2000 in the United Kingdom explained
Events from the year 2000 in the United Kingdom.
Incumbents
Events
January
- Japanese carmaker Nissan adds a third model to its factory near Sunderland: the new generation of the Almera hatchback and saloon which goes on sale in March.[1]
- 1 January – Millennium celebrations take place throughout the UK. The Millennium Dome in London is officially opened by HM The Queen.
- 4 January – Catherine Hartley and Fiona Thornewill become the first British women to reach the South Pole.[2]
- 10 January – Tony Blair's wife, Cherie, is fined for not having a valid train ticket with her on a journey from Blackfriars to Luton. She claims to have had only Portuguese currency with her at the time and to have been unable to find a machine where she could use her credit card.[3]
- 11 January – A Scottish trawler, the Solway Harvester, sinks in the Irish Sea, killing seven sailors.[4]
- 12 January – Indictment and arrest of Augusto Pinochet: It is announced that former Chilean dictator, Augusto Pinochet, is to be deported after the Home Secretary, Jack Straw, accepts "unequivocal and unanimous" medical evidence that Pinochet is unfit to stand trial in Spain on charges of torture.[5]
- 22 January – The Rugby league 2000 World Club Challenge is won by Melbourne Storm who defeat St. Helens 44 – 6 at the JJB Stadium in Wigan.
- 28 January – The Liberal Democrat MP for Cheltenham, Nigel Jones, is attacked at his constituency surgery by a madman with a samurai sword. Andrew Pennington, a councillor, comes to Jones's defence but is stabbed nine times and dies later aged 39.[6]
- 31 January – Dr. Harold Shipman is sentenced to life imprisonment after being found guilty of murdering fifteen patients in Greater Manchester between 1995 and 1998. He is also sentenced to four years in prison, to run concurrently, for forging the will of one of his victims.[7] The subsequent enquiry considers him to have killed at least 215.[8]
February
- 3 February – At the Ceredigion by-election, Simon Thomas holds the seat for Plaid Cymru.[9]
- 10 February
- A group of hijackers hijacked an Ariana plane and forced the plane to travel overseas, to the United Kingdom. The plane landed at London Stansted airport and the hijackers surrendered to authorities there. [10]
- 11 February
- 15 February – Waterhouse report into the North Wales child abuse scandal published.[12]
- 25 February – Murder of Victoria Climbié (aged 8) in London after torture and neglect by her guardians, her aunt Marie Therese Kouao and Kouao's partner Carl Manning; local authority social services departments will be severely criticised for their shortcomings in the case.
- 28 February – The chief of British Nuclear Fuels resigns over a safety scandal at Sellafield.[13]
March
April
May
- 1 May – May Day riot in Central London by anti-capitalist protestors. The statue of Winston Churchill in Parliament Square and the Cenotaph in Whitehall are daubed with graffiti.[23]
- 3 May – The London Stock Exchange and Germany's Deutsche Börse announce plans to amalgamate.[24]
- 4 May – London mayoral election: Ken Livingstone, standing as an independent, becomes the first directly elected Mayor of London defeating Steve Norris, the Conservative Party candidate in second place; and Frank Dobson, the Labour Party candidate in third place.[11]
- 4 May – At the Romsey by-election following the death of Conservative MP Michael Colvin, the Liberal Democrat candidate Sandra Gidley wins the seat.[9]
- 9 May
- 11 May – Introduction of services on Croydon Tramlink, the first trams in London since 1952.[26]
- 12 May
- The Tate Modern art museum is opened to the public in London.[11]
- Ford announces that production of cars at the Dagenham plant will end when the Fiesta launches a new generation in 2002.
- 17 May – Royal Marines Alan Chambers and Charlie Paton become the first British people to reach the Geographic North Pole unaided.[14]
- 20 May – Chelsea beat Aston Villa 1–0 to win the last FA Cup final at Wembley Stadium before the old stadium (which is due to close in October) is rebuilt.[27]
- 21 May
- Best-selling author Dame Barbara Cartland dies aged 98 at her home near Hatfield, Hertfordshire.
- Long-serving actor Sir John Gielgud dies aged 94 at his home at Wooton Underwood, Buckinghamshire.
- 24 May – National Botanic Garden of Wales opens to the public in Carmarthenshire.[28]
- 25 May – National Waste Strategy, covering England and Wales, first published.[29]
June
- June – Celtic Manor Wales Open European Tour golf tournament first played.
- 7 June – Tony Blair receives a hostile reception during a speech at the Women's Institute, where he is heckled and slow hand-clapped by furious members.
