July to September

July

• In London the government announces that crash helmets are to become compulsory for motorcyclists

• In Londonderry a 19 year old youth is killed in the worst rioting in two years

• Riot police on the French Riviera order hundreds of women to put their bikini tops back on

• In Japan 162 people die in the worst recorded plane crash

• US singer and trumpeter Louis Armstrong dies aged 71

• The first heart and lung transplant is made in South Africa by Christian Barnard

August

• The Pakistani army kills 95 Indian soldiers in a border clash

• In New Delhi India and the USSR sign a 20 year defence pact

• The IRA threaten to start bombing the British mainland

September

• Led by former Beatle George Harrison, a charity concert in Madison Square Garden USA raises $250,000 to help the refugees in Bangladesh

• The AA says it now costs £8-9 per week to run a family car

• Britain expels 90 Russian diplomats and officials for spying