1968 1969 1970 1971 1972 1973 1974 1975 1976 1977   Miners strike over pay and cause more than 20 days of black-out 13 killed in Bloody Sunday as troops fire on marchers at Derry Five of Oxford University's 24 all-male colleges to admit women 118 die as BEA Trident crashes at Staines, near Heathrow Sniper kills the 100th British soldier to die in Northern Ireland Kidney donor cards announced Nixon re-elected Distillers offer £11.25 million compensation to thalidomide victims     Copyright © 1998, NHS