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January
1st January
England's World Cup winning manager Alf Ramsey received a knighthood and captain Bobby Moore received an OBE in the New Year Honours.
2nd January
Veteran actor Charlie Chaplin opened his last film, A Countess From Hong Kong, in England.
3rd January
Trumpton is the second programme on BBC1 to be shot in colour.
4th January
ALBUM: "The Doors" by the Doors
7th January
The Highlanders 4
Debut of The Forsyte Saga - a blockbuster BBC dramatisation in 26 50-minutes episodes, and the first British television program ever to be sold to the USSR. First shown, on BBC Two.
14th January
The Underwater Menace 1
15th January
The United Kingdom entered the first round of negotiations for EEC membership in Rome.
The Rolling Stones appear on The Ed Sullivan Show. At Ed Sullivan's request, the band change the lyrics of "Let's Spend the Night Together" to "Let's spend some time together".
16th January
Italy announced support for the United Kingdom's EEC membership.
17th January
The Daily Mail newspaper reports 4,000 potholes in Blackburn, Lancashire; and Guinness heir Tara Brown is killed in a car accident. These articles inspire lyrics for The Beatles song "A Day in the Life".
18th January
Jeremy Thorpe became leader of the Liberal Party.
19th January
The Monkees "I'm a Believer" UK No. 1 (4 weeks)
21st January
The Underwater Menace 2
23rd January
Milton Keynes, a village in north Buckinghamshire, was formally designated as a new town by the government, incorporating nearby towns and villages including Bletchley and Newport Pagnell. Intended to accommodate the overspill population from London – some 50 miles away – it would become Britain's largest new town, with the area's population multiplying during the 1970s and 1980s.
26th January
Parliament decided to nationalize 90% of the British steel industry.
27th January
The UK, Soviet Union, and USA sign the Outer Space Treaty.
28th January
The Underwater Menace 3
30th January
The Beatles shoot a promotional film for their forthcoming single "Strawberry Fields Forever" at Knole Park in Sevenoaks.
February
3rd February
UK record producer Joe Meek murders his landlady and then commits suicide by shooting himself in the head at Holloway, North London.
4th February
The Underwater Menace 4
6th February
Soviet Premier Alexei Kosygin arrived in the UK for an eight-day visit. He met The Queen on 9 February.
Michael Nesmith and Micky Dolenz of the Monkees fly into London. Dolenz sees Till Death Us Do Part on British TV and uses the term "Randy Scouse Git" from the programme for the title of The Monkees' next single release "Randy Scouse Git", not realising it is an offensive term. British censors force the title to be changed to "Alternate Title" in the UK.
7th February
The British National Front was founded by A. K. Chesterton (by merger of the British National Party and League of Empire Loyalists).
Micky Dolenz meets Paul McCartney at his home in St John's Wood, London, and they pose together for the press. His impressions of the visit feature in the lyrics of "Randy Scouse Git".
10th February
Abbey Road Studio 2 session with Michael Nesmith in attendance as The Beatles record "A Day in the Life" with the London Philharmonic Orchestra performing an "orgasm of noise" featured twice in the song.
SINGLE: "On a Carousel" by the Hollies
11th February
The Moonbase 1
12th February
Police raided 'Redlands', the Sussex home of Rolling Stones musician Keith Richards, following a tip-off from the News of the World. No immediate arrests are made, but Richards, fellow band member Mick Jagger and art dealer Robert Fraser were later charged with possession of drugs.
14th February
Aretha Franklin records "Respect" at the New York based Atlantic Studios.
16th February
Petula Clark "This Is My Song" UK No. 1 (2 weeks)
18th February
The Moonbase 2
20th January
ALBUM: "Between the Buttons" by The Rolling Stones
24th February
The Bee Gees sign a management contract with Robert Stigwood.
25th February
The Moonbase 3
Britain's second Polaris nuclear submarine, HMS Renown, was launched.
