1974_in_England
1974 in England
List of events
Events from 1974 in England
Further information: Politics of England
- 1 January–7 March – The Three-Day Week is introduced by the Conservative Government as a measure to conserve electricity during the period of industrial action by coal miners.[1]
February
- 4 February – Eleven people are killed in the M62 coach bombing;[2] on 8 February the toll reaches 12 with the death in hospital of an 18-year-old soldier seriously injured in the bombing.
- 7 February
- 12 February – BBC1 first airs the children's television series Bagpuss, made by Peter Firmin and Oliver Postgate's Smallfilms in stop motion animation.[3][4]
- 14 February
- Bob Latchford, the Birmingham City centre forward, becomes Britain's most expensive footballer in a £350,000 move to Everton.[5]
March
- 3 March – 180 Britons are among the dead when Turkish Airlines Flight 981 travelling from Paris to London crashes in a wood near Paris, killing all 346 aboard.
- 10 March – Ten miners die in a methane gas explosion at Golborne Colliery near Wigan, Lancashire.
April
The current system of metropolitan and non-metropolitan counties came into effect on 1 April 1974 and replaced the administrative counties and county boroughs, which were abolished at that time.
May
June
July
August
September
October
November
December
- 16 January – Kate Moss, English model
- 30 January – Christian Bale, English actor
- 22 February – James Blunt, singer-songwriter
- 7 March – Tobias Menzies, actor
- 17 April – Victoria Beckham, singer and designer[6]
- 28 July – Hannah Waddingham, English actress and singer
- 5 September – Lauren Jeska, transgender fell runner convicted of the attempted murder of Ralph Knibbs[7]
- 20 October – Mohammad Sidique Khan, Islamic terrorist, leader of 7 July 2005 London bombings (died 2005)[8]
- 12 January – Princess Patricia of Connaught (born 1886)
- 10 June – Prince Henry, Duke of Gloucester, last surviving child of George V (born 1900)
- 4 July – Georgette Heyer, English novelist (born 1902)
- 24 July – James Chadwick, English physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1891)
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- "1974: Soldiers and children killed in coach bombing". BBC News. 4 February 1974. Archived from the original on 7 March 2008. Retrieved 2008-02-10.
- Duffy, Jonathan (12 September 2008). "See Emily play". BBC. Retrieved 2011-03-14.
- "Entertainment: Bagpuss cream of television". BBC News. 1 January 1999. Retrieved 2011-03-14.
- "Evening Times – Google News Archive Search". news.google.com.
- "Victoria Beckham | Biography & Facts | Britannica". www.britannica.com. Retrieved 24 May 2022.
- "Lauren JESKA | Profile". www.worldathletics.org.
- "Profile: Mohammad Sidique Khan". April 30, 2007 – via news.bbc.co.uk.