World: The UN-designated World Sickle Cell Day takes place, focusing on sickle cell disease as a global health issue. Netherlands: England take on the Dutch at Amstelveen as part of the ICC Men’s Cricket World Cup Super League.
UK: The British Heart Foundation’s London to Brighton Bike Ride, Europe’s largest charity cycling event, takes place.įrance: Voters go to the polls to elect members of the Assemblée Nationale for five-year terms. UK: Trade unions lead a demonstration through central London to Parliament Square, calling on the government to act to tackle the cost of living crisis The Orgreave Truth and Justice Campaign holds its annual rally in Sheffield to mark the anniversary of the Battle of Orgreave, a confrontation on a picket line at a South Yorkshire coking plant in 1984, at which 123 people were injured and 93 miners were arrested Gallagher Premiership Rugby Final between Leicester Tigers and Saracens takes place at Twickenham Stadium.įrance: Emmanuel Macron, the French president, attends the Mémorial de la France Combattante, to commemorate General Charles de Gaulle’s Second World War rallying cry to his countrymen, broadcast via radio from London in 1940.
