1984 in the United Kingdom
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Events from the year 1984 in the United Kingdom.
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[edit] Events
- February 14 - Torvill and Dean win a gold medal for ice skating at the 1984 Winter Olympics in Sarajevo.
- March 6 - Twelve month long strike in coal industry begins See UK Miners' Strike (1984-1985).
- March 14 - Sinn Féin's Gerry Adams and three others are seriously injured in a gun attack by the UVF.
- March 21 - EEC summit breaks down over disagreement over Britain's budget rebate with Margaret Thatcher threatening to veto any expansion of spending plans.
- March 27 - Starlight Express opened at Apollo Victoria Theatre in London.
- April 4 - peace protestors evicted from the Greenham Common Women's Peace Camp.
- April 17 - WPC Yvonne Fletcher is shot and killed by a secluded gunman during a siege outside the Libyan Embassy in London in the event known as the 1984 Libyan Embassy Siege.
- May 2 - The Liverpool International Garden Festival opens in Liverpool.
- June 20 - The biggest exam shake-up in the education system in over 10 years is announced with O-level and CSE exams to be replaced by a new exam, the GCSE.
- June 22 - Inaugural flight of Virgin Atlantic.
- July 9 - Lightning sets fire to York Minster.
- August 2 - a Surrey business man wins a case in the European Court of Human Rights over illegal phone tapping by the police.
- August 11 - Zola Budd collides with Mary Decker in the 3000 meters at the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles.
- September 4 - The Thomas the Tank Engine and Friends television series was first broadcast on ITV.
- September 26 - United Kingdom and People's Republic of China sign the initial agreement to return Hong Kong to China in 1997.
- October 12 - The PIRA attempts to assassinate the British Cabinet in the Brighton hotel bombing.
- November 12 - English one pound note withdrawn after 150 years.
- November 25 - 36 of Britain and Ireland's top pop musicians gathered in a Notting Hill studio to form Band Aid and recorded the song "Do They Know It's Christmas" in order to raise money for famine relief in Ethiopia.
- December 3 - British Telecom privatised.
- December 16 - Mikhail Gorbachev of the Soviet Union visits Britain.
- December 19 - The People's Republic of China and United Kingdom sign the Sino-British Joint Declaration which concerns the future of Hong Kong.
- Chatham Dockyard in Medway, England closed after being used a ship-building yard for over 400 years since the reign of King Henry VIII.
[edit] Births
- March 28 - Nikki Sanderson, actress
- April 22 - Michelle Ryan, actress
- June 25 - Amrita Hunjan, singer
- September 15 - Prince Harry of Wales, prince
- September 28 - Helen Oyeyemi, novelist
- October 27 - Kelly Osbourne, singer
- December 14 - Chris Brunt, footballer
[edit] Deaths
- March 12 - Arnold Ridley, playwright and actor (born 1896)
- March 21 - Sir Michael Redgrave, actor (born 1908)
- April 15 - Tommy Cooper, comedian and magician (born 1921)
