Events of this year in the Illustrated London News

• February 3rd - Palestine National Congress appointed Yasser Arafat to head the PLO
• February - The Boeing 747 takes off as the airplane of future mass air travel long haul flights
• March - The first test flight of Concorde in France
• March - John Lennon and Yoko Ono went to bed in public for a week to bring attention to world peace. 'Make love not War'
• March 17th - Golda Meir became Israel's first woman premier
• June 8th - General Franco closed the land border between Spain and Gibraltar
• July 1st - Formal Investiture of the Prince of Wales at Carnarvon Castle
• July 21st - Apollo 11 Commander Neil Armstrong became the first man on the moon
• September 1st - King Idris of Libya was deposed by rebels led by Mu'ammar Gaddafi
• October - Monty Python's Flying Circus is first broadcast on BBC 2
• British troops are deployed on the streets of Northern Ireland and Bernadette Devlin takes her seat as a Westminster MP, she was 21
• De Gaulle resigns, Georges Pompidou elected President of France
• Alexander Solzhenitsyn expelled from Soviet writers Union

Also contains

BBC

VIETNAM

INSIDE GERMANY

KENNETH MORE

PRINCESS ANNE

THE QUEEN IN NORWAY

CAN THE TORIES RETURN TO POWER?

SIR ROY WELENSKY

CASTLE HOWARD

THE DERBY

PRESIDENT NIXON

CONCORDE

SHIPBUILDERS OF THE CLYDE

THE QUEEN'S TOUR OF AUSTRIA

DUBLIN LOOKS AT THE RIOTS

THE NIXON PROGRESS

CAN THE BRITISH COMMONWEALTH GIVE THE WORLD A LIFT?

INSIDE TV - The Limelit Ladies (Joan Bakewell, Jacky Gillott, Monica Sims, Liz Cowley)

J.B.PRIESTLY

HENRY WILLIAMSON

RACHEL BILLINGTON

LORD STOKES

WIMBLEDON

THE HARRIER PLANE

WESTMINSTER WIVES

THE RAILWAY'S FUTURE

CRUFTS

BILL HARTLEY'S MOTOR SHOW GUIDE

THE NEXT VIETNAM

MARINES

AT HOME WITH STEREO

MOST EXCLUSIVE APARTMENTS

NOT ALL IRISH EYES ARE SMILING

OUR FUTURE WITH NATO

WHAT DOES A STUDENT COST?

YOU CAN BE PART OF ART

HOW SAFE IS FRANCO?

IN THE ANTIQUE SHOPS

IMMIGRANTS: THE FACTS

THE ROYAL INVESTITURE

THE OPEN UNIVERSITY

CARNIVAL ON MALTA

THE MOON-AND THEN?

CAN WE CURE MINDS?

IN CASTRO'S CUBA

WHICH EUROPE FOR US?

February 15

• This issue features a Best in Show Maremma Golden Retriever dog on the cover the breed which contributed the second largest number of entries, 226.
• Inside: photos from the Cruft's Dog Show,
• the Queen visits the show
• ,Mr Wilson goes to Bonn
• What can Mr Nixon do in Europe
• The Queen and the Astronaut

March 1st

• Not all irish eyes are smiling - poll in Ulster
• To defend Britain
• War on fog
  

July 5th

• Investiture of PRINCE CHARLES as Prince of Wales
  PRINCE CHARLES wearing purple ermine-trimmed mantle, carrying the rod & sword and amethyst ring as the Prince Of Wales photo and story
  QUEEN ELIZABETH and PRINCE CHARLES photo of The Crowning ceremony
  KISS OF FEALTY photo of Prince Charles kissing Queen Elizabeth on the cheek
  ROYAL PRESENTATION photo of The Queen presents the Prince to his people with photo
  At The King's Gate photo of The Prince And His People
  IAIN HAMILTON story on the Fulton Committee with photos of Ricardo Gonzales famous tennis player in action
  LEONIE GRAYEFF story How To Preserve The Famous in modelling clay
  JANICE POWER story British Under Pressure - A War of Nerves in Gibraltar with photos
  DERMOT MORRAH story A King In The Making with photo of Prince of Wales with Prince Andrew and Prince Edward
  LESLIE PINE story The Royal Link With Wales
  The Royal Robes photograph of Prince Charles in traditional Royal Dress

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