1990 98.8 degrees F (37.1 degrees C) in Cheltenham, Glos. (UK record)
1989 Attorney General Thornburgh orders Joseph Doherty deported to UK
1984 UK signs agreement with China to return Hong Kong to China in 1997
1984 Brunei becomes independent of UK
1983 Paul McCartney and Michael Jackson release "Say, Say, Say" in UK
1983 St. Kitts and Nevis declares independence from U.K.
1981 Belize (British Honduras) gains independence from U.K.
1981 George Harrison releases "All Those Years Ago" in UK
1981 John Lennon releases "Woman" in UK
1980 John Lennon releases "Double Fantasy" album in U.K.
1980 John Lennon releases "(Just Like) Starting Over" in UK
1980 Zimbabwe (formerly Southern Rhodesia) declares independence from UK
1979 "Message In A Bottle" by Police peaks at #1 in UK
1978 Tuvalu (formerly Ellice Islands) declares independence from U.K.
1976 Sex Pistols release their debut single "Anarchy In The UK"
1976 Ringo releases "Oh My My" in UK
1975 George Harrison releases "Extra Texture" album in UK
1975 Wings release "Listen to What the Man Said" in UK
1974 George Harrison releases his "Dark Horse" album in UK
1974 Ringo releases "Goodnight Vienna" and "Only You" in UK
1974 Wings release "Band on the Run" and "Zoo Gang" in UK
1974 Chemical plant explodes in Flixborough Lincs kills 29 in UK
1973 Flash fire kills 51 at amusement park, Isle of Man, UK
1973 Wings release "Red Rose Speedway" in UK
1972 Wings release "Hi, Hi, Hi" in UK
1972 Ringo releases "Back off Bugaloo" in UK
1972 Wings release "Give Ireland Back to the Irish" in UK
1972 Triple album set "Concert for Bangladesh" released in UK
1971 United Arab Emirates, (Trucial States) declares independence from UK
1971 Ringo releases "It Don't Come Easy" in UK
1971 Paul McCartney releases "Another Day" in UK
1971 1st "Quickie" Divorce granted in UK
1970 "In The Summertime" by Mungo Jerry hit #1 in UK
1970 Beatles' "Let it Be" movie premieres in UK
1970 Beatles release "Let it Be" in UK
1969 John Lennon returns OBE to protest UK's support for Vietnam War
1969 Beatles with Billy Preston release "Get Back" in UK
1969 John and Yoko release their 2nd album "Wedding Album" in UK
1969 George Harrison's "Something" is released in UK
1969 Plastic Ono Band's "Cold Turkey" is released in UK
1969 "The Ballad Of John and Yoko" by The Beatles hit #1 in UK
1969 Beatles release Yellow Submarine album in UK
1968 John and Yoko release their 1st album "Two Virgins" in UK
1968 Beatles release "Lady Madonna" in the UK
1967 Beatles "Magical Mystery Tour" album is released in UK
1967 People's Democratic Republic of Yemen declares independence from UK
1967 Antigua and St. Christopher-Nevis become associated states of UK
1966 Beatles release "Everywhere its Christmas" in UK
1966 Jimi Hendrix Experience releases its 1st single, "Hey Joe," in the UK
1966 Beatles release "Yellow Submarine" and "Eleanor Rigby" in UK
1966 Guyana (formerly British Guiana) declares independence from UK
1965 Beatles "Help" is released in UK
1964 Donald Campbell (UK) sets world water speed record (276.33 mph)
1963 Zanzibar becomes independent from UK
1963 Kenya (formerly British East Africa) declares independence from UK
1963 Beatles release their 2nd album "With the Beatles" in UK
1963 Treaty banning atmospheric nuclear tests signed by U.S., UK, U.S.S.R.
1963 Beatles release "She Loves You" in UK
1963 Beatles "From Me to You" is released in UK
1962 Andy Green, UK, 1st to break sound barrier on land
1961 Andrew Nicholson, UK, NZ equestrian 3 day event 1996 Olympics
1961 Roland Gift, UK, rocker, Fine Young Cannibals-She Drives Me Crazy
1960 "Tell Laura I Love Her" by Ricky Valance peaks at #1 in UK
1959 Ben Elton, London, UK, actor, Stark, Friday Night Live
1956 Sudan (Anglo-Egyptian Sudan) declares independence from Egypt and UK
1955 Eddie Jobson, rock violinist, Zappa, UK, Roxy Music-For Your Pleasure
1954 Captain Sensible, [Ray Burns], UK, rock bassist, Women and Capts 1st
1954 Iain [Menzies] Banks, UK, sci-fi author, Wasp Factory
1952 Louise Cooper, UK, sci-fi author, Nemesis, Inferno, Infanta, Nocturne
1948 Ireland votes for independence from UK
1948 Robert P Holdstock, UK, sci-fi author, Ghost Dance, Labyrinth
