1972 in the United Kingdom
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Events from the year 1972 in the United Kingdom.
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[edit] Incumbents
- Monarch - HM Queen Elizabeth II
- Prime Minister - Edward Heath, Conservative Party
[edit] Events
- 9 January - Miners begin a strike which lasts for seven weeks. [1]
- 20 January - Unemployment exceeds 1 million for the first time since the 1930s. [2]
- 30 January - On 'Bloody Sunday' in Northern Ireland 14 killed when troops opened fire on demonstrators. [3]
- 22 February - An IRA bomb kills six people at Aldershot Barracks. [4]
- 25 February - End of miners' strike. [5]
- 31 March - A CND demonstration is held against the nuclear base at Aldermaston. [6]
- 19 April - a report into the Bloody Sunday shootings by the Lord Chief Justice, Lord Widgery, exonerates the British troops of blame because the demonstration had been illegal. [7]
- 26 May - privatisation of state-owned travel firm Thomas Cook & Son. [8]
- 30 May - Official IRA declared a cease fire in Northern Ireland. [9]
- 3 June - a Protestant demonstration in Londonderry turned into a battle. [10]
- 5 June - funeral of Prince Edward, Duke of Windsor at Windsor Castle. [11]
- 18 June - British European Airways Flight 548 crashes near Staines killing 118, the UK's worst air disaster. [12]
- 23 June - Chancellor of the Exchequer Anthony Barber announces decision to float the Pound. [13]
- 28 July - A strike by thousands of dockers led to the government announcing a state of emergency on 4 August. [14]
- 18 September - thousands of expelled Ugandans arrive in Britain after being expelled by Idi Amin. [15]
- 19 September - a parcel bomb kills a diplomat at the Israeli embassy in London. [16]
- 6 November - Government introduces price and pay freezes to counter inflation. [17]
[edit] Unknown dates
- John Hicks was awarded the Nobel Prize in Economics with Kenneth Arrow for "pioneering contributions to general economic equilibrium theory and welfare theory."[18]
- Rodney Robert Porter wins the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine jointly with Gerald Edelman "for their discoveries concerning the chemical structure of antibodies". [19]
[edit] Births
- 27 January - Mark Owen, singer and Take That member
- 11 February - Steve McManaman, footballer
- 19 February - Malky Mackay, footballer
- 6 March - Terry Murphy, snooker player
- 20 March - Alexander Kapranos, singer and guitarist (Franz Ferdinand)
- 22 April - Sarah Patterson, actress
- 2 May - Paul Adcock, footballer
- 5 May - James Cracknell, Olympic winning rower
- 4 June - Debra Stephenson, actress
- 3 July - Asha Gill, British-born television host
- 6 August - Geri Halliwell, musician (Spice Girls)
- 7 August - Sarah Cawood, television presenter
- 12 September - Jason Statham, actor
- 21 September - Liam Gallagher, singer (Oasis)
- 2 November - Samantha Janus, actress
- 7 November - Danny Grewcock, rugby player
- 6 November - Thandie Newton, actress
- 29 December - Jude Law, actor
[edit] Deaths
- 19 February - John Grierson, documentary film maker (b. 1898)
- 13 March - Tony Ray-Jones, photographer (b. 1941)
- 21 March - David McCallum, Sr., violinist and the father of David McCallum (b. 1897)
- 29 March - J. Arthur Rank, industrialist and film producer (b. 1888)
- 22 May - Cecil Day-Lewis, poet (b. 1904)
- 22 May - Margaret Rutherford, actress (b. 1892)
- 28 May - King Edward VIII of the United Kingdom (b. 1894)
- 28 August - Prince William of Gloucester (air crash) (b. 1941)
- 15 September - Geoffrey Fisher, Archbishop of Canterbury (b. 1887)
- 1 October - Louis Leakey, palaeontologist (b. 1903)
- 28 November - Havergal Brian, composer (b. 1876)
- 24 December - Gisela Richter, art historian (b. 1882)
[edit] References
- ^ Miners strike against government
- ^ UK unemployment tops one million
- ^ Army kills 13 in civil rights protest
- ^ IRA bomb kills six at Aldershot barracks
- ^ Miners call off crippling coal strike
- ^ CND begins march to Aldermaston
- ^ 'Bloody Sunday' report excuses Army
- ^ Thomas Cook packaged and sold
- ^ Official IRA declares ceasefire
- ^ Protestant march ends in battle
- ^ Duke of Windsor laid to rest
- ^ UK's worst air crash kills 118
- ^ Chancellor orders pound flotation
- ^ National dock strike begins
- ^ Expelled Ugandans arrive in UK
- ^ Parcel bomb attack on Israeli embassy
- ^ Pay and price freeze aims to curb inflation
- ^ The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 1972
- ^ The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1972
