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The mobile network BT Cellnet changes its name to O2. Over 50% of the UK population (well over 30,000,000 people) now have internet access. Car sales in Britain reach a record level for the second year running, now exceeding 2,500,000 for the first time ever.
Website. bt.com. BT Group plc (formerly British Telecom) is a British multinational telecommunications holding company headquartered in London, England. It has operations in around 180 countries and is the largest provider of fixed-line, broadband and mobile services in the UK, and also provides subscription television and IT services. [4]
23 July – BBC Two television first airs the Pot Black snooker tournament. 24 July – British lecturer Gerald Brooke is freed from a Soviet prison in exchange for the spies Morris and Lona Cohen. [30] 25 July – The Family Law Reform Act 1969 receives royal assent and comes partly into effect in England and Wales.
February. 3 February – Stamps commemorating the late Diana, Princess of Wales, go on sale in the UK. 7–22 February – Great Britain and Northern Ireland compete at the Winter Olympics in Nagano, Japan, and win one bronze medal. 8 February – Former Conservative Cabinet Minister Enoch Powell dies in hospital in London aged 85.
9 June – 1983 UK general election: Margaret Thatcher, Conservative Prime Minister of the United Kingdom since 1979, wins a landslide victory with a majority of 144 seats (through just 42% of the popular vote) over Michael Foot, who led a highly divided and weakened Labour Party which earned only 28% of the vote. [10]
June 2005 sports events in the United Kingdom (3 C, 10 P) July 2005 sports events in the United Kingdom (1 C, 15 P) August 2005 sports events in the United Kingdom (5 P)
March–April – eleven thousand workers at the Singer Manufacturing Co. sewing machine factory on Clydebank in Scotland go on strike in solidarity with twelve female colleagues protesting against work process reorganisation. Four hundred alleged ringleaders are dismissed. [1] [2] 2 April – the 1911 census is taken.
23 June – The 2016 United Kingdom European Union membership referendum is held in the UK and Gibraltar, the first of its kind since the 1975 referendum on the UK's membership of the then European Economic Community. 24 June The United Kingdom votes to leave the European Union in a vote of 51.9% to 48.1%, in a record voting turnout of 72%.