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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