1975 in the United Kingdom

none August 2020 January 2013 1975 Constituent countries of the United Kingdom England Northern Ireland Scotland Wales Popular culture 1975 British Grand Prix 1975 English cricket season Football: England Scotland 1975 in British television 1975 in British music 1975 in British radio UK in the Eurovision Song Contest 1975 Events from the year 1975 in the United Kingdom. Incumbents Monarch – Elizabeth II Prime Minister – Harold Wilson (Labour) Events January 6 January – Brian Clough, the former manager of Derby County and more recently Leeds United, is appointed manager of Football League Second Division strugglers Nottingham Forest.http://dspace.dial.pipex.com/bob.dunning/thirty45b.htm Thirty Years Ago - January 1975 18 May 2010 https://web.archive.org/web/20100418203152/http://dspace.dial.pipex.com/bob.dunning/thirty45b.htm 18 April 2010 dead 14 January – Seventeen-year-old heiress Lesley Whittle, daughter of bus operator George Whittle (1905–1967), is kidnapped at gunpoint from her home near Bridgnorth in Shropshire by Donald Neilson.http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/january/14/newsid_2530000/2530669.stm 1975: Heiress Lesley Whittle kidnapped BBC News 2008-02-06 14 January 1975 https://web.archive.org/web/20080307132349/http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/january/14/newsid_2530000/2530669.stm 7 March 2008 live 15 January – International Women's Year is launched in Britain by Princess Alexandra and Barbara Castle.Nursing Mirror and Midwives Journal IPC Specialist and Professional Press 1975 33 20 January – The 1974 Channel Tunnel project is abandoned. 23 January – An express train is derailed at Watford Junction, and the driver is killed. 24 January – Donald Coggan is enthroned as the Archbishop of Canterbury. February 6 February – Jensen, the British luxury carmaker, makes 700 of its employees redundant – cutting its workforce by two-thirds.http://static.expressandstar.com/days/1950-75/1975.html 1975 Those were the days Wolverhampton Express and Star 2018-07-28 11 February – Margaret Thatcher defeats Edward Heath in the Conservative Party leadership election, becoming the party's first female leader. Thatcher, 49, was Education Secretary in Heath's government from 1970 to 1974.http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/february/11/newsid_2539000/2539451.stm 1975: Tories choose first woman leader BBC News 2008-02-06 11 February 1975 https://web.archive.org/web/20080307132235/http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/february/11/newsid_2539000/2539451.stm 7 March 2008 live 13 February – Britain's coal miners accept a 35% pay rise offer from the government.http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/february/13/newsid_2541000/2541085.stm BBC News 1975: Miners set for 35 per cent pay rises 13 February 1975 30 September 2011 14 February Evolutionary biologist and author Sir Julian Huxley dies aged 87 in London. Author and humorist P. G. Wodehouse dies of heart failure aged 91 at Southampton, New York, United States, one month after being awarded a knighthood. 26 February – A fleeing Provisional Irish Republican Army member shoots and kills an off-duty Metropolitan Police officer, Stephen Tibble, 22, in London as he gives chase.http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/february/27/newsid_2515000/2515789.stm 1975: PC murder linked to IRA bomb factory BBC News 2008-02-06 27 February 1975 https://web.archive.org/web/20080302070729/http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/february/27/newsid_2515000/2515789.stm 2 March 2008 live 28 February – The Moorgate tube crash on the London Underground; 43 people are killed. March 1 March – Aston Villa, chasing promotion from the Football League Second Division, win the Football League Cup with the only goal of the Wembley final against Norwich City being scored by Ray Graydon. 