1970 in the United Kingdom

none July 2022 February 2012 1970 Constituent countries of the United Kingdom England Northern Ireland Scotland Wales Popular culture 1970 British Grand Prix 1970 English cricket season Football: England Scotland 1970 in British television 1970 in British music 1970 in British radio UK in the Eurovision Song Contest 1970 Events from the year 1970 in the United Kingdom. Incumbents Monarch – Elizabeth II Prime Minister Harold Wilson (Labour) (until 19 June) Edward Heath (Conservative) (starting 19 June) Events January 1 January The age of majority for most legal purposes is reduced from 21 to 18 under terms of the Family Law Reform Act 1969.The Key of the Door The Times 31 December 1969 The half crown coin ceases to be legal tender.Penguin Pocket On This Day Penguin Reference Library 0-14-102715-0 2006 The National Westminster Bank begins trading following the merger of National Provincial Bank and Westminster Bank.National Westminster Bank Act 1969 and National Westminster Bank Act 1969 (Appointed Day) Order 1969; registered in England and Wales under the Companies Act 1985, No. 929027 Control of London Transport passes from the London Transport Board (reporting to the Minister of Transport) to the London Transport Executive of the Greater London Council, except for country area (green) buses which pass to London Country Bus Services, a subsidiary of the nationalised National Bus Company.Michael H. C. Baker London Transport since 1963 Shepperton Ian Allan 1997 0-7110-2481-2 18 January – The grave of Marxist philosopher Karl Marx at Highgate Cemetery in London is vandalised. 21 January – Fraserburgh life-boat Duchess of Kent, on service to the Danish fishing vessel Opal, capsizes with the loss of five of the six crew. 22 January – A Pan Am Boeing 747 lands at London Heathrow Airport, the first jumbo jet to land in Britain.http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/january/22/newsid_3725000/3725963.stm" Heathrow welcomes first 'jumbo jet' 2008-02-02 22 January 1970 BBC News dead https://web.archive.org/web/20080116223929/http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/january/22/newsid_3725000/3725963.stm 16 January 2008 26 January – The Rolling Stones' frontman Mick Jagger is fined £200 (equivalent to more than £2,660 in 2024) for possession of cannabis. February February Chrysler UK launches its new Hillman Avenger small family car, which will be built at the Ryton plant near Coventry and compete with the likes of the Ford Escort and Vauxhall Viva. Richard Branson starts the Virgin Group with discounted mail-order sales of popular records.Richard Branson Losing My Virginity: the autobiography London Virgin 1998 1-85227-684-3 13 February Garden House riot, Cambridge: a demonstration at the Garden House Hotel by Cambridge University students against the Greek military junta leads to police intervention; eight students subsequently receive custodial sentences for their part in the affair.William Ham Bevan Riot aGarden House Cam University of Cambridge 61 2010 22–7 Birmingham band Black Sabbath release their self-titled debut album, credited as the first major album in the heavy metal genre.http://rockhall.com/inductees/black-sabbath/bio/ Black Sabbath Biography 2014-02-13 Rock and Roll Hall of Fame 21 September 2015 https://web.archive.org/web/20150921203531/https://rockhall.com/inductees/black-sabbath/bio/ dead 14 February – The Who record their Live at Leeds album at the University of Leeds Refectory (released 11 May).Cohn Nik Nik Cohn 1970-03-08 Rock Recordings section, p. M2 https://www.nytimes.com/1970/03/08/archives/finally-the-full-force-of-the-who.html Finally, the Full Force of The Who The New York Times 2013-07-02 2017-12-25 https://web.archive.org/web/20171225202953/http://www.nytimes.com/1970/03/08/archives/finally-the-full-force-of-the-who.html live the best live rock album ever made. 19 February – The Prince of Wales (the future King Charles III) joins the Royal Navy. 23 February – Rolls-Royce ask the Government for £50,000,000 towards the development of the RB 211-50 Airbus jet engine. 