1980 in the United Kingdom explained
Events from the year 1980 in the United Kingdom.
Incumbents
Events
January
- 2 January – Workers at British Steel Corporation go on a nationwide strike over pay called by the Iron and Steel Trades Confederation, which has some 90,000 members among British Steel's 150,000 workforce, in a bid to get a 20% rise. It is the first steelworks strike since 1926.[1]
- 19 January – The first UK Indie Chart is published in Record Business.
- 20 January – The British record TV audience for a film is set when some 23,500,000 viewers tune in for the ITV showing of the James Bond film Live and Let Die (1973).
- 21 January – is beached at Brighton.
- 28 January – Granada Television airs a controversial edition of World in Action on ITV, in which it alleges that Manchester United F.C. chairman Louis Edwards has made unauthorised payments to the parents of some of the club's younger players and has made shady deals to win local council meat contracts for his retail outlet chain.[2]
February
- 14 February – Margaret Thatcher announces that state benefit to strikers will be halved.
- 14–23 February – Great Britain and Northern Ireland compete at the Winter Olympics in Lake Placid, New York, United States, and win one gold medal (Robin Cousins for figure skating).
- 17 February – British Steel Corporation announces that more than 11,000 jobs will be axed at its plants in Wales by the end of next month.
- 25 February
- The First episode of the popular political sitcom Yes Minister is broadcast on BBC2.
- Manchester United chairman Louis Edwards dies from a heart attack at the age of 65, just weeks after allegations about his dealings in connection with the football club and with his retail outlet chain.
March
- 10 March – An opinion poll conducted by the Evening Standard suggests that six out of 10 Britons are dissatisfied with Margaret Thatcher's Conservative government, who now trail Labour (still led by James Callaghan, the former prime minister) in the opinion polls.[3]
- 19–20 March – Radio Caroline, the pirate radio station, is forced to cease transmission when, the ship on which it is based, runs aground and sinks off the Thames Estuary.[4]
- 25 March
- 26 March – The budget raises tax allowances and duties on petrol, alcohol and tobacco.
- 31 March
- March – Vauxhall, launches the Astra, a front-wheel drive small family hatchback which replaces the recently discontinued Viva and is based on the latest Opel Kadett. Although the car is currently produced in West Germany and Belgium, there are plans for British production to commence at the Ellesmere Port plant in Cheshire next year.
April
- 1 April
- The steelworkers' strike is called off.
- Britain's first official naturist beach is opened to the public in Brighton.[6]
- 2 April – 1980 St Pauls riot in Bristol.
- 3 April – Education Act institutes the Assisted Places Scheme (free or subsidised places for children attending fee-paying independent schools based on results in the schools' entrance examination and means tests), gives parents greater powers on governing bodies and over admissions, and removes local education authorities' obligation to provide school milk and meals.[7]
- 4 April – Alton Towers Resort is opened by Madame Tussauds in Staffordshire as a theme park.
- 10 April – The UK reaches an agreement with Spain to reopen its border with Gibraltar.
- 18 April – Zimbabwe becomes independent of the United Kingdom.[4]
- 22 April – Unemployment stands at a two-year high of more than 1.5million.
- 29 April – Filmmaker Sir Alfred Hitchcock dies aged 80 at his home in Los Angeles, only one month after his last public appearance.
- 30 April – The Iranian Embassy Siege begins. A six-man terrorist team from the Democratic Revolutionary Front for the Liberation of Arabistan captures the Embassy of Iran in Prince's Gate, Knightsbridge, central London, taking 26 hostages.[4]
May
June
July
- 1 July – MG's Abingdon car factory looks set to close completely later this year as Aston Martin fails to raise the funds to buy it from British Leyland.
- 8 July – Miners threatening to strike demand a 37% pay increase, ignoring pleas from Margaret Thatcher to hold down wage claims.
- 10 July – Alexandra Palace in London gutted by fire.[14]
- 19 July–3 August: Great Britain and Northern Ireland compete at the Olympics in Moscow and win 5 gold, 7 silver and 9 bronze medals.