27th February
The Dutch government announced support for British EEC membership.
also in February:
ALBUM: "The Mamas and the Papas Deliver" by the Mamas and the Papas.
March
1st MarchThe Queen Elizabeth Hall was opened in London.
2nd March
Engelbert Humperdinck "Release Me" UK No. 1 (6 weeks)
Eric Burdon & The Animals refuse to perform a show in Ottawa, Ontario, unless they are paid in advance. The audience of 3000 riots, causing $5000 in damages to the auditorium.
4th March
The Moonbase 4
The first North Sea gas was pumped ashore at Easington, East Riding of Yorkshire.
Queens Park Rangers became the first Football League Third Division side to win the League Cup at Wembley Stadium defeating West Bromwich Albion 3-2. It was also the first year of a one-match final in the competition, the previous six finals having been two-legged affairs.
10th March
ALBUM: "Matthew and Son" by Cat Stevens
11th MarchThe Macra Terror 1
A taped appearance by The Beatles on American Bandstand includes their new music video for the songs "Penny Lane" and "Strawberry Fields Forever"
12th March
ALBUM: The Velvet Underground & Nico
15th March
Manny Shinwell, 82, resigned as chairman of the Parliamentary Labour Party.
18th March
The Macra Terror 2
The supertanker Torrey Canyon ran aground between Land's End and the Scilly Isles.
21st March
FILM: Thoroughly Modern Millie
The Macra Terror 3
27th March
John Lennon and Paul McCartney are awarded the Ivor Novello award for "Michelle", the most performed song in Britain in 1966.
29th to 30th March
RAF planes bombed the Torrey Canyon and sunk it.
30th March
The Beatles pose with a photographic collage and wax figures from Madame Tussaud's famous museum for the cover artwork of Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band album at Chelsea Manor Studios in London.
31st March
Kicking off a tour with The Walker Brothers, Cat Stevens and Engelbert Humperdinck at The Astoria London, Jimi Hendrix sets fire to his guitar on stage for the first time. He is taken to hospital suffering burns to his hands. The guitar-burning act would later become a trademark of Hendrix's performances.
also in March:
ALBUM: "Mellow Yellow" by Donovan
April
1st April
The Macra Terror 4
2nd April
8th April
The Faceless Ones 1
The United Kingdom wins the 12th Eurovision Song Contest in Vienna, Austria. The winning song is "Puppet on a String" performed by Sandie Shaw.
11th April
Tom Stoppard's play Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead received its Old Vic premiere.
13th April
The Conservatives win the Greater London Council elections.
Frank & Nancy Sinatra "Somethin' Stupid" UK No.1 (2 weeks)
15th April
The Faceless Ones 2
22nd April
The Faceless Ones 3
27th April
Sandie Shaw "Puppet on a String" UK No. 1 (3 weeks)
SINGLE: "Ain't No Mountain High Enough" by Marvin Gaye & Tammi Terrell
29th April
The Faceless Ones 4
May
Harold Wilson announced that the United Kingdom had decided to apply for EEC membership
5th May
The British-designed satellite Ariel 3, the first to be developed outside the Soviet Union or United States is launched.
The first motorway project of the year was completed when the elevated motorway section of the A57 road was officially opened (by Harold Wilson) to form a by-pass around the south of Manchester city area. The M1 was also being expanded this month from both termini, meaning that there would now be an unbroken motorway link between North London and South Yorkshire.
SINGLE: "Waterloo Sunset" by the Kinks
6th May
The Faceless Ones 5
Sadly, Manchester United win the Football League First Division title.
11th May
The United Kingdom and Ireland officially applied for European Economic Community membership.
12th May
Pink Floyd stage the first ever rock concert with quadraphonic sound at Queen Elizabeth Hall, London
The Jimi Hendrix Experience release their 1st album, "Are You Experienced?"
13th May
The Faceless Ones 6
14th May
The Roman Catholic Liverpool Metropolitan Cathedral of Christ the King was consecrated.
15th May
Paul McCartney meets American photographer Linda Eastman at a club called "Bag O' Nails".