27 February–1 March – First National Women's Liberation Conference held, at Ruskin College, Oxford.Forty years of women's liberation https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2010/feb/26/forty-years-womens-liberation Kira Cochrane Kira Cochrane The Guardian London 2010-02-26 2016-04-06 March 2 March – Rhodesian Prime Minister Ian Smith declares Rhodesia a republic, breaking all ties with the British Crown four years after the declaration of independence on 11 November 1965. The UK Government refuses to recognise the new state as long as the white minority Rhodesian Government opposes majority rule.http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/march/2/newsid_2514000/2514683.stm Ian Smith declares Rhodesia a republic 2008-02-02 2 March 1970 BBC News https://web.archive.org/web/20080307133422/http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/march/2/newsid_2514000/2514683.stm 7 March 2008 live 6 March – The importation of pets is banned after an outbreak of rabies in Newmarket, Suffolk.http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/march/6/newsid_2515000/2515497.stm Rabies ban on British pet imports 2008-02-02 6 March 1970 BBC News https://web.archive.org/web/20080306222205/http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/march/6/newsid_2515000/2515497.stm 6 March 2008 live 12 March The Bridgwater by-election becomes the first election in which eighteen-year-olds are entitled to vote. The seat is retained for the Conservative Party by Tom King. http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/march/13/newsid_2826000/2826787.stm Conservative victory in first teen election 2008-02-02 13 March 1970 BBC News https://web.archive.org/web/20080225220132/http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/march/13/newsid_2826000/2826787.stm 25 February 2008 live The quarantine period for cats and dogs is increased to one year as part of the Government's anti-rabies measures. 17 March – Martin Peters, who scored for England in their 1966 World Cup final win, becomes the nation's first £200,000 footballer in his transfer from West Ham United to Tottenham Hotspur.Martin Peters Smith Tony http://www.sporting-heroes.net/football/tottenham-hotspur-fc/martin-peters-8744/biography-of-his-football-career-at-spurs_a12073/ sporting-heroes.net 18 September 2012 23 March – Thalidomide scandal: Eighteen victims of thalidomide are awarded a total of nearly £370,000 in compensation.September 2024 April 1 April – Everton win the Football League First Division title.. Everton F.C. https://web.archive.org/web/20100924064752/http://www.nsno.co.uk/201p-100-Great-Everton-moments.html 24 September 2010 10 April Paul McCartney publicly announces that he has left The Beatles in a press release, written in mock-interview style, included in promotional copies of his first solo album and headlined in the Daily Mirror newspaper.Nicholas Schaffner The Beatles Forever New York Cameron House 1977 135 The Elton John album is released, the second album by Elton John, but the first to be released in the United States. 11 April – Chelsea and Leeds United draw 2–2 in the FA Cup final at Wembley Stadium, forcing a replay. 16 April – Dr. Ian Paisley enters the Parliament of Northern Ireland after winning the Bannside By-election.http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/april/16/newsid_2487000/2487907.stm Paisley victory rattles NI parliament 2008-02-02 16 April 1970 BBC News https://web.archive.org/web/20080307133234/http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/april/16/newsid_2487000/2487907.stm 7 March 2008 live 18 April – British Leyland announces that the Morris Minor, its longest-running model which has been in production since 1948, will be discontinued at the start of next year and be replaced with a new larger car available as a four-door saloon and three-door fastback coupe, and possibly a five-door estate by 1975. 21 April – The moderate Alliance Party is formed in Northern Ireland, initially as a platform for liberal Unionists and pro-O'Neill voters. From the outset though, it declares as neither Unionist nor Nationalist, instead declaring as 'Other'. 29 April – David Webb scores the winning goal as Chelsea defeat Leeds United 2–1 in the FA Cup final replay at Old Trafford, gaining them the trophy for the very first time. Last year's winners Manchester City clinch the European Cup Winners' Cup with a 2–1 win over Górnik Zabrze of Poland in Vienna, Austria.http://www.mirrorfootball.co.uk/archive/Malcolm-Allison-previously-unseen-pictures-of-the-Manchester-City-and-West-Ham-legend-plus-original-Daily-Mirror-features-and-stories-from-our-archive-article3947.html Malcolm Allison Mirror Football 2014-02-13 May 19 May – The Government makes a £20,000,000 loan available to help save the financially troubled luxury car and aircraft engine manufacturer Rolls-Royce. 