March 3: Police raid Middle Earth club in Covent Garden, London. Peel, who DJs regularly at club, expresses sympathy in his IT column for victims of police harassment .
March 17: violent anti-Vietnam War demo in Grosvenor Square, London; Peel is present.
April 4: Martin Luther King shot dead in Memphis, sparking riots in major US towns and cities.
May: student revolt and workers' strikes in Paris threaten De Gaulle's government.
June 5: assassination of Senator Robert F. Kennedy. Peel pays tribute to him on Night Ride.
August 21-23: Soviet troops invade Czechoslovakia to crush Dubcek government's "Prague Spring".
October: First sextuplets born in UK.
November: Richard Nixon elected US President. Peel meets future wife Sheila ("Pig") while appearing on TV show "How It Is".
November 22: The Beatles release The Beatles, later known as the White Album.