1948 Brian M[ichael] Stableford, UK, sci-fi author, Day of Wrath
1948 Sri Lanka (formerly Ceylon) declares independence from UK
1948 Burma declares independence from UK
1947 U.N. trusteeship for Nauru granted to Australia, NZ and UK
1947 Tanith Lee, UK, sci-fi author, Don't Bite the Sun
1947 India declares independence from UK, Islamic part becomes Pakistan
1947 Pakistan, formerly West Pakistan, declares independence from UK
1946 Michael Wilkes, commander, UK Field Army
1945 [Eileen] Joy[ce] Chant [Rutter], UK, sci-fi author, High Kings
1944 Katherine Kurtz, UK, sci-fi author, Deryni Rising, Saint Camber
1944 Chris Finnegan, UK, middleweight boxing champ, 1968 Olympics gold
1943 Mick Farren, UK, sci-fi author, Synaptic Manhunt, Citizen Phaid
1943 Ian Watson, born in UK, sci-fi author, Book of Being, Whores of Babylon
1941 James P[atrick] Hogan, UK, sci-fi author, Giants' Star
1940 Bob Duncan, prison warden, Gartree Prison in UK
1937 Beryl Burton, UK, won record, 7, women's cycling titles
1937 Barrington J[ohn] Bayley, born in UK, sci-fi author, Collision Course
1936 Albert Finney, Salford UK, actor, Dresser, Under the Volcano
1934 John Brunner, [Kilian Houston], UK, sci-fi author, 100th Millennium
1934 Diana Wynne Jones, UK, sci-fi author, Drowned Ammet, Witch Week
1934 John Storey Bonington, UK, mountain climber, Annapurna I in 1970
1934 Piers Anthony Dillingham Jacob, UK, sci-fi author, Chthon, Phthor
1931 Bob Shaw, UK, sci-fi author, Orbitsville, Ragged Astronauts, Vertigo
1930 D[avid] G[uy] Compton, UK, sci-fi author, Synthajoy, Radio Plays
1928 Patrick Tilley, UK, sci-fi author, 1st Family, Blood River
1928 Archibald Forster, CEO, Esso UK
1927 Anne Legendre Armstrong, ambassador, to UK
1926 Edmund Cooper, UK, sci-fi author, Seed of Light, All Fool's Day
1925 Brian W[ilson] Aldiss, UK, sci-fi author, Helliconia Trilogy
1925 Harry [Maxwell] Harrison, UK, sci-fi author, Deathworld Trilogy
1924 Norman Ayrton, opera director, Royal Shakespearean Acad - UK
1923 Stanley Baldwin, becomes PM of UK
1922 John Alderson, chief constable, Devon and Cornwall UK
1922 Christopher Samuel Youd, UK, sci-fi author, Tripods Trilogy
1921 Michael Meyer, UK, novelist/Ibsen translator, Hedda Gabler
1921 Robert Arthur Ley, UK, sci-fi author, Telepath, Power of X
1921 James [Benjamin] Blish, US/UK, sci-fi author, Hugo, Star Trek Reader
1919 Charles Graham, lord-lt of Cumbria UK
1918 Anne Shirley, born in UK, actress, Devil and Daniel Webster, Stella Dallas
1916 Mary [Florence Elinor] Stewart, UK, sci-fi author, Crystal Cave
1915 1st U.S. ship lost in WW I, William P Frye (carrying wheat to UK)
1914 1st women elected political agent (Grantham, Linconshire UK)
1914 Lord Kitchner says "Your country needs you," poster spreads over UK
1912 A[rthur] Bertram Chandler, UK, sci-fi author, Empress of Outer Space
1911 Remains of a neanderthal man found in Jersey UK
1907 NZ declares independence from UK
1905 Eric Frank Russell, UK, sci-fi author, Hugo, Deep Space, Dark Tides
1904 Chuck Gardiner, UK, NHL goalie, Vezina winner
1904 Charles Pedersen, UK, biochemist, Nobel 1987
1898 C[live] S[taples] Lewis, UK, sci-fi author, Silver Chair
1895 -17 degrees F (-27.2 degrees C) in Braemar, Grampian (UK record)
1878 1st weekly Weather report published in UK
1871 Columbia and Sappho (U.S.) beat Livonia (UK) in 3rd America's Cup
1868 Dr. James Moore (UK) wins 1st recorded bicycle race, (2k) velocipede race at Parc fde St. Cloud, Paris
1864 Lord Cecil of Chelwood, UK, help form League of Nations, Nobel 1937
1859 Arthur Conan Doyle, UK, author brought Sherlock Holmes to life twice
1841 James Clark Ross (UK) is 1st to enter pack ice near Ross Ice Shelf
1839 Tea from India 1st arrives in UK
1820 Edward Bransfield aboard Williams discovers Antarctica (UK claim)
1806 John Stuart Mill, UK, philosopher/political economist/Utilitarian
1799 Income Tax introduced in UK
1781 Battle of Jersey (Island in UK)
1766 Thomas Malthus, Rookery Surrey UK, economist/demographer
1759 Thomas Dunham Whitaker, Rainham Norfolk UK, topographer
1679 Habeaus Corpus Act (no false arrest and imprisonment) passes in UK
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