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The Boston Massacre (known in Great Britain as the Incident on King Street[ 1]) was a confrontation in Boston on March 5, 1770, in which nine British soldiers shot several of a crowd of three or four hundred who were harassing them verbally and throwing various projectiles. The event was heavily publicized as "a massacre" by leading Patriots ...
29 January – Aberdeen resigns as Prime Minister. 5 February – Viscount Palmerston becomes Prime Minister. 8 February – the Devil's Footprints, a series of mysteriously hoof -like marks, appear in the snow in Devon and continue throughout the countryside for over 100 miles (160 km). 19 February – bread riots in Liverpool break out.
The following is a list of notable people documented as the last living individuals to have witnessed, survived or participated in significant historical events or who were the last living members of a historic group that directly contributed to such an event (e.g. Manhattan Project scientists).
Snow in Cumbria on 23 March. The March 2013 United Kingdom winter storm was an exceptional weather event that took place in the United Kingdom and Ireland on the night of 22–23 March 2013. Described as 'the worst snowfall for 30 years', [4] the event brought chaos to many parts of Northern England, Northern Wales, Northern Ireland and Scotland.
MP's vote 361–245 against the reinstatement of the death penalty, 18 years after its abolition. 15 July – Much of the country embraces a heatwave as temperatures reach 33 °C in London. 16 July – Twenty people are killed in the 1983 British Airways Sikorsky S-61 crash in the Celtic Sea.
Events from the year 1987 in the United Kingdom . The major political event of this year is the re-election of Margaret Thatcher in June's general election, making her the longest continuously-serving Prime Minister of the United Kingdom since Lord Liverpool in the early 19th century. The year is also marked by six disasters: the 1987 United ...
28 August – Caryl Churchill 's play Top Girls premieres at the Royal Court Theatre, London. 29 August – 65-year-old American Ashby Harper becomes the oldest person to swim the English Channel. 30 August – St David's Hall opens in Cardiff as the National Concert Hall and Conference Centre of Wales.
2012 – Two people are killed and six more are injured in a shooting at a hair Salon in Bucharest, Romania. [17] 2018 – Syrian civil war: The Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) pause the Deir ez-Zor campaign due to the Turkish-led invasion of Afrin. [18] [19] [20] 2021 – Pope Francis begins a historical visit to Iraq [21] amidst the COVID-19 ...