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Events from the year 1971 in the United Kingdom.
[edit] Incumbents
[edit] Events
[edit] January - March
- 2 January - A stairway crush at the Rangers vs. Celtic football match at Ibrox Stadium in Glasgow kills 66 and leaves many more injured.[1]
- 3 January - BBC Open University broadcasts begin.
- 7 January - The British heavy metal band Black Sabbath releases their breakthrough album, Paranoid.
- 8 January - Tupamaros kidnap Geoffrey Jackson, British ambassador to Uruguay, in Montevideo; they keep him captive until September.
- 12 January - The house of Robert Carr, Secretary of State for Employment, bombed by The Angry Brigade.[2]
- 23 January - The Commonwealth Conference in Singapore gives Britain permission to sell weapons to South Africa.[3]
- February - British Leyland launches the new Morris Marina range of family saloons and coupes, which replace the long-running Morris Minor and are designed as a direct competitor for the Ford Cortina.
- 4 February - Rolls-Royce goes bankrupt[4]and is nationalised.
- 11 February - The US, UK, USSR and others sign the Seabed Treaty, outlawing nuclear weapons on the ocean floor.
- 15 February - The United Kingdom and Republic of Ireland both switch to decimal currency. See also decimalisation.[4]
- 24 February - Enoch Powell predicts an "explosion" unless there is a massive repatriation scheme for the immigrants.
- 5 March - The Pakistani army occupies East Pakistan.
- 8 March - The British postal workers' strike, led by UPW General Secretary Tom Jackson, ends after 47 days.[5]
[edit] April - June
[edit] July - September
[edit] October - December
[edit] Undated
- Production of the Morris Minor ceases after 23 years. It is succeeded by the Morris Marina, a larger car which is sold as a saloon or coupe, and is aimed at the hugely successful Ford Cortina.
[edit] Publications
[edit] Births
[edit] January - February
- 1 January - Suzanne Virdee, British Newsreader-Midlands Today BBC ONE
- 5 January - Jayne Middlemiss, British television presenter
- 6 January - Charlie Neil, British regional TV weather reader
- 7 January - Joanne Malin, British television presenter
- 14 January - Yiolanda Koppel, British television presenter
- 15 January - Lara Cazalet, British actress
- 20 January - Gary Barlow, singer
- 21 January - Alan McManus, Scottish snooker player
- 30 January - Darren Boyd, actor
- 31 January - Patrick Kielty, Northern Irish comedian and television presenter
- 2 February - Michelle Gayle, singer and actress
- 3 February - Sarah Kane, English playwright (died 1999)
- 13 February - Sonia Evans, English pop singer
- 16 February - Amanda Holden, British actress
- 23 February - Melinda Messenger, British television presenter and model
[edit] March - April
- 7 March - Rachel Weisz, British actress
- 23 March - Gail Porter, British television presenter.
- 27 March - David Coulthard, Scottish race car driver
- 31 March - Ewan McGregor, Scottish actor
- 3 April - Douglas Carswell, British Conservative politician and MP for Harwich
- 11 April - John Leech, British Liberal Democrat politician, Shadow Transport Spokesperson, and MP for Manchester Withington
- 18 April - David Tennant, Scottish actor
- 27 April - Tess Daly, British television presenter.
[edit] May - June
[edit] July - August
[edit] September - October
- 1 September - Daniel Hannan, Conservative British politician and MEP for the South East England region
- 2 September - Lisa Snowdon, English fashion model, actress and television presenter
- 13 September
- 17 September - Parmjit Dhanda, British Labour politician and MP for Gloucester
- 25 September - Jessie Wallace, British actress
- 28 September - Liza Walker, British actress
- 29 September - Mackenzie Crook, English actor
- 9 October - Simon Atlee, British fashion photographer (died 2004)
- 13 October - Sacha Baron Cohen, British comedian
- 16 October - Craig Phillips, British reality show star, Winner of Big Brother UK in 2000
- 19 October - Kacey Ainsworth, British actress.
[edit] November - December
[edit] Deaths
- 12 January - John Tovey, British admiral of the fleet (born 1885)
- 24 January - St. John Greer Ervine, Northern Irish dramatist and author (born 1883)
- 28 January - Donald Winnicott, British psychoanalyst (born 1896)
- 6 March - Thurston Dart, English harpsichordist and conductor (born 1921)
- 7 March - Stevie Smith, English poet (born 1902)
- 1 May - Violet Jessop, Titanic survivor (born 1887)
- 15 May - Sir Tyrone Guthrie, English film director, producer and writer (born 1900)
- 20 May - Waldo Williams, Welsh language poet (born 1904)
- 10 June - Michael Rennie, English actor (born 1909)
- 6 June - Edward Andrade, English poet and physicist (born 1887)
- 25 June - John Boyd Orr, Scottish physician and biologist, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (born 1880)
- 1 July - William Lawrence Bragg, English physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1890)
- 19 July - John Jacob Astor, 1st Baron Astor of Hever, British businessman (born 1886)
- 27 July - Charlie Tully, Northern Irish footballer (born 1924)
- 30 August - Peter Fleming, travel writer and brother of Ian Fleming (born 1907)
- 11 November - A. P. Herbert, politician and writer (born 1890)
- 12 December
[edit] References
- ^ "1971: Sixty-six die in Scottish football disaster", BBC On This Day. Retrieved on 2008-02-02.
- ^ "1971: British minister's home bombed", BBC On This Day. Retrieved on 2008-02-02.
- ^ "1971: Britain allowed to sell arms to S Africa", BBC On This Day. Retrieved on 2008-02-02.
- ^ a b c d e (2006) Penguin Pocket On This Day. Penguin Reference Library. ISBN 0-141-02715-0.
- ^ "1971: Post strike ends with pay deal", BBC On This Day. Retrieved on 2008-02-02.
- ^ "1971: Protest disrupts Welsh language trial", BBC On This Day. Retrieved on 2008-02-02.
- ^ "1971: Britain's oldest tabloid closes", BBC On This Day. Retrieved on 2008-02-02.
- ^ a b "1971: Suicide note reveals murder confession", BBC On This Day. Retrieved on 2008-02-14.
- ^ "1971: British troops shoot Londonderry rioters", BBC On This Day. Retrieved on 2008-02-02.
- ^ "1971: Sailor's record 'wrong way' voyage", BBC On This Day. Retrieved on 2008-02-02.
- ^ "1971: NI activates internment law", BBC On This Day. Retrieved on 2008-02-02.
- ^ "1971: 'V-sign' costs rider victory", BBC On This Day. Retrieved on 2008-02-02.
- ^ "1971: British diplomat freed after eight months", BBC On This Day. Retrieved on 2008-02-02.
- ^ "1971: Army blasts N Ireland border roads", BBC On This Day. Retrieved on 2008-02-02.
- ^ "1971: Two women shot at Belfast checkpoint", BBC On This Day. Retrieved on 2008-02-02.
- ^ "1971: Bomb explodes in Post Office tower", BBC On This Day. Retrieved on 2008-02-02.
- ^ "1971: Six dead in Scottish mountain tragedy", BBC On This Day. Retrieved on 2008-02-02.
- ^ "1971: Bomb demolishes crowded Belfast pub", BBC On This Day. Retrieved on 2008-02-02.
- ^ The Nobel Prize in Physics 1971. Retrieved on 2008-02-02.
[edit] See also
1971 in the United Kingdom: 
England | 
Scotland
