That particular Tuesday was the first round, second leg of the League Cup, with local interest for Hartlepool and Darlington.
The Monkey Hangers going out 5-1 on aggregate to Grimsby and Darlo losing 3-1 to Scunthorpe.
The First Division (as it was known then) started the following Saturday, with the Magpies victorious over Leeds United 3-2.
FIRST DIVISION
Birmingham City 1 Manchester Utd 4
Bristol City 2 Wolverhampton W 3
Coventry City 3 Derby County 1
Everton 1 Nottingham Forest 3
Ipswich Town 1 Arsenal 0
Manchester City 0 Leicester City 0
Middlesbrough 1 Liverpool 1
Newcastle United 3 Leeds United 2
Queens Park Rangers 1 Aston Villa 2
West Bromwich Albion 3 Chelsea 0
West Ham United 1 Norwich City 3
Elvis And The Toon
TEN ELVIS FACTS
1. Until his late teens, Elvis was blond.
2. His hobbies included collecting guns: he amassed 40 weapons before his death.
3. He memorised every line from the George C. Scott film, Patton.
4. More than 50,000 people make a living as Elvis impersonators.
5. He was named a 'Special Federal Narcotics Agent' by Richard Nixon.
6. He was a black belt in karate.
7. He recorded more than 600 songs but he did not write a single one of them.
8. He had a still born twin brother, Jesse Garon Presley.
9. He adopted a chimpanzee called Scatter. The monkey had a penchant for looking up women's skirts,
10. There is one animal - the Preseucoila Imallshookupis - named after Elvis. This is the scientific name for the gall wasp.