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#OnThisDay 1973: Nationwide cameras captured incontrovertible proof of the existence of UFOs. We promise. | BBC Archive
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#OnThisDay 1973:Raising the motorway speed limit and the mandatory wearing of seat belts were matters raised for consideration by the Institute of Advanced Motorists. | BBC Archive
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#OTD 1973: Archeologists celebrated the invention of the catchily-named Fluxgate Gradiometer - but it can never replace a good old trowel. | BBC Archive
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BBC Archive misses the days when 20,000 people spontaneously turned up in a field and played tiddlywinks. Now we just have Glastonbury instead. A government committee in 1973 decided no new laws were necessary to govern pop festivals, but recommended they be planned in advance. | BBC Archive
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#OnthisDay 1973: Teachers prepared to take note, as a new report detailed what pupils liked and disliked about their mentors. | BBC Archive
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Pioneering actress Cicely Tyson has died aged 96. In 1973, she told the …
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