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'1960'

  • The contraceptive pill goes on sale

  • Last National Servicemen get call-up

  • Princess Margaret to marry Anthony Armstrong-Jones

  • Sharpeville Massacre, 56 killed in South Africa

  • Bill to curb Teddy Boys

  • Deaf people get hearing aids on the NHS

  • Sirimavo Bandaranaike, of Ceylon, is world's first woman Prime Minister

  • Penguin's first run of Lady Chatterley's Lover - 200,000 - sells out in a day



 
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