- 8 June – The British military attaché to Greece, Brigadier Stephen Saunders, aged 52, is shot dead while driving in Athens; the Greek terrorist group 17 November later claims responsibility.[30]
- 10 June – The much-anticipated Millennium Bridge across the Thames in London opens to the public, but has to close after it starts swaying.[14]
- 12 June–20 June – The England national football team participates at Euro 2000, jointly hosted by the Netherlands and Belgium. Despite beating Germany, England are eliminated in the group stage after two defeats.
- 21 June – Repeal in Scotland of controversial Section 28 of the Local Government Act 1988 which prevented local authorities from "promoting homosexuality". Section 28 is not repealed in the rest of the UK until 2003.
- 22 June – At the Tottenham by-election following the death of Labour MP Bernie Grant, the Labour candidate David Lammy holds the seat.[9]
- 30 June – David Copeland is found guilty of causing the three nail bomb attacks in London last year. He is sentenced to life imprisonment and the trial judge recommends that he should serve at least thirty years before being considered for parole, meaning that he is likely to remain in prison until at least 2029 and the age of 54.[11]
July
- July – Vauxhall launches the all-new Agila city car.
- 5 July – Colin Fallows, driving the Vampire turbojet-propelled dragster, sets a British land speed record, a mean 300.31NaN1, at Elvington, Yorkshire.[31]
- 14 July – Reality television game show Big Brother first airs in the UK.
- 17 July – Murder of Sarah Payne: an 8-year-old Surrey girl is found dead in West Sussex, having gone missing sixteen days earlier. On 23 July, the News of the World starts a campaign for Sarah's Law, a child sex offender disclosure scheme.
- 18 July – Alex Salmond resigns as leader of the Scottish National Party.[11]
- 20 July
- Production of the Ford Escort, one of Britain's most successful and iconic motoring nameplates, finishes after 32 years, although remaining stocks of the model would continue to be sold be sold until early 2001 while the van model would continue to be produced until 2002.
- Rioting breaks out in Brixton (south London) following the fatal shooting of Derek Bennett, a 29-year-old black man, by armed police in the area. 27 people are arrested and three police officers are injured.[32]
- 28 July – The final eighty prisoners leave Maze Prison in Northern Ireland as part of the Northern Ireland peace process.[33]
August
- 3 August – Rioting erupts on the Paulsgrove estate in Portsmouth after more than 100 people besiege a block of flats allegedly housing a convicted child sex offender, the latest vigilante violence against suspected sex offenders since the beginning of the "naming and shaming" campaign by the News of the World.
- 4 August – Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother celebrates her hundredth birthday.[34]
- 26 August – Gangster and murderer Reggie Kray, in the thirty-second year of his life sentence at Broadmoor Hospital, is released from prison on compassionate grounds by Home Secretary Jack Straw due to bladder cancer from which he is expected to die within weeks.[35]
September
- September
- 8 September – UK fuel protests: Protesters block the entrances to oil refineries in protest against high fuel prices. Panic buying by motorists, leads to nationwide petrol shortages, with between 75 and 90% of all UK petrol stations closing due to low supplies in the following week.
- 10 September - Operation Barras: A British military operation to free five soldiers from the Royal Irish Regiment that were held captive for over two weeks during the Sierra Leone Civil War, all of whom were rescued.
- 14 September – After beginning the year 20 points behind the Labour government in the opinion polls, the Conservative opposition's hopes of winning the next election (due to be held within eighteen months) are boosted when they come two points ahead of Labour on 38% in a MORI opinion poll.[36] This marked the first time the Conservatives had led the Labour Party in national opinion polling since January 1993.
- 15 September–1 October – Great Britain competes at the Olympics in Sydney and wins 11 Gold, 10 Silver and 7 Bronze medals.
- 18 September – Survivors of the Southall and Ladbroke Grove rail disasters criticise Railtrack for putting costs ahead of safety and causing a series of blunders which led to the tragedies.
- 20 September – A missile is fired from a rocket launcher at the MI6 headquarters building in central London, striking the eighth floor. It is the first time this type of weapon has been used on the mainland, with the Real IRA suspected of being behind the attack.[37]
- 21 September – William McCrea of the Democratic Unionist Party wins the South Antrim by-election from the Ulster Unionist Party.[9]
- 23 September
- 29 September – HM Prison Maze, a prison used to incarcerate members of illegal paramilitaries during the Troubles in Northern Ireland, closes as a result of the Good Friday Agreement.[40]
October
- October – Ford launches the all-new Mondeo with a range of hatchbacks, saloons and estates.
