scoring. He took no further part in the match and was unaware until afterwards that he had scored. Nigel Cassidy hit a dramatic late winner. Watford beat Stoke City one-nil at Vicarage Road, Colin Franks grabbing the decider. In the First Division Everton missed a chance to return to the top with Leeds occupied elsewhere, sharing a goalless draw with Newcastle United. Nottingham Forest defeated Sunderland two-one. Bradford City exterminated Bournemouth & Boscombe Athletic eight-one in the Third Division (Bobby Ham hitting three). After four straight defeats, leaders Luton Town finally got back to winning ways, three-one victors at in-form Bury. Chesterfield remained top of the Fourth Division Kevin Randall scoring twice in a four-nil defeat of Lincoln City. Exeter City thrashed Hartlepool six-nil (Alan Banks netting a hat-trick). Notts County won five-two at Southend United (with Dave Needham, Bryan Stubbs, Richie Barker and Les Bradd all on the score-sheet). Tom Wolfe's Happiness Is Wheel-Shaped broadcast in BBC2's One Pair of Eyes strand. Duster Bennett and Manfred Mann Chapter Three featured on Top Gear. Billboard magazine carried Robert Moog's announcement that his company planned to have a Moog 'performing instrument' on the market within three-to-six months, priced at around two thousand dollars. In the event, the Minimoog Model D, the world's first portable synthesizer, appeared in early 1971. 'We thought we'd sell maybe a hundred of them,' Moog noted. At Cardiff, the Wales rugby union team and the South African Springboks played to a six-six draw thanks to a last-minute try by Gareth Edwards, bringing an end to the controversial 1969-70 Springboks tour of Britain and Ireland.
The first UK TV showing of Carmen Jones. John Ford was interviewed on BBC2's Film Night. MASH, the film based on the Richard Hooker novel and the inspiration for the subsequent popular TV series M*A*S*H, premiered in New York. John Mackenzie's One Brief Summer - starring Clifford Evans and Peter Egan - premiered. The Keef Hartley Band featured on Radio 1's The Sunday Show.
The first episode of The Broken Sword broadcast in the Merry-Go-Round strand. A Disease Of Our Time - Heart Attacks broadcast in the Horizon strand. Nude With Violin broadcast in Radio 4's Afternoon Theatre strand. Simon & Garfunkel's Bridge Over Troubled Water released. The World In Action episode A Bit Apprehensive broadcast. Almost sixty thousand were at Old Trafford where Manchester united and Leeds United drew two-two in the First Division.
On The Sky At Night Patrick Moore looked at the constellation of Orion. The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance shown in BBC2's Hollywood In The Sixties strand. A hoax perpetrated by a man who claimed he had seen Bigfoot caused a rush of more than fifty hunters to Colville, Washington in search of the mythical creature. Joe Metlow, a mining prospector, announced that he had seen the nine feet tall beast in Stevens County and offered to divulge the location in return for a 'suitable' payment. Metlow rejected all offers (including one for fifty thousand dollars) as 'unsuitable' and the Bigfoot hunters gave up after a few days of fruitless searching. Peter Houseman scored twice as Chelsea won three-one at Burnley in an FA Cup replay. Fourth Division Noprthampton Town won, two-one, against third-tier Tranmere Rovers. West Bromwich Albion beat Sunderland three-one in the First Division, plunging the Wearsiders deep into the relegation mire. Crewe Alexandra defeated Southend United five-three in the Fourth Division.
Alan Plater's Rest In Peace, Uncle Fred broadcast in The Wednesday Play strand. BBC2's Europa focused on Franco's Spain. African-American tennis star Arthur Ashe was denied a visa by the government of South Africa. Sports Minister Frank Waring claimed that Ashe was being banned for 'his general antagonism toward South Africa.' And not, because he was black and the South Africans were a bunch of sick racist bastards, obviously. One or two people even believed him. Leicester City defeated Southampton four-two in an FA Cup replay after extra-time whilst Carlisle United won four-one at Aldershot and Crystal Palace knocked out Spurs, one-nil, at Selhurst Park. The Champions episode The Ghost Plane broadcast on Thames.
Badfinger, Shocking Blue, Jethro Tull, Brotherhood Of Man, Canned Heat, Blodwyn Pig and Edison Lighthouse were among those featured on Top Of The Pops, presented by filthy albino sex offender Jimmy Savile. Joan Bakewell talked the international pianist Fou Ts'ong in BBC2's Line-Up: Interview.
The first UK TV showing of Roberto Rossellini's Viva L'Italia in BBC2's Italian Cinema strand. The Barron Knights appeared on Crackerjack. The offices for Project Blue Book, the US Air Force's investigation of sightings of UFOs, located at the Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, closed permanently. The Orange Bicycle's 'Take Me To The Pilot'/'It's Not My World', The Debonaires' 'I'm In Love Again'/' Headache In My Heart', Jawbone's 'How's Ya Pa?'/'Mister Custer', Black Velvet's 'Please Let Me In (The Door You Closed To Me)'/'Clown', Bill Oddie's 'On Ilkla Moor Baht'at'/'Harry Krishna', Raw Material's 'Hi There Hallelujah'/'Days Of The Fighting Cock', She Trinity's 'Hair'/'Climb That Tree' and Dottie DeLeon's 'The Days Of Sand And Shovels'/'The Playgrounds Of My Mind' released. The Randall & Hopkirk (Deceased) episode Money To Burn broadcast on LWT. Giancarlo Sammarco born in Northampton.
The first episode of the seven-part Doctor Who serial Doctor Who & The Silurians broadcast. The Scarecrows broadcast in BBC2's Thirty-Minute Theatre strand. The Graham Bond Initiation featured on Top Gear. Stanley Baxter appeared on Desert Island Discs. Amelia Fiona Jessica Driver born in Marylebone. Everton (one-nil winners over Wolves), Leeds United (who drew one-one at Stoke City) and Chelsea (who beat Sunderland three-one, Peter Osgood netting a hat-trick) continued to top the First Division. Burnley beat West Ham United three-two. Colin Suggest, Jeff Astle and Asa Hartford scored as West Bromwich Albion thrashed Manchester City three-nil. Eddie Colquhoun scored late winner as Sheffield United won three-two at Hull City in the Second Division. Portsmouth thumped Charlton Athletic five-one.
Tony Palmer's Jack Bruce documentary Rope Ladder To The Moon broadcast in the Omnibus strand. David Lean was interviewed on BBC2's Film Night. Liverpool Scene presented 'half-an-hour of their kind of music' on Radio 1. A Virus In A New Place broadcast on Radio 4. Gulliver's Way, 'An Aesthetic Experience' broadcast on Radio 3.
The first episode of A Stranger On The Hills broadcast. Alan Bennett read Tove Jansson's Moominland Midwinter on Jackanory. Sex & Sexuality broadcast in BBC2's Horizon strand. Gordon Hessler's Scream & Scream Again - starring Vincent Price, Peter Cushing, Christopher Lee, Alfred Marks, Michael Gothard and The Amen Corner - premiered. The World In Action episode One Down, One Hundred Thousand To Go broadcast.
The first UK TV showings of Harvey and, on BBC2, All The Fine Young Cannibals. J Robert Oppenheimer - Security Risk? broadcast in the On Trial strand. Brian Walden's What Is A Free Press? broadcast in the Radio 4 Reports strand.
Tom Clarke's Mad Jack broadcast in The Wednesday Play strand. The Office Party broadcast in the Man Alive strand. Patton premiered. Derby County signed Welsh inrternational midfielder Terry Hennesset from Nottingham Forest for one hundred and ten thousand knicker. The first episode of the extremely weird and often terrifying thirteen-part serial Oliver In The Overworld - starring Freddie Garrity and featuring the cannibal Hungry Drains - broadcast in ITV's Little Big Time strand.
The first episode of The Golden Goose broadcast. That's How We Poor People Live broadcast in The Curious Character Of Britain strand. Bob Kellett's Futtocks End - starring Michael Hordern, Ronnie Barker, Roger Livesey, Julian Orchard and Kika Markham - premiered.
LBJ - The Decision To Halt The Bombing broadcast in the Twenty Four Hours strand. Graham Sutherland was profiled in BBC2's Four Great Painters strand. Lennon/Ono With The Plastic Ono Band's 'Instant Karma'/'Who Has Seen The Wind?', Sly & The Family Stone's 'Thank You (Falletinme Be Mice Elf Agin)'/'Everybody Is A Star', Mike Hart's 'Yawney Morning Song'/'Almost Liverpool 8', Juicy Lucy's 'Who Do You Love?'/'Walking Down The Highway', Norman Greenbaum's 'Spirit In The Sky'/'Milk Cow', Ramsey Lewis's 'Julia'/'Do What You Wanna', Rare Bird's 'Sympathy'/'Devil's High Concern', The Love Affair's 'Lincoln County'/'Sea Of Tranquility', Creedence Clearwater Revival's 'Down On The Corner'/'Fortunate Son', Eddie Wilson's 'Get Out In The Street'/'Must Be Love', Baby Washington's 'Breakfast In Bed'/'What Becomes Of A Broken Heart?' and Jimmy Ruffin's 'Farewell Is A Lonely Sound'/'If You Will Let Me, I Know I Can' released. Keith Dyson scored the winner as Newcastle United beat West Bromwich Albion one-nil in the First Division. Southport defeated Bury four-nil in the Third Division. Workington thrashed Southend United five-nil in the Fourth Division. The Randall & Hopkirk (Deceased) episode The Ghost Talks broadcast on LWT.
Laying It Off For Spangle broadcast in BBC2's Thirty Minute Theatre strand. Ali Bongo appeared doing his prestidigitation on Zokko!. George Best scored six in Manchester United's eight-two FA Cup Fifth Round victory at Northampton Town. Chelsea won four-one at Crystal Palace whilst Leeds United defeated Mansfield Town two-nil. Four Second Division sides reached the Quarter-Finals, Middlesbrough (who beat Carlisle United two-one), Queens Park Rangers (one-nil winners against Derby County), Swindon Town (who had a three-one victory against Scunthorpe) and Watford (who beat Gillingham two-one with two goals from Ray Lugg). In the First Division, Southampton thumped relegation-certainties Sheffield Wednesday four-nil. Jimmy Nicholson and Frank Worthington were on-target in Second Division leaders Huddersfield Town's two-one victory at Charlton Athletic. Luton Town defeated Doncaster Rovers four=nil in the Third Division (Malcolm Macdonald netting twice). Van Der Graaf Generator and Daddy Long Legs featured on Top Gear. Malice At Autumn's End broadcast on Radio 4's Saturday-Night Theatre.
James Mason was featured on Line-Up: Film Night and Moog pioneer Wendy Carlos on Music Now. John Clare: "I Am..." broadcast in the Omnibus strand. Radio 2's Sound Screen 70 featured interviews with Christopher Lee, Ingrid Pitt, Peter Cushing and Vincent Price and reviews of The Vampire Lovers and Scream & Scream Again. David Bowie appeared on Radio 1's The Sunday Show performing 'Amsterdam', 'God Knows I'm Good', 'Buzz The Fuzz', 'Karma Man', 'London Bye-Ta-Ta', 'An Occasional Dream', 'The Width Of A Circle', 'Janine', 'Wild Eyed Boy From Freecloud', 'Unwashed & Somewhat Slightly Dazed', 'Fill Your Heart', 'I'm Waiting For The Man', 'The Prettiest Star', 'Cygnet Committee' and 'Memory Of A Free Festival'. The first episode of The Anne Nightingale Show broadcast. The Secombe Story broadcast on Radio 4. An extraordinary episode of The Simon Dee Show broadcast on LWT which, effectively, was the beginning of the end Simon's TV career. John Lennon and Yoko Ono appeared and brought with them the black rights activist (and, subsequently, convicted murderer) Michael X. Among the subjects discussed were James Hanratty's legal case, the controversial Bag One lithographs and the Two Virgins cover. What made the episode memorable, however, was George Lazenby obstensibly there to talk about On Her Majesty's Secret Service. Instead, George appeared stoned off his tits and rambled various conspiracy theories regarding the death of President Kennedy, receiving positive encouragement from John and Yoko. The series was cancelled in July.
The first episodes of Doomwatch and The Kenneth Williams Show broadcast. Rodney Bewes read Ursula Moray Williams's Beware Of This Animal on Jackanory. King Solomon's Garden broadcast in the Horizon strand. The Mothers Of Invention's Burnt Weeny Sandwich and The Doors' Morrison Hotel released. Michelangelo Antonioni's Zabriskie Point premiered. The World In Action episode Your Services Are No Longer Required premiered.
Patrick O'Donovan's The Vatican broadcast in the Tuesday's Documentary strand. Joan Bakewell introduced a filmed report on a 'unique and complicated system by which viewers can claim time on TV' on Line-Up: Tuesday. An avalanche killed at least thirty nine skiers as it smashed into the bottom floors of a chalet at the Alpine resort of Val-d'Isère. The first episode of Mister Pybus Yorkshireman - starring William Gaunt - broadcast on Radio 2. Robert Charles Shearman born in Horhsam. Morton Lewis' The Party At Kitty & Stud's - starring Sylvester Stallone, Henrietta Holm and Jodi Van Prang - premiered. Manchester United won one-nil at Ipswich town in the First Division. Leeds United thrashed West Bromwich Albion five-one. Carlisle United hammered Watford five-nil in the Second Division.
The World Of George Best broadcast. Nathan & Tabileth broadcast in The Wednesday Play strand. BBC2's Man Alive profiled the Radio 1 DJ's Tony Blackburn, John Peel, Kenny Everett, Rosko and Jimmy Young. Branko Plesa's Lilika - starring Dragana Kalaba, Ljerka Drazenovic and Nada Kasapic - premiered. Liverpool's Alun Evans scored twice in their two-nil victory at Leicester City in an FA Cup Fifth Round replay. Chelsea lost ground on the top two in the First Divsion, drawing two-all Derby County. Jimmy Smith scored his first goals for Newcastle United in their two-one victory over Southampton - the fourth time the two sides had met (in three different competitions) in six weeks. Charlie Hurley headed the winner for Bolton Wanderers who beat Middlesbrough in the Second Division. The Champions episode The Dark Island broadcast on Thames.
Sixty Nine Theatre Company's adaptation of When We Dead Awaken broadcast on BBC2. John Lennon performed 'Instant Karma' on Top Of The Pops, the first live appearance on the show by any of The Beatles since 1966. Simon & Garfunkel's 'Bridge Over Troubled Water'/'Keep The Customer Satisfied' released. Sixty-eight civilian workers were killed in Egypt after Israeli bombers dropped napalm and delayed-fuse bombs on a scrap metal factory. The IAF raid had intended to strike military targets near Abu Zaabal. The early morning raid occurred while many of the employees were eating breakfast before beginning their shifts. In an unprecedented move, Israel's Defence Minister Moshe Dayan disclosed that at least one of the bombs had a twenty four-hour delay and asked the International Red Cross to notify the Egyptian government immediately. Freddie Francis's' Mumsy, Nanny, Sonny & Girly - starring Michael Bryant, Ursula Howells and Vanessa Howard - premiered.
Constable Observed broadcast in BBC2's Four Great Painters strand. Herman's Hermits appeared on Crackerjack (it was Jillian Comber's final episode). Black Sabbath's eponymous debut LP, Doris Troy's 'Ain't That Cute?'/'Vaya Con Dios', Toe-Fat's 'Bad Side Of The Moon'/'Working Nights', Ike & Tina Turner & The Ikettes' 'Come Together'/'Honky Tonk Women', Kevin Ayers & The Whole World's 'Singing A Song In The Morning'/'Eleanor's Cake Which Ate Her', Mel & Tim's 'Backfield In Motion'/'Do Right Baby' and Judas Jump's 'Run For Your Life'/'Beer-Drinking Woman' released. The Randall & Hopkirk (Deceased) episode It's Supposed To Be Thicker Than Water broadcast on LWT.
The Who recorded their set at Leeds University - along with one the following day in Hull - for a forthcoming live LP. George Layton's Home Is Where You Hang Your Hat broadcast in BBC2's Thirty-Minute Theatre strand. Matthew Southern Comfort and Arthur Crudup featured on Top Gear. Athlete broadcast in Radio 4's Afternoon Theatre strand. Simon John Pegg born in Brockworth, Gloucestershire. Sadler's Wells Opera at the London Coliseum's performance of Wagner's Die Walkiire broadcast on Radio 3. The first episodes of A Family At War and Wicked Women broadcast on Thames.
The first episode of The Woodlanders broadcast on BBC2. Ken Russell's mental adaptation of Dance Of The Seven Veils broadcast in the Omnibus strand. The Third Ear Band and The Edgar Broughton Band featured on Radio 1's The Sunday Show. The first episode of Catweazle - The Sun In A Bottle - broadcast.
Whose Coast? broadcast in the Horizon strand. The World In Action episode Conspiracy broadcast.
Joe Frazier beat Jimmy Ellis in New York to win the vacant World Heavyweight Championship. US Army Captain, Doctor Jeffrey MacDonald, told police at Fort Bragg, North Carolina, that a 'hippie-type band of three men and a blonde girl' had invaded his apartment and stabbed his pregnant wife and his two daughters to death. According to MacDonald, who himself had stab wounds, the blonde girl mumbled 'Acid is groovy', 'Kill the pigs' and 'Hit 'em again', then scrawled the word 'pig' in blood on the headboard of his bed. Detectives with the US Army's Criminal Investigation Division doubted MacDonald's story. Within six weeks of the killings, CID began interrogating MacDonald as a suspect. Leprosy In Retreat broadcast on Radio 4. The Tribe That Hides From Man broadcast on Thames
William Trevor's The Italian Table broadcast in The Wednesday Play strand. The first colour episode of Not Only ... But Also broadcast in BBC2's Show Of The Week strand. After five months, the trial of The Chicago Seven - American anti-war activists Abbie Hoffman, Jerry Rubin, David Dellinger, Tom Hayden, Rennie Davis, John Froines and Lee Weiner - concluded with a federal district court jury acquitting the group of charges of 'conspiracy to foment rioting' which took place at the 1968 Democratic National Convention. Froines and Weiner were acquitted on all charges, while the remaining five were convicted of crossing state lines in order to incite a riot. On 20 February, Judge Julius Hoffman (no relation) sentenced each to five years in The Slammer, as well as ordering them to pay the costs of their prosecution, while defence attorney William Kunstler was sentenced to four years and thirteen days imprisonment for contempt of court. After Kunstler stated that 'I think it is wrong legally and morally' to issue sentences so quickly after trial, Judge Hoffman replied: 'To say I am morally wrong can only add to your present troubles.' The Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals soon ordered the men to be released from jail. In November 1972, their convictions were overturned by the appellate court. The Champions episode Twelve Hours broadcast on Thames.
The RSC's performance of All's Well That Ends Well broadcast on BBC2. A Long Way Round Whichever Way You Go broadcast in The Curious Character of Britain strand. Eleven children and five women were killed by a group of US Marines in the village of Son Thang in South Viet'nam's Quảng Nam Province. Four members of a patrol unit of the First Battalion of the Seventh USMC would be court-martialled on charges of murder and two were convicted in separate trials. Peter Hammond's adaptation of Spring & Port Wine - starring James Mason, Diana Coupland, Susan George, Rodney Bewes and Hannah Gordon - premiered.
The first UK broadcast of The Banana Splits. The first UK TV showing of The Six-Sided Triangle. BBC2's Pinter People broadcast. Stuart Burge's Julius Caesar - starring Charlton Heston, Jason Robards, John Gielgud, Richard Johnson, Robert Vaughn, Richard Chamberlain, Diana Rigg, Christopher Lee and Michael Gough - premiered. Love Sculpture's 'In The Land Of The Few'/'People People', The Faces' 'Flying'/'Three Button Hand Me Down', Frijid Pink's 'The House Of The Rising Sun'/'Drivin' Blues', The Naked Truth's 'Two Little Rooms'/'Rag Doll Boy', Kim Weston's 'Danger, Heartbreak Dead Ahead'/'I'll Be Thinkin' and Velvet Opera's 'Black Jack Davy'/'Statesboro Blues' released. The Randall & Hopkirk (Deceased) episode The Trouble With Women broadcast on LWT.
Adeline Collier's What A Pity You Can't Stay Longer broadcast as part of BBC2's Thirty-Minute Theatre. Strawbs appeared on Disco 2. Barry Endean's diving header caused a major sensation as Second Division Watford knocked Liverpool out of the FA Cup on Match Of The Day. Peter Osgood scored three as Chelsea won four-two at Queens Park Rangers. Leeds United beat Swindon Town two-nil. Highlight of the day's First Division programme was Derby County's thrilling three-two victory over Arsenal (Dave Mackay scoring the winner). Steve Kindon hit three in Burnley's five-nil hammering of Nottingham Forest. Manchester City won three-one at Wolves. Mott The Hoople featured on Top Gear. Anna Of The Five Towns broadcast in Radio 4's Saturday-Night Theatre strand.
The first episode of The Portrait Of A Lady broadcast. Albert Finney appeared on Line-Up: Film Night. Joe Cocker & The Greaseband featured on Radio 1's The Sunday Show. David Bowie and his new backing group, The Hype, made their debut at The Roundhouse supporting Noel Redding's Fat Mattress. The band (Bowie, Tony Visconti, Mick Ronson and John Cambridge) dressed in 'superhero' costumes and, perhaps predictably, went down like a sack of diarrohea with the demin-clad hippy audience. In subsequent years, grossly inflated claims would be made about this show being, effecitvely, 'the birth of Glam Rock' although, given the tiny audience and their sneering and dismissive reaction to the band its importance has, almost certainly, been wildly over-stated. Keith Sapsford, a fourteen year old from Australia, fell to his death from an airliner after trying to stowaway inside the wheel-well of a DC-8 jet. Sapsford had climbed in and was laying on top of a door to the wheel compartment, which opened at an altitude of two hundred feet. The incident was witnessed by three hundred and fifty people watching from an observation deck at the Sydney International Airport and was photographed by one of the bystanders who was testing a new camera.
The first episode of In Our Midst broadcast. A Much Wanted Child broadcast in the Horizon strand. The World In Action episode Saint Mungo's People broadcast.
The Quiet Invasion broadcast in the Tuesday's Documentary strand. The Crab Nebula broadcast in The Sky At Night strand. Joseph Franklin Sills, a convicted robber in Texas, became the first person in the United States to be sentenced to a thousand years in The Slammer. A jury in Dallas recommended the sentence after convicting Sills for the armed robbery of seventy three dollars from a Dallas dry cleaners and meted out the punishment after being told that he had twenty prior felony convictions. Sills was released in 1983 after serving thirteen years, having got nine hundred and eighty seven years off for good behaviour. Sheffield United beat Queens Park Rangers two-nil in a Second Division promotion four-pointer. The first episode of The Faces Of Justice broadcast on Thames.
The Boy Who Wanted Peace broadcast in The Wednesday Play strand. Manx Alive broadcast on BBC2. England beat Belgium three-one in a friendly international in Brussels. Alan Ball scored twice for the visitors with Geoff Hurst also on target. Jean Dockx scored for the hosts. Peter Osgood made his international debut. England were without Bobby Charlton who played (and scored) for Manchester United in a two-one victory over Middlesbrough in an FA Cup Sixth Round replay. Chelsea (without Osgood) shared a goalless draw with Newcastle United in the First Division. Walsall#'s three-nil defeat against Brighton & Hove Albion in the Third Division was played at West Bromwich due to flooding at Fellows Park. Chesterfield went five points clear at the top of the Fourth Division with a two-nil victory over Wrexham. The Champions episode The Search broadcast on Thames.
The first episode of BBC2's Presenting Nana Mouskouri broadcast. Top Of The Pops featured performances by White Plains, Kenny Rogers & The First Edition, Pickettywitch, Steam, Shocking Blue, Steve (Rowland) & Albert (Hammond), The Jackson Five, Malcolm Roberts, The Cuff-Links, The Dave Clark Five with Madeline Bell and Edison Lighthouse.
Seeing Stars: Orion's Neighbours - presented by Patrick Moore - broadcast. Ermanno Olmi's I Fidanzati shown in the Italian Cinema strand. Claude Chabrol's Le Boucher - starring Stephane Audran - premiered. The Randall & Hopkirk (Deceased) episode Vendetta For A Dead Man broadcast on LWT. The Matchmakers' 'Wooly Wooly Watsgong (Ging Gang Go)'/'Tell Me A Secret', Lisa Collings' 'I'm Getting Hungry For Your Lovin'/'Love is A Splendid Illusion', Louisa Jane White's 'How Does It Feel?'/'Truth In My Tears' and The Foundations' 'Take A Girl Like You'/'I'm Gonna Be A Rich Man' released.
Wales beat England seventeen-thirteen in the Five Nations Championship at Twickenham. Out Of Sight, Out Of Mind broadcast in BBC2's Thirty-Minute Theatre strand. Chelsea closed to within two points of First Division leaders Leeds United with a three-nil win at Coventry. Arsenal beat Sunderland three-one (Peter Storey, Ray Kennedy and Eddie Kelly on-target). Tony Field netted four in Southport's four-two win over Torquay United in the Third Division. Ralph McTell and Kevin Ayers featured on Top Gear. Back Into The Light broadcast in Radio 4's Saturday-Night Theatre strand.
Heroes & Hero Worship featured Magnus Magnusson interviewing Dennis Potter. Organ, Organ broadcast on BBC2. The Brian Auger Trinity appeared on Radio 1's The Sunday Show. Ray Laurant's Satanis: The Devil's Mass - premiered.
The memorable Doomwatch episode Tomorrow, The Rat broadcast. The Expert Witness broadcast in the Horizon strand. Alexander Henry Fenwick Armstrong born in Rothbury. Anthony Balch's Secrets Of Sex (aka Bizarre) - starring Valentine Dyall and Sue Bond - premiered. The film was substantially cut for cinema release, with censor John Trevelyan removing over nine minutes, whilst reportedly muttering 'nasty stuff' during one screening. Newcastle United thrashed West Ham United four-one in the First Division. Orient remained top of the Third Division with a two-nil win at Stockport County. Hartlepool hammered Notts County four-nil in the Fourth Division. Colchester United defeated league leaders Chesterfield four-one. The World In Action episode Shalom broadcast.
The first episode of The Faces Of Evil broadcast. John Trevelyan, Bryan Forbes and Michael Parkinson appeared on BBC2's While We're On The Subject: The Cinema. Norma McCorvey, a pregnant twenty two-year old from Texas, filed a federal lawsuit under the name Jane Roe with the assistance of Dallas lawyers Sarah Weddington and Linda Coffee, seeking the right to an abortion and commencing what would become the landmark United States Supreme Court case of Roe Versus Wade. Decade Of Youth broadcast in Radio 3's Britain In The Sixties strand featuring the voices of The Beatles, Caroline Coon, Tony Smythe, Tariq Ali, Richard Neville, Lord Harlech and Al Alvarez. Alun Evans hit two in Liverpool's three-two victory at Coventry it in the First Division. Halifax Town thrashed Rotherham uNited four-two in the Third Division. The first episode of The Misfits - On Being British - broadcast on Thames.
David Mercer's The Cellar & The Almond Tree broadcast in The Wednesday Play strand. Ian McKellan played John Keats in BBC2's Solo. Peter Lormier scored as leeds United won the first leg of their European Cup Quarter-Final at Stadnard Liege. Manchester City drew against Academica Coimbra in Portugal in the Cup Winners Cup. The Champions episode Happening and the first episode of Smith broadcast on Thames.
The Foundations appeared on The Basil Brush Show. Scott Walker was the special guest on BBC2's Presenting Nana Mouskouri. The Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty was ratified by fifty six countries. Jim Clark's Every Home Should Have One - starring Marty Feldman, Judy Cornwell and Shelley Berman - premiered.
From The Bull To The Milky Way broadcast in the Seeing Stars strand. Bernardo Bertolucci's Prima Della Rivoluzione shown in BBC2's Italian Cinema strand. The Beatles' 'Let It Be'/'You Know My Name (Look Up The Number)', David Bowie's 'The Prettiest Star'/'Conversation Piece', Maxi, Dick & Twink's 'Things You Hear About Me'/'Catch The Bride's Bouquet', Uzi's 'Morning Train'/'Where Were You Last Night?', Status Quo's 'Down The Dustpipe'/'Face Without A Soul', Alan Avon & The Toy Shop's 'These Are The Reasons'/'Night To Remember', Geebros' 'Made In Hong Kong'/'One Word Song', Honeybus's 'Story'/'The Right To Choose', Radha Krishna Temple's 'Govinda'/'Jai Jai', The Pipkins' 'Gimme Dat Ding'/'To Love You', Dream Police's 'I'll Be Home (In A Day Or So)'/'Living Is Easy', Al Stewart's 'Electric Los Angeles Sunset'/'My Enemies Have Sweet Voices', The Fifth Dimension's 'The Declaration'/'A Change Is Gonna Come-People Got To Be Free', Val McKenna's 'Love Feeling'/'It's All In My Imagination', Slade's 'Shape Of Things To Come'/'C'Mon C'Mon', The Artistics' 'I'm Gonna Miss You'/'Hope We Have', Anita Harris & The New World Symphony Orchestra's 'The Only One To Love Me'/'When You Were A Child' and The Move's Shazam and the single 'Brontosaurus'/'Lightnin' Never Strikes Twice' released. Three members of The Weathermen, an American terrorist group, were killed in New York when a pipe bomb they had constructed exploded prematurely. The group were in a four-story townhouse in Greenwich Village, constructing explosives in the basement. Dynamite in one of the bombs exploded and triggered secondary gasline blasts. Diana Oughton and Terry Robbins, who were working on a bomb, were killed instantly, along with Ted Gold. Cathlyn Platt Wilkerson, whose father owned the building, survived along with another accomplice, Kathy Boudin. Wilkerson surrendered to the police in 1980 and spent eleven months in The Joint. Boudin was arrested in 1981 after driving the getaway vehicle in an armed robbery, remaining incarcerated until 2003. The Randall & Hopkirk (Deceased) episode You Can Always Find A Fall Guy broadcast on LWT.
Marty Riessen defeated Ken Rosewall in the Rothmans International Tennis Tournament at The Royal Albert Hall. A Hot Day broadcast in BBC2's Thirty-Minute Theatre strand. Fleetwood Mac appeared on Disco 2. The Humblebums (with Billy Connolly and Gerry Rafferty) featured on Top Gear. Citroën introduced the SM at the Geneva Auto Salon. Manchester City beat West Bromwich Albion two-one in the League Cup Final at Wembley (Mick Doyle and Glyn Pardoe scored for City, Jeff Astle for Albion. Everton closed the gap at the top of the First Division to one point with a two-one win at Burnley. Derby County defeated West Ham United three-nil. The first UK broadcast of HR Pufnstuf on LWT.
Nine Symphonies By Whom? broadcast in the Omnibus strand. Gozo: The Barren Enchantress broadcast in The World About Us strand. They Search The Skies broadcast on Radio 4. A team of assassins in Nicosia attempted to assassinate Makarios III, the President of Cyprus, riddling the presidential helicopter with machine gun fire as it was lifting off from the rooftop of Nicosia Palace. Guards fired at the assassins, Greek Cypriot members of the EOKA group advocating the island's annexation by Greece, who had taken a position on the roof of a nearby building. Makarios escaped injury. Gordon Flemyng's The Last Grendae! - starring Stanley Baker, Alex Cord amd Honor Blackman - premiered.
Gladys Knight & The Pips appeared on The Andy Williams Show. After The Iron Age broadcast in the Horizon strand. The United States Department of Defence, on orders from President Nixon, reversed a policy of US secrecy regarding American military involvement in Laos. The move came after a statement from Nixon, that no Americans stationed in Laos had been killed in combat; in fact, US Army Captain Joseph Bush had died thirteen months earlier when his helicopter was shot down over The Plain Of Jars. The first episode of David Nixon's Magic Box and the World In Action episode Trouble Down The East End broadcast on Thames.
The Court Of Last Resort broadcast. France made its first successful launch of its new three-stage Diamant-B rocket and the first satellite launch from its Guiana Space Centre. Prior to building the rocket base in Kourou in the South American colony, the French space programme had launched four satellites from Hammaguir in Algeria. The payload was two West German satellites, Wika and Mika, sent into orbit to study the Van Allen radiation belt; vibrations from the first rocket stage, however, disabled Mika's communication system. Jack Whitman and Alan Warboys scored as Sheffield Wednesday eased their relegation worries with a two-nil victory over West Bromwich Albion. Aston Villa remained rooted to the foot of the Second Division, losing three-one at Hull City. Trevor Phillips and Neil Warnock were on-target in Rotherham United's two-nil defeat of Southport in the Third Division.
