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| 1 | 1984 | - 1984—1984:
SA - Coloureds and Asians given the vote.
- 6 Mar 1984—6 Mar 1984:
Miners strike begins
- 17 Apr 1984—17 Apr 1984:
Police Constable Yvonne Fletcher killed by gunfire from the Libyan Embassy in
London
- 22 Jun 1984—22 Jun 1984:
Inaugural flight of Virgin Atlantic
- 9 Jul 1984—9 Jul 1984:
York Minster struck by lightning - the resulting fire damaged much of the building
but the Rose Window' not affected
- 12 Oct 1984—12 Oct 1984:
IRA bomb explodes at Tory conference hotel in Brighton - 4 killed
- 24 Oct 1984—24 Oct 1984:
Miners' strike ? High Court orders sequestration of NUM assets
- 3 Dec 1984—3 Dec 1984:
British Telecom privatised - shares make massive gains on first day's trading
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| 2 | 1985 | - 3 Mar 1985—3 Mar 1985:
Miners agree to call off strike
- 11 Mar 1985—11 Mar 1985:
Al Fayed buys Harrods
- 13 Jul 1985—13 Jul 1985:
Live Aid' pop concert raises over ?50M for famine relief
- 1 Sep 1985—1 Sep 1985:
Wreck of Titanic' found (sank 1912)
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| 3 | 1986 | - 31 Mar 1986—31 Mar 1986:
GLC and 6 metropolitan councils abolished
- 26 Apr 1986—26 Apr 1986:
Chernobyl nuclear accident - radiation reached Britain on 2 Ma
- 26 May 1986—26 May 1986:
The European Community adopts the European flag
- 23 Jul 1986—23 Jul 1986:
Prince Andrew, Duke of York marries Sarah Ferguson at Westminster Abbey
- 27 Oct 1986—27 Oct 1986:
'Big Bang' (deregulation) of the London Stock Market
- 29 Oct 1986—29 Oct 1986:
M25 motorway ring around London completed
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| 4 | 1987 | - 1987—1987:
World population crossed the 5 billion mark
- 2 Feb 1987—2 Feb 1987:
Terry Waite kidnapped in Beirut (released 17 Nov 1991)
- 6 Mar 1987—6 Mar 1987:
Car ferry Herald of Free Enterprise' capsizes off Zeebrugge - 188 die
- 1 Jul 1987—1 Jul 1987:
Excavation begins on the Channel Tunnel
- 19 Aug 1987—19 Aug 1987:
Hungerford Massacre - Michael Ryan kills sixteen people with a rifle
- 16 Oct 1987—16 Oct 1987:
The 'Hurricane' sweeps southern England
- 19 Oct 1987—19 Oct 1987:
'Black Monday' in the City of London - Stock Market crash
- 8 Nov 1987—8 Nov 1987:
Enniskillen bombing at a Remembrance Day ceremony
- 18 Nov 1987—18 Nov 1987:
King's Cross fire in London - 31 people die
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