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Internment without trial, reintroduced in Ulster to deal with the developing crisis, is used at first only against Catholics suspected of terrorism
British artist David Hockney paints a striking triple portrait in Mr and Mrs Clark and Percy
Andrew Lloyd Webber's Jesus Christ Superstar is staged a year after being released as a record
95-year-old Spanish cellist Pablo Casals conducts in New York his Hymn to the United Nations
British paratroops open fire on a civil rights march in Derry, killing thirteen, in what becomes known as Bloody Sunday
The British government suspends the parliament at Stormont and imposes direct rule from Westminster
The SALT 1 treaty is signed by the US and USSR, limiting anti-ballistic missiles
Ultimos Ritos ('Last Rites'), an oratorio by John Tavener, has its first performance in Haarlem in the Netherlands
Bernardo Bertolucci directs Marlon Brando in the sexually explicit film Last Tango in Paris
Jean-Marie Le Pen founds a neo-Fascist party in France, the National Front
Spanish director Luis Buñuel satirizes social conventions in his film Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie
Peter Maxwell Davies's opera Taverneris performed at Covent Garden
English dramatist Caryl Churchill's first play, Owners, is produced in London
English poet James Fenton publishes his first collection, Terminal Moraine
Russian composer Alfred Schnittke's First Symphony alarms the Soviet authorities and is denied a Moscow premiere
Prime minister Jack Lynch leads Ireland into the European Community
Prime minister Edward Heath takes Britain into the European Community, on the third attempt
British economist Ernst Friedrich Schumacher publishes an influential economic tract, Small is Beautiful
The Polisario is formed to fight for the independence of Western Sahara
The career of virtuoso cellist Jacqueline du Pré's is cut short by multiple sclerosis
The first volume of Alexander Solzhenitsyn's The Gulag Archipelago, an exposé of Stalin's labour camps, is published in Paris
Martin Amis, son of Kingsley Amis, publishes his first novel, The Rachel Papers
Alexander Solzhenitsyn is deported from the USSR to West Germany for publishing The Gulag Archipelago
Antoinette Sibley and Anthony Dowell dance together in the premiere of Kenneth MacMillan's Manon
British physicist Stephen Hawking describes how black holes can emit radiation, a process now known as 'Hawking radiation'
