Events of this year in the Illustrated London News

• President Bhutto ousted in Pakistan military coup, General Zia takes over
• Home computer boom begins
• British aviation industry is nationalised
• Two Jumbo Jets collide at Tenerife airport 582 people are killed
• Star Wars breaks film box office records
• Red Rum wins the Grand National for a record third time
• Bing Crosby dies, on a golf course, he was 73
• Groucho Marx dies, aged 83
• Maria Callas, dies aged 54
• Elvis Presley dies, aged 42
• Queen Elizabeth II celebrates her Silver Jubilee

January

• Flying a Jaguar
• End of the Kissinger era
• London`s Villages

June

• The Queens Silver Jubilee - Pictures from 25 years :
• Commemorative colour plates :
• Happy and Glorious :
• Jubilee Diary
• Museum of the year finalists
• Profile of Dame Josephine Barnes
• The decline of Manchester Fish and Chips

September

• Front Cover - RRS Bransfield at Rothera Point.
• Inside - The Earth Seen From Space
• Des Wilson - Casting the Die for the Liberals
• Tony Aldous - London`s Villages 9, Marylebone
• Ian Dear - The rare beauties of sail
• Welsh Drovers Roads

November

• Whitbread Round the World Race
• Italy`s Violent Left
• Natures Living Laboratory
• Profile of Pat Arrowsmith
• London`s Villages : Bloomsbury

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