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E. M. Forster's novel Maurice is published posthumously.
Anthony Powell's novel Books Do Furnish A Room is published.
Benjamin Britten's opera Owen Wingrave premieres.
Federico Fellini's film The Clowns premieres.
A cholera epidemic sweeps Bangladesh and leads to worldwide concern.
Three Soviet cosmonauts are found dead in their returning spacecraft.
The British Parliament votes to join the European Common Market.
A worldwide monetary crisis results in the devaluation of the American dollar.
Mount Etna produces its most spectacular eruption in forty-three years.
New international efforts are made to control biological weapons.
The shah of Iran celebrates the twenty-five hundredth anniversary of the Persian empire with a gala, attended by over fifty heads of state, at Persepolis, the ancient Persian capital.
2 Jan.
In Glasgow, Scotland, a crowd barrier at a soccer stadium collapses, killing sixty-six and wounding over one...
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