2005 IRA issues a statement ordering the end to the armed campaign against the British
2005 Peter Benenson, British Lawyer
2004 Alan Bullock, British Historian
2003 British consulate and bank bombed in Istanbul murdering 27
2003 Hartley William Shawcross, British Lawyer
2003 Chris Brasher, British Athlete
2002 J. Lee Thompson, British Director
2002 Barbara Castle, British Politician
2002 Princess Margaret, British Royalty
2001 John Walters, British Musician
2001 Mary Whitehouse, British Activist
2001 Auberon Waugh, British Author
2001 Lord Hailsham, British Politician
2000 Robin Day, British Journalist
2000 129th British Golf Open: at Royal Lytham
2000 Sir John Gielgud, British actor, Arthur, dies at 96
2000 Anthony Powell, British Novelist
2000 Cyril Clarke, British Scientist
2000 Steven Runciman, British Historian
1999 Hugh Casson, British Architect
1999 128th British Golf Open: at Camoustie Scot
1999 William Whitelaw, British Politician
1999 Jill Dando, British Journalist
1998 Weetabix Women's British Golf Open
1998 127th British Golf Open: at Royal Birkdale
1998 Derek Harold Richard Barton, British Scientist
1998 1st time the British flag is flown over Buckingham Palace
1998 Michael Tippett, British composer (Royal Col of Music), dies at 93
1997 Richard Vernon, British actor (Gandhi, Hard Days Night), dies at 72
1997 British au pair Louise Woodward, 19, sentenced to life in death of Matthew Eappen 8 months (judge changes to time served)00690901
1997 Princess Diana, British cultural icon, dies at 36
1997 Robin Skelton, British Writer
1997 Weetabix Women's British LPGA Open
1997 Karrie Webb wins LPGA Weetabix Women's British Open
1997 Ben Hogan, golfer, Masters, British Open, U.S. Open-1953, dies at 84
1997 126th British Golf Open: Billy Ray Brown shoots a 271 at Royal Troon
1997 American Justin Leonard wins the British Open shooting at 272
1997 British model Naomi Campbell, hospitalized on drug overdose
1997 British lease on New Territories in Hong Kong expires
1997 1st all female (20 British women) team reaches North Pole
1997 Godfrey Baseley, British radio executive, dies at 92
1996 Willaim Brown, British TV executive, dies at 67
1996 Mary Leakey, British Scientist
1996 Michael Bentine, British author/comedian (Reluctant Jester), dies at 74
1996 Emilee Klein wins LPGA Weetabix Women's British Golf Open
1996 125th British Golf Open: Tom Lehman shoots a 271 at Royal Lytham
1996 Peter Martini, British journalist, dies at 31
1996 Susan Cowdy, British ornithologist, dies at 81
1996 Alan Weeks, British sports commentator, dies at 72
1996 Norman Lambert, British restuarateur, dies
1996 John Abbott, British actor (Lady Jane, Quest), dies at 90
1996 O. J. Simpson appears on British TV discussing his not guilty verdict
1996 2 U.S. Marine helicopters collided during joint U.S. and British war games
1996 David Michael Ifshin, British political campaign organiser, dies at 46
1996 Simon Harcourt Nowell-Smith, British bibliophile, dies at 87
1996 British Steel in Workington wins Lithuanian multi-million pound order
1996 Barbara Lewis, British obituarist, dies at 55
1996 Bentley Bridgewater, british Museum secretary, dies at 84
1996 Record $65.2 million British lottery won by 3 people (2-3-4-13-42-44)
1996 Arleigh Albert Burke, British Admiral, dies at 94
1995 Lord Home of Hirsel, cricket (Middlesex player later British PM), dies
1995 Harry Broadhurst, British airman, dies at 89
1995 John Killan Houston Brunner, British sci-fi writer, dies at 60
1995 Kerrie Webb wins LPGA Weetabix Women's British Golf Open
1995 Danny Arnold, British TV producer, dies at 70
1995 Brian Smith, British sportscaster, dies
1995 124th British Golf Open: John Daly shoots a 282 at St. Andrews Scotland
1995 Jack Nicklaus wins Golf's British Open, 4th to win all 4 majors
1995 Thomas Dorrington Tomlinson, British national park warden, dies at 87
1995 Jean Muir, (Dress Queen), British model, dies at 66
1995 Harold Wilson, British Prime Minister (1964-70, 74-76), dies of cancer at 79
1995 Joseph Needham, British Scientist
1995 British pound hits 2.4545 to Dutch guilder (record)
1995 Ota Adler, Czech/British fur trader (Jewish Aid Fund), dies at 83
1995 Don Cook, British foreign correspondent, dies at 74
1995 Vivian Stanshall, British musician (Magical Mystery Tour), dies at 51
1995 British trader Nick Leeson arrested for collapse of Barings Bank PLC
1995 British heavyweight Nigel Benn hits Gerard McClellan in hospital
1995 Jack Clayton, British director (Great Gatsby), dies at 73
1995 Robert Bolt, British playwright (Doctor Zhivago, Bounty), dies at 70
1995 Lord Taylor of Hadfield, British President of Taylor Woodrow Group, dies at 90
1995 Viscount Camrose, British large landowner/Conservative, dies
1995 Robert Bolt, British Playwright
1995 Wilhelm J Soukop, Austrian/British sculptor, dies at 88
1995 Betty Davis, British dance teacher of Dame Margot Fonteyn, dies
1995 Gerald M Durrell, British zoologist/author (Mockery Bird), dies at 70
1995 Raymond Joseph Cecil, British architect, dies at 69
1995 Richard Burnell, British rower (Olympics-gold-1948), dies at 77
1995 Geoffrey Parsons, Australian/British pianist, dies at 65
1995 Halsey S Colchester, British SAS/MI6-spy/priest, dies at 76
1995 Margaret Barbara Lambert, British historian (Saar), dies at 88
1995 Alexander Gibson, British conductor/founder (Scottish Opera), dies at 68
1995 Ellis Peters, British Author
