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The Cartridge Years: 1963, 1978 and 1992.
Richard turns back the clock with the hits and local headlines from three Cartridge years: June 1963, 1978 and 1992.
This week Richard turns back the clock with the hits and local headlines from June 1963, 1978 and 1992.
And he plays three tracks from the 1966 self titled album by The Monkees.
Richard highlights some of the lighter stories of the week that you may have missed, reviews some of the recent surveys and looks ahead to the news for Monday.
It's the perfect way to spend a Sunday afternoon.
There is a choice of listening this Sunday afternoon. Richard is on FM, 1359AM, digital radio and online. And there is ball by ball cricket commentary as Hampshire face Derbyshire in the county championship on AM and online.
Last on
Sun 1 Jun 2014
14:00
91热爆 Radio Solent
June 1963
- Hampshire police were searching for a suspect after a triple murder in Portsmouth.
- The UK was learning about the affair between John Profumo and Christine Keeler.
- Cassius Clay and Henry Cooper faced each other in a boxing match at the London Palladium.
- A house that was being demolished in Westminster, close to the Strand collapsed burying a workman under several tons of rubble.
- 21 survivors were rescued by the Dover lifeboat after the Panamanian ship 'Carmen' sank after a collision in the English Channel.聽
- The Queen took the salute at the trooping of the Colour of the 2nd Battalion Grenadier Guards.
- The "Old Vic Company", known as the home of Shakespeare, which had been in London since 1914, gave its last performance in the Waterloo Road.
- There was a requiem mass for Pope John XXIII at Westminster Cathedral.
- Sir Winston Churchill arrived in Monte Carlo for a holiday on the French Riviera.
- Russian space ship Vostok 5 was orbiting the Earth, with cosmonaut Colonel Valery Bykovsky on board.
- A rain-lashed Belgian Grand Prix was won by Jim Clarke in a Lotus.
- Riots were taking place in Jackson, Mississippi, following the shooting of a black community leader.
June 1978
- Fishermen from Weymouth were protesting against unfair compensation for their loss of earnings.
- Southampton Airport was home to an airship for a week.
- The yacht Gypsy Moth 5 was being prepared in Bucklers Hard, ahead of a round Britain challenge.
- The worlds largest warship USS Nimitz arrived for a stay in Portsmouth.
- Dar Pomerza - a Polish tall ship was in Southampton.
- A six month survey looking at air pollution at Fawley started.
- A steel tower off the Christchurch coast was erected to help scientists understand wave power.
- An armed gang escaped with diamonds in a raid on a shop inside the Savoy Hotel.
- Elaine Paige had a standing ovation as she took on the lead role in Evita.
- A 24 hr lawn mower grand prix took place at Trowbridge in Wiltshire.
- Cricketer Ian Botham became the first man in the history of the game to score a century and take eight wickets in one innings of a Test match.
- Prince Michael of Kent & his fiancee Baroness Marie-Christine Von Reibnitxz, were refused permission by the Pope to marry in a Roman Catholic Church.
- Argentina reached the final of the World Cup when they beat Peru 6 - 0.聽
June 1992
- Hampshire Police arrested missing prisoner Malcolm Smith in Millbrook.
- Fifty soldiers from Blandford set off to join the peacekeeping force in Yugoslavia. They are members of the thirty signals regiment.聽
- A 35,000 signature petition calling for a ban deer hunting on the New Forest was handed to Southampton Itchen MP, John Denham.聽
- Senior Catholic churchman Dr Edward DALY held talks with Sinn Fein - the first time such a meeting had taken place.
- Buckingham Palace confirmed that the Princess of Wales had not authorised any interviews or co-operated "in any way" with the controversial book about the Royal marriage.
- A bomb exploded outside the festival Hall on London's South Bank.
- A police officer was murdered & another seriously wounded by gunmen in Yorkshire.
- Prime Minister John Major was under intense pressure over the Maastricht treaty.
- The first test at Edgbaston between England and Pakistan ended in a draw.
- The Milk Race ended in Lincoln.
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- Sun 1 Jun 2014 14:0091热爆 Radio Solent