22 May – A tour of England by the South African cricket team is called off after several African and Asian countries threaten to boycott the Commonwealth Games.http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/may/22/newsid_2504000/2504573.stm South Africa cricket tour called off 2008-02-02 22 May 1970 BBC News https://web.archive.org/web/20080307133241/http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/may/22/newsid_2504000/2504573.stm 7 March 2008 live 23 May – A fire occurs in the Britannia Bridge over the Menai Strait near Bangor, Caernarfonshire, Wales, causing its partial destruction and amounting to approximately £1,000,000 worth of fire damage.Stanley C. Jenkins Martin Loader The London, Midland and Scottish Railway Volume One Chester to Holyhead https://books.google.com/books?id=C1ZpCAAAQBAJ&pg=PT193 2015 Amberley Publishing Limited 978-1-4456-4416-5 193 27 May – A British expedition climbs the south face of Annapurna I. 28 May – Bobby Moore, captain of the England national football team, is arrested and released on bail in Bogotá, Colombia, on suspicion of stealing a bracelet in the Bogotá Bracelet incident. 29 May – Law Reform (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act abolishes actions for breach of promise and the right of a husband to claim damages for adultery with his wife.http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1970/33/data.htm Law Reform (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 1970 legislation.gov.uk June 1 June – Prime Minister Harold Wilson is hit in the face with an egg thrown by Richard Ware, a Young Conservative demonstrator.http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/june/1/newsid_3995000/3995083.stm British Prime Minister hit by flying egg 2008-02-02 1 June 1970 BBC News https://web.archive.org/web/20080307133514/http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/june/1/newsid_3995000/3995083.stm 7 March 2008 live 2 June – Cleddau Bridge, in Pembrokeshire, collapses during erection, killing four, leading to introduction of new standards for box girder bridges.Department of the Environment (Merrison Committee of Inquiry) Inquiry into the Basis of Design and Method of Erection of Steel Box Girder Bridges HMSO London 1973How safe are our bridges? http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/6929777.stm BBC News Online BBC 3 August 2007 2008-01-30 4 June – Tonga becomes independent from the UK. 10 June – Just a few months after the Conservatives had enjoyed opinion poll leads of more than 20 points, the polls are showing Labour several points ahead of the Conservatives with eight days to go before the general election. If Labour were to win the election, it would be a record third consecutive win for them and would probably result in the end of Edward Heath's five-year reign as Conservative leader.https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=oS5gAAAAIBAJ&pg=824,1497104&dq=opinion+poll+wilson&hl=en Marvin Lipton Public opinion polls show greater influence in Britain The Star-Phoenix Saskatoon 1970-06-10 25 2014-02-13 13 June Actor Laurence Olivier is made a life peer in the Queen's Birthday Honours list. He is the first actor to be made a lord.https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=IEUyAAAAIBAJ&pg=811,5016900&dq=laurence+olivier&hl=en Laurence Olivier Attains Peerage; Burton Honored The Palm Beach Post-Times Florida 3 42 1970-06-13 A3 2014-02-13July 2024 InternetArchiveBot yes "The Long and Winding Road" becomes the Beatles' 20th and final single to reach number one on the US Billboard Hot 100 chart in the US. It is not released as a single in the UK. 14 June – The England national football team's defence of the FIFA World Cup ends when they lose 3–2 to West Germany at the quarter-final in Mexico. 17 June The bodies of two children are found buried in shallow graves in woodland at Waltham Abbey, Essex. They are believed to be those of Susan Blatchford (11) and Gary Hanlon (12), who were last seen alive near their homes in North London on 31 March this year. These become known as the "Babes in the Wood murders"http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/june/17/newsid_4306000/4306139.stm 1970: 'Babes in the wood' bodies found 2008-02-13 17 June 1970 BBC News https://web.archive.org/web/20080307133416/http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/june/17/newsid_4306000/4306139.stm 7 March 2008 live and remain unsolved until a confession in 1998. British Leyland creates a niche in the four-wheel drive market by launching its luxury Range Rover, which is to be marketed as a more upmarket and urban alternative to the utilitarian Land Rover that has been in production since 1948.http://www.landrovercentre.com/history/history_range_rover.htm The History of the Range Rover Marque Land Rover Centre 2010-07-19 dead https://web.archive.org/web/20060303170527/http://www.landrovercentre.com/history/history_range_rover.htm 3 March 2006 David Storey's Home is premiered at the Royal Court Theatre. 