1972 in the United Kingdom

none November 2020 January 2013 1972 Constituent countries of the United Kingdom England Northern Ireland Scotland Wales Popular culture 1972 British Grand Prix 1972 English cricket season Football: England Scotland 1972 in British television 1972 in British music 1972 in British radio UK in the Eurovision Song Contest 1972 Events from the year 1972 in the United Kingdom. Incumbents Monarch – Elizabeth II Prime Minister – Edward Heath (Conservative) Events January 1 January – The Greenwich Time Signal broadcast on BBC radio now records Coordinated Universal Time and the sixth pip is extended to 0.5 s duration.History of the BBC Pips Emily Akkermans Royal Museums Greenwich 2024-11-29 https://www.rmg.co.uk/stories/topics/bbc-pips-history-royal-observatory-greenwich-time-service 4 January – Rose Heilbron becomes the first female judge to sit at the Old Bailey. 9 January – The National Union of Mineworkers holds a strike ballot in which 58.8% vote in favour of industrial action.When the Lights Went Out 63 Andy Becket Coal miners begin a strike which will last for seven weeks,https://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/january/9/newsid_2515000/2515917.stm Miners strike against government BBC News 2008-01-27 9 January 1972 https://web.archive.org/web/20080112153230/http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/january/9/newsid_2515000/2515917.stm 12 January 2008 live including picketing of Saltley coke depot in Birmingham. 19 January – The government announces the lifting of all restrictions on broadcasting hours on television and radio. Daytime television hours will be extended in October. 20 January – Unemployment exceeds the 1,000,000 mark for the first time since the 1930s,https://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/january/20/newsid_2506000/2506897.stm UK unemployment tops one million BBC News 2008-01-27 20 January 1972 https://web.archive.org/web/20080123213244/http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/january/20/newsid_2506000/2506897.stm 23 January 2008 live almost double the 582,000 who were unemployed when Edward Heath's Conservative government came to power less than two years ago.Unemployment in the 1930s and Now http://www.socialiststudies.org.uk/cinc%201930s.shtml Socialist Studies 2012-02-10 30 January – 'Bloody Sunday' in Northern Ireland: fourteen Catholics are killed when troops open fire on unarmed demonstrators in Derry. February 2 February – Burning of the British Embassy in Dublin: Anti-British riots take place throughout Ireland. The Embassy of the United Kingdom in Merrion Square, Dublin, is burned to the ground, as are several British-owned businesses.Palmer Alan Palmer Veronica 1992 The Chronology of British History Century Ltd London 433–434 0-7126-5616-2Day Alan Political violence in Northern Ireland: conflict and conflict resolution Praeger Westport, CT 1997 9780275954147 9 In West Berlin, a bomb planted in sympathy with the Provisional IRA at the British Yacht Club explodes fatally.Baumann Michael Wie alles anfing = How it all began: the personal account of a West German urban guerrilla Pulp Press Vancouver 2000 9780889780453 5 3–13 February – Great Britain and Northern Ireland compete at the Winter Olympics in Sapporo, Japan, but do not win any medals. 5 February – 91 people are hurt and 122 arrested as mounted police charge protestors in London.https://www.nytimes.com/1972/02/06/archives/91-hurt-in-london-in-ulster-protest-mounted-policemen-charge-crowd.html 91 Hurt in London in Ulster Protest The New York Times 6 February 1972 9 February – A state of emergency is declared by the Prime Minister as a result of the miners' strike. 10 February – David Bowie introduces his Ziggy Stardust persona at the second show of the 1972–73 Ziggy Stardust Tour, at The Toby Jug pub, Tolworth, Surrey.Spider from Mars: My Life with Bowie Mick Woodmansey Mick Woodmansey Pan Macmillan London 2016 978-0-283-07274-1 300 22 February – 1972 Aldershot bombing: An Official Irish Republican Army car bomb kills six people at Aldershot Barracks.https://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/february/22/newsid_2519000/2519029.stm IRA bomb kills six at Aldershot barracks BBC News 2008-01-27 22 February 1972 https://web.archive.org/web/20080307113337/http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/february/22/newsid_2519000/2519029.stm 7 March 2008 live 25 February – The miners' strike ends after seven weeks.https://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/february/25/newsid_2516000/2516687.stm Miners call off crippling coal strike BBC News 2008-01-27 25 February 1972 https://web.archive.org/web/20080113011943/http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/february/25/newsid_2516000/2516687.stm 13 January 2008 live March 13 March – The United Kingdom and the People's Republic of China elevate diplomatic exchanges to the ambassadorial level after 22 years. 