29 May – Last communication from the British explorer Percy Fawcett, a telegram to his wife, before he disappears in the Amazon.
10 June – Dibbles Bridge coach crash: a tour coach runs away following brake failure and falls off a bridge near Hebden, North Yorkshire, en route to Bolton Abbey, killing seven passengers.[6]
1–30 June – The second-driest month in the EWP series (and driest of twentieth century) with an average rainfall of only 4.3 millimetres (0.17 in).[7]
31 July – Red Friday: the Government announces that it will grant a subsidy to the coal industry for nine months to maintain existing wage levels while a Royal Commission conducts an inquiry into the industry's problems.
John Logie Baird successfully transmits the first television pictures with a greyscale image.[11]
The city's first double-decker buses with covered top decks are introduced.[12][13]
29 October – Observer Corps established as a volunteer civil defence organisation for the visual detection, identification, tracking and reporting of raids by aircraft over Britain.
3 November – Alfred Hitchcock's first (silent) film, The Pleasure Garden, completed (but not released in the UK until 16 January 1927).
7 November – The Morning Post, a Conservative London newspaper, publishes a leaked report of the Irish Boundary Commission's (limited) proposals for altering the border between the Irish Free State and Northern Ireland, which are contrary to the Free State's view; publication effectively ends the work of the commission.
12 November – Submarine HMS M1 sinks in the English Channel after collision with a civilian surface vessel with the loss of all 69 hands.[15]
1 December – Locarno Treaties signed in London. The United Kingdom is a joint guarantor of the boundaries of Belgium, France and Germany.
3 December – A settlement on the boundary question between the Irish Free State and Northern Ireland is presented in London.[5] Controversially, there is no change to the border, in exchange for the Free State's liability for service of the U.K. public debt in respect of war pensions being dropped. The agreement is approved during this month by the U.K. and Free State legislatures.
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