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31 January–1 February – The North Sea flood of 1953 kills 307 people on the east coast of Britain, with more at sea. [ 3] A corvette and a submarine sink at their moorings in HM Dockyard Sheerness. 1 February – Pool petrol, introduced during World War II, is replaced by individual brands.
Popular culture. 1955 British Grand Prix. 1955 English cricket season. Football: England | Scotland. 1955 in British radio. 1955 in British television. 1955 in British music. Events from the year 1955 in the United Kingdom. The year is marked by changes of leadership for both principal political parties.
24 March. England – Death of Queen Elizabeth I. James VI of Scotland crowned King of England (as James I of England ). 1605. 5 November. England and Scotland – The Gunpowder plot is uncovered, in which Guy Fawkes and others attempted to blow up the king, James VI and I and the Parliament of England . 1606.
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.
8 March – First appearance of Davros in Doctor Who. [11] 25 March – A large National Front rally is held in London, in protest against European integration. [12] 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.
27 April – ending of the First Anglo-Ashanti War (1823–1831). 28 April–1 June – general election results in a Whig victory, and a mandate for electoral reform. [3] May–June – Merthyr Rising in Merthyr Tydfil. 30 May – census in the United Kingdom. 1 June – Royal Navy officer and explorer James Clark Ross leads the first ...
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 ...
11 August – Aliens Act 1905, the first modern legislation to control immigration into the U.K. [ 14] 12 August – First running of the Shelsley Walsh Speed Hill Climb, the world's oldest motorsport event to have been staged continuously on its original course. 25 August – ' Ancient Order of Druids ' initiate neo-druidic rituals at Stonehenge.