Events of this year in the Illustrated London News

• Great Britain, Ireland and Denmark join the EEC
• Yom Kippur war following invasion of Israel by Egypt and Syria
• US Vice- President Spiro Agnew resigns, Gerald Ford succeeds him
• Four senior aides of President Nixon resign after Watergate revelations
• State of Emergency in the UK following wide spread strikes
• Famine in Ethiopia
• Princess Anne marries Mark Phillips
• Sydney Opera House completed

April

• Splendours of Hatfield
• The Oxford Union
• London in the thirties
• Safari in the Serengeti
• Devalued Commons

June

• CONCORDE,
• THE THREAT TO ENGLISH RACING,
• BATTLEFIELDS OF PORTUGAL

August

• Sunday in London
• New plans for the Southern Region
• A museum of industry

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