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4 February – The Sunday Times becomes the first newspaper to print a colour supplement. 10 February – End of the Queen's 10th regnal year. From this year, Acts of Parliament are dated by calendar year. 21 February – Margot Fonteyn and Rudolf Nureyev first dance together, in a Royal Ballet performance of Giselle.
More than 4% of the UK population (some 2,500,000 people) now have internet access. New car sales in the United Kingdom are above 2,000,000 for this year, a level last seen in 1990. Panathlon Foundation is formed by Ashley Iceton. Publications. Iain M. Banks's novel Excession. Seamus Deane's novel Reading in the Dark.
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.
The Daily Mirror leads on the death of OJ Simpson from cancer at the age of 76. Simpson, a former American football star, was controversially cleared of the 1994 murder of his ex-wife, Nicole ...