1988 in England
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Events from 1988 in England
Incumbent
Events
January
- 9 January – One of the worst incidents of football hooliganism this season sees 41 suspected hooligans arrested at the FA Cup third round tie between Arsenal and Millwall at Highbury.
February
- 3 February – Nurses across the UK went on strike, demanding better pay and more funding for the NHS.[1][2]
- 5 February – The National Union of Seamen calls off a ferry strike that had been called January 31 in response to the firing of 161 crew workers by the Isle of Man Steam Packet Company.[3] Despite the Union’s orders, however, thousands of seamen across the UK continued to strike.[4]
March
- 6 March – SAS soldiers shot dead three unarmed IRA members in Gibraltar, leading to widespread republican criticism.[5]
June
- 21 June – The Poole explosion of 1988 caused 3,500 people to be evacuated out of the town centre in the biggest peacetime evacuation the country had seen since the World War II.[6]
Births
- 14 January – Sian Honnor, lawn bowler[7]
- 2 March – James Arthur, singer and songwriter
- 27 March – Jessie J, singer
- 18 April – Vanessa Kirby, actress
- 12 August – Tyson Fury, boxer[8]
- 24 August – Rupert Grint, actor
- 15 September – John Bradley, actor
- 22 November – Jamie Campbell Bower, actor, singer and model
Deaths
- 14 August – Margaret Sampson, Anglican nun.[9]
See also
References
- ↑ Hayward, Sarah; Fee, Elizabeth (1992). "More in Sorrow Than in Anger: The British Nurses' Strike of 1988". International Journal of Health Services. 22 (3): 397–415. ISSN 0020-7314.
- ↑ "1988: Nurses protest for better pay". 1988-02-03. Retrieved 2025-01-24.
- ↑ Archives, L. A. Times (1988-02-05). "The World - News from Feb. 5, 1988". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved 2025-01-24.
- ↑ "1988: Defiant seamen strike on". 1988-02-04. Retrieved 2025-01-24.
- ↑ "BBC News | History | 1988-89: Gibraltar killings and release of the Guildford Four". news.bbc.co.uk. Retrieved 2022-10-21.
- ↑ "GALLERY: The explosions that rocked Poole - 30 years since the BDH fire". Bournemouth Echo. Retrieved 2022-03-29.
- ↑ "Lawn Bowls | Athlete Profile: Sian HONNOR - Gold Coast 2018 Commonwealth Games". results.gc2018.com. Archived from the original on 19 May 2022. Retrieved 15 March 2021.
- ↑ "Tyson Fury: Biography, record, fights and more". ESPN.com. 2024-10-09. Retrieved 2024-10-22.
- ↑ Ward, Benedicta (23 September 2004). "Sampson, Margaret Phoebe [name in religion Mary Clare] (1906–1988), Anglican nun". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/70971. (Subscription, Wikipedia Library access or UK public library membership required.)