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4 March – The national tabloid newspaper Today launches from Wapping. It pioneers the use of computer photo typesetting and full-colour offset printing at a time when British national newspapers are still using Linotype machines and letterpress. 5 March – The High Court disqualifies and fines 81 Labour councillors for failing to set a rate.
13 March – 1962 Blackpool North by-election: the Blackpool North seat is retained by the Conservative Party. This is on a Tuesday; it is the last parliamentary by-election in England to be held on a day other than Thursday. 14 March. 1962 Middlesbrough East by-election: the Middlesbrough East seat is retained by Labour.
12 July – Robert Maxwell buys the Daily Mirror for £113.4 million. 18 July – The general-interest magazine Tit-Bits closes after 104 years. A magnitude 5.4 earthquake with an epicentre in the Llŷn Peninsula of North Wales is felt throughout the United Kingdom.
18 April – Zimbabwe becomes independent of the United Kingdom. [4] 22 April – Unemployment stands at a two-year high of more than 1.5million. 29 April – Filmmaker Sir Alfred Hitchcock dies aged 80 at his home in Los Angeles, only one month after his last public appearance. 30 April – The Iranian Embassy Siege begins.
August. 2 August – 2002 Barrow-in-Furness legionellosis outbreak: First fatality in an outbreak of Legionnaires' disease in Barrow-in-Furness which results in seven deaths and 172 cases throughout the month, ranking it as the worst in the UK's history and fifth-worst worldwide.
31 January – National Health Service prescription charges end. 1 February – The Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh arrive in Ethiopia on a state visit. 4 February – Confederation of British Industry founded. [3] 6 February – Stanley Matthews plays his final First Division game, at the record age of 50 years and 5 days.
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.
25 February – UK miners' strike (1984–85): Nearly 4,000 striking coalminers return to work, meaning that only just over half of the miners are now on strike. 26 February – Following his trial and conviction at St Albans Crown Court, Malcolm Fairley, the sex attacker known as The Fox, is handed six life sentences.
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