1977 in the United Kingdom

Events from the year 1977 in the United Kingdom. This year was the Silver Jubilee of Queen Elizabeth II.

1977 in the United Kingdom
Other years
1975 | 1976 | 1977 (1977) | 1978 | 1979
Constituent countries of the United Kingdom
England | Northern Ireland | Scotland | Wales
Popular culture

Incumbents

Events

January

February

  • 4 February
  • 5 February – Twenty-eight-year-old homeless woman Irene Richardson is murdered in Leeds, at almost the exact location where prostitute Marcella Claxton was badly injured nine months earlier. Police believe that this murder and attempted murder may be connected, along with the murders of Wilma McCann, Emily Jackson and the attempted murders of at least three other women.[3]
  • 10 February
  • 11 February – Queen Elizabeth II visits Western Samoa.
  • 13 February – Anthony Crosland, Foreign Secretary, suffers a massive stroke, from which he will not regain consciousness. He dies six days later in hospital.
  • 14 February – Elizabeth II visits Tonga.
  • 15 February – The first Aardman Animations character, Morph, is introduced on BBC children's television programme Take Hart.
  • 16–17 February – Elizabeth II visits Fiji.
  • 17 February – George Newman, chairman of Staffordshire County Council, is sentenced to fifteen months in prison for corruption.[4]
  • 22 February – David Owen, 38, becomes the youngest post-Second World War Foreign Secretary, succeeding the late Anthony Crosland, who died three days earlier.
  • 22 February–7 March – Elizabeth II visits New Zealand.
  • 28 February – State opening of the Parliament of New Zealand, by Elizabeth II.

March

April

May

June

  • 6–9 June – Silver Jubilee celebrations are held in the United Kingdom to celebrate twenty-five years of Queen Elizabeth II's reign, with a public holiday on 7 June.[12]
  • 17 June – Wimbledon F.C., champions of the Isthmian League, are elected to the Football League in place of Workington in the Fourth Division.[13]
  • 20 June
    • Anglia Television broadcasts the fake documentary Alternative 3; it enters into the conspiracy theory canon.
    • Seventeen people are arrested during clashes between pickets and police at the Grunwick film processing laboratory.
  • 26 June – 16-year-old shop assistant Jayne McDonald, is found battered and stabbed to death in Chapeltown, Leeds; police believe she is the fifth person to be murdered by the Yorkshire Ripper.[14]

July

August

September

  • September – Ford launches the second generation of its flagship Granada saloon and estate models.
  • 6 September – Car industry figures show that foreign cars are outselling British-built ones for the first time. Japanese built Datsuns, German Volkswagens and French Renaults are proving particularly popular with buyers, although British-built products from Ford, British Leyland, Vauxhall and Chrysler UK are still the most popular.
  • 16 September – Rock star Marc Bolan, pioneer of the glam rock movement at the start of the 1970s with T. Rex, is killed in a car crash in Barnes, London, two weeks before his thirtieth birthday. His girlfriend Gloria Jones, who was driving the car, is seriously injured.
  • 19 September – Manchester United, the English FA Cup holders, are expelled from the European Cup Winners' Cup after their fans rioted in France during a first round first leg game with AS Saint-Etienne (which ended in a 1–1 draw) five days ago.[26]
  • 26 September
    • Freddie Laker launches his new budget Skytrain airline, with the first single fare from Gatwick to New York City costing £59 compared to the normal price of £186.
    • UEFA reinstates Manchester United to the European Cup Winners' Cup on appeal. However, they are ordered to play their return leg against AS Saint-Etienne at least 120 miles away from their Old Trafford stadium.[27]

October

  • 3 October – Undertakers go on strike in London, leaving more than 800 corpses unburied.
  • 7 October – Rock band Queen's power ballad "We Are the Champions" is released.
  • 10 October – Missing 20-year-old prostitute Jean Jordan is found dead in Chorlton, Manchester, nine days after she was last seen alive. Police believe that the "Yorkshire Ripper" may have killed her; the first crime outside Yorkshire which the killer has been suspected of.[28]
  • 14 October – Fourteen people are injured in a bomb explosion at a London pub.
  • 15 October – World's End Murders: Christine Eadie and Helen Scott, both 17, disappear after leaving the World's End pub in Edinburgh, Scotland. Their bodies are found tied and strangled in the countryside the next day. In 2014, serial killer Angus Sinclair is convicted of the crime.
  • 25 October – Michael Edwardes succeeds Richard Dobson as chief executive and chairman of British Leyland.
  • 27 October
  • 28 October
    • Police in Yorkshire appeal for help in finding the "Yorkshire Ripper", who is believed to be responsible for a series of murders and attacks on women across the county during the last two years.
    • Rock band Queen release the album News of the World.

November

December

Undated

  • Inflation has fallen slightly this year to 15.8%, but it is the fourth successive year that has seen double-digit inflation.[47]
  • Colour television licences exceed black and white ones for the first time in the UK.

Publications

Births

Deaths

See also

References

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