Keep 'Em Rolling broadcast in the Comedy Playhouse strand. Coming Of Age broadcast in the Man Alive strand. A Johnny Giles penalty gave Leeds United victory over Stadard Liege in the European Cup and a place in the Semi-Finals. Newcastle United had less fortune against Beligan opposition, losing two-nil at Anderlecht in the first leg of the Inter-Cities Fairs Cup Quarter-Final. Arsenal won their first leg, two-nil, in Romania against Dinamo Bacau. Alan Whittle's winner at Tottenham Hotspur took Everton back to the top of the First Division. Gerry Queen scored as Crystal Palace won onn-nil at Manchester City. Gordon Bolland hit three in Millwall's six-two victory over Birmingham City in the Second Division. Allan Gilliver also hit three in Brighton & Hove Albion's four-nil defeat of Halifax Town in the Third Division. Don Masson betted twice in Notts County's four-one thumping of Darlington in the Fourth Division.
Blue Mink, Cliff Richard & Hank Marvin, The Faces, The Four Tops, Gene Pitney, Simon & Garfunkel, Bob & Marcia and Jimmy Ruffin were amongst those featured on Top Of The Pops.
The Great Bear & Its Neighbours broadcast in the Seeing Stars strand. Late Night Line-Up included some of Pink Floyd's music from Zabriske Point. The Flying Machine's 'Hanging On The Edge Of Sadness'/'The Flying Machine', Tyrannosaurus Rex's A Beard Of Stars, The Delfonics' 'Didn't I (Blow Your Mind This Time)?'/'Down Is Up, Up Is Down', The Bee Gees' 'IOIO'/'Sweetheart', The Locomotive's 'Roll Over Mary'/'Movin' Down The Line', Timon's 'And Now She Says She Is Young'/'I'm Just A Travelling', Marsha Hunt's 'Keep The Customer Satisfied'/'Lonesome Holy Roller', The Disciples' 'Satan's People'/'Time Will Tell', Aphrodite's Child's 'It's Five O'Clock'/'Funky Mary', Julio Iglesias' 'Gwendolyne'/'Bla, Bla, Bla', Dana's 'All Kinds Of Everything'/'Channel Breeze', Timon's 'And Now She Says She Is Young'/'I'm Just A Travelling Man' and Fraternity Of Man's 'Don't Bogart Me'/'Wispy Paisley Skies' released. Alan Woodward scored the winner as Sheffield United beat Carlisle United in the Second Division. The Randall & Hopkirk (Deceased) episode The Smile Behind The Veil broadcast on LWT.
Watford's FA Cup run came to an end, losing five-one to Chelsea in the Semi-Final at White Hart Lane. At Hillsborough, Leeds United and Manchester United drew nil-nil. In the First Division, Everton beat Tottenham Hotspur three-two, Derby County won three-one at Nottingham Forest and Arsenal had a two-one victory over Liverpool. Roger Hunt hit two in Bolton Wanderers four-nil win at Queens Park Rangers in the Second Division. Vic Halom scored twice in Fulham's two-nil victory over Rochdale in the Third Division. Orient returned to the top of the table following their one-nil win at Bury and Brighton & Hove Albion lost two-one at Torquay United. Derek Hoddinott's Meanwhile, Back At The Office broadcast in BBC2's Thirty-Minute Theatre strand. The Faces appeared on Disco 2. Top Gear featured a legendary session by Syd Barrett ('Baby Lemonade', 'Effervescing Elephant', 'Gigolo Aunt', 'Terrapin', 'Two Of A Kind'). Richard Chamberlain appeared on Desert Island Discs.
Separate Tables broadcast in the Play Of The Month strand. The first episode of Daniel Deronda broadcast on BBC2. Juicy Lucy and Yes appeared on Radio 1's The Sunday Show.
Milo O'Shea broadcast on BBC2. Gordon Gostelow appeared on the nine hundred and ninety ninth episode of Jackanory, reading Trouble In The Tower by Roy Brown. The first episode of Crime Of Passion - Ted Willis's Catherine and the World In Action episode A Case Of Benign Neglect broadcast on Thames.
The one thousandth episode of Jackanory - featuring John Stride, Bernard Cribbins and Gordon Gostelow - broadcast. Despite the property's state of disrepair, George and Patti Harrison threw a party to celebrate the latter's twenty sixth birthday at the Harrisons newly-acquired Friar Park gaff in Henley-on-Thames. According to their assistant, Chris O'Dell, the guest list comprised all the other three Beatles and their wives, as well as friends such as Derek and Joan Taylor, Neil and Susie Aspinall, Peter Brown and Klaus and Christine Voormann. The party was 'a great success,' O'Dell claimed. If true this was, likely, the last occasion that all four Beatles were in the same room together at the same time. However, a majority of Beatles biographers have questioned the likelihood of McCartney attending the party, citing his work schedule to complete his debut LP and, more importantly, his strained relationship with the other Beatles at that time. Manchester United drew three-all with Burnley in the First Division.
A musical adaptation of Alun Owen's No Trams To Lime Street broadcast in The Wednesday Play strand. Solo: Roy Dotrice As Anton Chekhov broadcast. Manchester City progressed to the European Cup Winners Cup Semi-Finals, winning one-nil against Academica Coimbra with a Tony Towers goal in extra-time. Arsenal thrashed Dinamo Bacau seven-one in the Inter-Cities Fairs Cup (Charlie George, Jon Sammels and John Radford all netting twice). There was heartbreak at St James' Park, with Newcastle leading Anderlecht three-nil with just seconds to go (Pop Robson hitting two, Keith Dyson adding a third). Then Thomas Nordahl thrashed in a thirty yard screamer to send trhe visitors into the Semis on away-goals. Reading thrashed Barrow six=three in the Third Division (Dick Habbin netting three). Chesterfield remained top of the Fourth Division following a two-nil win at Lincoln City. Tottenham Hotspur broke the British transfer record, signing World Cup winner Martin Peters from West Ham United for two hundred thousand pounds (the fee was one hundred and fifty thousand knicker, plus Jimmy Greaves, valued as fifty thousand). The Champions episode The Survivors broadcast on Thames.
A Fortune In Pictures broadcast on BBC2. From Crystal Palace Sportsnight With Coleman's 'big girls' competed in 'a special invitation event to find new field talent for this summer's Commonwealth Games.' Carry On Up The Jungle - starring Frankie Howerd, Sid James, Charles Hawtrey, Joan Sim, Terry Scott, Bernard Bresslaw, Kenneth Connor and Jacqui Piper - premiered. Mary Hopkin's 'Knock, Knock Who's There?'/'I'm Going To Fall In Love Again', Tam White's 'Lewis Carroll'/'Future Thoughts', Quincy Jones's 'Killer Joe'/'Oh Happy Day', Creedence Clearwater Revival's 'Travelin' Band'/'Who'll Stop The Rain?', Mister Bloe's 'Groovin' With Mister Bloe'/'Sinful' and The Humblebums' 'Shoeshine Boy'/'My Apartment' released.
Jimmy Greaves scored twice on his debut for West Ham United as The Hamsters brayed Manchester City five-one on a muddy-swamp of a pitch at Maine Road on Match Of The Day. Another goal was a forty yard volley by Ronnie Boyce after City kjepper Joe Corrigan had muffed a clearence. Everton remained top of the First Division, winning two-nil at Anfield in the Merseyside derby. Leeds United enjoyed a two-one at Wolverhampton Wanderers. Derby County defeated Crystal Palace three-one, Newcastle United beat Stoke City by the same score and Ipswich Town beat Sunderland two-nil. The largest crowd of the day, sixty one thousand, watched Chelsea beat Manchester United one-nil at Stamford Bridge. Jimmy Lawson scored twice in Huddersfield Town defeated Birmingham City in the Second Division. Derek Rickard netted three in Plymouth Argyle's four-two victory over Shrewsbury Town in the Third Division. Dana won The Eurovision Song Contest for Ireland with 'All Kinds Of Everything'. Mary Hopkin's 'Knock, Knock, Who's There?' was second. The first episode of the seven-part Doctor Who serial The Ambassadors of Death broadcast. Lawrence Durrell's The Lonely Road broadcast on BBC2. The Keef Hartley Band and Slade appeared on Disco 2. Viv Stanshall's Big Grunt featured on Top Gear. The Who's 'The Seeker'/'Here For More', Marbles' 'Breaking Up Is Hard To Do'/'I Can't See Nobody', Peter & The Wolves' 'Something In The Way She Moves'/'Lady & Me' and Gong's Magick Brother released. An adaptation of Huxley's The Gioconda Smile broadcast in Radio 4's Saturday-Night Theatre strand.
The first episode of Charley's Grants broadcast on BBC2. The Dream Divided broadcast in the Omnibus strand. The Graham Bond Initiation, Jim James & Rafael Callaghan featured on Radio 1's The Sunday Show. The United States first used the BLU-82 bomb in combat, dropping the most powerful conventional weapon used to that time on North Vietnamese Army and Pathet Lao guerrilla troops in Long Tieng. The fifteen thousand pound bomb, nicknamed The Daisy Cutter, had originally been designed to clear jungles to create landing zones for helicopters. Kathleen Johns, aged twenty two, was abducted along with her ten-month-old daughter on a highway near Modesto, California. Johns, whowas heavily pregnant, managed to escape with her daughter from the car ninety minutes later. When Johns gave her statement to a police officer, she noticed the composite sketch of Paul Stine's killer and, she claimed, recognised him as the man who had abducted her and her child. In a letter to the San Francisco Chronicle in July, someone preporting to be The Zodiac Killer took credit for Johns's abduction though the letter contained no information which had not already been made public.
Bernard Cribbins read Alice's Adventures In Wonderland on Jackanory. Photography On The Moon broadcast in The Sky At Night strand. The World Outside broadcast in BBC2's Horizon strand. The first episode of The Snow Queen broadcast on Radio 4. Manchester United and Leeds United shared a second goalless draw in their FA Cup Semi-Final at Villa Park. Before the game George Best was, allegedly, caught in-flagrante delicto by his manager Wilf McGuinness at the team's hotel. Bestie had chatted up the woman concerned on the hotel's stairs. McGuinness wanted to send him home and only the intervention of Sir Matt Busby enabled Best to play. 'He had an absolute nightmare,' McGuinness recalled. 'We drew nil-nil again and George had the chance to win it, but fell over the ball in front of goal.' The World In Action episode The State Of Denmark featured infamous morality campaigner and tight-arsed busybody Mary Whitehouse geting all uppity about the abolishion of censorship in Denmark.
So You Think You Can Drive In 1970? broadcast. Henry Cooper retained his British and Commonwealth Heavyweight titles, defeating Jack Bodell on points at the Empire Pool.
The first episode of That's Your Funeral broadcast in the Comedy Playhouse strand. What The Public Wants? broadcast in BBC2's Man Alive strand. Lewis Gilbert's The Adventurers - starring Bekim Fehmiu, Candice Bergen, Charles Aznavour, Olivia de Havilland, Fernando Rey, Ernest Borgnine, Alan Badel and Leigh Taylor-Young - premiered. On Granada, the arts programme Octopus - presented by Andrew Fisher and Sue Woodward - featured what is believed to be the only TV appearance of Nick Drake, a filmed performance of 'Cello Song' from a gig at Manchester's Lesser Trade Hall a few days earlier.
The Manchester United-Leeds United FA Cup marathon finally ended as Billy Bremner's goal won a second replay at Bolton. Michael Wadleigh's documentary Woodstock premiered. The Originals' 'Baby I'm For Real'/'Moment Of Truth', Jack Wild's 'Some Beautiful'/'Picture Of You', Julian's Treatment's 'Phantom City'/'Alda, Dark Lady Of The Outer Worlds', Jerry Butler's 'Hey, Western Union Man'/'Just Can't Forget About You', Almond Marzipan's 'Open Up Your Heart'/'Summer Love', Katja Ebstein's 'No More Love For Me (Wunder G'ibt Es Immer Wieder)'/'Without Love', Millie's 'Mayfair'/'Enoch Power', Skid Row's 'Sandy's Gone (Parts 1 & 2)', Long John Baldry's 'Well I Did'/'Setting Fire To The Tail Of A Fox' and The Explosive With Del Taylor's 'I'm Gonna Use What I Got To Get What I Need'/'Am I A Fool?' released.
John Arden's The Bagman Or The Impromptu Of Muswell Hill broadcast on Radio 3. Richard Wade's Two In A Tiger broadcast. The Seven Last Words Of Christ From The Cross broadcast on BBC2. Jim Smith euqalised Bobby Park's opener as the Wear-Tyne derby at Roker Park was draw, one-all. Tottenham Hotspur defeated Nottingham Forest four-one and Derby County won one-nil at Manchester City. The largest Third Division attendance of the season, thirty two thousand and thirty six, were at The Goldstone Ground where Brighton & Hove Albion beat Reading two-one. Orient thrashed Plymoth Argyle four-one. Wrexham walloped Darlington six-two in the Fourth Division.
Fire & Water broadcast. Leslie Thomas's All My Own Army broadcast in BBC2's Thirty-Minute Theatre strand. The Move, Yes, John Mayall and Frank Zappa featured on Disco 2. The Faces appeared on Top Gear performing 'Wicked Messenger', 'Devotion', Pineapple & The Monkey' and 'Shake Shudder Shiver'. As did Yes, massacuring 'Every Little Thing' in a, frankly disgraceful, manner. Nyree Dawn Porter was the guest on Desert Island Discs. Cambridge won The Boat Race, which was particularly notable for the unorthodox steering of the Oxford cox, Ashton Calvert. This was the final episode of Radio 3's Sports Service, the Saturday afternoon home of sport on BBC Radio since 1964. From 11 April, this moved to Radio 2, along with the 5pm round-up show, Sports Report. In the First Division, Everton beat Chelsea five-two at Goodison Park whilst Leeds United were losing, three-one, at home to Southampton (featured on Match of The Day). City beat United two-one in the Manchester derby at Old Trafford. Nottingham Forest and Newcastle United drew two-two, as did Arsenal and Wolverhampton Wanderers. Crystal Palace and Ipswich Town's one-all draw took both sides out of the relegation zone at the expense of Sheffield Wednesday, two lost two-one at Stoke City. Leicester City won five-nil at Charlton Athletic in the Second Division. Huddersfield Town remained top, winning three-one at Portsmouth (Frank Worthington, Dick Krzywicki and Roy Ellam on-target). Blackpool joined the promotion race with a two-one victory over relegation-threatened Aston Villa. As did Swindon Town who beat Watford one-nil. A mere three points covered eight clubs from second-place Blackpool to Blackburn Rovers in ninth. It was also tight at the top of the tHird Division, Luton Town coming out of a horrible run of form with a five-nil spanking of Reading (Malcolm Macdonald netting three). Third-placed Bristol Rovers beat second-laced Orient one-nil. Both Oldham Athletic's Jim Fryatt and Southend United's Billy Best scored four in the fourth Division (in a five-two win over Chester and a four-three victory at Peterborough United, respectively). York City beat Brentford four-two. Britain completed the withdrawal of troops from Libya, as the last RAF and Army personnel left the base at El Adem and departed in naval transports from Tobruk. On the same day, Britain gave Malaysia ownership of the Terendak Camp, near Malacca, which had served as the base for the forces of the UK, Australia and New Zealand.
Anthony Wilkinson's Papillons broadcast on BBC2. The Private Life Of The Wandering Albatross broadcast. The Edwin Hawkins Singers featured on Radio 1's The Sunday Show. Gordon Flemyng's The Last Grenade - starring Stanley Baker, Alex Cord and Honor Blackman - premiered.
The first episode of Marty Amok broadcast, featuring an appearance by Vivian Stanshall's Big Grunt. In The Beginning Was The Word ... broadcast in the Horizon strand. Old Soldiers Never Die broadcast in the The Glory That Remains strand. John Fortune and John Wells' Step Laughing Into The Grave broadcast. Tottenham Hotspur broke the British transfer record, signing Martin Peters from West Ham United for two hundred thousand pounds. The Beatles Today broadcast on Radio 1, featuring George Harrison's interview with Johnny Moran. John Bown's Monique - starring David Sumner, Joan Alcorn, Sibylla Kay, Nicola Bown and Carol Hawkins - premiered. Leeds United fielding a reserve team in their First Division match with Derby County due to having a European Cup Semi-Final two days late. Derby gratefully too the points with a four-one victory but their no sympathy from the authorities who fined Leeds five thousand knicker. Alan Mullery scored as Spurs shoved Sheffield Wednesday further into the relegation mire with a one-nil win at Hillsbrough. West Bromwich Albion beat Chelsea three-one. John Craven scored as Blackpool beat fellow promotion-chasers Sheffield United in a Second Division four-pointer. Swuindon Town's hopes of a second successive promotion took a hit, losing to an Albert Bennett goal at Norwich City. Rochdale thrashed Halifax Town five-il in the Third Division. Orient returned to the top with a one-nil win at Doncaster Rovers whilstBrighton & Hove Albion were losing heavily, four-one, at Fulham. Stockport County, with five games still to play, became the first team of the season to be relegated, losing two-nil at home to Bournemouth & Boscombe Athletic (Keith East scoring both goals). Notts County thrashed bradford Park Avenue five=two in the Fourth Division.
The Man Between Germany & The World broadcast in the Tuesday's Documentary strand. Gene L Coon's The Killers shown in BBC2's Hollywood In The Sixties strand. The bodies of Susan Blatchford (aged eleven) and Gary Hanlon (aged twelve), were discovered in a thicket of trees on Lippitts Hill, Epping Forest, after they went missing from their homes in Enfield in what became known as The Babes In The Wood Murders. The case remained unsolved for thirty years until Ronald Jebson, already serving a life sentence for the 1974 murder of Rosemary Papper, confessed to their sexual assault and murder in 2000. After twelve years in orbit, Explorer I, the first American satellite, re-entered Earth's atmosphere and burned up. Ipswich Town moved three poiints clear of the First Division relegation zone with a vital two-one victory over Arsenal. Coventry City thrashed Southampton four-nil, Manchester United won two-one at Nottingham Forest (Alan Gowling scoring the winner) and West Ham United defeated Wolverhampton Wanderers three-nil. Huddersfield Town were promoted from the Second Division following a one-all draw at Middlesbrough. Blackpool's goalless draw with Leicester City allowed Swindon Town (four-one winners against Birmingham City) and Sheffiled United (who beat Millwall three-one with goals from Tony Currie, Alan Woodward and John Tudor) to make the top of the table even tighter.
Haven Of Rest broadcast in the Comedy Playhouse. John Updike: A Small Town In America broadcast. Licensed To Kill: Who's to Blame? broadcast in the Man Alive strand. US Army Brigadier General William Bond was shot and killed by a Viet Cong sniper, moments after stepping off of a helicopter to inspect a patrol in the Bình Thủy District of South Vietnam. Douglas Hickox's adaptation of Entertaining Mister Sloane - starring Beryl Reid, Harry Andrews and Peter McEnery - premiered. England and Wales drew one-all in the Home International championship at Ninian Park. Dicky Kyzywicki put the hosts ahead with Franny Lee equalising. George Connely's first minute strike was enough for Glasgow Celtic to defeat Leeds United at Elland Road in the first leg of the European Cup Semi-Final. Manchester City also lost one-nil in Gelsenkirchen to Schalke 04 in the firsat leg of the Cup Winners Cup Semi-Final. Everton clinched the First Division championship with a two-nil victory over West Bromwich Albion in front of fifty eight thousand at Goodison Park. Colin Harvey and Alan Whittle scored the goal. It was their first title in seven years and their seventh overall. Mansfield Town trhashed Southport five-nil in the Third Division. The first episode of Shine A Light broadcast on Thames.
Harmony Grass featured on The Basil Brush Show. Elton John performed 'Border Song' and Slade 'Shape Of Things To Come' on Top Of The Pops. The first episode of Norman broadcast on Thames.
Jörn Donner's Black On White broadcast in BBC2's World Cinema. The England World Cup Squad's 'Back Home'/'Cinnamon Stick', White Plains' 'I've Got You On My Mind'/'Today I Killed A Man I Didn't Know', Don Fardon's 'Belfast Boy'/'Echoes Of The Cheers', The Equals' 'Soul Brother Clifford'/'Happy Birthday Girl', Elton John's 'Border Song'/'Bad Side Of The Moon', Hearts Of Soul's 'Waterman'/'Fat Jack' and The Edgar Broughton Band's 'Out Demons Out'/'Momma's Reward (Keep Them Freaks A-Rollin')' released. Eric Sykes's Rhubarb premiered. Liverpool defeated Crystal Palace three=nil in the First Division vgiving both Sunderland and Sheffield Wednesday an unexpected opportunity to avoid the drop with games in hand.
Gay Trip ridden by Pat Taaffe won The Grand National. Brian Glanville's The Last Of The Good Losers broadcast in BBC2's One Pair Of Eyes strand. John & Beverley Martin featured on Top Gear. Everton celebrated their First Division title with a one-nil win at Sheffield Wednesday. Leeds United beat Burnley two-one thanks to Eddie Gray's astonishing winning goal. Newcastle United thrashed Manchester United five-one (Pop Robson scoring a hat-trick). Stoke City won three-nil at Coventry City, West Bromwich Albion thumped Nottingham Forest four-nil and Dennis Tueart scored a shock winner for Sunderland at Manchester City to put the cat amongst the pigeons in the fight to avoid relegation. Hull City's Ken Houghton, Millwall's Derek Possee and Norwich City's Albert Bennett all scored hat-tricks in the Second Division (in a four-two win at Birmingham, a three-one defeat of Swindon Town and a four-one victory at Portsmouth, respectively). Blackpool inched closer to promotion with a one-all draw against Queens Park Rangers. Reading beat Barnsley six-two in the Third Division. Barrow were relegated following their two-nil defeat at leaders Orient. Scunthorpe United won five-nil at hapless Bradford Park Avenue in the Fourth Division. Leaders Chesterfield won four-two against Aldershot and fellow promotion-chasers Wrexham enjoyed a four-one victory against Workington. Swansea City, also in the promotion hunt, defeated Hartlepool three-nil. The disposal of the remains of Adolf Hitler was carried out at the Soviet Union's military base in Magdeburg. Only the commander of the base was aware that the burned skeletons of Hitler, Eva Braun, General Hans Krebs, Joseph Goebbels, Magda Goebbels and the Goebbels children, had been interred there. Hitler's skull had been sent to Moscow in 1945. Given that the base was scheduled to be relinquished to East Germany, the commander consulted KGB Director Yuri Andropov for instructions. To prevent the site from becoming a shrine for neo-Nazis, Andropov ordered that the graves' contents be 'crushed, burned and scattered.' And, that was the end of their shit. The process was completed the next day at Schönebeck and what was left was dumped into the Elbe River.
The Private Life Of The Large White Butterfly broadcast in the Private Lives strand. Dream Of Two Cities broadcast in The World About Us strand. Renaissance, Elton John and Hookfoot featured on Radio 1's The Sunday Show. The first broadcast of folk-rock super-group Fotheringay.
The first episode of The Adventures Of Parsley broadcast. The second batch of Star Trek episodes were broadcast in a new early-evening slot on BBC1, beginning with Court Martial. A Matter Of Death & Life broadcast in BBC2's The Glory That Remains strand. The first episodes of Start The Week - initially presented by Richard Baker - and PM broadcast on Radio 4. Photojournalists Sean Flynn of Time magazine and Dana Stone of CBS, crossed into Cambodia by motorcycle to report on the escalating Vietnam War and disappeared. Flynn - the son of actor Errol Flynn - and Stone were among five journalists who had crossed together for their assignments. Captured also were freelance photographer Claude Arpin of France and two cameramen for Japan's Fuji Commercial Television, Yujiro Takagi and Akira Kusaka. The last time their colleagues saw Flyyn and Stone was when the men were waved through a roadblock set up by the North Vietnamese Army, which used Cambodia as a base for operations. In 1986, the US Defence Intelligence Agency would declassify a report which concluded that Flynn and Stone were 'probably executed in 1971 by an officer of the Khmer Rouge.' Doctor Sam Sheppard, the American neurosurgeon who had served twelve years in prison after being wrongfully convicted of murdering his wife - the case which subsequently inspired The Fugitive - died from encephalopathy associated with his consumption of alcohol. The first episode of Radio 1's Sounds Of The Seventies broadcast, presented by Andy Ferris. Roger Hoy scored the only goal as Crystal Palace won their final game of the First Division season, one-nil against Manchester City. It left The Palace three points ahead of Sheffield Wednesday and two ahead of Sunderland, both with two matches still to play. Dixie McNeil hit three in Northampton Town's three-one victory at Colchester united in the Fourth Division. Albert Kinsey also scored three in Wrexham's four-nil defeat of botom side Bradford Park Avenue. Swansea City won two-one at Newport County. The World In Action episode Seymour broadcast.
The first episodes of BBC2's Codename and The Adventures Of Parsley broadcast. At the Academy Awards, Midnight Cowboy became the first (and to date, the only) X-rated film to receive the Oscar for Best Picture; John Schlesinger won Best Director. John Wayne received the Oscar for Best Actor, for his performance in True Grit. Chesterfield's one-all draw at Exeter City meant promotion for not only themselves but, also, Swansea City in the Fourth Division.
Rod McKuen: The Loner broadcast on BBC2. The first episode of Christopher Bidmead's Annabelle Alone broadcast in Radio 4's Midweek Theatre strand. Everton drew their final game of the season at Sunderland and were First Division champions by nine-points ahead of Leeds United, who had gone into the final stages of the season in contention for three major trophies but would, ultimately, fail to win any of them. Chelsea finished third, Derby County's return to the First Division saw them in an impressive fourth but were were banned from entering European competitions the following season due to financial irregularities. Liverpool, at the beginning of something of a rebuilding phase, completed the top five, ahead of Coventry City and Newcastle United, both of whom qualified for the Inter-Cities Fairs Cup (along with Leeds and Liverpool). Manchester United - who won their final game of the season seven-nil against West Bromwich Albion - finished a disappointing eighth under new manager Wilf McGuinness. Manchester City managed only a mid-table finish but had much success in cup competitions. Huddersfield Town clinched the Second Division title by a comfortable margin. Charlie George scored twice as Arsenal thrashed Ajax three-nil in the first leg of the Inter-Cities Fairs Cup Semi-Final. Joseph Sargent's Colossus: The Forbin Project - starring Eric Braeden, Susan Clark, Gordon Pinsent, William Schallert and Marion Ross - premiered. The Callan episode Where Else Would I Go? broadcast on Thames.
Blue Mink, Creedence Clearwater Revival, The Hollies, The Move, Radha Krishna Temple, Dana, The England World Cup Squad, Jack Wild, The Pipkins and Shocking Blue featured on Top Of The Pops. The Thelonious Monk Quartet appeared on BBC2's Jazz Scene At The Ronnie Scott Club. Two days before the scheduled lift-off of the Apollo 13 lunar mission, command module pilot Ken Mattingly was removed from the crew and replaced by back-up, Jack Swigert. A pre-launch physical showed that Mattingly may have contracted German measles after exposure to the disease from another member of the back-up crew, Charlie Duke (who, in turn, had contracted the disease from one of his children).
New Deal From Detroit broadcast in BBC2's Wheelbase strand. Paul McCartney announced that The Beatles had broken up. The Hollies' 'I Can't Tell The Bottom From The Top'/'Mad Professor Blyth', Tangerine Peel's 'Move Into My World'/'In Between', Tom Jones' 'Daughter Of Darkness'/'Tupelo Mississippi Flash', The Bedrocks' 'Hit Me On The Head'/'Musical Clowns', Christie's 'Yellow River'/'Down The Mississippi Line', Funkadelic's 'I Got A Thing, You Got A Thing, Everybody's Got A Thing'/'Fish, Chips & Sweat', Mel & Dave's 'Spinning Wheel'/'Version II', The Guess Who's 'American Woman'/'No Sugar Tonight' and Rockin Foo's 'Rochester River'/'Stranger In The Attic' released. Brian Kidd scored twice as Manchester United beat Watford two-nil at Highbury in an utterply pointless FA Cup Third Place Play-Off, an 'innovation' by the Football Association which took place over the following five seasons but was then quietly dropped and never spoken of again.
Leeds United and Chelsea drew two-two in the FA Cup Final at Wembley, the match going to extra-time and causing a delay in the broadcast of episode four of The Ambassadors Of Death. The BBC's Saturday radio sport coverage moved from Radio 3 to Radio 2 with the first episode of Sport On 2. Oreint drew two-two with Rochdale in the Third Division whilst Vic Busby and Malcolm Macdoland were both on-target as Luton Town closed in on the promotion places with a three-nil defeat of Walsall. Billy Eckstine and The Pentangle featured on BBC2's The Young Generation. CP Taylor's Revolution: Cromwell broadcast in the Thirty-Minute Theatre strand. Honeybus appeared on Disco 2. Steeleye Span and High Tide featured on Top Gear. Deryck Guyler appeared on Desert Island Discs. Barry Perowne's Rescue From The Rock broadcast in Radio 4's Saturday-Night Theatre strand. Apollo 13 launched - piloted by Jim Lovell, Fred Haise and Jack Swigert.

The first episode of Fact Or Fantasy? broadcast. The Great Unknown broadcast in BBC2's The World About Us strand. Taste and Atomic Rooster featured on Radio 1's The Sunday Show.
The crew of Apollo 13 told Houston that they had 'a problem'. Understatement of the decade? The Drifting Of The Continents broadcast in BBC2's Horizon strand. Nick Drake (with Iain Hamilton on flute) appeared in an eight-song session on Radio 2's Night Ride, presented by Colin Nichol. In the First Division, Chelsea won two-one at Stoke City and Spurs beat Manchester United by the same score. Fred Pickering scored three as Blackpool won three-nil at Preston North End to clinch promotion to the top flight. Aston Villa ended Sheffield United's promotion hopes with a one-nil victory that just about kept their own chances of avoiding relegation alive. The World In Action episode Black Mood broadcast.
Hugh Burnett's Afrikaner broadcast in the Tuesday's Documentary strand. The Money Programme: Budget Special broadcast on BBC2. Newcastle United thrashed Coventry City four-nil to end the season in seventh place, their highest First Division finish since 1951. Charlton Athletic's two one victory over Bristol City in the Second Division meant that Aston Villa were relegated to the third tier for the first time in their history. Huddersfield Town defeated Watford three-one. The first episode of A Family At War broadcast on Thames.
Nigel Kneale's Wine Of India broadcast in The Wednesday Play strand. Dick Gregory Is Alive & Well broadcast in BBC2's Man Alive strand. Glasgow Celtic beat Leeds United two-one in the second leg of the European Cup Semi-Final in front of a crowd of one hundred and thirty six thousand at Hampden Park (still a record for a UEFA competition). Big John Hughes and Bobby Murdoch scored for the hostss, Billy Bremner replying for the visitors. Manchester City reached the Final of the Cup Winners Cup thrashing Schalke 04 five-one at maine Road. Arsenal progressed to the Final of the Inter-Cities Fairs Cup, losing one-nil to a Gerrie Mühren goal at Ajax but winning on aggregate. Sunderland lost, one-nil, at home to Liverpool and were relegated from the First Division. Both Norwich City and Sheffield United missed out on promotion in the Second Division, but ended their seasons on a high, winning six-nil against Birmingham City and five-one over Oxford United respectively. The Young & The Pity broadcast in Radio 4's Afternoon Theatre strand. The Callan episode Summoned To Appear broadcast on Thames.
Creedence Clearwater Revival, Dionne Warwick, Maurice Gibb, The Four Tops, The Guess Who, The Family Dogg, Frijid Pink, Jimmy Ruffin, Norman Greenbaum, The Band and Jack Wild featured on Top Of The Pops. I Suppose We Died With The Arsenic broadcast in The Curious Character Of Britain strand. The Stephane Grappelly-Teddy Wilson Quartet and The Miles Davis Quintet featured on Jazz Scene At The Ronnie Scott Club. Wolf Rilla's The Greater Good broadcast. The Johnstons' 'Streets Of London'/'The Spanish Lady' released.
Somewhat optimistically, Radio Times informed readers that BBC1's morning schedule would featured 'highlights from day two on the moon' from Apollo 13. Instead, James Burke, Patrick Moore, Cliff Michelmore and Michael Charlton had more life-and-death matters to discuss. Out Of This Spark: The Making Of A Revolutionary broadcast on BBC2. World Cup Rally Preview broadcast in the Wheelbase strand. Paul McCartney's McCartney, Octopus's 'The River'/'Thief', Andwellas Dream's 'Every Little Minute'/'Michael Fitzhenry', Pretty Things' 'The Good Mister Square'/'Blue Serge Blues', Lee Reed's 'Holly Holy'/'Somebody's Crying', Sergio Mendes & Brasil '66's 'Norwegian Wood (This Bird Has Flown)'/'Masquerade', Dee Clark's 'Where Did All The Good Times Go?'/'Twenty Four Hours Of Loneliness', Meckenburg Zinc's 'Hard Working Woman'/'I'd Like To Help You', Maurice Gibb's 'Railroad'/'I've Come Back', Pat Campbell's 'Mother Went A Walkin'/'Silent Worship', Jonny Young Four's 'Rocky Top'/'Start Anew', Fairfield Parlour's 'Bordeaux Rose'/'Chalk On The Wall', Incredible String Band's 'This Moment'/'Black Jack Davy' and Marvin Gaye's 'Abraham, Martin & John'/'How Can I Forget?' released. Bristol Rovers five-two defeat at Tranmere Rovers meant that Orient were promoted from the Third Division.
