1969 1970 1971 1972 1973 1974 1975 1976 1977 1978   Open University awards its first degrees to 867 students Women allowed on Stock Exchange floor for the first time Two Pakistanis with dummy pistols shot dead by police in London VAT comes in US Senate begins Watergate hearings 180 arrested for violence on the first day of the new football season First CAT (Computerised Axial Tomography) scan Government go-ahead for a Channel Tunnel 100,000 feared dead in Ethiopia famine Australian Aborigines get the vote Princess Anne marries Captain Mark Phillips Compulsory 50mph speed limit to save fuel     Copyright © 1998, NHS