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The winter of 1981–1982 in the United Kingdom (also called The Big Snow of 1982 by the press) was a severe cold wave that was formed in early December 1981 and lasted until mid-late January in 1982. It was one of the coldest Decembers recorded in the United Kingdom. [2]
Israeli ambassador to the UK Shlomo Argov is shot in London, [28] an event which provokes the 1982 Lebanon War; he dies in 2003 in Israel without regaining full consciousness. The Mitcham and Morden by-election is held as a result of the sitting Labour MP ( Bruce Douglas-Mann ) transferring his allegiance to the new SDP .
March 3 – Elizabeth II opens the Barbican Centre in London. [1]July 20 – Hyde Park and Regent's Park bombings [2]; December 12 – Greenham Common Women's Peace Camp: 30,000 women hold hands and form a human chain around the 14.5 km (9 mi) perimeter fence of RAF Greenham Common in England in a protest against nuclear weapons.
Margaret Thatcher was PM, the Duke of Cambridge was born and England was heading to the World Cup with Bryan Robson and Peter Shilton in the squad.
1982 events in the United Kingdom by month (12 C) 1982 disestablishments in the United Kingdom (8 C, 15 P) 1982 establishments in the United Kingdom (9 C, 108 P)
How the economy, politics and pop culture looked 40 years ago.
Winter of 1962–63 in the United Kingdom – The winter of 1962–63 was the coldest for 223 years in England, and the freeze was accompanied by strong easterly winds and the freezing of rivers and streams. January 1963 cold wave in Mid-Western United States, as well as a brief-but-severe cold spell in the western United States. 1966
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