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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.
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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)
Winds of up to 100 mph (160 km/h) kill 47 people and cause £3.37 billion worth of damage, the most costly weather event for insurers in British history. 1990–91: Severe winter: Periods of heavy snow and rainstorms lasting from December 1990 to February 1991 throughout the United Kingdom, Ireland and Western Europe.
The January 1987 snowfall (also known as the Big Freeze of 1987) was a very heavy lake-effect type snow event that affected the United Kingdom, mainly the areas of East Anglia, South-East England and London between 11 and 14 January [2] and was the heaviest snowfall to fall in that part of the United Kingdom since the winter of 1981/82.