York Conferences invite you to step back in time 40 years...
January 2010
It is 1970, and the University of York has just appointed its first event Conference Officer, heralding the creation of York Conferences. Forty years later marks their Ruby Anniversary, but what else was happening in that eventful year?
• On April 11 1970, the Apollo 13 mission was launched, due to be the third manned moon landing. An electrical fault and the subsequent explosion precipitated the now famous, but often misquoted, transmission, "Houston, we've had a problem". The whole flight team landed safely back on Earth 6 days after launch.
• War movies such as Catch-22 and M*A*S*H stormed the UK and US box offices, although it was Love Story, a tragic romance, that was the highest-grossing film of the year, bringing in $106 million in the UK alone.
• 1500 people gathered to see Stackridge and T. Rex perform at the first ever Pilton Festival at Worthy Farm, 6 miles east of a small Somerset town called Glastonbury. 137,500 tickets have already sold out for the Glastonbury Festival 2010 where mega-band U2 are set to headline the main stage.
• The soundtrack to 1970 included number 1's from Simon and Garfunkel with Bridge over Troubled Water, Mungo Jerry with Summertime, a post-mortem hit for Jimi Hendrix with Voodoo Chile, and a Christmas number 1 from Benny Hill with Ernie (the Fastest Milkman in the West).
York Conferences invite you to help them celebrate 40 years of conferencing at the University of York - contact them today for availability, and to receive every 4th person on a 24 Hour package free of charge for all new events confirmed before the end of January, and held on their Heslington campus before 31 July 2010 (quote RUBYRES10 - cannot be used in conjunction with any other offer).
