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1975 in the United Kingdom
Events from the year 1975 in the United Kingdom
Incumbents
Events
14 January - Heiress Lesley Whittle (17), the daughter of late bus operator George Whittle (1905 -1967 ), is kidnapped from her home near Bridgnorth in Shropshire . Her mother and brother have received a letter demanding a £50,000 ransom.[1] 24 January - Donald Coggan enthroned as Archbishop of Canterbury .[2] 11 February - Margaret Thatcher defeats Edward Heath in the Conservative Party leadership election .[3] 26 February - A fleeing IRA terrorist shoots and kills off-duty London police officer Stephen Tibble , 22, as he gives chase.[4] 28 February - A major tube train crash at Moorgate station , London kills 43 people.[5] 4 March - Charlie Chaplin is knighted by the Queen .[6] 7 March - The body of teenage heiress Lesley Whittle , who disappeared from her Shropshire home in January , is discovered in Staffordshire . She had been strangled on a ledge in drains below Bathpool Park near Kidsgrove .[7] 25 March - A large National Front rally in London protests against European integration.[8] April - Carmaker Vauxhall launches the entry-level Chevette , a small three-door hatchback which has rear-wheel drive and from next year will also be available as a saloon and an estate.
13 April - A 22-year-old woman is raped at her bedsit in Cambridge . Cambridgeshire Police believe that she is the sixth victim of a mystery rapist who has been operating across the city since October last year . In June, Cambridgeshire Police arrest 47-year-old Peter Cook in connection with the rapes; he is sentenced to life imprisonment in October.[9] 26 April - A conference of members of the Labour Party vote against continued membership of the EEC .[10] 5 June - 67% of voters support continued membership of the EEC in a referendum .[11] 9 June - Proceedings in Parliament broadcast on radio for the first time.[12] 19 June - Lord Lucan is found guilty in absentia of the murder of nanny Sandra Rivett.[13] 14 August Hampstead enters the UK Weather Records with the Highest 155-min total rainfall at 169 mm. As of July 2006 this record remains.19 August - Headingley cricket ground vandalised by supporters of the armed robber George Davis campaigning for his release from prison. A scehduled test match between England and Australia due to take place there had to be abandoned.[14] September - Chrysler UK launches its new Alpine five-door family hatchback, a modern front-wheel drive car to compete with the conventional Ford Cortina , Morris Marina and Vauxhall Cavalier rear-wheel drive saloons. The new car is also built in France as the Simca 1307 .[15]
5 September - The London Hilton hotel bombed by the IRA killing two people and injuring 63 others.[16] 19 September - the first episode of the popular sitcom Fawlty Towers [17] 24 September - Dougal Haston and Doug Scott become the first British people to climb Mount Everest .[18] 28 September –3 October - The Spaghetti House siege , in which nine people were taken as hostages, takes place in London.[19] October - Vauxhall announces its second new model launch of the year - the Cavalier , which replaces the Victor and is based on the German Opel Ascona , is a direct competitor for the big-selling Ford Cortina .
9 October - An IRA bomb explosion outside Green Park tube station near Piccadilly in London kills one and injures 20.[20] 10 October - West Yorkshire Police launch a murder investigation after 28-year-old prostitute Wilma McCann is found dead in Leeds .3 November - The first petroleum pipeline in the UK is formally opened by the Queen, running from Cruden Bay to Grangemouth in Scotland .[21] 6 November - First public performance by punk rock band the Sex Pistols .[17] 12 November - Employment Protection Act establishes ACAS to arbitrate industrial disputes, and legislates against unfair dismissal.[2] 27 November - Ross McWhirter , the co-founder of the Guinness Book of Records , is shot dead by the Provisional Irish Republican Army for offering reward money to informers.[22] 29 November - Former racing driver Graham Hill , 46, dies in an air crash in Hertfordshire .[23] December - Donald Neilson , 39, is arrested in Mansfield , Nottinghamshire , on suspicion of being the "Black Panther" murderer who is believed to have carried out five murders in the last two years.[1]