England and Wales drew one-all in the Home International Championship at Ninian Park. Dick Krzywicki opened the scoring before Francis Lee equalised. George Best was sent off for throwing mud at the referee whilst playing for Northern Ireland against Scotland. The visitors won one-nil with goal by debutant John O'Hare. Glasgow Celtic's David Hay, Kilmarnock's Billy Dickson, Coventry City's Willie Carr also made their Scotland debuts. All four home nations were without players from Chelsea and Leeds United who still had issues to settle; both played First Division games, Chelsea beating Liverpool two-one with two goals from Peter Osgood, Leeds losing three-one at home to Manchester City. Jeff Astle of West Bromwich Albion was the division's top scorer with twenty five. Osgood ended with twenty three in the league and thirty one in all competitions. Watford's point in a one-all draw at Norwich City meant that Aston Villa and Preston North End, two clubs with illustrious histories, went down to the Third Division for the first time. Watford won their battle against relegation having also reached the Semi-Finals of the FA Cup. Fulham's one-nil victory at Rochdale meant they still had a slim chance of grabbing a promotion spot in the Third Division. Bobby Svarc scored twice in Lincoln City's three-nil win against Hartlepool in the Fourth Division. Benjamin Spock was profiled in We're Sliding Towards Destruction in BBC2's One Pair Of Eyes strand. CP Taylor's Revolution: Lenin broadcast in the Thirty-Minute Theatre strand. David Mercer ('My auntie lives under the railway bridge at Castleford') talked with fellow Yorkshireman David Halliwell about 'what it means to be a Northerner in the Review strand. Lovell, Haise and Swigert splashed-down in the Pacific after their death-defying flight. That, gentlemen, is how we do that. The day after their safe return to Earth, the astronauts were presented the Presidential Medal of Freedom by President Nixon at a ceremony in Honolulu. East Of Eden featured on Top Gear. Lady Kathleen Pelham-Clinton-Hope, daughter of the Duke of Northumberland, was remanded, along with 'three youths', on drugs charges. Black Power leader Michael X was charged with robbery and 'making unwarranted demands with menaces.' British Leyland announced cessation of production of the Morris Minor. The Reverend Ian Paisley won a seat at Stormont in the Bannside by-election. Colin Mafham, editor of the Stone Advertiser, was refused entry to the Top Of The World Ballroom in Stafford because he 'had long hair.' The scoundrel.
At Wembley Stadium, fifty thousand spectators watched the start of the London to Mexico World Cup Rally, sponsored by the Daily Mirror. The ninety six drivers drove to Dover to board the ferry to Europe, with a subsequent route going through Africa and South America. The Ford Escort team of Finland's Hannu Mikkola and Sweden's Gunnar Palm arrived first in Mexico City, on 27 May. Howards End broadcast in the Play Of The Month strand. Kenneth More was interviewed by Michael Flanders on Omnibus. Fleetwood Mac featured on Radio 1's In Concert. Duncan Wood's Some Will, Some Won't - starring Ronnie Corbett, Thora Hird, Michael Hordern, Barbara Murray and Leslie Phillips - premiered.
A Case Of Priority broadcast in BBC2's Horizon strand. President Nixon announced that he would order the withdrawal of one hundred and fifty thousand American troops from South Viet'nam over the next twelve months as part of the process of turning conduct of the war over to the South Vietnamese people. Ten days after declaring 'The decision I have announced tonight means that we have in sight the just peace we are seeking,' Nixon reversed the decision and announced that troop strength would not be decreased and that the war would expand into Cambodia. The final two games were played to complete the Second Division programme; the promotion and relegation issues had already been decided; Leicester City just missed out on an immediate return to the top flight finishing third, while Middlesbrough were three points short of ending their lengthy absence from the First Division. John Hickton was, again, the division's top scorer with twenty four goals. Swindon Town recorded their best season yet, finishing fifth with a one-nil defeat of Blackburn Rovers. Orient's three-two victory over Southport (Mickey Bullock netting two) and Luton Town's goalless draw at Mansfield Town confirmed promotion for both from the Third Division. George Jones of Bury finished the season as the division's top scorer with twenty six. Malcolm Macdoland hit twenty four for Luton. Wrexham, who beat Grimsby Town three-two, became the second side to be promoted from the Fourth Division. Bradford Park Avenue played what would subsequently turn out to be their final game in the Football League, a four=two defeat at Aldershot. The first episode of For The Love Of Ada broadcast on LWT. Though, tragically, not the last. The World In Action episode Ian Paisley broadcast.
The first UK broadcast of The Spring Thing. To Kill A Mockingbird shown in BBC2's Hollywood In The Sixties strand. Leonard Casley, a disgruntled wheat farmer in Western Australia, declared his farm to be the Hutt River Province and would contend for the rest of his life that his twenty nine square miles of territory had seceded from Australia and was no longer subject to national or state laws. A year later, Casley began making money by arranging to have postage stamps printed for sale to collectors and tourists. Funded by tourism for his micronation, Casley began referring to himself as Prince Leonard of Hutt River. Casley died in 2019, two years after abdicating his throne to his son, Graeme. England beat Northern Ireland three-one in the Home International Championship at Wembley. Martin Peters, Bobby Charlton and Geoff Hurst scored for England with George Best on-target for the visitors. Tottenham's Ralph Coates (and his comb-over) and Brian Kidd of Manchester United made their England debuts. Bobby Charlton was presented with a plaque to celebrate his one hundredth appearance by the Chairman of the Football Association preceding this match.
Sovereign's Company broadcast in The Wednesday Play strand. The Catholic Dilemma broadcast in BBC2's Man Alive strand. In a meeting at the White House of his National Security Council, President Nixon discussed the options for the response to the continuing use of Cambodia by the North Vietnamese Army and the Viet Cong as a base from which to launch attacks against American forces. Nixon's chief national security adviser, Henry Kissinger, would recount later that the three choices were to continue the current response, favoured by Secretary of Defence Melvin Laird and Secretary of State William Rogers, providing financial and adviser aid for an invasion by South Viet'nam's army without committing ground troops (favoured by Kissinger) or sending US troops and planes into Cambodia to attack Communist sanctuaries and bomb them back to the Stone Age (favoured by General Earle Wheeler, the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs). While Nixon initially supported Kissinger's option, Vice President Agnew made the argument for committing US troops to Cambodia, the decision that Nixon ultimately adopted. Earth Day was celebrated in the United States for the first time. The Associated Press reported: 'Across the nation, trash was gathered, streets swept, ponds and parks cleaned, trees and flowers planted' as 'youth joined hands with age across the generation gap.' J Lee Thompson's Country Dance - starring Peter O'Toole, Susannah York and Michael Craig - premiered. Scotland and Wales drew nil-nil in the Home International championships at Hampden Park. Anderlecht beat Arsenal three-one in the first leg of the Inter-Cities Fairs Cup Final in Brussels. Ray Kennedy scored for The Gunners. Sheffield Wednesday's relegation from the First Division was confirmed when they lost two-one at home to Manchester City (Ian Bowyer scoring both). Reading thrashed Southport eight-nil in the Third Division (Goirdon Cumming netting three). Darlington thumped Hartlepool four-nil in the Fourth Division. The Callan episode The Same Trick Twice broadcast on Thames.
The first episodes of Something To Say and BBC2's Doubts & Certainties: South Africa broadcast.
The first episode of The Culture Vultures broadcast. The Confessions Of Marian Evans broadcast on BBC2. The Supremes' 'Up The Ladder To The Roof'/'Bill, When Are You Coming Back?', Dave Mason's 'World In Changes'/'Can't Stop Worrying, Can't Stop Loving', Amon Düül II's Yeti, Blonde On Blonde's 'Castles In The Sky'/'Circles', Bobbie Gentry's 'If You Gotta Make A Fool Of Somebody'/'Billy The Kid', The Doors' 'You Make Me Real'/'The Spy', Granny's Intentions' 'Take Me Back'/'Maybe', The Gun's 'Runnin' Wild'/'Drown Yourself In The River', Ramases & Seleka's 'Love You'/'Gold Is The Ring', Cats Eyes' 'Come Away Melinda'/'Cirrus', The Alan Moorhouse Orchestra's 'Haunting Me (Theme From The Man Who Haunted Himself)'/'Soul Bossa', Errol Sobers' 'Sugar Shaker'/'You're In Love', Van Der Graaf Generator's 'Refugees'/'The Boat Of A Million Years', Christine Perfect's 'I'm Too Far Gone (To Turn Around)'/'Close To Me', Alan Randall With The Sky Blues Chior & Shep's Banjo Boys' 'The Coventry City Song'/'Football, Football' and The Moody Blues' 'Question'/'Candle of Life' released. China became the sixth nation to launch a satellite into orbit, as the spacecraft Dong Fang Hong 1 was sent up using the Changzheng-1 (CZ-1) rocket. Massimo Dallamano's Dorian Gray premiered.
England and Scotland played out a turgid nil-nil draw at Hampden Park in the Home International Championship. Both sides and Wales shared the title jointly.Bournemouth & Boscombe Athletic's goalless draw at Gillingham meant that Southport were relegated from the Third Division. Revolution: Fidel Castro broadcast in BBC2's Thirty-Minute Theatre strand. Slade appeared on Disco 2. Michael Chapman and Fotheringay featured on Top Gear. The Browning Version broadcast in Radio 4's Afternoon Theatre. A mutiny of the Trinidanian Army came to a peaceful end after five days, when the government of Trinidad and Tobago negotiated a surrender of the mutineers in return for amnesty. Four Faces Of Ulysses broadcast in Radio 3. Wales defeated Northern Ireland one=nil in the Home International championship at The Vetch Field. Ron vRees scored the only goal.
The first episode of The Spoils Of Poynton broadcast. George Harrison was one of the guests on Fact Or Fantasy. The Golden Isthmus broadcast in BBC2's The World About Us strand. Black Sabbath and Medicine Head appeared on Radio 1's In Concert. Michael Winner's The Games - starring Michael Crawford, Ryan O'Neal, Charles Aznavour and Jeremy Kemp - premiered.
The Doomwath episode The Battery People broadcast. The Fretful Elements broadcast in BBC2's Horizon strand. An unidentified fifty eight-year-old woman became the first person to receive a heart pacemaker to be powered by an atomic battery, in a four-hour operation at the Hôpital Broussais in Paris. Brian De Palma's Hi Mom! - starring Robert DeNiro - premiered. Gillingham's surprise two-one victory at Third Division champions Orient left Bournemouth & Boscombe Athletic as the fourth and final side relegated to the fourth tier. The Fourth Division's final two promotion places were also decided with Port Vale and Swansea City joining Chesterfield and Wrexham (whose Albert Kinsey finished as the division's top scorer with twenty seven goals). In February, Swansea Town had been renamed Swansea City after Swansea was granted city status by the Queen. The World In Action episode Are You Alright, Jackie? looked at the lives of two schoolgirls, both named Jackie, and their juxtaposition with two representatives from the Women's Liberation Front.
Australia The Last Of Lands broadcast in the Tuesday's Documentary strand. When Mercury Crosses The Sun broadcast in The Sky At Night strand. Tim Scott, Sculptor broadcast in BBC2's Making Out strand. A complaint was made to the police under the Race Relations Act by one Peter Tooms of Oxfordshire against the Prime Minister, John Arlott, Peter Hain, the Right Reverend David Sheppard and others who had voiced their disapproval of Apartheid in a BBC Panorama documentary about the cancellation of a proposed South African cricket tour to Britain. Tooms's case was subsequently dismissed and he was told to, you know, grow the fuck up. Arsenal won the Inter-Cities Fairs Cup four-three on aggregate against Anderlecht. Eddie Kelly, John Radford and Jon Sammels socring in a three-nil victory at a packed Highbury. And still the football league season, which was supposed to have finished weeks ago, went on, Grimsby Town thrashing Colchester United five-three in the Fourth Division (Mick Hickman scoring three and Graham Oates two for the hosts). Supporters of the Black Panthers and the recently jailed Chicago Eight were alleged to be planning 'an armed confrontation' with police at Yale University. A mother in Florida was sentenced to three hundred days in The Slammer for giving her ten year old daughter LSD. The Morecambe & Wise Show and The Benny Hill Show were Britain's entries into the Golden Rose of Montreaux TV festival.
David Webb's extra-time winner saw Chelsea beat Leeds United two-one in the replay of the FA Cup Final, one of the roughest, hardest games of football ever witnessed. In 1998, Premiership referee David Elleray was asked by Sky Sports to 'replay' the match under then-current FIFA rules. He concluded that six men would have been sent off and every player on the pitch, bar Leeds goalkeeper David Harvey, booked. In the actual match, the referee Eric Jennings cautioned just one player - Ian Hutchinson for an angry retaliatory push on Billy Bremner. The game - broadcast on both BBC1 and ITV - had a combined audience in excess of thirty two million (the game going to extra-time caused the postponement of episodes of Callan - the episode Act Of Kindness - and The Wednesday Play). The World Through European Eyes broadcast in BBC2's Europa strand. Manchester City beat Poland's Górnik Zabrze two-one in Vienna to win the European Cup Winners Cup - something went almost unnoticed outside of the blue half of Manchester as everyone else was too occupied watching the Cup Final. Francis Lee and Neil Young scored. Uma Karuna Thurman born in Boston.
South Shields faced Tynemouth in It's A Knock-Out! The first episode of Nairn's Europe broadcast. Hugh Leonard's Jane broadcast in BBC2's W Somerset Maugham strand. In a nationally televised address, President Nixon announced that he had sent two thousand American combat troops into Cambodia and ordered B-52 bombers to begin airstrikes. Despite appearances, Nixon told viewers: 'This is not an invasion of Cambodia.' Instead, Nixon claimed that the attacks were upon territory in Cambodia that were 'completely occupied and controlled by North Vietnamese forces.' One or two people even believed him.
Cliff Richard's Cinema broadcast. The Competition For Land broadcast in BBC2's Heritage strand. Derek Ford's Groupie Girl - starring Billy Boyle, Esme Johns, Donald Sumpter, Maureen Flanagan, Mary Collinson and Madeleine Collinson - premiered. Arizona Swamp Company's 'Tennessee Woman'/'Train Keeps Rollin', Little Sister's 'You're The One (Parts 1 & 2)', Christopher's 'Sharkey'/'The Race', Arizona Swamp Company's 'Tennessee Woman'/'Train Keeps Rollin', The Dave Clark Five's 'Julia'/'Five By Five', Solomon King's 'Say A Prayer'/'This Beautiful Day' and The Fut's 'Have You Heard The Word'/'Futting' released. Another new footnball competition, the Anglo-Italian Cup began. Devised as a way to generate income to pay players' wages during an extended close-season caused by the World Cup, the inaugural competition had six English teams (Swindon Town, Sheffield Wednesday, Middlesbrough, West Bromwich Albion, Sunderland and Wolverhampton Wanderers) and six Italian teams (Napoli, Juventus, Roma, Fiorentina, Lazio and Vicenza) split into three groups was and played throughout May. Despite a few eye-catching results (Swindon thrashing an under-strength Juventus four-nil, for example), few people took much interest in the competition until the Final. The FA also announced that the next pre-season would include sponsored competition, The Watney Mann Invitation Cup (normally referred to as simply The Watney Cup) so named due to a sponsorship deal with the Watney Mann brewery. It was the first tournament in which the Football League sold naming rights. It was to be contested by the two teams that had scored most goals in each of the four divisions of the Football League the previous season but who had not been promoted or admitted to one of the European competitions.
The first episode of Football Champions Of The World broadcast. That Day In Dallas: LBJ Speaks broadcast. John Creasey's Down With All Parties! broadcast in BBC2's One Pair Of Eyes strand. Pretty Things and Trader Horn appeared on Disco 2. Fairport Convention and Pete Brown & Piblokto featured on Top Gear. The Can's Monster Movie released. Tony Bilbow interviewed Gregory Peck on Radio 4's Film Time. Patronage & The Arts broadcast on Radio 3. The final match of an -extraordinarily long - Football League season took place, Alan Gilzean scoring the winner as Spurs beat Arsenal one-nil.
The Private Life Of The Robin broadcast. The first episode of Alexander Walker's The Hollywood Image broadcast in the Omnibus strand. Lou Rawls and The Marmalade appeared on Julie Felix. The Way Of A River broadcast in BBC2's The World About Us strand. The Kent State massacre in Ohio. Four college students were shot and killed and nine others wounded by National Guardsmen, during a protest against the incursion into Cambodia. The Guardsmen fired tear gas into the crowd of five hundred protesters and some demonstrators threw rocks. A subsequent investigation determined that about twenty eight members of the Guard had fired their rifles, with sixty one shots in the space of thirteen seconds. Seven members of the US Army's One Hundred & First Assault Helicopter Battalion were killed in the mid-air collision of a Huey UH-1H and a Cobra AH-1G during a practice Red Alert at Fire Support Base Kathryn in the Thua Thien province. Mott the Hoople and Mike Cooper featured on Radio 1's In Concert . Gerard Damiano's Teenie Tulip premiered.
The Words Of Cricket broadcast on BBC2. Nina Bawden's The Runaway Summer read by Ray Brooks on Jackanory. The World In Action episode This House Would Disrupt The South African Cricket Tour broadcast.
Summer Search: The Farne Islands broadcast. The Jesuits - The Hated Society broadcast in the Tuesday's Documentary strand. Jack Shepherd, Actor broadcast in BBC2's Making Out strand. The Hekla volcano in Southern Iceland erupted, raining ash and debris in at thirty miles radius and forcing the evacuation of the surrounding villages. Hekla had previously erupted in 1948. Chelsea signed Keith Weller from Millwall for one hundred thousand quid.
A man of the match performance by Wim Van Hanegem helped Feyenoord beat Glasgow Celtic two-one in the European Cup Final at the San Siro. The first UK broadcast of Six Blue Horses. Jenny Barraclough's harrowing documentary Gale Is Dead broadcast in BBC2's Man Alive strand. The Temptations' 'Psychedelic Shack'/'That's The Way Love Is', Slade's 'Shape Of Things To Come'/'C'Mon C'Mon' and The Jackson Five's 'ABC'/'The Young Folks' released. The first wristwatch to use an LED display, the Pulsar, was introduced by the Hamilton Watch Company with a demonstration on The Tonight Show. After being told that the Pulsar's retail price was fifteen hundred dollars Johnny Carson said: 'The watch will tell you the exact moment you went bankrupt!' Yūichirō Miura of Japan became 'The Man Who Skied Down Everest.' Miura covered a distance of 1.8 miles in two minutes and twenty seconds and used a parachute to slow him down at the end of his run. In the Republic of Ireland, Finance Minister Charles Haughey and Agriculture Minister Neil Blaney were dismissed from the cabinet by Prime Minister Jack Lynch, after accusations of their involvement in a plot to import weapons for use in Northern Ireland by the Provisional IRA. Both men would subsequently be found not guilty of the charges. Bernard Toublanc-Michel's Le Petit Bougnat - Claude Amazan and Isabelle Adjani - premiered.
Creedence Clearwater Revival, The Hollies, The Moody Blues, The Who, Christie, Root & Jenny Jackson, Frijid Pink, Turley Richards, Jake Holmes, White Plains and Richard Barnes featured on Top Of The Pops. Hugo Charteris's dramatisation of Rain broadcast in BBC2's W Somerset Maugham strand. Peter Sasdy's Taste The Blood Of Dracula - starring Christopher Lee, Linda Hayden, Geoffrey Keen, Ralph Bates, Peter Sallis and Roy Kinnear - and Alan Gibson's Crescendo - starring Stefanie Powers - premiered.
Manuel Summers's La Nina De Luto shown in BBC2's World Cinema strand. Let It Be - the LP, the movie and the court case - released. The Beach Boys' 'Cottonfields'/'The Nearest Faraway Place', Monopoly's 'We Belong Together'/'Gone Tomorrow', Ayshea's 'Mister White's White Flying Machine'/'Ship Of The Line', David Garrick's 'Bake Me A Woman'/'House In The Heather' and John Shakespeare Orchestra's 'The World At Their Feet'/'Mucho Mexico Seven-O' released. Jerry Lewis's One More Time - starring Sammy Davis Jr and Peter Lawford - premiered.
Andrew Davies's Is That Your Body, Boy? broadcast in BBC2's Thirty-Minute Theatre strand featuring Ron Moody and the TV début of Michael Kitchen. Family and Groundhogs appeared on Disco 2. Groundhogs' drummer, Ken Pustelnik played with two black eyes and broken nose having been beaten up earlier in the day by a Hell's Angel. The first episode of Don Houghton's memorable Doctor Who serial Inferno broadcast. Curved Air featured on Top Gear. Fleetwood Mac's 'The Green Manalishi (With The Two Prong Crown)' released. Carol Channing appeared on Desert Island Discs. Hours before a large anti-war protest began at Washington, DC, President Nixon surprised most of his Secret Service bodyguards and about eight demonstrators by walking to the Lincoln Memorial at 4:55am. The Associated Press described it as 'a strange encounter,' which began after Nixon woke up his valet, Manolo Sanchez and asked him to come on a visit. As word got around that the President was 'rapping' with students, the group increased to approximately fifty. Nixon's parting words were, reportedly, 'Go shout your slogans on the Ellipse. Just keep it peaceful.'
Jochen Rindt won the Monaco Grand Prix. Marcello Mastroianni was interviewed on BBC2's Line-Up: Film Night. A tornado killed twenty six people in Lubbock, Texas as it swept a path of destruction through the businesses and residential neighbourhoods. Otto Preminger's Tell Me That You Love Me, Junie Moon - starring Liza Minnelli - and John Boorman's Leo The Last - starring Marcello Mastroianni and Billie Whitelaw – premiered. Traffic appeared on Radio 1's In Concert. Sally Elizabeth Phillips born in Hong Kong.
The Doomwatch episode Survival Code broadcast. In which Toby Wren bought it, big-style. The first episode of Lazybones broadcast in the Words & Pictures strand. One Man's Meat ... broadcast in BBC2's Horizon strand. The Lady With A Lamp broadcast in Radio 4's Afternoon Theatre strand. The World In Action episode America Talking broadcast.
Joe Bugner defeated Brian London in five rounds in a heavyweight contest at the Empire Pool, Wembley. Roger Casement: A Question Of Allegiance broadcast in the On Trial strand. Tender Is The Night shown in BBC2's Hollywood In The Sixties strand. The International Olympic Committee chose Montreal as the site for the 1976 Summer Olympics, after it appeared that Moscow would receive the bid. The Winter Olympics were awarded to Denver. However, Denver voters would reject funding the event in a 1972 referendum and the games would, instead, be held instead in Innsbruck.
David Mercer's Emma's Time broadcast in The Wednesday Play strand. Law & Order: Crisis Of Confidence broadcast in the Man Alive strand. The trial began in Dusseldorf of Franz Stangl for war crimes committed while he was the Commandant of the Treblinka death camp. Stangl had been arrested in Brazil in February 1967, after being tracked down by Nazi-hunter Simon Wiesenthal, who described him as third on his list of 'most wanted missing war criminals' (after Martin Bormann and Heinrich Müller). In December, Strangl would be convicted of complicity in the murder of four hundred thousand Jews; the charges did not include those of an additional four hundred and fifty thousand people put to death during Stangl's earlier administration of the Sobibor extermination camp. He was sentenced to life imprisonment but Stangl lived for only six more months after his trial and was found dead of a heart attack in his cell in June 1971. Michael Lindsay-Hogg's Let It Be - starring John, Paul, George, Ringo. And Yoko - premiered in New York. John Newlands's My Lover, My Son - starring Romy Schneider, Donald Houston, Dennis Waterman, Patricia Brake, Peter Sallis and Alexandra Bastedo - premiered. The Callan episode A Village Called 'G' broadcast on Thames.
Sir Alf Ramsey profiled his twenty eight-strong World Cup squad on Sportsnight With Coleman. The Unconquered broadcast in BBC2's W Somerset Maugham strand. West German terrorist Andreas Baader escaped from incarceration after only forty days in jail, the day after a prison warden approved his request to visit a library to 'do research on a book on youthful criminals.' Baader and his co-author, the journalist Ulrike Meinhof, had signed a book contract. Guarded by two prison attendants, Baader was taken to West Berlin's Deutsches Zentralinstitut für Soziale Fragen, where Meinhof joined him in the reading room. A few minutes later, two women - later identified as Irene Goergens and Ingrid Schubert - forced their way into the room at gunpoint. During the ensuing gun battle, the four conspirators escaped. Although Baader and Meinhof would be arrested in 1972 and commit suicide in prison their group, The Red Army Faction, would continue to commit various crimes until 1998.
Margaret Lockwood's Cinema broadcast. In Search Of Paradise: European Gardens & Their History broadcast on BBC2. Free's 'All Right Now'/'Mouthful Of Grass', Wallace Collection's 'Serenade'/'Walk On Out', Steve Ellis' 'Loot'/'More More More', Maxine Brown's 'I Can't Get Along Without You'/'Reason To Believe' and The Four Tops' 'It's All In The Game'/'Love Is The Answer' released. Nicola Walker born in Stepney.
Rosetta Hightower and Blonde On Blonde featured on Whatever Next? David McGibbon's The Tidewatchers broadcast in BBC2's Thirty-Minute Theatre strand. Martial's Rome broadcast in the Review strand. Soft Machine and Buddy Knox & Bad River appeared on Top Gear. Bertrand Russell's portrait of Joseph Conrad broadcast on Radio 3. The first fatal injury ever sustained by a spectator at a Major League Baseball game occurred when fourteen-year old Alan Fish, was struck in the face by a ball while at Dodger Stadium in Los Angeles. In the third innings, a foul ball hit by Manny Mota struck Fish in the head. After receiving treated at the stadium's first aid station, Fish returned to his seat to watch the remainder of the Dodgers' five-four loss to the Giants. As his headaches got worse, he was admitted to hospital, lapsed into a coma the next day and died four days later. Gabriela Beatriz Sabatini born in Buenos Aries. West Bromwich Albion's game against Lanerossi-Vicenza in the Anglo-Italian Cup had to be abandoned after seventy six minutes due to fighting (on-and-off the pitch).
The Rivals broadcast in the Play Of The Month strand. Eastern Approach broadcast in BBC2's Bird's-Eye View strand. Al Stewart, Bridget St John and Kevin Ayers & The Whole World featured on Radio 1's In Concert. Thor Heyerdahl and his crew of seven men (and a monkey) departed from Safi in Morocco on Heyerdahl's boat made of papyrus, the Ra II, in an attempt to prove that the ancient Egyptians could have crossed the Atlantic Ocean more than five thousand years before the voyage of Columbus. In 1947, Heyerdahl had become famous for the successful Kon-Tiki expedition, sailing a raft of balsa logs across the Pacific, but in 1969, his first Ra expedition failed when the papyrus boat became water-logged. Heyerdahl's second four thousand miles voyage reached Barbados on 12 July.
New Ships For Old broadcast in the Made In Britain strand. The first episode of BBC2's The Family Of Man broadcast. In Minneapolis, a senior deputy clerk of Hennepin County District Court, administered oaths to Michael McConnell and Jack Baker after taking down their information on an application for a marriage licence. Baker, a law student at the University of Minnesota, had determined that since state law did not prohibit a marriage between people of the same gender, he and his partner would have the same rights as a man and a woman. The deputy clerk, Robert Anderson, had the gentlemen swear that the information on the application was true and advised that his office would consult Hennepin County attorney for advice whether the licence could be issued. Hennepin County Attorney George Scott recommended on 22 May that the licence be denied, referring to a law requiring a marriage licence to be issued in the county in which the woman resides and a 1949 case noting that it was the duty of the state to guard marriage 'in the conservation of public morals.' To permit two males to marry, Scott concluded, would 'result in an undermining and destruction of the entire legal concept of our family structure in all areas of law.' District court clerk Gerald Nelson stated that he would abide by Scott's recommendation and deny the license. In 1971, McConnell and Baker were granted a licence in Blue Earth County, Minnesota and a marriage ceremony was performed; though challenged, it was never invalidated. At the request of Prime Minister Harold Wilson, the Queen ordered the dissolution of Parliament and set the date for a General Erection on 18 June. Elizabeth Stamatina Fey born in Upper Darby, Pennsylvania. The Playhouse episode Thursday's Child broadcast.
Shetland: Britain's Farthest North broadcast in the Tuesday's Documentary strand. Peter Dockley featured in BBC2's Making Out strand. The Bobby Moore, Bogotá bracelet incident took place. As Serious Drinking would later note: 'News At Ten and Tina heard, Bobby could be doin' bird!' The 'Bikini alert state' system was first used within the Ministry of Defence to indicate the level of a threat to UK national security.
Tony Parker's Chariot Of Fire broadcast as the final episode of The Wednesday Play strand. Alan Bennett Revisits Leeds broadcast in BBC2's Canvas strand. Mao Zedong issued a statement to his people for the first time in five years. Urging Chinese citizens to work together 'to defeat US imperialism' in Vietnam and Cambodia, Mao's statement declared, 'People of the world, unite and defeat the US aggressors and all their running dogs!' Mao went on to say that 'Nixon's fascist atrocities have kindled the raging flames of the revolutionary mass movement' and added that 'The Chinese people firmly support the revolutionary struggle of the American people,' predicting that 'the fascist rule in the United States will inevitably be defeated.' Based on a computer simulation of the flight data from Apollo 13, an analyst determined that if the ill-fated mission had failed to return to Earth following the 13 April explosion of one of its oxygen tanks, the spacecraft would have returned to Earth orbit after drifting for five weeks, travelling three hundred and fifty thousand miles away from the Earth before its path brought it close enough to the Moon's gravitational field to propel it back towards Earth. According to the simulation by Analytical Graphics, Apollo 13 would have re-entered the Earth's atmosphere on 20 May and been incinerated. Louis Sebastian Theroux born in Singapore. Robert Aldrich's Too Late The Hero - Michael Caine, Cliff Robertson, Henry Fonda, Ian Bannen and Denholm Elliott - premiered. England beat Colombia four-nil in a friendly international in Bogotá. Martin Peteres scored twice for the visitors with Bobby Charlton and Alan Ball also on-target. Bobby Moore played whilst out of The Slammer having made bail following the previous day's hotel incident. The Callan episode Suddenly - At Home broadcast on Thames.
The first episode of A Code In The Head broadcast. The Vessel Of Wrath broadcast in BBC2's W Somerset Maugham strand. Eight children and three adults were killed in Israel when their school bus was attacked by a group of Palestinian guerrillas, who fired three bazooka rockets into the vehicle after it departed from the Avivim settlement near the border with Lebanon. A twelfth victim would die forty three years later, from an infection from a piece of shrapnel that had lodge in her brain. The group claimed that the attack was made in revenge for the Bahr El-Baqar primary school bombing by the Israeli Air Force in Egypt on 8 April which had killed thirty four children. Israel responded by bombarding the Lebanese towns of Bint Jbeil, Yaroun, Aitaroun and Blida, killing twenty civilians.
Sandie Shaw was the guest on The Dick Emery Show. David & Lisa shown in BBC2's World Cinema strand. Mungo Jerry's 'In The Summertime', 'Mighty Man'/Dust Pneumonia Blues', Harry Roberts' Sound's 'World Of Mexico'/'Extra Time', Joni Mitchell's 'Big Yellow Taxi'/'Woodstock', Nirvana's 'The World Is Cold Without You'/'Christopher Lucifer' and Tin Tin's 'Toast & Marmalade For Tea'/'Manhattan Woman' released.
Bobbie Gentry, Eric Sykes and Vince Hill appeared on The Roy Castle Show. Twenty-Six Efforts At Pornography broadcast in the Thirty-Minute Theatre strand. Stone The Crows featured on Disco 2. Arnold Wesker's The Friends was profiled on Review. Fleetwood Mac appeared on Top Gear ('Only You', 'Leaving Her Blues', 'Sandy Mary', 'World In Harmony', 'Tiger '). Jive Fyve's 'If You Let Me Make Love To You Then Why Can't I Touch You?'/'You Showed Me The Light Of Love' released. Andy Stewart was the guest on Desert Island Discs. The one hundred and twenty-year old Britannia Bridge, an historic landmark which connected the island of Anglesey to the Welsh mainland, was heavily damaged and rendered impassable when two teenagers 'accidentally' set it on fire. The tubular bridge across the Menai Strait had been built by Robert Stephenson and had carried rail traffic since 1850. Although the island's fifty seven thousand residents could still drive across the strait on the Menai Suspension Bridge the use of the port of Holyhead to transport cargoes between the UK and Ireland was shut down by the loss of the railroad. A reconstructed bridge would finally open to rail traffic in January 1972, after British Rail spent over three million knicker on it.