- 22 July – Unemployment has hit a 44-year high of nearly 1.9 million.
- 24 July – Actor, singer and comedian Peter Sellers dies aged 54 of heart failure in London, shortly after dining with his fellow Goons Harry Secombe and Spike Milligan.
- 29 July – Margaret Thatcher announces the introduction of Enterprise Zones as an employment relief effort in some of regions of Britain which have been hardest hit by deindustrialisation and unemployment.http://www.itnsource.com/shotlist//ITN/1980/07/29/T29078010/?s=Enterprise+Zone
August
- 11 August
- Margaret Thatcher visits the Harold Hill area of East London to hand of the keys to the 12,000th council tenants in Britain to buy their home under the right to buy scheme. However, she is met by jeering from neighbours of the family.
- Tyne and Wear Metro opens on Tyneside after six years of construction, with the first phase between Haymarket in Newcastle and Whitley Bay. The tram network is expected to grow throughout the 1980s.
- 16 August – 37 people die as a result of the Denmark Place fire, arson at adjacent London nightclubs.[15]
- 28 August – Unemployment now stands at 2 million for the first time since 1935. Economists warn that it could rise to up to 2.5million by the end of next year.[16]
September
- 1 September – Ford launches one of the most important new cars of the year, the third generation Escort which is a technological innovation in the small family car market, spelling the end of the traditional rear-wheel drive saloon in favour of the front-wheel drive hatchback and estate that follows a trend in this sector of car which is being repeated all over Western Europe. It will go on to be Britain's best-selling car of the decade starting from 1982.
- 9 September – Bibby Line's Liverpool-registered ore-bulk-oil carrier sinks with the loss of all 44 crew south off Japan in Typhoon Orchid following structural failure. At 91,655 gross tons, she is the largest UK-registered ship ever lost.
- 11 September – Chicago mobster Joseph Scalise with Arthur Rachel commit the Marlborough diamond robbery in London. The following day, they are arrested in Chicago after getting off a British Airways flight in the city; however, the 45-carat stone is never found.[17]
- 12 September – Consett Steelworks in Consett, County Durham closes with the loss of some 4500 jobs, instantly making it the town with the highest rate of unemployment in the UK.
- 13 September – Hercules, a bear which had gone missing on a Scottish island filming a Kleenex advertisement, is found.[18]
- 21 September – First CND rally at RAF Greenham Common.[8]
- 24 September – 34-year-old Singapore born doctor Upadhya Bandara is attacked and injured in Headingley, Leeds; the Yorkshire Ripper is believed to have been responsible.[19]
October
- 3 October – The 1980 Housing Act comes into effect, giving council house tenants of three years' standing in England and Wales the right to buy their home from their local council at a discount.[20]
- 6 October – Deregulation of express coach services.
- 8 October – British Leyland launches the Austin Metro, a small three-door hatchback which makes use of much of the Mini's drivetrain and suspension, including its 998 cc and 1275 cc engines. The Mini will continue to be produced alongside the Metro at Longbridge in Birmingham which was recently expanded to accommodate Metro production.
- 10 October – Margaret Thatcher makes her "The lady's not for turning" speech to the Conservative Party conference after party MP's warn that her economic policy was responsible for the current recession and rising unemployment.[21]
- 15 October
- James Callaghan, ousted as Prime Minister by the Conservative victory 17 months ago, resigns as Labour Party leader after four and a half years.
- Former Prime Minister Harold Macmillan, 86, criticises Margaret Thatcher's economic policies, claiming that she has "got the wrong answer" to the economic crises which she inherited from Labour last year. Her economic policies are also criticised by union leaders, who blame her policies for rising unemployment and bankruptcies, and warn that this could result in civil unrest.[22]
- 17 October – Elizabeth II makes history by becoming the first British monarch to make a state visit to the Vatican.[23]
- 22 October – Lord Thomson announces that The Times and Sunday Times will be closed down within five months unless a buyer is found.
- 24 October – MG car production ends after 56 years with the closure of the plant in Abingdon, Oxfordshire, where more than 1.1 million MG cars have been built since it opened in 1924.[24]
- 28 October – Margaret Thatcher declares that the government will not give in to seven jailed IRA terrorists who are on hunger strike in the Maze Prison in hope of winning prisoner of war status.