4 March – Actor Charlie Chaplin, 85, is knighted by the Queen.http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/march/4/newsid_2794000/2794107.stm 1975: Comic genius Chaplin is knighted BBC News 2008-02-06 4 March 1975 https://web.archive.org/web/20080122135925/http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/march/4/newsid_2794000/2794107.stm 22 January 2008 live 7 March – The body of teenage heiress Lesley Whittle, who was kidnapped at gunpoint from her Shropshire home in January, is discovered in Staffordshire, strangled on a ledge in drains below Bathpool Park near Kidsgrove.http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/march/7/newsid_2516000/2516085.stm 1975: Kidnapped heiress found strangled BBC News 2008-02-06 7 March 1975 https://web.archive.org/web/20080117111945/http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/march/7/newsid_2516000/2516085.stm 17 January 2008 live 8 March – First appearance of Davros in Doctor Who.Peter Haining Doctor Who: 25 Glorious Years Virgin 1990 9780863693243 217 25 March – A large National Front rally is held in London, in protest against European integration.http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/march/25/newsid_2531000/2531185.stm 1975: National Front rallies against Europe BBC News 2008-02-06 25 March 1975 https://web.archive.org/web/20080307132418/http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/march/25/newsid_2531000/2531185.stm 7 March 2008 live 26 March – British Leyland releases their new family saloon, the Morris 18-22 wedge styled by Harris Mann to replace the ageing Austin 1800 Landcrab range. There are Austin, Morris and the luxury Wolseley versions at launch. However, in less than six months, the entire range is rebranded as the Princess and the marque "Wolseley" is abandoned. March – Unemployment exceeds the 1,000,000 mark for this month (announced 24 April). April 3 April – Monty Python and the Holy Grail is released to cinemas in the UK.Palin Michael Michael Palin Diaries 1969–1979: The Python Years Weidenfeld & Nicolson 2006 225 5 April – Manchester United clinches promotion back to the First Division one season after relegation.http://www.manutd.com/en/Club/History-By-Decade/1970-1979.aspx History by Decade www.manutd.com 20 April 2018 https://web.archive.org/web/20130515144834/http://www.manutd.com/en/Club/History-By-Decade/1970-1979.aspx 15 May 2013 dead 13 April – A 22-year-old woman is raped at her bedsit in Cambridge. Cambridgeshire Police believe that she is the sixth victim of a rapist who has been operating across the city since October last year. In June, the police arrest 47-year-old Peter Cook for the rapes; he is sentenced to life imprisonment in October.http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/april/13/newsid_2524000/2524403.stm 1975: 'Cambridge rapist' strikes again BBC News 2008-02-06 13 April 1975 https://web.archive.org/web/20080307132200/http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/april/13/newsid_2524000/2524403.stm 7 March 2008 live 26 April A conference of Labour Party members votes against continued membership of the EEC.http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/april/26/newsid_2503000/2503155.stm 1975: Labour votes to leave the EEC BBC News 2008-02-06 26 April 1975 https://web.archive.org/web/20080307132325/http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/april/26/newsid_2503000/2503155.stm 7 March 2008 live Derby County win the Football League First Division title for the second time in four seasons.https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=tEU_AAAAIBAJ&sjid=HVIMAAAAIBAJ&pg=1059,4267678&dq=derby-county&hl=en The Windsor Star - Google News Archive Search news.google.com 20 April 2018 May May – Led Zeppelin return to the UK to play five sold-out shows at Earls Court in London. 1 May – Vauxhall launches the Chevette, Britain's first production small hatchback, which is similar in concept to the Italian Fiat 127 and French Renault 5.https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=Z4tAAAAAIBAJ&sjid=76QMAAAAIBAJ&pg=4511,370311&dq=vauxhall-chevette&hl=en The Glasgow Herald - Google News Archive Search news.google.com 20 April 2018 3 May – West Ham United win the second FA Cup of their history by defeating Fulham 2–0 in the Wembley final. Alan Taylor scores both goals. Former West Ham and England legend Bobby Moore appears for Fulham. 