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1988 in
England
Incumbent
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Further information:
Politics of England
Events
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January
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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
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March
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6 March –
SAS
soldiers shot dead three unarmed
IRA
members in
Gibraltar
, leading to widespread
republican
criticism.
[
1
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April
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May
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June
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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
.
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2
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July
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August
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September
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October
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November
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December
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Births
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14 January –
Sian Honnor
, lawn bowler
[
3
]
2 March –
James Arthur
, singer and songwriter
27 March –
Jessie J
, singer
April 18 –
Vanessa Kirby
, actress
24 August –
Rupert Grint
, actor
15 September –
John Bradley
, actor
22 November –
Jamie Campbell Bower
, actor, singer and model
Deaths
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14 August –
Margaret Sampson
, Anglican nun.
[
4
]
See also
[
edit
]
1988 in Northern Ireland
1988 in Scotland
1988 in Wales
References
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^
"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
. Retrieved
15 March
2021
.
^
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
.
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UK public library membership
required.)
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