In March, 1961, representatives of the national laboratories of Australia, Canada, The Netherlands, United Kingdom, U.S.S.R., United States, and West Germany, met at the NBS to devise means for reaching international agreement on a temperature scale between 10 and 90 Af.

These thermometers have now been sent to the United Kingdom for calibration at the National Physical Laboratory.

Cultural anthropology is also called socio-cultural anthropology or social anthropology ( especially in the United Kingdom ).

* Association of Drainage Authorities, membership body for those involved in water level management in the United Kingdom

Aberdeen is a city in Scotland, United Kingdom.

* Animal ( clothing ), a sportswear retailer and brand based in the United Kingdom

Modern arable agriculture typically uses large field ( agriculture ) | fields like this one in Dorset, England, United Kingdom

The five largest modern countries that are mainly archipelagos are Indonesia, Japan, the Philippines, New Zealand and the United Kingdom.

* 1877 – The United Kingdom annexes the Transvaal.

* 1963 – The Bristol Bus Boycott is held in Bristol to protest the Bristol Omnibus Company's refusal to employ Black or Asian bus crews, drawing national attention to racial discrimination in the United Kingdom.

* 1993 – Virgin Radio broadcasts for the first time in the United Kingdom.

* 1896 – Anglo-Zanzibar War: the shortest war in world history ( 09: 00 to 09: 45 ) between the United Kingdom and Zanzibar.

* 1861 – The United Kingdom annexes Lagos, Nigeria.

* 1914 – World War I: First Battle of the Atlantic – two days after the United Kingdom had declared war on Germany over the German invasion of Belgium, ten German U-boats leave their base in Heligoland to attack Royal Navy warships in the North Sea.

* 1962 – Jamaica becomes independent from the United Kingdom.

* Independence Day, celebrates the independence of Jamaica from the United Kingdom in 1962.

* 1902 – Edward VII and Alexandra of Denmark are crowned King and Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland.

* 1907 – The first Boy Scout encampment concludes at Brownsea Island in southern England, United Kingdom.

* 2006 – At least 21 suspected terrorists are arrested in the 2006 transatlantic aircraft plot that happened in the United Kingdom.

Azerbaijan currently has diplomatic relations with 160 countries: Afghanistan, Bahrain, Belarus, Belgium, Bulgaria, Canada, the People's Republic of China, Denmark, Egypt, France, Georgia, Germany, Hungary, Greece, Iran, Iraq, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Japan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Kuwait, Libya, Luxembourg, Mexico, Moldova, Mongolia, Netherlands, Norway, Oman, Pakistan, Poland, Qatar, Republic of India, Romania, Russia, Saudi Arabia, Serbia, South Korea, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Tajikistan, Togo, Turkey, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, United Arab Emirates, United Kingdom, United States, Uzbekistan and Vietnam.

* United Kingdom comparative: about one third larger ( 30 %) than Wales

Countries that officially recognize the Armenian genocide include Argentina, Armenia, Austria, Belgium, Canada, Chile, Cyprus, France, Germany, Greece, Italy, Lebanon, Lithuania, The Netherlands, Poland, Russia, Slovakia, Sweden, Switzerland, Uruguay, Vatican City and Venezuela ; additionally, some regional governments of countries recognize the Armenian genocide, such as New South Wales in Australia and Wales in the United Kingdom, also officially recognize the Armenian Genocide.

After Pleumeur Bodou ( Brittany ) which received the first live transatlantic television broadcasts from the United States via the Telstar satellite at 0H47 GMT on July 11, 1962, Arthur received his first vidéo in the middle of the same day.

As the United Kingdom grew into an advanced maritime nation, British mariners kept at least one chronometer on GMT in order to calculate their longitude from the Greenwich meridian, which was by convention considered to have longitude zero degrees ( this convention was internationally adopted in the International Meridian Conference of 1884 ).

In the United Kingdom, this is known as British Summer Time ( BST ); in the Republic of Ireland it is called Irish Standard Time ( IST )— officially changing to GMT in winter.

** President of the United States Franklin D. Roosevelt's " Infamy " Address to a Joint Session of Congress at 12: 30 p. m. EST ( 17. 30 GMT ) and transmitted live over all four major national networks attracts the largest audience ever for an American radio broadcast, over 81 % of homes.

* February 15 – At 04: 51 GMT, French anarchist Martial Bourdin attempts to destroy the Royal Greenwich Observatory, London, United Kingdom with a bomb.

The takeoff from Belgrade was delayed for an hour as United outside right Johnny Berry had lost his passport, then the plane made a planned stop in Munich to refuel, landing at 13: 15 GMT.

In the United Kingdom, the first episode was aired at 9: 00 p. m. ( GMT ) on March 7, 2004 on Channel 4, but subsequent episodes were first shown on sister station E4, a week in advance of being shown on Channel 4.

The United States Geological Survey ( USGS ) said the larger earthquake had a preliminary 5. 3 magnitude, it was so superficial that the magnitude was like a 7 magnitude normal earthquake, and struck 220 miles ( 350 km ) south-southeast of Madrid at 6: 47 p. m. ( 1647 GMT, 12: 47 p. m. EDT ).

The following times are local to the United Kingdom ( GMT and BST respectively ).

TV-am was a breakfast television station that broadcast to the United Kingdom from 1 February 1983 at 06: 00 GMT until 31 December 1992 at 09: 21 GMT.

ORACLE ( from " Optional Reception of Announcements by Coded Line Electronics ") was a commercial teletext service first broadcast on ITV in 1974 and later on Channel 4 in the United Kingdom, finally ending on both channels at 23: 59 GMT on 31 December 1992.

GMTV ( now legally known as ITV Breakfast Limited ) was the national Channel 3 breakfast television contractor to broadcasting in the United Kingdom from 1 January 1993 at 06: 00 GMT to 3 September 2010.

Monarch of the Glen was broadcast in the United Kingdom on Sunday evenings on BBC One, usually at 20. 00 GMT ( repeats of the series have been shown on UKTV Drama and are currently running on ITV3 ).

In the United Kingdom and on the Internet, broadcast of the Queen's Christmas message is embargoed until 3: 00 PM GMT.

HM Nautical Almanac Office in the United Kingdom used Greenwich Mean Time ( GMT ) for both conventions, leading to ambiguity, whereas the Nautical Almanac Office at the United States Naval Observatory used GMT for the pre-1925 convention and Greenwich Civil Time ( GCT ) for the post-1924 convention until 1952.

The mandate of UNEF II was to supervise the implementation of United Nations Security Council Resolution 340 which demanded that an immediate and complete ceasefire between Egyptian and Israeli forces be observed and that the parties return to the positions they had occupied at 1650 hours GMT on 22 October 1973.

At 7: 17 pm GMT, the show switched to the United States ' segment about the Glassboro, New Jersey, conference between American president Lyndon Johnson and Soviet premier Alexei Kosygin ; since Our World insisted that no politicians be shown, only the house where the conference was being held was televised.

* United Kingdom ( GMT / BST )

British Summer Time ( BST ) is the civil time during the summer months in the United Kingdom during which the clocks are advanced from Greenwich Mean Time ( GMT ), by one hour ( UTC + 01: 00 ).