A Royal Television Gala Performance broadcast. The Other Edward Heath broadcast in the Omnibus strand. Sherlock Holmes - Swiss Citizen broadcast on BBC2. Franklin Gollings's Connecting Rooms - starring Bette Davis, Michael Redgrave, Alexis Kanner, Kay Walsh and Gabrielle Drake - premiered. England beat Ecuador two-nil in a friendly international in Quito. Francis Lee and Brian Kidd scored. The Pretty Things and Daddy Longlegs appeared on Radio 1's In Concert.
Ronnie Corbett read Saki's The Storyteller on Jackanory. One Year Of Pompidou broadcast on BBC2. The first sale of a programmable desktop computer was made when the Computer Terminal Corporation sold forty of its Datapoint 2200 computers to the General Mills Company of Minnesota. The Datapoint had eight kilobytes of internal memory and its data could be stored on cassette tapes which could hold one hundred and thirty KB capacity. Most of the machines were leased to buyers at a cost of one hundred and sixty eight dollars per month per unit.
Son Of Iron Horse broadcast in the Tuesday's Documentary strand. Patrick Moore examined the telescopes at Frank Acfield's back-garden observatory in Newcastle in The Sky At Night. Waking Dreams broadcast in BBC2's Line-Up strand.
North & South broadcast in the Man Alive strand. Don Whillans and Dougal Haston became the first people to scale the South face of Annapurna I, reaching top of the twenty six thousand feet peak as part of Chris Bonington's eleven-man expedition team. The first men to the summit, Maurice Herzog and Luis Lachhenal of France, had ascended by way of the less difficult North face in 1950. The Callan episode Act Of Kindness broadcast on Thames.
The England World Cup Squad, Fairfield Parlour, The Jackson Five, Cat Stevens, Zoot Money, Mister Bloe, Marvin Gaye, Ray Stevens, Brinsley Schwarz, Status Quo, Christie and White Plains featured on Top Of The Pops, introduced by Tony Blackburn. The first episode of World Cup Grandstand broadcast. Olive broadcast in BBC2's W Somerset Maugham strand. The Miles Davis Quintet appeared on Jazz Scene At The Ronnie Scott Club. Piers Haggard's I Can't ... I Can't - starring Dennis Waterman, Tessa Wyatt and Alexandra Bastedo and Benjamin Onivas's The Tale Of The Dean's Wife - starring Christine Murray, Jim Gentry, Edward Blessington and Anita Joyce - premiered. Swindon Town won the first Anglo Italian Cup. Three-nil up against Napoli at the Stadio San Paolo (Peter Noble scored twice and Arthur Horsfield added a third), game was marred by disturbances from the Napoli fans, resulting in two separate pitch invasions until finally - under a barrage of missiles - the referee abandoned the match after seventy nine minutes. Swindon Town were awarded the trophy by Signor Orfeo Pianelli, vice-president of the Italian Football Federation.
The first episode of Tarbuck's Luck broadcast. Meet Me In Mexico - The World Cup Rally broadcast in BBC2's Wheelbase strand. East Of Eden's 'Jig-A-Jig'/'Marcus Junior', The Love Affair's 'Speak Of Peace, Sing Of Joy'/'Brings My Whole World Tumbling Down', Body & Soul's 'Go Back To School'/'Here Comes That Feeling', Shirley Bassey's 'Something'/'Easy To Be Hard', Matt Monro's 'We're Gonna Change The World'/'You're Closer To Me', The Syd Lawrence Orchestra's 'Mexico Grandstand'/'Winter In The Sun', Georgie Fame's 'Somebody Stole My Thunder'/'Entertaining Mister Sloane', André Brasseur's 'The Kid'/'Holiday' and Cliff Richard's 'Goodbye Sam, Hello Samantha'/'You Never Can Tell' released. Airport premiered.
Francois Reichenbach's documentary Elmyr: The True Picture about the art forger Elmyr De Hory broadcast in BBC2's Review strand. Much footage from the programme would subsequently be recut and reused by Orson Welles in his acclaimed 1973 film essayF For Fake. Glen Campbell appeared on BBC2's The Young Generation. Fleetwood Mac made their final TV performance with Peter Green on Disco 2. Al Unser won the Indianapolis 500 in front of a crowd of three hundred thousand people. Juicy Lucy and The Troggs featured on Radio 1's Gary Taylor Show. Keith Michell appeared on Desert Island Discs. Simon Hersea's A Day At The Beach - starring Mark Burns, Beatie Edney, Maurice Roëves and Jack MacGowran - premiered. Bradford Park Avenue became the first club to fail to gain re-election to the Football League since Gateshead ten years earlier (Accrington Stanley had resigned from the the league in 1962). They were replaced in the Fourth Division by Southern League Cambridge United. Bradford joined the Northern Premier League.
The 1970 World Cup - generally regarded as the greatest ever football tournament, certainly of the television age - began in Mexico City with, ironically, one of the worst games one will ever have the misfortune to see, a dreadfully dull goalless drawn between the hosts and the USSR. ITV introduced a studio panel, Bob McNab, Pat Crerand, Derek Dougan and Malcolm Allison, joining presenters Brian Moore and Jimmy Hill to analyse the latest action. And in the case of the latter two, frequently indulge in verbal sparring that both delighted viewers and terrified others in the studio. The first episode of BBC2's Villette broadcast. On Film Night, Tony Bilbow talked to Michael Wadleigh, director of Woodstock and previewed Let It Be. Soft Machine and Michael Chapman featured on Radio 1's In Concert.

The first UK broadcast of one of the most memorable Star Trek episodes, The Troubles With Tribbles. The Great Scuttle broadcast in BBC2's Yesterday's Witness strand. Soyuz Nine, a two-man spacecraft with cosmonauts Andrian Nikolayev and Vitaly Sevastianov, was launched. Frankie Howerd Meets The Bee Gees broadcast on Thames.
Caryl Brahms and Ned Sherrin's The Great Inimitable Mister Dickens broadcast on BBC2. England opened their defence of the World Cup with a dreary one-nil victory over Romania in Guadalajara. Geoff Hurst scored. A team of scientists at the University of Wisconsin, led by Doctor H Gobind Khorana, announced that they had synthesised the first artificial gene. The first episode of Christopher Bideamd's The Joke About Hilary Spite broadcast on Radio 4.
One of the most famous 'Colemanballs' in the history of football commentary came from the man who invented the genre, David Coleman. In the opening game of World Cup Group C, the much-fancied Brazilians were facing Czechosolvakia. Brazil dominated the opening moments at Guadalajara and Pele missed a sitter after being set-up by Rivelino. Then, after six minutes, the Czech's broke away and a couple of bits of sloppy defending by the Brazilians - specifically Brito and goalkeeper, Felix - allowed Ladislav Petráš to score. Coleman, who'd so far had his tongue rammed right up the collective Brazilian crack, was momentarily stunned. 'The Brazilian side ...' he screamed in a panic-stricken non-sequitar. 'All that you ever heard about them has come true.' This referred to the widely-held opinion in the European sports media that, yes, these Brazilian boys knew a few clever bend-the-ball tricks but, in all seriousness, they were a bunch fancy-dans who didn't like it up 'em. That they were, defensively, a bit rubbish, frankly and that when they came up against some decent (hard) European teams like West Germany, Italy, or England, they were going to get a right good caning. Pfft, skill/schmill, these blokes can't even defend. Brazil, of course, promptly went on to win the match in a dazzling four-one display, beat England in their next game, massacre the Romanians, Peru and Uruguay and then hammer the Azzurri in the Final. For David Coleman 'for those of you watching in black and white, Zaire are in the light shirts' was just four years away. Elsewhere, West Germany came from behind to beat the unfancied Morocco two-one. Crystal Palace signed Alan Birchenll for one hundred thousand pounds and Bobby Tambling for forty thousand from Chelsea. Jacques Cousteau's The Silent World broadcast on BBC2. The Callan episode God Help Your Friends broadcast on Thames. John and Lem Amero's Bacchanale - starring Uta Erickson - premiered.
The Philpott File: The File On Cannonball Selby broadcast. The first episode of Not A Word broadcast on BBC2. The Kingdom of Tonga was granted independence from the UK, after seventy years as a British protectorate, with Tāufa'āhau Tupou IV as King and his brother, Fatafehi Tu'ipelehake as Prime Minister. Independence celebrations were held, in Nuku'alofa, at a football field next to the royal palace, but was attended by only three thousand of the nation's eighty thousand residents; most citizens on the island of Tongatapu were preparing, instead, for the arrival of seventeen hundred passengers from the ocean liner Oriana.
An Evening With Cyril Connolly. President Nixon held a meeting with the four chiefs of the American intelligence agencies (J Edgar Hoover of the FBI, Richard Helms of the CIA, Noel Gayler of the NSA and Donald Bennett of the Defence Intelligence Agency) and presented The Huston Plan, a programme to spy against, infiltrate and make arrests of the members of, groups protesting against the Vietnam War. Tom Charles Huston, a low level member of the White House staff, delivered a detailed proposal on 26 June, which Nixon approved on 14 July. The Huston Plan, however, was abruptly cancelled the next day before it could be implemented. Existence of the plan would later be revealed during testimony by Huston before the Senate Armed Services Committee in 1973. Rare Earth's 'Get Ready'/'Magic Key', Stamford Bridge's 'Chelsea'/'Ossie', Barry Gibb's 'I'll Kiss Your Memory'/'This Time', Ike & Tina Turner & The Ikettes' 'I Want To Take You Higher'/'Contact High', Black Widow's 'Come To The Sabbat'/'Way To Power', Derek Christien's 'Suddenly There's A Valley'/'I'll Be Coming Home', The Scaffold's 'All The Way Up'/'Please Sorry', Forward Line's 'World Cup 1970'/'True Confession' and Nite People's 'PM'/'Season Of The Rain' released. As was Deep Purple's 'Black Night'/Speed King'. Get yer hair cut, hippies.
Bruce Forsyth, Hank Marvin and Judith Durham appeared on The Roy Castle Show. The first episode of Lily broadcast in the Thirty-Minute Theatre strand. Tony Joe White, Brinsley Schwarz and Groundhogs featured on Disco 2. Doctor Strangely Strange were in session on Top Gear. Paul Gauguin's A Still Life Of Apples & Grapes and Pierre Bonnard's Les Deux Sauteuils were stolen from the North London home of philanthropist Mathilda Marks-Kenned, creating a mystery which would remain unsolved for the next forty three years. Sold for twenty five US dollars at a police auction in Turin in 1975 after being abandoned by the burglars in a railway station, the paintings would be found in 2014 in the home of an Italian auto worker who was unaware of their value. Pete Walker's Man Of Violence - starring Michael Latimer, Luan Peters and Derek Aylward - premiered.

Brazil beat reigning champions England one-nil in a twenty four-carat classic World Cup game in Mexico. Gordon Banks made that save. Jeff Astle missed that sitter. Pele and Bobby swapped shirts at the end. Indelible image, isn't it? Anthony Quinn and Virna Lisi featured on BBC2's Line-Up: Film Night. Stone The Crows and The Humblebums featured on Radio 1's In Concert. Rock and/or roll music was performed for the first time at New York's Metropolitan Opera House, when The Who - a popular beat combo - performed their rock and/or roll opera, Tommy. Fifty Hell's Angels faced a long walk back to their bikes after being pinched by The Fuzz at The Devil's Punchbowl near Hindhead and then taken for questioning in Aldershot twenty miles away. One imagines the local constabulary had a right good laugh at such shenanigans. Alan Gibson's Crescendo - starring Stefanie Powers, James Olson, Margaretta Scott, Jane Lapotaire and Joss Ackland - premiered.
The first UK broadcast of one of this blogger's favourite Star Trek episodes, Bread & Circuses. Two Victorian Girls broadcast in BBC2's Yesterday's Witness strand. The Edgar Broughton Band's Sing Brother Sing and 'Up Yours!'/'Officer Dan' single released. Soviet serial killer Boris Serebryakov, who had murdered nine victims over fourteen months, was arrested in Kuybyshev, three days after he had killed a family of four. He would be executed in 1971 for his wicked crimes. The first episode of Radio 4's Letters Of An Indian Judge To An English Gentlewoman broadcast.
The Story Of Lieutenant Cockatoo broadcast in the Making Music strand. David Drew: Dance broadcast in BBC2's Making Out strand. Betjeman's Dickens broadcast on Radio 4.
A Matter Of Taste broadcast in the Tomorrow's World strand. The first Uk broadcast of Mission: Impossible. Louis Malle's Calcutta broadcast on BBC2. Bob Kelljan's Count Yorga, Vampire - starring Robert Quarry and Eric Till's The Walking Stick - starring David Hemmings and Samantha Eggar - premiered. The Callan episode Breakout broadcast on Thames.
The first UK broadcast of Raquel. England beat Czechoslovakia one-nil in the World Cup at Guadalajara. Debutant Allan Clarke of Leeds United scored England goal from the penalty spot. The Door Of Opportunity broadcast in BBC2's W Somerset Maugham strand. The Library of Tibetan Works and Archives was founded by the exiled Dalai Lama in Dharamshala in India's Himachal Pradesh, where most Tibetans had moved to after China's invasion. The state of Louisiana voted to ratify the Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution (granting women the right to vote) a mere fifty years after the amendment had become effective nationwide.
The Wightman Cup was held at Wimbledon. The US team (Billie Jean King, Nancy Richey, Julie Heldman, Mary Ann Curtis and Jane Bartkowicz) regained the title with a four-three victory over Great Britain (Virginia Wade, Ann Haydon-Jones, Joyce Williams and Winnie Smith). African Seafari broadcast on BBC2. The Kinks' 'Lola'/'Berkeley Mews', Tangerine Dream's Electronic Meditations, Jimi Hendrix's Band Of Gypsys, Creedence Clearwater Revival's 'Up Around The Bend'/'Run Through The Jungle', Sweet Plum's 'Set The Wheels In Motion'/'Catch A Cloud', Bob Brady & The Con Chords' 'Everybody's Going To The Love-In'/'It's Been A Long Time Between Kisses' and The Sweet's 'Get On The Line'/'Mister McGallagher' released. Billy Bats Bentvena, convicted organised crime smuggler - and 'made man' - was extremely murdered three days after his release from federal prison. One of his associates in the Gambino crime family later claimed that Bentvena insulted Thomas DeSimone, a member of the rival Lucchese crime family (and former shoeshine boy) and that DeSimone - with the help of his friends Jimmy Burke and Henry Hill - then carried out Bentvena's kidnapping and really vicious (and messy) stabbing. The story inspired a particularly memorable sequence in Martin Scorsese's 1990 movie Goodfellas. A translated adaptation of The Skins broadcast on Radio 3.
The British International Games broadcast on Grandstand. The Great Iron Ship broadcast in BBC2's Chronicle strand. Almond Marzipan and The Greatest Show On Earth featured on Radio 1's Andrew Finney Show. Barbara Windsor appeared on Desert Island Discs. 'The Long & Winding Road' became The Beatles' twentieth - and final - single to reach number one on the US Billboard chart. The first episode of Albert & Victoria broadcast on LWT.
Sir Alf's Mexican dream slipped through Peter Bonetti's fingers as West Germany came from two goals down to beat England three-two in the Quarter-Finals of the World Cup. David Coleman memorably greeted Gerd Müller's extra-time winner with fifteen second of silence. Alan Mullery and Martin Peters had, earlier, given England a two-goal lead. It was Bobby Charlton's one hundred and sixth and final England appearance. The movie adaptation of Loot was previewed on BBC2's Film Night in an episode titled - with horrible irony given earlier events in Guadalajara - Laughter In Despair. The Pretty Things and Skid Row featured on Radio 1's In Concert. John Hough's Eyewitness - starring Mark Lester, Susan George, Lionel Jeffries, Jeremy Kemp and Peter Vaughan - premiered.
The first Uk broadcast of the Star Trek episode Mirror, Mirror - featuring Spock's evil facial hair - was scheduled but was dropped in favour of a repeat of the previous evening's World Cup Quarter Final disaster. Because, everybody clearly wasn't miserable enough already. One Man's Dunkirk broadcast in the Yesterday's Witness strand. Lee Eastman (acting for his son-in-law, Paul McCartney) wrote to Allen Klein (acting for the other three) asking that The Beatles partnership be formally dissolved. Klein did not respond though George Harrison's reported reply to Paul was 'You'll stay on the fucking label [Apple]. Hare Krishna!' The first criminal trial of followers of Charles Manson, for the 1969 murders of actress Sharon Tate and six others, opened against Manson and his co-defendants, Leslie Van Houton, Susan Atkins and Patricia Krenwinkel. The trial would last for seven months. The prosecution's main witness was Linda Kasabian, who, along with Manson, Atkins and Krenwinkel, had been charged with seven counts of murder and one of conspiracy. Since Kasabian, by all accounts, had not participated in the actual killings, she was granted immunity in exchange for testimony that detailed the nights of the crimes. Originally, Judge William Keene had reluctantly granted Manson permission to act as his own attorney. Because of Manson's conduct, including violations of a gag order and submission of 'outlandish' and 'nonsensical' pretrial motions, the permission was withdrawn before the trial's start. Manson filed an affidavit of prejudice against Keene, who was replaced by Judge Charles Older.
Patrick Moore examined instruments used by ancient mariners to steer their ships by the stars and discussed with James Burke the use of the stars by American astronauts and scientists to navigate the Apollo and Mariner Mars Spacecraft in The Sky At Night. Europe - A Continent Fit To Live In broadcast in the Tuesday's Documentary strand. David Halliwell, Playwright broadcast in BBC2's Making Out strand. The leftist terrorist group Ação Libertadora Nacional released West Germany's ambassador to Brazil, Ehrenfried von Holleben, the day after the Brazilian government freed forty political prisoners and five days after von Holleben had been kidnapped. Don Siegel's Two Mules For Sister Sara - starring Clint Eastwood and Shirley MacLaine - and Ralph Thomas's Doctor In Trouble - starring Harry Secombe and Leslie Phillips - premiered. Deep Purple and Chicken Shack featured on Radio 1's Sounds of The Seventies, introduced by Mike Harding.
Italy beat West Germany four-three in an unforgetable World Cup Semi Final, after extra-time. In the other Semi Final, the brilliant Brazilians beat Uruguay three-one. A scheduled South African cricket tour of England had been cancelled during the winter for political reasons. As this meant there would be no international cricket in England that summer, a Rest of the World team was hastily assembled to play a series of five-day matches against England. At the time, they were played as test matches, but that status was later revoked by the International Cricket Conference and they are now termed 'unofficial' tests, though still first-class matches. The Rest of the World, captained by Gary Sobers and containing four South Africans - Barry Richards, Eddie Barlow, Graeme Pollock and Mike Proctor - plus players from Australia, India, Pakistan and the West Indies - won the opening game at Lord's by and innings and eighty runs and, subsequently, the series, four-one. The match started, unusually, on a Wednesday so that the Thursday could be a 'rest day' for the General Erection. The outstanding performer was Sobers who destroyed England's batting on the first morning, taking six for twenty one and then, later, scored one hundred and eighty three. Umpire Syd Buller, who died suddenly in August, officiated in his last international match. Alan Jones, Brian Luckhurst and Ken Shuttleworth made their first (and, in Jones's case, only) appearance for an England representative team. In Dallas, a three-judge panel of the United States District Court for the Northern District of Texas ruled unanimously in Roe Versus Wade that the Texas law prohibiting abortion of any pregnancy (unless the mother's life was in danger) violated the Ninth Amendment of the Constitution. By that time, Norma McCorvey (identified in court as 'Jane Roe' to protect her privacy) had already given birth and the child was adopted by another family. The first episode of Shadows Of Fear - Did You Lock Up? - broaqdcast on Thames.
The 1970 General Erection was held. The Tories - somewhat unexpectedly - won. Most opinion polls had predicted a third successive Labour win. Virtue broadcast in BBC2's W Somerset Maugham strand.
Hitchcock At The NFT broadcast. Kon Ichikawa's Kyoto shown on BBC2. The Doors' 'Road House Blues'/'Blue Sunday', UFO's 'Shake It About'/'Evil', Elton John's 'Rock & Roll Madonna'/'Grey Seal', Love Children's 'Paper Chase'/'My Turkey Snuffed It', The Marmalade's 'Rainbow'/'The Ballad Of Cherry Flavar', Medicine Head's 'Coast To Coast (And Shore To Shore)'/'All For Tomorrow', The Wedgwood's 'Flap Flap'/'Abracadabra' and Diana Ross' 'Reach Out And Touch (Somebody's Hand)'/'Dark Side Of The World' released. Anthony Newley's Can Heironymus Merkin Ever Forget Mercy Humppe & Find True Happiness? - starring Connie Kreski, Joan Collins, Milton Berle, George Jessel and Bruce Forsyth - premiered.
Ted Heath formed his first cabinet as Prime Minister. Presumably he did it early in the day so that everyone could be home in time for tea and to watch the final episode of Inferno. Roy Minton's Ben broadcast in the Thirty-Minute Theatre strand. The Third Ear Band featured on Top Gear. The Square Ring broadcast in Radio 4's Afternoon Theatre. Dave Kunst and his brother John, along with a supply-carrying pack mule named Willie Makeit, set off on foot from Waseca, Minnesota in an attempt to become the first persons to walk around the world. John would be killed and Dave wounded, by bandits while travelling through Afghanistan in 1972. After recovering from his injuries, Dave resumed the journey in 1973 from the spot where he had stopped and, on 5 October 1974, would complete the first verified 'circumnavigation by foot' (he flew on commercial airlines to cross bodies of water), calculated to have been fourteen thousand four hundred and fifty two miles.
Brazil beat Italy four-one in the World Cup Final to retain the Jules Rimet Trophy, playing a brand of football that everyone who saw it will never forget. The fourth goal, scored by Carlos Alberto, followed a nine-man move which began deep in Brazil's half. Luchino Visconti appeared on BBC2's Film Night. Procol Harum featured on Radio 1's In Concert.
The first UK broadcast of the Star Trek episode Journey To Babel broadcast. The Abandoned Island broadcast in BBC2's Yesterday's Witness strand.
The first episode of His & Hers broadcast on Thames.
Midsummer Magic At Stonehenge broadcast in the Tom Tom strand. The first episodes of Frost Over America and He Who Daresbroadcast. Adopting A Problem broadcast in the Man Alive strand. Cry Of Nukumanu broadcast on BBC2. The United States Senate voted to repeal the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution that had supported US intervention in the Viet'nam War since 1964. The first videodisc, the Television Electronic Disc, was demonstrated at a press conference in West Berlin by Teldec, a joint venture of the West German electronics manufacturer AEG Telefunken and Britain's Decca Records. The twenty centimetres flexible foil disc was capable of storing roughly five minutes of video programming. The Callan episode Amos Green Must Live broadcast on Thames.
Marie Stopes: Sexual Revolutionary broadcast. Footprints In The Jungle broadcast in BBC2's W Somerset Maugham strand. Construction began on the first high-speed rail system in Europe, the Firenze To Roma Direttisima.
Maggie Smith's Cinema broiadcast. The Country Life Car broadcast BBC2's Wheelbase strand. Riots broke out in Londonderry after MP Bernadette Devlin was arrested having lost an appeal against a six month jail sentence. Stevie Wonder's 'Signed, Sealed, Delivered, I'm Yours'/'I'm More Than Happy (I'm Satisfied)', Fifth Dimension's 'I'll Be Lovin' You Forever'/'Train, Keep On Movin', Billy Preston's 'If I Had A Hammer'/'Ferry 'Cross The Mersey', The New Seekers Featuring Eve Graham's 'What Have They Done To My Song Ma?'/'It's A Beautiful Day', Mud's 'Jumping Jehosaphat'/'Won't Let It Go', Day Costello's 'The Long & Winding Road'/'Free (Unlimited Horizons)', Tony Christie's 'God Is On My Side'/'A Thing Called Love', Fotheringay's 'Peace In The End'/'Winter Winds', Ray Merrell's 'Tears Of Joy'/'Searching', Flaming Youth's 'Man, Woman & Child'/'Drifting', The Equals' 'I Can See But You Don't Know'/'Gigolo Sam' and Free's Fire & Water released.

The first episode of The Big Fight broadcast. A Year In The Life: For Tony, Rebel Rocker broadcast on BBC2. According to Radio Times: 'We hate all coppers, I call them the lice of the working class... I hate moddy boys even worse than coppers... I don't hate niggers, I just don't like them ... Wilson is the worst thing that ever happened to this country...' Views (ignorant, racist and not particularly articulate views at that) expressed by a gang of motorbike boys - The Camberley Rockers. Leo Knowles's An Uncertain Sound broadcast in the Thirty-Minute Theatre strand. Steeleye Span featured on Top Gear. Vidal Sassoon appeared on Desert Island Discs. The Bath Festival Of Blues & Progressive Music took place, featuring Santana, Led Zeppelin, Hot Tuna, Country Joe McDonald, Colosseum, Jefferson Airplane, The Byrds (who played an acoustic set because it rained), Frank Zappa & The Mothers of Invention, Canned Heat, It's A Beautiful Day, Steppenwolf, Johnny Winter, John Mayall with Peter Green, The Pink Floyd, Pentangle, Fairport Convention and Keef Hartley. The first Gay Pride march in history took place in Chicago, where one hundred and fifty participants listened to speeches at Washington Square. The International Football Association Board voted to change the rules of football and adopted the penalty shoot-out as a method of determining a winner in a game where the score was level at the end of extra time.
The first UK broadcast of The Carol Burnett Show. Reach For The Sky shown in The Sunday Film strand. The Other Ted Heath broadcast in the Omnibus strand. Matthews' Southern Comfort and Alan Bown featured on Radio 1's In Concert.
Made In Britain: The Throwaway Line broadcast. Four With Betjeman: Victorian Architects & Architecture broadcast on BBC2. Caroline Thorpe, the wife of Liberal Party leader Jeremy Thorpe was killed when the car she was driving collided with a truck at Basingstoke.
Lord Goodman broadcast in the Tuesday's Documentary strand. Too Late Blues shown in BBC2's Hollywood In The Sixties strand. Tony Richardson's Ned Kelly - starring a woefully miscast Mick Jagger - premiered.
Peter Ustinov appeared on Frost Over America. Black Australians broadcast in the Man Alive strand. Coyote Country broadcast on BBC2.
The Rise & Fall Of The Great Lakes and Dick Emery's Grand Prix broadcast. The Alien Corn broadcast in BBC2's W Somerset Maugham strand. Sam Wanamaker's The Executioner - starring George Peppard, Joan Collins and Judy Geeson abd Christopher Miles's The Virgin & The Gypsy premiered.
The first episode of Score With The Scaffold broadcast. A Car For The Holiday broadcast in BBC2's Wheelbase strand. Ray Morgan's 'Long & Winding Road/'The Sweetest Wine', Elvis Presley's 'The Wonder Of You'/'Mama Liked The Roses', Chicago's '25 Or 6 To 4'/'Where Do We Go From Here?', Capricorn's 'Liverpool Hello'/'How Did You Find Me', Norman Greenbaum's 'Canned Ham'/'Junior Cadillac', Johnnie Taylor's 'Steal Away'/'Friday Night', Jon Ford's 'You've Got Me Where You Want Me'/'You're All Alone Tonight', Trees' 'Nothing Special'/'Epitaph' and The Barefoot Blues Band's 'Can't You See?'/'Sunday Morning' released. The first episode of Confession broadcast on LWT.
John Newcombe defeated Ken Rosewall in five sets to win the Wimbledon men's singles title. Margaret Court beat Billie Jean King in the women's singles. John Spurling's Hope broadcast in the Thirty-Minute Theatre strand. Disco 2 included songs from Bob Dylan's Self Portrait. Country Joe McDonald featured on Top Gear. Robin Knox-Johnston appeared on Desert Island Discs. The French Army detonated a nine hundred kiloton hydrogen bomb over its atmospheric test site at the Mururoa Atoll as part of a programme to make a thermonuclear weapon small enough to be deliverable by a missile. The bomb was kept eighteen hundred feet above the ocean by a balloon. France's Defence Minister, Michel Debre, watched the test from the warship De Grasse. A nineteen-year-old man was killed by two lions at the Portland Zoo in Oregon, after he and two companions broke into the zoo after closing time. Roger Adams sat at the edge of the lion pit, then lowered himself over the edge and fell the rest of the way when one of the lions knocked him down and ate his sorry ass. Later in the morning before the zoo reopened, an unknown person shot the two lions, Caesar and Sis, in an apparent retaliation for Adams's death. Robert Fuest's And Soon The Darkness - starring Pamela Franklin, Michele Dotrice and Sandor Eles - premiered.
The Atheist & The Archbishop broadcast. Satchmo At Seventy broadcast in the Omnibus strand. The Hidden World broadcast in BBC2's The World About Us strand. Peter Cushing appeared on Film Night. The Faces and Argent featured on Radio 1's In Concert strand.
Music On Command broadcast from Aldershot. Only Skin Deep broadcast in the Horizon strand. The World In Action episode Quentin Crisp broadcast.
So You Think You're A Good Husband? broadcast. Look, Stranger: The Battle Of Kinder Scout broadcast on BBC2. The first UK broadcast on Fear No Evil in the Premiere strand. US Army Major General George W Casey, commander of the First Air Cavalry Division, was killed along with six other servicemen in South Vietnam when their Huey helicopter crashed into a mountain. England won the second not-test match against the Rest of the World by eight wickets at Trent Bridge. Clive Lloyd and Eddie Barlow scored centuries for the tourists and Brian Luckhurst an undefeated one hundred and thirteen for England (for whom Ray Illingworth made ninety seven). Basil D'Oliveira and debutant Tony Greig took seven wickets each.
Tony Bilbow and Mike Fentiman's Mind Your Own Business broadcast in the Comedy Playhouse strand. Sammy Davis Jr appeared on Frost Over America. Borstal: The Sentence broadcast in the Man Alive strand. Twenty-five American judges agreed to spend a night in the Nevada State Slammer in Carson City under the same conditions as the inmates. The activity was sponsored by the University of Nevada. Most of the banged-up judges shared a cell with minimum security prisoners, while some were placed in solitary confinement. Upon release, the judges were in board agreement that the conditions were 'shocking' and that reform was necessary. New World Pictures was founded by Roger and Gene Corman, initially as a producer and distributor of low budget, R-rated films. Its first release was Angels Die Hard, starring Tom Baker and William Smith. Bek David Campbell born in Los Angeles.
Top Of The Pops, hosted by Tony Blackburn, included Mungo Jerry, Creedence Clearwater Revival, Cat Stevens, The Four Tops, The Kinks, Marmalade - Rainbow, Stevie Wonder, Ten Years After, Fairweather, Nicky Thomas, Pickettywitch and Tony Joe White. Simon Raven's dramatisation of The Human Element broadcast in BBC2's W Somerset Maugham strand. Denmark won the Coppa Del Mondo, the first women's intercontinental football tournament, defeating Italy two-nil, in the final, held before forty thousand fans at the Stadio Communale in Torino. The tournament featured six European teams - Denmark, Italy, England, Austria, West Germany and Switzerland - and Mexico.
The first episode of Don't Ask Us - featuring Frank Abbott, Russell Davies, David Henry, Maureen Lipman, Adrienne Posta and Richard Stilgoe - broadcast. The first episode of Johnny Morris's A Gringo's Holiday broadcast on BBC2. An Evening With Alan Bennett broadcast. The Who's 'Summertime Blues'/'Heaven & Hell', Carpenters' 'They Long To Be Close To You'/'I Kept On Loving You', Salamander's 'Crystal Ball'/'Billy', Pete Brown & Piblokto!'s 'Can't Get Off The Planet'/'Broken Magic', Jack Wild's 'Wait For Summer'/'Melody', Orange Bicycle's 'Jelly On The Bread'/'Make It Rain' and Andrew Bown's 'Tarot'/'Lulli Rides Again' released. John Ronald Simm born in Leeds. Bjarni Benediktsson, the Prime Minister of Iceland since 1963, died in a fire in his summer residence at Thingvellir National Park. Jóhann Hafstein, Benediktsson's Minister of Justice and Minister of Industry, was selected as the leader of the Independence Party and became the new Prime Minister. Bishop James Walsh was allowed to leave the People's Republic of China after twelve years imprisonment. Walsh, a Roman Catholic priest, had been arrested in 1958 and sentenced to twenty years in The Joint. Private 'whites only' schools which had opened in the US Deep South in the early 1960s as a response to racial integration, lost their tax exemption in a policy change announced by the Internal Revenue Service. The first episode of The Kenny Everett Explosion broadcast on LWT.
The first episode of It's Lulu broadcast. The Victims: Progressive Blues broadcast in the Thirty-Minute Theatre strand. Alan Bown, Steeleye Span and Justine appeared on Disco 2. Kevin Ayers and Son Hoiuse featured on Top Gear. An Athena V-123-D missile, launched by the US Air Force, veered off course from the Green River Launch Complex in Utah and impacted one hundred and eighty miles South of the border down Mexico way. Although the missile was reported in the press release to be unarmed, it was actually a salted bomb, carrying two vials of radioactive cobalt-57. It contaminated a large area in the Chihuahuan Desert near Mapimí in the Durango state, requiring years of clean-up operations. Doug Sanders missed a three-foot putt to win The Open at St Andrews. The following day, Sanders lost by one stroke to Jack Nicklaus in a play-off round. Newton's Cosmology broadcast on Radio 3.
