4 January – Rose Heilbron became the first female judge to sit at the Old Bailey. 9 January – The National Union of Mineworkers held a strike ballot in which 58.8% voted in favour of industrial action.[1] Coal miners began a strike which would last for seven weeks,[2] including picketing of Saltley coke depot in Birmingham. 19 January – The government announced the lifting of all restrictions on broadcasting hours on television and radio. 20 January – Unemployment exceeded the 1,000,000 mark for the first time since the 1930s,[3] almost double the 582,000 who were unemployed when Edward Heath's Conservative government came to power less than two years ago.[4] 30 January – 'Bloody Sunday' in Northern Ireland: fourteen Catholics were killed when troops opened fire on unarmed demonstrators in Derry.
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