18 June – 1970 general election: the Conservative Party wins and Edward Heath becomes Prime Minister, ousting the Labour government of Harold Wilson after nearly six years in power. The election result is something of a surprise, as most of the opinion polls had predicted a third successive Labour win.http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/june/19/newsid_3829000/3829819.stm On This Day 19 June 2016 Shock election win for Heath BBC 10 April 2016 This is the first general election in which eighteen-year-olds are entitled to vote. Among the new Members of Parliament are future Labour party leaders Neil Kinnock and John Smith; and Kenneth Clarke, Kenneth Baker, Norman Fowler and Geoffrey Howe for the Conservatives.https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/special/politics97/background/pastelec/ge70.shtml BBC News BBC Politics 97 11 September 2011 21 June – British golfer Tony Jacklin wins the U.S. Open. 22 June – The Methodist Church allows women to become full ministers for the first time. 26 June – Riots break out in Derry over the arrest of Mid-Ulster MP Bernadette Devlin.http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/june/26/newsid_2519000/2519711.stm Violence flares as Devlin is arrested 2008-02-02 26 June 1970 BBC News 2 September 2007 https://web.archive.org/web/20070902031046/http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/june/26/newsid_2519000/2519711.stm dead 29 June – Caroline Thorpe, 32-year-old wife of Liberal Party leader Jeremy Thorpe and mother of their two-year-old son Rupert, dies in a car crash. July 3 July – Dan-Air Flight 1903: 112 people are killed when a Manchester to Barcelona charter flight crashes in the mountains of Northern Spain due to navigation error, with no survivors.http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/july/3/newsid_2492000/2492087.stm 1970: Holiday jet goes missing over Spain 2008-02-02 3 July 1970 BBC News https://web.archive.org/web/20080204053825/http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/july/3/newsid_2492000/2492087.stm 4 February 2008 live 3–5 July – Falls Curfew: A British Army search for weapons in the staunchly Irish nationalist district of the Falls Road, Belfast, turns into a battle with the Irish Republican Army in which four civilians are killed, at least 78 others wounded and 337 arrested, with eighteen soldiers also wounded.Andrew Sanders Ian S. Wood Times of Troubles: Britain's War in Northern Ireland Edinburgh University Press 2012 24–27 8 July – Roy Jenkins becomes Deputy Leader of the Labour Party. 12 July – Jack Nicklaus wins the Open Golf Championship at St Andrews, defeating fellow American Doug Sanders in an eighteen-hole play-off. 14 July – 5 speedway riders die in Lokeren, Belgium when a minibus carrying members of the West Ham speedway team crashes into a petrol tanker after a brief tour. One of those killed is Phil Bishop, a founding member of the team from before World War II. 15 July – Dockers vote to strike, leading to the dockers' strike of 1970.1970: State of emergency called over dock strike http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/july/16/newsid_2504000/2504223.stm On this Day 16 July 1978 2008-04-09 BBC https://web.archive.org/web/20080408000114/http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/july/16/newsid_2504000/2504223.stm 8 April 2008 live 16 July – A state of emergency is declared to deal with the dockers' strike. 16–25 July – The British Commonwealth Games are held in Edinburgh. 17 July – Lord Pearson proposes settlement of the dockers' strike. 18 July - Kenny Everett makes a joke about a news item regarding the wife of the Transport Minister passing her advanced driving test during his Saturday morning Radio 1 show. Already on a last warning with BBC bosses after making a number of critical outbursts to the media about the corporation, he is sacked two days later. 20 July - After only one month in the post following the Conservative Party's victory in the General Election, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Iain Macleod, dies of a heart attack at 11 Downing Street aged 56. 23 July Two "tear gas" (CS gas) canisters are thrown into the House of Commons chamber. The 1970 Omani coup d'état takes place, with covert British support. 30 July – The dockers' strike is settled. 31 July – "Black Tot Day": The last issue of a rum ration (grog) in the Royal Navy is distributed.A. J. Pack Nelson's Blood: the story of naval rum Havant K. Mason 1982 0-85937-279-0 August 9 August – Police battle with rioters in Notting Hill, London. 