1965 in the United Kingdom

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Contents 1 Incumbents 2 Events 2.1 January - April 2.2 May - September 2.3 October 2.4 November 2.5 December 2.6 Unknown dates 3 Births 3.1 January - February 3.2 March - April 3.3 May - June 3.4 July - August 3.5 September - October 3.6 November - December 4 Deaths 4.1 January - April 4.2 May - August 4.3 September - December 5 References

[edit] Incumbents

• Monarch - HM Queen Elizabeth II
• Prime Minister - Harold Wilson, Labour

[edit] Events

[edit] January - April

• January 7 - Identical twin brothers Ronnie and Reggie Kray, 31, are arrested on suspicion of running a protection racket in London. [1]
• January 14 - The Prime Ministers of Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland meet for the first time in 43 years.
• January 24 - Winston Churchill dies at the age of 90, as the result of a stroke he suffered on January 15. ^[1]
• January 30 - Thousands attend Winston Churchill's state funeral. During the three days of lying-in-state, 321,000 people file past the catafalque, and the funeral procession travels from Westminster Hall to the service at St Paul's Cathedral, attended by the Queen, Prime Minister Harold Wilson, and representatives of 112 countries. ^[2]
• February 6 - Sir Stanley Matthews plays his final First Division game, at the record age of 50 years and 5 days.
• 16 February - Richard Beeching outlines plans for railway closures which became known as the "Beeching Axe". ^[3]
• February 18 - The Gambia becomes independent from the United Kingdom. ^[4]
• March 10 - Goldie, a London Zoo golden eagle, is recaptured after 13 days of freedom. ^[5]
• April 23 - The Pennine Way officially opens.

[edit] May - September

• June 18 - The government announces plans for the introduction of a blood alcohol limit for drivers in its clampdown on drink-driving. [2]
• June 24 - Freddie Mills, former British boxing champion, is found shot in his car in Soho.
• 8 July - Great Train Robber Ronald Biggs escapes from Wandsworth Prison. ^[6]
• July 22 - Sir Alec Douglas-Home suddenly resigns as a head of the British Conservative Party. ^[7]
• July 27 - Edward Heath becomes leader of the British Conservative Party following a leadership election. ^[8]
• August 1 - Cigarette advertising is banned on British television.

• September 24 - The British governor of Aden cancels the Aden constitution and takes direct control of the protectorate, due to the bad security situation.

[edit] October

• October 6 - Ian Brady, a 27-year-old stock clerk from Hyde in Cheshire, is arrested for allegedly hacking 17-year-old apprentice electrician Edward Evans to death at a house on the Hattersley housing estate.
• October 8 - The Post Office Tower opens in London.
• October 16 - Police find a girl's body on Saddleworth Moor near Oldham in Lancashire. The body is quickly identified as that of 10-year-old Lesley Ann Downey, who disappeared on Boxing Day last year from a fairground in the Ancoats area of Manchester. Ian Brady, arrested last week for the murder of a 17-year-old man in nearby Hattersley, is charged with murdering Lesley, as is his 23-year-old girlfriend Myra Hindley.
• October 22 - African countries demand that the United Kingdom use force to prevent Rhodesia from declaring unilateral independence.
• October 24 - British Prime Minister Harold Wilson and Arthur Bottomley travel to Rhodesia for negotiations.
• October 24 - British police find the decomposed body of a boy on Saddleworth Moor.
• October 29 - Ian Brady and Myra Hindley appear in court, charged with the murders of Edward Evans (17), Lesley Ann Downey (10), and John Kilbride (12).

[edit] November

• November 5 - Martial law is announced in Rhodesia. The UN General Assembly accepts British intent to use force against Rhodesia if necessary by a vote of 82-9.
• November 8 - The British Indian Ocean Territory is created, consisting of Chagos Archipelago, Aldabra, Farquhar and Des Roches islands (on June 23, 1976 Aldabra, Farquhar and Des Roches are returned to Seychelles).
• November 11 - In Rhodesia (modern-day Zimbabwe), the white minority regime of Ian Smith unilaterally declares independence. ^[9]
• November 20 - The UN Security Council recommends that all states stop trading with Rhodesia.

[edit] December

• December 3 - The first British aid flight arrives in Lusaka; Zambia had asked for British help against Rhodesia.
• December 15 - Tanzania and Guinea sever diplomatic relations with the United Kingdom.
• December 17 - The British government begins an oil embargo against Rhodesia; the United States joins the effort.
• December 22 - A 70 mph speed limit is imposed on British roads.
• December 27 - The British oil platform Sea Gem collapses in the North Sea. ^[10]
• December 30 - President Kenneth Kaunda of Zambia announces that Zambia and the United Kingdom have agreed to a deadline before which the Rhodesian white government should be ousted.

[edit] Unknown dates

• The Council for National Academic Awards is established.