18th May
The Tremeloes "Silence Is Golden" UK No.1 (3 weeks)
19th May
Linda McCartney (her maiden name, Eastman), photographs The Beatles at the London Press Party for Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band held at the Chapel Street home of Brian Epstein. Media there were perplexed by the band's fashion statements and the music itself.
20th May
The Evil of the Daleks 1
In the first all-London FA Cup final, Tottenham Hotspur defeated Chelsea 2-1 at Wembley Stadium.
22nd May
ALBUM: "Headquarters" by the Monkees
24th May
The Royal Navy Leander-class frigate HMS Andromeda was launched at Portsmouth Dockyard, the last ship to be built there.
25th May
Celtic F.C. became the first British and Northern European team to reach a European Cup final and also to win it, beating Inter Milan 2-1 in normal time with the winning goal being scored by Steve Chalmers in Lisbon, Portugal.
Shadow cabinet Tory MP Enoch Powell described Britain as the "sick man of Europe" in his latest verbal attack on the Labour government.
26th May
ALBUM: "Absolutely Free" by the Mothers of Invention
27th May
The Evil of the Daleks 2
28th May
Sir Francis Chichester arrived in Plymouth after completing his single-handed sailing voyage around the world in his yacht, Gipsy Moth IV, in nine months and one day.
29th May
The first Spring Bank Holiday occurred on a fixed date of the last Monday in May, replacing the former Whitsun holiday in England and Wales.
'Barbeque 67', a music festival, at the Tulip Bulb Auction Hall, Spalding, featured Jimi Hendrix, Cream, Pink Floyd and Zoot Money.
30th May
BBC Radio broadcasts "Where It's At" featuring The Beatles interviews, and John Lennon's comedy intro to Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds. BBC refuse to air A Day in the Life for alleged "drug references" in the lyrics.
June
1st June
ALBUM: "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band" by the Beatles
3rd June
The Evil of the Daleks 3
2nd June
At the start of the 20th Aldeburgh Festival, Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom opens the new Snape Maltings concert hall.
ALBUM: "Small Faces" by Small Faces
4th June
Jimi Hendrix Experience, Cream, Denny Laine and his Electric String Band, Procol Harum and The Chiffons, perform a two-hour "Sunday Special" at Saville Theatre in London.
Stockport Air Disaster: British Midland flight G-ALHG crashed in Hopes Carr, Stockport, killing 72 passengers and crew.
8th June
Procol Harum "A Whiter Shade of Pale" UK No. 1 (6 weeks)
10th June
The Evil of the Daleks 4
13th June
FILM: You Only Live Twice (James Bond)
FILM: The Dirty Dozen
17th June
The Evil of the Daleks 5
24th June
The Evil of the Daleks 6
25th June
The Our World program airs to over 30 countries featuring performers from the represented countries the segment for the United Kingdom, features The Beatles performing "All You Need Is Love", with guests Mick Jagger, Marianne Faithfull, Keith Richards, Keith Moon, Eric Clapton, Pattie Harrison, Jane Asher, Graham Nash, Hunter Davies and others.
27th June
The first automatic cash machine (voucher-based) was installed in the office of Barclays Bank in Enfield.
28th June
The Monkees fly into London at the start of their concerts at the Empire Pool, Wembley.
29th June
Keith Richards of the Rolling Stones was jailed for a year for possession illegal drugs. His bandmate Mick Jagger was sentenced to three months for the same offence.They later appeal successfully against the sentences.
July
The Evil of the Daleks 7 [end of Season 4]
BBC2 becomes Europe's first colour TV broadcaster, though still experimental at this stage, with the first scheduled colour television broadcasts from six transmitters covering the main population centres in England began on BBC2 for certain programmes, the first being live coverage from the Wimbledon Championships, although the "official" launch of colour broadcasts is not until 2nd December.
