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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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