• First women Fellow elected: Daphne Osborne
• First Churchill Association alumni dinner in College
• Southern African Bursary established to fund black African students
• John Piper’s glass unveiled in the chapel
• Churchill students win TV’s University Challenge
• 400 students petition for renewal of the chaplain, Noel Duckworth
• Churchill students achieve High Court ruling that students nationwide can register to vote in their university constituencies
• Prince of Wales attends a meeting of the Socratic Society
• First alumni elected MPs: Gavin Strang (G64), John Wilkinson (U62)

Bob Phillips (U&G69) comments:

The money prize for winning University Challenge was £600, awarded to the JCR. The JCR voted to donate it to the Palestinian Liberation Organisation – those were revolutionary times, even in Cambridge. I was then the Secretary of the JCR; David Marsh was Chair.