1995 Larry Grayson, British entertainer (Generation Game), dies at 65 or 71
1995 Edward Sutcliffe, judge (British Central Criminal Court), dies at 77
1995 Leonard Hirsch, British violinist and conducter (BBC Empire Orch), dies at 92
1995 Gerard W. Taylor, South African/British surgeon, dies at 74
1994 Shauna McDonald Brown, British TV producer, dies at 37
1994 Mollie Doreen Phillips, British figure skater (Eur-bronze-33), dies at 87
1994 Stanislaw Maczek, Polish/British general-major (WW II), dies at 102
1994 Keith Joseph, British MP (C), dies
1994 82nd CFL Grey Cup: British Columbia Lions defeat Balt Stallions, 26-23
1994 Dutch and British astronomers find spiral nebula Dwingeloo 1
1994 Dolly Hare, German/British actress (Broken Blossom), dies at 84
1994 Amy Clampitt, British poet (Silence Opens), dies at 74
1994 Last U.S., British and French troops leave West-Berlin
1994 Arthur Rex Alston, British sports commentator, dies at 93
1994 Terence Young, British director (Thunderball), dies of at 79
1994 Lindsay Anderson, British director/critic (If ...), dies at 71
1994 Nancy Keene Lancaster, US/British architect (Binnen House), dies at 96
1994 Liselotte Neumann wins LPGA Weetabix Women's British Golf Open
1994 Elias Canetti, Bulgaria/British author (Nobel 1981), dies at 89
1994 Last British troops leave Hong Kong (been there since Sept 1841)
1994 Clive Robertson Caldwell, British fighter pilot, dies at 84
1994 Anne Shelton, British singer (Glenn Miller Band), dies at 66
1994 Enid Balint-Edmonds, British psychoanalyst, dies at 90
1994 123rd British Golf Open: Nick Price shoots a 268 at Turnberry Scotland
1994 Simon Prior, British auto maker, dies of injuries
1994 Dennis Potter, British TV writer (Pennies from Heaven), dies at 59
1994 Sidney Gilliat, British screenwriter/director, dies at 86
1994 Norman Cook, British museum curator, dies at 87
1994 John Smith, British Labour Party chairman (1992-94), dies at 55
1994 Labour beats Conservatives in British local elections
1994 David Langton, British actor (Upstairs Downstairs), dies at 82
1994 Keith Watson, British comic strip artist (Dan Dare), dies at 59
1994 Lee Brilleaux, British R&B-singer/guitarist (Stupidity), dies at 41
1994 Arnold Smith, British 1st sec-gen of Commonwealth (1965-75), dies at 79
1994 Lady Caithness, wife of British undersecretary, commits suicide
1993 Alexander Mackendrick, British/US director (Lady Killers), dies at 81
1993 Philip Christison, British general (Rangoon), dies at 100
1993 British premier Major/Irish premier Reynolds signs Downing Street Declaration concerning Northern Ireland self determination
1993 James Boyden, British Labour MP (1959-79), dies at 82
1993 Leonard Parkin, British TV host (ITN), dies at 64
1993 Hew Lorimer, British sculptor, dies at 86
1993 E. P. Thompson, British Historian
1993 British Aerospace 147 crash at Yinchuan, 55 killed
1993 122nd British Golf Open: Greg Norman shoots a 267 at Royal St. George
1993 Ian Mikardo, British politician, dies
1993 Penelope Gilliatt [Conner], British author
1993 Leslie Charteris, British mystery writer (Saint), dies at 85
1993 Kate Reid, British actress (Lil-Dallas), dies of cancer at 62
1993 C. Northcote Parkinson, British Historian
1993 David Willis, British journalist (BBC World Service), dies at 54
1992 Kenneth MacMillan, British choreographer (Manon, Judas Tree), dies
1992 Lady Rothermere, [Bubbles], wife of British newspaper magnate, dies
1992 Francisco Fernandez Ordonez, British foreign min to Spain (1985-92), dies
1992 Maxine Audley, British actress (Vikings, Our Man in Havana), dies at 69
1992 121st British Golf Open: Nick Faldo shoots a 272 at Muirfield Gullane
1992 Albert Pierrepont, last British executioner (433 men/17 women), dies
1992 Georgia Brown, British singer and actress (Love at Stake), dies at 58
1992 Great British postage stamp 350 year battle near Edgehill
1992 Georgia Brown, British actress (Lock up your daughters), dies at 58
1992 Elizabeth David, British cookbook writer, dies
1992 Mike Tyrell [Red Baron], British air acrobat, dies in an accident
1992 Francis Bacon, Irish/British abstract painter, dies at 82
1992 Peter D. Mitchell, British Scientist
1992 Friedrich A von Hayek, British economist (Road to Serfdom), dies at 92
1992 British Prince Andrew and Princess Sarah Ferguson announce separation
1992 Charles Rea, British actor (Ipcress File), dies at 69
1992 Johnny Mack, British actor (Time Lord-Dr. Who), dies at 70
1992 Franc Holden, British astronomer (Binary Stars), dies
1992 Angela Carter, British novelist (Magic Toyshop), dies of cancer at 51
1992 Jack [John T] Aitken, British anatomist, dies at 78
1992 Gwen Ffrangcon-Davies, British actress (Eliza Dolittle), dies at 101
1992 Barbara Couper, British actress (Last Days of Dolwyn), dies at 89
1991 Ray Smith, British actor (And Then You Die), dies at 55
1991 Robert Eddison, British actor (Uncle Silas), dies at 83
1991 Alex Graham, British cartoonstrip artist (Fred Basset), dies
1991 Freddie Mercury, British singer (Queen), dies of AIDS at 45
1991 Tony Richardson, British director (Tom Jones), dies of AIDs at 63
1991 Peter Willes, British actor/producer (Way We Live), dies
1991 Mark Robinson, British actor (The Girl), dies at 30
1991 Steve Kemp, British light enterpeneur, dies
1991 Dallas Adams, British painter/writer/actor (Terror from Within), dies
1991 Vince Taylor, [Brian Holden], British singer (Brand new Cadillac), dies