November
- 5 November – Theresa Sykes, a 16-year-old Huddersfield mother of a young baby, is wounded in a hammer attack near her home in the town. The Yorkshire Ripper is believed to be responsible.[25]
- 10 November – Michael Foot is elected Leader of the Labour Party.[26]
- 13 November – George Smith, a security guard, is shot dead when the van he is guarding is intercepted by armed robbers in Willenhall, West Midlands.https://www.expressandstar.com/days/1976-2000/1980.html https://web.archive.org/web/20110719172152/http://www.shercliff.demon.co.uk/whs2008/streetc.htm
- 17 November – University student Jacqueline Hill, aged 20, is murdered in Headingley, Leeds. On 19 November, police investigating the case establish that she is probably the 13th woman to be killed by the Yorkshire Ripper.[27]
- 23 November – Despite the economy now being in recession and the government's monetarist economic policy to tackle inflation being blamed for the downturn, the government announces further public spending cuts and taxation rises.
December
- 8 December – Ex-Beatle John Lennon, 40, is shot dead in New York.[28]
- 10 December – Frederick Sanger wins his second Nobel Prize in Chemistry, jointly with Walter Gilbert, "for their contributions concerning the determination of base sequences in nucleic acids".[29]
- 14 December – Thousands of music fans hold a 10-minute vigil in Liverpool for John Lennon.
- 18 December – Michael Foot's hopes of becoming prime minister in the next general election are given a boost by an MORI poll which shows Labour on 56% with a 24-point lead over the Conservatives.[30]
- 23 December – American animated special Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer airs on ITV for the last time.
- 26 & 28 December – Sightings of unexplained lights near RAF Woodbridge Suffolk, which become known as the Rendlesham Forest incident, the most well-known claimed UFO event in Britain.[31]
- 28 December – The Independent Broadcasting Authority award contracts for commercial broadcasting on ITV. TV-am is awarded the first ever breakfast TV contract, and is set to go on air by 1983.[32]
Undated
Publications
Births
- 1 January – Richie Faulkner, rock guitarist (Judas Priest)[35]
- 2 January - Kemi Badenoch, politician
- 8 January – Sam Riley, actor
- 18 January – Estelle, singer[36]
- 19 January – D Double E, grime MC
- 20 January
- 21 January – Nicky Booth, boxer (died 2021)
- 26 January – Tom Skinner, drummer, percussionist, and record producer
- 30 January – Leilani Dowding, English 'Page 3' model and television celebrity
- 31 January – Clarissa Ward, television journalist
- 5 February – Jo Swinson, Scottish politician, leader of the Liberal Democrats (UK)
- 10 February
- 22 February – Martin Garratt, footballer (died 2014)
- 2 March – Chris Barker, footballer (died 2020)
- 13 March – Linda Clement, Scottish field hockey player
- 21 March – John Hinds, Northern Irish motorcycle race doctor, antitheist and lecturer (died 2015)
- 23 March – Russell Howard, English comedian, television and radio presenter
- 24 March – Amanda Davies, sports presenter
- 28 March – Angela Rayner, Labour politician
- 29 March – Andy Scott-Lee, Welsh singer (3SL) and Pop Idol (series 2) contestant
- 3 April – Suella Braverman, Conservative politician, former Home Secretary
- 8 April
- 15 April – Natalie Casey, English actress
- 25 April – Lee Spick, snooker player (died 2015)
- 28 April - Bradley Wiggins, cyclist
- 2 May – Zat Knight, English footballer
- 8 May – Michelle McManus, Scottish singer, winner of Pop Idol (series 2) and television host
- 9 May – Kate Richardson-Walsh, English field hockey player