Thor Heyerdahl's papyrus boat Ra II arrived in Barbados, bringing an end to its three thousand two hundred miles journey across the Atlantic. The Ra II was towed the last eight miles by a tugboat, the Culpepper. Hello-Goodbye - starring Michael Crawford, Genevieve Gilles and Curd Jürgens - premiered. Free and Trader Home featured on Radio 1's In Concert.
Made In Britain: Design For Export broadcast. Wolves & The Wolfmen broadcast in the Horizon strand. The World In Action episode Vic Feather broadcast.
The Sugar Disease broadcast in the Tuesday's Documentary strand. The Moons Of Mars broadcast in The Sky At Night strand. The first Uk broadcast of Any Second Now in BBC2's Premiere strand. Paris Rediscovered broadcast on BBC2. Joseph Losey's Figures In A Landscape - starring Robert Shaw and Malcolm McDowell - premiered.
Keith Waterhous's The Old Contemptible broadcast in the Comedy Playhouse strand. The first UK broadcast In The Name Of Allah on BBC2. Forty seven thousand dock workers walked out on strike, tying up Britain's forty major ports for the first time since 1926. The government declared a state of emergency the next morning as dockers refused to load or unload nearly one hundred ships already in harbour. Man In A Blue Vase broadcast in Radio 4's Afternoon Theatre strand.
The Opening Ceremony of the Commonwealth Games broadcast from Edinburgh. Commonwealth Carnival broadcast. Flotsam & Jetsam broadcast in BBC2's W Somerset Maugham strand. Ken Hughes's Cromwell - starring Richard Harris, Alec Guinness, Robert Morley, Nigel Stock, Geoffrey Keen and Michael Jayston - and Alvin Rakoff's Hoffman - starring Peter Sellers and Sinéad Cusack - premiered.
The first episode of The Timeless Moment broadcast on BBC2 including an interview with Pete Townshend. David Hemery won one hundred and ten metres hurdles gold for England at the Commonwealth Games. Smokey Robinson & The Miracles' 'The Tears Of A Clown'/'Who's Gonna Take The Blame?', Eric Burdon & War's 'Spill That Wine'/'Magic Mountain', The Pipkins' 'Yakety Yak'/'Sugar & Spice', The Bedrocks' 'Stone Cold Dead In The Market'/'Every Night & Every Day', The Explosive's 'This Ain't The Road To Freedom'/'Today Is Today', The Peddlers' 'Tell The World We're Not In'/'Rainy Day In London', Norman Greenbaum With Doctor West's Medicine Show & Junk Band's 'Gondoliers, Shakespeares, Overseers, Playboys & Bums'/'Daddy - I Know', Newby & Johnson's 'I Want To Give You My Everything'/'Sweet Happiness' and Creedence Clearwater Revival's Cosmo's Factory released.
Amongst the Commonwealth Games athletics gold medallists were Jamaica's Don Quarrie (one hundred metres), Scotland's Lachie Stewart (ten thousand metres), Australia's Raelene Boyle (women's one hundred metres) and Lawrie Peckham (high jump). The first episode of Trial: The City Versus Lauren R Watson broadcast on BBC2. Supertramp featured on Top Gear. The Pleasure Of His Company broadcast in Radio 4's Saturday-Night Theatre strand. Basil Dearden's The Man Who Haunted Himself - starring Roger Moore in his finest film role - premiered.
The Pink Floyd's final Radio 1 session ('Embryo', 'Fat Old Sun', 'Green Is The Colour', 'Careful With That Axe Eugene', 'If' and a debut performance of 'Atom Heart Mother') broadcast on In Concert. The Great Britain Comes Home broadcast. So You Thought It All Started with Bach broadcast in the Music On Two strand. Alan Plater's A Choice From The North broadcast on Radio 4.
The Broken Bridge broadcast in BBC2's Horizon strand. The first UK broadcasts of The Little Man & The Elephant and Elephants In The Bathroom. The Doors' Absolutely Live and Fairport Convention's Full House released. Iain Macleod, the Chancellor, died suddenly at the age of fifty six. Macleod had been hospitalised on 8 July for an emergency appendectomy, almost immediately after making a speech during the opening of Parliament. The World In Action episode Act Of God broadcast.
The Rest of the World won the third match in their series with England at Edgbaston by five wickets. the outstanding performances in the game included Mike Proctor's five for forty six in England's first innings and a partnership of one hundred and seventy five between Clive Lloyd and Gary Sobers. Basil D'Oliviera top-scored in both on England's innings (one hundred and ten and eighty one). John Sherwood won the four hundred metres hurdles gold for England at the Commonwealth Games. The Marathon Man broadcast in BBC2's Look, Stranger strand.
Lancashire beat Somerset in the Semi-Final of the Gillette Cup at Taunton. Roy Virgin scored sixty five in Somerset's two hundred and seven, with man of the match Barry Wood taking three for thirty five. Lancashire reached their target for the loss for six wickets, john Sullivan scoring fifty. In the other Semi-Final, Sussex beat Surrey at The Oval. The match finished with both teams having scored one hundred and ninety six, Sussex winning because they lost fewer wickets. At the Commonwealth Games, Kip Keino beat New Zealand's Don Quax and England's Brendan Foster in a thrilling fifteen hundred metres final. Don Quarrie and Raelene Boyle completed sprint double victories in the men's and women's two hundred metres and Lynn Davies won long jump gold for Wales. Orson Welles appeared on Frost Over America. The first episode of Louis Malle's India broadcast on BBC2.
Commonwealth Games gold medallists included England's Rita Ridley (fifteen vhundred metres) and Dave Travis (javelin), Australia's Tony Manning (steeplechase) and Sheila Sherwood (long jump). The Thelonious Monk Quartet featured on BBC2's Jazz Scene At The Ronnie Scott Club.
Freddie Trueman appeared on Score With The Scaffold. Michael Keir's The Unquiet Man - starring Leonard Rossiter - broadcast. Raymond Garceau's Le Grand Rock shown in BBC2's World Cinema strand. Matthews Southern Comfort's 'Woodstock'/'Scion', Jigsaw's 'Lollipop & Goody Man'/'Seven Fishes', Three Dog Night's 'Mama Told Me Not To Come'/'Rock & Roll Widow', The Rattles' 'The Witch'/'Geraldine', Stackwaddy's 'Roadrunner'/'Kentucky', Eli Bonaparte's 'Never An Everyday Thing'/'The Man From Birmingham', Three Dog Night's 'Mama Told Me Not To Come'/'Rock & Roll Widow' and The Jackson Five's 'The Love You Save'/'I Found That Girl' released. Peter Collinson's You Can't Win 'Em All - starring Tony Curtis and Charles Bronson - premiered. Charles Manson appeared in court in Los Angeles with an X carved into his forehead. He issued a statement that he was 'considered inadequate and incompetent to speak or defend [him]self' and had 'X'd [him]self from [the establishment's] world.' Over the following days, his three female defendants duplicated the mark on their own foreheads, as did most Family members. The prosecution first argued the triggering of 'Helter Skelter' was Manson's main motive bin the murders. The two crime scenes' bloody White Album references were correlated with testimony about Manson predictions that the murders Black people would commit at the outset of 'Helter Skelter' would involve the writing of 'pigs' on walls in victims' blood. The defendants themselves testified that, on the contrary, the writing in blood on the walls was to copy that of the Gary Hinman murder scene, not an apocalyptic race war.
Roy Minton's Good Times broadcast in BBC2's Thirty-Minute Theatre strand. Commonwealth Games golds on the final day of competition included Scotland's Rosemary Stirling (who beat Pat Lowe in the eight hundred metres), Ian Stewart (ahead of compatriot Ian McCafferty and Kip Keion in the five thousand metres) and, in the relays, Jamaica, Kenya and Australia. Dudley Moore & His Trio and Mama Cass Elliott appeared on It's Lulu. Mighty Baby, Matthew Southern Comfort and Savoy Brown appeared on Disco Two. Skid Row and The Incredible String Vest featured on Top Gear. Joan Hammond was the guest on Desert Island Discs. Hot Chocolate's 'Love Is Life'/'Pretty Girls' released.
The First World Festival Of Aerobatics and If It Moves - It's Rude broadcast. An Ideal Husband broadcast in the Play Of The Month strand. Neil Simon and Ray Harryhausen appeared on BBC2's Film Night. Mungo Jerry, Simon & Steve, Jo-Anne Kelly and Bob Hall and Brett Marvin & The Thunderbolts featured on Radio 1's In Concert. Graham Stark's Simon, Simon - starring John Junkin, Julia Foster, Norman Rossington, Paul Whitsun-Jones, Tony Blackburn, Michael Caine, David Hemmings, Bob Monkhouse, Eric Morecambe, Pete Murray, Peter Sellers, Bernie Winters and Ernie Wise - premiered.

Panorama featured Nicholas Harman's film profile of That Awful Thatcher Woman, Minister of State for Education and a report on Zambia. The Last Of The Polymaths broadcast in BBC2's Horizon strand. David Lloyd George: Welshman broadcast in the Yesterday's Witness strand. Ken Tynan's infamously naughty revue Oh! Calcutta! opened its London run at The Roundhouse.
Be Fruitful & Multiply broadcast in the Tuesday's Documentary strand. The Island In The Song broadcast in BBC2's Look, Stranger strand. Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev, who disapproved the recent moves of East Germany's leader Walter Ulbricht to strengthen trade relations with West Germany, brought East German Security Affairs Secretary Erich Honecker to Moscow. With an offer of support from Brezhnev and aid from the East German secret police, the Stasi, Honecker pent the next nine months working at the removal of Ulbricht, which would happen on 3 May at a meeting of the Central Committee of East Germany's Communist party, the SED. The first episode of Radio 3's The Pop Scene broadcast.
Don't Ring Us ... We'll Ring You broadcast in the Comedy Playhouse strand. Philby: A Ruthless Journey broadcast on BBC2. Gordon Hessler's Cry Of The Banshee - starring Vincent Price - premiered. The first episodes of Ace Of Wands - part one of the serial One & One & One Are Four - and Husbands & Lovers broadcast on Thames.
Joni Mitchell, The Kinks, Free, Aretha Franklin, The New Seekers, Chicago, Fairweather, Hotlegs, Cat Stevens, Ten Years After, Pickettywitch, Stavely Makepeace and The Wake Boys featured on Top Of The Pops. The Prospect Theatre Company's production of The Tragedy Of King Richard II - starring Ian McKellan and Timothy West - broadcast on BBC2. Damages totalling over four hundred and eighty thousand smackers were awarded to twenty eight British Thalidomide victims. Sir Desmond Acker, representative for the victims whose mothers had taken the drug during pregnancy, that there were three hundred more claims to be settled.
William Rushton was the guest on Score With The Scaffold. Jerzy Skolimowski's Le Depart shown in BBC2's World Cinema. The Israeli cabinet, led by Golda Meir, voted to accept a US government peace proposal for a three month ceasefire in the War of Attrition that had continued after the 1967 Six-Day War and a partial pullback of Israeli forces from occupied territory. The dissenters, led by future Prime Minister Menahem Begin, resigned in protest. Hawkwind's 'Hurry On Sundown'/'Mirror Of Illusion', Frijid Pink's 'Sing A Song For Freedom'/'End Of The Line', English Rose's 'Yesterday's Hero'/'To Jackie', Fairfield Parlour's 'Just Another Day'/'Caraminda', 'I Am All The Animals', 'Song For You' and Claudette & The Corporation's 'Skinheads A Bash Them'/'Walking Through Jerusalem' released.
Peter Cook, The Hollies and Matt Monro appeared on It's Lulu. Border Country broadcast in BBC2's One Pair Of Eyes strand. Tropical Wednesdays broadcast in the Thirty-Minute Theatre strand. Quatermass and Osibisa featured on Top Gear. Mungo Jerry and Dream Police did sessions for Radio 1's Peter York Show. Terry-Thomas was the guest on Desert Island Discs. The capsizing of the ferryboat MV Christena killed two hundred and thirty three passengers and crew when the overloaded vessel was making the twelve miles journey between Saint Kitts and Nevis. The football season started with the opening games of the new Watney Cup competition and goals were aplenty, Sheffield United thrashing Aldershot Town six-nil, Derby County winning five-three at Fulham, Hull City enjoying a four=nil victory at Peterborough United and Manchester United coming from behind to win three-two at Reading.
The Ringing Isle broadcast. The Conquest Of Annapurna broadcast in BBC2's The World About Us strand. Towers Out Of Time: The Medieval World Of William Burges broadcast. Rubber bullets, designed by the Ministry of Defence as an allegedly 'non-lethal method of riot control', were used for the first time. The L2A2, made of hard rubber, was first employed by the Army against protesters in Northern Ireland, particularly children. Because they were 'highly inaccurate,' the bullets were fired into crowds, often by 'skip firing' to bounce the projectiles off of the ground and into groups. Although the intent was to cause pain without killing or maiming an individual, the bullets caused numerous serious injuries and several deaths; over fifty five thousand would be fired during The Troubles until being discontinued at the end of 1974. For the first time, a jumbo jet was hijacked. Pan American Flight 299 was on its way from New York to San Juan, Puerto Rico when one of the three hundred and sixty passengers commandeered the aircraft brandished a gun and threatened to detonate explosives in his carry on luggage and demanded to be flown to Havana. Fidel Castro, travelled to the Jose Marti Airport to discuss the situation with the pilot and the 747 left for Miami after an hour in Cuba. Van Der Graaf Generator and If appeared on Radio 1's In Concert.
Made In Britain: Air City-On-Sea broadcast. George Pearson: Pioneer Film Maker broadcast in BBC2's Yesterday's Witness strand. The United States Navy submarine USS James Madison made the first successful underwater test of the multi-warhead Poseidon C3 nuclear missile. Miriam Hargrave, sixty two, who had been listed in the Guinness Book Of Records for several years because of her consecutive failures on driver testing, was awarded a driver licence when she passed the test on her fortieth attempt. However, as Guinness noted in its next edition, she had spent so much money on driver lessons that she couldn't afford to buy a car. After a gestation period longer than the average elephant's pregnancy, Douglas Cammell and Nicolas Roeg's Performance - starring Mick Jagger, James Fox, Anita Pallenberg, Michèle Breton, Laraine Wickens, John Bindon, Allan Cuthbertson, Johnny Shannon, Anthony Valentine and Kenneth Colley - finally premiered.
The Rest of the World beat England by two wickets in the fourth match at Headingley. Keith Fletcher (eighty nine) and Brian Luckhurst (ninety two) top-scored for the home side in their two innings whilst Gary Sobers scored a century and a fifty for the Rest of the World. Eddie Barlow took twelve wickets in the match and Chris Old made his England debut. Trevor Philpott's Soldiers Of Pity broadcast in the Tuesday's Documentary strand. Another Tom Jones broadcast in BBC2's Look, Stranger strand. The Temptations' 'Ball Of Confusion (That's What The World Is Today)'/'It's Summer' released. The first episodes of Bright's Boffins and Never Say Die broadcast on Thames. Despite precautions taken by the court, Charles Manson showed the jury a Los Angeles Times front page whose headline was"Manson Guilty, Nixon Declares. This was a reference to a statement made the previous day when President Richard Nixon, in a speech in Denver, had decried what he saw as the liberal media's glamorisation of Manson 'and other criminals.'
Meter Maids - starring Barbara Windsor, Joan Sanderson, Pat Coombs and Bob Todd - broadcast in the Comedy Playhouse strand. Jack Benny featured on Frost Over America. Oh God, Nigel, I Can't Stand It Any More broadcast on BBC2. Jesús Franco's Eugenie - The Story Of Her Journey Into Perversion - starring Marie Liljedahl, Maria Rohm, Jack Taylor and Christopher Lee - premiered. The first ever penalty shoot-out in England took place in a Semi-Final of The Watney Cup between Hull City and Manchester United. The game ended one-all after extra-time. The first player to take a kick was George Best, the first to miss was Denis Law, whose attempt was saved by Hull lkeeper Ian McKechnie. McKechnie, himself, became the first player to miss a deciding kick, when he shot wide after taking the fifth kick for Hull.
Royal National Eisteddfod Of Wales 1970: The Ceremony Of Chairing The Bard and The Scottish Minstrel: Sir Harry Lauder broadcast. Toby Robertson's dramatisation of Christopher Marlowe's Edward II - starring Ian McKellan - broadcast on BBC2. Alan Gibson's Goodbye Gemini - starring Judy Geeson, Michael Redgrave and Martin Potter - premiered.
Arthur Penn: Themes & Variants broadcast on BBC2. During the trial of the Soledad Brothers - George Jackson, Fleeta Drumgo and John Clutchette - for murder, Jackson's heavily-armed seventeen year old brother, Jonathan, attempted to stage an escape of the three from Malin County Court House. The resulting shootout left four dead, including both Jackson and the judge, Harold Haley. The event received intense media coverage, as did the subsequent hunt and trial of Angela Davis, an ousted assistant professor from UCLA with connections to the Jackson brothers and the Black Panthers. Bob Dylan, The Rolling Stones and John Lennon and Yoko Ono all subsequently recorded songs about the case and those involved in it. The Moody Blues' A Question Of Balance, Mick Softley's 'Can You Hear Me Now?'/'Time Machine', Aretha Franklin's 'Don't Play That Song'/'The Thrill Is Gone', Paradise Hammer's 'You Got Me In'/'She Is Love', Tom Jones' 'I (Who Have Nothing)'/'Stop Breaking My Heart', Don Crown's 'Budgerigar Man'/'Piper Call A Tune' and Caravan's 'Hello Hello'/'If I Could Do It All Over Again I'd Do It All Over You' released.
Lonnie Donegan, Aretha Franklin and Pickettywitch were guests on It's Lulu. Jomo & The Coat Of Many Colours broadcast in BBC2's Cameron Country strand. Judi Dench read poems by Sylvia Plath on Summer Review. The first episode of Radio 1's summer Top Gear replacement, First Gear presented by Johnny Moran broadcast. The Humbelbums featured on the Peter York Show. American Tourists In London broadcast in Radio 4's Down Your Way strand. Everton beat Chelsea two-one in the Charity Shield at Stamford Bridge. Derby County won the first Watney Cup beating Manchester United four-one at The Baseball Ground.
D-Days & V-Days broadcast. The first episode of Sentimental Education broadcast on BBC2. East Of Eden and Hardin-York appeared on Radio 1's In Concert presented by Alan Black.
How The Mole Got His Trousers broadcast. A Measure Of Uncertainty broadcast in the Horizon strand. The Mothers Of Invention's Weasels Ripped My Flesh and Dave & Ansil Collins' 'Double Barrel'/'Version' released. Frank Perry's Diary Of A Mad Housewife - starring Richard Benjamin, Frank Langella and Carrie Snodgress - premiered.
The Devil Takes The Youngest broadcast in the Tuesday's Documentary strand. Patterns In The Sky broadcast in BBC2's Look, Stranger. The first UK broadcast of Who Killed Merri-Ann? Muhammad Ali was granted a license to box for the first time since being stripped of his world title in 1967. After the lobbying of Georgia state senator Leroy Johnson, the aldermen of the city of Atlanta agreed to let Johnson's venture, House of Sports, lease the Atlanta City Auditorium for a 26 October bout; Georgia Governor Lester Maddox, who had previously said that he would not approve any match involving Ali, concluded that the state government had no authority to stop a boxing bout. At the time, Ali's conviction for draft evasion was still on appeal and awaiting a hearing before the US Supreme Court. Although then-heavyweight champion Joe Frazier declined to appear, Ali's return to boxing would take place against Jerry Quarry.
George Burns, Lucille Ball and Carol Burnett appeared on Frost Over America. Christians At War: Two Families In Belfast broadcast on BBC2. Alan Shearer born in Gosforth.
Shirley Bassey: Singing Special broadcast. The Far East Forsytes broadcast in BBC2's The Money Programme strand.
Ralph Richardson's Cinema broadcast. Memories Of Under-Development shown in the World Cinema.Hawkwind's self-titled debut, Tangerine Peel's 'Soft Delights'/'Thinking Of Me', Gordon Lightfoot's 'Me & Bobby McGee'/'The Pony Man', Millie's 'We're All In A Zoo'/'Picaninny Man', Old Gold's 'It's Goodbye'/'Teacher Of Electricity' and Cat Mother & The All Night Newsboys' 'I Must Be Dreaming'/'Last Go Round' released. All diet foods and drinks with sodium cyclamate as an artificial sweetener were banned in the United States.
The First Division season opened as Match Of The Day began the successful format it would use for the next fifteen years, two featured matches per show: Leeds United's one-nil victory at Manchester United and Chelsea's two-one defeat of Derby County. Among the other highlights were Newcastle United's three-two win against Wolverhampton Wanderers (Jim Smith, Alan Foggan and Tommy Gibb scoring for The Magpies), Liverpool's two-one success at Burnley, Tottenham Hotspur's two-all draw with West Ham United and Huddersfield Town's three-nil victory over fellow promotees Blackpool (Steve Smith scoring twice). Champions Everton drew two-all against Arsenal. Terry Wharton scored three as Bolton Wanderers beat Luton Town four-two in the Second Division. Orient defeated Sheffield United three-one, Bristol City had a four-three victory over Sunderland and Watford won two-one against Blackburn Rovers. Aston Villa won their first ever Third Division match, three-two at newly promoted Chesterfield (Bruce Rioch scoring twice). Wrexham beat Bury by the same score (Arfon Griffiths netting two) and Shrewsbury Town thumped Rotherham United four-two (Alf Wood hitting a hat-trick). Cambridge United drew their first Fourth Division game, one-all against Lincoln City. The Ford Sporting League was a short-lived reward scheme sponsored by the Ford Motor Company. Clubs were awarded a point for every goal scored at home and two points for every goal scored away, but lost five points if a player was booked and ten for as sending off. Oldham Athletic eventually won the competition and a pot of seventy thousand pounds (they had only four bookings all season). League rules stipulated the prize money had to be used on stadium improvements, so the money went to build a stand at Boundary Park. The 1970–71 season marked a watershed for in English football's attitude towards sponsorship. In addition to the Ford Sporting League, the season saw the first Watney Cup and first Texaco Cup, although The Football League itself reportedly turned down an offer of six hundred thousand knicker to sponsor the League Cup. Martha Reeves & The Vandellas featured on It's Lulu. The Old Monarchy broadcast in BBC2's Chronicle strand. Kurt Vonnegut was interviewed on Summer Review. Arnold Ridley's The Tides Of Chance broadcast in Radio 4's Saturday-Night Theatre. How Popular Is The Press? broadcast on Radio 3.
The World About Us documentary American Samoa: Paradise Lost? broadcast. The first episode of Leaders Of Men broadcast. Tim Hollier & Friends broadcast on Radio 1.
The Manhunters broadcast in BBC2's Horizon strand. Venera Seven was launched toward Venus. In December, it would become the first spacecraft to successfully transmit data from the surface of another planet, sending a weak signal back to Earth for twenty three minutes. The first episode of If The World Is To Be Changed broadcast on Radio 4.
Venice Of England broadcast in the Look, Stranger strand. The United States disposed of over four hundred containers of nerve gas by loading it onto the retired Navy ship SS LeBaron Russell Briggs, then sinking the ship in Atlantic Ocean waters three miles deep at an American munitions dump East of Florida. The total cargo of the four hundred and eighteen drums was twelve thousand five hundred rockets of Sarin nerve gas and a single canister of the more potent VX nerve gas. The Rest of the World defeated England in the final match of the series at The Oval by four wickets. Peter Lever, making his England debut, took seven for eighty three in an innings dominated by a stunning one hundred and fifty partnership between Graeme Pollock and Gary Sobers. For England, Geoff Boycott scored one hundred and fifty seven. Hyddersfield Town's one hundred per cent start to the First Division season continued with a three-one victory over Southampton. Nottingham Forest and West Bromwich Albion drew three-three. Daughters Of The Sun broadcast in Radio 4's Story Time.
Tomorrow's World From Farnborough broadcast. The Daffodil Man broadcast in BBC2's Line-Up strand. Britain's second Skynet communications satellite was launched from Cape Kennedy. The intent was to park Skynet 1A in a geo-stationary orbit outpost over the Indian Ocean to aid communications from Britain to military outposts in Asia and Africa. Unfortunately, when the second Skynet was being raised toward its permanent site on 22 August, its motor failed and the satellite was lost. In the First Round of the League Cup, Aston Villa thumped Notts County four-niL, Colchester United hammered Cambridge United five-nil and Mansfield Town thrashed Chesterfield six-two (Malcolm Partridge socring four). In the First Division, Derby County won four-two at Wolverhampton Wanderers and Leeds United had a two=nil victory at Tottenham Hotspur. The first episode of the Ace Of Wands serial The Mind Robbers broadcast on Thames.
The first episodes of Mike Hope and Albie Keen's Crazy House and Prizewinners broadcast.
Don Levy's Herostratus shown in BBC2's World Cinema strand. Stanislaw Lem's Roly Poly broadcast. The International Astronomical Union announced the naming of five hundred and thirteen craters on the surface of the Moon and, for the first time, applied the honour to living persons. The list, distributed at the IAU general assembly in Brighton, included six American astronauts and seven Soviet cosmonauts. All but three of the craters were on the far side of the Moon and not visible from Earth. The exceptions were three impact craters North of Moltke Crater, near the site of the Apollo 11 landing site within the Mare Tranquillitatis, named after Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin and Michael Collins. Astronomer Zdenek Kopal of Manchester University announced that he had discovered the first example of an exoplanet, based on his finding of a disk of matter estimated at four billion miles in diameter surrounding Epsilon Aurigae, located more than two thousand light years from home. Kopal would later conclude that the disk was a massive cloud of dust orbiting a companion star in a binary system. Bob Marley & The Wailers' 'My Cup'/Lee Perry & The Upsetters' 'Son Of Thunder', Humpy Bong's 'Don't You Be Too Long'/'We're Alright Till Then', Humpy Bong's 'Don't You Be Too Long'/'We're Alright Till Then', Dave Mason's 'Only You Know & I Know'/'Sad & Deep As You', Opal Butterfly's 'Groupie'/'Gigging Song', Glen Campbell's 'Everything A Man Could Ever Need'/'Norwood (Me & My Guitar)', Russell Morris's 'Rachel'/'Slow Joey' and I Luv Wight's 'Let The World Wash In'/'Mediaeval Masquerade' released. Kurt Nachmann's Josefine Mutzenbacher - starring Christine Schuberth, Renate Kasché, Uli Steigberg and Astrid Boner - premiered. Southport twatted Newport County six-one in the Fourth Division (Eric Redrobe netting three).
The File On The Guerilla Fighters Of The M4 broadcast in BBC2's The Philpott File. The Soviet Union launched Kosmos 359 into Earth orbit, with the statement that it was intended for 'space research.' The fourth stage of the rocket 'ignited later than planned' and ceased operating after twenty five seconds, rather than the expected four minutes stranding the satellite in an elliptical Earth orbit. The spacecraft re-entered the atmosphere and burned upon 6 November. Gene Vincent With The Wild Angels, Fleetwood Mac and Shakin' Stevens & The Sunsets featured on Radio 1's First Gear With Johnny Moran. Freya Stark appeared on Desert Island Discs. First Division highlights included a four-nil for Arsenal over Manchester United (John Radford scoring three) and Tottenham Hotspur's three-nil victory at Wolverhampton Wanderers who had yet to get their first point (both featured on Match Of The Day). Huddersfield had their feel-good bubble well-and-truly pricked losing four-nil at Liverpool. Leeds maintained their one hundred per cent start to the season with a thre=two win over champions Everton. Birmingham City led the Second Division following a three-nil win at Carlisle United. Fulham were amongst the early pace-setters in the Third Division, four-one victors over Swansea City. Port Vale led the division, beating Rochdale by the same score. York City won four-three at Crewe Alexandra in the Fourth Division. Northampton Town defeated Cambridge United two-one, Phil Neal scoring the winner.
Grizzly! broadcast in BBC2's The World About Us strand. River Jude Bottom born in Madras, Oregon. Dando Shaft broadcast on Radio 1.
What Price Air Safety? broadcast in the Panorama strand. Don't Get Sick In America broadcast in the Horizon strand. One person was killed by a terrorist bomb detonated outside of a building on the campus of the University of Wisconsin in Madison and four others were injured. Three of the four bombers would be arrested between 1972 and 1977. A fourth, Leo Burt, was never located. Two Sikorsky MH-53 helicopters became the first to fly across the Pacific Ocean, arriving at the Misawa Air Base in Japan after flying non-stop from the Shemya Air Force Base in Alaska's Aleutian Islands, a distance of seventeen hundred miles. Each of the Super Jolly Green Giant helicopters carried a crew of six. The flight took fourteen hours and required four re-fuelings in midair along the journey. Fourth Division Darlington knocked third-tier Doncaster Rovers three-one out of the League Cup in a replay at Feethams. Ken Beamish scored three in Tranmere Rovers four-nil victory over Crewe Alexandra.
Christopher Brasher's Beloved Wilderness broadcast in the Tuesday's Documentary strand. Astronomers In The Space Age broadcast in The Sky At Night strand. No Place Like Home broadcast in BBC2's Look, Stranger strand. A seven-year-old boy, Tang Kwok-hin, survived a fall from the ninth floor of an apartment building in Hong Kong, unharmed, after he had tumbled out of the window of his family's home. Tang's fall was broken when he landed on, then bounced off, the canvas awning of a flower shop on the building's ground floor Swansea City thumped Exeter City four-two in the League Cup. Manchester United had their first win of the season in the First Divsion, Denis Law scoring twice in a two-nil victory at Burnley.
The first episode of Noggin & The Omruds broadcast. Dusty Springfield featured on Morecambe & Wise. The third Isle Of Wight Festival began featuring performances by The Who, Jimi Hendrix, Jethro Tull, Ten Years After, The Doors, Emerson, Lake & Palmer, The Moody Blues, Free, Joni Mitchell, Leonard Cohen, Donovan, John Sebastian, Miles Davis and - the surprise hit of the festival - Tiny Tim. All the performances were filmed by Murray Lerner with a view to releasing a documentary film. Due to financial difficulties, it would be 1997 before Message To Lovefinally premiered. Club Estudiantes De La Plata and Feyanoord drew two-two in the first leg of the Intercontinental Cup in Buenos Aries. Wim Van Hanegam and Ove Kindvall scored for the Dutch. Jeff Astle and Tony Brown both netted twice in West Bromwich Albion's five-two defeated of Stoke City in the First Division. Leeds United beat West Ham United three-nil to make it four wins in four.
A Misfit broadcast in the Across The Great Divide strand. Val Guest's Toomorrow - starring Olivia Newton-John, Benny Thomas and Roy Dotrice - premiered.
Voices From The Russian Underground broadcast in the Twenty Four Hours strand. Skoer I Sjeen shown in BBC2's World Cinema strand. Shakin' Stevens & The Sunsets' 'Spirit Of Woodstock'/'Down On The Farm', John Holt's 'Stranger In Love'/Jailhouse', Bob Marley & The Wailers' 'Soul Shakedown Party'/'Version', Doris Troy's 'Jacob's Ladder'/'Get Back', The Matchmakers' 'Lovers' Congregation'/'Laila', The Ghost's 'I've Got To Get To Know You'/'For One Second', Anne Murray's 'Snowbird'/'Rain' and Freda Payne's 'Band Of Gold'/'The Easiest Way To Fall' and Chairman Of The Board's 'Give Me Just A Little More Time'/'Since The Days Of Pigtails (And Fairy Tales)', the first two singles on Holland, Dozier and Holland's Invictus label released. The first episode of If It Moves - File It broadcast on LWT. Esther Jane Hall born in Manchester.
The first episode of The Man Who Talks To Children broadcast. The Green Revolution broadcast in BBC2's One Pair Of Eyes strand. Dick Emery featured on Desert Island Discs. In the First Division, Chelsea beat Arsenal two-one whilst Leeds' unbeaten start continued, Allan Clarke scoring twice in the three-nil win at Burnley. Nottingham Firest thrashed Wolves four-one. Manchester City's one-nil win at struggling Everton featured on Match Of The Day. The Chicano Moratorium against the Viet'nam War, began in East Los Angeles. A parade through the streets quickly became violent and three days of rioting followed, spreading into South Los Angeles and Wilmington. Journalist Rubén Salazar, a columnist for the Los Angeles Times and news director for the KMEX-TV station, was found dead inside a cafe, the victim of a 'high-velocity tear-gas shell' that had been fired by a Los Angeles County sheriff's deputy. The story of Salazar's killing was the subject of Strange Rumblings In Aztlan, a 1971 article by Hunter S Thompson for Rolling Stain magazine.