1991 Betty Bowden, British dancer/actress (Vote for Nigel), dies at 86
1991 Irene Campbell, British actress/dancer (Wicker Man, St. Justice), dies
1991 Shite Moslems release British hostage John McCarthy
1991 120th British Golf Open: Ian Baker-Finch shoots 272 at Royal Birkdale
1991 Joy Finzi, [Joyce A Black], British painter, dies at 84
1991 Peggy Ashcroft, British actress (A passage to India), dies at 83
1991 Angus Wilson, [Johnstone-W], British writer (Wrong Set), dies
1991 Peter T Thwaites, British brig-gen/playwright (Love or money), dies
1991 Queen Elizabeth becomes 1st British monarch to address U.S. congress
1991 Prudence Nesbitt, British actress/TV producer, dies
1991 Ronnie Brody, British actor (Superman III, Whats Up Nurse), dies at 72
1991 Ronnie Brody, British actor (Superman 3, What's Up Nurse), dies at 72
1991 Graham Greene, British writer (3rd Man, Our man in Havana), dies at 86
1991 Iran releases British hostage Roger Cooper after 5 years
1991 Ralph Bates, British actor (Persecution, Graveyard), dies at 50
1991 British Court of Appeal frees "Birmingham 6" who had been unjustly sentenced in August 1975 to life imprisonment
1991 Iraq releases 6 U.S., 3 British and 1 Italian POW
1991 Margot Fonteyn, ballerina (1st lady of British Ballet), dies at 71
1990 British and French workers meet in English Channel's tunnel (Chunnel)
1990 Margaret Thatcher announces her resignation as British Prime Minister
1990 Alan J P Taylor, British historian (Origins of WW II), dies
1990 Lord Caradon, British Diplomat
1990 George Adamson, British conservationist (Born Free), murdered in Kenya
1990 Ian Gow, British Conservative parliament leader, murdered
1990 119th British Golf Open: Nick Faldo shoots 270 at St. Andrews Scotland
1990 Eva Turner, British soprano, dies
1990 Emma Watson, British Actress
1989 John M Pritchard, British conductor, dies at 68
1989 TV cameras permitted in British House of Commons
1989 IRA-bomb kills 10 British marines in Kent
1989 British brewery Bass buys Holiday Inn hotel chain
1989 Ronald Laing, British psychiatrist (anti-psychiatry), dies
1989 118th British Golf Open: Mark Calcavecchia shoots a 275 at Royal Troon
1989 Daniel Radcliffe, British Actor
1989 Nigel Dennis, British Writer
1989 Retired British pilot Jack Mann is kidnapped by Islamic fundamentalists
1989 South African/British Olympic runner Zola Budd marries
1989 Bruce Chatwin, British writer, dies at 49
1989 Frank Adams, British Mathematician
1989 Edmund Leach, British Scientist
1988 Nicholas Tinbergen, Dutch/British biologist, dies at 81
1988 U.N. votes 151-2 (Isr and U.S.) to move PLO debate to Geneva, British abstains
1988 117th British Golf Open: Seve Ballesteros shoots 273 at Royal Lytham
1988 25th Curtis Cup: British Isles, 11-7
1988 James "Hamish" Hamilton, British publisher (Salinger/Mitford), dies at 87
1988 H A R (Kim) Philby, British double agent, dies
1988 Last broadcast of "Crossroads" on British TV
1988 Margaret Thatcher becomes longest-serving British Prime Minister this century
1987 Jacqueline du Pre, British cellist, dies at 42
1987 116th British Golf Open: Nick Faldo shoots a 279 at Muirfield Gullane
1987 Boy George barred from British TV show, he may be a bad influence
1987 Margaret Thatcher is 1st British Prime Minister in 160 years to win 3rd term
1987 British Airways begins trading stocks
1987 Patrick "Spike" Hughes, British jazz musician (Cinderella), dies at 78
1987 Hart Foundation beat British Bulldogs for WWF tag team title
1986 John Braine, British Novelist
1986 1st edition British newspaper "Independent" begins publishing
1986 115th British Golf Open: Greg Norman shoots a 280 at Turnberry Scotld
1986 Stanley Rous, British soccer official, dies at 91
1986 Margaret Thatcher becomes 1st British Prime Minister to visit Israel
1986 British Defense Secretary Michael Heseltine resigns
1986 Christopher Isherwood, British writer (Lions and Shadows), dies at 81
1985 Rodney Robert Porter, British Scientist
1985 114th British Golf Open: Sandy Lyle shoots a 282 at Royal St. George
1985 Charlie Simpson, British Musician
1985 Alister Hardy, British Scientist
1985 Richard Haydn, British actor (Mutiny on the Bounty), dies at 80
1984 Paul Dirac, British Physicist
1984 Ayako Okamoto wins LPGA Hitachi Ladies British Golf Open
1984 Henry Charles Albert David, Prince of Wales, 3rd in British succession
1984 Bernard Youens, British actor (Coronation Street), dies at 69
1984 J. B. Priestley, British Writer
1984 James Mason, British actor (Lolita), dies of a heart attack at 75
1984 Steve Ballesteros wins British Open
1984 113th British Golf Open: Seve Ballesteros shoots a 276 at St. Andrews
1984 Gareth Gates, British Musician
1984 Eric Morecambe, British comedian (Morecambe and Wise), dies at 58
1984 Peter Bull, British actor (Dr. Doolittle), dies of a heart attack at 72
1984 Lionel Charles Robbins, British economist, dies at 85
1984 Basil Henry Blackwell, British publisher, dies
1984 Jimmy Kenndy, British songwriter (South of the Border), dies
1984 Arthur Travors Harris, marshal of British RAF, dies
1984 Kenneth Whitty, 1st sec at British Embassy in Athens, shot dead
1984 British ice dancing team, Torvill and Dean, become 1st skaters to receive 9 perfect 6.0s in world championships
1983 British Airways incorporates
1983 Mary Renault [Challans], British author (Funeral games), dies at 78
