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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.
10–24 October – Great Britain competes at the Olympics in Tokyo and wins 4 gold, 12 silver and 2 bronze medals. 15 October – 1964 United Kingdom general election. The Labour Party defeats the Conservatives and Harold Wilson becomes Prime Minister, having gained a majority of five seats.
30 March – 2008 Farnborough plane crash: A plane crashes into a row of houses in Farnborough, Hampshire, killing two pilots and three passengers. [ 14] 31 March – The inquest into the death of Diana, Princess of Wales hears that there is "not a shred of evidence" that The Duke of Edinburgh or MI6 ordered her death. [ 15]
6 July – opening of first passenger funicular in the UK, the South Cliff Lift at Scarborough, North Yorkshire. [4] 31 July – Public Health Act 1875 (38 & 39 Vict. c. 55) establishes a code of practice for sanitation across the country. [5] 6 August – Scottish football team Hibernian F.C. is founded by Irishmen in Edinburgh. [6] 11 August
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.
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 ...
7 August. Honours (Prevention of Abuses) Act 1925 passed in the aftermath of Lloyd George 's sale of peerages and other honours for political party funds. [ 10] National Library of Scotland established by Act of Parliament to take over the national responsibilities of the Advocates' Library in Edinburgh. 2 October – In London :
4 March – John Dalzell Kenworthy, artist, sculptor and writer (born 1858) 9 March – Sydney Bacon Palmer, rubber industry leader (born 1890) [38] 26 March – James Peters, black rugby union international (born 1879) 29 April – K. C. Groom, fiction writer (born 1872) 6 May – B. C. Forbes, Scottish-born publisher (born 1880)