a new Commonwealth Office. 2 August – Spanish government forbids overflights by British military aircraft. 4 August – The Kray Twins are questioned in connection with a murder in London. 5 August – The Beatles release the album Revolver. 10 August – George Brown succeeds Michael Stewart as Foreign Secretary. 12 August – Shepherd's Bush murders: Three policemen are shot dead in West London while sitting in their patrol car in Braybrook Street. 15 August – John Whitney is arrested and charged with the Shepherd's Bush murders. 17 August – John Duddy is arrested in Glasgow and charged with the Shepherd's Bush murders. 18 August – Tay Road Bridge opens. 24 August – Tom Stoppard's Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead is first staged, at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe. 29 August – The Beatles play their very last concert, at Candlestick Park in San Francisco, California. 1 September – 98 British tourists die when Britannia Airways Flight 105 crashes in Ljubljana, Yugoslavia. 3 September – Barely five months after the death of Norwich City F.C. captain Barry Butler, a second Football League player this year dies in a car crash; 30-year-old John Nicholson, a Doncaster Rovers centre-half who previously played for Port Vale and Liverpool. 5 September – Selective Employment Tax imposed. 15 September – Britain's first Polaris submarine, HMS Resolution, launched at Barrow-in-Furness. 17 September – Oberon class submarine HMCS Okanagan launched at Chatham Dockyard, the last warship to be built there. 19 September – Buster Edwards returns from Mexico to London to be arrested for involvement in the Great Train Robbery (1963). 27 September – British Motor Corporation makes 7,000 employees redundant. 30 September – The Bechuanaland Protectorate in Africa achieves independence from the UK as Botswana. October–December 4 October – Basutoland becomes independent and takes the name "Lesotho". 18 October – The Ford Cortina Mk2 is launched. 20 October – In economic news, 437,229 people are reported to be unemployed in the UK – a rise of some 100,000 on last month's figures. 21 October – Aberfan disaster in South Wales, 144 (including 116 children) are killed by a collapsing coal spoil tip. 22 October British spy George Blake escapes from Wormwood Scrubs prison; he is next seen in Moscow. Spain demands that the United Kingdom stop military flights to Gibraltar, the UK rejects this idea the following day. 25 October – Spain closes its Gibraltar border against