1983 John Le Mesurier, British actor (Jabberwocky, Dad's Army), dies at 71
1983 112th British Golf Open: Tom Watson shoots a 275 at Royal Birkdale
1983 Lee Ryan, British Musician
1983 Margaret Thatchers Conservative Party wins British parliamentary election
1983 Desmond Bagley, British Journalist
1983 Anthony F Blunt, British art historian/spy for U.S.S.R., dies at 75
1983 Dutch/British infrared satellite IRAS launched from California
1983 Bill Brandt, British Photographer
1983 British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher visits Falkland Islands
1982 Arthur Askey, British comedian, dies at 82
1982 Edward H Carr, British historian, dies at 90
1982 Billie Piper, British Actress
1982 Douglas Bader, British Soldier
1982 111th British Golf Open: Tom Watson shoots a 284 at Royal Troon
1982 Natasha Hamilton, British Musician
1982 Kenneth More, British actor (Genevieve), dies of Parkinson disease at 67
1982 Margaret Thatcher begins her 2nd term as British prime minster
1982 Marie Rambert, [Cyviam Ramberg], Polish/British ballerina, dies at 94
1982 Reagan addresses joint session of British Parliament
1982 British ship Atlantic Conveyor and Coventry were hit in Falkland war
1982 British troops lands on Falkland Islands
1982 British torpedo boat Sheffield off Falkland hit by Exocet rocket
1982 Falklands War: Argentine cruiser General Belgrano sunk by British submarine Conqueror, killing more than 350 men
1982 Celia Johnson, British actress (Jean Brodie), dies of stroke at 73
1982 Canada Constitution Act replaces British North America Act
1982 British fleet sails to Falkland Islands
1982 Lord Carrington, British foreign sect resigns due to Falkland Is war
1982 Edmund Cooper, British sci-fi writer (Tomorrow Came), dies at 55
1981 Belize (British Honduras) gains independence from U.K.
1981 Elize Du Toit, British Actress
1981 Paul Brunton, British Philosopher
1981 110th British Golf Open: Bill Rogers shoots a 276 at Royal St. George
1981 Imprisoned IRA hunger striker Bobby Sands elected to British Parliament
1981 Claude Auchinleck, British Soldier
1981 British police arrest Peter Sutcliffe, a truck driver later convicted of "Yorkshire Ripper" murders of 13 women
1981 British police arrest Peter Sutcliffe, the "Yorkshire Ripper"
1980 Anguilla becomes a British dependency separate from St. Kitts
1980 British Leyland starts selling Mini Metro
1980 109th British Golf Open: Tom Watson shoots a 271 at Muirfield Gullane
1980 Gregory Bateson, British Scientist
1980 Charles Percy Snow, British writer (Friends and Associates), dies at 75
1980 Siege at Iranian Embassy in London ends; British commandos and police stormed the building
1980 Alfred Joseph Hitchcock, British director (Psycho, Birds), dies at 80
1980 Oskar Kokoschka, Austria/British painter/graphic artist, dies at 93
1980 Cecil Beaton, British photographer, dies at 76
1979 British newspaper "Times" resumes publishing after 1 year
1979 Sophie Dahl, British Model
1979 18 British militia die in ambush/bomb attack in Northern Ireland
1979 Louis Mountbatten, British adm of the Fleet, assassinated by IRA
1979 English seaside resort Brighton gets 1st British nude beach
1979 108th British Golf Open: Seve Ballesteros shoots a 283 at Royal Lytham
1979 Herbert Butterfield, British Historian
1979 IRA-bomb explodes in British consulate in Antwerp
1979 Airey Neave, British MP (Conservatives), killed by terrorist bomb
1979 British government of Callaghan falls
1979 ... Sykes, British ambassador in The Hague, murdered
1979 Walter Legge, British Businessman
1979 Richard Sykes, British ambassador, assassinated in Holland
1978 Khomeini followers attack British embassy/El Al office in Iran
1978 British pop magazine "Smash Hits," 1st published
1978 Nicolas Bentley, British Author
1978 107th British Golf Open: Jack Nicklaus shoots a 281 at St. Andrews
1978 Rutles "All You Need is Cash" is shown on British TV
1978 Paul Scott, British Novelist
1978 Louise Woodward, British Celebrity
1978 Jenny Frost, British Musician
1978 Reginald Maudling, British Politician
1977 Clementine O Spencer-Churchill (Hozier), British barones, dies at 92
1977 Peter Mark Andrew Phillips, 9th in succession to British throne
1977 Ken Hinton of CFL British Columbia Lions returns a punt 130 yards
1977 106th British Golf Open: Tom Watson shoots a 268 at Turnberry Scotland
1977 British Virgin Islands adopts constitution
1977 British Aerospace forms
1977 Anthony Crosland, British Politician
1977 Anthony Eden, British premier (1955-57), dies at 79
1976 Benjamin Britten, British composer (Beggar's Opera), dies at 63
1976 Battle East Sussex: Mary Langdon becomes 1st British firewoman
1976 Rhona Mitra, British Actress
1976 Christopher Ewart-Biggs, British ambassador to Ireland, assassinated
1976 105th British Golf Open: Johnny Miller shoots a 279 at Royal Birkdale
1976 Bernard L Montgomery, British general, defeated Rommel, dies at 88
1976 British premier Harold Wilson resigns
1976 British pounds falls below $2 for 1st time
1976 Margaret Leighton, British actress (Much ado about nothing), dies at 53
1976 Emma Bunton, British Musician
1975 British government sends troops to Belize
1975 Arnold J. Toynbee, British Historian
1975 104th British Golf Open: Tom Watson shoots a 279 at Carnoustie
1975 British voters decide to remain in Common Market
1975 British population agrees to European Common Market membership
1975 Jamie Oliver, British Celebrity