5 May – St Leonard's Church, Streatham, London, is gutted by fire.Weinreb, Ben Hibbert, Christopher Christopher Hibbert The London Encyclopaedia reprint 1992 Macmillan 751 16 May – Major reorganisation of local government in Scotland under the Local Government (Scotland) Act 1973, creating nine new regions and comprehensively redrawing the administrative map. Strathclyde is created out of the historic counties of Lanarkshire, Dunbartonshire, Ayrshire, Renfrewshire, Buteshire and the greater part of Argyll; East Lothian, Midlothian and West Lothian are merged to create Lothian; Central is formed from the historic counties of Clackmannanshire, Stirlingshire and part of Perthshire; Tayside from the historic counties of Angus-shire, Kinross-shire and the remainder of Perthshire; Borders from Peeblesshire, Berwickshire, Roxburghshire and Selkirkshire; Dumfries and Galloway from Dumfries-shire, Kirkcudbrightshire and Wigtownshire; Grampian from Aberdeenshire, Banffshire, Morayshire and Kincardineshire; and Highland from Inverness-shire, Nairnshire, Ross and Cromarty, Sutherland and Caithness. Fifeshire alone is left unchanged. 27 May – Dibbles Bridge coach crash: a tour coach runs away following brake failure and falls off a bridge near Hebden, North Yorkshire, en route to Grassington, killing the driver and 31 female pensioners on board, the highest ever toll in a UK road accident.http://archive.thetelegraphandargus.co.uk/2000/5/20/153289.html Dibbles Bridge: 25 years on 20 May 2000 2010-07-16 Telegraph & Argus Bradford Newsquest Media Group 28 May – Leeds United are beaten 2–0 by Bayern Munich of West Germany in the European Cup final in Paris, France. Peter Lorimer has a goal for Leeds disallowed and this sparks a riot by angry supporters, who invade the pitch and tear seats away from the stands.http://dspace.dial.pipex.com/bob.dunning/thirty46c.htm Thirty Years Ago - May 1975 18 May 2010 https://web.archive.org/web/20130929092517/http://dspace.dial.pipex.com/bob.dunning/thirty46c.htm 29 September 2013 dead 31 May – The European Space Agency is established, with the UK being one of the ten founding members.Gilliland Ben Science & Discovery Metro 16 January 2009 June 2 June – Snow showers occur across the country even as far south as London which last happened in June in 1761. 5 June – 67% of voters support continuing membership of the EEC in a referendum.http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/june/6/newsid_2499000/2499297.stm 1975: UK embraces Europe in referendum BBC News 2008-02-06 6 June 1975 https://web.archive.org/web/20080307132442/http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/june/6/newsid_2499000/2499297.stm 7 March 2008 live 6 June – Nuneaton rail crash: a sleeper train travelling from London Euston to Glasgow derails, killing six people and injuring 38. 9 June – Proceedings in Parliament are broadcast on radio for the first time.http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/june/9/newsid_2500000/2500721.stm 1975: First live broadcast of Parliament BBC News 2008-02-06 9 June 1975 https://web.archive.org/web/20080307132156/http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/june/9/newsid_2500000/2500721.stm 7 March 2008 live 11 June – In Uganda, British author and adventurer Denis Hills is sentenced to death by firing squad for referring to Idi Amin as a 'village tyrant' but eventually released. 13 June – UEFA places a three-year ban on Leeds United from European competitions due to the behaviour of their fans at last month's European Cup final. 14 June – Ambulance crews in the West Midlands stage a ban on non-emergency calls in a dispute over pay and hours. 