21 March – Chancellor Anthony Barber announces a £1,200,000,000 tax reduction in the Budget.Barber's Bounty Daily Mirror London 1972-03-22 2 24 March – The British government announces the prorogation of the Parliament of Northern Ireland and the introduction of Direct rule over Northern Ireland, after the Unionist government refuses to cede security powers. 26 March – The UK's last trolleybus system, in Bradford, is closed.Stanley King Bradford Trolleybuses Glossop Venture 1994 1-898432-03-1 30 March – The Troubles: The Parliament of Northern Ireland is suspended. 31 March – A CND demonstration is held protesting against the nuclear base at Aldermaston.https://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/march/31/newsid_2530000/2530839.stm CND begins march to Aldermaston BBC News 2012-02-10 31 March 1972 April 1 April – William Whitelaw is appointed as the first Northern Ireland Secretary. 4 April – First broadcast of the long-running BBC Television children's programme Newsround.https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/articles/4WQKZ9kvlXsBk1ynSBXYYyn/john-craven BBC Two – The John Craven Years – John Craven BBC 24 March 2025 6 April – As announced in March, Ford launches its new executive model, the Granada, available as a saloon, coupé or estate, which replaces the Zephyr on the UK market and will be produced at the Dagenham plant as well as Ford's Cologne plant in West Germany.https://www.motorsportmagazine.com/archive/article/april-1972/31/new-big-ford-granada New Big Ford the Granada MotorSport April 1972 31 2019-07-21 It is designed to compete with the likes of the Rover P6 and Vauxhall Victor and will also be sold as the Ford Consul in mainland Europe. 11 April – The BBC Radio 4 parodic panel show I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue is broadcast for the first time. 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.https://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/april/19/newsid_2491000/2491125.stm 'Bloody Sunday' report excuses Army BBC News 2008-01-27 19 April 1972 https://web.archive.org/web/20080106153121/http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/april/19/newsid_2491000/2491125.stm 6 January 2008 live This report will be completely discredited by the Saville Inquiry published on 15 June 2010, on which day the British prime minister David Cameron will acknowledge in the House of Commons, among other things, that the paratroopers had fired the first shot, had fired on fleeing unarmed civilians, and shot and killed one man who was already wounded; he will then apologise on behalf of the British Government. 22 April – Sylvia Cook and John Fairfax finish rowing across the Pacific. 30 April – The Brighton Belle Pullman car train makes its final journey from London to Brighton.Penguin Pocket On This Day Penguin Reference Library 0-14-102715-0 2006 May 3 May In the first UEFA Cup final, Tottenham Hotspur beat Wolverhampton Wanderers 2–1 in the first leg at the Molineux. The General Synod of the Church of England fails to agree union with the Methodist Church. 