1971 in the United Kingdom

1971 in the United Kingdom

Events from the year 1971 in the United Kingdom.

Incumbents

* Monarch - HM Queen Elizabeth II
* Prime Minister - Edward Heath, Conservative Party

Events

January - March

* 2 January - A stairway crush at the Rangers vs. Celtic football match at Ibrox Stadium in Glasgow kills 66 and leaves many more injured. [cite web|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/january/2/newsid_2478000/2478305.stm|title="1971: Sixty-six die in Scottish football disaster", BBC On This Day|accessdate=2008-02-02]
* 3 January - BBC Open University broadcasts begin.
* 7 January - The British heavy metal band Black Sabbath releases their breakthrough album, "Paranoid".
* 8 January - Tupamaros kidnap Geoffrey Jackson, British ambassador to Uruguay, in Montevideo; they keep him captive until September.
* 12 January - The house of Robert Carr, Secretary of State for Employment, bombed by The Angry Brigade. [cite web|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/january/12/newsid_2523000/2523465.stm|title="1971: British minister's home bombed", BBC On This Day|accessdate=2008-02-02]
* 23 January - The Commonwealth Conference in Singapore gives Britain permission to sell weapons to South Africa. [cite web|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/january/23/newsid_2795000/2795585.stm|title="1971: Britain allowed to sell arms to S Africa", BBC On This Day|accessdate=2008-02-02]
* February - British Leyland launches the new Morris Marina range of family saloons and coupes, which replace the long-running Morris Minor and are designed as a direct competitor for the Ford Cortina.
* 4 February - Rolls-Royce goes bankruptcite book|title=Penguin Pocket On This Day|publisher=Penguin Reference Library|isbn=0-141-02715-0|year=2006] and is nationalised.
* 11 February - The US, UK, USSR and others sign the Seabed Treaty, outlawing nuclear weapons on the ocean floor.
* 15 February - The United Kingdom and Republic of Ireland both switch to decimal currency. See also decimalisation.
* 24 February - Enoch Powell predicts an "explosion" unless there is a massive repatriation scheme for the immigrants.
* 5 March - The Pakistani army occupies East Pakistan.
* 8 March - The British postal workers' strike, led by UPW General Secretary Tom Jackson, ends after 47 days. [cite web|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/march/8/newsid_2516000/2516343.stm|title="1971: Post strike ends with pay deal", BBC On This Day|accessdate=2008-02-02]

April - June

* 1 April - The United Kingdom lifts all restrictions on gold ownership.
* 27 April - Eight members of the Welsh Language Society go on trial for destroying English language road signs in Wales. [cite web|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/april/27/newsid_2953000/2953265.stm|title="1971: Protest disrupts Welsh language trial", BBC On This Day|accessdate=2008-02-02]
* 11 May - The Daily Sketch, Britain's oldest tabloid newspaper, is withdrawn from circulation after 62 years. [cite web|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/may/11/newsid_2860000/2860297.stm|title="1971: Britain's oldest tabloid closes", BBC On This Day|accessdate=2008-02-02]
* 23 May - Jackie Stewart wins the 1971 Monaco Grand Prix.
* 7 June - The children's show "Blue Peter" buries a time capsule in the grounds of BBC Television Centre, due to be opened on the first episode of the year 2000.
* 14 June - The first Hard Rock Cafe opens near Hyde Park Corner in London.
* 20 June – Britain announces that Soviet space scientist Anatoli Fedoseyev has been granted asylum.
* 21 June – Britain begins new negotiations for EEC membership in Luxembourg.

