1975 in the United Kingdom
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Events from the year 1975 in the United Kingdom.
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[edit] Incumbents
- Monarch - HM Queen Elizabeth II
- Prime Minister - Harold Wilson, Labour Party
[edit] Events
- 14 January - Heiress Lesley Whittle (17), the daughter of late bus operator George Whittle (1905-1967), is kidnapped from her home near Bridgnorth in Shropshire. Her mother and brother have received a letter demanding a £50,000 ransom.[1]
- 24 January - Donald Coggan enthroned as Archbishop of Canterbury.[2]
- 11 February - Margaret Thatcher defeats Edward Heath in the Conservative Party leadership election.[3]
- 26 February - A fleeing IRA terrorist shoots and kills off-duty London police officer Stephen Tibble, 22, as he gives chase.[4]
- 28 February - A major tube train crash at Moorgate station, London kills 43 people.[5]
- 4 March - Charlie Chaplin is knighted by the Queen.[6]
- 7 March - The body of teenage heiress Lesley Whittle, who disappeared from her Shropshire home in January, is discovered in Staffordshire. She had been strangled on a ledge in drains below Bathpool Park near Kidsgrove.[7]
- 25 March - A large National Front rally in London protests against European integration.[8]
- April - Carmaker Vauxhall launches the entry-level Chevette, a small three-door hatchback which has rear-wheel drive and from next year will also be available as a saloon and an estate.
- 13 April - A 22-year-old woman is raped at her bedsit in Cambridge. Cambridgeshire Police believe that she is the sixth victim of a mystery rapist who has been operating across the city since October last year. In June, Cambridgeshire Police arrest 47-year-old Peter Cook in connection with the rapes; he is sentenced to life imprisonment in October.[9]
- 26 April - A conference of members of the Labour Party vote against continued membership of the EEC.[10]
- 5 June - 67% of voters support continued membership of the EEC in a referendum.[11]
- 9 June - Proceedings in Parliament broadcast on radio for the first time.[12]
- 19 June - Lord Lucan is found guilty in absentia of the murder of nanny Sandra Rivett.[13]
- 14 August Hampstead enters the UK Weather Records with the Highest 155-min total rainfall at 169 mm. As of July 2006 this record remains.
- 19 August - Headingley cricket ground vandalised by supporters of the armed robber George Davis campaigning for his release from prison. A scehduled test match between England and Australia due to take place there had to be abandoned.[14]
- September - Chrysler UK launches its new Alpine five-door family hatchback, a modern front-wheel drive car to compete with the conventional Ford Cortina, Morris Marina and Vauxhall Cavalier rear-wheel drive saloons. The new car is also built in France as the Simca 1307.[15]
- 5 September - The London Hilton hotel bombed by the IRA killing two people and injuring 63 others.[16]
- 19 September - the first episode of the popular sitcom Fawlty Towers broadcast.[17]
- 24 September - Dougal Haston and Doug Scott become the first British people to climb Mount Everest.[18]
- 28 September–3 October - The Spaghetti House siege, in which nine people were taken as hostages, takes place in London.[19]
- October - Vauxhall announces its second new model launch of the year - the Cavalier, which replaces the Victor and is based on the German Opel Ascona, is a direct competitor for the big-selling Ford Cortina.
- 9 October - An IRA bomb explosion outside Green Park tube station near Piccadilly in London kills one and injures 20.[20]
- 10 October - West Yorkshire Police launch a murder investigation after 28-year-old prostitute Wilma McCann is found dead in Leeds.
- 3 November - The first petroleum pipeline in the UK is formally opened by the Queen, running from Cruden Bay to Grangemouth in Scotland.[21]
- 6 November - First public performance by punk rock band the Sex Pistols.[17]
- 12 November - Employment Protection Act establishes ACAS to arbitrate industrial disputes, and legislates against unfair dismissal.[2]
- 27 November - Ross McWhirter, the co-founder of the Guinness Book of Records, is shot dead by the Provisional Irish Republican Army for offering reward money to informers.[22]
- 29 November - Former racing driver Graham Hill, 46, dies in an air crash in Hertfordshire.[23]
- December - Donald Neilson, 39, is arrested in Mansfield, Nottinghamshire, on suspicion of being the "Black Panther" murderer who is believed to have carried out five murders in the last two years.[1]
- 5 December - Government ends Internment of suspected terrorists in Northern Ireland.[2]
- 6 December–12 December - Balcombe Street Siege: IRA members on the run from police break into a London flat taking the residents hostage. The siege ended after six days with the gunmen giving themselves up to the police.[24][25]
- 11 December - British and Icelandic ships clash marking the beginning of the third Cod War.[26]
- 29 December - two new laws, the Sex Discrimination Act 1975 and the Equal Pay Act 1970, came into force aiming to end unequal pay of men and women in the workplace.[27]
[edit] Publications
- Malcolm Bradbury's novel The History Man.
- Agatha Christie's final Hercule Poirot novel Curtain.
- Ruth Prawer Jhabvala's novel Heat and Dust.
- Paul Scott's novel A Division of the Spoils, the final part of the Raj Quartet.