- 12 May – Rishi Sunak, Conservative politician, former Prime Minister
- 22 May – Lucy Gordon, actress and model (died 2009)
- 30 May – Steven Gerrard, footballer
- 1 June
- 2 June – Richard Skuse, rugby player
- 4 June – Philip Olivier, actor
- 10 June
- 11 June
- 12 June – Adam Kay, writer and doctor
- 22 June – Charlene White, television presenter and newsreader
- 23 June – Jessica Taylor, singer (Liberty X)
- 29 June – Katherine Jenkins, mezzo-soprano
- 1 July – Ricky Champ, actor
- 7 July – Jim McMahon, politician
- 8 July – Nikesh Shukla, author
- 18 July
- 19 July – Michelle Heaton, English singer (Liberty X)
- 28 July – Leo Houlding, English rock climber
- 3 August – Hannah Simone, British-Canadian actress
- 19 August
- 23 August – Joanne Froggatt, English actress of stage
- 28 August – Rachel Khoo, chef, writer and broadcaster
- 4 September – Michael Beale, football coach
- 6 September – Kerry Katona, TV presenter and pop star (Atomic Kitten)
- 11 September – Anthony Carrigan, academic (died 2016)
- 12 September – Kevin Sinfield, English rugby league player
- 5 October – James Toseland, English motorcycle racer[40]
- 13 October – Scott Parker, English football player and manager
- 14 October – Ben Whishaw, actor
- 26 October – Khalid Abdalla, Scottish-born actor
- 28 October – Alan Smith, footballer
- 12 November – Charlie Hodgson, English rugby union player
- 18 November - Mathew Baynton, English actor
- 19 November
- 6 December – Steve Lovell, footballer
- 7 December – John Terry, footballer
- 8 December – Nick Nevern, actor and director
- 15 December
- 16 December – Michael Jibson, actor, voice over artist, writer and director
- 18 December – Neil Fingleton, actor and basketball player (died 2017)
- 20 December
- 21 December – Louise Linton, Scottish actress, wife of Steven Mnuchin
- 25 December – Laura Sadler, television actress (died 2003)
Deaths
January
- 2 January
- 3 January
- 5 January – Sir Roy Bucher, Army general (born 1895)
- 6 January
- 7 January – Cyril Mann, painter and sculptor (born 1911)
- 9 January
- 10 January – Sir Charles Drummond Ellis, physicist (born 1895)
- 11 January
- 14 January – Ernest Alexander Payne, Baptist minister (born 1902)
- 15 January
- 17 January – Sir Reginald Goff, judge (born 1907)
- 18 January – Sir Cecil Beaton, photographer (born 1904)[42]
- 20 January – William Roberts, painter (born 1895)
- 21 January
- 22 January
- 23 January – Frank A. Hoare, film producer (born 1894)
- 24 January – Sam Leitch, journalist and television presenter (born 1927)
- 25 January – Queenie Watts, actress and singer (born 1923)
- 27 January – Sir Eric Wyndham White, British administrator and economist, first Director-General of the GATT (born 1913)
- 28 January – Pat Griffith, racing driver (born 1926)
- 29 January
- 31 January
February
- 1 February
- 3 February – Betty Timms, author (born 1886)
- 4 February
- 5 February – Sir Harold Parker, civil servant (born 1895)
- 6 February
- 8 February
- 9 February
- 10 February – Albert Murray, Baron Murray of Gravesend, politician (born 1930)
- 11 February – Trena Cox, stained glass artist (born 1895)
- 12 February – Sylvia Leith-Ross, anthropologist (born 1884)
- 15 February – Sir Ernest Down, Army lieutenant-general (born 1902)
- 16 February
- 17 February – Graham Sutherland, artist (born 1903)
- 18 February – Muriel Brunskill, opera singer (born 1899)
- 19 February
- 21 February – Kathleen Sampson, mycologist (born 1892)
- 24 February – Paul Wilson, Baron Wilson of High Wray, engineer (born 1908)
- 25 February
- 28 February
- 29 February – Margaret Morris, dancer (born 1891)
March
- 1 March
