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26 th January 1922 : Norman Ellis Gregory born.
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26th January 1922 : Norman Ellis Gregory born 18th October 1922 : BBC Formed4th November 1922 : Carter Finds Tutankhamuns Tomb14th November 1922 : BBC begins Broadcasts6th December 1922 : Anglo-Irish treaty is signed28th April 1923 : 1st Wembley FA Cup Final22nd January 1924 : Ramsay MacDonald becomes Britain's 1st Labour PM 23rd January 1924 : First Labour Government23rd April 1924 : First Broadcast by British Monarch5th July 1925 : Giant Hailstone Hits Plumstead18th July 1925 : Mein Kampf Published5th August 1925 : Plaid Cymru Formed 26th September 1925 : Blackpool illuminations light up for 1st time1st December 1925 : Locarno Treaty Signed26th January 1926 : John Logie Baird first demo of television 7th March 1926 : First Two-Way Transatlantic Phone Call1st May 1926 : TUC meets to agree on a General Strike3rd May 1926 : The Great General Strike Begins7th August 1926 : Britains 1st Grand Prix is held at Brooklands 14th October 1926 : Winnie the Pooh Published
3rd December 1926 : Agatha Christie vanishes22nd January 1927 : BBC Broadcasts 1st live Football Commentary4th June 1927 : The First Ryder Cup5th November 1927 : 1st traffic lights start to operate26th April 1928 : Tussauds Finally Reopens after Fire, 30th September 1928 : The discovery of penicillin by Alexander Fleming 20th December 1928 : Harry Ramsden opens 1st Fish and Chip Shop 4th February 1929 : First Green Belt land approved16th February 1929 : Heaviest British Snowfall30th September 1929 : BBC begins TV Transmissions 24th October 1929 : Wall Street Crash 31st December 1929 : Paisley Cinema Disaster27th January 1930 : Mick the Miller Wins his Second Greyhound Derby 1st February 1930 : First Times Crossword 6th April 1930 : Salt March Ends 5th May 1930 : Amy Johnson begins her flight upon Gypsy Moth
14th April 1931 : The Highway code is published23rd May 1931 : Whipsnade Zoo Opened24th August 1931 : Huxley Finishes Brave New World15th September 1931 : Invergordon Mutiny 12th November 1931 : Elgar opens Abbey Road recording studios1st August 1932 : First Mars Bar Made 3rd October 1932 : Iraq Gains Independence from Britain19th December 1932 : BBC World Service Begins27th February 1933 : Burning of the Reichstag28th August 1933 : First Radio Appeal for Help by Police 26th March 1934 : Driving Tests and Speed Limit introduced26th May 1934 : First ever Glyndebourne30th June 1934 : Night of the Long Knives16th March 1935 : UK's 1st Driving Test taken19th May 1935 : Lawrence of Arabia dies30th July 1935 : First Penguin Paperbacks5th March 1936 : Maiden flight of the Spitfire29th April 1936 : First TV Interview
6th June 1936 : Gatwick Airport Opens24th July 1936 : Speaking Clock Introduced3rd August 1936 : Jesse Owens Wins Olympic Gold4th October 1936 : The Battle of Cable Street5th October 1936 : The Jarrow March begins2nd November 1936 : BBC Television begins broadcasting 30th November 1936 : Crystal Palace destroyed by fire 10th December 1936 : Edward VIII abdicates 14th January 1937 : First UK Opinion Poll 12th April 1937 : Whittle tests the 1st Jet Engine26th April 1937 : Guernica Bombed 21stJune 1937 : BBC’s First Wimbledon Broadcast8th July 1937 : First 999 Call21st September 1937 : Tolkien Publishes The Hobbit1st December 1937 : Sellotape Goes on Sale 11th March 1938 : Anschluss29th September 1938 : Chamberlain & Hitler sign the Munich Agreement30th September 1938 : Chamberlain Proclaims Peace for our Time, 30th October 1938 : War of the Worlds Broadcast Panic1st May 1939 : Sutton Hoo Dig Begins
3rd September 1939 : Britain declares War on Germany - WWII begins13rd December 1939 : Battle of the River Plate8th January 1940 : Food Rationing Begins 10th May 1940 : Winston Churchill becomes Prime Minister13rd May 1940 : Churchill forms Wartime Coalition Government 27th May 1940 : Evacuation of Dunkirk begins3rd June 1940 : Evacuation of Dunkirk ends 30th June 1940 : German Troops invade Channel Islands10th July 1940 : The Battle of Britain begins23rd August 1940 : LDV becomes Home Guard7th September 1940 : The Blitz begins15th September 1940 : Battle of Britain ends 14th October 1940 : Balham Blitz Tube Disaster31st October 1940 : Official end of the Battle of Britain 14th November 1940 : Coventry Blitz
29th November 1940 : Bomb Kills 166 in Liverpool Air-Raid Shelter12th December 1940 : Marples Hotel Tragedy29th December 1940 : Worst night of The Blitz12th February 1941 : First Penicillin Patient15th April 1941 : The Belfast Blitz9th May 1941 : Enigma Machine Captured10th May 1941 : Rudolf Hess lands in Scotland 15th August 1941 : Last Execution in The Tower31st October 1941 : Huddersfield Factory Fire13rd November 1941 : Ark Royal Torpedoed7th December 1941 : Pearl Harbour 15th February 1942 : Singapore Surrenders23rd October 1942 : Battle of El Alamein 27th November 1942 : Train Downs Nazi Plane2nd March 1943 : Bethnal Green Tube Disaster16th May 1943 : Dambusters Raid 24th March 1944 : The Real Great Escape6th June 1944 : D-Day Landings13rd June 1944 : First V1 Rocket hits London23rd August 1944 : Freckleton Tragedy
