1978 in the United Kingdom
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Events from the year 1978 in the United Kingdom.
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[edit] Events
- January 18 - The European Court of Human Rights finds the United Kingdom government guilty of mistreating prisoners in Northern Ireland, but not guilty of torture.
- February 13 - Anna Ford becomes the first female newsreader on ITN. [1]
- February 18 - 20 suspects arrested in connection with the IRA bombing of the La Mon restaurant in County Down which had killed 12 people and injured 30. [2]
- March 30 - Conservative Party recruit Saatchi & Saatchi to revamp their image. [3]
- April 8 - Regular broadcasts of proceedings in the Parliament of the United Kingdom start.
- June 19 - Cricketer Ian Botham becomes the first man in the history of the game to score a century and take eight wickets in one innings of a Test match. [4]
- June 21 - An outbreak of shooting between Provisional IRA members and the British Army leaves one civilian and three IRA men dead. [5]
- July 6 - Taunton train fire: eleven people killed in worst rail accident since Hither Green rail crash in 1967. [6]
- July 7 - The Solomon Islands become independent from the United Kingdom.
- July 25 - Louise Brown becomes the first human born from in vitro fertilization, in the United Kingdom. [7]
- July 25 - Motability, a charity which provides cars to disabled people, founded. [8]
- August 20 - Gunmen open fire on an Israeli El Al airline bus in London.
- August 25 - U.S. Army Sergeant Walter Robinson "walks" across the English Channel in 11 hours 30 minutes, using homemade water shoes.
- September 11 - Bulgarian dissident Georgi Markov dies after having been stabbed with a poison-tipped umbrella in London. [9]
- September 15 - German terrorist Astrid Proll arrested in London. [10]
- September 19 - British Police launch a massive murder hunt, when newspaper boy Carl Bridgewater is shot dead after disturbing a burglary. [11]
- October 17 - A cull of Grey seals in the Orkney and Western Islands reduced after a public outcry. [12]
- November 3 - Dominica gains its independence from the United Kingdom.
- November 5 - Rioters sack the British Embassy in Tehran.
[edit] Births
- January 1 - Phillip Mulryne, footballer
- January 3 - Alex Leigh, model
- January 17 - Warren Feeney, footballer
- February 20 - Jakki Degg, model
- February 24 - Janine Machin, radio presenter
- March 31 - Stephen Clemence, footballer
- April 9 - Rachel Stevens, singer
- May 22 - Jordan, model
- June 6 - Carl Barât, singer and guitarist (The Libertines)
- June 9 - Matthew Bellamy, lead singer of the band Muse
- June 22 - Dan Wheldon, race car driver
- July 23 - Stuart Elliott, footballer
- August 19 - Callum Blue, actor
- September 25 - Jodie Kidd, model
- October 25 - Russell Anderson, footballer
- October 26 - Jimmy Aggrey, footballer
- November 18 - Damien Johnson, footballer
[edit] Deaths
- January 14 - Harold Abrahams, athlete (born 1899)
- January 22 - Herbert Sutcliffe, cricketer (born 1894)
- April 21 - Sandy Denny, singer (born 1947)
- June 7 - Ronald George Wreyford Norrish, chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1897)
- August 14 - Nicolas Bentley, writer and illustrator (born 1907)
- September 7 - Keith Moon, drummer (The Who) (drug overdose) (born 1946)
[edit] References
- ^ 1978: Ford makes her ITN debut
- ^ 1978: Belfast bomb suspects rounded up
- ^ 1978: Tories recruit advertisers to win votes
- ^ 1978: Botham bowls into cricket history
- ^ 1978: Four dead in post office shootings
- ^ 1978: Eleven die in sleeper train inferno
- ^ 1978: First 'test tube baby' born
- ^ 1978: Motability gets moving in the UK
- ^ 1978: Umbrella stab victim dies
- ^ 1978: German terror suspect arrested in UK
- ^ 1978: Police hunt Bridgewater killers
- ^ 1978: Grey seal cull dramatically reduced
