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6 April – As announced in March, Ford launches its new executive model, the Granada, available as a saloon, coupé or estate, which replaces the Zephyr on the UK market and will be produced at the Dagenham plant as well as Ford's Cologne plant in West Germany. [15]
The UK new car sales record has been broken six times in the last seven years. Britain experiences its worst flu epidemic since the winter of 1975–76, with cases peaking in mid-November. Over a million infections are recorded by December, with an increase in flu-related deaths, while hospitals are forced to cancel surgery.
The town enters the UK Weather Records with the highest 180-min total rainfall at 178 mm. As of October 2010, this record remains. 8 October – Closure of the original Sheffield Tramway, leaving Blackpool as the only place in England with electric trams. [32] 17 October – The News Chronicle ceases publication, [33] being absorbed into the ...
1 March – Labour MP Tony Benn is returned to parliament after winning the Chesterfield by-election, having lost his previous seat at the general election last year.; 2 March – Just five months after becoming Labour Party leader, Neil Kinnock's ambition of becoming Prime Minister at the next election (due to be held by June 1988) are given a boost when Labour come top of a MORI poll with 41 ...
17 October – The Beatles make their first televised appearance, on Granada television's north west local news programme People and Places. [6] 21 October – The first American Folk Blues Festival European tour plays its only UK date at the Free Trade Hall, Manchester; artists include Sonny Terry, Brownie McGhee and T-Bone Walker.
Events from the year 1974 in the United Kingdom.. The year is marked by the Three-Day Week, two general elections, a state of emergency in Northern Ireland, extensive Provisional Irish Republican Army bombing of the British mainland, several large company collapses and major local government reorganisation.
3 February – Nurses throughout the UK strike for higher pay and more funding for the National Health Service. [4] 4 February – Nearly 7,000 ferry workers go on strike in Britain, paralysing the nation's seaports. 5 February – The first BBC Red Nose Day raises £15,000,000 for charity. [5]
Charlotte Hughes, longest-lived person ever documented in the UK (born 1877) Sir Edward Warburton Jones, lawyer, judge and politician (born 1912) 21 March – Digby Tatham-Warter, British Army officer (born 1917) 24 March Alice Bacon, Baroness Bacon, politician (born 1909) Karen Gershon, author and poet (born 1923, Germany)