20 August – England national football team captain Bobby Moore is cleared of stealing a bracelet while on World Cup duty in Colombia.http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/august/20/newsid_4537000/4537235.stm 1970: Bobby Moore cleared of stealing 2008-02-02 20 August 1970 BBC News https://web.archive.org/web/20080208192539/http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/august/20/newsid_4537000/4537235.stm 8 February 2008 live 21 August – The moderate Social Democratic and Labour Party is established in Northern Ireland.Palmer Alan Palmer Veronica 1992 The Chronology of British History Century Ltd London 430–431 0-7126-5616-2 26–31 August – The Isle of Wight Festival 1970 begins on East Afton Farm. Some 600,000 people attend the largest rock festival of all time. Artists include Jimi Hendrix, The Who, The Doors, Chicago, Richie Havens, John Sebastian, Joan Baez, Ten Years After, Emerson, Lake & Palmer, The Moody Blues and Jethro Tull.The Isle of Wight festivals 1968–70 http://www.ukrockfestivals.com/iow-menu.html 2009 2010-11-12 https://web.archive.org/web/20100929141610/http://www.ukrockfestivals.com/iow-menu.html 29 September 2010 live 27 August – The Royal Shakespeare Company's revolutionary production of Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream, directed by Peter Brook, opens at Stratford.Clive Barnes Historic Staging of Dream http://www.alanhoward.org.uk/dreamnytimes.htm The New York Times 28 August 1970 2010-06-23 September 9 September – BOAC Flight 775 is hijacked by the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine after taking off from Bahrain – the first time a British plane has been hijacked. 12 September – Nijinsky becomes the only horse after 1935 to complete the English Triple Crown by finishing first in the Epsom Derby, 2000 Guineas and St Leger, ridden by Lester Piggott. 18 September – American rock star Jimi Hendrix, 27, dies in London from a suspected drug-induced heart attack.http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/september/18/newsid_3528000/3528692.stm 1970: Rock legend Hendrix dies after party 2008-02-02 18 September 1970 BBC News https://web.archive.org/web/20080202144824/http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/september/18/newsid_3528000/3528692.stm 2 February 2008 live 19 September – The first Glastonbury Festival is held, as the Worthy Farm Pop, Blues and Folk Festival. Tyrannosaurus Rex (replacing The Kinks) headline and about 1500 attend. September – The album musical Jesus Christ Superstar, by Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice, is released. October 3 October – Tony Densham, driving the "Commuter" dragster, sets a British land speed record at Elvington, Yorkshire, averaging 207.6 mph over the flying kilometre course.The Guardian, 5 October 1970, p. 6; The Times, 5 October 1970. 5 October BBC Radio 4 first broadcasts consumer affairs magazine programme You and Yours; it will still be running over fifty years later. In Canada, the Front de libération du Québec (FLQ) kidnaps British trade commissioner James Cross in Montreal and demands release of all imprisoned FLQ members. He is released on 3 December in exchange for free passage for his kidnappers to Cuba.North David 1985-10-21 James Cross remembers https://archive.macleans.ca/article/1985/10/21/james-cross-remembers Maclean's Toronto 2021-01-20 https://web.archive.org/web/20190503115524/https://archive.macleans.ca/article/1985/10/21/james-cross-remembers 2019-05-03 10 October – Fiji becomes independent from the United Kingdom.https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1970/50/enacted Fiji Independence Act of 1970 Legislation.gov.uk 24 March 2022 12 October – After a failed launch only eighteen months previously, British Leyland announce a much improved Austin Maxi featuring a new gearchange, increased engine size and much improved trim, answering many of the critical points raised by the motoring press at the car's original launch. 15 October The government creates the Department of Trade & Industry and the Department of the Environment. Thames sailing barge Cambria, the last vessel trading under sail alone in British waters, loads her last freight, at Tilbury.Dick Durham The Last Sailorman Lavenham Terence Dalton 1989 0-86138-067-3 142 The last narrowboats to carry long-distance freight commercially on the canals of the United Kingdom arrive with their last load, coal from Atherstone for a West London jam factory.Peter Oates The Jam 'Ole Run Southampton Canal Society Newsletter 444 http://www.whitenap.plus.com/archive/pdf/JAN_10.pdf 2012-06-11 January 2010 17 December 2013 https://web.archive.org/web/20131217224332/http://www.whitenap.plus.com/archive/pdf/JAN_10.pdf