17 June – Leeds United lodge an appeal against their ban from European competitions.https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=bg5SAAAAIBAJ&sjid=ROcDAAAAIBAJ&pg=5245,4197186&dq=leeds-united&hl=en The Sydney Morning Herald - Google News Archive Search news.google.com 20 April 2018 19 June – A coroner's court jury returns a verdict of wilful murder, naming Lord Lucan as the murderer, in the inquest on Sandra Rivett, the nanny who was found dead at his wife's London home seven months previously. Lucan has not been seen since soon after the murder.http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/june/19/newsid_2516000/2516103.stm 1975: Missing earl guilty of murder BBC News 2008-02-06 19 June 1975 https://web.archive.org/web/20080307132329/http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/june/19/newsid_2516000/2516103.stm 7 March 2008 live 30 June – UEFA reduces Leeds United's ban from European competitions to one season on appeal.https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=NJJAAAAAIBAJ&sjid=46QMAAAAIBAJ&pg=5127,307771&dq=leeds-united&hl=en The Glasgow Herald - Google News Archive Search news.google.com 20 April 2018 July July – The Government and Trades Union Congress agree to a one-year cash limit on pay rises. 5 July – A 36-year-old Keighley woman, Ann Rogulskyj, is badly injured in a hammer attack in an alleyway in the West Yorkshire town; she is the second victim of Peter Sutcliffe.http://www.execulink.com/~kbrannen/victim02.htm The Attacks and Murders - Ann Rogulskyj www.execulink.com 20 April 2018 19 July – Hatton Cross tube station is opened, completing the first phase of the extension of London Underground's Piccadilly line to Heathrow Airport.Green, Oliver The London Underground - An Illustrated History Ian Allan 1988 62 0-7110-1720-4 August 1 August – The Government's anti-inflation policy comes into full effect. During the year, inflation reaches 24.2% - the second-highest recorded level since records began in 1750, and the highest since 1800.Robert Twigger http://www.parliament.uk/commons/lib/research/rp99/rp99-020.pdf Inflation: the Value of the Pound 1750-1998 1999 House of Commons Library 2010-11-19 dead https://web.archive.org/web/20060219130455/http://www.parliament.uk/commons/lib/research/rp99/rp99-020.pdf 19 February 2006 A summary of the White Paper Attack on Inflation is delivered to all households. 11 August – British Leyland Motor Corporation comes under British government control. 14 August – Hampstead enters the UK Weather Records with the Highest 155-min total rainfall at 169mm. 15 August The Birmingham Six are wrongfully sentenced to life imprisonment for last year's Birmingham pub bombings. Their convictions are overturned in 1991. A 46-year-old Halifax woman, Olive Smelt, is severely injured in a hammer attack in an alleyway in the town.http://www.execulink.com/~kbrannen/victim03.htm The Attacks and Murders - Olive Smelt www.execulink.com 20 April 2018 16 August – Football hooliganism strikes on the opening day of the English league season, with hundreds of fans being arrested at games across the country - the total number of arrests exceeds seventy at the stadiums of Wolverhampton Wanderers and Leicester City.http://dspace.dial.pipex.com/bob.dunning/thirty47c.htm Thirty Years Ago - August 1975 18 May 2010 https://web.archive.org/web/20100418203228/http://dspace.dial.pipex.com/bob.dunning/thirty47c.htm 18 April 2010 dead 19 August – Headingley Cricket Ground is vandalised by people campaigning for release from prison of the armed robber George Davis. A scheduled test match between England and Australia which was meant to take place there has to be abandoned. This is the climax to a campaign in which the slogan George Davis is Innocent has been widely sprayed throughout London.http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/august/19/newsid_2534000/2534763.stm 1975: Davis campaigners stop Test match BBC News 2008-02-06 19 August 1975 https://web.archive.org/web/20080307132506/http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/august/19/newsid_2534000/2534763.stm 7 March 2008 live 21 August – The unemployment rate reaches the 1,250,000 mark. 27 August – A 14-year-old, Tracy Browne, is badly injured in a hammer attack in a country lane at Silsden, near Keighley.http://www.execulink.com/~kbrannen/victim04.htm