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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 – 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]
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.
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.
16 September – UK release of the film Darling starring Julie Christie. 21 September – BP's oil platform Sea Gem strikes natural gas in the North Sea oil field. 24 September – The British governor of Aden cancels the Aden constitution and takes direct control of the protectorate, due to the bad security situation.
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.
20 September – Leonard Parkin, television newsreader (born 1929) 23 September – Myer Galpern, politician (born 1903) 24 September – Tamara Talbot Rice, art historian (born 1904, Russian Empire) 25 September – Sir John Moores, businessman, founder and chairman of Littlewoods 1923-1977 and 1980-1982 (born 1896) 30 September
18 September – American rock star Jimi Hendrix, 27, dies in London from a suspected drug-induced heart attack. [40] 19 September – The first Glastonbury Festival is held, [2] as the Worthy Farm Pop, Blues and Folk Festival. Tyrannosaurus Rex (replacing The Kinks) headline and about 1500 attend.