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1925
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6.29.1925
Canada House opens in London, England. |
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1929
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7.11.1929
The Gillingham Fair fire disaster kills 15 in England.
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1930
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1933
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4.1.1933
English cricketer Wally Hammond set a record for the highest individual Test innings of 336 not out, during a Test match against New Zealand.
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1934
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5.28.1934
The Glyndebourne festival in England is inaugurated.
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1936
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6.11.1936
The International Surrealist Exhibition opens in London, England. |
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1938
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7.3.1938
World speed record for a steam railway locomotive is set in England, by the ''Mallard'', which reaches a speed of convert 126. |
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8.23.1938
English cricketer Len Hutton sets a world record for the highest individual Test innings of 364, during a Test match against Australia.
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1940
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10.14.1940
Balham subway station disaster, in London, England, occurs during the Nazi Luftwaffe air raids on Great Britain. |
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1941
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10.31.1941
A fire in a clothing factory in Huddersfield, England kills 49
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1944
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6.13.1944
World War II: Germany launches a V1 Flying Bomb attack on England. Only four of the eleven bombs actually hit their targets. |
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1945
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9.30.1945
The Bourne End rail crash, in Hertfordshire, England, kills 43
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1956
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10.17.1956
The first commercial nuclear power station is officially opened by Queen Elizabeth II in Sellafield,in Cumbria, England. |
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1963
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8.8.1963
Great Train Robbery: in England, a gang of 15 train robbers steal 2.6 million pounds in bank notes. |
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9.29.1963
The University of East Anglia is established in Norwich, England.
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1964
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8.12.1964
Charlie Wilson, one of the Great Train Robbers, escapes from Winson Green Prison in Birmingham, England. |
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1966
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5.6.1966
Myra Hindley and Ian Brady are sentenced to life imprisonment for the Moors Murders in England.
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1969
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12.18.1969
Capital punishment in the United Kingdom: Home Secretary James Callaghan's motion to make permanent the Murder (Abolition of Death Penalty) Act 1965, which had temporarily suspended capital punishment in England, Wales and Scotland for murder (but not for all crimes) for a period of five years. |
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1973
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6.23.1973
A fire at a house in Hull, England which kills a six year old boy is passed off as an accident; it later emerges as the first of 26 deaths by fire caused over the next seven years by arsonist Peter Dinsdale. |
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1975
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5.27.1975
The Dibble's Bridge coach crash near Grassington, North Yorkshire, England kills 32 – the highest ever death toll in a road accident in the United Kingdom. |
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6.7.1975
The inaugural Cricket World Cup begins in England.
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11.27.1975
The Provisional IRA assassinates Ross McWhirter, after a press conference in which McWhirter had announced a reward for the capture of those responsible for multiple bombings and shootings across England.
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1979
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8.20.1979
The East Coast Main Line rail route between England and Scotland is restored when the Penmanshiel Diversion opens. |
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1980
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3.20.1980
The Radio Caroline ship, Mi Amigo founders in a gale off the English coast. |
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1981
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7.17.1981
The opening of the Humber Bridge by HM The Queen in England. |
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1986
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3.31.1986
Six metropolitan county councils are abolished in England.
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1987
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10.15.1987
The Great Storm of 1987 hits France and England.
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1989
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2.20.1989
An IRA bomb destroys a section of a British Army barracks in Ternhill, England |
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1992
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11.20.1992
In England, a fire breaks out in Windsor Castle, badly damaging the castle and causing over £50 million worth of damage.
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1996
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1999
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7.5.1999
Wolverhampton, England is hit by storms which include a tornado. The area is hit again with severe storms on August 1. |
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2003
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2004
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2.5.2004
Twenty-three Chinese people drown when a group of 35 cockle-pickers are trapped by rising tides in Morecambe Bay, England. Twenty-one bodies are recovered.
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11.6.2004
An express train collides with a stationary carriage near the village of Ufton Nervet, England, killing 7 and injuring 150.
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2005
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7.28.2005
Tornadoes touch down in a residential areas in south Birmingham and Coventry England, causing £4,000,000 worth of damages and injuring 39 people. |
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12.11.2005
The Buncefield Oil Depot catches fire in Hemel Hempstead, England.
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2007
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2.23.2007
A train derails on an evening express service near Grayrigg, Cumbria, England, killing one person and injuring 22. This results in hundreds of points being checked over the UK after a few similar accidents. |
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7.1.2007
Smoking in England is banned in all public indoor spaces.
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