The Attacks and Murders - Tracy Browne www.execulink.com 20 April 2018 31 August – Cavalcade of steam locomotives from Shildon, County Durham, to Darlington, County Durham, to mark the 150th anniversary of the Stockton and Darlington Railway. September September – Chrysler UK launches its new Alpine five-door family hatchback, a modern front-wheel drive car to compete with the conventional Ford Cortina, Morris Marina and upcoming Vauxhall Cavalier rear-wheel drive saloons. The new car is also built in France as the Simca 1307.http://www.rootes-chrysler.co.uk/car-development/dev-alpine.html Development of the Chrysler - Talbot Alpine cars 2008-02-14 21 October 2007 https://web.archive.org/web/20071021004954/http://www.rootes-chrysler.co.uk/car-development/dev-alpine.html dead 5 September – The London Hilton hotel is bombed by the IRA, killing two people and injuring 63 others.http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/september/5/newsid_2499000/2499203.stm 1975: London Hilton bombed BBC News 2008-02-06 5 September 1975 https://web.archive.org/web/20080213183811/http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/september/5/newsid_2499000/2499203.stm 13 February 2008 live 19 September – The first episode of the popular sitcom Fawlty Towers is broadcast on BBC Two.Penguin Pocket On This Day Penguin Reference Library 0-14-102715-0 2006 24 September – Dougal Haston and Doug Scott become the first British people to reach the summit of Mount Everest.http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/september/24/newsid_2538000/2538093.stm 1975: First Britons conquer Everest BBC News 2008-02-06 24 September 1975 https://web.archive.org/web/20080307132259/http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/september/24/newsid_2538000/2538093.stm 7 March 2008 live 27 September – The National Railway Museum is opened in York, becoming the first national museum outside London. 28 September–3 October – The Spaghetti House siege, in which nine people are taken as hostages by armed robbers, takes place in London.http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/october/3/newsid_4286000/4286414.stm 1975: London's Spaghetti House siege ends BBC News 2008-02-06 3 October 1975 https://web.archive.org/web/20080307132231/http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/october/3/newsid_4286000/4286414.stm 7 March 2008 live October October Vauxhall announces its second new model launch of the year - the Cavalier, which replaces the Victor, is based on the German Opel Ascona, and is a direct competitor for the big-selling Ford Cortina. Statistics show that Britain is in a double-dip recession, as the economy contracted for the second and third quarters of the year.https://www.theguardian.com/news/datablog/2009/nov/25/gdp-uk-1948-growth-economy#_methods=onPlusOne%2C_ready%2C_close%2C_open%2C_resizeMe%2C_renderstart%2Concircled%2Cdrefresh%2Cerefresh%2Conload&id=I0_1391725729646&parent=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.theguardian.com&pfname=&rpctoken=61842758 UK GDP since 1955 DataBlog The Guardian London 2016 2018-07-28 9 October – An IRA bomb explosion outside Green Park tube station near Piccadilly in London kills one person and injures twenty other people.http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/october/9/newsid_2531000/2531191.stm 1975: Man killed in Piccadilly bomb blast BBC News 2008-02-06 9 October 1975 https://web.archive.org/web/20080307132312/http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/october/9/newsid_2531000/2531191.stm 7 March 2008 live 13 October – Norton Villiers, the Wolverhampton-based motorcycle producer, closes down with the loss of 1,600 jobs after being declared bankrupt. 23 October – Oncologist Gordon Hamilton Fairley is killed in London by an IRA bomb intended for Sir Hugh Fraser. 28 October – Dr. No is broadcast on ITV, the first time a Bond film is shown on British television. 