6 May – Leeds United wins the FA Cup for the first time with a 1–0 win over last year's winners Arsenal at Wembley Stadium. The only goal is a header by Allan Clarke from a Mick Jones pass.http://www.fa-cupfinals.co.uk/1972.htm 1972 Leeds United The FA Cup https://web.archive.org/web/20070120170657/http://www.fa-cupfinals.co.uk/1972.htm 2019-07-21 20 January 2007 8 May – Derby County wins the Football League First Division title for the first time in their history.Derby Take Title https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=1HlWAAAAIBAJ&pg=6286,2108409&dq=derby-county&hl=en The Sydney Morning Herald 10 May 1972 2012-02-10 12 May – The Crown Court is established by the Courts Act 1971 to replace the courts of Assize and Quarter Sessions in England and Wales. Property qualifications requiring jurors to be householders are abolished.Ferdinand Mount Ferdinand Mount Mind the Gap: the new class divide in Britain London Short Book 2004 1904095941 17 May – Tottenham Hotspur complete a 3–2 aggregate win over Wolverhampton Wanderers at White Hart Lane to win the first UEFA Cup.European Club Football Finals (1970s) http://www.sporting-heroes.net/football-heroes/stats_football/euro_cup_finals/euro_cup_finals_1970s.asp sporting-heroes.net 2012-02-10 18 May Queen Elizabeth II meets her uncle, Prince Edward, Duke of Windsor for the last time, at his home in Paris. Four troopers of the Special Air Service and Special Boat Service are parachuted onto the ocean liner Queen Elizabeth 2 1000 mi km across the Atlantic after a bomb threat and a ransom demand which turn out to be false. 22 May The Dominion of Ceylon becomes the Republic of Sri Lanka. The Poet Laureate Cecil Day-Lewis dies of cancer aged 68 at Lemmons, the home near London he has been sharing with Kingsley Amis's family. 24 May The final stretch of the M6 motorway opens between junctions 6 (Spaghetti Junction) and 7 north of Birmingham, with the fully operational motorway stretching more than 200 miles from Rugby to Carlisle, more than a decade after the first sections were opened.M6 Junction 6 Route 6: The A6 and M6 Website http://www.route6.co.uk/m6junction6.html 2012-02-10 21 June 2014 https://web.archive.org/web/20140621232412/http://route6.co.uk/m6junction6.html dead Glasgow team Rangers F.C. win the UEFA Cup Winners' Cup, defeating FC Dynamo Moscow 3–2 in the final at Camp Nou in Barcelona. A pitch invasion by their supporters leads to the team being banned from defending the trophy the following season. 26 May – The state-owned travel agency Thomas Cook & Son is privatised.https://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/may/26/newsid_3003000/3003665.stm Thomas Cook packaged and sold BBC News 2008-01-27 26 May 1972 https://web.archive.org/web/20080105121549/http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/may/26/newsid_3003000/3003665.stm 5 January 2008 live 28 May – Prince Edward, Duke of Windsor, dies of cancer at his home in France aged 77, 35 years after his abdication from the throne. 30 May The Official Irish Republican Army declares a ceasefire in Northern Ireland.https://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/may/30/newsid_2973000/2973759.stm Official IRA declares ceasefire BBC News 2008-01-27 30 May 1972 https://web.archive.org/web/20080102225127/http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/may/30/newsid_2973000/2973759.stm 2 January 2008 live Battersea Park funfair disaster: Five children die and 13 are injured when a haulage rope on the Big Dipper roller coaster snaps, causing a car to roll backwards and crash.London's 'forgotten' rollercoaster disaster BBC News https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/uk-england-london-61235013 27 April 2022 The Angry Brigade, a far-left militant group that has carried out small bomb attacks in England between 1970 and 1972, go on trial. Four of the "Stoke Newington Eight" will be convicted on 6 December.Sir Norman Skelhorn Public Prosecutor: The Memoirs of Sir Norman Skelhorn, Director of Public Prosecutions, 1964-1977 https://books.google.com/books?id=UWhHAQAAIAAJ 1981 Harrap 978-0-245-53763-9 95 June 1 June – Hotels and boarding houses become required to obtain certification under the Fire Precautions Act 1971. 3 June – A Protestant demonstration in Derry turns into a battle.https://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/june/3/newsid_2496000/2496155.stm Protestant march ends in battle BBC News 2008-01-27 3 June 1972 https://web.archive.org/web/20080307113547/http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/june/3/newsid_2496000/2496155.stm 7 March 2008 live 5 June – The funeral of The Duke of Windsor (formerly King Edward VIII) is held at Windsor Castle.https://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/june/5/newsid_2496000/2496577.stm Duke of Windsor laid to rest BBC News 2008-01-27 5 June 1972 https://web.archive.org/web/20080113163858/http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/june/5/newsid_2496000/2496577.stm 13 January 2008 live 11 June – Eltham Well Hall rail crash: an excursion train travelling from Margate to London derails near Eltham station in outer London (then called Eltham Well Hall), and five passengers and the train driver, Robert Wilsdon, are killed. 