A Park In Peru broadcast in BBC2's The World About Us strand. Soviet astronomer Tamara Smirnova discovered three asteroids on the same evening at the Crimean Astrophysical Observatory - Shura, Veteraniya and Gerasimovich. Programmes featuring Pickettywitch and Trees featured on Radio 1. The first episode of Big Brother and Meet Judith Durham broadcast on LWT.
The first episode of The Anglesey Climb: The Spider's Web broadcast. Ken Dodd introduced Disney Time featuring the first UK showing of scenes from The Aristocats. Crown Of Thorns broadcast on BBC2's Horizon strand. The Cramlington Train Wreckers broadcast in the Yesterday's Witness. Scene & Heard Isle Of Wight Edition broadcast on Radio 1. The Mario Lanza Story broadcast on Radio 2. The Darkest Hour broadcast in Radio 4's Afternoon Theatre strand. Coventry City signed Wilf Smith from Sheffield Wednesday for one hundred thousand quid.
The Scissors & The Little Girl broadcast. Test Pilot broadcast in Tuesday's Documentary strand. The first UK broadcast of The Sunshine Patriot in BBC2's Premiere strand. An assassination attempt was made in against King Hussein of Jordan as his motorcade approached a railway underpass in Amman. Jerzy Skolimowski's Deep End - starring Jane Asher and John Moulder Brown and with music by Can - premiered at the Venice Film Festival. Leeds United dropped their first point of the First Division season, sharing a goalless draw with Arsenal at Highbury. Wolverhampton Wanderers won three-two at Ipswich Town. Matt Tees and Malcolm Macdonald scored twice as Luton Town thumped Oxford United four-nil in the Second Division. Swansea City hammered Shrewsbury Town five-nil in the Third Division.
Tony Bilbow talked to James Stewart on BBC2's Line-Up: Interview. NASA announced the cancellation of the Apollo 18 and 19 lunar missions, which had been scheduled for 1973 and 1974, respectively. The original mission of Apollo 15, less than twenty four hours at the Censorinus Crater, was replaced by Apollo 18's schedule for an extended mission of three days on the Moon at the Hadley Rille. Britain attempted its first launch of an orbital satellite from the RAAF Woomera Range Complex in South Australia. The Black Arrow rocket lifted off successfully, but the second stage had a leak in its high-test peroxide tank pressurisation system and shut down fifteen seconds too soon. The rocket and its payload (the Orba satellite) lacked sufficient propulsion to reach orbit and the Orba crashed into the Gulf of Carpentaria off of Australia's Northern coast. Manchester City lost the first leg of the Anglo-Italian League Cup Final one-nil at Bologna. In the First Division, Coventry City won four-three at Derby County, Newcastle United had a two-one victory at West Bromwich Albion and Manchester United beat Everton two-nil, whose disastrous horrorshow of a start to the season continued. Leicester City thrashed Bristol City four-nil in the Second Division. Sunderland defeated Charlton Athletic three-nil (Joe Baker netting a hat-trick). In the Third Division, Fulham hammered Bradford City five-nil. Notts County beat struggling Crewe Alexandra five-one in the Fourth Division.
Dick Turpin & The Legend Of Black Bess broadcast. The Gold Diggers broadcast in the Across The Great Divide strand. After being alerted by Israel that the Soviet Union and Egypt were placing missiles on the West Side of the Suez Canal, in violation of the ceasefire agreement in the Middle East, the United States presented aerial photographic evidence to the foreign ministries in Moscow and in Cairo and asked for the withdrawal of the new weapons. Richard Sarafian's Fragment Of Fear - starring David Hemmings, Gayle Hunnicutt, Flora Robson and Arthur Lowe and Tom Clegg's Love Is A Splendid Illusion - starring Simon Brent, Andrée Flamand, Lisa Collings and Gay Soper - premiered.
Claude Chabrol's A Double Tour shown in BBC2's World Cinema strand. The Rolling Stones' Get Yer Ya-Ya's Out! - 'Paint it Black, you devils!' - Andwellas Dream's 'Every Little Minute'/'Michael Fitzhenry', Friends' 'Futz'/'Costa Del Sol', Dusty Springfield's 'How Can I Be Sure?'/'Spooky', Amon Düül II's 'Archangel's Thunderbird'/'Burning Sister', Tina Charles' 'Bo-Bo's Party'/'Madame Madame', Romey Carr's 'These Things Will Keep Me Loving You'/'Stand Up & Fight', Kris Kristofferson's 'Help Me Make It Through The Night'/'Blame It On The Stones', Fable's 'Minstrel Song'/'She Said Yes' and The Temptations' 'Ball Of Confusion (That's What The World Is Today)' released. And the band played on. Voters in Chile elected a new President, the Marxist Senator Salvador Allende of the Socialist Party of Chile. Analysis: The Football Business broadcast on Radio 4. Plymouth Argyle won five-one at Mansfield Town in the Third Division.
Lancashire beat Sussex by six wickets in the Gillette Cup Final. Harry Pilling top-scored with seventy not out. Ataturk - Father Of The Turks broadcast in BBC2's Chronicle strand. The Chieftans and Family featured on Top Gear. Formula One driver Jochen Rindt was killed during qualifying for the Italian Grand Prix at Monza. His Lotus lost its right front wheel and veered into a guard rail at two hundred and five miles per hour. The twenty eight-year old Austrian had won five of the first nine races on the 1970 Grand Prix circuit. George Armstrong scored twice as Arsenal won the North London derby two-nil. Southampton enjoyed a three-nil victory at Blackpool. Ipswich Town beat Burnley by the same score. Manchester City thrashed West Bromwich Albion four-one, Newcastle United won two-one at Derby County and Leeds United's unbeaten run extended to seven games with a one-nil defeat of Chelsea. Everton had their first win of the season, two-one at West Ham United (Jimmy Husband and Joe Royle on-target). Derek Possee hit three in Millwall's three-one victory at Charlton Athletic in the Second Division. Sheffield United and Bristol City drew three-three. Oldham Athletic thumped Brentford five-one in the Fourth Division (David Shaw netting four). Dennis Brown hit three in Aldershot's thre=nil win at Crewe Alexandra. Michael Joseph Pennington born in St Helens, Lancashire. Where Is This Here Building? broadcast in Radio 4's Afternoon Theatre strand.
Diamond Spectacular broadcast. The Journal Of Lewis & Clark broadcast in The World About Us strand. Leila Khaled and Patrick Argüello attempted the hijack of El Al Flight 219 from Amsterdam to New York. Four passenger aircraft were hijacked on the same day in an operation carried out by the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, which boarded airliners from different carriers (Pan Am, TWA and Swissair) that were departing for Europe. Jimi Hendrix performed his final concert on the West German island of Fehmarn. Donna Lass, aged twenty five, was last seen in Stateline, Nevada. A postcard with an advertisement from Forest Pines condominiums (near Incline Village at Lake Tahoe) pasted on the back was received at the San Francisco Chronicle in March 1971. No evidence has been uncovered to connect Lass's disappearance with The Zodiac Killer, however and her body has never been found.
The first episode of Chingachook & The Lone Hunter broadcast. Noah's Ark In Kensington broadcast in the Horizon strand. Atomic Rooster's Death Walks Behind You released.
The Post Office Personality Girl Of 1970 broadcast. The Ealing Comedies broadcast in the Tuesday's Documentary strand. The Movie Murderer broadcast in BBC2's Premiere strand. A team of astronomers at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena released the first map of Venus, whose surface is obscured by a thick clouds. On sixteen occasions between 11 March and 16 May 1969, the JPL team had transmitted radar signals through the clouds, from a two hundred and ten feet diameter dish antenna in the desert near Barstow, then received the faint echo back for each bit of data, then spent more than a year in compiling a map from the results. The area covered was described as a section 'larger than the continent of Asia' along the Venusian equator. Newcaslte united enjoyed their annual defeat of lower-tier opposition in the Second Round of the football League Cup, losing two-one at Bristol Rovers. Nothing if not predicatle, Joe Harvey's boys. Tony Currie scored the winner as Sheffield United knocked out Leeds United, their first defeat of the season. Holders Swindon Town were on the march again, beating Watford four-two.
The first UK broadcast of Snow White. The first episode of BBC2's What Sort Of World Do We Want? broadcast. Elvis Presley began his first concert tour in more than a decade in Phoenix, after years of having performed regularly in Las Vegas. The Graham Bond Initiation and Argent featured on Sounds Of The 70s With Bob Harris. Feyenoord beat Estudiantes one-nil to win the Intercontiental Cup. Aston Villa defeated First Division Burnley two-nil in the League Cup. Manchester City were also dumped out by lower-tier opposition, two-one at Carlisle United. Leicester also beat First Division opposition, Southampton, three-two as did Oxford United who defeated Wolves one-nil. Foruth Division Lincoln City had a two-one victory over Sunderland. The Champions episode Shadow Of The Panther broadcast on Thames.
I Want To Be A Footballer broadcast. The first episode of BBC2's Linkpix broadcast.
Filthy albino kiddie-fiddler Jimmy Savile was the 'special guest' on Score With The Scaffold. One imagines Roger, John and Mike are particularly proud of that episode. I, A Stranger broadcast on BBC2. Grigori Kozintsev's Hamlet shown in the World Cinema strand. Operation Tailwind began as a three-day covert US Special Forces operation into Laos, began with sixteen Green Berets and one hundred and forty Vietnamese Montagnards making an incursion from South Vietnam. The group encountered heavy resistance from the North Vietnamese Army and destroyed an enemy base camp before being extracted by helicopters which fired tear gas in order to keep the NVA at a distance. The mission went unreported by the media for almost thirty years, until 1998, when CNN broadcast a false news story. CNN fired two of its producers and long-time war correspondent Peter Arnett, issuing a retraction and an apology, after an investigation failed to substantiate their initial claims that Operation Tailwind had used Sarin nerve gas and that the mission had been to kill American servicemen who deserted. Tex Watson, who had been charged with carrying out the August 1969 murders of Sharon Tate and six others on the orders of Charles Manson, was extradited to California after having been held in a Texas jail on another charge. Rod Stewart's 'It's All Over Now'/'Jo's Lament', Humble Pie's 'Big Black Dog'/'Strange Days' and Tikki, Takki, Suzy, Lies' 'Ba-Da-Da-Dum'/'Dream Stealer' released.
The first UK broadcast of The Pink Panther Show. The Strawbs appeared on Show Of The North. The first episode of Somewhere Up There - introduced by Melvyn Bragg - broadcast. Melanie, Humble Pie and Taste featured on Disco 2. The first episode of A Touch Of Lemon broadcast. Groundhogs and East Of Eden produced sessions for Top Gear. Mungo Jerry and Slade featured on Radio 1's Chris Grant Show. The Sky Marshal Programme began on flights in the United States. The Soviet Union launched Luna 16, an unmanned lunar probe, stating only that the spacecraft would 'carry out exploration of the Moon and near-Moon space.' Timothy Leary, the former Harvard University professor and advocate of recreational drug use, escaped from the California Men's Colony West, near San Luis Obispo, where he had been serving a jail sentence for possession of marijuana. Having gotten a job in the prison yard as a gardener, Leary climbed over the wall, then located a pick-up truck that had been parked nearby by The Weather Underground radical group. The group then smuggled Leary and his wife to Algeria. He would remain a fugitive for more than two years, until being arrested in Afghanistan and brought back to the US in January 1973. Eight days after Salvador Allende's success in the Chilean presidential election, US National Security Adviser Henry Kissinger contacted CIA Director Richard Helms and first discussed plans for an American-funded coup d'etat once Allende took office. In a phone conversation, Kissinger told Helms: 'We will not let Chile go down the drain.' Bob Rafelson's Five Easy Pieces premiered. Leeds United, top of the First Division, lost three-nil at Stoke City. Southampton thrashed Derby County four-nil. Crystal Palace continued their impressive start to the season, winning two-nil at Huddersfield Town. Birmingham City's one-all draw with Oxford United in the Second Division saw the debut (and a goal) for sixteen year old Trevor Francis, the first of eight hundred and thirty five games in a glittering career, for Birmingham, Nottingham Forest, Manchester City, Sampdoria, Atlanta, Glasgow Rangers, Sheffield Wednesday and England, in a career that lasted until 1994. Shrewsbury Town thrashed Port Vale seven-three in the Third Division (Bobby Gough scored a hat-trick for the beaten visitors). Gerry Ingram also netted three in Preston North End's three-one victory over Reading. Exeter City hammered the league's leakiest defence, Crewe Alexandra, six-two in the Fourth Division.
The first episode of The Black Tulip broadcast. The Lost River Of Gaping Gill broadcast in The World About Us strand. The first New York Marathon was staged, won by Gary Muhrcke, a local fireman. Brinsley Schwarz and Curved Air featured on Radio 1's In Concert. Don Partridge and Gordon Giltrap appeared on Accolade.
The BBC Nine O'Clock News - presented by Robert Dougall - was first broadcast. As was the first episode of Ryan International. Virus broadcast in the Horizon strand. A Glimpse Of The Interior broadcast in Radio 4's Afternoon Theatre strand. The first games in another new football competition, The Texaco Cup, took place. Six teams from the English First Divison, six teams from Scotland and two each from Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland took part. As with the Anglo-Italian Cup and the Watney Cup, the tournament would produced a few exciting games and some teams took it pretty seriously but it generated minimal interest until it got near to the final.
The Jolly Copper broadcast in the Tuesday's Documentary strand. Moon-Quakes! broadcast in The Sky At Night. Escape To Mindanao broadcast in BBC2's Premiere strand. Liverpool enjoyed a scrappy one-nil victory over Ferencváros in the first leg of the Inter-Cities Fairs Cup First Round. Leeds United also got off to a winning start, one-nil against Sarpsborg of Norway. Coleraine drew one-all with Kilmarnock and Dundee United beat Grasshopper Club Zürich three-two Ian Reid and Alex Reid - no relation - were both on-target). The first UK broadcast of Skippy The Bush Kangaroo on Thames.
Everton began their European Cup campaign with a six-two victory over Knattspyrnudeild Keflavík of Iceland (Alan Ball netting three), whilst Glasgow Celtic beat Finland's Kokkolan Palloveikot nine-nil (Harry Hood scoring a hat-trick). In the European Cup Winners Cup, Chelsea gained a one-all draw at Aris Thessaloniki whilst Manchester City beat Linfield one-nil. Cardiff City defeated Pezoporikos Larnaca of Cyprus eight-nil. Playing in the Inter-Cities Fairs Cup, Coventry City won four-one in Bulgaria against Botev Plovdiv (John O'Rourke hitting three). Arsenal playing in a thrilling two-two draw against Lazio in Rome (John Radford scoring twice to put The Gunners ahead, Giorgio Chinaglia hitting two in the last five minutes for the home side). Hibernian walloped Malmö Fotbollförening six-nil (Joe McBride scoring a hat-trick). Glasgow Rangers lost one-nil to a Franz Beckenbauer goal against Fußball-Club Bayern München. The Champions episode The Fanatics and the first episode of the Ace Of Wands serial Now You See It, Now You Don't broadcast on Thames.
The first episode of Bachelor Father broadcast. The first UK broadcast of Scooby-Doo, Where Are You? The Best Thing Is To Build A Great Wall & Keep 'Em Out broadcast in BBC2's Look, Stranger strand. King Hussein of Jordan ordered the Jordanian Armed Forces to oust Palestinian fedayeen rebel group from Jordan. With US and Israeli help, Jordanian troops attacked PLO guerrilla camps.
Jimi Hendrix choked on his own vomit and died. The first episode of Ask Aspel broadcast. The Raid broadcast in BBC2's Thirty-Minute Theatre strand. Fleetwood Mac's Kiln House, Juicy Lucy's 'Pretty Woman'/'I'm A Thief', Slade's 'Know Who You Are'/'Dapple Rose' and The Hollies' 'Gasoline Alley Bred'/'Dandelion Wine' released. Darren Gough born in Monk Bretton, South Yorkshire. Ted MacDougall scored four in Bournemouth & Boscombe Athletic's four-one victory over Colcehster United in the Fourth Division. The first episodes of Conceptions Of Murder - Clive Exton's The Dreams Of Tim Evans - and Diamond Crack Diamond broadcast on LWT.
Noel Harrison appeared on The Harry Secombe Show. Strawbs, Caravan and Kris Kristofferson featured on Disco 2. The Faces ('Had Me A Real Good Time', 'Around The Plynth', 'Country Comforts') and Hawkwind ('Hurry On Sundown', Seeing It As They Really Are', 'Some Of That Stuff') appeared in session on Top Gear. The first Glastonbury Festival took place. Performers included David Bowie, Mighty Baby, Traffic, Fairport Convention, Joan Baez, Hawkwind, Skin Alley, The Worthy Farm Windfuckers and Melanie. Neil Young's After The Goldrush and Can's Soundtracks released. I Swear By Almighty God broadcast in Radio 4's Afternoon Theatre. First Division highlights included Arsenal's six-two victory over West Bromwich Albion (Ray Kennedy and George Graham both scoring twice), Ipswich Town's four-nil defeat of Manchester United (Colin Viljoen netting two), Newcastle United's two-nil win at West Ham United (featured on Match Of The Day with Pop Robson scoring both), Liverpool's three-nil victory over Nottingham Forest and Spurs three-nil win at Crystal Palace (Martin Chivers hitting two).
On BBC2's Film Night Tony Bilbow previewed Fragment Of Fear, Catch-22 and Kelly's Heroes. The episode also featured a location interview with Steve McQueen. Macbeth broadcast in the Play Of The Month strand. The Soviet's Luna 16 made the first automated return of samples from the Moon. Humble Pie appeared on Radio 1's In Concert.
Rodney Bewes read The Wind In The Willows on Jackanory. Water, Water broadcast in the Horizon strand. Andrew Sinclair's The Breaking Of Bumbo - starring Richard Warwick and Joanna Lumley - premiered. Joe Simon's 'Yours Love'/'I Got A Whole Lot Of Lovin' released. Millwall knocked Stoke City out of the League Cup with a two-one victory in a replay. Derby County signed Archie Gemmill from Preston North End for sixty thousand knicker. The World In Action episode Everybody's Children broadcast.
Mini, Midi, Maxi? The Woman Magazine Fashion Awards broadcast. Paddy Hopkirk reported from Spain on the International Sherry Rally on BBC2's Wheelbase. Rupert William Penry-Jones born in London.
Jimmy Carter, a wealthy peanut farmer and former state senator in Georgia, won the state Democratic Party primary. Tora! Tora! Tora! premiered. Wyn Davies scored as Newcastle United opened their Inter-Cities Fairs Cup campaign with a one-all draw against Internazionale in the San Siro. Arsenal progress to the Second Round with a two=nil victory over Lazio at Highbury. Manchester City drew two-two with Bologna in the second leg of the Anglo-Italian League Cup, losing on aggregate. Crewe Alexandra defeated Brentford five-three five-three. The Champions episode The Gilded Cage broadcast on Thames.
A Country Walk broadcast. Glastonbury broadcast in BBC2's Look, Stranger strand. Robert Ellis Miller's The Buttercup Chain - starring Hywel Bennett, Leigh Taylor-Young and Jane Asher - premiered. The first episode of On The House broadcast on Thames.
James Mossman interviewed Muriel Spark about her novel The Driver's Seat on BBC2's Review. Brian Rix Presents: Lord Arthur Savile's Crime broadcast. The Partridge Family - starring Shirley Jones and her stepson, David Cassidy - premiered in the US on ABC television. Janie (Jones)'s 'Back On My Feet Again'/'Psycho', Steve Ellis' 'Evie'/'Fat Crow', Dream Police's 'Our Song'/'Much Too Much' and CCS's 'Boom Boom'/'Whole Lotta Love' released. A week after American aerial reconnaissance flights had demonstrated cause for suspicion, the US Defence Department announced that a Soviet submarine base was being built in Cuba at the Cienfuegos Harbour. Ray Crawford hit three in Colchester United's three-nil win over Crewe Alexandra in the Fourth Division.
Arsenal slipped to fourth in the First Division after they were thrashed five-nil by Stoke City (John Ritchie scored twice and Terry Conroy hit one of the goals of the season). Chelsea's two-one victory against Ipswich Town included a bizarre 'ghost' goal 'scored' by Alan Hudson. Roy Capey, a one-man refereeing disaster zone, was in charge of the game at Stamford Bridge and had an absolute mare. 'Downright poor' was the Daily Mirra's description of his performance with questionable decisions seeming to go against both sides. Midway through the second-half and with the home side leading one-nil, Peter Houseman dribbled infield and set up Hudson for a shot that crashed into the side netting. The Chelsea players turned to recover their positions for the goal kick then realise that the referee has awarded a goal and made a half-hearted pretence of celebrating. Bobby Robson led a furious protest but, despite consulting with his - seemingly equally visually-impaired - linesman, Capey remained adamant that a goal had been scored. Ipswich subsequently pulled back a goal which also should not have stood. Awarded an indirect free kick, Jimmy Robertson aimed a cross into the penalty area and watched as it eluded everyone and sailed into the net. Then, during injury time Ian Hutchinson broke through unchallenged on the Ipswich goal. In the split second between the striker successfully rounding David Best and stroking the ball into the empty net, Capey decided that was the precise moment the game must end and blew his whistle for full-time. The Stamford Bridge announcer captured the general sense of bewilderment when he told the crowd: 'As far as we know Chelsea won two-one.' Middlesbrough defeated Queens Park Rangers six-two in the Second Division (John Hickton scoring three, Hughie McIlmoyle two). Bradford City's one-nil defeat at Chesterfield in the Third Division saw the league debut of Ces Podd, a student at Bradford's College of Art born in Saint Kitts & Nevis. It was the first of five hundred and seventy four games for The Bantams in a career that lasted until 1984. In the process he broke Ian Copper's appearance record for the club, established in 1977. Newcastle United signed nineteen year old midfielder Tommy Cassidy from Glentoran for twenty five thousand pounds. Cadbury, Silbury & The Barbarians broadcast in BBC2's Chronicle strand. Humble Pie were in session on Top Gear. Harry Carpenter featured on Desert Island Discs.
The Man Who Shot At The Moon broadcast. The first episode of Spike Milligan's Oh In Colour broadcast on BBC2. Family featured on Radio 1's In Concert.
The Jamus Bondus episode of Up Pompeii! broadcast. All Creatures Great & Small broadcast in the Horizon strand. A large flock of birds was killed after crashing into the North side of the Empire State Building, three hours after the building's display lights were turned off. An estimated one hundred and fifty migrating starlings struck the one hundred and two-story skyscraper and plunged to their deaths, littering Fifth Avenue and Thirty Fourth Street. Carry On Loving - starring Sid James, Kenneth Williams, Charles Hawtrey, Joan Sim, Hattie Jacques, Terry Scott, Richard O'Callaghan, Bernard Bresslaw, Jacki Piper, Joan Hickson, Bill Pertwee and Imogen Hassall - premiered. The World In Action episode The Quiet Mutiny broadcast.
The first episode of Menace - Alun Richards' The Straight & Narrow - broadcast on BBC2. Pollution Is A Matter Of Choice broadcast in the Tuesday's Documentary strand. The Red Army Faction robbed three banks in West Berlin simultaneously, amassing over two hundred thousand Deutsche Marks to sustain their rebellion against the West German government. Liverpool and Leeds united both progresed to the Second round of the Inter-Cities Fairs Cup, the former sharing a one-all draw with Ferencváros, the latter thrashing Sarpsborg five-nil. Kilmarnock tumbled out of the competition, beating three-two at home by Coleraine.
The first episode of Ondra Fights For Freedom broadcast. The penalty shoot-out was used to decide an international football game for the first time since FIFA had introduced the rule. In the First Round of the European Cup Winners' Cup, Aberdeen had beaten Honvéd at Pittodrie, three-one whilst that score was reversed in Budapest. Aberdeen's Jim Forrest 'had the cruel luck to beat Bicksei, the Honved goalkeeper, with his shot, only to see the ball strike the underside of the bar and bounce to safety.' Bertalan Bicskei scored Honved's winner. Manchester City had the narrowest of scrapes, losing two-one against Linfield but getting into the Second Round thanks to Francis Lee's away-goal. Cardiff City also advanced, drawing nil-nil Pezoporikos Larnaca. Chelsea won the first leg of their First Round tie with Aris Thessalonika five-one.In the Inter-Cities Fairs Cup, goals from Bob Moncur and Wyn Davies saw Newcastle United beat Inter Milan two-nil at St James' Park. Inter's goalkeeper Lido Vieri was sent off for punching the Belgian referee. Coventry City also advanced, beating Trakia Plovdiv two-nil at Highfield Road with goals from Jeff Blockley and Brian Joicey. Glasgow Rangers were eliminated, drawing one-all at home to Fußball-Club Bayern München having lost the first leg in West Germany. Two Scottish side did make it into the next round, Dundee United sharing a goalless draw with Grasshopper Club Zürich and Hibernian beating Malmö FF three-two. Everton won their European Cup First Round second leg three-nil at Knattspyrnudeild Keflavík. Glasgow Celtic had a five-nil victory at Kokkolan Palloveikot. Borussia Mönchengladbach beat Cypriot champions EPA Larnaca ten-nil to complete a sixteen-nil aggregate win. In the Second Division, Sheffield United won five-one at Portsmouth (Alan Woodward netting three). Leciester City beat Middlesbrough three-two. The first episode of the Ace Of Wands serial The Smile broadcast on Thames.
Cliff In Scandinavia and Morecambe & Wise's Cinema broadcast. The first episode of BBC2's First Eleven broadcast.
Rudolph Cartier's adaptation of The Year Of The Crow broadcast in BBC2's Thirty-Minute Theatre strand. The first episode of Take It Or Leave It broadcast. The First Freedom broadcast. Pink Floyd's Atom Heart Mother, The Belles' 'Don't Pretend'/'Words Can't Explain', The Troggs' 'The Raver'/'You', Bush's 'I Can Hear You Calling'/'The Grand Commander', The Belles' 'Don't Pretend'/'Words Can't Explain', T-Rex's 'Ride A White Swan'/'Is It Love?'/'Summertime Blues', Cats Eyes' 'The Wizard'/'Hey (Open Your Eyes)' and Kevin Ayers' Shooting At The Moon released. James MacTaggert's All The Way Up - starring Warren Mitchell, Pat Heywood, Elaine Taylor, Kenneth Cranham, Vanessa Howard, Richard Briers and Adrienne Posta - premiered. The first episode of Timeslip (the six-part serial The Wrong End Of Time) broadcast on Thames. What Do They Know Of England? broadcast in Thames's Conceptions Of Murder strand.
A piece of impish genius, Ernie Hunt's volley, set-up by Willie Carr's 'donkey kick', was the highlight of Coventry City's three-one victory over Everton on Match Of The Day. Also in the First Division, Arsenal beat Nottingham Forest four-nil (Ray Kennedy scoring three) and Wolverhampton Wanderers defeated Manchester United three-two (Bobby Gould netting a hat-trick). Geoff Hurst also hit three in West Ham United's three-one won against bottom of the table Burnley. Leeds United remained top, Peter Lorimer netting two in their two-nil defeat of Huddersfield Town. In the Second Division, Middlesbrough won four=thre at Cardiff City, Mike Trebilcock scored three in Portsmouth's five-nil thumping of Watford, Queens Park Rangers hammered Orient five-one, Malcolm Macdonald hit two in Luton Town's three-nil win against Bristol City and United beat Wednesday thre-two in the Sheffield derby (John Tudor scoring a late winner). Derek Trevis hit three in Lincoln City's four-one thrashing of Exeter City in the Fourth Division, led by Bournemouth & Boscombe Athletic, who beat Cambridge United three-nil (Ted MacDougall netting two). Eric Burdon, Mark/Almond Band, Orange Bicycle and Phillip Goodhand-Tait appeared on Disco 2. We Were Caesars broadcast on BBC2. Blodwyn Pig and Everyone featured on Top Gear. Carrie Tubb appeared on Desert Island Discs. The United States Weather Bureau was renamed as the National Weather Service and made a division of NOAA.
The first episode of Roads To Freedom broadcast. Michael Charlton interviewed despicable old Nazi bastard Albert Speer on Personal Choice. Quintessence and Cochise featured on Radio 1's In Concert. Janis Joplin died from a heroin overdose in Los Angeles. Emerson Fittipaldi won the United States Grand Prix at Watkins Glen. Jacky Ickx's fourth place meant that the late Jochen Rindt (who had died in practice at the Italian Grand Prix in September) became World Drivers' Champion posthumously. Roy Ward Baker's The Vampire Lovers - starring Ingrid Pitt, Peter Cushing and Kate O'Mara - premiered. Charles Manson was denied the court's permission to question a prosecution witness whom defence attorneys had declined to cross-examine. Leaping over the defence table, Manson attempted to attack the judge. Wrestled to the ground by bailiffs, he was removed from the courtroom with the three female defendants begun chanting in Latin.
The first episode of You & Yours broadcast on Radio 4. The first UK broadcast of Barrier Reef. A Child For A Lifetime broadcast in BBC2's Horizon strand. Led Zeppelin III - by far their best LP - released. The World In Action episode The Man Who Made Biafra broadcast.
Everest 1924: The Mystery Of Mallory & Irvine broadcast. Edward Boyd's Good Morning, Yesterday! broadcast in BBC2's Menace strand. A year and a day after The Weather Underground had used a bomb to severely damage the Chicago monument to the Haymarket bombing, the anarchist group bombed the repaired statue again. In the League Cup Third Round, Birmingham knocked out Nottingham Forest two-one, Fulham defeated Queens Park Rangers two-nil, Don Rogers scored twice as holders Swindon Town were at it again, beating Liverpool by the same score and Bob Hatton hit three in Carlisle United's three-one victory over Oxford United.
The first episode of The Scientist's Responsibility broadcast. The Mood of America: Kent, Ohio broadcast in the Man Alive strand. Second Division Bristol City knocked First Division Blackpool out of the League Cup with a one-nil victory at Bloomfield Road. Chelsea beat Middlesbrough thre-two, Crystal Palace thrashed Lincoln City four=nil, Derby County defeated Millwall four-two and Spurs won two-one against Sheffield United. The Champions episode Get Me Out Of Here broadcast on Thames.
The World Of Bob Hope broadcast. Writer In Orkney broadcast in BBC2's Look, Stranger strand. Soviet author Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn was announced as the winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature, but would not be allowed to leave the Soviet Union in order to accept the award.
Joni Mitchell appeared on the first episode of BBC2's In Concert. The Tremeloes appeared on The Basil Brush Show. The first episode of Radio 1's Round Table - introduced by Emperor Rosko - broadcast. The Who's 'See Me, Feel Me'/'Overture To Tommy', The Move's 'When Alice Comes Back To The Farm'/'What?', Kevin Ayers & The Whole World's 'Butterfly Dance'/'Puis-Je?', Fairport Convention's 'Now Be Thankful'/'Sir B McKenzie's Daughter's Lament For The Seventy Seventh Mounted Lancers Retreat From The Straits Of Loch Knombe, In The Year Of Our Lord 1727, On The Occasion Of The Announcement Of Her Marriage To The Laird Of Kinleakie', James Gang's 'Funk Forty Nine'/'Thanks', Ralph McTell's 'Spiral Staircase'/'Terminus', The Banana Bunch's 'The Tra La La Song (Makin' Up A Mess O' Fun)'/'Funky Hoe' and Edwin Starr's 'War'/'He Who Picks A Rose' released. Jimmy Mulvaney scored three in Stockport Coounty's four-nil victory over Lincoln City in the Fourth Division. Albert Johanneson and Phil Boyer were on-target in York City's two-nil defeat of Southport. The Khmer Republic was proclaimed in Cambodia, four days after the nation's parliament voted, unanimously, to abolish the eleven hundred year old monarchy. Government authorities had been working on the eventual transition ever since March, when Prince Norodom Sihanouk was deposed. The first episode of The Mating Machine broadcast on LWT.
A Cup Of Kindness broadcast in the Ben Travers Farces strand. Mott The Hoople made their TV début on BBC2's Disco 2. Marx was Here broadcast in the Chronicle strand. Forest featured on Top Gear. Doris Troy & The Gospel Truth appeared on Radio 1's The Rosko Show and Mister Fox on Folk On One. Filthy Fryer & The Woman Of Maturer Years by Andrew Davies broadcast in Radio 4's Afternoon Theatre strand. Lynn Redgrave featured on Desert Island Discs. Germaine Greer's The Female Eunuch published. An international bestseller it became an important text in the feminist movement. Leeds United were three points clear at the top of the First Division after a two-all draw at West Bromwich Albion. Manchester City (who drew one-all at Chelsea on Match Of The Day), Tottenham Hotspur (one-nil winners over Liverpool) and Arsenal (who also drew, one-one at Newcastle) were joint second. Winless Burnley picked up only their fourth point of the season following a goalless draw with Coventry City. Manchester united were booed off by their own fans as they lost one-nil at home to Crystal Palace. Leciester City remained top of hte Second Division, Len Glover scoring the only goal against Sunderland. Oxford united won four-nil at Bristol City, Bolton Wanderers beat Charlton Athletic by the same score, Malcolm Macdonald netted a hat-trick in Luton Town's five-one hammering of Sheffiled Wednesday (Don Givens scored the other two) and Middlesbrough beat Portsmouth three-two. Robin Stubbs hit four in promotion-chasing Birstol Rovers' four-one victory at Gillingham. Torquay United won by the same scroe at Walsall. Fourth Division leaders Chester won four-one at Barrow.
