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Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead, by Tom Stoppard, is produced at the Edinburgh Festival
UNITA, led by Jonas Savimbi, joins the fight for Angolan independence
The Whale, a cantata by English composer John Tavener, has its premiere at the inaugural concert of the London Sinfonietta
Former chief Seretse Khama becomes the first president of an independent Botswana
Flann O'Brien's novel The Third Policeman has a great success when published posthumously
A coup in Greece brings in an incompetent and repressive military junta that becomes known as the 'Greek colonels'
Luis Buñuel directs Catherine Deneuve in Belle de Jour, a film about a bored housewife who takes a day job as a prostitute
A Bigger Splash, by English painter David Hockney, casts a new light on sunlit swimming pools
English yachtsman Francis Chichester completes a record round-the-world voyage, sailing 29,600 miles solo in 226 days
British research student Jocelyn Bell and her Cambridge supervisor Antony Hewish identify the first known pulsar
British composers Harrison Birtwistle and Peter Maxwell Davies found the Pierrot Players
English author Angela Carter wins recognition with her quirky second novel, The Magic Toyshop
English playwright Alan Ayckbourn has his first success with Relatively Speaking
Three young Liverpool poets publish a shared anthology under the title The Mersey Sound
A Day in the Death of Joe Egg, by English dramatist Peter Nichols, has its premiere in London
English cellist Jacqueline du Pré marries Israeli pianist Daniel Barenboim
Nicolae Ceauşescu becomes president of the State Council of Romania
The Beatles release an immensely successful album, Sergeant Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, with a cover by British pop-artist Peter Blake
British actor Richard Attenborough makes his first film as a director, Oh! What a Lovely War
Spanish Guinea becomes an independent republic as Equatorial Guinea, with Francisco Macias Nguema as president
Ezra Pound publishes his last collection of cantos, Drafts and Fragments of Cantos CX - CXVII
The United Nations, with the approval of Britain as the colonial power, imposes economic sanctions on Rhodesia
A student revolt begins in Paris and sweeps through France, shaking de Gaulle's government
English biographer Michael Holroyd completes his two-volume life of Lytton Strachey
Pope Paul VI issues the encyclical Humanae Vitae, condemning all methods of artificial birth control
