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17th June 1968
John Tusa looks back at the events making the news 40 years ago.
Fred West, Britain's first heart transplant patient, is critical. Louis Armstrong begins a two-week residency in Yorkshire. The women machinists' strike at Ford's plant in Dagenham begins to spread.
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