REMEMBER WHEN?

The following events all occurred in a year in living memory. Can you guess the year?

1

• Buster Keaton died.

• George Harrison married Patti Boyd.

• The Moors murderers were sentenced to life imprisonment.

• South African PM Hendrik Verwoerd was assassinated.

2

• Shirley Heights won the Derby.

• Princess Margaret sought a divorce from the Earl of Snowdon.

• Former Italian premier Aldo Moro was murdered by the Red Brigade.

• Argentina won football’s World Cup.

3

• Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden married the Prime Minister’s niece, Clarissa.

• The winter Olympics took place in Oslo.

• Liam Neeson was born.

• Israel’s first President Chaim Weizmann died.

4

• Rangers won the European Cup-winners’ Cup.

• 2 British Rail withdrew The Brighton Belle trains from service.

• 3 US President Richard Nixon was re-elected.

• 4 John Betjeman became Poet Laureate.

5

• Comedian Tommy Cooper died.

• Torvill and Dean won the Olympic gold for ice dancing.

• British Telecom was privatised.

• The Smiths’ debut album was released.

6

• Soviet Premier Georgi Malenkov was forced to resign.

• Albert Einstein died.

• Donald Campbell set a new world water-speed record of 202.32mph.

• Cardiff officially became the capital of Wales.