1979 in England explained

Events from 1979 in England

Events

• April 23 – Fighting breaks out in London between the Anti-Nazi League and the Metropolitan Police's Special Patrol Group; protester Blair Peach receives fatal injuries during the incident, now officially attributed to the SPG.
• May 8 – Ten shoppers die in a fire at the Woolworths department store in Manchester city centre in England.^[1]
• December 4 – The Hastie fire in Kingston upon Hull, leads to the deaths of 3 boys and begins the hunt for Bruce George Peter Lee, the UK's most prolific killer.

Births

• 20 March – Freema Agyeman, actress^{[2] [3]}
• 10 April – Sophie Ellis-Bextor, singer^[4]

Deaths

• 2 February – Sid Vicious, musician
• 24 March – Yvonne Mitchell, actress
• 13 October – Rebecca Clarke, composer and violist
• 30 October – Barnes Wallis, engineer and inventor (born 1887)
• 23 November – Merle Oberon, actress (born 1911)

See also

• 1979 in Northern Ireland
• 1979 in Scotland
• 1979 in Wales

Notes and References

1. Book: Thomson, Norman . Fire Hazards in Industry (Death toll in Manchester) . Elsevier . 2001 . 0-7506-5321-3.
2. Web site: Thank You Letter From Freema Agyeman . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20100510051604/http://community.livejournal.com/freema_love/154559.html . 10 May 2010 . 8 April 2008.
3. News: Jury, Louise . 23 March 2007 . From council estate to Tardis: rise of the Timelord's sidekick . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20071019000735/http://news.independent.co.uk/media/article2383877.ece . 19 October 2007 . 18 September 2007 . . London.
4. Web site: . April 2008 . Sophie Ellis-Bextor – Biography . https://archive.today/20200729064840/https://www.hellomagazine.com/profiles/sophie-ellis-bextor/ . 29 July 2020 . 29 July 2020 . Hello!.