1974 in England
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Events from 1974 in England
Events
- 1 January–7 March – The Three-Day Week is introduced by the Conservative Government as a measure to conserve electricity during the period of industrial action by coal miners.[1]
February
- 4 February – Eleven people are killed in the M62 coach bombing;[2] on 8 February the toll reaches 12 with the death in hospital of an 18-year-old soldier seriously injured in the bombing.
- 7 February
- 12 February – BBC1 first airs the children's television series Bagpuss, made by Peter Firmin and Oliver Postgate's Smallfilms in stop motion animation.[3][4]
- 14 February
- Bob Latchford, the Birmingham City centre forward, becomes Britain's most expensive footballer in a £350,000 move to Everton.[5]
March
- 3 March – 180 Britons are among the dead when Turkish Airlines Flight 981 travelling from Paris to London crashes in a wood near Paris, killing all 346 aboard.
- 10 March – Ten miners die in a methane gas explosion at Golborne Colliery near Wigan, Lancashire.
April
The current system of metropolitan and non-metropolitan counties came into effect on 1 April 1974 and replaced the administrative counties and county boroughs, which were abolished at that time.
Births
- 16 January – Kate Moss, English model
- 30 January – Christian Bale, English actor
- 12 February – Naseem Hamed, British boxer
- 22 February – James Blunt, singer-songwriter
- 7 March – Tobias Menzies, actor
- 17 April – Victoria Beckham, singer and designer[6]
- 28 July – Hannah Waddingham, English actress and singer
- 5 September – Lauren Jeska, transgender fell runner convicted of the attempted murder of Ralph Knibbs[7]
- 20 October – Mohammad Sidique Khan, Islamic terrorist, leader of 7 July 2005 London bombings (died 2005)[8]