18 June – British European Airways Flight 548 crashes near Staines and 118 people are killed, making it the UK's worst air disaster at this date. The only two survivors both die by the time they reach a hospital.https://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/june/18/newsid_2515000/2515787.stm UK's worst air crash kills 118 BBC News 2008-01-27 18 June 1972 https://web.archive.org/web/20080307113508/http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/june/18/newsid_2515000/2515787.stm 7 March 2008 live 23 June – The Chancellor of the Exchequer Anthony Barber announces a decision for the pound sterling to move to a floating exchange rate. Although intended to be temporary, this remains permanent.https://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/june/23/newsid_2518000/2518927.stm Chancellor orders pound flotation BBC News 2008-01-27 23 June 1972 https://web.archive.org/web/20080307113551/http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/june/23/newsid_2518000/2518927.stm 7 March 2008 live Foreign exchange controls are applied to most members of the sterling area. July 1 July – The first official gay pride march in London is held.http://www.yourlondon.gov.uk/articles/2007/june/pridelondon.jsp Your London 2008-04-02October 2010 H3llBot 7 July – A Provisional IRA delegation led by Seán Mac Stíofáin meets secretly regarding The Troubles with members of the British government, led by Secretary of State for Northern Ireland William Whitelaw, in London, but without an outcome.Tim Pat Coogan Tim Pat Coogan The IRA New York Palgrave 2002 392–395 21 July – Bloody Friday: Nine people die and over a hundred are injured in a series of IRA explosions in Belfast city centre.CAIN: Chronology of the Conflict – 1972 28 July – A strike by thousands of dockers, leading to the government announcing a state of emergency on 4 August, the last such declaration (as of 2022).https://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/july/28/newsid_2496000/2496609.stm National dock strike begins BBC News 2008-01-27 28 July 1972 https://web.archive.org/web/20080111013100/http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/july/28/newsid_2496000/2496609.stm 11 January 2008 live 31 July – The Troubles in Northern Ireland: Operation Motorman, 4:00 AM: British Army begins to regain control of the "no-go areas" established by Irish republican paramilitaries in Belfast, Derry ("Free Derry") and Newry. Claudy bombing ("Bloody Monday"), 10:00 AM: Three car bombs in Claudy, County Londonderry, kill nine people. It becomes public knowledge only in 2010 that a local Catholic priest was an IRA officer believed to be involved in the bombings but his role was covered up by the authorities.Claudy bomb: conspiracy allowed IRA priest to go free https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northern-ireland-11061296 BBC News Northern Ireland 24 August 2010 2010-08-25 https://web.archive.org/web/20100825014212/http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northern-ireland-11061296 25 August 2010 live August 6 August – Expulsion of Asians from Uganda: Idi Amin, dictator of Uganda, announces that 50,000 Asians with British passports will be expelled from Uganda to the United Kingdom within the next three months as they have been (according to him) "sabotaging the Ugandan economy". 9 August – The Tim Rice and Andrew Lloyd Webber musical Jesus Christ Superstar makes its West End debut. 26 August–10 September – Great Britain and Northern Ireland compete at the Olympics in Munich, West Germany, and win 4 gold, 5 silver and 9 bronze medals. 