William Rees-Mogg, editor of The Times, uses the phrase "Who breaks a butterfly upon a wheel?" in his editorial criticizing the prison sentences given to Mick Jagger and Keith Richard two days earlier.
2nd July
Jeff Beck and John Mayall & the Bluesbreakers perform a two hour "Sunday Special" at Saville Theatre in London.
3rd July
News at Ten premieres on ITV. It aired nightly on weeknights until 1999 before being axed. It was then reintroduced in 2001, axed again in 2004 and brought back for a second time in 2008.
The Beatles host a party at the Speakeasy Club for The Monkees on the completion of their concerts in London.
4th July
Parliament decriminalised male homosexuality in England and Wales with the Sexual Offences Act.7th July
In the last amateur Wimbledon tennis tournament, Australian John Newcombe beat German Wilhelm P. Bungert to win the Gentlemen's Singles championship. The next day, American Billie Jean King beat Briton Ann Haydon Jones to win the Ladies' Singles championship.
13th July
English road racing cyclist Tom Simpson died of exhaustion on the slopes of Mont Ventoux during the 13th stage of the Tour de France.
14th July
ALBUM: "1st" by the Bee Gees
18th July
The UK government announced the closing of its military bases in Malaysia and Singapore. Australia and the United States do not approve.
It is reported that The Jimi Hendrix Experience has been thrown off a tour of The Monkees after complaints from the conservative Daughters of the American Revolution. (Hendrix's manager Chas Chandler later admitted it was a publicity stunt.)
19th July
The Beatles "All You Need Is Love" UK No.1 (3 weeks)
27th July
The Welsh Language Act allowed the use of Welsh in legal proceedings and official documents in Wales.
28th July
The British steel industry was nationalised.
31st July
SINGLE: "Heroes and Villains" by the Beach Boys
also in July: Astronomers Jocelyn Bell Burnell and Antony Hewish became the first to observe a pulsar.
ALBUM: "Canned Heat" by Canned Heat
August
FILM: In the Heat of the Night
3rd August
The inquiry into the Aberfan Disaster blamed the National Coal Board for the collapse of coal which claimed the lives of 164 people in South Wales in October last year takes place.
4th August
SINGLE: "Itchycoo Park" by Small Faces
5th August
Pink Floyd released their debut album The Piper at the Gates of Dawn.
9th August
Scott McKenzie "San Francisco (Be Sure to Wear Flowers in Your Hair)" UK No.1 (4 weeks)
13th August
FILM: Bonnie & Clyde
14th August
The Marine Broadcasting Offences Act becomes law in the United Kingdom, and most offshore radio stations (including Wonderful Radio London) have already closed down. Only Radio Caroline North & South on 259 would continue, as Radio Caroline International.
17th August
Jimmy Hill, manager of the Coventry City side who have been promoted to the Football League First Division for the first time in their history, announced that he is leaving management to concentrate on a television career.
18th August
SINGLE: "We Love You" / "Dandelion" by the Rolling Stones
23rd August
Brian Epstein's last visit to a Beatles' recording session, at the Chappell Recording Studios on Maddox Street, London. The last new Beatles song he lived to hear was "Your Mother Should Know".
27th August
The Beatles, in Bangor, Wales, with the Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, are informed of the death of their manager Brian Epstein, and they return to London at once. This spells the beginning of the end for the band, as the relationship between McCartney and Lennon is fatally damaged by their differing opinions on the future actions, direction and management of the band. McCartney wishes to soldier on in remembrance of Epstein's pioneering spirit and work ethic, whereas Lennon is grief-stricken and stunned and resents what he perceives as McCartney positioning himself as leader of the band. Although the band continue for another 3 years, this marks the start of a slow drifting apart, a slow simmering of resentments that will eventually split them up.
28th August
The first Late Summer Holiday occurs on a fixed date of the last Monday in August, replacing the former August Bank Holiday on the first Monday in England and Wales.
Herbert Bowden was appointed chairman of the Independent Television Authority.
