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It was goodbye to shillings and hello to pence as decimalisation came into force.

Chelsea FC beat Luxemburg's Jeunesse Hautcharage 21-0, on aggregate, in round 1 of the European Cup Winners� Cup, an all time record.

"Ask yourself, �Do I feel lucky?� Well do ya, punk?" Dirty Harry coined the phrase that was to punctuate playground fights for a decade.

The VCR video recorder was launched by Philips.

No-one understood him but his woman. Nevertheless Shaft managed to establish the blaxpoitation movie genre, as an urban ghetto James Bond

Eric Clapton beat Jimi Hendrix to the Greatest All Time Guitarist award in NME.


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