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Events relating to england
British architects James Stirling and Michael Wilford complete a new art gallery for Stuttgart
Genetic (or DNA) fingerprinting is invented and developed by British geneticist Alec Jeffreys
Ian Botham is the first player to achieve the double triple, with a total of more than 3000 runs and 300 wickets in Test cricket
In a speech to the Tory Reform Group, Harold Macmillan describes Mrs Thatcher's privatization policy as 'selling the family silver'
The miners' strike, ending after eleven bitter months, proves a turning point in the struggle between Margaret Thatcher and the unions
17-year-old German tennis-player Boris Becker becomes the youngest ever to win the men's singles at Wimbledon
Live Aid, an all-day concert for famine relief in Africa, is held simultaneously in London and Philadelphia
British Rasta poet Benjamin Zephaniah publishes his second collection as The Dread Affair
Harold Macmillan dies and is buried in the churchyard of St Giles in Horsted Keynes
Tony Cragg's Raleigh is unveiled outside the Tate Gallery in his home town of Liverpool
Harrison Birtwistle's second opera, The Mask of Orpheus, brings him an international reputation
Nikolai Tolstoy publishes The Minister and the Massacres, charging Harold Macmillan with responsibility for the 'victims of Yalta'
Argentina wins the World Cup quarter final against England with help from Maradona and 'the hand of God'
Mad Cow Disease (BSE, or bovine spongiform encephalopathy ) is identified and described in Britain
English poets John Fuller and James Fenton collaborate in a volume of satirical poems, Partingtime Hall
Talking Heads, a series of dramatic monologues by English author Alan Bennett, is broadcast on British TV
British golfer Nick Faldo wins the first of three victories in six years in the British Open
The film Cry Freedom, directed by Richard Attenborough, tells the story of Steve Biko, killed in police custody in South Africa
Ayatollah Khomeini declares a fatwa against Salman Rushdie for his Satanic Verses
The Liberals and the SDP merge in Britain to form a single political party, the Liberal Democrats
British physicist Stephen Hawking explains the cosmos for the general reader in A Brief History of Time: from the Big Bang to Black Holes
Aung San Suu Kyi returns to Burma from England, to look after her dying mother
English composer Mark-Anthony Turnage's first opera, Greek, is premiered in Munich
English conceptual artist Damien Hirst organizes the first exhibition of the 'Young British Artists', also known as the Britpack
Rupert Murdoch launches Sky, a satellite television channel, in the UK
