Events from 1974 in England
Incumbent
Monarch - Elizabeth II Prime Minister - Edward Heath (until 4 March), Harold Wilson (from 4 March)
Events 1 January–7 March – The Three-Day Week is introduced by the Conservative Government as a measure to conserve electricity during the period of industrial action by coal miners.
February 4 February – Eleven people are killed in the M62 coach bombing; on 8 February the toll reaches 12 with the death in hospital of an 18-year-old soldier seriously injured in the bombing. 7 February 12 February – BBC1 first airs the children's television series Bagpuss, made by Peter Firmin and Oliver Postgate's Smallfilms in stop motion animation. 14 February Bob Latchford, the Birmingham City centre forward, becomes Britain's most expensive footballer in a £350,000 move to Everton.
March 3 March – 180 Britons are among the dead when Turkish Airlines Flight 981 travelling from Paris to London crashes in a wood near Paris, killing all 346 aboard. 10 March – Ten miners die in a methane gas explosion at Golborne Colliery near Wigan, Lancashire.
April The current system of metropolitan and non-metropolitan counties came into effect on 1 April 1974 and replaced the administrative counties and county boroughs, which were abolished at that time.
Births 16 January – Kate Moss, English model 30 January – Christian Bale, English actor 12 February – Naseem Hamed, British boxer 22 February – James Blunt, singer-songwriter 7 March – Tobias Menzies, actor 17 April – Victoria Beckham, singer and designer 28 July – Hannah Waddingham, English actress and singer 5 September – Lauren Jeska, transgender fell runner convicted of the attempted murder of Ralph Knibbs 20 October – Mohammad Sidique Khan, Islamic terrorist, leader of the 7 July 2005 London bombings (died 2005)
Deaths 12 January – Princess Patricia of Connaught (born 1886) 10 June – Prince Henry, Duke of Gloucester, last surviving child of George V (born 1900) 4 July – Georgette Heyer, English novelist (born 1902) 24 July – James Chadwick, English physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1891)
See also 1974 in Northern Ireland 1974 in Scotland 1974 in Wales
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