1988 in England

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Events from 1988 in England

• 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.

• 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]

• 6 March – SAS soldiers shot dead three unarmed IRA members in Gibraltar, leading to widespread republican criticism.^[5]

• 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]

• 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

• 14 August – Margaret Sampson, Anglican nun.^[9]

• 1988 in Northern Ireland
• 1988 in Scotland
• 1988 in Wales