28 August – Prince William of Gloucester, a cousin of the Queen, is killed in an air crash near Wolverhampton. He is thirty years old, a bachelor and ninth in line to the British throne at this time. This means that Prince Richard, the Duke of Gloucester's only other son, automatically becomes heir to the dukedom.https://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/august/28/newsid_2536000/2536275.stm BBC News 1972: Prince William killed in plane crash 28 August 1972 September 1 September – Raising of school leaving age in England and Wales from fifteen to sixteen for pupils leaving school at the end of the academic year begins. Many temporary new buildings are erected in secondary modern and comprehensive schools to accommodate the older pupils, while some authorities raise the secondary school transfer age from 11 to 12 or 13.http://www.dfes.gov.uk/schoolattendance/faq/#faq18 Attendance FAQs DfES.gov.uk 26 August 2009 2010-08-25 dead https://web.archive.org/web/20080511154550/http://www.dfes.gov.uk/schoolattendance/faq/#faq18 11 May 2008http://www.politics.co.uk/issuebrief/education/schools/school-leaving-age/education-leaving-age-$474737.htm Education leaving age Politics.co.uk 12 June 2007 2010-08-25 https://web.archive.org/web/20071223141431/http://www.politics.co.uk/issuebrief/education/schools/school-leaving-age/education-leaving-age-%24474737.htm 23 December 2007 dead The age is also raised in Scotland and Northern Ireland.Legislation dated 20 January and 14 April respectively. 6 September - National Building industrial action.Campbell Duncan Shrewsbury 24 case: Heath government discussed prosecution of union pickets https://www.theguardian.com/law/2012/oct/11/shrewsbury-24-heath-union-pickets The Guardian 11 October 2012 11 September – The BBC1 television quiz programme Mastermind is broadcast for the first time. 12 September – The sinking of two British trawlers by an Icelandic gunboat triggers the second Cod War. 13 September – Hypermarkets make their debut in the United Kingdom some twenty years after their appearance in France, when French retail giant Carrefour opens one in Caerphilly, South Wales.The Hypermarket – Gold mine or white elephant http://www.emeraldinsight.com/journals.htm?articleid=1671773& International Journal of Retail & Distribution Management MCB 1 6 42–44 10.1108/eb017761 18 April 2011 subscription 14 September – Pimlico tube station, the final station of London Underground's Victoria line, and the only one served by that line only, is opened by the Lord Mayor of Westminster.Green, Oliver The London Underground - An Illustrated History Ian Allan 1988 59 0-7110-1720-4 18 September – Thousands of Ugandan Asians arrive in the UK after being deported by Idi Amin.https://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/september/18/newsid_2522000/2522627.stm Expelled Ugandans arrive in UK BBC News 2008-01-27 18 September 1972 https://web.archive.org/web/20080307113621/http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/september/18/newsid_2522000/2522627.stm 7 March 2008 live 19 September – A parcel bomb kills a diplomat at the Israeli embassy in London. It is one of 8 such bombs delivered to diplomats, the others being discovered in time to avoid injury.https://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/september/19/newsid_2523000/2523027.stm Parcel bomb attack on Israeli embassy. BBC News 2008-01-27 19 September 1972 https://web.archive.org/web/20080307113613/http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/september/19/newsid_2523000/2523027.stm 7 March 2008 live October Three previously all-male Colleges of the University of Cambridge begin admitting female undergraduates. 2 October – Following January's lifting of restrictions on broadcasting hours, daytime television is extended. BBC1's afternoon schedule launches with the first edition of a new lunchtime magazine programme Pebble Mill at One from its Birmingham studios. 5 October – United Reformed Church is formed by merger of most of the Congregational Church of England and Wales with the Presbyterian Church of England.United Reformed Church Act 1972. 10 October – Sir John Betjeman's appointment as Poet Laureate in succession to Cecil Day-Lewis is announced. 