Digital Mirror
1960
January
Anti-Semitism in Germany
February
Macmillan makes 'Wind of change' speech in Capetown
March
56 people killed in the Sharpville massacre in South Africa
April
Charles de Gaulle visits Britain
May
East-West summit breaks up in controversy after Khrushchev accuses the Americans of spying
June
Congo becomes independent
July
Earl Home is appointed Home Secretary
August
The Soviet Union sends two dogs, Beika and Streika, into orbit. They return alive three days later
September
Talks at the United Nations about Congo
October
The Labour Party Conference votes against nuclear weapons
November
John F Kennedy wins the US Presidential election
December
The United Nations fails to stop the war in Congo
1961
January
A report states that women make up a third of the British workforce
February
The Soviet Union launches a satellite into space
March
The USA increases military aid to Laos
April
Adolf Eichmann on trial for his role in the Holocaust
May
County Council elections are held in England
June
Britain's economy in trouble
July
Britain applies to join the EEC
August
The Berlin Wall is constructed
September
UN forces attack Katanga, a province of Congo
October
The Soviet Union tests a nuclear bomb
November
The Daily Mail praises Dr Richard Beeching, the Chairman of British Railways
December
The Home Secretary, Richard Butler, and Labour leader, Hugh Gaitskell, debate immigration
1962
January
European Community leaders agree a Common Agricultural Policy
February
Algeria peace talks successful but violence continues
March
The Liberals win the Orpington by-election
April
The film 'Cleopatra' is released
May
Famine in China
June
Brazil win the World Cup
July
Reginald Maudling is appointed Chancellor
August
The USA launches the space probe, Mariner II
September
Railway workers' unions clash with Dr Beeching, Chairman of British Railways
October
Cuban missile crisis
November
India yields to China in a war over the border between the two countries
December
Britain buys Polaris nuclear weapons
1963
January
De Gaulle closes the door on British membership of the EEC
February
Harold Wilson elected leader of the Labour Party after Hugh Gaitskell's death
March
Residents of Tristan da Cunha return to their island, eighteen months after a volcanic eruption there
April
The Chancellor, Reginald Maudling, announces the Budget
May
Civil rights protests in Rhodesia and Alabama
June
John Profumo resigns from the government amid sex-scandal allegation
July
A treaty is signed between the United States and the Soviet Union banning tests of some nuclear weapons
August
Police search for clues after the Great Train Robbery
September
Denning report into the Profumo scandal is published
October
Macmillan resigns as Prime Minister; Alec Douglas Home takes over
November
Alec Douglas Home is elected to the Commons
December
Political emergency on Cyprus
1964
January
The Sultan of Zanzibar is overthrown
February
The Winter Olymics are held at Innsbruck
March
Rumours of a general election
April
Khrushchev accuses China of dividing the workers of the world
May
The Conservatives launch their election campaign
June
Nelson Mandela sentenced to life imprisonment for treason
July
A summit of the Commonwealth is held to discuss Southern Rhodesia
August
North Vietnam attacks United States ships
September
A general election is called
October
The Labour Party, led by Harold Wilson, wins the general election
November
Lyndon Johnson is re-elected as president of the USA
December
Illingworth looks at the relationship between Labour and the trade unions
1965
January
Harold Wilson faces political problems
February
Harold Wilson's head goes missing from Madame Tussauds
March
National Guard called onto the streets of US cities because of civil rights unrest
April
The Vietnam conflict escalates
May
MPs vote to nationalise the steel industry
June
An American astronaut walks in space
July
Ted Heath is elected as leader of the Conservatives
August
Race riots in Los Angeles
September
The popularity of the Labour Party increases
October
The Tryweryn Reservoir opens
November
White minority government in Rhodesia declares independence
December
Christmas truce in Vietnam
1966
January
Lal Shastri, Prime Minister of India, dies
February
Sanctions against Rhodesia continue
March
Ted Heath criticises Harold Wilson's handling of the economy
April
The Labour Party, led by Harold Wilson, wins the general election
May
Jim Callaghan announces the Budget
June
Labour party members attack the United States' policy in Vietnam
July
Harold Wilson meets with Spanish diplomats to discuss Gibraltar
August
George Brown is appointed Foreign Secretar
September
Pro-apartheid South African Prime Minister Verwoerd is assassinated
October
144 adults and children are killed by a landslip at Aberfan
November
It was rumored that Kosygin, the Soviet Union's Prime Minister, would visit Britain
December
Sanctions against Rhodesia continue
1967
January
Britain discusses joining the European Community
February
Soviet Prime Minister Kysogyn visits Britain
March
The Torry Canyon oil tanker runs aground off the coast of Cornwall
April
A space ship lands on the moon
May
De Gaulle rules out British membership of the EEC
June
Six Day War between Israel and Egypt, Jordan and Syria
July
Race riots in American cities
August
Illingworth looks at the political world
September
The Queen launches the cruise liner, the QE II
October
The Conservative Party conference is held in Brighton
November
Economic crisis in Britain
December
Blizzards hit Britain
1968
January
Vietcong troops attack the US Embassy in Saigon
February
The government legislates against immigration from Africa
March
Students at the London School of Economics protest for increased grants
April
Enoch Powell delivers his 'Rivers of Blood' speech
May
Strikes, demonstrations and riots in France
June
Women working at Ford's Halewood factory go on strike
July
Enoch Powell makes another speech on race relations
August
The first National Parks are created
September
The Labour Party conference is held in Blackpool
October
An anti-Vietnam War demonstration is held in London
November
Richard Nixon is elected President of the USA
December
Illingworth looks at the West German economy
1969
January
Asians are expelled from Uganda
February
The Red Army occupies Czechoslovakia
March
Concorde makes its first flight
April
Lecturers at the London School of Economics go on strike
May
The Chelsea Flower Show
June
The occupation of Czechoslovakia continues
July
Illingworth looks at society
August
Violence in Derry
September
The Labour Party conference is held
October
British women campaign for equality
November
Apollo 12 returns to earth after Neil Armstrong had walked on the moon
December
Illingworth looks at British political issues