1975 Denise Van Outen, British Actress
1975 Michael Flanders, British Actor
1975 Margaret Thatcher elected leader of British Conservative Party
1975 14 die when British freighter "Lake Illawarra" rams pylon bridge between Derwent and Hobart, Tasmania and ship sinks
1975 Robert Neumann, Austrian/British author (False Flag), dies at 77
1974 2nd cease-fire between IRA and British; lasts until approx April 1975
1974 British Lord Lucan disappears
1974 Labour Party wins British parliamentary election
1974 Jacob Bronowsky, British mathematician/cultural historian, dies at 66
1974 Ivor Dean, British actor (Theatre of Death), dies at 57
1974 103rd British Golf Open: Gary Player shoots a 282 at Royal Lytham
1974 Patrick MS Blackett, British physicist (Nobel 1948), dies at 76
1974 Harold Wilson replaces resigning Ed Heath as British premier
1974 Labour Party wins British parliamentary election
1974 Robbie Williams, British Musician
1974 British mine strike
1974 Edmund Blunden, British poet/critic, dies at 77
1974 Louise Nurding, British Musician
1973 Wystan H Auden, British/US writer (Spain/Platonic Blow), dies at 66
1973 A S Neill, British headmaster, dies at at 89
1973 John R R Tolkien, British story writer (Hobbitt), dies of ulcer at 81
1973 102nd British Golf Open: Tom Weiskopf shoots a 276 at Royal Troon
1973 Melinda Penn, Miss British virgin islands Universe, 1997
1973 Jack Davenport, British Actor
1973 British Darts Organisation founded in North London
1972 Vicki Goetze, Michicot WI, LPGA golfer, 1995 British Open-12th
1972 Liam Gallagher, British Musician
1972 British harbor strike ends
1972 Bloody Sunday: British soldiers fire into crowd, kill 13
1972 Geri Halliwell, British Musician
1972 British premier Heath proclaims emergency crisis due to harbor strike
1972 101st British Golf Open: Lee Trevino shoots 278 at Muirfield Gullane
1972 Bangladesh becomes a member of British Commonwealth
1972 British Parliament votes to join European Common Market
1972 British Government declares state of emergency after month-long miners' strike
1972 Bloody Sunday: British soldiers shoot on catholics in Londonderry, 13 die
1972 Pakistan withdraws from the British Commonwealth
1972 Jill McGill, born in Denver, Colorado, LPGA golfer, 1995 British Open-2nd
1972 Jude Law, British Actor
1972 Jonny Lee Miller, British Actor
1972 Thandie Newton, British Actress
1971 Dido Armstrong, British Musician
1971 Stella McCartney, British Designer
1971 David Walliams, British Actor
1971 Bahrain proclaims independence after 110 years of British rule
1971 100th British Golf Open: Lee Trevino shoots a 278 at Royal Birkdale
1971 British and Argentina sign accord about Falkland Islands
1971 Rachel Weisz, British Actress
1971 Stevie Smith, British Poet
1971 Amanda Holden, British Actress
1971 British car maker Rolls Royce declared itself bankrupt
1971 Alan Patrick Herbert, British Novelist
1971 Emily Mortimer, British Actress
1970 British newspaper Sun puts 1st pinup girl on pg 3 (Stephanie Rahn)
1970 Caledonian Airways takes over British United Airways
1970 Quebec separatists kidnap British trade commissioner James Cross
1970 99th British Golf Open: Jack Nicklaus shoots a 283 at St. Andrews
1970 British aircraft crashes at Barcelona, 112 killed
1970 Christopher Nolan, British Director
1970 British government of Edward Heath forms, with Margaret Thatcher
1970 Conservatives win British parliamentary election
1970 Edward M Forster, British writer (Maurice, passage to India), dies at 91
1970 British expedition climbs south face of Annapurna I
1970 Joseph Fiennes, British Actor
1970 Simon Pegg, British Comedian
1970 Bertrand Russell, philosopher, British MP, dies in Merioneth at 97
1970 B. H. Liddell Hart, British Historian
1970 Max Born, German/British physicist (Nobel 1954), dies at 87
1969 Catriona Matthew, Edinburgh Scotland, golfer, 1995 British Open-12th
1969 British troops intervene militarily in Northern Ireland
1969 Leonard Woolf, British Author
1969 98th British Golf Open: Tony Jacklin shoots a 280 at Royal Lytham
1969 Colin Greenwood, British Musician
1969 Harold RLG 1st Earl Alexander of Tunis, British field marshal, dies at 78
1969 John and Yoko appear on David Frost's British TV Show
1969 British liner Queen Elizabeth II leaves on maiden voyage to New York
1969 Bernadette Devlin elected to British house of commons
1969 British invade Anguilla
1969 Boris Karloff, [Pratt], British actor (Frankenstein), dies at 81
1969 Naveen Andrews, British Actor
1969 Stephen Hendry, British snookers player
1969 P. J. Harvey, British Musician
1968 Wendy Doolan, Sydney Australia, LPGA golfer, 1991 British Amat Champ-2nd
1968 Mervyn Peake, British Writer
1968 Guy Ritchie, British Director
1968 Dominic West, British Actor
1968 Catherine Bell, British Model
1968 Lilian Harvey, British actress (Congress Dances), dies
1968 97th British Golf Open: Gary Player shoots 289 at Carnoustie Scotland
1968 Randolph Churchill, British Journalist
1968 British minister of Foreign affairs George Brown resigns
1968 Anthony Asquith, British director (Court Martial), dies at 65
1968 British adopts year-round daylight savings time
1968 Warren Ellis, British Author
1967 British troops withdraw from Aden and South Yemen
1967 British government devalues pounds from U.S. equivalent of $2.80 to $2.40
1967 1st local British radio station begins broadcasting (Radio Leicester)
