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Events relating to england
Maria Callas gives her last performance, as Tosca at Covent Garden in London
Stanley Matthews plays his last game for Stoke City after 34 years as a professional football player
British actor Michael Caine makes his name starring in two outstanding films within the year, Alfie and The Ipcress File
English novelist Paul Scott publishes The Jewel in the Crown, the first volume in his 'Raj Quartet'
Plaid Cymru sends its first MP to Westminster when Gwynfor Evans wins a Carmarthen by-election
Irish poet Seamus Heaney wins critical acclaim for Death of a Naturalist, his first volume containing more than a few poems
British fashion designer Mary Quant launches the miniskirt
The US tennis player Billie Jean King wins the first of six Wimbledon singles titles
After a long period of obscurity, Wide Sargasso Sea brings novelist Jean Rhys back into the literary limelight
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead, by Tom Stoppard, is produced at the Edinburgh Festival
Alf Ramsey (manager) and Bobby Moore (captain) lead the England football team to victory in the World Cup
The Whale, a cantata by English composer John Tavener, has its premiere at the inaugural concert of the London Sinfonietta
A Bigger Splash, by English painter David Hockney, casts a new light on sunlit swimming pools
English yachtsman Francis Chichester completes a record round-the-world voyage, sailing 29,600 miles solo in 226 days
British research student Jocelyn Bell and her Cambridge supervisor Antony Hewish identify the first known pulsar
British composers Harrison Birtwistle and Peter Maxwell Davies found the Pierrot Players
English author Angela Carter wins recognition with her quirky second novel, The Magic Toyshop
English playwright Alan Ayckbourn has his first success with Relatively Speaking
Three young Liverpool poets publish a shared anthology under the title The Mersey Sound
A Day in the Death of Joe Egg, by English dramatist Peter Nichols, has its premiere in London
English cellist Jacqueline du Pré marries Israeli pianist Daniel Barenboim
The Beatles release an immensely successful album, Sergeant Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, with a cover by British pop-artist Peter Blake
British actor Richard Attenborough makes his first film as a director, Oh! What a Lovely War
British racing driver Jim Clark is killed in an accident on the Hockenheim circuit, while leading in the world championship
English biographer Michael Holroyd completes his two-volume life of Lytton Strachey