13 October – Bank rates are abolished and replaced with the Minimum Lending Rate. 16 October As part of ITV's new afternoon service, the first episode of Emmerdale Farm, a soap opera set in rural Yorkshire, is broadcast on ITV produced by Yorkshire Television.Emmerdale Farm Episode 1 http://www.emmerdale.org/emmerdale/emguide1.htm 2002 2012-02-10 15 December 2010 https://web.archive.org/web/20101215215317/http://emmerdale.org/emmerdale/emguide1.htm dead Rioting Maze Prison inmates in Northern Ireland cause a fire that destroys most of the camp. 17 October – Elizabeth II visits the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia. 19 October – Royce Ryton's play about the Abdication Crisis of Edward VIII, Crown Matrimonial, premieres at the Theatre Royal, Haymarket, London, for the first time including the portrayal of a living member of the Royal Family (Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother as the Duchess of York) on the legitimate stage. 22 October – Gordon Banks, the England national football team goalkeeper, suffers a serious eye injury in a car crash in Staffordshire.http://www.englandcaps.co.uk/GordonBanks.html Gordon Banks, englandcaps.co.uk 2010-10-11 https://web.archive.org/web/20100928014651/http://www.englandcaps.co.uk/GordonBanks.html 28 September 2010 live 23 October – Access credit cards are introduced. November 6 November – The Government introduces freezes on pay, prices, dividends and rents to counter inflation.Counter-Inflation (Temporary Provisions) Act 1972. https://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/november/6/newsid_2538000/2538623.stm Pay and price freeze aims to curb inflation BBC News 2008-01-27 6 November 1972 https://web.archive.org/web/20080307113515/http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/november/6/newsid_2538000/2538623.stm 7 March 2008 live 18 November – England women's national football team plays its first official association football match, against Scotland in Greenock, 100 years after the equivalent men's match. 30 November – Cod War: British Foreign Secretary Sir Alec Douglas-Home says that Royal Navy ships will be stationed to protect British trawlers off Iceland. November – Formation in Coventry of the PEOPLE Party, predecessor of the Green Party and the first political party in Europe to promote Green politics.Encyclopedia of Ecology and Environmental Management https://books.google.com/books?id=JKTeiqPBpM4C&pg=PA220 2009 John Wiley & Sons 978-1-4443-1324-6 220 December 7 December – Murder of Jean McConville: Provisional Irish Republican Army volunteers, including women, take a recently widowed mother-of-10, who they claim to be an informer, in Belfast at gunpoint. She is shot in the head and buried secretly across the Irish border. There is no police investigation of the crime until 1995. 10 December John Hicks is awarded the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences with Kenneth Arrow for "pioneering contributions to general economic equilibrium theory and welfare theory."http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/economics/laureates/1972/index.html The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 1972 2008-01-27 Rodney Robert Porter is awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine jointly with Gerald Edelman "for their discoveries concerning the chemical structure of antibodies".http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/medicine/laureates/1972/ The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1972 2008-01-27 December – White Paper Education: A Framework for Expansion is published by Margaret Thatcher, Secretary of State for Education, announcing planned increases in nursery provision and of polytechnics and other higher and further education institutions. Undated Inflation falls slightly during the year to 6.4% from 8.6%.http://www.parliament.uk/commons/lib/research/rp99/rp99-020.pdf Inflation: the Value of the Pound 1750–1998 2010-10-11 dead https://web.archive.org/web/20060219130455/http://www.parliament.uk/commons/lib/research/rp99/rp99-020.pdf 19 February 2006 Marriage rates peak.Andrew Andrew Marr Marr A History of Modern Britain London Macmillan 2007 978-1-4050-0538-8 273 British car production peaks at more than 1,900,000 units, despite regular strikes and increasing competition from overseas. Honda, the Japanese manufacturer whose motorcycles are already popular with British buyers, begins importing passenger cars to the United Kingdom, beginning only with its recently launched small Civic hatchback, one of the first medium-sized cars sold in Europe to feature this bodystyle which competes with similar sized saloons including the Ford Escort.30 Years of the Honda Civic http://www.carpages.co.uk/honda/honda_civic_23_07_02.asp CarPages 23 February 2002 2012-02-10 