30 October – West Yorkshire Police launch a murder investigation after 28-year-old prostitute Wilma McCann is found dead in Leeds. She later becomes known as Peter Sutcliffe's first murder victim.http://www.execulink.com/~kbrannen/victim05.htm THE ATTACKS AND MURDERS - WILMA McCANN www.execulink.com 20 April 2018 31 October – Queen's "Bohemian Rhapsody" is released. November 3 November – A petroleum pipeline from Cruden Bay to Grangemouth across Scotland is formally opened by HM The Queen.http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/november/3/newsid_2538000/2538155.stm 1975: North Sea oil begins to flow BBC News 2008-02-06 3 November 1975 https://web.archive.org/web/20080307132153/http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/november/3/newsid_2538000/2538155.stm 7 March 2008 live 6 November – The first public performance by punk rock band the Sex Pistols takes place. 12 November – The Employment Protection Act establishes Acas to arbitrate industrial disputes, extends jurisdiction of employment tribunals, establishes a Maternity Pay Fund to provide for paid maternity leave and legislates against unfair dismissal.Palmer Alan Palmer Veronica 1992 The Chronology of British History Century Ltd London 437–438 0-7126-5616-2 15 November – The Prime Minister attends the 1st G6 summit, at the Château de Rambouillet in France. 16 November – British and Icelandic ships clash, marking the beginning of the third Cod War. 27 November – Ross McWhirter, 50, co-founder with his twin of the Guinness Book of Records, is shot dead outside his London home by the Provisional Irish Republican Army for offering reward money to informers.http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/november/27/newsid_2528000/2528787.stm 1975: TV presenter Ross McWhirter shot dead BBC News 2008-02-06 27 November 1975 https://web.archive.org/web/20080307132422/http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/november/27/newsid_2528000/2528787.stm 7 March 2008 live 29 November – Former racing driver Graham Hill, 46, and racing driver Tony Brise, 23, are both killed in an air crash in Hertfordshire.http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/november/29/newsid_2527000/2527363.stm 1975: Graham Hill killed in air crash BBC News 2008-02-06 29 November 1975 https://web.archive.org/web/20080307132333/http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/november/29/newsid_2527000/2527363.stm 7 March 2008 live December December – Donald Neilson, 39, is arrested in Mansfield, Nottinghamshire, on suspicion of being the "Black Panther" murderer who is believed to have carried out five murders in the last two years. 5 December – The Government ends Internment of suspected terrorists in Northern Ireland. 6–12 December – Balcombe Street Siege: IRA members on the run from police break into a London flat, taking the residents hostage. The siege ends after six days with the gunmen giving themselves up to the police.http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/december/6/newsid_4261000/4261478.stm 1975: Couple under siege in Balcombe Street BBC News 2008-02-06 6 December 1975 https://web.archive.org/web/20080307132447/http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/december/6/newsid_4261000/4261478.stm 7 March 2008 live 25 December The heavy metal band Iron Maiden is formed by Steve Harris in London. The Wizard of Oz is shown on British television for the first time, on BBC One. 29 December – Two new laws, the Sex Discrimination Act 1975 and the Equal Pay Act 1970, come into force aiming to end unequal pay of men and women in the workplace.http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/december/29/newsid_2547000/2547249.stm 1975: New laws to end battle of the sexes BBC News 2008-02-06 29 December 1975 https://web.archive.org/web/20080307132453/http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/december/29/newsid_2547000/2547249.stm 7 March 2008 live Undated The Willis Building (Ipswich) is completed, a key early example of Foster Associates' 'high-tech' architectural style.Elain Harwood England: a Guide to Post-War Listed Buildings rev. London Batsford 2003 0-7134-8818-2 The British National