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Irish poet Seamus Heaney wins critical acclaim for Death of a Naturalist, his first volume containing more than a few poems
Communist leaders Liu Shaoqi and Deng Xiaoping are attacked in China's Cultural Revolution as the biggest and worst 'capitalist roaders'
British fashion designer Mary Quant launches the miniskirt
The US tennis player Billie Jean King wins the first of six Wimbledon singles titles
After a long period of obscurity, Wide Sargasso Sea brings novelist Jean Rhys back into the literary limelight
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
Construction work begins on the twin towers for the World Trade Center in New York, designed by US architect Minoru Yamasaki
Alf Ramsey (manager) and Bobby Moore (captain) lead the England football team to victory in the World Cup
Mao Zedong unleashes China's teenagers as violent Red Guards to spearhead his Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution
Prime minister Hendrik Verwoerd is stabbed to death in the South African parliament
Gurindji people at the Wave Hill station walk out in protest, launching the Aboriginal land rights movement in Australia
The Whale, a cantata by English composer John Tavener, has its premiere at the inaugural concert of the London Sinfonietta
The Black Panther Party is founded in Oakland, California, to launch a more aggressive campaign for civil rights
Quotations from Chairman Mao Zedong, better known as the 'Little Red Book', is the constant companion of every Red Guard
116 children die when a sliding slag heap buries a primary school in the Welsh village of Aberfan
US author Susan Sontag publishes her first collection of essays, Against Interpretation
The Arno bursts its banks, flooding much of the centre of Florence and damaging a great many priceless works of art and contents of libraries and archives
Former chief Seretse Khama becomes the first president of an independent Botswana
Che Guevara arrives in Bolivia in the hope of fomenting a left-wing revolution
Pope Paul VI visits the Patriarch Athenagoras in Istanbul, shocking some Catholics that this visit has preceded one by the Patriarch to Rome
Pope Paul VI and Patriarch Athenagoras issue a joint declaration, emphasizing mutual respect for each other's traditions
Mike Nicholls directs Anne Bancroft and Dustin Hoffman in the film The Graduate
Flann O'Brien's novel The Third Policeman has a great success when published posthumously
US poet Anne Sexton publishes Live or Die, a collection containing a poem to her dead friend Sylvia Plath
