1994 in the United Kingdom
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Events from the year 1994 in the United Kingdom.
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- January 14- The Duchess of Kent joins the Roman Catholic Church, the first member of the Royal Family to convert to Catholicism for more than 300 years.
- January 31- British Aerospace sells its 80% stake in Rover to BMW.
- February 7- Stephen Milligan, Conservative Party MP for Eastleigh is found dead in his home. He died from after an auto-erotic asphyxiation combined with self-bondage and cross-dressing session went wrong.
- February 24 : In Gloucester, local police begins excavations at 25 Cromwell Street the home of Frederick West suspected of multiple murders. On February 28, he and his wife are arrested.
- March 8, 10 and 13- The IRA launch 3 successive mortar attacks on Heathrow Airport.
- March 12 - The Church of England ordains its first female priests.
- May 12- John Smith, Leader of the Opposition dies of a heart attack.
- May 25- The Camelot consortium has win the contract to run the UK's first national lottery.
- May 31- Tony Blair and Gordon Brown have dinner at the Granita restaurant in Islington and allegedly make a deal on who will become the leader of the Labour Party, and ultimately, the next Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.
- June 2- Chinook crash on Mull of Kintyre- An RAF Chinook helicopter carrying more than 20 top intelligence experts crashes on the Mull of Kintyre, killing everyone on board.
- July 21- Tony Blair wins the Labour Party leadership election defeating John Prescott and Margaret Beckett.
- July 26- A bomb explodes outside the Israeli Embassy, injuring 14 people.
- August 1- Norwich Central Library is destroyed in a fire.
- August 28- Sunday trading becomes legal in England and Wales for the first time.
- August 31- The Provisional Irish Republican Army declares a ceasefire.
- October 20 - Cash-for-questions affair: The Guardian newspaper reports that two Conservative MPs, Neil Hamilton and Tim Smith, took bribes from Harrods chief Mohamed Al-Fayed to ask questions in the British House of Commons. <ref>Tory MPs were paid to plant questions says Harrods chief The Guardian October 20, 1994</ref>
- October 31 - The Duke of Edinburgh attends a ceremony in Israel where his late mother, Princess Alice of Battenberg is honoured as "Righteous among the Nations" for sheltering Jewish families from the Nazis in Athens, during World War II.
[edit] Births
- Flora Ogilvy, granddaughter of Princess Alexandra
- Columbus Taylor , son of Lady Helen Taylor and grandson of The Duke of Kent
[edit] Deaths
- January 23 - Brian Redhead,journalist and broadcaster (b. 1929)
- March 29 - Bill Travers, actor and co-founder of the Born Free Foundation (b. 1922)
- May 12 - John Smith, Leader of the Labour Party, and Leader of the Opposition (b. 1938)
- July 29 - Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin, chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1910)
- November 14 - Tom Villard, actor (b. 1953)
- November 16 - Doris Speed, actress (b. 1899)
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