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1975 in the United Kingdom

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1975 in the United Kingdom
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Events from the year 1975 in the United Kingdom.

Incumbents

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Events

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January

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February

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March

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April

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May

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June

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  • 2 June – Snow showers occur across as the country even as far south as London which last happened in 1761.
  • 5 June – 67% of voters support continuing membership of the EEC in a referendum.[24]
  • 9 June – Proceedings in Parliament are broadcast on radio for the first time.[25]
  • 11 June – In Uganda, British author and adventurer Denis Hills is sentenced to death by firing squad for referring to Idi Amin as a 'village tyrant'.
  • 13 June – UEFA places a three-year ban on Leeds United from European competitions due to the behaviour of their fans at last month's European Cup final.
  • 14 June – Ambulance crews in the West Midlands stage a ban on non-emergency calls in a dispute over pay and hours.[5]
  • 17 June – Leeds United lodge an appeal against their ban from European competitions.[26]
  • 19 June – A coroner's court jury returns a verdict of wilful murder, naming Lord Lucan as the murderer, in the inquest on Sandra Rivett, the nanny who was found dead at his wife's London home seven months previously.[27]
  • 30 June – UEFA reduces Leeds United's ban from European competitions to one season on appeal.[28]

July

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August

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  • 1 August – The Government's anti-inflation policy comes into full effect. During the year, inflation reaches 24.2% - the second-highest recorded level since records began in 1750, and the highest since 1800.[31] A summary of the White Paper Attack on Inflation is delivered to all households.
  • 11 August – British Leyland Motor Corporation comes under British government control.
  • 14 August – Hampstead enters the UK Weather Records with the Highest 155-min total rainfall at 169mm.
  • 15 August
    • The Birmingham Six are wrongfully sentenced to life imprisonment. (They are released 1991.)
    • A 46-year-old Halifax woman, Olive Smelt, is severely injured in a hammer attack in an alleyway in the town.[32]
  • 16 August – Football hooliganism strikes on the opening day of the English league season, with hundreds of fans being arrested at games across the country - the total number of arrests exceeds seventy at the stadiums of Wolverhampton Wanderers and Leicester City.[33]
  • 19 August – Headingley cricket ground is vandalised by people campaigning for release from prison of the armed robber George Davis. A scheduled test match between England and Australia which was meant to take place there has to be abandoned. This is the climax to a campaign in which the slogan George Davis is Innocent was widely sprayed throughout London.[34]
  • 21 August – The unemployment rate reaches the 1,250,000 mark.
  • 27 August – A 14-year-old, Tracy Browne, is badly injured in a hammer attack in a country lane at Silsden, near Keighley.[35]
  • 31 August – Cavalcade of steam locomotives from Shildon, County Durham, to Darlington, County Durham, to mark the 150th anniversary of the Stockton and Darlington Railway.

September

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October

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November

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December

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Undated

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Publications

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Births

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Deaths

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See also

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References

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