1970
10th January 1971-- open university first BBC broadcast
15th February 1971-- british shilling removed, replaced by the pence system
30th january 1972-- bloody sunday, peaceful civil rights march british troopers open fire, kill 14 irish people, and stated they were snipers, but apparantly they were innocent. investigation is on going.
4th april 1972-- first newsround broadcast
4th January 1973-- ceefax (teletext) was invented, still popular!
8th january 1973-- president nixon involved in the bugging of the democratic party HQ!
2nd december 1974-- muhammed ali on parkinsons show for the second time!
17th december 1975-- "the naked civil servant" tells the true life story of persecuted homosexual Quentin Crisp..defining moment of gays portrayed in the media.
29th January 1976--jeremy thorpe affair- MP jeremy acused of killing a man who he had a homosexual relationship!
1st december 1976-- sex pistols member says the f word on daytime television live. they get dropped fromtheir record label the producer gets sacked, riot!
6th june 1977-- queens silver jubilee
3rd november 1978--delia smith's cookery course. feminist movement at that time.
18th november 1978-- jonestown massacre in guyana, 900 killed followers of reverend Jim Jones. poisened juice used to murder them
3rd may 1979-- margerat thatcher wins election first female prime minister of the U.K
2nd september 1979-- subtitles begins
25th september 1979-- question time because- educational programme
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