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THE NHS STORYDecade Quiz

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1974
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'1974'

  • Labour wins the Election and Harold Wilson is Prime Minister

  • Free family planning for all on the NHS

  • Mass hysteria grips audience at David Cassidy concert

  • Twenty-eight killed in massive explosion at a chemical plant in Flixborough, Humberside

  • Nixon resigns over Watergate

  • Nurses get pay rises of up to 58 per cent

  • Britain's first Macdonald's opens in south London

  • Republican prisoners set fire to the Maze Prison and attack guards visiting restrictions

  • Five Irishmen arrested after Birmingham pub bombings



 
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