Nicholas Harman interviewed Michael Abdul Malik (Michael X) on Personal Choice. Greeks, Romans & All That broadcast on BBC2's Children Talking strand. Caravan and Supertramp featured on Radio 1's In Concert. Eleven French Army soldiers were killed in an ambush by Chad Liberation Front rebels in the central African republic. At least two thousand five hundred French troops had been in Chad since 1968 in order to support the government of President Francois Tombalbaye. Barney Platts-Mills's Bronco Bullfrog - starring Del Walker, Anne Gooding, Sam Shepherd and Roy Haywood - premiered.
The first episodes of The Parkers At Saltram and BBC2's The State Of Europe broadcast. Alan Cooke's The Mind Of Mister Soames - starring Terence Stamp, Nigel Davenport and Robert Vaughn - premiered. John Sjoberg scored the only goal as Leciester City beat Bolton Wanderers in a Football League Cup replay. York City beat Barrow four-three in the Fourth Division, Chirs Topping heading a late winner. In the World In Action episode Pigs? members of the Cincinnati Police Force discussed the increasing animosity being dealt out by the public towards The Fuzz.
The first episode of Radio 3's Study On Three: Personality & Power broadcast. The first UK broadcast of Dastardly & Muttley In Their Flying Machines. Your Witness featured a 'special television debate on the state of Britain's economy.' Which concluded, 'it's in a bit of mess, frankly.' Crack-Up broadcast in BBC2's Menace strand. Angela Davis was arrested at a Howard Johnson motel in Manhattan, after two months of avoiding an indictment for murder and kidnapping. The Warsaw Pact began its largest military manoeuvres in its history as a 'war games exercise' began in East Germany. Everton signed Henry Newton fron Nottingham forest for one hundred and fifty thousand smackers.
England's Under Twenty Three side beat their West German opponents three-one at Filbert Street. Joe Royle, John Robson and Brian Kidd were on target. Highlights featured on Sportsnight With Coleman. Rockets To The Planet broadcast in The Sky At Night strand. The Mood Of America: Clarkesville, Pennsylvania broadcast in the Man Alive strand. For the first time, three nations conducted nuclear weapons tests on the same day - the Soviet Union beneath Novaya Zemlya island in the Arctic, China an atmospheric test at Lop Nor in the Xinjiang province and the United States in Nevada. A spokesman for the US Atomic Energy Commission commented: 'It sometimes takes several years to plan an atomic weapons test. This has got to be pure and sheer coincidence.' Gerry O'Hara's All The Right Noises - starring Tom Bell, Olivia Hussey, Judy Carne and John Standing - premiered. Hibernian defeated Vitoria Guimaraes two-nil in the Fairs Cup Second Round first leg. The Champions episode Operation Deep-Freeze broadcast on Thames.

Alan Sharp's The Long Distance Piano Player, the first Play For Today broadcast, starring Ray Davies. The first UK broadcast of The Johnny Cash Show on BBC2 featuring The Everly Brothers and Dusty Springfield. The Motown Spinners' 'It's A Shame'/'Sweet Thing' and Junior Parker's 'Tomorrow Never Knows'/'Lady Madonna' released. Ninety per cent of Egyptian voters approved Nasser's former Vice President Anwar Sadat as his successor. John Krish's The Man Who Had Power Over Women - starring Rod Taylor, Carol White, James Booth and Penelope Horner - premiered.
Eric Morecambe and Ernie Wise were guests on Ask Aspel. The first episode of BBC2's Life In Our Sea broadcast. Canadian Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau's government declared the only peacetime state of emergency in the country's history and outlawed the Quebec Liberation Front, permitting provincial police and local authorities to arrest more than two hundred and fifty people across the Quebec province. Off Side's 'Match Of The Day'/'Small Deal', PP Arnold's 'A Likely Piece Of Work'/'May The Winds Blow', Heatwave's 'Sister Simon (Funny Man)'/'Rastus Ravel (Is A Mean Old Man)', The Grass Roots' 'Come On & Say It'/'Something's Comin' Over Me' and Pete Brown & Piblokto!'s 'Flying Hero Sandwich'/'My Last Band' released.
Matthews Southern Comfort appeared on Show Of The North. Generations Apart: A Weekend In Dorset broadcast. Jimmy Campbell, Love Affair and Rare Bird featured on Disco 2. The Amazing Band were in session on Top Gear. Steeleye Span featured on Folk On 1. The Family Firm broadcast in Radio 4's Afternoon Theatre strand. Quebec Labour Minister Pierre Laporte, kidnapped a week earlier by the Quebec Liberation Front, was murdered by his captors. The body was found in the trunk of a car near the Saint-Hubert Airport outside Montreal. Arsenal closed the gap at the top of the First Division, beating Everton four-nil on Match Of The Day. Leeds United drew two-two with Manchester United. Keith Weller scored twice as Chelsea won two-one at Derby County, Wolves defeated Newcastle three-two, Crystal Palace thumped West Bromwich Albion three-nil and poor, hapless, winless Burnley lost again, two-nil, at Liverpool (Steve Heighway scoring on his league debut). Rodney Marsh hit three in Queens Park Rangers five-two hammering of Birmingham City in the Second Division. Sheffield United defeated Orient three-one and Sheffield Wednesday won three-two at Charlton Athletic. Radley Metzger's The Lickerish Quartet - starring Silvana Venturelli, Frank Wolff, Erika Remberg and Paolo Turco - premiered. The Aquarius episode Television's Master Film-Maker broadcast on LWT.
Robert McKenzie interviewed Richard Crossman on Personal Choice. Ross broadcast in the Play Of The Month strand. The first UK broadcast of The Ray Stevens Show on BBC2. The Strawbs and The Climax Chicago Blues Band featured on Radio 1's In Concert.
Don't Cackle, Lay Eggs broadcast in the Horizon strand. The Job Hunt broadcast in the Going To Work strand. The Hollies' 'Gasoline Alley Bred'/'Dandelion Wine' released. The World In Action episode They're Only Human Beings Like Everybody Else focused on the problems faced by the severely physically handicapped and their families.
The first UK broadcast of The Perils Of Penelope Pitstop. So You Think You're A Good Wife? broadcast. Inheritance broadcast in the Menace strand. The North Tower of the World Trade Centre became the world's tallest building when a piece of framework was fitted into place, bringing the tower's height to twelve hundred and fifty four feet, higher than the twelve hundred and fifty feet of the Empire State Building. Coventry City found out what European football was really all about, losing six-one to Fußball-Club Bayern München in the first leg of the Inter-Cities Fairs Cup Second Round. Luton Town topped the Second Division following a two-nil victory over Blackburn Rovers. Scunthorple United thrashed Peterborough five-two in the Fourth Division.
Arden Winch's Danton, the first episode of Biography broadcast on BBC2. The first episode of Pets & Vets broadcast. The first UK broadcast of The Touaregs. Dundee United lost three-one at Sparta Prague in the first leg of the Inter-Cities Fairs Cup Second Round. With the exception of Arsenal's one-nil defeat at Sutrm Graz of Austria it was a night of success for English clubs in the competition. Leeds United beat Dynamo Dresden one-nil at Elland Road, Wyn Davies scored twice as Newcastle United defeated Pécsi Dózsa two-nil and Liverpool thumped Dinamo Bucharest. Glasgow Celtic thrashed Waterford seven-nil in Dublin the first leg of the European Cup Second Round (Willie Wallace scoring three, Lou Macari and Bobby Murdoch two each). Everton drew one-all with West German champions Borussia Mönchengladbach (Hward Kendall equalising Berti Vogts opener). Cardiff City hammered Nantes five-one in the Cup Winners Cup (John Toshack netting twice). Chelsea won one-nil at CSKA Sofia (Tommy Baldwin on-target) and Manchester City defeated Honved in Budapest by the same score (Franics Lee hitting the winner). The Champions episode The Night People broadcast on Thames.
John Osborne's The Right Prospectus broadcast in the Play For Today strand. The Money-Spinner In The Back Of The Car broadcast in BBC2's Look, Stranger strand. The first UK broadcast of Hamlet Revisited.
River Of No Return shown. The first UK broadcast of The Mind Of Man on BBC2. Elton John In Concert broadcast. McGuinness Flint's 'When I'm Dead And Gone'/'Lazy Afternoon', Andwella's 'Hold On To Your Mind'/'Shadow Of The Night', Flying Machine's 'The Devil Has Possession Of Your Mind'/'Hey Little Girl', The Treetops' 'Mississippi Valley'/'Man Is A Man', Billy Boyle's 'Lookin' For Love'/'Pisces Man', Freedom's 'Frustrated Woman'/'Man Made Laws' and Jimi Hendrix Experience's 'Voodoo Chile'/'Hey Joe', 'All Along The Watchtower' posthumously released. Gary Gabelich drove the rocket-powered Blue Flame to an official land speed record at six hundred and twenty two miles per hour on the dry lake bed of the Bonneville Salt Flats in Utah. Cornel Wilde's No Blade Of Grass - starring Nigel Davenport, Jean Wallace, Lynne Frederick, Anthony May, Christopher Neame and Bridget Bruce and Ernst Hofbauer's Schulmädchen-Report: Was Eltern Nicht Für Möglich Halten - starring Günther Kieslich, Wolf Harnisch and Helga Kruck - premiered.
The first episodes of Ed & Zed and If It's Saturday It Must Be Nimmo broadcast. Stone The Crows, Area Code 615 and the Jesus Christ Superstar soundtrack LP featured on Disco 2. The Guns Of Aphrodite broadcast in BBC2's Cameron Country strand. Medicine Head and Van Der Graaf Generator were in session on Top Gear. The Man At The Wheel broadcast in Radio 4's Afternoon Theatre strand. Freddie Francis's Trog - starring Joan Crawford, Michael Gough and Bernard Kay - premiered. The highlight of the First Division programmes was Chelsea's four-three win at Blackpool. Leeds United had a two-nil victory at Derby County and Ipswich Town beat Liverpool one-nil (both featured on Match Of The Day). David Nish scored twice as Leicester City won three-nil at Sheffield Wednesday in the Second Division. Swindon Town beat Middlesbrough by the same score. Third Division leaders Fulham thumped Halifax Town three-one. In the Fourth Division, Chester beat Bournemouth & Boscombe Athletic four-two and Southend United defeated Brentford four-three.
Alexander Walker's Garbo and the first episode of Little Women broadcast. Close To Heaven & Earth broadcast in BBC2's The World About Us. Tony Bilbow interviewed Rod Steiger on Film Night. Fairport Convention and Mott The Hoople featured on Radio 1's In Concert.
Margaret Tyzack read The Hag Calls For Help on Jackanory. The Country We Are Making, introduced by The Duke Of Edinburgh, broadcast on BBC2. Muhammad Ali, who had been stripped of his title after refusing to enter military service, began his comeback with his first fight since 1967, stopping Jerry Quarry in the third round in Atlanta. Sergai Bondarchuk's Waterloo - starring Rod Steiger, Christopher Plummer, Orson Welles and Virginia McKenna - premiered. the World In Action episode A Business Arrangement broadcast.
The first TV showing of The Belles Of St Trinians. Cassius Clay Fights Again broadcast. Roy Clarke's The Millicent Sisters, Edward De Bruno & Ruth - Where Are They Now? broadcast in BBC2's Menace strand. The Comprehensive Drug Abuse Prevention and Control Act became law, which included the Controlled Substances Act. The new law reduced the federal charges for most narcotics possession or use from felonies to misdemeanours, but increased the federal criminal penalties for selling illegal narcotics. San Francisco Chronicle reporter Paul Avery (who had been covering The Zodiac Killer case) received a Hallow'een card signed with a letter 'Z' and The Zodiac's cross-circle symbol. Handwritten on the card was: 'Peek-a-boo, you are doomed.' The threat was taken seriously and received a front-page story on the Chronicle. Later, Avery received an anonymous letter alerting him to the similarities between The Zodiac's activities and the unsolved murder of Cheri Jo Bates, which had occurred four years earlier at the city college in Riverside. Third Division beat Second Division twice in the League Cup Fourth Round, Bristol Rovers defeating Birmingham City three-nil and Fulham knocking out the holders Swindon Town with a Steve Earle goal. Mogul Thrash's 'Sleeping In The Kitchen'/'St Peter' released. Get yer hair cu, hippies! The first episode of The Lovers broadcast on Thames.
Remember, Remember ... broadcast. A King & His Keeper broadcast in BBC2's Biography strand. US Army Captain Jeffrey MacDonald was released from incarceration at Fort Bragg, North Carolina, after his commanding officer dismissed charges against MacDonald for the murder of his wife and two daughters. MacDonald was honourably discharged and returned to his medical practice, but would be re-arrested in 1975 after being indicted for the murders by a North Carolina grand jury. The first officer of a TWA airliner was able to make an emergency landing in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, after the pilot died from a heart attack during the flight. Lamont Johnson's The McKenzie Break - starring Brian Keith, Helmut Griem, Ian Hendry and Jack Watson - premiered. Hibernian reached the Third Round of the Fairs Cup, losing two-one to Vitoria Guimaraes in Portugal but winning the tie on aggregate. George Best scored one of the great goals of his career as Manchester United beat Chelsea two-one in the League Cup, running half-the-length of the pitch before rounding Peter Bonetti whilst Chopper Harris did his damndest to amputate Bestie at the knees. Without anaesthetic. Third Division Aston Villa knocked out Carlisle United, one-nil. Martin Peters netted a hat-trick as Tottenham Hotspur thrashed West Bromwich Albion five-nil. The first episodes of The Adventures Of Rupert The Bear and Wreckers At Dead Eye broadcast on Thames.
Ingmar Bergman's The Lie broadcast in the Play For Today strand. The Men Who Invented A Cow broadcast in BBC2's Look, Stranger strand. Ramsay Short's Frank Lloyd Wright: Ninety Years In The Cause Of Architecture broadcast. Roy Battersby's The Body - starring Frank Finlay and Vanessa Redgrave - premiered.
So You're Leaving Soon?: Am I My Brother's Keeper? broadcast. Helen broadcast in BBC2's Thirty-Minute Theatre strand. Bobbie Gentry In Concert broadcast. Free's 'Stealer'/'Lying In The Sunshine', Tony Christie's 'Las Vegas'/'So Deep Is The Night', Judas Jump's 'Beer Drinking Woman'/'I Have The Right?', Stevie Wonder's 'Heaven Help Us All'/'I Gotta Have A Song', Roger James Cooke's 'Jubilation'/'Anticipation Grows', The Robert Stigwood Orchestra's 'The Buttercup Chain'/'Nobody Needs To Hide', Dave Edmunds' Rockpile's 'I Hear You Knocking'/'Black Bill', The Pipkins' 'Pipkins Maxi Party (Parts 1 & 2)', One Hundred Proof Aged In Soul's 'Somebody's Been Sleeping'/'I'se Come To Save You', Bob Marley & The Wailers' 'Doppy [sic] Conqueror'/The Upsetters' 'Justice', Tommy Roe's 'We Can Make Music'/'Gotta Keep Rolling Along' and The Beach Boys' 'Tears In The Morning'/'It's About Time' released. The first episodes of The Adventures Of Don Quick and Tales of Unease broadcast on LWT.
Ben Travers's She Follows Me About broadcast. The Move and Slade featured on BBC2's Disco 2. The Strawbs and Homesick James & Grizelda Wommett were in session of Top Gear. Stevie Wonder's 'Heaven Help Us All' and Dave Edmunds' 'I Hear You Knocking' released. Joan Whittington featured on Desert Island Discs. The First Division fixtures included Liverpool's two-nil win over against Wolverhampton Wanderers, Newcastle United's one-nil victory over Manchester United (Jimmy Rimmer's calamitous error which allowed Wyn Davies to score at the Leazes End being a particular highlight of Match Of The Day), Stoke City's three-one defeat of Huddersfield Town and West Bromwich Albion's three-nil win against Everton. Burnley had their first win of the season, Eric Probert scoring twice in a two-one win against Crystal Palace. Leeds United remained top following a two-nil victory over Coventry City. John Toshack hit three in Cardiff City's five-one spanking of Hull City in the Second Division. Hull's defeat and that of Luton Town (two-one at home to Sunderland) allowed Leciester City (who beat Bolton Wanderers one-nil) to return to the top. Norwich City thumped Orient four-two whilst Mike Trebilcock scored three in Portsmouth's four=one hammering of Blackburn Rovers. Aston Villa won five-three at Reading in the Third Division. Wrexham beat Plymouth Argyle four-nil. Brentford thrashed Exeter City five-nil in the Fourth Division, Oldham Athletic defeated Crewe Alkexandra five-three and Notts County remained top, Don Masson scoring the only goal in a victory at Scunthorpe United. The first episode of Kenny Everett's Ev - featuring an appearance by The Bee Gees - broadcast on LWT. Craig Kelly born in Lytham St Annes.
It'll Be All Live On The Night broadcast in the Omnibus strand. Kingdom Of Coral broadcast in BBC2's The World About Us strand. James Taylor and Doctor Strangely Strange featured on Radio 1's In Concert.
The first episode of Ace Of Clubs broadcast. Survival On The Prairie broadcast on BBC2. Laurence Olivier and John Sichel's adaptation of Three Sisters - starring Alan Bates, Joan Plowright and Derek Jacobi - premiered. The World In Action episode SALT broadcast.
Monty Python's Flying Circus featured the Election Night Special sketch. Including Tarquin Fin-Tim-Lin-Bin-Whin-Bim-Lim-Bus-Stop-F'Tang-F'Tang-Olé-Biscuitbarrel. And Kevin Phillips-Bong. Who got no votes at all. Not a sausage. Bugger all. Arthur Negus, of course, 'held Bristols. That's not a result, that's a bit of gossip.' Whilst Mary Whitehouse 'took umbrage.' So, no change there, then. Man With A Mission broadcast in the Menace strand. Coventry City beat Fußball-Club Bayern München two-one at Highfield Road in the second leg of the Inter-Cities Fairs Cup, but exited the competition following their pants down humbling in the first leg. Bristol City reached the Quarter-Finals of the League Cup, beating Leciester City two-one.
I Measured The Skies broadcast in BBC2's Biography strand. 'The Fastest Football in the World' - Sportsnight With Coleman came from the Empire Pool, Wembley, where Manchester City defended their Daily Express National Five-a-Side title against Manchester United, Arsenal, Wolverhampton Wanderers, Glasgow Celtic, West Ham United, Blackpool, Huddersfield Town, Chelsea, Glasgow Rangers, Tottenham Hotspur, Swindon Town, Coventry City, Ipswich Town, Aberdeen and Crystal Palace. It also featured Joe Bugner's heavyweight victory over journeyman George Scrap Iron Johnson at The Royal Albert Hall. Glasgow Celtic completed a comfortable victory over Waterford in the European Cup, winning their home leg three-two (Jimmy Johnstone scoring twice). Everton also progressed, drawing one-all with Borussia Mönchengladbach after extra-time and then winning the first penalty shoot-out held on English soil four-three, Andy Rankin saving Ludwig Müller's final kick. In the Cup Winners Cup, Chelsea (who beat CSKA Sofia one-nil), Manchester City (two-nil victors against Honved) and Cardiff City (who won two-nil at Nantes) reached the Third Round. Dundee United exited the Inter-Cities Fairs Cup, winning one-nil against Sparta Prague but losing the tie on aggregate. There was also heartbreak for Newcastle United, who lost two-nil to Pécsi Dózsa in Hungary with János Máté scoring both. With the game still level after extra-time it went to penalties and United (Pop Robson, Ian Mitchell and Tommy Gibb) missed their first three whilst the home side scored all of theirs. There followed farcial circumstances as, following a lengthy pitch invasion by jubilant supporters, the players were told that all five penalties much be taken by both sides. In a now-virtually empty stadium goalkeeper Willie McFaul and defender Frank Clark returned to the pitch and netted past a disinterested Imre Rapp. However, Leeds United scraped through on away-goals (losing two-one to Dynamo Dresden), Arsenal beat Strum Graz two-nil with Peter Storey's penalty settling the tie and Liverpool drew one-all against Dinamo Bucharest (substitute Phil Boersma scoring the vital away-goal). David Bowie's The Man Who Sold The World released. Test pilot André Turcat of France's Sud Aviation flew the prototype Concorde supersonic airliner over the Atlantic Ocean at a record speed for a commercial aircraft, reaching Mach Two and averaging one thousand three hundred and seventy miles per hour for nearly fifty minutes before returning to Toulouse. On the same day, BAC test pilot Brian Trubshaw tested the capabilities of the other prototype in the joint venture, Concorde 002, but had to return early after a warning light indicated an engine fire. The Champions episode The Interrogation and the episode episode of an adaptation of Macbeth broadcast on Thames.
Dennis Potter's Angels Are So Few broadcast in the Play For Today strand. The first episode of Top Of The Pops to feature CCS's cover version of 'Whole Lotta Love' as the theme music broadcast (it wouldn't be replaced until 1981). BBC2's Without A City Wall broadcast. Ronald Neame's Scrooge - starring Albert Finney - premiered. The first episode of Queenie's Castle broadcast of Thames.
The first episode of Mary Hopkin In The Land Of Films broadcast. Vive La Tele broadcast on BBC2. Aerosmith played their first gig - though, sadly, not their last - at Nipmuc Regional High School in Mendon, Massachusetts. The Flame's 'See The Light'/'Get Your Mind Made Up', Badfinger's 'No Matter What'/'Better Days', Mister Fox's 'Little Woman'/'Join Us In Our Game', Velvet Opera's 'She Keeps Giving Me These Feelings'/'There's A Hole In My Pocket', The Equals' 'Black Skin Blue Eyed Boys'/'Ain't Got Nothing To Give You', Andy Williams' 'Home Lovin' Man'/'Whistling Away The Dark', Edwards Hand's 'Death Of A Man (An Introduction)'/'Please Mister Man', The Chairmen Of The Board's 'You've Got Me Dangling On A String'/'Patches', Marc Brierley's 'Be My Brother'/'If You Took The Bandage Off Your Head You Wouldn't Be So Blind', Mick Jagger's 'Memo From Turner'/'Natural Magic', Stefan Grossman's 'Pretty Little Tune'/'Little Sally Walker', Shirley Bassey's 'The Fool On The Hill'/'What Are You Doing The Rest Of Your Life?', Country Coalition's 'Take To The Mountains'/'Age Of Angels', Atlee's 'Rip You Up'/'Will We Get Together' and James Taylor's 'Carolina In My Mind'/'Something's Wrong' released.
Mud appeared on Ed & Zed! The first episode of Wildlife Safari To Ethiopia broadcast. Constable Observed broadcast on BBC2. Cochise and T Rex ('Ride A White Swan', 'Jewel', 'Elemental Child', 'Sun Eye') featured on Top Gear. Home Sweet India broadcast in Radio 4's Afternoon Theatre strand. Arsenal returned to the top of the First Division with a one-nil victory at Blackpool whilst Leeds United drew at Crystal Palace. Tottenham Hotspur thrashed relegation-haunted Burnley four-nil. Luton Town's two-nil victory at Hull City in the Second Division featured on Match of The Day. Leciester City remained two points lcear at the top following a one-nil win at Watford. Sheffield United defeated Blackburn Rovers three-one at Ewood Park. Promotion=chasing Bristol Rovers thrashed Reading thrashed Reading four-nil in the Third Division. Felix Dennis became the first person to use the word 'cunt' on British television during an infamous live broadcast - Invasion Of The Yippies - on LWT's The Frost Programme.
The first episode of The Goodies - Tower Of London - broadcast on BBC2. Uncle Vanya broadcast in the Play Of The Month strand. Colosseum appeared on Radio 1's In Concert. Following a joint meeting between their presidents in Cairo, the governments of Egypt, Libya and Sudan announced that they would take steps to create a federation of the three nations into a United North African Arab Republic. Jimmy Sangster's The Horror Of Frankenstein - starring Ralph Bates - and Roy Ward Baker's Scars Of Dracula - starring Christopher Lee, Patrick Troughton and Dennis Waterman - premiered.
Ray Smith read The Quest For Olwyn on Jackanory. David Crosby & Graham Nash In Concert broadcast on BBC2. Layla & Other Assorted Love Songs, the only LP by Derek & The Dominos and Shirley Bassey's 'The Fool On The Hill'/'What Are You Doing The Rest Of Your Life?' released. Charles de Gaulle, the President of France from 1959 to 1969, died aged seventy nine. David Lean's Ryan's Daughter - starring Robert Mitchum, Trevor Howard, John Mills, Leo McKern and Sarah Miles - premiered. Crystal Paalce won two-nil at Atrsenal in a League Cup Fourth Round replay. The World In Action episode Goodbye, Mister Smith broadcast.
Viewpoint: Richard Demarco broadcast. Hugh Whitemore's Killing Time broadcast in the Menace strand. Peter Hall's Perfect Friday - starring Stanley Baker, David Warner and Ursual Andres - premiered. Harold Jarman scored three in Bristol Rovers four-two victory over Bradfoird City in the Fourth Division.
The Star Trek episode Mirror, Mirror - originally scheduled to be shown in June - finally broadcast. The Hippy Trail broadcast in the Man Alive strand. The Convention on the Non-Applicability of Statutory Limitations to War Crimes and Crimes Against Humanity came into effect. Scotland beat Denmark one-nil in a European Championship qualifier at Hampden Park. John O'Hare scored the winner. Sandy Jardine of Glasgow Rangers made his Scotland debut as a second-half substitute. Liverpol paid a club record one hundred and ten thousand smackers to sign Welsh international centre forward Big John Toshack from Cardiff City. Plymouth Argyle and Shewsbury Town drew four-all in the Third Division. Chico Hamilton scored the winner as Aston Villa beat Bury one-nil. In the Fourth Division, Crewe Alexandra thrashed Chester six-three and Exeter City beat Aldershot four-one. Dennis Sanders's Elvis: That's The Way It Is premiered. The Champions episode The Silent Enemy broadcast on Thames.
The Write-Off broadcast in the Play For Today strand. The Changing Shape Of Britain broadcast in the Look, Stranger strand. Soviet author Andrei Amalrik was sentenced to three years in a labour camp for 'distributing anti-Soviet concoctions.' Amalrik, who was arrested on 21 May for writing the book Will The Soviet Union Survive Until 1984? was given the maximum sentence under a recently enacted law. Kevin Billington's The Rise & Rise Of Michael Rimmer - starring Peter Cook, Vanessa Howard, John Cleese and Arthur Lowe and Vanca Kljakovic's Jedanaesta Zapovijed - starring Dragomir Bojanic-Gidra and Vesna Malohodzic - premiered.
Bus Stop shown in the Marilyn Monroe strand. The Warmonger broadcast in the Thirty-Minute Theatre strand. The Bee Gees' 'Lonely Days'/'Man For All Seasons, Lindisfarne's Nicely Out Of Tune, Jawbone's 'Way Down Down'/'Bulldog Goes West', The Faces' 'Had Me A Real Good Time'/'Rear Wheel Skid', The Partridge Family's 'I Think I Love You'/'Somebody Wants To Love You', Carpenters' 'We've Only Just Begun'/'All Of My Life', Carol Deene's 'A Windmill In Old Amsterdam'/'Little Mister Baggy Breeches', Freda Payne's 'Deeper & Deeper'/'Unhooked Generation', Smith's 'Comin' Back To Me'/'Minus-Plus', Steppenwolf's 'Who Needs Ya?'/'Earschplittenloudenboomer', Thunderclap Newman's 'Wild Country'/'Hollywood' and The Jackson Five's 'I'll Be There'/'One More Chance' released. Over three hundred thousand people were killed by a cyclone which struck East Pakistan (subsequently Bangladesh) in one of the worst natural disasters of the Twentieth Century. The first episode of the Timeslip serial The Time Of The Ice Box broadcast on Thames. The 'Colour Strike' began with industrial action taken by technicians at all ITV companies until 8 February 1971 (although some shows made during this period in black-and-white were having their first broadcasts as late as December 1971). Due to a pay dispute with management, they refused to work with colour television equipment. A huge number of shows were affected by the strike.
The first UK TV broadcast of Destiny Of A Spy in The Saturday Thriller strand. John Skeaping's I Draw As Though I Were A Horse Writing His Autobiography broadcast in BBC2's One Pair Of Eyes strand. Disco 2 was hosted by Mike Harding and featured Duncan Browne, Dream Police, the TV debut of Genesis (Melody Maker referred the performance as 'fairly disastrous') and Zoo. James Taylor featured on Folk On 1. Margaret Pewell appeared on Desert Island Discs. Syd Barrett's Barrett and The Velvet Underground's Loaded released. Leeds United remained top of the First Division, beating Blackpool three-one. West Ham United and Wolverhampton Wanderers drew three-all (Clyde Best netting two for the hosts, Jim McCalliog a pair for the visitors). Alan Gowling and Carlo Santori were on-target as Manchester united won two-one at Nottingham Forest. Poor old Burnley got another hiding, three-two at home to Huddersfield Town. Luton Town and Carlisle United drew three-all in the Second Division. Leicester City defeated Swindon Town three-one. Cardiff City beat Blackburn Rovers four-one and Mdidlesbrough thumped bottom side Charlton Athletics thre-nil. Oldham Athletic beat Lincoln City four-two in the Fourth Division.
The Royal Variety Performance broadcast. Robert Shaw: The Actor As Novelist broadcast in the Omnibus strand. Roof Of Japan broadcast in The World About Us strand. The Goodies episode Snooze broadcast. Mick Abraham's Band and Hawkwind featured on Radio 1's In Concert. Kraftwerk - at this stage a trio featuring future NEU! drummer Klaus Dinger alongside Ralf Hütter and Florian Schneider - made their first appearance on German television, playing a forty-five minute set on Rockpalast at the Karussell der Jugend (Allerheiligenkirmes), Soest. And, in the process, invented The Future. Michael Charlton's profile of Salvador Allende 's presidential victory broadcast in the Panorma strand. The Savage Mind broadcast in the Horizon strand. The World In Action episode The Mountain People broadcast.
The first TV showing of 633 Squadron. A Walk In The Sun broadcast in the Tuesday's Documentary strand. Trespasser broadcast in the Menace strand. The Soviet Union landed Lunokhod 1 on Mare Imbrium on the Moon. Lunokhod was released after Luna 17 made a soft landing. The eight-wheeled vehicle was equipped with television cameras and scientific equipment and was controlled remotely from Earth. The court-martial of Lieutenant William Calley for the My Lai Massacre, began at Fort Benning, Georgia.
The first episode of Screen Test broadcast. Infra-Red Astronomy broadcast in The Sky At Night strand. Where Can They Go? broadcast in the Man Alive strand. I Walk The Line - starring Gregory Peck and Tuesday Weld - and Bartleby - starring Paul Scofield - premiered. Manchester United thrashed Crystal Palace four-two in the League Cup Quarter-Final. Martin Chivers scored three as Tottenham Hotspur hammered Coventry City four-one. In the First Division, Leeds United walloped Stoke City by the same score. Northampton Town won three-one at Lincoln City in the Third Division.
I Can't See My Little Willy broadcast in the Play For Today strand. A World Of His Own broadcast in the Look, Stranger strand.
The Miss World beauty pageant, hosted by Bob Hope at the Royal Albert Hall, was disrupted by women's liberation protesters who hurled leaflets, smoke bombs and stink bombs onto the stage. Hope hurriedly left the stage, muttering 'Who are these bastards?', until police cleared the hall. Earlier, a bomb was placed under a BBC broadcast vehicle by The Angry Brigade, in protest at the entry of separate non-white and white contestants by South Africa. The Dave Prowse profile The Monster With Sex Appeal broadcast in BBC2's Review strand. The Kinks' 'Apeman'/Rats', The Pretty Things' 'October 26'/'Cold Stone', The Duprees' 'Check Yourself'/'The Sky's The Limit', Lindisfarne's 'Clear White Light'/'Knacker's Yard Blues', Gary Hamilton's 'The Monkey Song/'I Would Never Leave Forever', The Lovelites' 'My Conscience'/'Man In My Life', The Mike Curb Congregation's 'Burning Bridges'/'Sweet Gingerbread Man', Tin Tin's 'Come On Over Again'/'Back To Winona', Ashton, Gardner & Dyke's 'The Resurrection Shuffle'/'Hymn To Everyone', Cissy Houston's 'I Just Don't Know What To Do With Myself'/'This Empty Place', Three Dog Night's 'One Man Band'/'It Ain't Easy', Judy Collins' 'Amazing Grace'/'I Pity The Poor Immigrant', Long John Baldry's 'When The War Is Over'/'Where Are My Eyes?' and The Edgar Broughton Band's 'Apache Drop Out'/'Freedom' released. James Ivory's Bombay Talkie premiered.