- 3 March – Sir Michael Duff, 3rd Baronet, socialite (born 1907)
- 4 March – Alan Hardaker, English footballer and football manager (born 1912)
- 5 March
- 6 March
- 7 March – John Illingworth, yachtsman, yacht designer and naval officer (born 1903)
- 14 March
- 15 March
- 17 March
- 18 March – Ludwig Guttmann, neurologist and pioneer of the Paralympic Games (born 1899 in Germany)
- 19 March
- 20 March – Alun Davies, historian (born 1916)
- 22 March – Evelyn Procter, historian (born 1897)
- 23 March
- 24 March – John Barrie, actor (born 1917)
- 26 March
- 28 March – Sir Fenton Atkinson, judge who presided at the trial of the Moors murderers (born 1906)
- 30 March
- 31 March – John Nightingale, actor (born 1942)
April
- 1 April – Joyce Heron, actress (born 1916)
- 2 April – George Wallach, Scottish long-distance runner (born 1883)
- 3 April
- 5 April – Hector MacAndrew, Scottish fiddler and composer (born 1903)
- 6 April
- 7 April – Sir Lancelot Cutforth, Army major-general (born 1899)
- 8 April
- 10 April – Antonia White, writer and translator (born 1899)
- 11 April
- 13 April – Sir Arthur Massey, physician (born 1894)
- 15 April
- 16 April – Lawrence Ogilvie, plant pathologist (born 1898)
- 17 April
- 19 April – Tony Beckley, character actor (born 1927)
- 20 April – Sir Stephen Holmes, diplomat (born 1896)
- 22 April – Colin Maud, Royal Navy commodore (born 1903)
- 23 April
- 26 April
- 27 April
- 29 April – Sir Alfred Hitchcock, film director (born 1899)[45]
- 30 April – Thomas McMillan, politician (fall) (born 1919)
May
- 2 May
- 4 May
- Kay Hammond, actress (born 1909)
- Joe "Mr Piano" Henderson, jazz pianist (born 1920)
- 5 May
- 6 May
- 7 May – Dame Margaret Cole, politician (born 1893)
- 8 May
- 9 May – James Webb, historian (suicide) (born 1946)
- 10 May – Frank Lynch, trade unionist (born 1909)
- 12 May – William A. Robson, academic (born 1895)
- 14 May
- 15 May – John Somers Dines, meteorologist (born 1885)
- 16 May
- 17 May – C. C. Roberts, entrepreneur (born 1900)
- 18 May
- 19 May
- 20 May – Sir Oscar Morland, diplomat (born 1904)
- 22 May – Reginald Foort, theatre organist (born 1893)
- 24 May – Ronald Burroughs, diplomat (born 1917)
- 25 May
- 26 May – Sir Geoffrey Oliver, Royal Navy admiral (born 1898)
- 28 May
June
July
- 1 July – C. P. Snow, novelist and physicist (born 1905)[47]
- 2 July
- 3 July – Charles Benstead, English cricketer and author (born 1896)
- 4 July – Gregory Bateson, anthropologist, anthropologist, social scientist, linguist, semiotician and cyberneticist (b. 1904)[48]
- 6 July
- 7 July – Reginald Gardiner, actor (born 1903)[49]
- 9 July – Peter Strausfeld, painter (born 1910 in the German Empire)
- 12 July – William Armstrong, Baron Armstrong of Sanderstead, civil servant and banker (born 1915)
- 14 July – Aneirin Talfan Davies, Welsh poet and broadcaster (born 1909)
- 15 July – Dorothy Johnstone, Scottish painter (born 1892)
- 18 July – Robert Kidd, theatre director (born 1943)
- 20 July – John Grimshaw, World War I soldier and Victoria Cross recipient (born 1893)
- 21 July – Isabella Leitch, physiologist and suffragette (born 1890)
- 23 July
- 24 July – Peter Sellers, comic actor (born 1925)
- 26 July – Kenneth Tynan, theatre critic (born 1927)
- 28 July – Sir Cullum Welch, businessman (born 1895)
- 29 July – Eileen Skellern, nurse (born 1923)
August
September
- 1 September – Arthur Greville Collins, film director (born 1896)
- 2 September – George Reginald Starr, mining engineer and World War II spy (born 1904)
- 3 September
- 5 September – Adrian Bell, farmer, writer and crossword compiler (born 1901)
- 6 September
