1977 in the United Kingdom
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Events from the year 1977 in the United Kingdom.
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[edit] Events
- January 3 - Roy Jenkins announces he is leaving the House of Commons to become President of the European Commission.[1]
- January 27 - Record company EMI sacks the controversial British punk rock group the Sex Pistols. [2]
- February 4 - Fleetwood Mac's Grammy-winning album Rumours is released.
- February 10 - Queen Elizabeth II visits American Samoa.
- February 11 - Queen Elizabeth II visits Western Samoa.
- February 14 - Queen Elizabeth II visits Tonga.
- February 16 - February 17 - Queen Elizabeth II visits Fiji.
- February 22 - March 7 - Queen Elizabeth II visits New Zealand.
- February 28 - State Opening of the New Zealand Parliament, by Queen Elizabeth II.
- March 7 - March 30 - Queen Elizabeth II visits Australia.
- March 8 - State Opening of the Australian Parliament, Canberra by Queen Elizabeth II.
- March 12 - The Centenary Test between Australia and England begins at the Melbourne Cricket Ground.
- March 17 - March 23 - Prince Charles visits Ghana.
- March 23 - Government wins a vote of no confidence in the House of Commons after James Callaghan strikes a deal with the leader of the Liberal Party, David Steel. [3]
- March 23 - March 25 - Queen Elizabeth II visits Papua New Guinea.
- March 31 - Queen Elizabeth II visits Muscat.
- April 2 - Red Rum wins Grand National for the third time. [4]
- April 8 - Punk band The Clash's debut album The Clash is released in the UK on CBS Records.
- April 11 - London Transport's Silver Jubilee buses are launched.
- May 3 - HMS Invincible is launched at Barrow-in-Furness by Queen Elizabeth II.
- May 5 - Silver Jubilee review of the Police at Hendon by Queen Elizabeth II.
- May 7 - Prime Minister of Canada Pierre Elliot Trudeau does a pirouette behind the back of Queen Elizabeth II.
- May 13 - The Silver Jubilee Air Fair is held at Biggin Hill.
- May 17 - Queen Elizabeth II commences her Jubilee tour in Glasgow.
- May 18 - Queen Elizabeth II visits Cumbernauld and Stirling.
- May 19 - Queen Elizabeth II visits Perth and Dundee.
- May 23 - May 27 - Queen Elizabeth II visits Edinburgh.
- May 27 - Queen Elizabeth II opens the new Air Terminal Building at Edinburgh Airport.
- May 28 - Climax of Windsor celebrations: Queen Elizabeth II visits the town during her Silver Jubilee tour.
- May 30 - A gala performance for the Silver Jubilee is held at the Royal Opera House, London.
- June 6-June 9 - Jubilee celebrations are held in the United Kingdom to celebrate twenty-five years of Elizabeth II's reign.
- June 20 - Anglia Television broadcasts the fake documentary "Alternative 3". It enters into the conspiracy theory canon.
- July 4 - Manchester United manager Tommy Docherty is sensationally sacked by the club's directors. [5]
- July 11 - Gay News found guilty of blasphemous libel in a case (Whitehouse v. Lemon) brought by Mary Whitehouse's National Viewers and Listeners Association. [6]
- October 27 - former Liberal leader Jeremy Thorpe denies allegations of attempted murder of and having a relationship with male model Norman Scott. [7]
- October 28 - Never Mind The Bollocks Here's The Sex Pistols is released in the UK.
- November 14 - Firefighters go on first ever national strike. [8]
- November 22 - British Airways inaugurates regular London to New York City supersonic Concorde service.
[edit] Births
- January 7 - Michelle Behennah, model
- January 13 - Orlando Bloom, actor
- February 5 - Ben Ainslie, sailor
- March 10- Colin Murray, Radio DJ
- May 13 - Samantha Morton, actress
- May 30 - Rachael Stirling actress
- May 31 - Joel Ross, DJ
- May 31 - Debbie King, TV presenter
- August 3 - Angela Beesley, Internet entrepreneur
- August 10 - Danny Griffin, footballer
- November 1 - Alistair Griffin, singer/songwriter
- November 4 - Kavana, singer
- November 15 - Peter Mark Andrew Phillips, son of Anne, Princess Royal
- November 22 - Michael Preston, footballer
- December 6 - Paul McVeigh, footballer
- December 23 - Matt Baker, television presenter
[edit] Deaths
- January 14 - Anthony Eden, former Prime Minister (born 1897)
- January 14 - Peter Finch, actor (born 1916)
- March 26 - Madeleine Dring, composer and actress (born 1923)
- April 17 - William Cardinal Conway, clergyman (born 1913)
- June 2 - Stephen Boyd, actor (born 1931)
- June 3 - Archibald Vivian Hill, physiologist, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1886)
- June 19 - Lady Olave Baden-Powell, Chief Girl Guide (b. 1889)
- August 4 - Edgar Douglas Adrian, 1st Baron Adrian, physiologist, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1889)
- August 29 - Edward Sinclair, actor (born 1914)
- September 6 - John Edensor Littlewood, mathematician (born 1885)
- September 13 - Leopold Stokowski, conductor (born 1882)
- September 16 - Marc Bolan, musician (born 1947)
- December 12 - Clementine Churchill, Baroness Spencer-Churchill, wife of Winston Churchill (born 1885)
- December 25 - Charlie Chaplin, comedian (born 1889)
[edit] References
- ^ 1977: Jenkins quits Commons for Brussels
- ^ 1977: EMI fires Sex Pistols
- ^ 1977: Government wins no confidence vote
- ^ 1977: Hat trick for Red Rum
- ^ 1977: Manchester United sack manager
- ^ 1977: Gay paper guilty of blasphemy
- ^ 1977: Liberal MP denies murder plot
- ^ 1977: Firefighters strike over pay claim
