POSSIBLE TOPICS FOR BRITAIN CALLING PREVIOUS THE SIXTIES 1. 1964. Mods and Rockers. Battle of Brighton Beach 2. 1965. Comprehensive education system is initiated 3. 1965. Death penalty is abolished. 1967. Abortion and homosexuality are legalised 4. 1967. Release of Sgt. Pepper´s Lonely Hearts Club Band 5. 1969. Concorde, the world's first supersonic airliner, makes its maiden flight THE SEVENTIES 6. 1971. First British soldier is killed in Northern Ireland's 'Troubles' 1972. British army kills 14 in Londonderry, Northern Ireland, on Bloody Sunday 1979. IRA kill the Queen's cousin Lord Mountbatten 7. 1971. North Sea oil concessions are auctioned 8. 1973. Man about the House. British sitcoms 9. 1973. Britain joins the European Economic Community. 1976. Britain is forced to borrow money from the International Monetary Fund 10. 1975. Sex Pistols and the Punk Movement 11. 1978. World's first test-tube baby is born in Oldham 12. 1978/9. Strikes paralyse Britain during the so-called 'Winter of Discontent' 13. 1979. Conservative Margaret Thatcher becomes Britain's first female prime minister. Alliance with Ronald Reagan THE EIGHTIES 14. 1982. Argentina invades the British territory of the Falkland Islands 15. 1984. 12-month 'Miners' Strike' over pit closures begins Raúl Bellota del Campo 1975. Sex Pistols and the Punk Movement José Vicente Durán Jiménez 1984. 12-month 'Miners' Strike' over pit closures begins José Antonio Jiménez Romera 1973. Britain joins the European Economic Community. 1976. Britain is forced to borrow money from the International Monetary Fund Elena González Guerrero 1964. Mods and Rockers. Battle of Brighton Beach Fernando Moral Pinteño 1965. Death penalty is abolished. 1967. Abortion and homosexuality are legalised Eugenio Narbona González 1969. Concorde, the world's first supersonic airliner, makes its maiden flight Fernando Rivero García Release of Sgt. Pepper´s Lonely Hearts Club Band Lola Rivero García 1978/9. Strikes paralyse Britain during the so-called 'Winter of Discontent'