- 1 October – Reggie Kray dies from cancer at a hotel in Norwich aged 66.[41]
- 3 October – Approximate start of Autumn 2000 Western Europe floods, particularly affecting England, the worst nationally since the winter of 1946–47 in the United Kingdom, precipitated by the most rainfall since 1766.
- 4 October – After 41 years, production of the Mini ends at the Longbridge plant owned by MG Rover in Birmingham. The new model will go into production next Spring at the Cowley plant in Oxford that is owned by German carmaker BMW.[42]
- 7 October – Wembley Stadium closes after seventy-seven years. It is set to reopen in 2003, following a complete reconstruction that will see its seating capacity raised to 90,000 all-seated. In the final game at the old stadium, the England football team loses 1–0 to Germany in their opening qualifying game for the 2002 World Cup and manager Kevin Keegan resigns after eighteen months in charge.
- 10 October – Donald Dewar, the first First Minister of Scotland, is taken to hospital following a fall outside Bute House, his official Edinburgh residence; his health rapidly deteriorates and he dies in office the following day, aged 63.
- 16 October – The BBC's main evening news programme moves to 10pm, early the following year, ITV will move its news programme back to the same time slot and broadcast in direct competition.
- 17 October – Hatfield rail crash: A Great North Eastern Railway InterCity 225 train derails south of Hatfield station, killing four people.[43]
- 23 October
- 26–27 October – Following the death of Donald Dewar, Henry McLeish is selected to be First Minister of Scotland by the Scottish Parliament, and is officially appointed by The Queen.
- 26 October – House of Lords delivers judgement in White v White, a landmark case in redistribution of finances and property on divorce.[45]
- 30 October – Sven-Göran Eriksson, the 52-year-old Swedish coach of Italian side Lazio, accepts an offer from the Football Association to take charge of the England football team for five years commencing next July. Eriksson will be the first foreign manager to take charge of the England national team, but until his arrival, the England team will be jointly managed by interim coaches Peter Taylor and Howard Wilkinson.
November
- 7 November – The attempted theft of £350,000,000 worth of diamonds from the Millennium Dome is foiled by the police.[14]
- 16 November – Actor Michael Caine receives a knighthood from the Queen.[14]
- 18 November – Marriage of American actor Michael Douglas and Welsh actress Catherine Zeta-Jones.[14]
- 20 November – Judith Keppel becomes the first person to win £1,000,000 on the ITV game show Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?[14]
- 21 November – Dennis Canavan MSP for Falkirk West, resigns as the Member of Parliament for Falkirk West, triggering a by-election.
- 23 November
- 26 November – Rio Ferdinand, the 22-year-old England national football team defender, becomes the nation's most expensive player in an £18,000,000 transfer from West Ham United to Leeds United.[46]
- 27 November – Damilola Taylor, a 10-year-old boy originally from Nigeria, is stabbed to death on his way home from school in Peckham, London.[47] On 2 December two teenagers and a 39-year-old man are released on police bail after being arrested in connection with the murder.[48]
- 30 November – Political Parties, Elections and Referendums Act 2000 provides for regulation of political parties, elections and referendums, including limits on national expenditure by parties in elections.
December
Undated
- 2000 is the wettest year on record in the UK.[52]
- Sales of the DVD format, first launched in the UK in June 1998, pass the 1 million mark, although the VHS format remains by far the most popular format of home video.[53]
Publications
Births
- 4 January – Max Aarons, footballer
- 21 January – Jac Morgan, rugby union player
- 26 January – Ryan Giles, footballer
- 27 January – Morgan Gibbs-White, footballer
- 2 February – Shannon Cooke, footballer
- 6 February – Conor Gallagher, footballer
- 8 February – Cieran Dunne, footballer
- 17 February – Billy Sass-Davies, footballer
- 26 February – Ryan Cooney, footballer
- 14 February – Tashan Oakley-Boothe, footballer
- 5 March – Jack Aitchison, footballer
- 11 March – Kane Wilson, footballer
- 17 March – Molly Caudery, pole vaulter
- 25 March – Jadon Sancho, footballer
- 1 April – Rhian Brewster, footballer
- 8 April – Brenock O'Connor, English actor (Game of Thrones).