dead 19 October – BP discovers a large oil field in the North Sea.http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/october/19/newsid_3769000/3769639.stm 1970: Large oil field found in North Sea 2008-02-13 19 October 1970 BBC News https://web.archive.org/web/20080215110020/http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/october/19/newsid_3769000/3769639.stm 15 February 2008 live 23 October – The Mark III Ford Cortina goes on sale.J. B. McClaren Strike may put brake on Cortinas The Herald Glasgow 23 October 1970 https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=0Oo9AAAAIBAJ&pg=3658,4554073&dq=new-ford-cortina&hl=en 2012-06-11 At launch a full range of models is offered including two-door and estate variants. Unlike previous models, this Cortina has been developed as a Ford Europe model sharing the floor-pan with the similar German Ford Taunus. 25 October – Canonization of the Forty Martyrs of England and Wales by Pope Paul VI takes place. November 8 November – Comedy series The Goodies is first broadcast, on BBC2. 17 November – The first Page Three girl appears in The Sun newspaper. 18 November – The first Iceland frozen food supermarket is opened, in Oswestry, by Malcolm Walker.http://about.iceland.co.uk/about-iceland/the-iceland-story/ The Iceland Story 2023-01-08 https://web.archive.org/web/20141222171903/http://about.iceland.co.uk/about-iceland/the-iceland-story/ 2014-12-22 dead 20 November The ten shilling note ceases to be legal tender.The Daily Mirror Old Codgers Little Black Book Number Two 1976 0-85939-076-4 167 Codgers Old The Miss World 1970 beauty pageant, hosted by Bob Hope at the Royal Albert Hall, London is disrupted by Women's Liberation protesters. Earlier on the same evening a bomb is placed under a BBC outside broadcast vehicle by The Angry Brigade anarchist group in protest at the entry of separate black and white contestants by South Africa.Beautiful Idiots and Brilliant Lunatics: A Sideways Look at Twentieth Century London Rob Baker 978-1445651194 Amberley Publishing Stroud 2015 27 November – The Gay Liberation Front organises its first march in London.Your London http://www.yourlondon.gov.uk/articles/2007/june/pridelondon.jsp 2008-04-02 October 2010 H3llBot yes 30 November – British Caledonian Airways Ltd (BCal) is formed by the merger of Caledonian Airways and British United Airways. December 10 December – Bernard Katz wins the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine jointly with Ulf von Euler and Julius Axelrod "for their discoveries concerning the humoral transmitters in the nerve terminals and the mechanism for their storage, release and inactivation".http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/medicine/laureates/1970/ The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1970 2008-02-02 31 December – Paul McCartney files a lawsuit against the other members of The Beatles to dissolve their partnership, effectively ending the band.https://www.beatlesbible.com/1970/12/31/paul-mccartney-files-a-lawsuit-to-dissolve-the-beatles-partnership/ Paul McCartney files a lawsuit to dissolve The Beatles' partnership 1970-12-31 The Beatles Bible 2019-01-19 Undated The last forced child migration to Australia takes place.https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/top-stories/2009/11/16/a-stain-on-our-society-115875-21825309/ UK apologises for forced migration of 150,000 children Jason Beattie Daily Mirror 16 November 2009 2010-06-15 The average age at first marriage is at a 20th-century low of 23. All you need is love (and a marriage certificate): Marriage since 1900 https://www.parliament.uk/business/publications/research/olympic-britain/housing-and-home-life/all-you-need-is-love-and-a-marriage-certificate/ UK Parliament 2026-01-13 Trade union membership now accounts for nearly 50% of the workforce.http://www.localhistories.org/britain1948.html Britain Since 1948 2014-02-13 Mathematician Alan Baker wins a Fields Medal.The Hutchinson Factfinder Helicon 1999 1-85986-000-1 Publications Agatha Christie's thriller Passenger to Frankfurt. Roald Dahl’s children’s novel Fantastic Mr Fox. Len Deighton's World War II novel Bomber (the first written on a word processor).http://www.slate.com/articles/arts/books/2013/03/len_deighton_s_bomber_the_first_book_ever_written_on_a_word_processor.single.html The Book-Writing Machine: What was the first novel ever written on a word processor? Slate 2013-03-01 2016-02-21 Kirschenbaum Matthew Lawrence Durrell's novel Nunquam, second in The Revolt of Aphrodite pair. J. G. Farrell's historical novel Troubles, first in the "Empire Trilogy". Germaine Greer's