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1003. Edward the Confessor, the future king of England (r. 1042-1066), is born to parents Æthelred the Unready and Emma of Normandy. 1016. Harold Harefoot, the future king of England (r.1035-1040), is born to parents Cnut the Great and Ælfgifu of Northhampton. 1016.
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 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.
14 May – The abduction and brutal murder of June Anne Devaney, a three-year-old girl, at a Blackburn hospital leads to the fingerprinting of more than 40,000 men in the town to identify the murderer, Peter Griffiths who on 19 November will be hanged at Walton Gaol, Liverpool, for the crime.
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.
February – Work begins on extending the Piccadilly line of London Underground at Heathrow Airport to serve the new Terminal 4. [5]1 February – TV-am launches on ITV. [4]3 February – Unemployment stands at a record high of 3,224,715 – though the previous high reached in the Great Depression of the early 1930s accounted for a higher percentage of the workforce.