BPCS History Part VIII.

World Events.

For a bit of fun, this is what was happening down the years of BPCS existence.

To see who was number one in the Charts, go here.


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1959
League Champions: Wolverhampton Wanderers
FA Cup Winners: Nottingham Forest
Prime Minister: Harold Macmillan
North Sea Oil Discovered
Vietnam War started		 1960
League Champions: Burnley
FA Cup Winners: Wolverhampton Wanderers
Prime Minister: Harold Macmillan
Harold Macmillan 'Wind of Change speech'
EFTA established
1961
League Champions: Tottenham Hotspur
FA Cup Winners: Tottenham Hotspur
Prime Minister: Harold Macmillan
South Africa leaves Commonwealth
JF Kennedy US President		 1962
League Champions: Ipswich Town
FA Cup Winners: Tottenham Hotspur
World Cup: Brazil
Prime Minister: Harold Macmillan
Cuban Missile crisis
Marilyn Monroe Dies
1963
League Champions: Everton
FA Cup Winners: Manchester United
Prime Minister: Harold Macmillan/Alec Douglas-Home
Harold Macmillan resigns (Ill health)
The Profumo affair
John F Kennedy Assassinated
Marin Luther-King's 'Dream speech'		 1964
League Champions: Ipswich Town
FA Cup Winners: West Ham
Prime Minister: Harold Wilson
1965
League Champions: Manchester United
FA Cup Winners: Liverpool
Prime Minister: Harold Wilson
Sir Winston Churchill dies
Rhodesia declared Independent		 1966
League Champions: Liverpool
FA Cup Winners: Everton
World Cup: Brazil
Prime Minister: Harold Wilson
First Credit card introduced by Barclays
England win the World Cup
1967
League Champions: Manchester United
FA Cup Winners: Tottenham Hotspur
Prime Minister: Harold Wilson
Sterling devalued
6 Day Arab-Israeli War		 1968
League Champions: Manchester City
FA Cup Winners: West Brom
Prime Minister: Harold Wilson
Anti Vietnam War riots in Europe
1969
League Champions: Leeds United
FA Cup Winners: Manchester City
Prime Minister: Harold Wilson
Open University Charter
Troubles in Ulster start
Prince Charles invested as Prince Of Wales		 1970
League Champions: Everton
FA Cup Winners: Chelsea
World Cup: Brazil
Prime Minister: Edward Heath
1971
League Champions: Arsenal
FA Cup Winners: Arsenal
Prime Minister: Edward Heath
Decimal Currency introduced		 1972
League Champions: Derby County
FA Cup Winners: Leeds United
Prime Minister: Edward Heath
Bloody Sunday
Black September
1973
League Champions: Liverpool
FA Cup Winners: Sunderland
Prime Minister: Edward Heath
Britain joins EEC
VAT introduced
Yom Kippur War		 1974
League Champions: Leeds United
FA Cup Winners: Liverpool
World Cup: West Germany
Prime Minister: Harold Wilson
1975
League Champions: Derby County
FA Cup Winners: West Ham
Prime Minister: Harold Wilson
EEC Referendum
Sex Discrimination Act passed		 1976
League Champions: Liverpool
FA Cup Winners: Southampton
Prime Minister: Harold Wilson/Jim Callaghan
First Concorde passenger flight
1977
League Champions: Liverpool
FA Cup Winners: Manchester United
Prime Minister: Jim Callaghan
Aircraft industry nationalised
Carter US President
The Queens Silver Jubilee year
1978
League Champions: Nottingham Forest
FA Cup Winners: Ipswich Town
World Cup: Argentina
Prime Minister: Jim Callaghan
Karol Wojtyla becomes Pope John Paul II.
1979
League Champions: Liverpool
FA Cup Winners: Arsenal
Prime Minister: Margaret Thatcher
Earl Mountbatten Assassinated		 1980
League Champions: Liverpool
FA Cup Winners: West Ham
Prime Minister: Margaret Thatcher
Zimbabwe Independence
John Lennon murdered
1981
League Champions: Aston Villa
FA Cup Winners: Tottenham Hotspur
Prime Minister: Margaret Thatcher
THE Royal wedding
Reagan US President
SDP formed		 1982
League Champions: Liverpool
FA Cup Winners: Tottenham Hotspur
World Cup: Italy
Prime Minister: Margaret Thatcher
Falklands War
The Pope visits the UK
1983
League Champions: Liverpool
FA Cup Winners: Manchester United
Prime Minister: Margaret Thatcher
Star Wars
Lech Walesa wins Peace prize
1984: 
League Champions: Liverpool
FA Cup Winners: Everton
Prime Minister: Margaret Thatcher
Miners strike
Indira Ghandi murdered
Brighton IRA Bomb
1985
League Champions: Everton
FA Cup Winners: Manchester United
Prime Minister: Margaret Thatcher
Reagan-Gorbachev Summit
Miners strike collapses
Gorbachev Russian leader		 1986
League Champions: Liverpool 
FA Cup Winners: Liverpool
World Cup: Argentina
Prime Minister: Margaret Thatcher
Queen visits China
Chernobyl
1987
League Champions: : Everton
FA Cup Winners: Coventry City
Prime Minister: Margaret Thatcher
Worst Storm of the Century (The infamous Michael Fish one!)
Black Monday 		1988
League Champions: Liverpool
FA Cup Winners: Wimbledon
Prime Minister: Margaret Thatcher
1989
League Champions: Arsenal
FA Cup Winners: Liverpool
Prime Minister: Margaret Thatcher		 1990
League Champions: Liverpool
FA Cup Winners: Manchester United
Prime Minister: John Major 













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