The first Uk broadcast of The Borgia Stick in The Saturday Thriller strand. The Coming Of The Black Ships broadcast in the Chronicle strand. Bridget St John and Terry & Gay Woods were in session on Top Gear. Life magazine published its first excerpts from the upcoming book Khrushchev Remembers, memoirs which had been dictated by the former Soviet premier and then smuggled out of the Soviet Union by family and sympathisers. Burnley's two-one victory over Nottingham Forest (noyl their second win of the season) saw the First Division debut of Leighton James, the first of six hundred and ninety nine games, for Burnley, Derby County, Queens Park Rangers, Swansea City, Sunderland, Bury, Newport County and Wales, in a career that lasted until 1989. Leeds United remained top following a three-two win at Wolverhampton Wanderers. Tommy Gibb and David Craig scored as Newcastle United won two-one at Tottenham Hotspur, Chelsea beat Stoke City by the same score and Southampton defeated Manchester United one-nil. Liverpool came from behind to win a thrilling Merseysise derby, three-two, with John Toshack netting his first goal for The Reds and setting up Chris Lawler's late winner. Roger Hunt scored three in Bolton Wanderers' three-nil defeat of Birmingham City in the Second Division. Sheffield Wednesday beat Middlesbrough three-two, Tommy Craig scoring the winner with a penalty. In the First Round of the FA Cup Southern League Barnet took their pants down and shat all over the heads of Fourth Division Newport County, with a six-one pummeling (Ricky George scoring three). Athenian League Dagenham beat Margate two-nil (John Dear and Martin Smith on-target). Midland League Granhtam knocked out Stockport County (Bob Norris socring the winner). Cheshire Counties League Rhly brought shame and ignominy to Hartlepool, Mick Metcalf scoring the only goal. Boston United of the Northern Premier league won two-nil at Fourth Division Southport (Brian Bates and Bob Mackay scoring). Telford United had a five-two victory at Athenian League Walton & Hersham (George Jagger, Mickey Fudge, Joe Owen, Allan Harris and Jack Bentley finding the net). John Clancy got the sole strike in Yoevil Town's defeat of Aveley. Crawley Town drew one-all with fellow Southern Leaguers Chelmsford City. Hereford United shared four goals with Northampton Town at Edgar Street. Ted MacDougall netted a late equaliser for Bournemouth & Boscombe Athletic at Oxford City. The all-Northern Premier League tie between South Shields and Wigan Athletic ended one-all. West Midlands League Tamworth and York City's match ended goalless. Wycombe Wanderers fought out a one-all draw with Slough Town (Tony Horseman scoring for the hosts, John Hobbis replying for the visitors. Barnsely beat Northern Premier League Bradford Park Avenue one-nil, fellow NPL sides Macclesfield Town and Bangor City lost three-two at Bradford City and five-one at Darlington respectively, Brighton & Hove Albion walloped Cheltenham Town four-nil, Ray Crawford hit a hat-trick as Colchester United beat Sussex County League Ringmer (the first village team ever to reach this stage of the competition) three-nil. Cambridge United, until four months ago a minor-league themselves, won one-nil at Isthmian League Enfield. Aldershot won two-nil at Hendon, Shrewsbury Town enjoyed a two-one victory at Western League Minehead, Peterborough United beat Wimbledon three-one, Reading thrashed Bishop Stortford six-one (Dick Habbin hitting three), Workington won three-two at Scarborough (Jimmy Goodfellow socring the winner) and Bill Garner smashed four as Southend United hammered Weymouth seven-nil. Torquay United beat Aston Villa three-one.
Derek Marlowe's A Requiem For Modigliani broadcast in the Omnibus strand. Save Our Suffolk broadcast in The World About Us strand. The Goodies episode Give Police A Chance broadcast. Keef Hartley appeared on Radio 1's In Concert.

The first episode of Drama Playhouse broadcast. Tanks broadcast in the Horizon strand. Chelmsford City and Wigan Athletic joined the minor-league sides in the FA Cup Second Round winning replays six-one against Crawley Town (Tony Butcher netting three) and two-nil over South Shields repsectively. Derek Temple, who once hit the winning goal in an FA Cup Final for Everton was on-target for Wigan. Tamowrth lost, five-nil, at York City (Paul Aimson hitting a hat-trick). The World In Action episode Money To Burn broadcast.
Lloyd's Of London broadcast in the Tuesday's Documentary strand. John Wiles's Something Cries Out broadcast in the Menace strand. Kosmos 357, the Soviet Union's first test of a lunar module ascent stage for a possible manned mission to the Moon, was successfully launched. Two follow-up tests took place in February and August 1971, but the expenses for the development and production of the powerful N1 rocket would eventually lead to the end of the Soviet manned lunar exploration project. The postponed FA Cup First Round tie between Northern Premier League Great Harwood and Rotherham United took place, the visitors winning six-two (Johnny Fantham and Dave Watson both netting two). Hereford United won two-one at Northampton Town (Billy Meadows and Brian Owen scoring). A Gerry Sharpe penalty gave Bristol City a one-nil victory over Fulham in the League Cup Quarter-Final replay. The first episode of Grady - Somebody Else's War and the World In Action special The Man Who Wouldn't Keep Quiet broadcast on Thames.
The first UK broadcasts of the well-remembered Star Trek episode Amok Time and the German series Little Mouk, told by Gary Watson. Phela Ndaba: The End Of The Dialogue broadcast in the Man Alive strand. Walter J Hickel, the US Secretary of the Interior, was dismissed by President Nixon in what was described by the Associated Press as 'the first outright firing of a Cabinet member in years.' Summoned to The Oval Office, Kickel was told that there was 'a lack of mutual confidence' between them and was asked to leave immediately. A bank in Buffalo, New York became one of the first in the US to allow customers to take advantage of twenty four-hour ATMs. England beat East Germany three-one in their first post-World Cup friendly international at Wembley. Francis Lee, Martin Peters and Allan Clarke were on-target. Leicester City's Peter Shilton began an international career which would last for twenty years. In the FA Cup, Bourthnemouth & Boscombe Athletic gave Oxford City a good hard slap around the mush for their insolence in drawing the first game, winning the replay eight-one with Ted MacDougall scoring six. A Joe Adams penalty took Slough Town into the Second Round with a defeat of Wycombe Wanderers. Fourth Division Chester defeated Preston vNorth End one-nil. Andy Lochhead scored as Aston Villa won the all-Third Division League Cup Quarter-Final replay against Bristol Rovers.
Maurice Edelman's A Distant Thunder broadcast in the Play For Today strand. Orson Welles's The Magnificent Ambersons shown in BBC2's World Cinema strand. Vladimir Tadej's Druzba Pere Kvrzice (aka Pero the Lump's Gang) - starring Mladen Vasary, Inge Appelt and Marina Nemet - premiered.
The Dad's Army episode The Test broadcast with a guest appearacne by Fred Trueman. The Editor Regrets broadcast in the Thirty-Minute Theatre strand. George Harrion's All Things Must Pass, Rare Bird's 'What You Want To Know?'/'Hammerhead', Joe Simon's 'That's The Way I Want Our Love'/'When?', Frankie Valli's 'You're Ready Now'/'Cry For Me', Dream Police's 'I've Got No Choice'/'What's The Cure For Happiness?', Ronnie Corbett's 'It's All Going Up-Up-Up'/'Put On A Happy Face', Ayshea Brough's 'Who's Gonna Rescue Jesus?'/'Flowers Are Mine', Millie's 'Honey Hush'/'Sunday Morning', Curtis Mayfield's '(Don't Worry) If There's A Hell Below We're All Going To Go'/'The Makings Of You' and Eric Morecambe & Ernie Wise's 'Following You Around'/'Eric & Ernie's Theme' released. Bolivian artist Benjamin Mendoza tried to assassinate Pope Paul VI during his visit in Manila. David Greene's I Start Counting - starring Jenny Agutter, Bryan Marshall and Simon Ward - premiered.
Vanity Fare appeared on Ed & Zed! The first episode of BBC2's Cities At The Breaking Point broadcast in The Philpott Files strand. The Pink Fairies and Matthews' Southern Comfort featured on Top Gear. Diana Rigg was the guest on Desert Island Discs. Slade's Play It Loud released. The professional career of Brentford goalkeeper Chic Brodie was effectively ended by 'a most undignified injury' sustained during a Fourth Division game against Colchester United. Brodie was collecting a back-pass from a team-mate when a dog ran onto the pitch and knocked him down, damaging his knee ligaments. To add insult to injury, Brentford lost the game, four-nil (Ray Crawford socring twice). Brodie managed only five further appearances later in the season before announcing his retirement. First Division highlights included Derby County's four-two vicotry at Nottingham Forest (John McGovern, John O'Hare, Frank Wignall and Archie Gemmill on-target), Arsenal's two-nil defeat of Liverpool and West Bromwich Albion and Chelsea drawing two-two. Leeds United beat Manchester City one-nil to remain four points clear at the top. At the bottom, Blackpool and Burnley both lost again (two-nil at home to Ipswich Town and three-one at Newcastle United with Pop Robson, David Ford and Bob Moncur on the score-sheet). Leicester City stayed top of the Second Division after a four-nil thrashing of Orient. Struggling Charlton Athletic won four-one at Queens Park Rangers, Sheffield United beat Oxford United three-nil and Swindon Town Swindon Town thumped Sheffield Wednesday by the same score. Aston Villa's two-nil victory at Fulham in the Third Division featured on Match of The Day. Richard Thomas Osman born in Billericay.
Julian Pettifer interviewed Jane Fonda in the Personal Choice strand. Rambert Remembers broadcast in the Omnibus strand. Rockets Are For Peace broadcast in The World About Us strand. The Goodies episode Caught In The Act broadcast. The Faces and Wishbone Ash featured on Radio 1's In Concert.
The first episode of The Befrienders broadcast in the Drama Playhouse strand. Mind The Machine broadcast in the Horizon strand. Ronald Hughes, one of the attorneys for Charles Manson, failed to appear when the trial resumed after a ten-day recess, during which he had gone on a camping trip in Ventura County. His body would be found in March 1971, in the waters of Sespe Creek. At least one Manson Family member has claimed that Hughes was murdered by Manson associates. Aurélio Teixeira's Meu Pé de Laranja Lima premiered. The World In Action episode The Schemes Of Jerome D Hoffman followed the trail of New York financier Hoffman whose empire had just crashed leaving investors in the UK out of pocket.
A Man Called Willy Brandt broadcast in the Tuesday's Documentary strand. Nine Bean Rows broadcast in the Menace strand. Sweden repatriated two American soldiers who had deserted to avoid service in the Viet'nam War. The men had been granted safe haven until they broke Sweden's narcotics laws and were deported after completing sentences of nine months in prison. Pete Walker's Cool It, Carol! - starring Robin Askwith, Janet Lynn and Stubby Kaye - premiered. Wolverhampton Wanderers won one-nil at Derry City in the first legf of the Texaco Cup Semi-Final with Bobby Gould on-target at The Brandywell.
The BBC broadcast the Star Trek episode Miri; subsequent complaints from parents due to the strong nature of the story (about a Lord Of The Flies-style colony of evil children) led the BBC to review all future episodes of the popular US SF series and make even more edits to violent sequences. In addition to Miri, three other untransmitted episodes were, effectively, 'banned' and would not be shown in the UK until the early 1990s. These were Plato's Stepchildren, the episode featuring one of US TV's first inter-racial kiss (between Kirk and Uhura) as well as Whom Gods Destroy and The Empath (which had been due to be shown on BBC1 on 16 December but was replaced by another episode, The Paradise Syndrome). Aircraft Noise bropadcast in the Man Alive strand. The first Ashes test of a controversial series at Brisbane ended in a high-scoring draw. Australia made four hundred and thirty three (Keith Stackpole, two hundred and seven, Doug Walters, one hundred and twelve) whilst England replied with four hundred and sixty four featuring fifties from Jon Edrich, Brian Luckhurst, Alan Knott and Basil D'Oliveira. John Snow, in what would be a memorable series, took six wickets in Australia's first innings and debutant Ken Shuttleworth five in their second. Rod Marsh and Terry Jenner made their debuts for Australia. In addition to Luckhurst and Shuttleworth, Peter Lever also made his test debut. The United States Environmental Protection Agency began operations. Both Arsenal and Leeds United enjoyed significant victories in the first legs of the Inter-Cities Fairs Cup Third Round. The Gunners thrashed Beveren KSK four-nil, The Peacocks walloping Sparta Prague six-nil. The Champions episode The Final Countdown broadcast on Thames.
Peter Nichols' Hearts & Flowers broadcast in the Play For Today strand. The Chilterns broadcast in the Look, Stranger strand. Billy Wilder's The Private Life Of Sherlock Holmes - starring Robert Stephens, Colin Blakely, Geneviève Page and Christopher Lee - premiered in the UK.
The first episode of Waugh On Crime broadcast in the Thirty-Minute Theatre strand. Men featured on The Basil Brush Show. The United Nations announced its investigators had concluded Portuguese Navy and Army units had been responsible for an attempted invasion of Guinea in November, despite Portugal's claims that it had not done so. Flaming Youth's 'From Now On (Immortal Invisible)'/'Space Child', Jimmy Powell's 'Witness To A War'/'Strangers On A Train' and The Alan Bown's 'Pyramid'/'Crash Landing' released. Tranmere Rovers hammered Rotherham United five-nil in the Third Division. Southport's five-one victory over Scunthorpe United in the Fourth Division saw the debut of nineteen year old Peter Withe, the first of five hundred and fifty nine, for Southport, Barrow, Wolverhampton Wanderers, Birmingham City, Nottingham Forest, Newcastle United, Aston Villa, Sheffield United, Huddersfield Town and England, in a career that lasted until 1990. Alan Cocks scored three for the hosts, Kevin Keegan netted Scunthorpe's consolation.
The first UK broadcast of See How They Run in The Saturday Thriller strand. Black Roots: Voices & Music Of Black America broadcast on BBC2. James Taylor and Wishbone Ash appeared on Disco 2. Brinsley Schwartz featured on Top Gear. A Passing Of Power broadcast in Radio 4's Afternoon Theatre strand. The highlight of the First Division programme was West Ham United's four-two victory and Derby County (Clyde Best scoring twice). Southampton thrashed Nottingham Forest four-one. Leeds United remained top of the table following a one-all draw at Liverpool (featured on Match Of The Day). Bob Hatton netted four in Carlisle United's six-nil thumping of Portsmouth in the Second Division. Blackburn Rovers won four-two at fellow strugglers Charlton Athletic. Swindon Town had a three-nil victory at Bolton Wanderers. George Jones hit four in Buery's five-one defeat of Reading in the third Division. Darlington punished Chester by the same score in the Fourth Division.
Eisenstein broadcast in the Omnibus strand. Sahara broadcast in The World About Us strand. The Goodies episode The Greenies broadcast. Chicken Shack and Noir appeared on Radio 1's In Concert.
Bernard Cribbins read Alice Through The Looking-Glass on Jackanory. The pilot episode of The Onedin Line broadcast in the Drama Playhouse strand. Square Pegs broadcast in the Horizon strand. During his visit to the Polish capital, German Chancellor Willy Brandt went down on his knees in front of the monument to the victims of the Warsaw Ghetto, then placed a wreath at the site. The symbolic act of German remorse for its persecution of Poland's Jews would become known as the Warschauer Kniefall. The World In Action episode The Law Shop broadcast.
Martin Worth's Who's Been Sleeping In My Bed? broadcast in BBC2's Menace strand. The Strange Case Of Rudolf Hess broadcast in the Tuesday's Documentary strand. A neo-fascist plot to overthrow the government of Italy was called off a few hours before Prince Junio Borghese was preparing to seize the nation's television networks and to announce the coup d'etat.
In the Inter City Fairs Cup, Leeds United completed a nine-two aggregate victory over Sparta Prague, Liverpool defeated Hibernian and Arsenal won four-nil against Koninklijke Sportkring Beveren of Blegium. The Other Half broadcast in the Man Alive strand. Enzo Barboni's They Call Me Trinity - starring Terence Hill and Bud Spencer - premiered. John Toshack scored the only goal as Liverpool won at Hibernian in the Inter-Cities Fairs Cup. Leeds United completed a comfortable aggregate win against Sparta Prague, winning the second leg three-two. The Champions episode The Gun Runners broadcast on Thames.
John Bowen's Robin Redbreast broadcast in the Play For Today strand. Sir John Betjeman's Ellan Vannin broadcast in BBC2's Look, Stranger strand. Sly & The Family Stone's 'Family Affair', Eric Burdon & War's The Black-Man's Burdon, Joe Cocker's 'Cry Me A River'/'Give Peace A Chance', Vivian Stanshall & Gargantuan Chums With Big GRunt's 'Suspicion'/'Blind Date', The Mixtures' 'The Pushbike Song'/'Who Loves Ya?', Al Stewart's 'The News From Spain'/'Elvaston Place', Swegas' 'What'ya Gonna Do?'/'There Is Nothing In It' and Free's Highway released.
Women Should Have A New Deal broadcast in the Your Witness strand. The Postcard Mania broadcast in BBC2's Review strand. John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band, Frijid Pink's 'Heartbreak Hotel'/'Bye Bye Blues', Anita Harris' 'Jumbleland'/'Late Night Final' and Tangerine Peel's 'Don't Let Me Be Misunderstood'/'What Am I To Do?' released. The ultimate record of a thirty year old millionaire whinging about how absolutely rotten his life is. George HW Bush was named by President Nixon as the next US Ambassador to the United Nations. Disney's The Aristocats premiered. The movie was the last project approved by Walt Disney prior to his death in 1966.
The first UK broadcast of The Sound Of Anger in The Saturday Thriller strand. Why The Armada Was Beaten? broadcast in BBC2's Chronicle strand. Jim Morrison and The Doors performed together for the last time, with Morrison experiencing a nervous breakdown while at The Warehouse in New Orleans. Morrison would record the LP LA Woman with The Doors in March, before departing for a leave of absence in Paris, where he died in July. Arthur Lowe appeared on Desert Island Discs. Uhuru, the first satellite specifically launched for x-ray astronomy, was put into orbit from the Italian-operated San Marco platform, erected off of the coast of Kenya. Built in the United States, Uhuru was the first American satellite launched by scientists from another country and the first satellite launch overseen by a female director, NASA engineer Marjorie Townsend. A US Air Force B-57 Canberra reconnaissance plane, filled with top-secret intelligence gathering equipment, crashed after being shot down by anti-aircraft guns while flying a mission over Laos. City beat United four-one in the First Division's Manchester derby at Old Trafford (Francis Lee hitting a hat-trick). Everton defeated Southampton by the same score. Tony Brown scored three in West Bromwich Albion's three-one victory over Tottenham Hotspur. Newcastle United beat Huddersfield Town two-nil. In the Second Division, Cardiff City's three-one win over Sunderland featured on Match Of The Day. John Barnwell scored twice in Sheffield United's three-nil defeat of Charlton Athletic although, wining weeks he would be forced into retirement with a persistent ankle injiry. Oldham Athletic thrashed Newport County four-nil in the Fourth Division. Three minor-league sides reached the Third Round of the FA Cup at the first attempt. Cliff Myers scoring the only goals as Yeovil Town won at Bournemouth & Boscombe Athletic, Les Eason scoring the winner as Barnet won at Slough Town and Wigan Athletic beating Peterborough united two-one (Geoff Davies and Jim Fleming scoring the goals). Rhyl shared a goalless draw with Barnsley. Boston United lost two-one at home to York City, John Rudge hit the winner as Torquay United won at Chelmsford City, Rotherham United had a four-one victory at Grantham, John Charles put Hereford United ahead but Brighton & Hove Albion came back to win two-one, Southend United defeated Dagenham one-nil and Swansa City thrashed Telford United six-two (Dai Gwyther netting three). Irked that his son, Brian Spencer, would not appear on Hockey Night in Canada because the CBC television network chose to broadcast a different National Hockey League game, Roy Spencer got a right-mad strop on. He drove eighty miles from his home in Fort St James, British Columbia, to the closest CBC affiliate in Prince George, held technicians at gunpoint and demanded that they show the Toronto Maple Leaf for whom Brian was playing. After the game concluded, Roy was extremely killed in a shootout with the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (although, at least he got to see his son's team defeat the Chicago Blackhawks, so that was some consolation).
Michael Barratt interviewed Edna O'Brien on Personal Choice. Three Men In A Balloon broadcast in The World About Us strand. The Goodies episode Cecily broadcast. Blodwyn Pig featured on Radio 1's In Concert. Michael Billington reviewed Ryan's Daughter on Radio 4's Options.
The second Doomwatch series began with You Killed Toby Wren. Earthquakes broadcast in the Horizon strand. Roddy McDowell's Tam-Lin - starring Ava Gardner, Ian McShane, Richard Wattis Cyril Cusack and Stephanie Beacham - premiered. The first episode of Man At The Top and the World In Action episode Oh! Birmingham broadcast on Thames.
The first episode of Patrick Moore's Seeing Stars, Our Spaceship, The Earth broadcast. The Elimination broadcast in the Menace strand. The Soviet Union's Venera 7 became the first spacecraft to successfully land on Venus. Roy Boulting's There's A Girl In My Soup - starring Peter Sellers and Goldie Hawn - premiered. Barnley and Rhyl's FA Cup tie went to a third game after a one-all draw at Oakwell. Sunderland signed Dave Watson from Rotherham United for one hundred grand.
Sports Review of 1970 broadcast. Planets Of Other Suns broadcast in The Sky At Night strand. Henry Cooper won the Sports Personality of the Year Award. Good Intentions: The Race Relations Industry broadcast in the Man Alive strand. The second Ashes test at Perth was drawn. As with the first test, the bat dominated, Ian Redpath, debutant Greg Chappell, Brian Luckurst and John Edrich all scoring centuries and Geoff Boycott making fifty in both of England's innings. According to former England fast bowler Frank Tyson, 'England's fourth day batting made The Death March seem like an Irish jig!' Jonathan Miller's adaptation of Take A Girl Like You - starring Hayley Mills, Oliver Reed and Noel Harrison - premiered. Love Story, the highest-grossing film of the year, was released in theatres in the United States. The Hague Hijacking Convention was signed by representatives of forty of the seventy nine nations at the International Civil Aviation Organisation conference. The Ethiopian government declared a state of emergency in its province of Eritrea after alleging that foreign governments had been supplying and weapons to the separatist Eritrean Liberation Front movement. Arsenal reached the Quarter-Finals of the Inter-Citites Fairs Cup after a goalless draw with Beveren KSK in Belgium. the first legs of both League Cup Semi-Finals ended one-all Spurs drawing at Bristol City and Manchester United and Aston Villa sharing the spoils at Old Trafford. Workington beat Chesterfield three-two in an FA Cup Second Round replay. The Champions episode Nutcracker broadcast on Thames.
Colin Welland's The Hallelujah Handshake broadcast in the Play For Today strand. Who Brought The Light broadcast in the Look, Stranger strand. Poland's Premier, Jozef Cyrankiewicz, announced that he had authorised the Army to shoot at striking workers and demonstrators in an effort to 'suppress rioting.' The decree cleared the way for the use of weapons against 'persons applying violent plots against the life and health of the population and the robbing and destroying of property' and shipyard workers were fired upon in Gdynia. By then, strikes had spread to the cities of Szczecin and Slupsk. Poland's government rescinded the shoot-to-kill order on 22 December and sacked Cyrankiewicz the next day. Howard Hawks's Rio Lobo - starring John Wayne and Jennifer O'Neill - premiered.
Camping In Brittany broadcast in the Holiday 71 strand. PH Newby's The Reunion broadcast in BBC2's Review strand. T-Rex's first LP under their now shortened name and Fair Weather's 'Road To Freedom'/'Tutti Frutti' released. Codenamed Baneberry, an errant underground nuclear test at the Nevada Test Site exposed three hundred site workers to radiation. Bristol Rovers remained top of the Third Division, Ray Graydon and Robin Stubbs both scoring twice in a four-one victory at Shrewsbury Town.
The first UK broadcast of Fame Is The Name Of The Game in The Saturday Thriller strand. The Dreamwalkers broadcast in the One Pair Of Eyes strand. Elton John appeared on Disco 2. Ralph McTell featured on Top Gear. Ivan Mauger appeared on Desert Island Discs. General Chung Il-Kwon was fired after more than six years as Prime Minister of South Korea, when President Park Chung-Hee made the decision to shake up his cabinet in advance of general erections. West Bromwich Albion's one-all draw with Blackool saw the club debut of John Wile, recently signed from Peterborough, the first of six hundred and eighteen games for The Throstles in a career that lasted until 1983. In The First Division, Leeds United returned to the top with a one-nil win at Everton. Manchester City scored four for the second week running, thumping Burnley at Turf Moor. Peter Osgood scored twice as Chelsea beat West Ham United two-one, Pop Robson also got two in Newcastle United's two-nil defeat of Crystal Palace and Arsenal won three-one at Manchester United (featured on Match Of The Day).
Somewhere A Voice Is Calling broadcast in the Omnibus strand. Eric Ashby's The Living Forest broadcast in The World About Us strand. The Goodies episode Pirate Radio Goodies broadcast. Jellybread and T-Rex featured in Radio 1's In Concert.
The Man Who Talks To Frogs broadcast in BBC2's Horizon strand. Elvis Presley was welcomed to The White House by President Nixon. The meeting would become the subject of several books and two films though it was not reported in the media at the time and went unnoticed until it was mentioned in Jack Anderson's nationally-syndicated newspaper column in January 1972. The US Navy F-14 Tomcat made its first flight. Nine days later, the prototype F-14 was destroyed in a crash after taking off from the Grumman Corporation test facility near Calverton, New York. Test pilots William Miller and Robert Smyth were able to safely eject. Lionel Jeffries' adapration of The Railway Children - starring Jenny Agutter, Sally Thomsett, Gary Warren, Dinah Sheridan and Bernard Cribbins - premiered. Rhyl reached the Third Round of the FA Cup, Eurwyn Davies and Laurie Davies scoring as they defeated Barnsley two-nil in a second replay at Old Trafford. The World In Action episode The Dumping Ground examined the problems of malnutrition leading to mental and physical problems among the children of resettled black South African families.
The Selznick Years broadcast. Arden Winch's The Innocent broadcast in the Menace strand. Representatives of the government of North Viet'nam released their first accounting of American prisoners of war held in POW camps there. Phil Moersma and Steve Heighway scored as liverpool defeated Hibernian two-nil in the Inter-Cities Fairs Cup Third Round.
Brian Rix Presents: Stand By Your Bedouin! and The Spinners At The Phil broadcast. Richard Huggett was profiled on Line-Up. The Bolivian government released Régis Debray, a French Marxist who had been a close associate of Che Guevara and had been in prison for three years. In the general amnesty announced by President Juan Jose Torres, the government also released another Guevara associate, Argentine painter Roberto Bustes. The North Tower of the World Trade Centre in New York City was topped out to its full one hundred and ten-story height. Arthur Penn's Little Big Man - starring Dustin Hoffman, Faye Dunaway, Martin Balsam and Richard Mulligan - premiered. Aston Villa became the third Division Three club in the past four years to reach the Final of the League Cup, beating Manchester United two-one in the second leg of the Semi-Final. At Wembley, they would meet Tottenham Hotspur who beat Bristol City two-nil.
Peter Shaffer's Five Finger Exercise broadcast in the Play Of The Month strand. Elwyn Jones and John Lloyd's adaptation of Choir Practice broadcast on BBC2. Pop Around Christmas broadcast on Radio 1. The Bolt Hole broadcast in Radio 4's Afternoon Theatre. The Basque separatist group ETA released consul Eugen Beihl after twenty three days, turning him over to representatives from West Germany's ZDF television network at an undisclosed location in Spain. The first episode of the Timeslip serial The Year Of The Burn-Up broadcast on Thames.
Whom God Hath Joined and It's A Terrible Waste Of An Egg broadcast on BBC2. Basil's Christmas Morning broadcast. David Johnston, a British banker who had been the manager of the Shanghai office of Chartered Bank, was released by China after twenty eight months in jail. Johnston had been arrested by Chinese authorities in August 1968, but was never charged with a crime. He was allowed to cross into Hong Kong after signing a 'letter of confession' which claimed that he had violated the laws of China. Federico Fellini's The Clowns and Robert Fuest's adaptation of Wuthering Heights - starring Anna Calder-Marshall and Timothy Dalton - premiered. Evelyn Waugh's Bella Fleace Gave A Party broadcast on Radio 3.
Sinatra Sings broadcast. The Bee Gees' downright weird 'musical comedy' Cucumber Castle broadcast on BBC2, with guests Spike Milligan, Frankie Howerd, Lulu, Blind Faith and Vincent Price. Jimmy Perry's 'Wiltons' - The Handsomest Hall In Town broadcast. A thrilling First Division game at The Baseball Ground saw Derby County and Manchester United draw four-four (featured on Match Of The Day). Leeds United stayed top with a three-nil victory over Newcastle United. The bottom two, Blackpool and Burnley, drew one-all at Bloomfield Road. Hull City and Shewffield Wednesday drew four-all in the Second Division. Two of the promotion-chasers met at Brammall Lane, Sheffield United defeating Leicester City two-one. Sunderland and Middlesbrough drew two-two at Roker Park. Alan Harding scored three in Darlington's five-one victory over Grimsby Town in the Fourth Division. Leaders Notts County thumped Cambridge United four-one. The prototype of China's lightweight supersonic fighter, the Nanchang J-12, made its first flight. Paul Rose, the leader of the Chernier Cell of the Front de libération du Québec, was arrested in a farmhouse in Saint-Luc, for the kidnapping and murder of Quebec Deputy Premier Pierre Laporte.
Wide World Of Entertainment broadcast. The Edith Piaf biography I Regret Nothing boradcast in the Omnibus strand. Michael Flanders & Donald Swann: At The Drop Of Another Hat broadcast on BBC2. Joni Mitchell featured on Radio 1's In Concert. At the request of Prime Minister Indira Gandhi, India's President VV Giri dissolved the Lok Sabha (the lower house of India's Parliament) and set new erections to take place during March 1971. In a nationwide TV and radio broadcast that evening, Gandhi explained that she and her cabinet had voted to hold the first midterm erections in India's history in order to seek 'a fresh mandate.' According to the local press, the date of the dissolution of the Lok Sabha was set after Mrs Gandhi had consulted with astrologers for a moment most favourable for the Congress party.
The first UK TV showing of A Hard Day's Night. The Gargantuan Triumph Of Science broadcast in the Horizon strand. Six Basque separatists were sentenced to death by firing squad and thirteen others were sentenced to imprisonment after being found guilty of murder by a Spanish military court at Burgos. Three of the six - Francisco Javier Izco, Eduardo Uriarte and Joaquin Gorostidi - received double death sentences. Harsh. Radio 1 Club was presented by Tommy Vance from the Arcadia Ballroom, Portrush. The first episode of Radio 4's The Orange-Coloured Peppermint Humbug Holiday Show broadcast.
The Truth About Houdini broadcast in the Tuesday's Documentary strand. Maxwell Boyd, Michael Frostick, Barrie Gill, Judith Jackson and Murray Walker look back at another crowded year at the wheel, and say what they look forward to most in the world of motoring in 1971 in BBC2's Wheelbase. Review Of The Year 1970 broadcast on Radio 4. Wilf McGuinness was sacked as manager of Manchester united after just eighteen months in charge. He was replaced, until the end of the season, by his predecessor, Sir Matt Busby.
The first episode of The Madly Sad Princess broadcast. Alone broadcast in the Man Alive strand. The Price Of Love broadcast on BBC2. Francisco Franco commuted the death sentences of the six Basque separatists scheduled for execution. The revision of the death sentences, to terms of thirty years incarceration, came after fifteen thousand workers went on strike in the predominantly Basque province of Viscaya. The largest offshore fire in the history of oil exploration was extinguished after a month. The Royal Dutch Shell Oil Company announced that its B-21 well, which had been spilling oil into the Gulf of Mexico off of the coast of New Orleans since an explosion that killed four employees, had been brought under control. Dick Clements's A Severed Head - starring Lee Remick, Richard Attenborough, Ian Holm and Claire Bloom - premiered. The Champions episode Autokill broadcast on Thames.
The Who performed 'Naked Eye' and 'I Don't Even Know Myself' on Into 71. 1970 - What A Way To Start A Decade, a Money Programme special, broadcast on BBC2. Paul McCartney filed suit for the dissolution of The Beatles' contractual partnership, a legal battle which would take a further four years to settle. The third Ashes test at Melbourne was scheduled to begin but, due to persistent rain over four days it was, eventually, abandoned without a ball being bowled. Silvio Narizzano's adaptation of Loot - starring Richard Attenborough, Lee Remick, Hywel Bennett, Milo O'Shea, Dick Emery and Roy Holder - premiered. The Best Messiah In The Business broadcast on Radio 4.