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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. 1 January – Benjamin Henry Blackwell opens the first Blackwell 's bookshop in Oxford. [1] 8 January – British army occupies Kandahar in Afghanistan. [2] 11 January – Anglo-Zulu War begins. 22 January – Zulu troops led by King Cetshwayo massacre British troops at the Battle of Isandlwana.
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.
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.
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.
Events. 19 January – Manchester High School for Girls, the first girls' school to provide an academic education in northern England, is founded. 23 January – marriage of The Duke of Edinburgh, second son of Queen Victoria, to Grand Duchess Marie Alexandrovna of Russia, younger sister of Alexander III of Russia, in Saint Petersburg.
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.
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.
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