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1975
 
   
Internment is ended in Ulster after the Gardiner Report states that it brings the law into disrepute      
1975
 
    
Richard Burton marries Elizabeth Taylor for the second time, five years after divorcing       
1975
 
    
The Willis Faber building, by English architect Norman Foster, is completed in Ipswich       
1975
 
    
The first series of Fawlty Towers, co-written by and starring John Cleese, is broadcast on British TV       
1975
 
     
David Hockney begins a new career as a set designer, with The Rake's Progress by Stravinksky at Glyndebourne        
1975
 
    
The British group the Sex Pistols launch punk rock, with their first gig at St Martin's School of Art in London       
1975
 
     
English author Ruth Prawer Jhabwala wins the Booker Prize with her novel Heat and Dust        
1976
 
     
Frederick Ashton creates a ballet based on Turgenev's play A Month in the Country, to music by Chopin        
1976
 
    
Harold Wilson unexpectedly resigns as the British prime minister and is succeeded by James Callaghan       
1976
 
     
The British public is outraged to discover that the Tate Gallery has spent money purchasing Carl Andre's arrangement of bricks, Equivalent VIII