1972 in the United Kingdom
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Events from the year 1972 in the United Kingdom.
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[edit] Incumbents
- Monarch - HM Queen Elizabeth II
- Prime Minister - Edward Heath, Conservative Party
[edit] Events
- 9 January - Miners begin a strike which lasts for seven weeks.[1]
- 20 January - Unemployment exceeds 1 million for the first time since the 1930s.[2]
- 30 January - On 'Bloody Sunday' in Northern Ireland 14 killed when troops opened fire on demonstrators.[3]
- 22 February - An Official Irish Republican Army bomb kills six people at Aldershot Barracks.[4]
- 25 February - End of miners' strike after seven weeks.[5]
- 30 March - The Troubles: Parliament of Northern Ireland suspended.
- 31 March - A CND demonstration is held against the nuclear base at Aldermaston.[6]
- 19 April - a report into the Bloody Sunday shootings by the Lord Chief Justice, Lord Widgery, exonerates the British troops of blame because the demonstration had been illegal.[7]
- 26 May - privatisation of state-owned travel firm Thomas Cook & Son.[8]
- 30 May - Official Irish Republican Army declared a cease fire in Northern Ireland.[9]
- 3 June - a Protestant demonstration in Derry turned into a battle.[10]
- 5 June - funeral of Prince Edward, Duke of Windsor at Windsor Castle.[11]
- 18 June - British European Airways Flight 548 crashes near Staines and 118 people are killed, making it the UK's worst air disaster to date. The only two people who survived the crash were both dead by the time they reached hospital[12]
- 23 June - Chancellor of the Exchequer Anthony Barber announces decision to float the Pound.[13]
- 28 July - A strike by thousands of dockers led to the government announcing a state of emergency on 4 August.[14]
- 18 September - thousands of expelled Ugandan Asians arrive in Britain after being expelled by Idi Amin.[15]
- 19 September - a parcel bomb kills a diplomat at the Israeli embassy in London.[16]
- 6 November - Government introduces price and pay freezes to counter inflation.[17]
- December - Ford launches its new Granada top-of-the-range saloons, estates and coupes, which replace the Zephyr.
[edit] Undated
- John Hicks was awarded the Nobel Prize in Economics with Kenneth Arrow for "pioneering contributions to general economic equilibrium theory and welfare theory."[18]
- Rodney Robert Porter wins the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine jointly with Gerald Edelman "for their discoveries concerning the chemical structure of antibodies".[19]
[edit] Births
- 27 January - Mark Owen, singer and Take That member
- 11 February - Steve McManaman, footballer
- 19 February - Malky Mackay, footballer
- 6 March - Terry Murphy, snooker player
- 20 March - Alexander Kapranos, singer and guitarist (Franz Ferdinand)
- 22 April - Sarah Patterson, actress
- 2 May - Paul Adcock, footballer
- 5 May - James Cracknell, Olympic winning rower
- 4 June - Debra Stephenson, actress
- 3 July - Asha Gill, British-born television host
- 6 August - Geri Halliwell, musician (Spice Girls)
- 7 August - Sarah Cawood, television presenter
- 12 September - Jason Statham, actor
- 21 September - Liam Gallagher, singer (Oasis)
- 29 September - Robert Webb, comedian and actor
- 2 November - Samantha Janus, actress
- 7 November - Danny Grewcock, rugby player
- 6 November - Thandie Newton, actress
- 29 December - Jude Law, actor
[edit] Deaths
- 19 February - John Grierson, documentary film maker (born 1898)
- 29 February - Violet Trefusis, writer and socialite (born 1894)
- 13 March - Tony Ray-Jones, photographer (born 1941)
- 21 March - David McCallum, Sr., violinist and the father of David McCallum (born 1897)
- 29 March - J. Arthur Rank, industrialist and film producer (born 1888)
- 22 May - Cecil Day-Lewis, poet (born 1904)
- 22 May - Margaret Rutherford, actress (born 1892)
- 28 May - King Edward VIII of the United Kingdom (born 1894)
- 28 August - Prince William of Gloucester (air crash) (born 1941)
- 15 September - Geoffrey Fisher, Archbishop of Canterbury (born 1887)
- 1 October - Louis Leakey, palaeontologist (born 1903)
- 15 October - Douglas Smith, broadcaster (year of birth unknown)
- 28 November - Havergal Brian, composer (born 1876)
- 24 December - Gisela Richter, art historian (born 1882)
[edit] References
- ^ Miners strike against government
- ^ UK unemployment tops one million
- ^ Army kills 13 in civil rights protest
- ^ IRA bomb kills six at Aldershot barracks
- ^ Miners call off crippling coal strike
- ^ CND begins march to Aldermaston
- ^ 'Bloody Sunday' report excuses Army
- ^ Thomas Cook packaged and sold
- ^ Official IRA declares ceasefire
- ^ Protestant march ends in battle
- ^ Duke of Windsor laid to rest
- ^ UK's worst air crash kills 118
- ^ Chancellor orders pound flotation
- ^ National dock strike begins
- ^ Expelled Ugandans arrive in UK
- ^ Parcel bomb attack on Israeli embassy
- ^ Pay and price freeze aims to curb inflation
- ^ The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 1972
- ^ The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1972
