(in May this year the magazine becomes MONTHLY after being weekly for 127 years)

Events of this year in the Illustrated London News

• January 2nd - 66 people were killed at a football match, between Rangers and Celtic at Ibrox Park, Glasgow when the crush barriers gave way.
• January 25th - General Idi Amin became President of Uganda
• February - A British soldier was killed in Northern Ireland
• February - Britain introduced decimal coinage
• March 29th - Murderer Charles Manson was sentenced to death in Los Angeles
• April 24th - In Washington DC, 200,000 people demonstrated against the Vietnam war
• August - On the advice of the new Ulster premier, internment without trial, for suspected IRA terrorists was introduced in Northern Ireland. Subsequently murders and bombings proliferated the province
• October 28th - In the House of Commons Britains entry into the Common market was approved by Parliament by a majority 112 votes. The polls showed that the British public seemed to have no enthusiasm for joining.
• November 5th - Princess Anne was voted Sportswoman of the Year
• December 17th - Two- week war between India and Pakistan ended , East Pakistan becomes independent republic of Bangladesh
• Members of the Angry Brigade, a middle class student group protesting against capitalism, were sent to prison for setting bombs off in Britain
• Edward Heath, British prime Minister led a successful Admirals cup team
• In Vietnam the fighting spreads to Laos and Cambodia
• 3 Russian cosmonauts were killed re - entering the atmosphere
• "Papa Doc" Duvalier, dictator in Haiti, dies, succeeded by son "Baby Doc"

January 9th

• Tchaikovsky conducts from a Russian Roof
• New Years Honours
• For those in peril on the sea
• Recognition for the Racing Car Show
• Modern Homes

March 27th

• The Royal Navy Today with double page silhouettes of Navy ships and cross section of HMS Norfolk,
• Sculpture of Winston Churchill,
• Plans for a new Jerusalem,

April 3rd

• The Ballet of Beatrix Potter with pictures,
• Lord Elgin,
• Plan for linking Italy and Sicily by tunnel,
• Picture of SST, Boeings answer to Concorde and the Russian TU 144 ,

THIS YEAR THE MAGAZINE WENT MONTHLY, AFTER MAY

August

• Princess Anne at 21 a pictorial record,
• Londons River,
• Wilson and Heath,
• Central India 3000 years ago

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