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23 September – Ceefax is started by the BBC – one of the first public service information systems. [6] 30 September – With the year's second general election 10 days away, opinion polls show Labour in the lead with Harold Wilson well placed to gain the overall majority that no party achieved in the election held seven months earlier. [38]
6 September – News at One replaces First Report and the teatime news bulletin programme is extended by five minutes and renamed News at 5.45. 17 September – The original incarnation of Newsnight is broadcast for the final time. It is replaced three days later with a shorter bulletin called Late Night News on 2. 1977
Events from the year 1992 in the United Kingdom.This year was the Ruby Jubilee of Queen Elizabeth II.. This year is notable for a fourth-term general election victory for the Conservative Party; "Black Wednesday" (16 September), the suspension of the UK's membership of the European Exchange Rate Mechanism; and an annus horribilis for the Royal Family.
19 September – The first episode of the popular sitcom Fawlty Towers is broadcast on BBC Two. [38] 24 September – Dougal Haston and Doug Scott become the first British people to climb Mount Everest. [39] 27 September – The National Railway Museum is opened in York, becoming the first national museum outside London.
2 September – Eric Berry, actor (born 1913) 4 September – Tommy Cheadle, English footballer (born 1919) 5 September – Edwin Malindine, politician (born 1910) 6 September – A. L. F. Rivet, archaeologist and cartographer (born 1915) 12 September – Harold Innocent, actor (born 1933) 14 September Adrianne Allen, actress (born 1907)
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9 September – Queen Elizabeth II surpasses her great-great-grandmother Queen Victoria as the United Kingdom's longest-reigning monarch, [203] as she declares the Borders Railway officially open. [204] 11 September – MPs reject plans for a right to die in England and Wales in their first vote on the issue in almost twenty years. [205]
3 September – The children's series Rosie and Jim debuts on Children's ITV. 8 September – Historian, author and broadcaster A. J. P. Taylor, 84, dies from Parkinson's disease in a London nursing home. 8 September – York City footballer David Longhurst, 25, collapses and dies during a Football League Fourth Division match.