500 Hippy travellers clash with police on their way to the ancient stone circle of Stonehenge in Wiltshire for an illegal festival, the police set up a roadblock seven miles from Stonehenge. The day is known as "The Battle of the Beanfield" and was the first major test of an English Heritage ban on midsummer festivals at Stonehenge.

A Warsaw underground newspaper, the Liberty Brigade, is the first public newspaper to tell the world about the death camps in Poland where tens of thousands of Jews are gassed to death at Chelmno, a death camp in Poland.