July - September

* 6 July - Police launch a murder investigation after three French tourists are found shot dead in Staffordshire.cite web|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/july/14/newsid_2503000/2503395.stm|title="1971: Suicide note reveals murder confession", BBC On This Day|accessdate=2008-02-14]
* 8 July - Two rioters shot dead by British troops in Derry, Northern Ireland. [cite web|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/july/8/newsid_2496000/2496479.stm|title="1971: British troops shoot Londonderry rioters", BBC On This Day|accessdate=2008-02-02]
* 13 July - Barlaston man Michael Bassett, 24, is found dead in his fume-filled car near the scene of the recent triple French tourist murder. Police identify Bassett as their prime suspect in the murder investigation.
* 29 July - The United Kingdom opts out of the Space Race, with the cancellation of its Black Arrow launch vehicle.
* 6 August - Chay Blyth becomes the first person to sail around the world east to west against the prevailing winds. [cite web|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/august/6/newsid_2527000/2527863.stm|title="1971: Sailor's record 'wrong way' voyage", BBC On This Day|accessdate=2008-02-02]
* 9 August - British security forces in Northern Ireland detain hundreds of guerrilla suspects and put them into Long Kesh prison - the beginning of an internment without trial policy. Twenty die in riots that follow. [cite web|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/august/9/newsid_4071000/4071849.stm|title="1971: NI activates internment law", BBC On This Day|accessdate=2008-02-02]
* 11 August - Prime Minister Edward Heath participates in the British victory in the Admiral's Cup yacht race.
* 15 August - Showjumper Harvey Smith stripped of his victory in the British Show Jumping Derby by judges for making a V sign. [cite web|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/august/15/newsid_2534000/2534107.stm|title="1971: 'V-sign' costs rider victory", BBC On This Day|accessdate=2008-02-02]
* 25 August - The Who Release their critically acclaimed album "Who's Next".
* September - Godfrey Hounsfield's invention, the CAT scan, is first used on a patient at a hospital in Wimbledon.
* 1 September - the pre-decimal penny and threepence cease to be legal tender.
* 9 September - British Ambassador Geoffrey Jackson is freed after being held captive for eight months by extreme left-wing guerrillas in Uruguay. [cite web|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/september/9/newsid_3634000/3634352.stm|title="1971: British diplomat freed after eight months", BBC On This Day|accessdate=2008-02-02]
* 21 September - The television music show "The Old Grey Whistle Test" is aired for the first time on BBC 2.

October - December

* 3 September - Qatar gains independence from the United Kingdom. Unlike most nearby emirates, Qatar declines to become part of either the United Arab Emirates or Saudi Arabia.
* 24 September - Britain expels 90 KGB and GRU officials; 15 are not allowed to return.
* 13 October - The British Army begins to destroy roads between the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland as a security measure. [cite web|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/october/13/newsid_2532000/2532449.stm|title="1971: Army blasts N Ireland border roads", BBC On This Day|accessdate=2008-02-02]
* 21 October - A gas explosion in Clarkston, Glasgow kills 20 people.
* 23 October - Two women shot dead by soldiers in Belfast as their car fails to stop at a checkpoint. [cite web|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/october/23/newsid_2489000/2489157.stm|title="1971: Two women shot at Belfast checkpoint", BBC On This Day|accessdate=2008-02-02]
* 28 October:
** The House of Commons votes in favour of joining the EEC by a vote of 356-244.
** The United Kingdom becomes the 6th nation to launch a satellite into orbit, the Prospero X-3, using a Black Arrow carrier rocket.
* 30 October - The Democratic Unionist Party is founded by the Rev. Ian Paisley's in Northern Ireland.
* 31 October - A IRA bomb explodes at the top of the Post Office Tower in London. [cite web|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/october/31/newsid_2464000/2464143.stm|title="1971: Bomb explodes in Post Office tower", BBC On This Day|accessdate=2008-02-02]
* 22 November - Six climbers die trying to climb Cairn Gorm. [cite web|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/november/22/newsid_2549000/2549021.stm|title="1971: Six dead in Scottish mountain tragedy", BBC On This Day|accessdate=2008-02-02]
* 4 December - 15 people are killed and 17 others injured in a bomb attack that destroys a pub in Belfast. The IRA are believed to have been behind the bombing. [cite web|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/december/4/newsid_3403000/3403883.stm|title="1971: Bomb demolishes crowded Belfast pub", BBC On This Day|accessdate=2008-02-02]
* 10 December - Dennis Gabor wins the Nobel Prize in Physics "for his invention and development of the holographic method". [cite web|url=http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/physics/laureates/1971/|title=The Nobel Prize in Physics 1971|accessdate=2008-02-02]
* 29 December - The United Kingdom gives up its military bases in Malta.

Undated

* Production of the Morris Minor ceases after 23 years. It is succeeded by the Morris Marina, a larger car which is sold as a saloon or coupe, and is aimed at the hugely successful Ford Cortina.

Publications

* Agatha Christie's Miss Marple novel "Nemesis".
* E. M. Forster's novel "Maurice" (posthumous).
* Frederick Forsyth's novel "The Day of the Jackal".
* V. S. Naipaul's novel "In a Free State".
* Terry Pratchett's novel "The Carpet People".
* Paul Scott's novel "The Towers of Silence", third of the Raj Quartet.

