1989 in the United Kingdom
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Events from the year 1989 in the United Kingdom.
[edit] Events
- January 8 - the Kegworth Air Disaster - A British Midland Boeing 737 crashes onto the M1 motorway on the approach to East Midlands Airport killing 44 people.
- February 12- Belfast lawyer, Pat Finucane is murdered by the Ulster Freedom Fighters
- February 14- Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini of Iran encourages Muslims to kill The Satanic Verses author Salman Rushdie
- February 20- IRA bomb the Tern Hill Barracks in Shropshire, injuring 50 soldiers of the Parachute Regiment
- March 4- Purley rail crash- 2 trains collide at Purley, Surrey killing six people.
- March 7 - Iran breaks off diplomatic relations with the UK over Salman Rushdie's The Satanic Verses
- March 20- Chief Superintendent Harry Breen and Superintendent Bob Buchanan of the Royal Ulster Constabulary are killed by the IRA
- April 15- Hillsborough disaster- 96 football fans killed in a crush during at the Hillsborough Stadium in Sheffield during the FA Cup semi-final between Nottingham Forest FC and Liverpool FC.
- July 19 - The BBC programme Panorama accuses Lady Porter, Tory Leader of Westminster City Council of gerrymandering
- July 25- The Princess of Wales opens the Landmark Aids Centre in London.
- August 18- Michael Knighton purchases Manchester United FC for £20 million
- August 20- Marchioness disaster- A pleasure cruiser collides with a barge in the River Thames killing 30 people
- September 22- Deal barracks bombing- The IRA bomb the Royal Marine School of Music in Deal, Kent killing 11 soldiers.
- October 19- The Guildford 4 are released from prison
- December 5- Margaret Thatcher defeats Anthony Meyer in a leadership election for the Conservative Party
- After spending most of the decade closed down, Whiteleys in London re-opens as a shopping centre.
[edit] Births
- July 1- Charles Carnegie, Lord Carnegie- eldest son of David Charles Carnegie, Earl of Southesk
- March 16 - Theo Walcott, footballer
- July 23 - Daniel Radcliffe, actor (Harry Potter films)
- December 12 - Harry Eden, actor
[edit] Deaths
- January 7 - Frank Adams, mathematician (b. 1930)
- March 6 - Harry Andrews, actor (b. 1911)
- April 12 - Gerald Flood, actor (b. 1927)
- May 19 - C.L.R. James, writer and journalist (b. 1901)
- May 20 - John Hicks, economist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1904)
- June 27 - Alfred Ayer, philosopher (b. 1910)
- October 4 - Graham Chapman, comedian (b. 1941)
- December 5 - John Pritchard, conductor (b. 1921)
