on board. 9 March – Ronnie Kray, one of the Kray twins, shoots George Cornell (an associate of rivals The Richardson Gang) dead at The Blind Beggar pub in Whitechapel, East London. Cornell dies later in hospital, and Kray is finally convicted in 1969. 10 March – The Frost Report, which launches the television careers of John Cleese, Ronnie Barker and Ronnie Corbett and other writers and performers, is first broadcast on BBC One 11 March – Chi-Chi, London Zoo's giant panda, is flown to the Soviet Union for a union with An-An of Moscow Zoo. 20 March – Theft of football's Jules Rimet Trophy whilst on exhibition in London. 23 March – Pope Paul VI and Michael Ramsey, the Archbishop of Canterbury, meet in Rome. 27 March – Pickles, a mongrel dog, finds the FIFA World Cup Trophy wrapped in newspaper in a garden in South London. 30 March – Opinion polls show that the Labour government is on course to significantly increase its parliamentary majority at the general election tomorrow. 31 March – The Labour Party led by Harold Wilson win the general election with a landslide majority of 96 seats. At the 1964 election held just 17 months earlier, Labour had a narrow majority of five seats but subsequent by-election defeats had led to that being reduced to just one seat prior to this election. The Birmingham Edgbaston seat is retained for the Conservatives by Jill Knight in succession to Edith Pitt, the first time two female MPs have followed each other in the same constituency. April–June 1 April – Significant changes to the boundaries of Somerset and adjacent counties. 6 April – Hoverlloyd inaugurate the first regular hovercraft service across the English Channel, from Ramsgate Harbour to Calais using passenger-carrying SR.N6 craft (discontinued in 2000 due to competition with the Channel Tunnel). 7 April – The United Kingdom asks the United Nations Security Council to use force to stop oil tankers that violate the oil embargo against Rhodesia. Authority is given on 10 April. 11 April – The Marquess of Bath, in conjunction with Jimmy Chipperfield, opens Longleat Safari Park, with "the lions of Longleat", at his Longleat House, the first such drive-through safari park outside of Africa. 15 April – Time magazine uses the phrase 'Swinging London'. 19 April – Ian Brady and Myra Hindley go on trial at Chester Crown Court, charged with murdering