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Events relating to england
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
Peter Maxwell Davies writes Eight Songs for a Mad King for the Pierrot Players
The first series of Monty Python's Flying Circus is broadcast on British TV
British scientists Patrick Steptoe and Robert Edwards fertilize in a test-tube eggs removed from human ovaries
Edward Heath is prime minister after leading the Conservatives to UK election victory
Russian ballerina Natalia Makarova defects to the west while on tour with the Kirov company in London
Michael Tippett's opera The Knot Garden has its premiere at Covent Garden
Internment without trial, reintroduced in Ulster to deal with the developing crisis, is used at first only against Catholics suspected of terrorism
British artist David Hockney paints a striking triple portrait in Mr and Mrs Clark and Percy
Andrew Lloyd Webber's Jesus Christ Superstar is staged a year after being released as a record
Peter Maxwell Davies moves to the Orkneys, where he founds (in 1977) the St Magnus Festival
The British government suspends the parliament at Stormont and imposes direct rule from Westminster
Ultimos Ritos ('Last Rites'), an oratorio by John Tavener, has its first performance in Haarlem in the Netherlands
Peter Maxwell Davies's opera Taverneris performed at Covent Garden
English dramatist Caryl Churchill's first play, Owners, is produced in London
English poet James Fenton publishes his first collection, Terminal Moraine
Prime minister Edward Heath takes Britain into the European Community, on the third attempt
British economist Ernst Friedrich Schumacher publishes an influential economic tract, Small is Beautiful
The career of virtuoso cellist Jacqueline du Pré's is cut short by multiple sclerosis
Martin Amis, son of Kingsley Amis, publishes his first novel, The Rachel Papers
Antoinette Sibley and Anthony Dowell dance together in the premiere of Kenneth MacMillan's Manon
British physicist Stephen Hawking describes how black holes can emit radiation, a process now known as 'Hawking radiation'
Former prime minister Harold Wilson returns to Downing Street as leader of a minority government, but wins a second general election later in the year
