January to March

January

• Charles Manson is convicted of murdering actress Sharon Tate and four others at her Beverley Hills home

• Designer Coco Chanel dies aged 87 in Paris

• A coup in Uganda overthrows President Obote and Idi Amin comes to power. He promotes himself to general and president

• In Moscow a Soviet Official rules that long hair is illegal

February

• Two hundred football fans are crushed as crowd barriers at the Ibrox stadium in Glasgow collapse

• In London Enoch Powell predicts an ‘explosion’ unless there is a massive repatriation scheme for immigrants

• Rupert Murdoch takes control of London Weekend TV

• A referendum in Switzerland gives women the vote in national elections

• The Immigration Bill will end the right of Commonwealth workers to settle in Britain.
  Postmen go on strike in the UK for the first time, demanding a 19.5% pay rise

March

• The first British soldier is killed in Ulster

• Civil war erupts in East Pakistan, following the broadcast by Sheikh Mujibur Rahman declaring the independent state of Bangladesh

• In London 4,000 women join Britain’s biggest women’s liberation march from Hyde Park to Downing Street