A larger hatchback and saloon model is due within the next four years to compete with the likes of the Ford Cortina.http://www.hondaclassiccars.co.uk/accord.htm Accord (1976–1982) www.hondaclassiccars.co.uk https://web.archive.org/web/20040219035903/http://www.hondaclassiccars.co.uk/accord.htm 2019-07-21 19 February 2004 Japanese carmaker Nissan enjoys a surge in sales of its Datsun badged cars, with more than 30,000 cars sold in Britain this year compared to less than 7,000 in 1971. Popularity of imported Japanese products from Mazda and Toyota is also rising. Aardman Animations is founded.http://www.telepathy.co.uk/aardman/culture/index.html Aardman History Culture 2022-01-15 The United Kingdom begins to train the Special Air Service for anti-terrorist duties in response to the Munich massacre. Publications Richard Adams novel Watership Down. John Berger's novel G. Agatha Christie's Hercule Poirot novel Elephants Can Remember. Archie Cochrane's Effectiveness and Efficiency: Random Reflections on Health Services, drawing attention to collective ignorance about the outcomes of health care.About the Cochrane Library http://www.thecochranelibrary.com/view/0/AboutTheCochraneLibrary.html#ABOUT The Cochrane Library 2011-01-25 https://web.archive.org/web/20110105124021/http://www.thecochranelibrary.com/view/0/AboutTheCochraneLibrary.html#ABOUT 5 January 2011 dead John Yudkin's book on the dangers of sugar in the diet Pure, White and Deadly. A Blueprint for Survival first published as a special edition of The Ecologist magazine (January).http://www.theecologist.org/theecologist/266662/about_the_ecologist.html About The Ecologist The Ecologist 2011-01-21 Births January–March 5 January – Philip Davies, politician 15 January – Claudia Winkleman, TV presenter 23 January – Gavin Barwell, politician 23 January - Lisa Snowdon, English television & radio presenter and fashion model 27 January Wynne Evans, Welsh operatic tenor Mark Owen, pop singer (Take That) 9 February – Darren Ferguson, Scottish-born footballer and manager 11 February – Steve McManaman, footballer 16 February – Vicki Butler-Henderson, motoring journalist (Auto Express, What Car?), TV presenter (Fifth Gear) and racing driver 19 February – Malky Mackay, footballer 20 February – Gareth Unwin, film producer83rd Academy Awards Official Website. 22 February – Keir Simmons, journalist 6 March – Terry Murphy, snooker player 20 March – Alex Kapranos, rock singer and guitarist (Franz Ferdinand) 24 March – Charlie Creed-Miles, actor 28 March – Nick Frost, actor 29 March – Priti Patel, politician April–June 3 April – Catherine McCormack, actress 7 April – Tim Peake, astronaut 10 April – Gordon Buchanan, wildlife cameraman and presenter 16 April – John McGuinness, motorcycle racer 17 April – Vicky Lupton, English racewalker 21 April – Liz Carr, actress and disability rights activist 22 April – Sarah Patterson, actress 1 May – Patrick Grant, fashion designer and broadcaster 2 May – Paul Adcock, footballer 3 May Katya Adler, broadcast journalist Steve Barclay, politician 5 May – James Cracknell, Olympic winning rower 8 May - Dino Bardot, guitarist (Franz Ferdinand, The Yummy Fur) 9 May – Martin Lewis, financial journalist and broadcaster 15 May – Richard Blackwood, comedian, actor and rapper 23 May – Martin Saggers, cricketer and umpire 27 May – Maggie O'Farrell, Northern Irish novelist 31 May – Archie Panjabi, screen actress 1 June – Daniel Casey, actor 3 June – Steve Crane, footballer 4 June – Debra Stephenson, actress 7 June – Curtis Robb, athlete 27 June – Marc Iliffe, strongman (died 2003) 30 June – James Martin, chef July–September 1 July – Christopher Smith, film director and screenwriter 6 July – Mark Gasser, concert pianistOver 200 Famous or Infamous People and Characters with Local Connections who have Contributed to Sheffield's fame and fortune PDF sheffield.gov.uk sheffield.gov.uk/libraries http://www.sheffield.gov.uk/libraries/archives-and-local-studies/local-history 27 November 2007 https://web.archive.org/web/20080220173739/http://www.sheffield.gov.uk/libraries/archives-and-local-studies/local-history 20 February 2008 dead 10 July – Peter Serafinowicz, actor, voice actor, comedian and writer 12 July – Jake Wood, actor 19 July – David Lammy, politician 21 July Justin Edwards, actor and writer Simon Reeve, television