[edit] Births
- 13 January - Shazia Mirza, comedienne
- 15 January - Edith Bowman, Radio DJ
- 18 February
- Keith Gillespie, footballer
- Gary Neville, footballer
- 21 March - Mark Williams, snooker player
- 9 April - Robbie Fowler, footballer
- 2 May - David Beckham, footballer
- 18 May - John Higgins, snooker player
- 22 May - Kelly Morgan, badminton player
- 27 May - Jamie Oliver, chef and television personality
- 29 May - Melanie Brown, singer
- 19 June - Ed Coode, rower
- 12 July - Hannah Waterman, actress
- 15 July - Jill Halfpenny, actress
- 17 July - Konnie Huq, television presenter
- 30 July - Graham Nicholls, artist
- 31 July - Simon Hirst, DJ
- 22 August - Sheree Murphy, actress
- 18 September - Richard Appleby, football player
- 23 September - Chris Hawkins, radio personality
- 25 September - Declan Donnelly, TV presenter and one half of Ant and Dec
- 5 October - Kate Winslet, actress
- 27 October - Zadie Smith, novelist
- 18 November - Anthony McPartlin, TV presenter and one half of Ant and Dec
- 5 December - Ronnie O'Sullivan, snooker player
[edit] Deaths
- 8 February - Robert Robinson, chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1886)
- 14 February
- Julian Huxley, biologist (born 1887)
- P. G. Wodehouse, writer (born 1881)
- 26 February - Stephen Tibble, London police officer (shot) (born 1953)
- 3 March - T. H. Parry-Williams, poet (born 1887)
- 23 April - William Hartnell, actor (born 1908)
- 24 April - Peter Ham, musician (born 1947)
- 20 May - Barbara Hepworth, sculptor (born 1903)
- 21 May - A. H. Dodd, historian (born 1891)
- 7 August - Jim Griffiths, politician (born 1890)
- 10 September - George Paget Thomson, physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1892)
- 25 November - Moyna Macgill, actress (born 1895)
- 27 November - Ross McWhirter, co-founder of the Guinness Book of Records (born 1925)
- 29 November
- Tony Brise, racing driver (born 1952)
- Graham Hill, race car driver (born 1929)
[edit] References
- ^ a b ""1975: Heiress Lesley Whittle kidnapped", BBC On This Day". Retrieved on 2008-02-06.
- ^ a b c Palmer, Alan & Veronica (1992). The Chronology of British History. London: Century Ltd. pp. 437–438. ISBN 0-7126-5616-2.
- ^ ""1975: Tories choose first woman leader", BBC On This Day". Retrieved on 2008-02-06.
- ^ ""1975: PC murder linked to IRA bomb factory", BBC On This Day". Retrieved on 2008-02-06.
- ^ ""1975: Dozens killed in Moorgate Tube crash", BBC On This Day". Retrieved on 2008-02-06.
- ^ ""1975: Comic genius Chaplin is knighted", BBC On This Day". Retrieved on 2008-02-06.
- ^ ""1975: Kidnapped heiress found strangled", BBC On This Day". Retrieved on 2008-02-06.
- ^ ""1975: National Front rallies against Europe", BBC On This Day". Retrieved on 2008-02-06.
- ^ ""1975: 'Cambridge rapist' strikes again", BBC On This Day". Retrieved on 2008-02-06.
- ^ ""1975: Labour votes to leave the EEC", BBC On This Day". Retrieved on 2008-02-06.
- ^ ""1975: UK embraces Europe in referendum", BBC On This Day". Retrieved on 2008-02-06.
- ^ ""1975: First live broadcast of Parliament", BBC On This Day". Retrieved on 2008-02-06.
- ^ ""1975: Missing earl guilty of murder", BBC On This Day". Retrieved on 2008-02-06.
- ^ ""1975: Davis campaigners stop Test match", BBC On This Day". Retrieved on 2008-02-06.
- ^ "Development of the Chrysler - Talbot Alpine cars". Retrieved on 2008-02-14.
- ^ ""1975: London Hilton bombed", BBC On This Day". Retrieved on 2008-02-06.
- ^ a b Penguin Pocket On This Day. Penguin Reference Library. 2006. ISBN 0-141-02715-0.
- ^ ""1975: First Britons conquer Everest", BBC On This Day". Retrieved on 2008-02-06.
- ^ ""1975: London's Spaghetti House siege ends", BBC On This Day". Retrieved on 2008-02-06.
- ^ ""1975: Man killed in Piccadilly bomb blast", BBC On This Day". Retrieved on 2008-02-06.
- ^ ""1975: North Sea oil begins to flow", BBC On This Day". Retrieved on 2008-02-06.
- ^ ""1975: TV presenter Ross McWhirter shot dead", BBC On This Day". Retrieved on 2008-02-06.
- ^ ""1975: Graham Hill killed in air crash", BBC On This Day". Retrieved on 2008-02-06.
- ^ ""1975: Couple under siege in Balcombe Street", BBC On This Day". Retrieved on 2008-02-06.
- ^ ""1975: Balcombe Street siege ends, BBC On This Day". Retrieved on 2008-02-06.
- ^ ""1975: Attack on British vessels heightens Cod War", BBC On This Day". Retrieved on 2008-02-06.
- ^ ""1975: New laws to end battle of the sexes", BBC On This Day". Retrieved on 2008-02-06.
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