31st August
Paul McCartney calls a band meeting to discuss his TV movie idea about a psychedelic bus ride.
also in August:
ALBUM: "Born Under a Bad Sign" by Albert King
ALBUM: "Goodbye and Hello" by Tim Buckley
September
The Tomb of the Cybermen 1 [start of season 5]
4th September
The inquest into the death of murdered playwright Joe Orton established that he was beaten to death by his lover Kenneth Halliwell, who then committed suicide.
6th September
Myrina was launched from the slipway at Harland and Wolff in Belfast, the first supertanker and (at around 192000 DWT) largest ship built in the U.K. up to this date.
Engelbert Humperdinck "The Last Waltz" UK No.1 (5 weeks)
7th September
Eric Burdon marries Angie King.
9th September
The Tomb of the Cybermen 2
Former prime minister Clement Attlee, 84, was hospitalised with an illness reported as a "minor condition".
10th September
In a Gibraltar sovereignty referendum, only 44 out of 12,182 voters in the British Crown colony of Gibraltar supported union with Spain.
15th September
ALBUM: "Something Else by the Kinks" by the Kinks
16th September
The Tomb of the Cybermen 3
Sir Malcolm Sargent, having missed most of the Proms season through ill-health, is replaced as conductor of the Last Night of the Proms by Colin Davis, but appears on stage at the end of the concert. Monica Sinclair is the guest soloist for "Rule, Britannia". Sargent dies 17 days later.
20th September
The RMS Queen Elizabeth 2 (the QE2) was launched at Clydebank by Queen Elizabeth II, using the same pair of gold scissors used by her mother and grandmother to launch the Queen Elizabeth and Queen Mary respectively.
21st September
The Conservatives captured Cambridge and Walthamstow from Labour in by-elections.
23rd September
The Tomb of the Cybermen 4
25th September
ALBUM: "Strange Days" by the Doors
27th September
The RMS Queen Mary arrived in Southampton at the end of her last transatlantic crossing.
29th September
Cult television series The Prisoner was first broadcast in the UK on ITV.
30th September
The Abominable Snowmen 1
BBC Radio completely restructured its national programming: the Light Programme was split between new national pop station Radio 1 (modelled on the successful pirate station Radio London) and the more MOR-orientated Radio 2; the cultural Third Programme was rebranded as Radio 3; and the primarily-talk Home Service became Radio 4. Tony Blackburn launches Radio 1 by playing "Flowers in the Rain" by The Move.
also in September:
ALBUM: "Blowin' Your Mind!" by Van Morrison
ALBUM: "Procul Harum" by Procul Harum
October
5th October
A Court in Brighton was the first in England and Wales to decide a case by majority verdict (10 to 2) of the jury.
7th October
The Abominable Snowmen 2
10th October
Simon Gray's first stage play, Wise Child, opened at the Wyndham's Theatre, London, with Alec Guinness, Gordon Jackson, Simon Ward and Cleo Sylvestre.
11th October
Prime Minister Harold Wilson won a libel action against rock group The Move in the High Court after they depicted him in the nude in promotional material for their record Flowers in the Rain.
Bee Gees "Massachusetts" UK No.1 (4 weeks)
13th October
Omnibus, an arts documentary series, begins.
SINGLE: "Autumn Almanac" by the Kinks
14th October
The Abominable Snowmen 3
18th October
FILM: Disney's The Jungle Book
21st October
The Abominable Snowmen 4
25th October
The Abortion Act, passed in Parliament, legalising abortion on a number of grounds (with effect from 1968).
FILM: Camelot
28th October
The Abominable Snowmen 5
29th October
FILM: To Sir, With Love
30th October
British troops and Chinese demonstrators clashed on the border of China and Hong Kong during the Hong Kong Riots.
ALBUM: "Buffalo Springfield Again" by Buffalo Springfield
also in October
St Pancras railway station in London was made a Grade I listed building, regarded as a landmark in the appreciation of Victorian architecture.
