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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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