1967 Susan Tulley, British actress, Michelle-EastEnders
1967 British liner Queen Elizabeth II launched at Clydebank, Scotland
1967 Gibraltar votes 12,138 to 44 to remain British and not Spanish
1967 Roberto DeVicenzo of Argentina wins golf's British Open
1967 1st British color TV broadcast, on BBC 2
1967 Emma Anderson, British Musician
1967 Arthur W. Tedder of Glenguin, British air marshal (WW II), dies at 76
1967 1st British ombudsman sir Edward Compton begins work
1967 Nick Leeson, British banker, Baring bank
1967 Gavin Rossdale, British Musician
1967 Nicholas Gillingham, British swimmer, world record 200m freestyle
1967 Clement Atlee, British Statesman
1966 Douglas Vipond, British pop drummer, Deacon Blue-Raintown
1966 1st British nuclear sub HMS Resolution launched
1966 Edward Gordon Craig, British Actor
1966 95th British Golf Open: Jack Nicklaus shoots 282 at Muirfield Gullane
1966 Arthur D Waley, [Schloss], British sinology/poet (Monkey), dies
1966 Samuel West, British Actor
1966 Guyana (formerly British Guiana) declares independence from UK
1966 Helena Bonham Carter, British Actress
1966 Last British concert by Beatles (Empire Pool in Wembley)
1966 John Patrick Daly, born in born in Sacramento, California, PGA golfer, 1995 British Open
1966 Evelyn Waugh, British writer (Black Mischief), dies at 62
1966 Labour Party wins British parliamentary election
1966 Karen Lunn, born in Cowra, Australia, LPGA golfer, 1993 Women's British Open
1966 Alecia Stephenson, born in North Vancouver, British Columbia, softball ss 1996 Olympics
1966 Alan Davies, British Actor
1966 North Sea Gas was 1st pumped ashore by British Petroleum
1965 British government proclaims ends oil-embargo against Rhodesia
1965 British Indian Ocean Territory formed
1965 [John] Selwyn (Brooke) Lloyd, British statesman, dies
1965 Queen Elizabeth decorates Beatles with Order of British Empire
1965 Elizabeth Lane becomes 1st female British supreme court justice
1965 Sam Mendes, British Director
1965 Cigarette Ads banned on British TV
1965 Rock group "Animals" 1st time on British charts
1965 Edward Heath succeeds Alec Douglas-Hume as leader of British Cons party
1965 94th British Golf Open: Peter Thomson shoots a 285 at Royal Birkdale
1965 Suzanne Peta Strudwick, born in Knutsford, England, golfer, 1995 British Open-7th
1965 Nigel Short, British Celebrity
1965 Norman Whiteside, British soccer player
1965 Howard Spring, British author (Heaven Lies About Us), dies at 76
1965 Andrew Jameson, British swimmer
1965 27 copper miners die in avalanche, Granduc Mountain, British Columbia
1965 The Who make their 1st appearance on British TV
1965 Richard Dunwoody, British jockey
1965 W. Somerset Maugham, British Playwright
1965 Steve Coogan, British Comedian
1965 Joely Richardson, British Actress
1965 Vinnie Jones, British Athlete
1964 Edith Sitwell, British Poet
1964 British Labour Party installs weapon embargo against South Africa
1964 Harold Wilson's Labour party wins British election
1964 Final edition of socialist British newspaper "Daily Herald"
1964 Ian L Fleming, British journalist and writer (James Bond), dies at 56
1964 Erwin F Finlay-Freundlich, British astronomer, dies
1964 Steve Ballesteros wins British Golf Open
1964 Craig Charles, British Actor
1964 Mike Edwards, British rock vocalist, Jesus Jones-Devil you Know
1964 Boris Johnson, British Politician
1964 Jack Nicklaus wins British Open golf tournament
1964 Adrian Moorhouse, British 100m breaststroker 1988 Olympics gold
1964 Elizabeth McColgan, British running star, world record 5 km indoor
1964 Lorraine McIntosh, British pop singer, Deacon Blue-Fellow Hoodlums
1964 Nancy Astor, British Politician
1964 Ewen Vernal, British pop bassist, Deacon Blue-Your Town
1963 Kenya (formerly British East Africa) declares independence from UK
1963 Zanzibar becomes independent within British Commonwealth
1963 "Doctor Who," the long-running British sci-fi series debuts in England
1963 John Barnes, British soccer player
1963 Alec Douglas-Home forms British government
1963 British premier Harold MacMillan, resigns
1963 Uganda becomes a republic within British Commonwealth
1963 Mervyn A Ellison, British astronomer (spectrohelioscope), dies at 63
1963 Louis MacNeice, British Poet
1963 Guy Burgess, British spy for the U.S.S.R.
1963 British spy Kim Philby found in Moscow
1963 Gerald Vann, British Theologian
1963 George Michael [Panos], British rock vocalist, Wham-I Want Your Sex
1963 George Michael, British Musician
1963 British House of Commons debates Profumo-Christine Keeler affair
1963 John Whiting, British dramatist/actor (Devils), dies
1963 Andrew Browne, Irish/British Admiral (Cape Matapan, WW II), dies at 80
1963 British Minister of War John Profumo resigns due to Christine Keeler
