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101ers   Strummer, Joe    London   Strummer founds a band called The 101'ers, named for the address of their squat (101 Walterton Road, in Maida Vale).    Acting Prime Minister   Xiaoping, Deng      Covers for his patron, Zhou Enlai, after the latter's heart attack    Adoption   Armstrong, Lance      His father leaves his mother when Lance is two years old, his mother marries Terry Keith Armstrong, who adopts Lance in 1974    Agreement Sunningdale   Heath, Edward Richard George    May Sunningdale   Unionist opposition, Provisional IRA violence & finally a loyalist general strike cause the collapse of the Agreement    Agreement Sunningdale   Paisley, Ian   15th May Sunningdale   Leads a deputation of the Ulster Workers' Council to wishing to destroy the agreement    Agreement Sunningdale   Wilson, James Harold   14th May Sunningdale   The Ulster Workers Union will strike if the Nth Ireland Assembly supports Sunningdale   18th May Sunningdale   The Ulster Workers Union calls for a total stoppage in Northern Ireland    Archbishop   Coggan, Donald    Canterbury   Appointed Archbishop of Canterbury    Arrest   Anwar, Ibrahim    Kedah   Arrested for leading a demonstration in support of rice farmers in Kedah    Birth   Williams, Robert Peter "Robbie"   13th Feb Stoke on Trent   Birth of Robert Peter "Robbie" Williams    Birth   Rosenkowitz, Susan   11th Jan   Birth of sextuplets, world's 1st sextuplets    Black Holes   Hawking, Stephen William      Calculates that black holes should thermally create and emit subatomic particles, known today as Hawking radiation, until they exhaust their energy and evaporate    Bombing of Birmingham   Heath, Edward Richard George   21st Nov Birmingham   IRA bombs in 2 Birmingham pubs kill 21    Bombing of Dublin   Heath, Edward Richard George   17th May Dublin   Protestant car bombs in Dublin kill 22    Brink   Brink, Andre      The Government bans Andre Brinks's Afrikaans novel, "Kennis van die Aand"    Brink   Vorster, Balthazar Johannes      The Government bans Andre Brinks's Afrikaans novel, "Kennis van die Aand"    Budget   Healey, Denis    Mar London   Increases food & pensons subsidies for the poorest    Mar London   Taxaton up to 83% earned income & 98% unearned income    Budget   Nixon, Richard Mulhouse    Washington   The House of Representatives rejects Nixon's $474M increase in military aid to Saigon    Cabinet   Wilson, James Harold    Mar   Calls his Cabinet, "the most experienced & talented this century"    Chairman PLP   Mikardo, Ian      Appointed Chairman of the Parliamentary Labour Party    Chancellor   Schmidt, Helmut Heinrich Waldemar    Bonn   Appointed Chancellor    Chancellor   Healey, Denis   5th Mar London   Appointed Chancellor of the Exchequer, 1st term    Oct London   Appointed Chancellor of the Exchequer, 2nd term    Chancellor   Lever, Harold