Oil Corporation is set up. First annual payment of Short Money made to the Official Opposition in the House of Commons to help with its costs for Parliamentary business (named after Edward Short, Leader of the House). The Fisher Meredith law firm is established in London. Jackie Tabick becomes the first female rabbi in the British Isles.Rabbi Jackie Tabick http://www.thejc.com/judaism/meet-rabbi/rabbi-jackie-tabick https://web.archive.org/web/20120121025051/http://www.thejc.com/judaism/meet-rabbi/rabbi-jackie-tabick dead 21 January 2012 The Jewish Chronicle 6 March 2008 2012-06-30 The white-tailed sea eagle is re-introduced to the UK, on the Isle of Rum.Snow D. W. Perrins, C. M. 1998 The Birds of the Western Palearctic Oxford University Press 0-19-854099-X Publications J. G. Ballard’s dystopian novel High-Rise. Malcolm Bradbury's campus novel The History Man. Agatha Christie's final Hercule Poirot novel Curtain (written c1940).Hercule Poirot fictional character Britannica https://www.britannica.com/topic/Hercule-Poirot www.britannica.com 19 May 2022 en Shirley Conran's guide Superwoman. Richard Crossman's The Diaries of a Cabinet Minister (posthumous), after a legal battle with the Government which wished to suppress publication. Colin Dexter's first Inspector Morse novel Last Bus to Woodstock. Ruth Prawer Jhabvala's novel Heat and Dust. David Lodge's campus novel Changing Places. Paul Scott's novel A Division of the Spoils, the final part of The Raj Quartet. Gerald Seymour's thriller Harry's Game. Births 4 January – David Carrick, serial rapist 6 January – Jason King, radio and television host 8 January – Chris Simmons, actor 13 January – Shazia Mirza, comedian 20 January – Zac Goldsmith, environmentalist and politician 21 January – Nicky Butt, footballer 24 January Paul Marazzi, singer Lucy Montgomery, comedian, actress and writer 28 January – Lee Latchford-Evans, singerhttp://www.stepsofficial.com/biography/lee.shtml https://web.archive.org/web/20030406102304/http://www.stepsofficial.com/biography/lee.shtml 6 April 2003 Steps Biography: Lee Zomba Records 2015 19 February 2015 5 February – Alison Hammond, actress and television presenterPadin Malvika 2022-02-01 This Morning host Alison Hammond's fabulous life - her age and relationships https://www.mirror.co.uk/3am/celebrity-news/inside-alison-hammonds-life-married-26105431 2023-11-03 The Mirror en 12 February – Shahzada Dawood, businessman, investor and philanthropist (died 2023) 13 February – Katie Hopkins, media personality, businesswoman and political commentator 18 February Keith Gillespie, footballer Gary Neville, footballer 25 February – Naga Munchetty, television presenter and journalist 12 March – Amanda Milling, Chairman of the Conservative Party 13 March – Mark Clattenburg, football referee 21 March Justin Pierce, British-American actor (died 2000) Mark Williams, snooker player 5 April – Caitlin Moran, journalist and broadcaster 9 April – Robbie Fowler, footballer 13 April – Bruce Dyer, footballer 20 April – Olly Robbins, civil servant 1 May – Paloma Baeza, actress and director 2 May – David Beckham, footballer 17 May – Jonti Picking, animator, voice actor and internet personality 18 May – John Higgins, snooker player 20 May – Graham Potter, football player and manager 22 May – Kelly Morgan, badminton player 27 May – Jamie Oliver, chef and television personality 29 May Melanie Brown, pop singer (Spice Girls) Sarah Millican, comedian 4 June Russell Brand, comedian and actor Alex Wharf, English cricketerThe Yorkshire County Cricket Club: 2011 Yearbook Warner David 2011 113th Great Northern Books Ilkley, Yorkshire 978-1-905080-85-4 381 10 June – Darren Eadie, English footballer and manager 14 June – Laurence Rickard, actor, writer and comedian 19 June – Ed Coode, rower 3 July – Matt Haig, writer 13 July – Gareth Edwards, film director 15 July – Jill Halfpenny, actress 17 July – Konnie Huq, television presenter 22 July – Hannah Waterman, actress 26 July – Liz Truss, politician 30 July – Graham Nicholls, artist 31 July – Stephanie Hirst, born Simon Hirst, radio DJ 11 