1970 in the United Kingdom
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Events from the year 1970 in the United Kingdom.
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[edit] Incumbents
- Monarch - HM Queen Elizabeth II
- Prime Minister - Harold Wilson ( – 19 June), Labour Party ; Edward Heath, Conservative Party (19 June – )
[edit] Events
- 1 January - Half crown coin ceases to be legal tender. [1]
- 22 January - A Boeing 747 lands at Heathrow Airport, the first jumbo jet to land in Britain.[2]
- 2 March - Ian Smith declares Rhodesia a republic breaking all ties with the British Crown, four years after the declaration of independence. Wilson's government refuses to recognise the new state. [3]
- 6 March - the importation of pets banned after an outbreak of rabies in Newmarket, Suffolk. [4]
- 13 March - the Bridgwater by-election becomes the first election in which 18-year-olds could vote. Tom King won the election for the Conservative Party. [5]
- 16 April - Dr Ian Paisley enters the Parliament of Northern Ireland after winning the Bannside by-election. [6]
- 22 May - A cricket tour by the South African cricket team called off after several African and Asian countries threatened to boycott the Commonwealth Games. [7]
- 1 June - Harold Wilson hit in the face with an egg thrown by a Young Conservative demonstrator.[8]
- 19 June - The General election won by Edward Heath's Conservative Party. [9]
- 26 June - Riots break out in Derry over the arrest of Mid-Ulster MP Bernadette Devlin. [10]
- 4 July - 112 people are found dead among the wreckage of a British Airways Manchester to Barcelona aeroplane that went missing yesterday. The wreckage was found in the mountains of Northern Spain, and there are no survivors. [1]
- 16 July - a state of emergency declared to deal with a dockers' strike. [11]
- 16–25 July - 1970 British Commonwealth Games held in Edinburgh.
- 20 August - England national football team captain Bobby Moore is cleared of stealing a bracelet while on World Cup duty in Colombia. [2]
- 18 September - American rock star Jimi Hendrix, 27, dies in London from a suspected drug-induced heart attack. [3]
- 26 December - British Olympic athlete Lillian Board, 22, dies of cancer at Munich University Hospital in West Germany. [4]
[edit] Unknown dates
- Mathematician Alan Baker wins a Fields Medal.[12]
- Bernard Katz wins the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine jointly with Ulf von Euler and Julius Axelrod "for their discoveries concerning the humoral transmittors in the nerve terminals and the mechanism for their storage, release and inactivation". [13]
- Ford launches its Cortina MK3 range of saloons and estates which will be built at the Dagenham plant. It is virtually identical to the Taunus, which is being built in Germany.
[edit] Births
- 7 January - Andrew Burnham, politician
- 19 January - Tim Foster, rower
- 20 January - Mitch Benn, comedian and songwriter
- 31 January - Minnie Driver, actress
- 10 February - Rob Shearman, television and radio scriptwriter
- 14 February - Simon Pegg, comedian, writer and actor
- 2 March - James Purnell, politician
- 9 March - Stuart Neild, author
- 27 April - Kylie Travis, actress and model
- 6 May - Chris Adams, cricketer
- 20 May - Louis Theroux, TV personality, author
- 22 May - Naomi Campbell, model and actress
- 27 May - Joseph Fiennes, actor
- 19 June - MJ Hibbett, singer-songwriter
- 20 June - Russell Garcia, field hockey player
- 25 June - Lucy Benjamin, actress
- 2 July - Steve Morrow, footballer
- 6 July - Martin Smith, singer and songwriter
- 7 July - Wayne McCullough, boxer
- 10 July - John Simm, actor
- 11 July - Saj Karim, politician
- 29 July - Andi Peters, TV presenter and producer
- 30 July - Christopher Nolan, writer and director
- 31 July - Ben Chaplin, actor
- 13 August - Alan Shearer, footballer
- 27 August - Peter Ebdon, snooker player
- 18 September - Darren Gough, cricketer
- 29 September - Emily Lloyd, actress
- 4 October - Richard Hancox, footballer
- 10 October - Sir Matthew Pinsent, Olympic winning rower
- 11 October - Andy Marriott, footballer
- 7 November - Neil Hannon, musician (The Divine Comedy)
- 12 November - Harvey Stephens, child-actor
- 22 November - Stel Pavlou, novelist and screenwriter
- 23 November - Zoë Ball, television and radio presenter
- 29 December - Aled Jones, singer and television presenter
[edit] Deaths
- 29 January - Basil Liddell Hart, military historian (b. 1895)
- 2 February - Bertrand Russell, logician and philosopher, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature (b. 1872)
- 14 February - Herbert Strudwick, cricketer (b. 1880)
- 28 February - Arthur Henry Knighton-Hammond, painter (b. 1875)
- 7 June - E. M. Forster, writer (b. 1879)
- 29 July - John Barbirolli, conductor (b. 1899)
- 5 September - Jesse Pennington, footballer (b. 1883)
[edit] References
- ^ (2006) Penguin Pocket On This Day. Penguin Reference Library. ISBN 0-141-02715-0.
- ^ Heathrow welcomes first 'jumbo jet'
- ^ Ian Smith declares Rhodesia a republic
- ^ Rabies ban on British pet imports
- ^ Conservative victory in first teen election
- ^ Paisley victory rattles NI parliament
- ^ South Africa cricket tour called off
- ^ British Prime Minister hit by flying egg
- ^ Shock election win for Heath
- ^ Violence flares as Devlin is arrested
- ^ State of emergency called over dock strike
- ^ (1999) The Hutchinson Factfinder. Helicon. ISBN 1-85986-000-1.
- ^ The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1970
