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List of Historical Anniversaries

I often wonder what significant anniversaries are due at some point in the future as some of them might be of interest as triggers for blog posts or visits somewhere. However, it is often difficult to find out quickly what events have significant anniversaries - hence this section on the website.

By "significant anniversaries", I mean dates that are not, for example, the 73rd anniversary of something, but the 50th, 100th, 200th etc.

It should help to flag up interesting events.

Significant anniversaries during January 1970

AnniversaryDetails
5th A temperature of 20.3C (68.5F) is reported in Trawsgoed, Ceredigion, the UK's highest on record for the month of February. (25th Feb 2019)
5th Roy Hodgson becomes the oldest man to manage in the Premier League, at the age of 71 years and 198 days. (23rd Feb 2019)
5th Home Secretary Sajid Javid confirms the intention to strip Shamima Begum, a teenager who left the UK to join Islamic State in Syria in 2015, of her UK citizenship. (20th Feb 2019)
5th Flybmi ceases operations and files for administration, blaming Brexit as the main cause of its collapse. (16th Feb 2019)
5th Thousands of school pupils around the UK go on strike as part of a global campaign for action on climate change. (15th Feb 2019)
5th A body is recovered from the wreckage of the PA-46 Malibu which vanished over the English Channel on 21 January. Dorset Police later identify it as that of Emiliano Sala. (7th Feb 2019)
5th HMV is acquired out of administration by Canadian retailer Sunrise Records, safeguarding the future of nearly 1,500 staff. (5th Feb 2019)
5th The wreckage of the PA-46 Malibu that was carrying footballer Emiliano Sala and pilot David Ibbotson is found underwater and a body is seen within it. (4th Feb 2019)
5th A 37-year-old mother who mutilated her three-year-old daughter becomes the first person in the UK to be found guilty of female genital mutilation (FGM). (1st Feb 2019)
10th A suspect in the 1982 IRA Hyde Park bombing will not face trial after a judge ruled he cannot be prosecuted because he was mistakenly given an official assurance that he would not face trial. Some 182 letters have been issued as part of the Northern Ireland peace process. (25th Feb 2014)
10th A 4.1 magnitude earthquake is recorded under the Bristol Channel. (20th Feb 2014)
10th Rail links to South West England are cut off as fresh storms hit the area. (8th Feb 2014)
10th Part of the South Devon Railway sea wall carrying the railway line linking London with the west of England is washed away by a powerful storm that has hit the UK overnight. Thousands of homes are also left without electricity. Prime Minister David Cameron announces that an extra £100 million will be spent on dealing with the aftermath of the floods that have hit the UK. (5th Feb 2014)
20th Foreign Secretary Jack Straw announces an independent inquiry, to be chaired by Lord Butler, to examine the reliability of intelligence on weapons of mass destruction in Iraq. (3rd Feb 2004)
50th The general election resulted in the first hung parliament since 1929, with the Conservative government having 297 seats - four fewer than Labour, who have 301 - and the largest number of votes. (28th Feb 1974)
50th Enoch Powell announces his resignation from the Conservative Party, in protest against Edward Heath's decision to take Britain into the EEC. (27th Feb 1974)
50th BBC1 first aired the children's television series Bagpuss, made by Peter Firmin and Oliver Postgate's Smallfilms in stop motion animation. (12th Feb 1974)
50th M62 coach bombing: The Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA) explodes a bomb on a bus carrying off-duty British Armed Forces personnel in Yorkshire, England. Nine soldiers and three civilians are killed. (4th Feb 1974)
60th £10 banknotes are issued for the first time since the Second World War. (21st Feb 1964)
60th BBC Two launches with a power cut because of the fire at Battersea Power Station. (20th Feb 1964)
60th Southampton is granted the status of city, the first such designation of the current Queen's reign. (11th Feb 1964)
60th The British and French governments agree a deal for the construction of a Channel Tunnel. The twin-tunneled rail link is expected to take five years to build. (6th Feb 1964)
70th The UK's Atomic Energy Authority is founded. (12th Feb 1954)
70th British Medical Committee report suggests the existence of a link between smoking and lung cancer. (12th Feb 1954)
80th World War II: Last heavy air-raids on London. (26th Feb 1944)
80th PAYE (Pay as you earn) system of tax collection introduced. (10th Feb 1944)
100th The Royal Greenwich Observatory begins broadcasting the hourly time signals known as the Greenwich Time Signal or the "BBC pips". (5th Feb 1924)
100th The United Kingdom recognizes the USSR. (1st Feb 1924)
350th England and the Netherlands sign the Treaty of Westminster, ending the Third Anglo-Dutch War. A provision of the agreement transfers the Dutch colony of New Amsterdam to England, and it is renamed New York. (19th Feb 1674)

 

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