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On the death of Levi Eshkol, Golda Meir succeeds him as leader of a coalition government in Israel
The Provisional IRA reintroduces terrorism to northern Ireland after Protestants attack a civil rights march
The Anglo-French airliner Concorde makes its first supersonic test flight
British artist duo Gilbert & George attract attention miming to Flanagan and Allen's Underneath the Arches
English novelist John Fowles publishes The French Lieutenant's Woman, set in Lyme Regis in the 1860s
Pakistan's president Ayub Khan hands over power to another general, Yahya Khan, who introduces martial law
Peter Maxwell Davies writes Eight Songs for a Mad King for the Pierrot Players
Garrick's Villa, now listed Grade 1, is reconverted into nine flats
The first series of Monty Python's Flying Circus is broadcast on British TV
Moscow imposes Gustav Husak as first secretary of the Czechoslovak Communist Party, with the brief to reverse Dubcek's reforms
President de Gaulle resigns after losing a plebiscite on government reform
Georges Pompidou is elected president of France in succession to de Gaulle
Paul Newman and Robert Redford star in the film Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
US novelist Philip Roth publishes Portnoy's Complaint, a monologue in which the hero gives his psychoanalyst a frank description of his sexual frustrations
Kew Pond is registered as common land under the Commons Registration Act 1965
The Stonewall riots in New York prompt a US campaign for Gay and Lesbian rights
The Gang of Four achieve malign power during China's Cultural Revolution
Space-traveller Billy Pilgrim suffers horrors in Kurt Vonnegut's novel Slaughterhouse-Five
Mary Jo Kopechne drowns when US senator Edward Kennedy drives his car off the road on Chappaquiddick Island in Massachusetts
Neil Armstrong, commander of the US space mission Apollo 11, sets foot on the moon and says: 'That's one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind.'
British film director John Schlesinger makes Midnight Cowboy, starring Dustin Hoffman and Jon Voight
Russian chess player Boris Spassky beats Tigran Petrosian to become world champion
19-year-old rugby player J.P.R. Williams makes his debut for Wales in a match against Scotland
Nearly half a million people turn up for the Woodstock Music Festival at a dairy farm in Bethel, New York
Canadian author Margaret Atwood publishes her first novel, The Edible Woman