- 7 September – Reginald Manningham-Buller, 1st Viscount Dilhorne, lawyer and politician (born 1905)
- 8 September
- 10 September – T. E. Jessop, academic (born 1896)
- 11 September
- 12 September – Sir Rupert Cross, legal scholar (born 1912)
- 14 September – Alison Settle, fashion journalist (born 1891)
- 17 September – Enid Warren, social worker (born 1903)
- 18 September
- 22 September
- 23 September
- 24 September
- 25 September – John Bonham, drummer (Led Zeppelin) (born 1948)
- 27 September – Sir Michael Turner, banker (born 1905)
- 28 September – Horace Finch, pianist and organist (born 1906)
- 29 September
- 30 September
October
- 1 October – Derek Mills-Roberts, Army brigadier (born 1908)
- 3 October – Sir Conrad Corfield, civil servant (born 1893)
- 5 October – Sir Geoffrey Hawkins, Royal Navy admiral (born 1895)
- 6 October
- 7 October – Sir Gordon Russell, designer and craftsman (born 1892)
- 9 October – Adam Henry Robson, RAF air vice-marshal (born 1892)
- 10 October
- 11 October – Cassie Walmer, singer, dancer and comedian (born 1888)
- 12 October – Ambrosine Phillpotts, actress (born 1912)
- 14 October
- 15 October – Katharine Mary Briggs, folklorist and writer (born 1898)
- 19 October – D. G. Bridson, radio producer (born 1910)
- 20 October
- 24 October – Sir Richard Glyn, 9th Baronet, Army officer and politician (born 1907)
- 26 October – Sam Cree, Northern Irish playwright (born 1928)
- 27 October
- 29 October – Ouida MacDermott, actress and singer (born 1889)
- 30 October – Guy Bellis, film actor (born 1886)
November
- 1 November – Edward Wilfred Taylor, optical instrument manufacturer (born 1891)
- 3 November
- 4 November
- 5 November – Sydney Pope, RAF air commodore (born 1898)
- 6 November – Nevill Coghill, literary scholar (born 1899)
- 7 November – Norman Marshall, theatre director (born 1901)
- 8 November
- 9 November – Pearl Jephcott, social researcher (born 1900)
- 10 November
- 11 November – Connie Lewcock, suffragette and socialist (born 1894)
- 12 November – John Chetwynd-Talbot, 21st Earl of Shrewsbury, peer (born 1914)
- 14 November – Arnold Haskell, dance critic (born 1903)
- 15 November
- 16 November – Imogen Hassall, actress (suicide) (born 1946)
- 17 November – David Marr, neuroscientist (born 1945)
- 18 November – Richard Carline, artist and writer (born 1896)
- 19 November
- 22 November – Norah McGuinness, painter and illustrator (born 1901)
- 23 November – R. Allatini, novelist (born 1890, Austria-Hungary)
- 25 November
- 26 November
- 27 November – John Hubbard, physicist after whom the Hubbard model is named (born 1931)
- 28 November
- 29 November – Joel Hurstfield, historian (born 1911)
December
- 2 December – Patrick Gordon Walker, politician (born 1907)
- 3 December
- 4 December – Geoffrey Cooke, English cricketer (born 1897)
- 6 December
- 7 December – Gerard Bucknall, Army lieutenant-general (born 1894)
- 8 December
- John Lennon, pop singer-songwriter and guitarist (The Beatles) (murdered in the United States) (born 1940)
- Charles Parker, radio documentary producer (born 1919)
- William Ritchie Russell, neurologist (born 1903)
- 10 December – Philip MacDonald, crime writer (born 1900)
- 11 December
- 12 December – Sir Jules Thorn, businessman, founder of Thorn Electrical Industries (born 1899)
- 13 December
- 14 December
- 16 December
- 17 December – Elsie Few, artist (born 1909 in Jamaica)
- 18 December – Ben Travers, writer (born 1886)
- 20 December
- 22 December
- 23 December
- 25 December
- 27 December
- 29 December
- 31 December – Maurice Cornforth, Marxist philosopher (born 1909)
See also
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