book The Female Eunuch. Ted Hughes' poetry collection Crow. Bernice Rubens' novel The Elected Member. Mary Wilson's Selected Poems.Britannica Book of the Year 1971 460 The complete New English Bible (16 March, the New Testament having been published in 1961). The Ecologist magazine founded by Edward Goldsmith (July).http://www.edwardgoldsmith.com/page2.html Goldsmith: CV Edwardgoldsmith.com 2011-01-21 https://web.archive.org/web/20090822022558/http://www.edwardgoldsmith.com/page2.html 22 August 2009 dead Births January – March 1 January – Stephen Kinnock, politician 6 January – Courtney Eaton, actress 7 January – Andy Burnham, politician 8 January – Nick Miller, weather forecaster 19 January – Tim Foster, rower 20 January – Mitch Benn, comedian and songwriter 24 January – Maria Balshaw, art curator 31 January – Minnie Driver, actress 3 February – Warwick Davis, actor and television presenter 4 February – Gabrielle Anwar, actress 10 February – Rob Shearman, television and radio scriptwriter 14 February – Simon Pegg, comedian, writer and actor 17 February – Thomas Heatherwick, designer 21 February – Jay Blades, furniture restorer and television presenter 25 February – Ian Walker, sailboat racer 26 February – Mark Harper, politician 1 March – Tina Cullen, field hockey player 2 March – James Purnell, politician 7 March Jeff Hordley, actor Rachel Weisz, actress 9 March – Simon Monjack, screenwriter, film director (died 2010)http://content.ancestry.co.uk/iexec/?htx=List&dbid=8782&offerid=0%3a7858%3a0/ England & Wales, Birth Index: 1916–2005 21 December 2009 10 March – Peter Wright, darts playerPETER WRIGHT SNAKEBITE 11 March – Jane Slavin, actress and author 12 March – Wayne McGregor, choreographer April – June 14 April – Matt Allwright, television presenter and journalist 19 April – Kelly Holmes, athlete 27 April – Kylie Travis, actress and model 6 May – Chris Adams, cricketer 15 May Nicola Walker, actress Ben Wallace, Secretary of State for Defence 17 May – Jeremy Browne, politician, Minister of State for Foreign Affairs 20 May – Louis Theroux, television personality and author 21 May – Jason Lee, field hockey player and coach 22 May – Naomi Campbell, model and actress 26 May – Alex Garland, writer and filmmaker 27 May – Joseph Fiennes, actor 5 June – John Marquez, actor and cinematographer 6 June – Angad Paul, businessman and film producer (died 2015) 7 June – Helen Baxendale, actress 18 June – Katie Derham, TV and radio presenter 19 June – MJ Hibbett, singer-songwriter 20 June – Russell Garcia, field hockey player 22 June – Christine Cook, field hockey player 24 June – David May, footballer 25 June – Lucy Benjamin, actress 27 June – Jo Frost, nanny and television host 29 June – Marcus Wareing, chef July – September 2 July – Steve Morrow, footballer 4 July – Doddie Weir, rugby union player (died 2022) 5 July – Toby Whithouse, actor, screenwriter and playwright 6 July David Readman, singer Martin Smith, singer-songwriter 7 July – Wayne McCullough, boxer 10 July Jason Orange, singer John Simm, actor 11 July – Sajjad Karim, politician 12 July – Conrad Coates, English-Canadian actor and teacher 13 July – Sharon Horgan, actress and screenwriter 14 July – Seb Fontaine, electronic music producer & DJhttps://www.freebmd.org.uk/cgi/information.pl?cite=HCLNJL7k8iWSFvIZsHmvYQ&scan=1 Index entry 14 October 2020 FreeBMD ONS 16 July – Matt Healy, actor 19 July – Nicola Sturgeon, Scottish politician 25 July – Julien Fountain, English cricket coach 29 July – Andi Peters, television presenter and producer 30 July – Christopher Nolan, film director 31 July – Ben Chaplin, actor 1 August – David James, footballer 13 August – Alan Shearer, footballer 27 August – Peter Ebdon, snooker player 3 September – Gareth Southgate, football player and manager 5 September – Johnny Vegas, entertainer 8 September – Michael Matheson, Scottish politician 18 September – Darren Gough, cricketer 21 September – Samantha Power, United States Ambassador to the United Nations 29 September – Emily Lloyd, actress October – December 4 October Jason Cousins, footballer Richard Hancox, footballer 5 October – Tasmina Ahmed-Sheikh, SNP politician and Member of Parliamenthttp://www.politics.co.uk/reference/tasmina-sheikh Tasmina Sheikh politics.co.uk 8 October Anne-Marie Duff, actress Sadiq Khan, Mayor of London 10 October – Sir Matthew Pinsent, Olympic winning rower 11 October – Andy Marriott, footballer 21 October – Tony Mortimer, singer 29 October – Toby Smith, musician (died 2017) 2 November – Matthew Syed, journalist 7 November – Neil Hannon, chamber pop musician (The Divine Comedy) 12 November – Harvey Spencer Stephens, child actor 13 November – Verity Snook-Larby, race walker 22 November – Stel Pavlou, novelist and screenwriterBirthdays today https://www.thetimes.com/article/birthdays-today-scarlett-johansson-29-7clctwbdw67 The Times 23 March 2017 en 22 November 2013 23 November – Zoe Ball, television and radio presenter 28 November – Richard Osman, television presenter and writer 6 December – Lewis MacLeod, Scottish actor and voice actor 7 December – Andrew Gilding, darts player 10 December – Susanna Reid, television presenter and journalist 11 December – Matthew Strachan, composer and singer-songwriter (died 2021) 13 December – Jesse Armstrong, screenwriter 17 December – Stella Tennant, model (died 2020) 20 December – Alister McRae, Scottish rally driver 21 December – Jamie Theakston, television presenter 29 December – Aled Jones, singer and television presenter 31 December – Louise Rickard, Welsh rugby union player Undated Helen Cammock, artist Alison Phillips, newspaper editor Deaths January – March 7 January – Allan Wilkie, Shakespearean actor noted for his career in Australia (born 1878) 13 January – Jimmy Hanley, actor (born 1918) 23 January – Ifan ab Owen Edwards, Welsh youth worker, founder of the Urdd (born 1895) 26 January Albert Evans-Jones (Cynan), Welsh poet and dramatist (born 1895) Sir Noel Laurence, admiral (born 1882) 29 January – Basil Liddell Hart, military historian (born 1895) 30 January – Malcolm Keen, actor (born 1887) 2 February – Bertrand Russell, logician and philosopher, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature (born 1872)Jagdish Mehra Jagdish Mehra Helmut Rechenberg Helmut Rechenberg The Historical Development of Quantum Theory https://books.google.com/books?id=c9ZmLmVFSYQC&pg=PA44 28 December 2000 Springer Science & Business Media 978-0-387-95178-2 44 14 February – Bert Strudwick, cricketer (born 1880) 15 February – Hugh Dowding, commander of RAF Fighter Command during the Battle of Britain (born 1882) 26 February – Terence Patrick O'Sullivan, civil engineer (born 1913) 28 February – Arthur Henry Knighton-Hammond, painter (born 1875)Harold Oxbury Great Britons: Twentieth-century Lives https://books.google.com/books?id=9coZAAAAYAAJ 1985 Oxford University Press 978-0-19-211599-7 48 15 March – David Horne, actor (born 1898) 29 March – Vera Brittain, writer (born 1893) April – June 20 April – Thomas Iorwerth Ellis, academic (born 1899) 7 May – Jack Jones, novelist (born 1884)s2-JONE-JAC-1884 Jones, Jack (1884-1970), author and playwright Keri Edwards 2001 2 June 2022 13 May – Tom Sloan, television executive (born 1919) 20 May – Sir John Whiteley, general (born 1896) 26 May – R. V. C. Bodley, army officer, traveller and writer (born 1892) 2 June – Bruce McLaren, racing car driver and designer, racing accident (born 1937 in New Zealand) 7 June – E. M. Forster, novelist (born 1879)Norman Page E-M-Forster https://books.google.com/books?id=QERdDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA16 22 January 1988 Macmillan International Higher Education 978-1-349-19008-9 16July 2024 InternetArchiveBot yes 15 June Robert Morrison MacIver, Scottish-born sociologist (born 1882) Archibald Sinclair, former leader of the Liberal Party (born 1890) 27 June – Edwin La Dell, artist (born 1914) 30 June Arthur Leslie, actor (born 1899) Githa Sowerby, dramatist (born 1876) July – September 7 July – Sir Allen Lane, publisher (born 1902) 13 July – Isobel Hogg Kerr Beattie, architect (born 1900)http://www.scottisharchitects.org.uk/architect_full.php?id=100348 Dictionary of Scottish Architects - DSA Architect Biography Report 2017-10-18 Goold David www.scottisharchitects.org.uk 2017-10-18 20 July – Iain Macleod, politician (born 1913) 26 July – Claud Allister, actor (born 1888) 29 July – Sir John Barbirolli, conductor (born 1899) 5 September – Jesse Pennington, footballer (born 1883) 10 September – Violet Cressy-Marcks (Mrs Frank Fisher), explorer (born 1895) October – December 8 November – Alasdair Mackenzie, Liberal MP (born 1903) 11 November – Charles FitzRoy, 10th Duke of Grafton, peer, politician and farmer (born 1892) 13 November – Bessie Braddock, Labour MP (born 1899) 29 November – Irfan Orga, Ottoman-born airman and author (born 1908) 14 December – William Slim, Field Marshal (born 1891) 26 December Lillian Board, Olympic athlete (born 1948) Henry Montgomery Campbell, former Bishop of London (born 1887) 31 December – Cyril Scott, composer and writer (born 1879) See also 1970 in British music 1970 in British television List of British films of 1970 References 1970 Category:Years of the 20th century in the United Kingdom Category:1970 by country Category:1970s in the United Kingdom Category:1970 in Europe