ALBUM: "Gorilla" by the Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band
November
1st November
FILM: Cool Hand Luke
2nd November
Winnie Ewing won the Hamilton by-election, the first success for the Scottish National Party in an election for the Parliament of the United Kingdom.
4th November
The Abominable Snowmen 6
5th November
A Sunday evening express train from Hastings to London derailed in the Hither Green rail crash, killing 49 people.
6th November
ALBUM: "Pisces, Aquarius, Capricorn & Jones Ltd." by the Monkees
7th November
Boxer Henry Cooper became the first to win three Lonsdale Belts outright.
8th November
The Foundations "Baby Now That I've Found You" UK No.1 (2 weeks)
10th November
ALBUM: "Disraeli Gears" by Cream
SINGLE: "Nights in White Satin" by the Moody Blues
11th November
The Ice Warriors 1
ALBUM: "Days of Future Passed" by the Moody Blues
18th November
The Ice Warriors 2
Movement of animals was banned in England and Wales due to a foot-and-mouth disease outbreak.
19th November
The pound was devalued from 1 GBP = 2.80 USD to 1 GBP = 2.40 USD. Prime minister Harold Wilson defended this decision, assuring voters that it will tackle the "root cause" of the nation's economic problems.
22nd November
Long John Baldry "Let the Heartaches Begin" UK No.1 (2 weeks)
25th November
The Ice Warriors 3
27th November
Charles de Gaulle vetoed British entry into the European Economic Community again.
28th November
Horse racing events were called off due to the foot-and-mouth disease outbreak.
30th November
British troops left Aden, which they had occupied since 1839, enabling formation of the new republic of Yemen.
also in November:
ALBUM: "Forever Changes" by Love
December
1st December
Tony O'Connor became the first black headmaster of a British school, in Warley, near Birmingham, Worcestershire.
ALBUM: "Axis: Bold As Love" by the Jimi Hendrix Experience
2nd December
The Ice Warriors 4
Colour television is officially launched on BBC2.
5th December
The Beatles open the Apple Boutique in London. Party guests include Eric Clapton and movie director Richard Lester.
6th December
The Beatles "Hello, Goodbye" UK No.1 (7 weeks)
8th December
ALBUM: "Their Satanic Majesties Request" by the Rolling Stones
9th December
The Ice Warriors 5
10th December
Ronald George Wreyford Norrish, George Porter and the German Manfred Eigen won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry "for their studies of extremely fast chemical reactions, effected by disturbing the equlibrium by means of very short pulses of energy".
11th December
The Concorde supersonic aircraft was unveiled in Toulouse, France.
ALBUM: "Wild Honey" by the Beach Boys
12th December
Rolling Stones guitarist Brian Jones, 25, won a High Court appeal against a nine-month prison sentence for possessing and using cannabis. He was instead fined £1,000 and put on probation for three years.
15th December
ALBUM: "The Who Sell Out" by the Who
16th December
The Ice Warriors 6
21st December
FILM: The Graduate
22nd December
BBC Radio 4 panel game Just a Minute, chaired by Nicholas Parsons, was first transmitted. It would still be running more than forty years later.
Dante's Inferno, Ken Russell's television film about Dante Gabriel Rossetti is shown in the Omnibus series.
23rd December
The Enemy of the World 1
26th December
The first broadcast of The Beatles' TV special Magical Mystery Tour on BBC1. It is shown in black & white, upsetting the band because it does not show the intended psychedelic colour effects.
Do Not Adjust Your Set premieres on ITV.
27th December
ALBUM: "John Wesley Harding" by Bob Dylan
30th December
The Enemy of the World 2
also in December -
George Harrison begins recording tracks for Wonderwall Music, his first solo album, in London; he continues the recording in Mumbai.
ALBUM: "The Look of Love" by Dusty Springfield
so cool to see Troughton's anarchic second Dr larking about under Atlantis just as the Beatles unleash their psychedelic phase.... nothing is reeeeallll....
ReplyDeletePretty sure it's the Macra that aren't real... ;-P
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