presenter 6 August Darren Eales, footballer and lawyer Geri Halliwell, singer (Spice Girls) 7 August – Sarah Cawood, television presenter 10 August – Lawrence Dallaglio, rugby union player 15 August – Jonathan Slinger, actor 16 August – Frankie Boyle, Scottish comedian and writer 17 August – David Ralph, Scottish field hockey forward 18 August – Victoria Coren Mitchell, writer, presenter and champion poker player 27 August – Denise Lewis, athlete and sports presenter 6 September Idris Elba, actor Martin Gooch, filmmaker 9 September – Natasha Kaplinsky, newsreader 15 September – Jimmy Carr, comedian 18 September – David Jefferies, motorcycle racer (died 2003) 21 September Liam Gallagher, singer (Oasis) Richard Maden, breaststroke swimmer 24 September – Conor Burns, politician 29 September – Robert Webb, comic actor October–December 20 October – Debbie McLeod, Scottish field hockey goalkeeper 27 October – Lee Clark, English footballer 2 November – Samantha Janus, actress 7 November – Danny Grewcock, rugby player 7 November – Marcus Stewart, English footballer 6 November – Thandiwe Newton, actress 30 November – Dan Jarvis, army officer and politician 6 December – Ewan Birney, scientist 12 December – Nicky Eaden, English footballer and coach 14 December Miranda Hart, actress, comedian Jonathan Slinger, actor 20 December – Sarah Jones, politician 21 December – Gloria De Piero, English journalist and politician, Shadow Minister for Women and Equalities 29 December – Jude Law, actor Deaths January–March 19 February – John Grierson, documentary film maker (born 1898) 25 February – S. O. Davies, Welsh miner, trade union official and politician (born 1883 or 1886)https://biography.wales/article/s6-DAVI-OWE-1886 Davies, Stephen Owen (1886?-1972), miners' leader and Labour politician Dictionary of Welsh Biography 29 February – Violet Trefusis, writer and socialite (born 1894) 13 March – Tony Ray-Jones, photographer (born 1941) 21 March – David McCallum Sr., violinist and the father of David McCallum (born 1897) 29 March – J. Arthur Rank, industrialist and film producer (born 1888) April–June 11 May – E. V. Rieu, poet and editor (born 1887) 22 May Cecil Day-Lewis, poet (born 1904) Margaret Rutherford, actress (born 1892) 28 May – The Duke of Windsor (formerly Edward VIII, born 1894) July–September 26 August – Francis Chichester, aviator and sailor (born 1901)Whitaker's Almanack https://books.google.com/books?id=iusqAQAAMAAJ 1973 J. Whitaker & Sons 560 28 August – Prince William of Gloucester (air crash) (born 1941) 15 September – Geoffrey Fisher, Archbishop of Canterbury (born 1887)Webster, Alan. "Fisher, Geoffrey Francis, Baron Fisher of Lambeth", Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004. Retrieved 5 December 2019 22 September – Val Parnell, theatrical impresario and television executive (born 1892) October–December 1 October – Louis Leakey, palaeontologist (born 1903)New Scientist https://books.google.com/books?id=167YFAML_o4C&pg=PA573 8 September 1977 Reed Business Information 573July 2024 InternetArchiveBot yes 2 October – Syd Puddefoot, footballer (born 1894) 15 October – Douglas Smith, broadcaster (born 1924) 13 November – Arnold Strode-Jackson, Olympic middle-distance runner, British Army officer and lawyer (born 1891) 28 November – Havergal Brian, composer (born 1876)Malcolm MacDonald The Symphonies of Havergal Brian: Symphonies 30-32, survey, and summing-up https://books.google.com/books?id=Wew3AQAAIAAJ 1983 Taplinger Publishing Company 978-0-8008-7528-2 63 30 November – Sir Compton Mackenzie, novelist and Scottish nationalist (born 1883)Harold Orel Popular Fiction in England, 1914-1918 https://books.google.com/books?id=ZtS5quJPhkMC&pg=PA91 1 January 1992 University Press of Kentucky 0-8131-1789-5 91 6 December – Janet Munro, actress (born 1934)Obituary Variety 13 December 1972 63 13 December – L. P. Hartley, fiction writer (born 1895)L.P. Hartley Jones Edward T. Twayne Publishers 1978 978-0805767032 G.K. Hall & Co. 13–200 registration https://archive.org/details/lphartley00edwa/page/13 24 December – Gisela Richter, art historian (born 1882) See also 1972 in British music 1972 in British television List of British films of 1972 References 30em 1972 Category:Years of the 20th century in the United Kingdom Category:1972 by country Category:1972 in Europe