2004 in the United Kingdom

Events from the year 2004 in the United Kingdom.

2004 in the United Kingdom
Other years
2002 | 2003 | 2004 (2004) | 2005 | 2006
Countries of the United Kingdom
England | Northern Ireland | Scotland | Wales
Popular culture

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  • March – Vauxhall launches the fifth generation of its popular Astra family hatchback. It is initially just available as a five-door hatchback, with a three-door "Sporthatch" and a five-door estate due later in the year.
  • 11 March – Support for the Conservatives and Labour is equal at 35% for the second time in nine months, raising the spectre of a hung parliament at the next general election which is expected within a year.[5]
  • 16 March – 15-year-old Scottish boy Kriss Donald is abducted, tortured and murdered by Pakistani gang in racially motivated attack in Glasgow.[6]
  • 21 March – Architect Zaha Hadid becomes the first female recipient of the Pritzker Prize.[7]
  • 28 March – The actor, author, diplomat and Chancellor of Durham University, Peter Ustinov, dies of heart failure aged 82 at a hospital in Switzerland.
  • 30 March
    • Operation Crevice, the arrest of a group of British Islamists, 5 of whom are subsequently convicted of conspiring to cause explosions likely to endanger life.[8]
    • The British-born American journalist Alistair Cooke dies of lung cancer at his home in New York City aged 95, only four weeks after his last broadcast of Letter from America.

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Publications edit

Births edit

 
Millie Bobby Brown

Deaths edit

January edit

 
Joan Aiken
 
Hugh Scanlon

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Frances Partridge

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Peter Ustinov
 
Alistair Cooke

April edit

 
Ben Pimlott
 
Norris McWhirter

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11th Duke of Devonshire
 
Anna Lee

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Judy Campbell

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Francis Crick

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Godfrey Hounsfield

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Brian Clough
 
Kenneth Sandford

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John Peel
 
Princess Alice, Duchess of Gloucester

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Fred Dibnah

December edit

 
Alicia Markova
 
Dick Heckstall-Smith

See also edit

References edit

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  12. ^ "Chelsea appoint Mourinho". BBC News. 2 June 2004. Retrieved 18 September 2010.
  13. ^ "League gets revamp". BBC News. 10 June 2004. Retrieved 18 September 2010.
  14. ^ "Liverpool appoint Benitez". BBC News. 16 June 2004. Retrieved 18 September 2010.
  15. ^ "Wimbledon to change name". BBC News. 21 June 2004. Retrieved 18 September 2010.
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  21. ^ "2004: Second gold for Kelly Holmes". BBC News. 28 August 2004. Archived from the original on 7 March 2008. Retrieved 13 February 2008.
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  32. ^ "2004: Thousands died in Indian Ocean tsunami". BBC News. 26 December 2004. Archived from the original on 28 December 2008. Retrieved 22 January 2009.
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