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Next time. 5 March 2025. ( 2025-03-05) Frequency. Annual. Saint Piran's Day ( Cornish: Gool Peran ), or the Feast of Saint Piran, is the national day of Cornwall, [1] held on 5 March every year. The day is named after one of the patron saints of Cornwall, Saint Piran, who is also the patron saint of tin miners.
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.
The heavy metal band Iron Maiden is formed by Steve Harris in London. The Wizard of Oz is shown on British television for the first time, on BBC One. 29 December – Two new laws, the Sex Discrimination Act 1975 and the Equal Pay Act 1970, come into force aiming to end unequal pay of men and women in the workplace.
23 March – Chelsea F.C. are the first winners of the Football League's new Full Members Cup, beating Manchester City 5–4 in the final at Wembley, although Manchester City clawed the deficit to a single goal in the last five minutes after being 5–1 down. 29 March – The first high-speed catamaran ferry is introduced into service in the ...
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.
October. 1 October – QVC launches the first television shopping channel in the UK. 3 October – The Northern Irish journalist Rory Peck, 36, is shot and killed outside the Ostankino TV Centre in Moscow by Boris Yeltsin 's loyalists while covering the Russian constitutional crisis.
The report includes new images of Johnson next to champagne at the 14 January 2021 leaving presentation. [129] 20 March: A 52-page dossier of Johnson's written defence is handed to the committee. [130] In the document, Johnson admits that he misled the House of Commons, but he had not "intentionally or recklessly" done so. [131]
Events from the year 1992 in the United Kingdom.This year was the Ruby Jubilee of Queen Elizabeth II.. This year is notable for a fourth-term general election victory for the Conservative Party; "Black Wednesday" (16 September), the suspension of the UK's membership of the European Exchange Rate Mechanism; and an annus horribilis for the Royal Family.