1963 Alessandra Ferri, British ballerina, American Ballet Theater
1963 British Min of War John Profumo denies having sex with Christine Keeler
1963 Deborah Bull, British Dancer
1963 Paul Way, British golfer
1963 Beatles began 1st British tour, supporting Tommy Roe and Chris Montez
1963 Todd "Hugh" Gaitskell, leader British Labour Party, dies at 56
1963 Beatles top British rock charts with "Please, Please Me"
1963 Martin Bashir, British Journalist
1963 Robert Hamer, British Director
1962 Ralph Fiennes, born in Suffolk, England, actor, English Patient
1962 Beatles 1st British TV appearance (People and Places)
1962 Tanganyika becomes a republic within British Commonwealth
1962 Cary Elwes, British Actor
1962 S C Grant, British Lt-General
1962 Jack Dee, British Comedian
1962 Jamaica becomes independent after 300 years of British rule
1962 Corinne Dibnah, born in Brisbane, Australia, LPGA golfer, 1988 British Open
1962 91st British Golf Open: Arnold Palmer shoots a 276 at Royal Troon
1962 1st flight Vickers (British Aerospace) VC-10 long-range airliner
1962 Eugene Goossens, British composer (Perseus), dies at 69
1962 British Antarctic Territory forms
1962 U.S. / British nuclear test experiment in Nevada
1962 Eddie Izzard, British Comedian
1962 British spy Kim Philby defects to U.S.S.R.
1961 John F. Kennedy and British Prime Minister MacMillan meet in Bermuda
1961 British government begins decimal coin system
1961 Frank Bruno, British boxer, European champ
1961 Hurricane Hattie, kills 400 in British Honduras
1961 Tanganyika becomes independent within British Commonwealth
1961 Antonia De Sancha, born in London, England, lover of British MP David Mellor
1961 Jared Harris, British Actor
1961 90th British Golf Open: Arnold Palmer shoots a 284 at Royal Birkdale
1961 Princess Diana, British Royalty
1961 Alison Moyet, British Musician
1961 Richard Phelps, British pentathelete
1961 British liner "Dara" explodes in Persian Gulf, kills 236
1961 Michael Winterbottom, British Director
1961 South Africa leaves British Commonwealth
1961 South Africa withdraws from British Commonwealth
1961 George Formby, British singer/comedian, dies at 56
1961 Barry McGuigan, British boxer
1961 Anthony G de Rothschild, British philanthropist, dies at 73
1961 British minister Enoch Powell makes medical insurance more expensive
1961 Sarah Sutton, British Actress
1961 Jill Dando, British Journalist
1960 1st broadcast of "Coronation Street" on British ITV
1960 Jonathan Ross, British talk show host, Tall Guy
1960 Neil Gaiman, British Author
1960 James Prime, British rock keyboardist, Deacon Blue-Pay Day
1960 Ian Baker-Finch, Nambour Queensland, PGA golfer, 1991 British Open
1960 1st British nuclear sub Dreadnought launched
1960 Richard Jobson, British TV person/rocker, Skids-Scared to Dance
1960 British Labour party demands unilateral nuclear disarmament
1960 Harry St. John Philby, [sheik Abdullah], British explorer, dies
1960 Nick della Casa, British/Brazillian/Argentine cameraman, Emmy Award
1960 Melanie Klein, Austria/British psycho analyst, dies at 78
1960 British Somaliland becomes Somalia
1960 British Somaliland becomes part of Somalia
1960 British Somaliland (now Somalia) gains independence from Britain
1960 Peter Winterbottom, British rugby player
1960 Nigeria becomes a member of British Commonwealth
1960 Jonathan Agnew, British broadcaster and test bowler
1960 Dornford Yates, British Novelist
1960 F S Flint, British translator/poet (imagist movement), dies at 74
1960 Cindy Figg-Currier, Mt Pleasant, Michigan, golfer, 1994 British Open-6th
1960 Alex Scott, British horse trainer
1960 John Galliano, British Designer
1960 Carol Vorderman, British Entertainer
1960 Nigella Lawson, British Journalist
1959 Charles Kennedy, British Politician
1959 Conservatives win British election
1959 Kay Kendall, British actress (Genevieve), dies of leukemia at 32
1959 Jeanette Winterson, British Novelist
1959 88th British Golf Open: Gary Player shoots a 284 at Muirfield Gullane
1959 Julie Burchill, British Journalist
1959 Morrissey, British rock vocalist, Everyday is Like Sunday
1959 Mike Lindup, British rock keyboardist/singer, Level 42-Hot Water
1959 British government arrests Hastings Banda of Nyasaland, ends emergency crisis
1959 Ali Campbell, British reggae vocalist and guitarist, UB40-Red Red Wine
1959 Sammy Lee, British soccer player
1959 Andy McNabb, British Novelist
1959 Earl Falconer, British reggae bassist, UB40-Red Red Wine
1959 Simon Cowell, British Entertainer
1958 Terry Butcher, British soccer player
1958 Limahl, British rocker, Kajagoogoo-Too Shy
1958 Friedrich Adolf Paneth, Austrian/British chemist, dies at 71
1958 Lenny Henry, British comedian, 3 of a Kind
1958 Alvin Martin, British Athlete
