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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]
1 February – Grave-diggers call off a strike in Liverpool which has delayed dozens of burials.; 2 February – Sid Vicious, the former Sex Pistols guitarist, is found dead in New York after apparently suffocating on his own vomit as a result of a heroin overdose. 21-year-old London-born Vicious was on bail for the second degree murder of his girlfriend Nancy Spungen, who was found stabbed to ...
14 September – The final edition of the left-wing Daily Herald newspaper is published. 15 September The Sun newspaper goes into circulation, replacing the Daily Herald. Sir Alec Douglas-Home calls a general election for 15 October. 17 September – Goldfinger, the third James Bond film, premieres at Odeon Leicester Square in London.
Abbey National building society offers free shares to its 5,500,000 members. 14 January – Muslims demonstrate in Bradford against The Satanic Verses, a book written by Salman Rushdie, burning copies of the book in the city streets. 19 January – Unemployment fell by 66,000 in December, to a nine-year low of just over 2 million.
9 November – Princess Diana sues the Daily Mirror over photographs that were taken of her at a gym. 17 November – The England national football team fails to qualify for the World Cup in America next summer, despite winning their final qualifying match 7–1 against San Marino. National manager Graham Taylor is expected to leave the job ...
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1 January – The UK's first atomic bomber unit, No. 138 Squadron RAF, is formed, flying Vickers Valiants from RAF Gaydon in Warwickshire. [1]7 January – UK release of the Halas and Batchelor film animation of George Orwell's Animal Farm (completed April 1954), the first full-length British-made animated feature on general theatrical release, covertly funded by the CIA.
8–24 February – Great Britain competes at the Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City, Utah, United States, and wins 1 gold and 1 bronze medal. 9 February – Princess Margaret, the Queen's younger sister, dies after suffering a stroke aged 71.