August – Asma al-Assad, born Asma Akhras, spouse of Bashar al-Assad 22 August – Sheree Murphy, actress 31 August – Daniel Harding, orchestral conductor and airline pilot 12 September – Ian Riches, cricketer 18 September – Ritchie Appleby, football player 23 September – Chris Hawkins, radio personality 25 September – Declan Donnelly, television presenter and one half of Ant and Dec 5 October – Kate Winslet, actress 7 October – Tim Minchin, English-born singer-songwriter and comic performer 9 October – Joe McFadden, actor 16 October – Sally Biddulph, journalist and presenter 25 October – Zadie Smith, born Sadie Smith, novelist 9 November – Gareth Malone, choirmaster 12 November Katherine Grainger, rower Adele Carlsen, synchronised swimmer 13 November – Gary Burgess, broadcaster and journalist (died 2022) 18 November – Anthony McPartlin, television presenter and one half of Ant and Dec 5 December – Ronnie O'Sullivan, snooker player 6 December – Noel Clarke, actor and film maker 12 December – Jackie Brady, gymnast 20 December – Jacqui Oatley, sports presenter 23 December – Lorna Norris, rower Deaths 31 January – Bernard Fitzalan-Howard, 16th Duke of Norfolk, peer and Earl Marshal (born 1908) 8 February – Robert Robinson, organic chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1886) 12 February – Bernard Knowles, film director and screenwriter (born 1900) 14 February Julian Huxley, biologist (born 1887) P. G. Wodehouse, comic writer (born 1881) 22 February – Lionel Tertis, violist (born 1876) 24 February – Una Duval, suffragette (born 1879) 26 February – Stephen Tibble, London police officer (shot) (born 1953) 28 February – Neville Cardus, writer on cricket and music (born 1888) 3 March Sandy MacPherson, theatre organist (born 1897 in Canada) T. H. Parry-Williams, poet (born 1887)Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (subscription access) Oxford University Press http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/37835 Williams, Sir Thomas Herbert Parry- (1887–1975) Evans Ellis Ellis Evans 2007-07-25 27 March – Sir Arthur Bliss, composer and conductor (born 1891) 3 April – Mary Ure, actress (born 1933) 14 April – Michael Flanders, actor and songwriter (born 1922) 23 April – William Hartnell, actor (born 1908) 24 April – Pete Ham, musician (born 1947; suicide) 20 May – Barbara Hepworth, sculptor (born 1903) 21 May – A. H. Dodd, historian (born 1891)Archaeologia Cambrensis: The Journal of the Cambrian Archaeological Association https://books.google.com/books?id=Iy0oAQAAIAAJ 1976 W. Pickering 137 3 June – Sir Christopher Bonham-Carter, admiral and Treasurer to the Duke of Edinburgh (1959–1970) (born 1907) 5 June – Lester Matthews, actor (born 1900) 9 June – Albert Spencer, 7th Earl Spencer, aristocrat (born 1892) 27 June – Arthur Salter, 1st Baron Salter, politician and academic (born 1881) 28 June – William Ibbett, submariner and radio broadcaster (born 1886) 2 July – James Robertson Justice, actor (born 1907) 7 August – Jim Griffiths, politician (born 1890) 10 September – George Paget Thomson, physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1892) 22 October – Arnold J. Toynbee, historian (born 1889) 23 October – Gordon Hamilton Fairley, oncologist (murdered) (born 1930 in Australia) 27 October – Frederick Charles Victor Laws, Royal Air Force officer, pioneer of aerial reconnaissance (born 1887) 25 November Edward Hyams, author, historian and gardener (born 1910) Moyna Macgill, actress (born 1895) 27 November – Ross McWhirter, co-founder of the Guinness Book of Records (assassinated) (born 1925) 29 November Tony Brise, racing driver, plane crash (born 1952) Graham Hill, racing driver, plane crash (born 1929) 18 December – R. Ifor Parry, minister, teacher and philanthropist, 67s7-PARR-IFO-1908 Parry, Robert Ivor (1908-1975), minister (Cong.) and school teacher Ioan Wyn Gruffydd 19 December 2019 See also List of British films of 1975 References 30em 1975 Category:Years of the 20th century in the United Kingdom Category:1975 by country Category:1970s in the United Kingdom Category:1975 in Europe