1988 in England

none 1988 Events from 1988 in England Incumbent Politics of England Monarch - Elizabeth II Prime Minister - Margaret Thatcher Events January 9 January – One of the worst incidents of football hooliganism this season sees 41 suspected hooligans arrested at the FA Cup third round tie between Arsenal and Millwall at Highbury. February 3 February – Nurses across the UK went on strike, demanding better pay and more funding for the NHS.Hayward Sarah Fee Elizabeth 1992 More in Sorrow Than in Anger: The British Nurses' Strike of 1988 https://www.jstor.org/stable/45131053 International Journal of Health Services 22 3 397–415 0020-73141988-02-03 1988: Nurses protest for better pay https://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/february/3/newsid_2525000/2525639.stm 2025-01-24 en-GB 5 February – The National Union of Seamen calls off a ferry strike that had been called January 31 in response to the firing of 161 crew workers by the Isle of Man Steam Packet Company.Archives L. A. Times 1988-02-05 The World - News from Feb. 5, 1988 https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1988-02-05-mn-27667-story.html 2025-01-24 Los Angeles Times en-US Despite the Union’s orders, however, thousands of seamen across the UK continued to strike.1988-02-04 1988: Defiant seamen strike on https://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/february/4/newsid_2534000/2534143.stm 2025-01-24 en-GB March 6 March – SAS soldiers shot dead three unarmed IRA members in Gibraltar, leading to widespread republican criticism.BBC News | History | 1988-89: Gibraltar killings and release of the Guildford Four https://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/events/northern_ireland/history/68885.stm 2022-10-21 news.bbc.co.uk June 21 June – The Poole explosion of 1988 caused 3,500 people to be evacuated out of the town centre in the biggest peacetime evacuation the country had seen since the World War II.GALLERY: The explosions that rocked Poole - 30 years since the BDH fire https://www.bournemouthecho.co.uk/news/16318155.bdh-fire-poole-1988/ 2022-03-29 Bournemouth Echo en Births 14 January – Sian Honnor, lawn bowlerLawn Bowls | Athlete Profile: Sian HONNOR - Gold Coast 2018 Commonwealth Games https://results.gc2018.com/en/lawn-bowls/athlete-profile-n6033387-sian-honnor.htm results.gc2018.com 15 March 2021 19 May 2022 https://web.archive.org/web/20220519032232/https://results.gc2018.com/en/lawn-bowls/athlete-profile-n6033387-sian-honnor.htm dead 2 March – James Arthur, singer and songwriter 27 March – Jessie J, singer 18 April – Vanessa Kirby, actress 12 August – Tyson Fury, boxer2024-10-09 Tyson Fury: Biography, record, fights and more https://www.espn.com/boxing/story/_/id/38406539/tyson-fury-biography-boxing-record-fights-more 2024-10-22 ESPN.com en 24 August – Rupert Grint, actor 15 September – John Bradley, actor 22 November – Jamie Campbell Bower, actor, singer and model Deaths 14 August – Margaret Sampson, Anglican nun.Ward Benedicta 10.1093/ref:odnb/70971 Sampson, Margaret Phoebe [name in religion Mary Clare] (1906–1988), Anglican nun 23 September 2004 See also 1988 in Northern Ireland 1988 in Scotland 1988 in Wales References collapsed *England Category:Years of the 20th century in England Category:1980s in England Category:1988 in Europe Category:1988 by country England