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1 December – UK Prime Minister Harold Wilson and Rhodesian Prime Minister Ian Smith negotiate on board HMS Tiger in the Mediterranean Sea. 12 December – Harry Roberts , John Whitney and John Duddy are sentenced to life imprisonment (each with a recommended minimum of 30 years) for the Shepherd's Bush murders of three London policemen in August.
The 1966 United Kingdom general election was held on Thursday 31 March 1966 to elect 630 members of the House of Commons, of which 511 constituencies were in England.. The incumbent Labour Party led by Prime Minister Harold Wilson won 285 seats in England, its second-highest tally of seats at the time.
The 1966 United Kingdom general election was held on Thursday 31 March 1966. The result was a landslide victory for the Labour Party led by Prime Minister Harold Wilson.. Wilson decided to call a snap election since his government, elected a mere 17 months previously, in 1964, had an unworkably small majority of only four MPs.
United Kingdom general elections (elections for the House of Commons) have occurred in the United Kingdom since the first in 1802.The members of the 1801–1802 Parliament had been elected to the former Parliament of Great Britain and Parliament of Ireland, before being co-opted to serve in the first Parliament of the United Kingdom, so that Parliament is not included in the table below.
The British government promises the U.S. that British troops in Malaysia will stay until more peaceful conditions occur in the region. Britain's Labour Party unexpectedly retains the parliamentary seat of Hull North in a by-election , with a swing of 4.5% to their candidate from the opposition Conservatives, and a majority up from 1,181 at the ...
Motown legends Four Tops made the UK top 10 for the first time in October of this year with "Reach Out I'll Be There", which spent three weeks at number-one. The Troggs were one of the UK's most successful music acts of 1966, achieving three top 10 singles, including the number-one hit "With a Girl Like You".
[1] The 1966 announcements undertook to retain the UK presence in Singapore and Malaysia. However, the mid-late sixties brought an economic crisis and the devaluation of pound sterling. In 1967 and 1968, the government published two further supplements to the review, announcing the strategic withdrawal of British forces deployed East of Suez ...
This article presents a timeline of events in the history of the United Kingdom from 1950 until 1969. For a narrative explaining the overall developments, see the related history of the British Isles. For narratives about this time period, see Post-war Britain (1945–1979), Social history of post-war Britain (1945–1979),