1974 in England

Events from 1974 in England

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
 * 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 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)