- 12 April – Alex Denny, footballer
- 2 May – Tom Dean, freestyle swimmer
- 16 May – Jacob Fletcher, footballer
- 18 May
- 20 May – Leo Blair, son of Prime Minister Tony Blair and his wife, Cherie, the first legitimate child born to a serving Prime Minister since 1849[54]
- 28 May
- 23 June – Caitlin Blackwood, actress
- 28 June – Ruben Reuter, actor
- 29 June – Kia Pegg, actor[55]
- 21 July – Erling Haaland, footballer
- 25 July – Ellie Soutter, snowboarder (died 2018)
- 28 July – Emile Smith Rowe, footballer
- 9 August
- 11 August – James Cartmell, actor
- 28 August – Danny Loader, footballer
- 30 August – Catherine Lyons, artistic gymnast
- 31 August – Angel Gomes, footballer
- 3 September – Brandon Williams, English footballer[56]
- 14 September – Ethan Ampadu, Welsh footballer
- 16 September – Oliver Skipp, English footballer
- 18 September – Max Bird, footballer
- 6 October – Isobelle Molloy, actress
- 5 October – Millie Innes, actress
- 2 November – Georgia-Mae Fenton, artistic gymnast
- 7 November – Callum Hudson-Odoi, footballer
- 8 November – Jasmine Thompson, English singer-songwriter and YouTube celebrity
- 20 November – Connie Talbot, singer
- 21 November – Matt O'Riley, footballer
- 23 November – Jack Clarke, footballer
- 27 November – Jay Foulston, footballer
- 28 November – Sophia Kiely, actress
- 5 December
- 28 December – Isobel Steele, actress
Deaths
January
- 1 January – Victor Serebriakoff, member of Mensa (born 1912)
- 2 January
- 5 January
- 9 January
- 13 January – Peter Henderson, Baron Henderson of Brompton, public servant, Clerk of the Parliaments (1974–1983) (born 1922)
- 14 January – Julian Vereker, designer of hi-fi audio equipment (born 1945)
- 17 January
- 18 January – Arnold W. G. Kean, civil aviation lawyer (born 1914)
- 22 January – E. W. Swanton, cricket commentator (born 1907)
- 23 January – Willie Hamilton, politician (born 1917)
- 26 January – Kathleen Hale, children's author (born 1898)
- 28 January
- 30 January – Martin Aldridge, footballer (car accident) (born 1974)
February
- 1 February – Peter Levi, poet, Jesuit priest and scholar (born 1931)
- 2 February – Mary Docherty, communist activist (born 1908)
- 3 February – Ken Stroud, mathematician (born 1908)
- 5 February – G. E. M. de Ste. Croix, historian (born 1910)
- 7 February
- 12 February – Dominic Bruce, Air Force officer and escapee from Colditz in World War II (born 1915)
- 19 February – Josef Herman, painter (born 1911 in Congress Poland)
- 21 February – Noel Annan, Baron Annan, military intelligence officer, historian and academic (born 1916)
- 22 February
- 23 February
- 24 February – Michael Colvin, politician (born 1932)
March
- 5 March – Alexander Young, operatic tenor (born 1920)
- 6 March – Chris Balderstone, cricketer and footballer (born 1940)
- 7 March
- 10 March – Ivan Hirst, former British army officer and engineer, best known for his part in the revival of German carmaker Volkswagen after World War II (born 1914)
- 11 March – Will Roberts, painter (born 1907)
- 13 March – Cab Kaye, jazz singer and pianist (born 1921)
- 15 March – Robert Welch, designer (born 1929)
- 16 March – Roy Henderson, opera singer (born 1899)
- 18 March – Graham Balcombe, cave diver (born 1907)
- 22 March – John Morrison, 2nd Viscount Dunrossil, peer and diplomat (born 1926)
- 26 March – Alex Comfort, scientist and physician (born 1920)
- 27 March – Ian Dury, singer and actor (born 1942)
- 28 March – Anthony Powell, novelist (born 1905)
- 31 March – Adrian Fisher, guitarist (born 1952)
April
- 1 April – Alexander Mackenzie Stuart, Baron Mackenzie-Stuart, judge (born 1924)
- 2 April – Sir Robert Sainsbury, businessman and art collector (born 1906)
- 3 April – Evelyn Irons, journalist and war correspondent (born 1900)
- 4 April – Bridget Jones, literary academic (born 1935)
- 6 April – William Stobbs, illustrator (born 1914)
- 8 April – Bernie Grant, politician (born 1944 in Guyana)
- 10 April – Peter Jones, actor (born 1920)
- 11 April
- 12 April – Carmen Dillon, film art director and production designer (born 1908)
- 14 April – Wilf Mannion, former footballer (born 1918)
- 20 April – Bill Dean, actor (born 1921)
- 24 April
- 27 April
