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2000. 31 January – Carlton Kids stops broadcasting. [5]1 February – Discovery Kids launches on the OnDigital platform as a direct replacement for Carlton Kids. 27 May – Boomerang launches to broadcast classic cartoons from the Hanna-Barbera, MGM and Warner Bros archive programme library, as well as freeing up its sister network of many classics in the schedule.
The history of the United Kingdom begins in 1707 with the Treaty of Union and Acts of Union. The core of the United Kingdom as a unified state came into being with the political union of the kingdoms of England and Scotland, [1] into a new unitary state called Great Britain. [a] Of this new state, the historian Simon Schama said:
18 Dallas "Who Done It" – Kristin Shepard is revealed to have shot J.R. Ewing. 21.60: 22 November 1980: BBC1 [5] Coronation Street: Ken and Deirdre Barlow finalise their divorce. 21.60: 8 January 1992: ITV (Granada) [2] 20 Eurovision Song Contest 1973: Staged in Luxembourg City – the UK was represented by Cliff Richard, and the contest was ...
This is a timeline of British history, comprising important legal and territorial changes and political events in the United Kingdom and its predecessor states. To read about the background to these events, see History of England, History of Wales, History of Scotland, History of Ireland, Formation of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland and History of the United Kingdom
Crash Course (YouTube) Multidisciplinary Educational courses in physical and social sciences, philosophy, history, culture and literature. Free ? Crash Course (YouTube) Do Lectures: Multidisciplinary Videos of live talks and lectures. Free Creative Commons Attribution–NonCommercial–NonDerivative: YouTube: EdX: Multidisciplinary
The Children's Channel, also known as TCC, was a British-based pan-European children's television channel in Europe, the Middle East and Africa, which was owned by Flextech in London, England, UK. It began broadcasting on the original Eutelsat satellite on 1 September 1984.
March 3 – Elizabeth II opens the Barbican Centre in London. [1]July 20 – Hyde Park and Regent's Park bombings [2]; December 12 – Greenham Common Women's Peace Camp: 30,000 women hold hands and form a human chain around the 14.5 km (9 mi) perimeter fence of RAF Greenham Common in England in a protest against nuclear weapons.
The town enters the UK Weather Records with the highest 180-min total rainfall at 178 mm. As of October 2020, this record remains. 8 October Closure of the original Sheffield Tramway, leaving Blackpool as the only place in England with electric trams. [34] In the final of the Rugby League World Cup, staged in the UK, Great Britain beats ...