1987 in the United Kingdom
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Events from the year 1987 in the United Kingdom.
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[edit] Events
- January 20 - Terry Waite, the special envoy of the Archbishop of Canterbury in Lebanon, disappears in Beirut while negotiating for the release of hostages.[1]
- February 11 - British Airways is privatised and listed on the London Stock Exchange.
- February 11 - Cynthia Payne is acquitted of controlling prostitutes in her London home.
- February 26 - Church of England's General Synod voted to allow ordination of women.
- 6 March - British ferry M/S Herald of Free Enterprise capsized while leaving the harbour of Zeebrugge, Belgium, killing 193 on board. [2]
- April 16 - Conservative MP Harvey Proctor appeared in Court charged with gross indecency
- June 11 - The 1987 General Election sees Margaret Thatcher secure her third term in office.
- July 22 - Palestinian cartoonist Naji al-Ali is murdered in London.
- July 24 - Novelist and former Conservative MP Jeffrey Archer wins a libel case against The Daily Star over allegations that he was involved in a vice ring.
- July 31 - Attorney General instituted legal proceedings against The Daily Telegraph to prevent it publishing details from the book Spycatcher.
- 31 July - The Queen opens the Docklands Light Railway in London.
- August 19 - Order of the Garter is opened to women.
- August 19 - Michael Ryan shoots dead 16 people in the Berkshire town of Hungerford before taking his own life with a rifle.
- August 27 - Robert Maclennan replaces David Owen as leader of the Social Democratic Party.
- September 9 - twenty-five Liverpool football fans are extradited to Belgium to face charges of manslaughter in connection with the Heysel Stadium disaster more than two years ago.
- September 23 - An Australian court lifts the ban on the publication of Spycatcher.
- October 11 - £1 million pound Operation Deepscan in Loch Ness fails to locate the legendary Loch Ness Monster.
- October 15 - Following a coup, Fiji becomes a republic with the resignation of the Governor-General.
- October 15–October 16 - Hurricane force winds batter much of south-east England, killing 23 people and causing extensive damage to property.
- October 19 - Black Monday Wall Street crash leads to £50billion being wiped of the value of shares on the London stock exchange.
- October 23 - Retired English jockey Lester Piggott is jailed for 3 years after being convicted of tax evasion.
- November 8 - Enniskillen bombing: Eleven people killed by a Provisional Irish Republican Army bomb at a Remembrance Day service at Enniskillen.
- November 18 - A fire atKings Cross on the London Underground kills 31 people.
- December 1 - Channel Tunnel construction is initiated, with completion targeted within seven years.
[edit] Births
- April 11 - Joss Stone, musician
- May 15 - Andrew Murray, tennis player
- September 4 - Mike O'Shea, cricketer
- September 22 - Tom Felton, actor
[edit] Deaths
- February 2 - Alistair MacLean, writer (heart attack) (b. 1922)
- February 4 - Wynford Vaughan-Thomas, writer and broadcaster
- March 28 - Patrick Troughton, actor (b. 1920)
- April 4 - Richard Ithamar Aaron, philosopher
- April 26 - John Ernest Silkin, politician (b. 1923)
- June 6 - Fulton Mackay, actor (b. 1922)
- June 22 - John Hewitt, poet (b. 1907)
- September 4 - Bill Bowes, cricketer (b. 1908)
- September 11 - Hugh David, television director
- September 17 - Harry Locke, actor (b. 1913)
- September 25 - Emlyn Williams, dramatist and actor
- October 19 - Jacqueline du Pré, cellist (b. 1945)
- 22 December - Henry Cotton, golfer (b. 1907)
- December 27 - Anna Eliza Williams, oldest documented person in the world
- date unknown - Keidrych Rhys, poet and editor
[edit] References
- ^ (2006) Penguin Pocket On This Day. Penguin Reference Library. ISBN 0-141-02715-0.
- ^ 'Hundreds trapped as car ferry capsizes' BBC On This Day
