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Ray-Ban Wayfarer sunglasses and eyeglasses have been manufactured by Ray-Ban since 1952. Made popular in the 1950s and 1960s by music and film icons such as Buddy Holly , Roy Orbison and James Dean , Wayfarers almost became discontinued in the 1970s, before a major resurgence was created in the 1980s through massive product placements .
Ray Mill House is largely of 19th-century Italianate construction with later 20th-century Neo-Georgian additions. English Heritage describes the building as "Two storeys, asymmetric Italianate style with gables treated as open pediments. [...] North and south sides and west end have similar gables with tripartite ground floor window, broad band ...
Agatha Christie's Miss Marple novel A Caribbean Mystery.; J. W. B. Douglas's cohort study The Home and the School: a study of ability and attainment in the primary school.; Ian Fleming's James Bond novel You Only Live Twice and his children's novel Chitty-Chitty-Bang-Bang (the latter posthumously).
[51] [52] The ban lasted until 1994, and denied the UK news media the right to broadcast the voices, though not the words, of all Irish republican and loyalist paramilitaries, while the ban was targeted primarily at Sinn Féin. [53] Government intimidation and laws before the ban had already resulted in forms of self-censorship. [51]
10 February – David Bowie introduces his Ziggy Stardust persona at the second show of the 1972–73 Ziggy Stardust Tour, at The Toby Jug pub, Tolworth, Surrey. [9] 22 February – 1972 Aldershot bombing: An Official Irish Republican Army car bomb kills six people at Aldershot Barracks. [10] 25 February – The miners' strike ends after seven ...
A December 2023 poll from Pew Research Center found 38% in favor of a ban, reflecting a decrease among Republicans even amid renewed efforts by their party leaders to ban the app. [96] A February 2024 poll by the Associated Press and NORC Center for Public Affairs Research found 31% of the respondents were in favor of a nationwide ban of TikTok ...
8 May – More than 3,000 British Rail employees launch an unofficial overtime ban, walking out in protest at the end of their eight-hour shifts. 14 May – A public inquiry, headed by Lord Justice Taylor of Gosforth, begins into the Hillsborough disaster. [23] 18 May – Unemployment is now below 2,000,000 for the first time since 1980.
Theresa May proposes a ban on plastic straws and cotton buds in England. [99] The UK experiences its hottest day in April since 1949, with temperatures of 28.5 °C (83.3 °F) recorded in Central London. [100] 20 April – Commonwealth leaders announce that the Prince of Wales (now Charles III) would succeed Elizabeth II as Head of the ...