1964 in the United Kingdom
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Events from the year 1964 in the United Kingdom.
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[edit] Events
- April 16- 7 of the Great Train Robbers are sentenced to 30 years each for their role in the 1963 robbery
- May 11 - Terence Conran opens the first Habitat store on London's Fulham Road.
- September 4 - Forth Road Bridge opens over the Firth of Forth, linking Fife and Edinburgh.
- September 14 - the Daily Herald ceases publication, replaced by The Sun.
- September 21 - Malta obtains independence from the UK.
- October 15 - United Kingdom general election, 1964- Labour Party defeats the Conservatives, ending 13 years of Conservative Party rule. Harold Wilson becomes Prime Minister, replacing Alec Douglas-Home.
- October 24 - Northern Rhodesia, a former British protectorate, becomes the independent Republic of Zambia, ending 73 years of British rule.
- November 9 - House of Commons votes to abolish the death penalty for murder in Britain.
- Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin wins the Nobel Prize in Chemistry "for her determinations by X-ray techniques of the structures of important biochemical substances". [1]
[edit] Births
- February 16- Christopher Eccleston, actor
- February 24- James Ogilvy, son of Princess Alexandra, The Honourable Lady Ogilvy and the Sir Angus Ogilvy
- March 10 - Prince Edward, Earl of Wessex- youngest son of The Queen
- March 11 - Shane Richie, actor
- March 26 - Martin Donnelly, Northern Irish racecar driver
- 3 April - Nigel Farage, United Kingdom Independence Party leader and MEP for South East England
- 18 April - Niall Ferguson, Scottish historian
- April 25 - Andy Bell, singer and songwriter (band Erasure)
- April 28- Lady Helen Taylor, daughter of The Duke and Duchess of Kent
- May 1- Lady Sarah Chatto- daughter of Antony Armstrong-Jones, 1st Earl of Snowdon and Princess Margaret, Countess of Snowdon
- May 24 - Adrian Moorhouse, swimmer
- June 13 - Kathy Burke, actress and comedienne
- July 22 - Bonnie Langford, actress and entertainer
- 7 November - Philip Hollobone, British Conservative politician and MP for Kettering
[edit] Unknown date
- Armando Iannucci, Scottish comedian, satirist and radio producer
[edit] Deaths
- January 17 - T.H. White, author (b. 1906)
- 12 August - Ian Fleming, author and journalist (b. 1908)
- September 18 - Clive Bell, art critic (b. 1881)
- December 1 - J. B. S. Haldane, geneticist (b. 1892)
- December 24 - Claudia Jones, black activist (b. 1915)