[edit] Births

[edit] January - February

• January 4 - Julia Ormond, British actress
• January 4 - Beth Gibbons, English singer (Portishead)
• January 5 - Vinnie Jones, British footballer and actor
• January 9 - Joely Richardson, British actress
• January 14 - Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall, English chef
• January 14 - Slick Rick, British-American rapper
• January 15 - James Nesbitt, Northern Irish actor
• January 20 - Sophie, Countess of Wessex
• January 27 - Alan Cumming, Scottish actor
• January 28 - Tich Freeman, English cricketer (b. 1888)
• February 2 - Carl Airey, English footballer
• February 5 - Martha Fiennes, British film director
• February 26 - Alison Armitage, English model and actress
• February 28 - Norman Smiley, British professional wrestler

[edit] March - April

• March 4 - Andrew Collins, British radio DJ, and journalist
• March 4 - Paul W.S. Anderson, British filmmaker, producer and screenwriter
• March 11 - Lawrence Llewelyn-Bowen, British television presenter
• March 15 - Michael Watson, British boxer
• March 26 - Kerry McCarthy, British Labour politician and MP for Bristol East
• March 30 - Piers Morgan, British tabloid journalist
• April 1 - Robert Steadman, English composer
• 4 April - Sean Wilson, British actor
• 27 April - Anna Chancellor, British actress

[edit] May - June

• May 1 - Alice Beer, British television presenter
• May 3 - Michael Marshall Smith, novelist, screenwriter and short story writer
• May 10 - Darren Matthews, English professional wrestler
• 17 May - Jeremy Vine, British BBC radio and television presenter
• May 31 - Steve White, English drummer (The Style Council)
• June 1 - Nigel Short, English chess player
• 7 June - Damien Hirst, English artist
• June 10 - Elizabeth Hurley, English actress

• June 19 - Sadie Frost, English fashion designer and actress

[edit] July - August

• July 4 - Jo Whiley, British Radio DJ
• 15 July - David Miliband, British Labour politician
• July 31 - J. K. Rowling, English author
• 1 August - Sam Mendes, English stage and film director
• 4 August - Adam Afriyie, British Conservative politician and MP for Windsor
• August 28 - Paul Brummell, British diplomat and Ambassador to Kazakhstan

[edit] September - October

• September 2 - Lennox Lewis, British boxer
• September 29 - Phylis Smith, British athlete and Olympic medallist
• October 14 - Steve Coogan, British Comedian & Actor
• October 15 - Stephen Tompkinson, British actor
• October 16 - Steve Lamacq, British Radio DJ
• October 22 - John Wesley Harding (born Wesley Stace), British singer-songwriter
• October 30 - Gavin Rossdale, English musician

[edit] November - December

• November 4 - Shaun Williamson, British actor
• November 10
  • Sean Hughes, comedian
  • Eddie Irvine, Northern Irish racecar driver
• November 12 - Eddie Mair, British BBC radio and television presenter
• November 21 - Alexander Siddig, Sudanese-born actor
• December 9 - Paul Jenkins, British comic book writer
• December 25 - Edward Davey, British Liberal Democrat politician, Shadow Trade and Industry Secretary, and MP for Kingston and Surbiton

[edit] Deaths

[edit] January - April

• January 4 - T. S. Eliot, American-born writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1888)
• January 24 - Winston Churchill, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature (b. 1874)
• January 28 - Tich Freeman, English cricketer (b. 1888)
• February 23 - Stan Laurel, British actor (b. 1890)
• 28 March - Mary, Princess Royal and Countess of Harewood, 6th Princess Royal (b. 1897)
• March 28 - Richard Beesly, British Olympic gold medal rower. (b. 1907)
• April 21 - Edward Victor Appleton, English physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1892)

[edit] May - August

• May 3 - Howard Spring, novelist
• June 8 - Cecil L'Estrange Malone, (b. 1890), British politician and Britain's first communist Member of Parliament
• July 1 - Wally Hammond, English cricketer (b. 1903)
• July 25 - Freddie Mills, English boxer (b. 1919)

[edit] September - December

• September 2 - Harry Hylton-Foster, Speaker of the British House of Commons (b. 1905)
• September 14 - J.W. Hearne English cricketer (b. 1891)
• September 25 - Major-General Sir Henry Hugh Tudor, British soldier (b. 1871)
• October 22 - William Williams, Victoria Cross recipient
• November 4 - Ifor Williams, academic
• November 8 - George Henry Hall, politician
• November 25 - Dame Myra Hess, English pianist (b. 1890)
• December 16 - W. Somerset Maugham, English writer (b. 1874)
• December 26 - Llewellyn Alberic Emilius Price-Davies, Victoria Cross recipient
• December 28 - Jeremy Wolfenden, journalist and spy (b. 1934)

[edit] References