Oakworth Library in Holden Hall is replaced by a mobile service.

• Last Keighley Gala takes place.

• William Hartley Mill closes
in Sutton-in-Craven.

• River Aire bursts its banks at Stockbridge.

• Iranian Embassy Siege.

• Radio Caroline-pirate radio sinks.

• Sinclair ZX80 computer.

• ‘Eight out of ten cats’, Whiskers advert.