5 December - Government ends Internment of suspected terrorists in Northern Ireland .[2] 6 December –12 December - Balcombe Street Siege : IRA members on the run from police break into a London flat taking the residents hostage. The siege ended after six days with the gunmen giving themselves up to the police.[24] [25] 11 December - British and Icelandic ships clash marking the beginning of the third Cod War .[26] 29 December - two new laws, the Sex Discrimination Act 1975 and the Equal Pay Act 1970 , came into force aiming to end unequal pay of men and women in the workplace.[27]
Publications
Births
13 January - Shazia Mirza , comedienne15 January - Edith Bowman , Radio DJ18 February
21 March - Mark Williams , snooker player9 April - Robbie Fowler , footballer2 May - David Beckham , footballer18 May - John Higgins , snooker player22 May - Kelly Morgan , badminton player27 May - Jamie Oliver , chef and television personality29 May - Melanie Brown , singer19 June - Ed Coode , rower12 July - Hannah Waterman , actress15 July - Jill Halfpenny , actress17 July - Konnie Huq , television presenter30 July - Graham Nicholls , artist31 July - Simon Hirst , DJ22 August - Sheree Murphy , actress18 September - Richard Appleby , football player23 September - Chris Hawkins , radio personality25 September - Declan Donnelly , TV presenter and one half of Ant and Dec 5 October - Kate Winslet , actress27 October - Zadie Smith , novelist18 November - Anthony McPartlin , TV presenter and one half of Ant and Dec 5 December - Ronnie O'Sullivan , snooker player
Deaths
8 February - Robert Robinson , chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1886 )14 February
26 February - Stephen Tibble , London police officer (shot) (born 1953 )3 March - T. H. Parry-Williams , poet (born 1887 )23 April - William Hartnell , actor (born 1908 )24 April - Peter Ham , musician (born 1947 )20 May - Barbara Hepworth , sculptor (born 1903 )21 May - A. H. Dodd , historian (born 1891 )7 August - Jim Griffiths , politician (born 1890 )10 September - George Paget Thomson , physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1892 )25 November - Moyna Macgill , actress (born 1895 )27 November - Ross McWhirter , co-founder of the Guinness Book of Records (born 1925 )29 November
References
^ a b "1975: Heiress Lesley Whittle kidnapped", BBC On This Day ". Retrieved on 2008 -02-06 .
^ a b c Palmer, Alan & Veronica (1992). The Chronology of British History . London: Century Ltd, 437-438. ISBN 0-7126-5616-2 .
^ "1975: Tories choose first woman leader", BBC On This Day ". Retrieved on 2008 -02-06 .^ "1975: PC murder linked to IRA bomb factory", BBC On This Day ". Retrieved on 2008 -02-06 .^ "1975: Dozens killed in Moorgate Tube crash", BBC On This Day ". Retrieved on 2008 -02-06 .^ "1975: Comic genius Chaplin is knighted", BBC On This Day ". Retrieved on 2008 -02-06 .^ "1975: Kidnapped heiress found strangled", BBC On This Day ". Retrieved on 2008 -02-06 .^ "1975: National Front rallies against Europe", BBC On This Day ". Retrieved on 2008 -02-06 .^ "1975: 'Cambridge rapist' strikes again", BBC On This Day ". Retrieved on 2008 -02-06 .^ "1975: Labour votes to leave the EEC", BBC On This Day ". Retrieved on 2008 -02-06 .^ "1975: UK embraces Europe in referendum", BBC On This Day ". Retrieved on 2008 -02-06 .^ "1975: First live broadcast of Parliament", BBC On This Day ". Retrieved on 2008 -02-06 .^ "1975: Missing earl guilty of murder", BBC On This Day ". Retrieved on 2008 -02-06 .^ "1975: Davis campaigners stop Test match", BBC On This Day ". Retrieved on 2008 -02-06 .^ Development of the Chrysler - Talbot Alpine cars ". Retrieved on 2008 -02-14 .^ "1975: London Hilton bombed", BBC On This Day ". Retrieved on 2008 -02-06 .^ a b (2006) Penguin Pocket On This Day . Penguin Reference Library. ISBN 0-141-02715-0 .
^ "1975: First Britons conquer Everest", BBC On This Day ". Retrieved on 2008 -02-06 .^ "1975: London's Spaghetti House siege ends", BBC On This Day ". Retrieved on 2008 -02-06 .^ "1975: Man killed in Piccadilly bomb blast", BBC On This Day ". Retrieved on 2008 -02-06 .^ "1975: North Sea oil begins to flow", BBC On This Day ". Retrieved on 2008 -02-06 .^ "1975: TV presenter Ross McWhirter shot dead", BBC On This Day ". Retrieved on 2008 -02-06 .^ "1975: Graham Hill killed in air crash", BBC On This Day ". Retrieved on 2008 -02-06 .^ "1975: Couple under siege in Balcombe Street", BBC On This Day ". Retrieved on 2008 -02-06 .^ "1975: Balcombe Street siege ends, BBC On This Day ". Retrieved on 2008 -02-06 .^ "1975: Attack on British vessels heightens Cod War", BBC On This Day ". Retrieved on 2008 -02-06 .^ "1975: New laws to end battle of the sexes", BBC On This Day ". Retrieved on 2008 -02-06 .
See also
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