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1996 in the United Kingdom
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Events from the year 1996 in the United Kingdom.
Incumbents
Events
- 18 January - Six major environmental organisations add their support to the campaign over the Newbury By-pass in Berkshire.[1]
- 5 February - the first genetically modified food products go on sale in the UK.[2]
- 9 February
- 15 February - A report on the Arms-to-Iraq affair is critical of government ministers.[4]
- 18 February - a bomb explodes on a London bus in Central London, killing the IRA bomber transporting the device, and injuring several people.[5]
- 13 March - The Dunblane massacre - A gunman kills 16 children, their teacher and himself at a primary school in Dunblane, Stirling. The killer, who wounded 13 other children and another teacher, is quickly identified as 43-year-old former scout leader Thomas Hamilton.[6]
- 2 May - The Football Association confirms that Glenn Hoddle will be appointed as coach of the England national football team after the upcoming European Championships.
- 27 May - The reconstruction of William Shakespeare's Globe Theatre opens in London.[7]
- 30 May - The Duke and Duchess of York complete their divorce proceedings.[7]
- 8 June - The UEFA Euro 1996, hosted by England begins. The first match, England vs Switzerland takes place at Wembley Stadium, London. It ends in a 1-1 draw.
- 13 June - Guernsey legalises abortion, 86 years after it was criminalised on the island.
- 15 June - A massive IRA bomb explodes in Manchester city centre, devastating the city's commercial district.[8]
- 30 June - Germany wins the European Championship final with a 2-1 victory over Czech Republic at Wembley.
- 5 July - Dolly the sheep, the first mammal to have been successfully cloned from an adult cell, is born at the Roslin Institute in Scotland,
- 8 July
- 10 July - Police find the bodies of 45-year-old Lin Russell and her six-year-old daughter Megan near village of Nonington in Kent. Lin's other daughter, nine-year-old Josie, survived the attack with massive head injuries. The killer is believed to have performed the attack with a hammer.[10]
- 15 July - Horrett Campbell, 33, is arrested on seven counts of attempted murder following last week's machete attack at a Wolverhampton nursery school.
- 19 July–9 August - Great Britain and Northern Ireland compete at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, Georgia, United States, and win 1 gold, 8 silver and 6 bronze medals.
- 29 July - Alan Shearer becomes the world's most expensive footballer when Newcastle United F.C. pay £15 million for him.[7]
- 28 August - The Prince and Princess of Wales complete their divorce proceedings.[7] The Princess of Wales loses her style of Royal Highness and assumes the style, Diana, Princess of Wales.
- September - Ford launches its revolutionary new Ka city car, which makes use of a shortened Fiesta chassis.
- 13 October - Racing driver Damon Hill wins the Japanese Grand Prix thus clinching the Drivers' World Championship.[7]
- 16 October - The Government announces plans to ban handguns in the UK, following the Dunblane massacre.[11]
- 18 November - Channel Tunnel fire.
- 30 November - The Stone of Scone is installed in Edinburgh Castle 700 years after it was removed from Scotland by King Edward I of England.[7]
- 1 December - Lee Harvey, a 25-year-old Alvechurch man, is stabbed to death in a reported road rage attack on a country lane near Redditch in Worcestershire.
- 9 December - A jury at Stafford Crown Court finds Horrett Campbell guilty on all seven counts of attempted murder relating to the Wolverhampton nursery machete attack five months previously.[12]
- 10 December
- 19 December - Lee Harvey's girlfriend Tracie Andrews is charged with his murder, less than three weeks after his death was reported as the result of a "road rage" attack. She is freed on bail.
Publications
Births
Deaths
- 11 February - Cyril Poole, cricketer (born 1921)
- 14 February - Bob Paisley, footballer and football manager (born 1919)
- 27 February - Pat Smythe, show jumper (born 1928)
- 25 March - John Snagge, radio personality (born 1904)
- 20 April - Christopher Robin Milne, author and bookseller (born 1920)
- 20 May - Jon Pertwee, actor (born 1919)
- 2 June - Leon Garfield, children's author (born 1921)
- 4 August - Geoff Hamilton, television presenter (born 1936)
- 9 August - Frank Whittle, RAF officer and inventor (born 1907)
- 13 October - Beryl Reid, actress (born 1919)
- 16 October - Eric Malpass, novelist (born 1910)
- 26 November - Michael Bentine, comedian and comic actor (born 1922)
- 9 December - Mary Leakey, archaeologist (born 1913)
- 11 December - Willie Rushton, comedian, actor, and cartoonist (born 1937)
- 11 December - W. G. G. Duncan Smith, World War II pilot (born 1914)
- 16 December - Quentin Bell, biographer and art historian (born 1910)
References
- ^ ""1996: Green groups join bypass battle", BBC On This Day". Retrieved on 2008-02-03.
- ^ ""1996: First GM food goes on sale in UK", BBC On This Day". Retrieved on 2008-02-03.
- ^ ""1996: Docklands bomb ends IRA ceasefire", BBC On This Day". Retrieved on 2008-02-03.
- ^ ""1996: Arms-to-Iraq report published", BBC On This Day". Retrieved on 2008-02-03.
- ^ ""1996: Bomb blast destroys London bus", BBC On This Day". Retrieved on 2008-02-03.
- ^ ""1996: Massacre in Dunblane school gym", BBC On This Day". Retrieved on 2008-02-03.
- ^ a b c d e f (2006) Penguin Pocket On This Day. Penguin Reference Library. ISBN 0-141-02715-0.
- ^ ""1996: Huge explosion rocks central Manchester", BBC On This Day". Retrieved on 2008-02-03.
- ^ ""1996: Seven slashed in school machete attack", BBC On This Day". Retrieved on 2008-02-03.
- ^ ""1996: Girl survives murder of mother and sister", BBC On This Day". Retrieved on 2008-02-03.
- ^ ""1996: Handguns to be banned in the UK", BBC On This Day". Retrieved on 2008-02-03.
- ^ ""1996: Guilty verdict on school machete attacker", BBC On This Day". Retrieved on 2008-02-03.
- ^ "The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 1996". Retrieved on 2008-02-03.
- ^ "The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1996". Retrieved on 2008-02-03.
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