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The public launch of digital terrestrial TV in the UK. Consequently, BBC News 24 is now available to all digital viewers. BBC Parliament is carried but due to bandwidth issues, the channel is broadcast in sound only. The first edition of UK Today is broadcast. It airs as a replacement for the regional news bulletins because broadcasting English ...
March 1: First day of Ramadan (2025); Disability Day of Mourning; Saint David's Day; Independence Day in the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina; Longtaitou Festival in China (2025); Yap Day in Yap State, Federated States of Micronesia
Free milk (1 ⁄ 3 pint daily) provided in UK state schools to all pupils under the age of 18. 9 August – Arts Council incorporated by royal charter. [2] 31 August – League football returns, having been suspended during World War II. [2]
Thousands of demonstrators wave banners as they stand near Downing Street in Westminster in London, Wednesday, Feb. 1, 2023. Up to half a million workers are expected to go on strike across the U ...
Here's what's happened Today in History.
UK Today is a BBC television news programme shown on digital satellite and digital terrestrial versions of BBC One and BBC Two. It consisted of a round up of stories from the BBC's various local news programmes where it had not initially been possible to show regional variations. The programme was eventually replaced by digital feeds of each ...
1 January New Year's celebrations all over the UK fall silent for two minutes as a mark of respect for those who died in the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami.; The Freedom of Information Act 2000, the Environmental Information Regulations 2004 and the main provisions of the Child Trust Funds Act 2004 (introducing a Child Trust Fund with a government contribution for children that were born on or ...
30 November – Winston Churchill becomes the first, and to the present day, the only UK Prime Minister to celebrate his eightieth birthday whilst in office. 25 December – 1954 Prestwick air disaster: BOAC Boeing 377 Stratocruiser G-ALSA crashes on landing at Prestwick Airport from London in poor visibility at 03:30, killing 28.