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The UK Government announces that Monday 19 September, the date of the state funeral of Elizabeth II, will be a national bank holiday. [476] During its time in Edinburgh, the Queen's Coffin is taken from Holyrood palace to St Giles' Cathedral; 11 September – The Queen's coffin is delivered by hearse from Balmoral to Edinburgh.
6 September – Myrina was launched from the slipway at Harland and Wolff in Belfast, the first supertanker and (at around 192000 DWT) largest ship built in the UK up to this date. [23] 9 September – Former UK Prime Minister Clement Attlee, 84, was hospitalised with an illness reported as a "minor condition". [24]
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]
Chancellor Philip Hammond says that gas heating for new houses will be prohibited by a date which he gives as 2025, although gas hobs will still be allowed. [ 67 ] 14 March – MPs vote by 412 to 202 in favour of requesting that the UK's withdrawal from the European Union be delayed beyond 29 March.
8 September – MPs vote in favour of the government's NHS and social care tax rise plan by 319 votes to 248, a majority of 71. [311] 9 September – COVID-19 vaccination in the UK: The JCVI approves the use of the Pfizer–BioNTech and Oxford–AstraZeneca vaccines as COVID-19 booster shots, paving the way for a rollout ahead of the winter. [312]
1954 – Willie Mays (pictured) of the New York Giants made The Catch, one of the most famous defensive plays in the history of Major League Baseball. 1964 – Mafalda, a popular comic strip by Quino, was first published in newspapers in Argentina. 2004 – Archaeologists and volunteers began excavation of the remains of Fort Tanjong Katong in ...
11 September – COVID-19 in the UK: The R number escalates to between 1.0 and 1.2 for the first time since March. [359] 12 September – COVID-19 in the UK: Sir Mark Walport, former chief scientific adviser and member of SAGE, warns that the UK is "on the edge of losing control" as recorded cases of COVID-19 exceed 3,000 for the second day in ...
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]