1958 87th British Golf Open: Peter Thomson shoots a 278 at Royal Lytham
1958 Alfred Noyes, British poet/essayist (Robin Hood), dies at 77
1958 British parachutists lands on Cyprus
1958 Ronald Colman, British actor (Prisoner of Zenda), dies at 67
1958 Philip Bainbridge, British cricketeer
1958 British Empire Day is renamed "Commonwealth Day"
1958 Sandy Lyle, British golfer
1958 Henry M Tomlinson, British writer (Under red ensign), dies at 84
1958 Alan Milburn, British MP
1958 Norman Lamont Hassan, British reggae musician, UB40-Red Red Wine
1958 Nick Park, British Director
1958 Beatrice Webb, British Sociologist
1957 Ricky Ross, British rock vocalist, Deacon Blue-Raintown
1957 Dorothy L. Sayers, British Author
1957 James Brown, British reggae singer/drummer, UB40-Red Red Wine
1957 Glenn Hoddle, British Athlete
1957 Vere G Childe, British archaeologist/prehistorian, dies at 65
1957 Accident at British nuclear reactor in Windsdale
1957 Mari Wilson, British singer
1957 Keith Connor, Anguilla, British triple jumper 1984 Olympics bronze
1957 British soccer player Jimmy Greaves' (17) 1st game for Chelsea
1957 Stephen Fry, British Comedian
1957 Jim "Bullseye" Bowen, British TV game show host
1957 British offensive against imam Galeb Ben Ali of Oman
1957 Nicholas Alexander Faldo, born in England, PGA golfer, 1992 British Open
1957 Marc Almond, British Musician
1957 Harold MacMillan becomes British PM
1957 Anthony Eden resigns as British PM
1957 Stephen Jones, British milliner
1957 Gilbert Murray, British Diplomat
1957 1st British H-bomb explosion (over Christmas Island)
1957 Ignatius Roy D Campbell, British poet (Garcia Lorca), dies at 54
1957 Severlano Ballesteros, born in Spain, golfer, British Open 1979, 84, 88
1957 Graeme Kelling, British pop guitarist, Deacon Blue-Real Gone Kid
1957 Jane Ackroyd, British sculptor
1957 Leslie Hore-Belisha, [Lord Halifax], British min of Transport, dies at 63
1957 Bienvenida Buck, Velencia Spain, lover of British Peter Harding
1957 Paul Merton, British Comedian
1957 British premier Anthony Eden resigns
1956 Last British/French troops leave Egypt
1956 Charles Moore, British editor-in-chief, Sunday Telegraph
1956 Sebastian Coe, British Politician
1956 Jaki Graham, British personality
1956 British government sends 3 aircraft carriers to Egypt
1956 85th British Golf Open: Peter Thomson shoots a 286 at Hoylake England
1956 3rd class travel on British Railways ends
1956 Gary Wilmot, British? entertainer
1956 Lionel K P "Buster" Crabb, British diver (WW II), dies at 47
1956 Andrew Mitchell, British MP
1956 Phillip Oppenhein, British MP
1956 Tessa Sanderson, born in Kingston, Jamaica, British javelin thrower 1984 Olympics gold
1956 1st British soccer match at Kunstlicht: Portsmouth vs Newcastle United
1956 Liam Brady, British soccer player
1956 Patrick Murray, British Actor
1955 1st prototype of hovercraft patented by British eng Christoper Cockerell
1955 British transfer Cocos (Keeling) Is in Indian Ocean to Australia
1955 British troops occupy Saudi-Arabic oil field at Boeraimi
1955 Steven Severin, British pop bassist, Siouxsie and Banshees-Wild Thing
1955 Christine Oddy, British member European parliament
1955 Leopold C M S Amery, British minister of Colonies (India), dies at 81
1955 Robert Blackburn, British aviation pioneer, dies at 70
1955 David Jasper, British principal, St. Chad's College Durham England
1955 Timothy Garton Ash, British Author
1955 Ben de Lisi, British fashion designer
1955 Conservatives win British parliamentary election
1955 John Nunn, British chess player
1955 Mike Smith, British DJ
1955 Su Ingle, British TV hostess
1955 Winston Churchill resigns as British PM, Anthony Eden succeeds him
1955 Janice Long, British radio host, Crash FM
1955 British government signs military treaty with Iraq
1955 EOKA-bomb attacks against British government buildings in Cyprus
1955 British Army patrols withdraw from Belfast after 20 years
1955 British aircraft carrier Ark Royal sets sail
1955 Clive Aslet, British editor, Country Life
1954 Rosie Vela, British singer, Zazu, Fools Paradise
1954 Robin Campbell, British reggae vocalist and guitarist, UB40-Red Red Wine
1954 Egypt and Great Britain sign treaty; British troops departs
1954 British colony of Nigeria becomes a federation
1954 Anne Mcintosh, British member European parliament
1954 George Galloway, British Politician
1954 Alan [Joseph] Lamb, South African/British cricket player, Northampton
1954 Michael O'Brien, British MP
1954 Alan M Turing, British mathematician (Turing), commits suicide at 41
1954 Labour Party wins British municipal elections
1954 British raid Nairobi Kenya (25,000 Mau Mau suspects arrested)
1954 Trevor Francis, British soccer manager
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