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February – Work begins on extending the Piccadilly line of London Underground at Heathrow Airport to serve the new Terminal 4. [5]1 February – TV-am launches on ITV. [4]3 February – Unemployment stands at a record high of 3,224,715 – though the previous high reached in the Great Depression of the early 1930s accounted for a higher percentage of the workforce.
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On July 23, 2023, Musk announced X's launch, which would replace Twitter, which started when the X.com domain (formerly associated with PayPal) began redirecting to Twitter; [3] the logo was changed from the bird to the X the next day, [37] and the platform's official main and associated accounts also began using the letter X within their handles. [38]
The following is a list of all the episodes that featured in all 14 series of London's Burning (1988–2002). This list includes the original 1986 TV film that the series was based on and the Christmas special "Ding Dong Merrily", which aired between Series 1 and Series 2.
In September 2019, Boebert made national headlines when she confronted Beto O'Rourke, a candidate in the 2020 Democratic presidential primary, at an Aurora town hall meeting over his proposal for a buy-back program and a ban on assault-style rifles like AR-15s.
An IRA bomb explodes at Stock Exchange Tower, the base of the London Stock Exchange. Michael Carr, Labour MP for Bootle, dies after just 57 days in parliament from a heart attack at the age of 43. 24 July – A Roman Catholic nun and three police officers are killed by an IRA landmine in County Armagh.
Events January. 1 January – Four young men die in unrelated New Year London stabbings. A fire at the Liverpool Echo Arena car park destroys 1,400 cars.; 3 January – the NHS in England cancels all non-urgent treatments from mid-January until the end of the month, as reports emerge of patients facing long waits for treatment and being stuck on trolleys in corridors, and of ambulances left ...
On 31 December 1996, prior to the large-calibre handgun ban, there were 133,600 FACs on issue in England and Wales; by 31 December 1997 it had fallen to 131,900. On 31 December 2001, five years after the large calibre ban, the number had fallen to 119,600 and 117,700 the following year. [29] This represents a net drop of 24,200 certificates.