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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.
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.
17 November – Seaham life-boat George Elmy capsizes entering harbour after service to coble Economy: all five crew and four of the five survivors are killed. 22 November – 1962 Chippenham by-election: the Conservatives are narrowly re-elected in Chippenham, Wiltshire, ahead of a challenge from the Liberals.
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.
18 February – Mohammed Al Fayed tells the inquest into the death of Diana, Princess of Wales that she and his son Dodi Fayed were both murdered in a conspiracy arranged by the Royal family, Tony Blair, MI5, MI6 and the British ambassador to France. He claims that Diana knew that The Prince of Wales and The Duke of Edinburgh were "trying to ...
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.
1 January New Year's celebrations all over the UK fall silent for two minutes as a mark of respect for those who died in the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami.; The Freedom of Information Act 2000, the Environmental Information Regulations 2004 and the main provisions of the Child Trust Funds Act 2004 (introducing a Child Trust Fund with a government contribution for children that were born on or ...
Legoland Windsor in Windsor, Berkshire opened on 17 March. Events from the year 1996 in the United Kingdom . This year is noted for the Dunblane Massacre, the divorces of the Duke and Duchess of York ( Andrew and Sarah) and of the Prince and Princess of Wales ( Charles and Diana) and the birth of Dolly the sheep .