- 28 April – Penelope Fitzgerald, poet, essayist and biographer (born 1916)
May
- 1 May – Nora Swinburne, actress (born 1902)
- 2 May – Billy Munn, jazz pianist (born 1911)
- 3 May – Lewis Allen, film and television director (born 1905)
- 4 May – Derick Ashe, diplomat (born 1919)
- 6 May
- 10 May – Margaret Harris, costume designer (born 1904)
- 14 May – Alex Stuart-Menteth, naval officer in World War II (born 1912)
- 17 May – Donald Coggan, former Archbishop of York and Canterbury (born 1909)
- 18 May
- 19 May – Larry Lamb, newspaper editor (born 1929)
- 21 May
- Dame Barbara Cartland, novelist (born 1901)
- Sir John Gielgud, actor (born 1904)
- 25 May – Nicholas Clay, actor (born 1946)
- 29 May – Aubrey Richards, actor (born 1920)
- 30 May – Doris Hare, actress (born 1905)
June
- 2 June – Gerald James Whitrow, mathematician and cosmologist (born 1912)
- 8 June – Stephen Saunders, Army brigadier-general (murdered in Greece) (born 1947)[30]
- 12 June – Leonard Appelbee, painter and printmaker (born 1914)
- 14 June – Elsie Widdowson, dietitian and nutritionist (born 1906)
- 15 June – Neville Ford, former cricketer (born 1906)
- 17 June – Brian Statham, former cricketer (born 1930)
- 19 June – William Papas, cartoonist (born 1927 in South Africa)
- 21 June – Billy Sperrin, former footballer (born 1922)
- 24 June
- 27 June – David Neal, actor (born 1932)
- 28 June – William Glock, music critic (born 1908)
- 29 June
July
- 1 July – John Albert Axel Gibson, World War II air ace (born 1916)
- 2 July – Joey Dunlop, Northern Irish motorcycle racer (accident while racing) (born 1952)
- 4 July – Philip Lever, 3rd Viscount Leverhulme, peer and racehorse owner (born 1915)
- 5 July – Lord Woodbine (Harold Adolphus Phillips), calypsonian (born 1929 in Trinidad)
- 8 July – Anne Mueller, civil servant (born 1930)
- 9 July – John Morgan, etiquette expert (suspected suicide) (born 1959)[58]
- 10 July – Justin Pierce, actor and skateboarder (born 1975)
- 11 July
- 15 July – Paul Young, singer-songwriter (born 1947)
- 19 July – Owen Maddock, racing car designer (born 1925)
- 21 July – Iain Hamilton, composer (born 1922)
- 22 July – Eric Christmas, actor (born 1916)
- 27 July – Constance Stuart Larrabee, photographer and war correspondent (born 1914)
- 28 July – Margaret Chapman, illustrator (born 1940)
- 30 July – Derek Hill, painter (born 1916)
August
September
- 1 September – Barbara Brooke, Baroness Brooke of Ystradfellte, politician (born 1908)
- 2 September – Audrey Wise, politician (born 1935)
- 3 September – Jack Simmons, historian (born 1915)
- 6 September – Desmond Wilcox, journalist and television producer (born 1931)
- 9 September
- 10 September – Jakie Astor, politician and sportsman (born 1918)
- 12 September – Gary Olsen, actor (born 1957)
- 13 September – Howard Johnson, politician (born 1910)
- 14 September – Frederick Erroll, 1st Baron Erroll of Hale, politician (born 1914)
- 17 September – Paula Yates, television presenter (born 1959)
- 19 September – Anthony Robert Klitz, artist (born 1917)
- 20 September – Mona Moore, illustrator (born 1917)
- 21 September – John Egerton, 6th Duke of Sutherland, peer (born 1915)
- 25 September – R. S. Thomas, poet (born 1913)
October
November
December
- 2 December – Arthur Oglesby, writer and fisherman (born 1923)
- 3 December
- 4 December – Colin Cowdrey, former cricketer (born 1932)
- 5 December – O. W. Wolters, academic, historian and author (born 1915)
- 6 December – Chrystabel Leighton-Porter, model (born 1913)
- 7 December – Toby Low, 1st Baron Aldington, politician (born 1914)
- 9 December – Billie Yorke, tennis player (born 1910)
- 12 December – Alastair Graham, zoologist (born 1906)
- 15 December
- 18 December – Kirsty MacColl, singer-songwriter (accident in Mexico) (born 1959)[50]
- 19 December – Sir Laurence Whistler, poet and artist (born 1912)
- 20 December – Adrian Henri, poet and painter (born 1932)
- 23 December – Sir Jimmy Shand, musician (born 1908)
- 24 December – John Cooper, car maker (born 1923)
- 26 December – Walter Hayes, journalist (born 1924)
- 27 December – Forbes Howie, businessman (born 1920)
- 28 December
- 31 December – Edna Savage, singer (born 1936)
See also
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