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Events from the year 1964 in the United Kingdom.

1 Incumbents
2 Events
- 2.1 Undated
3 Publications
4 Births
5 Deaths
6 References
7 See also

Incumbents

Monarch - HM Queen Elizabeth II
Prime Minister - Alec Douglas-Home, Conservative (until 16 October), Harold Wilson, Labour

Events

The Forth Road Bridge.

29 January–9 February - Great Britain and Northern Ireland compete at the 1964 Winter Olympics in Innsbruck, Austria, and win one gold medal.
6 February - The British and French governments agree a deal for the construction of a Channel Tunnel. The twin-tunneled rail link is expected to take five years to build.^[1]
19 March- Power dispute talks break down and it is feared that supply disruptions will follow industrial action.^[2] The government announces plans to build three new cities in South East England. [1]
28 March - Pirate radio station Radio Caroline begins broadcasting.^[3]
30 March - Violent disturbances between Mods and Rockers at Clacton beach.^[4]
31 March - Minister of Labour Joseph Godber appoints Lord Justice Pearson to chair a court of inquiry into the power dispute.^[5]
1 April - Ministry of Defence takes over the duties of the War Office, Admiralty, and Air Ministry, which cease to exist.^[4]
16 April - 7 of the Great Train Robbers are sentenced to 30 years each for their role in the 1963 robbery.^[3]
21 April - The UK's third television channel BBC Two begins broadcasting; its first programme is Play School.^[3]
2 May - West Ham United win the FA Cup for the first time in their history, beating Preston North End 3-2 at Wembley Stadium.
11 May - Terence Conran opens the first Habitat store on London's Fulham Road.^[3]
15 May - Lord Justice Pearson reports on the power dispute.^[6]
17 June - A missing persons investigation is launched in Fallowfield, Manchester, as police search for 12-year-old Keith Bennett, who went missing yesterday evening.
6 July
- Malawi gains its independence.^[7]
- The first The Beatles film, A Hard Day's Night, released.^[8]
15 July - The Post Office Tower in London is completed, although it does not open for business until October 1965.^[4]
4 September - Forth Road Bridge opens over the Firth of Forth, linking Fife and Edinburgh.^[3]
14 September - The final edition of the Daily Herald newspaper is published.
15 September - The Sun newspaper goes into circulation, replacing the Daily Herald.
21 September - Malta obtains independence from the UK.^[7]
October - Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin wins the Nobel Prize in Chemistry (the first British woman to win a Nobel) "for her determinations by X-ray techniques of the structures of important biochemical substances".^[9]
10 October–24 October - Great Britain competes at the 1964 Summer Olympics in Tokyo and wins 4 gold, 12 silver and 2 bronze medals.
15 October - General election: Labour Party defeats the Conservatives, ending 13 years of Conservative Party rule. Harold Wilson becomes Prime Minister, replacing Alec Douglas-Home.
18 October - Wilson creates the Welsh Office.^[4]
24 October - Northern Rhodesia, a former British protectorate, becomes the independent Republic of Zambia, ending 73 years of British rule.^[7]
2 November - ITV soap opera Crossroads aired for the first time.^[3]
9 November - House of Commons votes to abolish the death penalty for murder in Britain. The last execution took place in August and the death penalty is set to be officially abolished before the end of next year.
27 November - Power unions announce that they will start balloting for a strike.^[10]
30 November - Power dispute settled and strike action called off.^[11]
23 December - Richard Beeching announces his intention to resign as Chairman of the British Railways Board after three-and-a-half years, during which he ordered the closure of many smaller and financially non-viable railways.^[12]
26 December - Police launch a missing persons investigation after 10-year-old Lesley Ann Downey goes missing from a fairground in Ancoats, Manchester.
31 December - Donald Campbell sets the world speed record on water at 276.33 mph on Dumbleyung Lake in Australia.^[3]

Undated

The European Car of the Year award, in its second year, is again won by a British Motor Corporation product, this time the Austin 1800 large family saloon.

Publications

Agatha Christie's Miss Marple novel A Caribbean Mystery.
Ian Fleming's James Bond novel You Only Live Twice and his children's novel Chitty Chitty Bang Bang.
William Golding's novel The Spire.
Philip Larkin's poetry collection The Whitsun Weddings.

Births

16 February - Christopher Eccleston, actor
24 February - Bill Bailey, comedian
29 February - James Ogilvy, son of Princess Alexandra, The Honourable Lady Ogilvy and the Sir Angus Ogilvy
10 March - Prince Edward, Earl of Wessex- youngest son of The Queen
11 March - Shane Richie, actor
26 March - Martin Donnelly, Northern Irish racecar driver
3 April - Nigel Farage, United Kingdom Independence Party leader and MEP for South East England
18 April - Niall Ferguson, Scottish historian
25 April - Andy Bell, singer and songwriter (band Erasure)
28 April - Lady Helen Taylor, daughter of The Duke and Duchess of Kent
1 May - Lady Sarah Chatto, daughter of Antony Armstrong-Jones, 1st Earl of Snowdon and Princess Margaret, Countess of Snowdon
24 May - Adrian Moorhouse, swimmer
13 June - Kathy Burke, actress and comedienne
3 July - Joanne Harris, novelist
22 July - Bonnie Langford, actress and entertainer
7 November - Philip Hollobone, British Conservative politician and MP for Kettering
date unknown - Armando Iannucci, Scottish comedian, satirist and radio producer

Deaths

17 January - T.H. White, author (born 1906)
9 June - Max Aitken, 1st Baron Beaverbrook, Canadian-British business tycoon, politician and writer (born 1879)
12 August - Ian Fleming, author and journalist (born 1908)
18 September - Clive Bell, art critic (born 1881)
1 December - J. B. S. Haldane, geneticist (born 1892)
8 December - Simon Marks, 1st Baron Marks of Broughton, businessman (born 1888)
9 December - Edith Sitwell, poet (born 1887)
24 December - Claudia Jones, black activist (born 1915)

References

^ ""1964: Green light for Channel Tunnel", BBC On This Day". 1964-02-06. http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/february/6/newsid_2535000/2535625.stm. Retrieved 2008-01-10.
^ "Power Dispute Talks Break Down Overtime Ban On Monday, Union Delegation Walks Out Of Meeting". The Times: p. 14, col.A. 20 March 1964.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g Penguin Pocket On This Day. Penguin Reference Library. 2006. ISBN 0-141-02715-0.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d Palmer, Alan & Veronica (1992). The Chronology of British History. London: Century Ltd. pp. 422–423. ISBN 0-7126-5616-2.
^ "Lord Justice Pearson Inquiry Chairman". The Times: p. 10, col.B. 1 April 1964.
^ "Both Sides To Blame In Power Dispute "Bury Past, Build For Future" Report Says". The Times: p. 5, col.A. 16 May 1964.
^ ^a ^b ^c The Hutchinson Factfinder. Helicon. 1999. p. 502. ISBN 1-85986-000-1.
^ A Hard Day's Night at the Internet Movie Database
^ "The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1964". http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/chemistry/laureates/1964/. Retrieved 2008-01-10.
^ "Power Dispute Talks Fail Strike Threat Draws Near, Union Ballot To START On Monday". The Times: p. 8, col.C. 28 November 1964.
^ "Power Stations Overtime Ban Called Off - Payments Claim Settled". The Times: p. 10, col.C. 1 December 1964.
^ ""1964: Beeching to leave British Railways", BBC On This Day". 1964-12-23. http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/december/23/newsid_4019000/4019181.stm. Retrieved 2008-01-10.

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