Births

January - February

* 1 January - Suzanne Virdee, British Newsreader-Midlands Today BBC ONE
* 5 January - Jayne Middlemiss, British television presenter
* 6 January - Charlie Neil, British regional TV weather reader
* 7 January - Joanne Malin, British television presenter
* 14 January - Yiolanda Koppel, British television presenter
* 15 January - Lara Cazalet, British actress
* 20 January - Gary Barlow, singer
* 21 January - Alan McManus, Scottish snooker player
* 30 January - Darren Boyd, actor
* 31 January - Patrick Kielty, Northern Irish comedian and television presenter
* 2 February - Michelle Gayle, singer and actress
* 3 February - Sarah Kane, English playwright (died 1999)
* 13 February - Sonia Evans, English pop singer
* 16 February - Amanda Holden, British actress
* 23 February - Melinda Messenger, British television presenter and model

March - April

* 7 March - Rachel Weisz, British actress
* 23 March - Gail Porter, British television presenter.
* 27 March - David Coulthard, Scottish race car driver
* 31 March - Ewan McGregor, Scottish actor
* 3 April - Douglas Carswell, British Conservative politician and MP for Harwich
* 11 April - John Leech, British Liberal Democrat politician, Shadow Transport Spokesperson, and MP for Manchester Withington
* 18 April - David Tennant, Scottish actor
* 27 April - Tess Daly, British television presenter.

May - June

* 9 May - Paul McGuigan, British musician and a founding member of Oasis
* 23 May - George Osborne, British Conservative politician, Shadow Chancellor of the Exchequer, and MP for Tatton
* 27 May - Paul Bettany, British actor
* 28 May - Richard Gunn, British journalist and motoring writer
* 5 June - Susan Lynch, Northern Irish actress
* 25 June - Neil Lennon, Northern Irish footballer

July - August

* 9 July - Dani Behr, British television presenter and actress.
* 2 August - Michael Hughes, Northern Irish footballer
* 7 August - Melanie Sykes, British television presenter
* 9 August - Kate Sanderson, British television presenter and newsreader
* 31 August - Kirstie Allsopp, British television presenter

eptember - October

* 1 September - Daniel Hannan, Conservative British politician and MEP for the South East England region
* 2 September - Lisa Snowdon, English fashion model, actress and television presenter
* 13 September
** Louise Lombard, British actress.
** Stella McCartney, British fashion designer
* 17 September - Parmjit Dhanda, British Labour politician and MP for Gloucester
* 25 September - Jessie Wallace, British actress
* 28 September - Liza Walker, British actress
* 29 September - Mackenzie Crook, English actor
* 9 October - Simon Atlee, British fashion photographer (died 2004)
* 13 October - Sacha Baron Cohen, British comedian
* 16 October - Craig Phillips, British reality show star, Winner of Big Brother UK in 2000
* 19 October - Kacey Ainsworth, British actress.

November - December

* 8 November - Michael Jeffrey, English footballer
* 22 November
** Cath Bishop, British rower and Olympic medallist
** Kyran Bracken, Irish-born rugby union footballer
* 1 December - Emily Mortimer, British actress
* 5 December - Ashia Hansen, British athlete
* 25 December - Dido, English singer

Deaths

* 12 January - John Tovey, British admiral of the fleet (born 1885)
* 24 January - St. John Greer Ervine, Northern Irish dramatist and author (born 1883)
* 28 January - Donald Winnicott, British psychoanalyst (born 1896)
* 6 March - Thurston Dart, English harpsichordist and conductor (born 1921)
* 7 March - Stevie Smith, English poet (born 1902)
* 1 May - Violet Jessop, Titanic survivor (born 1887)
* 15 May - Sir Tyrone Guthrie, English film director, producer and writer (born 1900)
* 20 May - Waldo Williams, Welsh language poet (born 1904)
* 10 June - Michael Rennie, English actor (born 1909)
* 6 June - Edward Andrade, English poet and physicist (born 1887)
* 25 June - John Boyd Orr, Scottish physician and biologist, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (born 1880)
* 1 July - William Lawrence Bragg, English physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1890)
* 19 July - John Jacob Astor, 1st Baron Astor of Hever, British businessman (born 1886)
* 27 July - Charlie Tully, Northern Irish footballer (born 1924)
* 30 August - Peter Fleming, travel writer and brother of Ian Fleming (born 1907)
* 11 November - A. P. Herbert, politician and writer (born 1890)
* 12 December
** Torry Gillick, Rangers winger (born 1915)
** Alan Morton, Rangers outside left (born 1893)

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