From Bay of Prigs to Sergeant de Pfepper: Newsbiscuit remembers the 1960s

1963. Fab groovy Tory party gears up for Swinging Sixties by picking 14th Earl of Home as leader.

1963. JFK assassinated by kook hiding in Dallas's famous kook depository.

1964. 19 years after WW2, name rationing finally ends, just in time for birth of Alexander Boris de Pfeffel Johnson.

1967. Harold Wilson devalues Monopoly pound to help struggling young couples get on Mayfair property ladder.

1967. Britain cautiously decriminalises homosexual acts "between consenting adults named Jeremy and Edward" Later extended to Raymonds and Jonathans.

1968. Robert Kennedy decides to get assassinated in desperate act of sibling rivalry.

1968. Private Trump returns from Vietnam, begins 50-year struggle to wash Agent Orange out of hair.

1969. Apollo 11 a disaster. Major jazz concert cancelled after Louis Armstrong sent to moon due to clerical error.

NewsBiscuit Book Review - we read the books so you don't have to bother

Our review this week is Rory Stewart's Politics On the Edge, in which we give as succinct a summary as you'll find anywhere and be able to save yourself twenty two quid:

'Boris Johnson is a complete c*nt and always has been.'

One last selection from NB archives

1998. Pfizer scientist working on self-raising flour accidentally drops some down his trousers and Viagra is born.

1939. Reichstag toilets blocked again. Hitler's march east in search of Polish plumber has far-reaching consequences.

1837. Queen Victoria shocks England with hard-hitting speech from throne: "There shall be no sex for the next 64 years and piano legs must be kept covered at all times".

1686. Newton becomes most hated man in England when he invents gravity, putting an end to thousands of years of carefree levitation.

1453. Ottomans besiege Constantinople to seize the city's lucrative teeth-capping franchise form the infidel (see Turkey teeth).

1066. Normans wishing to explore Africa cross Channel to England, expecting free trip to Rwanda on arrival.

44 BC. Casual Friday a big success at Roman Forum, but Caesar regrets not wearing stab vest.

4004 BC. Fundamentalist Big Bang.

14,000,000,000 BC The 'other' Big Bang (about 2pm on a Monday)

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