1974 in England

Events from '''1974 in England'''

Events

1 January–7 March – The Three-Day Week is introduced by the Conservative Government as a measure to conserve electricity during the period of industrial action by coal miners.

4 February – Eleven people are killed in the M62 coach bombing; on 8 February the toll reaches 12 with the death in hospital of an 18-year-old soldier seriously injured in the bombing.
7 February
12 February – BBC1 first airs the children's television series Bagpuss, made by Peter Firmin and Oliver Postgate's Smallfilms in stop motion animation.
14 February
* Bob Latchford, the Birmingham City centre forward, becomes Britain's most expensive footballer in a £350,000 move to Everton.

3 March – 180 Britons are among the dead when Turkish Airlines Flight 981 travelling from Paris to London crashes in a wood near Paris, killing all 346 aboard.
10 March – Ten miners die in a methane gas explosion at Golborne Colliery near Wigan, Lancashire.

The current system of metropolitan and non-metropolitan counties came into effect on 1 April 1974 and replaced the administrative counties and county boroughs, which were abolished at that time.

16 January – Kate Moss, English model
30 January – Christian Bale, English actor
12 February – Naseem Hamed, British boxer
22 February – James Blunt, singer-songwriter
7 March – Tobias Menzies, actor
17 April – Victoria Beckham, singer and designer
28 July – Hannah Waddingham, English actress and singer
5 September – Lauren Jeska, transgender fell runner convicted of the attempted murder of Ralph Knibbs
20 October – Mohammad Sidique Khan, Islamic terrorist, leader of 7 July 2005 London bombings