The 60s - Issues of the day

The big issue of the sixties was Dr Beeching's savage pruning of under-used of branch lines.  So far other issues and newsworthy items were:

  • CND - "Ban the Bomb" Marches
  • The Profumo Scandal
  • The death President John F Kennedy
  • The death of Sir Winston Churchill
  • Harold Wilson's Labour Government
  • Sinking of the Torrey Canyon disaster
  • 1968 student uprising in Paris
  • Racial unease
  • Pollution
  • Housing
  • Princess Margaret's Wedding
  • The Rhodesian Crisis
  • Apartheid in South Africa
  • Preparing for decimalisation
  • The Common Market
  • Biafra
  • The Iron Curtain
  • The Cuban Missile Crisis
  • The Prince of Wales' Investiture
  • 11+ and selective state education
  • Rising interest rates
  • The Sterling crisis and devaluation
  • Winning the World Cup
  • Manned space flight and landing on the moon

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