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13 April – A 22-year-old woman is raped at her bedsit in Cambridge. Cambridgeshire Police believe that she was the sixth victim of a rapist who had 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.
30 March – 2008 Farnborough plane crash: A plane crashes into a row of houses in Farnborough, Hampshire, killing two pilots and three passengers. [ 14] 31 March – The inquest into the death of Diana, Princess of Wales hears that there is "not a shred of evidence" that The Duke of Edinburgh or MI6 ordered her death. [ 15]
Events. 1 January – establishment of the National Council for Civil Liberties by Ronald Kidd and Sylvia Crowther-Smith. [1] 21 January – ten thousand people attend a British Union of Fascists rally in Birmingham, organised by Oswald Mosley. [2] 27 March – the Betting and Lotteries Act 1934 is passed.
March 5. March 5 is the 64th day of the year (65th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar; 301 days remain until the end of the year.
2007 Ealing Southall by-election: Virendra Sharma holds the seat for Labour. 22 July – Floods cause chaos in many areas of the UK, especially the counties of Gloucestershire, Warwickshire, Worcestershire and Oxfordshire, and leave hundreds homeless and thousands of vehicles stranded on major roads.
22 September – Terence Rattigan 's plays Separate Tables premiere in London. [ 27] 13 October – Chris Chataway breaks the world record for the 5000 metres by five seconds. [ 28] 14 October – The Ethiopian emperor Haile Selassie visits the United Kingdom. [ 29] 19 October.
7 August. Honours (Prevention of Abuses) Act 1925 passed in the aftermath of Lloyd George 's sale of peerages and other honours for political party funds. [ 10] National Library of Scotland established by Act of Parliament to take over the national responsibilities of the Advocates' Library in Edinburgh. 2 October – in London :
1935 in the United Kingdom. Events from the year 1935 in the United Kingdom. This year was the Silver Jubilee of King George V. Political events included a general election in November and changes in the leadership of both the Conservative and Labour parties.