8th September 1944 : First German V2 rocket lands on London17th September 1944 : Operation Market Garden - Allied invasion of Holland12th November 1944 : Tirpitz Sunk16th December 1944 : Battle of the Bulge Begins4th February 1945 : The Yalta Conference14th February 1945 : Dresden Firestorm27th March 1945 : Last V2 rocket lands30th April 1945 : Hitler’s Suicide 7th May 1945 : Nazi Germany surrenders - VE Day 9th May 1945 : Channel Islands liberated16th July 1945 : First Atomic Explosion6th August 1945 : Hiroshima17th August 1945 : Animal Farm Published2nd September 1945 : Japan Signs Surrender 19th September 1945 : 'Lord Haw-Haw' sentenced to death30th September 1945 : Bourne End Rail Crash24th October 1945 : Formation of UN20th November 1945 : Nuremberg Trials begin3rd January 1946 : 'Lord Haw-Haw' hanged1st March 1946 : Bank of England Nationalised 2nd April 1946 : Founding of Sandhurst Royal Military Academy22nd July 1946 : King David Hotel Bombing11th November 1946 : Britains 1st New Town - Stevenage 5th June 1947 : Marshall Aid Launched9th July 1947 : Engagement of Queen Elizabeth
24th August 1947 : First Edinburgh International Festival12th January 1948 : First British Supermarket Opens 28th February 1948 : Last British Soldiers leave India 14th May 1948 : Birth of Israel 21st June 1948 : World’s 1st Computer Program Runs in Manchester22nd June 1948 : SS Empire Windrush Docks at Tilbury1st July 1948 : Oxfam Opens its First Charity Shop 5th July 1948 : National Health Service established
28th July 1948 : The Battle of London Airport 29th July 1948 : Opening Ceremony of 1948 London Olympics12th October 1948 : 1st Morris Minor Built 4th April 1949 : Foundation of NATO 18th April 1949 : Republic of Ireland established 5th June 1949 : Noddy’s First Appearance 8th June 1949 : 1984 Published 29th July 1949 : First Regular TV Weather Forecasts 3rd February 1950 : Klaus Fuchs arrested 22nd September 1950 : First Non-Stop Transatlantic Jet Flight 16th October 1950 : The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe Published17th April 1951 : Peak District is designated Britain's first national park24th April 1951 : Glorious Glosters Stand at Imjin River
3rd May 1951 : The Festival of Britain opens 22nd May 1951 : Burgess and Maclean Defect26th October 1951 : Churchill becomes PM again31st October 1951 : Zebra Crossing Introduced 20th November 1951 : Snowdonia designated a National Park 6th February 1952 : King George VI dies - Elizabeth II becomes Queen 26th February 1952 : Churchill Announces British Atom Bomb15th August 1952 : Lynmouth Floods Kill 346th September 1952 : Farnborough Air Show Disaster23rd September 1952 : Chaplin Returns to England 2nd October 1952 : Britain tests first Nuclear Bomb8th October 1952 : Harrow Rail crash14th November 1952 : NME Publishes First UK Singles Chart14th November 1952 : First British Record Chart Published25th November 1952 : The 'Mousetrap' opens
5th December 1952 : Start of the Great Smog28th January 1953 : Derek Bentley Hanged1st February 1953 : East Coast floods kill hundreds 25th April 1953 : Crick and Watson discover DNA 29th May 1953 : Hillary climbs Everest 2nd June 1953 : Coronation of Queen Elizabeth II11th November 1953 : First edition of Panorama17th November 1953 : Channel Collision Kills 20 6th May 1954 : Roger Bannister runs the four minute mile 21st July 1954 : Lord of the Rings Published17th September 1954 : Lord of the Flies Published
13rd July 1955 : Ruth Ellis last woman to be hanged in Britain 16th July 1955 : Stirling Moss is first Englishman to win the British Grand Prix 18th July 1955 : Great Martinstown Downpour 22nd September 1955 : Launch of ITV 23rd September 1955 : 1st British woman News reader 26th September 1955 : 1st Birds Eye Fishfingers go on Sale 17th October 1956 : World’s First Fully Commercial Nuclear Power Plant Opened 29th October 1956 : Suez Conflict Begins 1st November 1956 : Premium Bonds go on Sale
6th March 1957 : Ghana Gains Independence 1st April 1957 : Panorama Spaghetti Hoax 15th May 1957 : Britain tests H-Bomb6th July 1957 : Lennon and McCartney First Meet4th September 1957 : Wolfenden Report - homosexuality decriminalised 4th October 1957 : Sputnik Launched 10th October 1957 : Windscale Reactor Fire4th December 1957 : Lewisham Train Crash Kills 906th February 1958 : Munich Air Crash17th March 1958 : CND’s Inaugural Public Meeting23rd June 1958 : End of coal rationing announced10th July 1958 : Launch of the Parking Meter 13rd October 1958 : Paddington Bear is Published16th October 1958 : First Edition of Blue Peter
21st October 1958 : First Women Peers Enter Lords10th November 1958 : Donald Campbell breaks water speed record 9th July 1959 : Supercell Storm over Wokingham28th July 1959 : Postcodes Introduced7th October 1959 : Southend Pier Fire Traps 300 2nd November 1959 : M1 Opens 28th March 1960 : Fire Claims 19 Glasgow Firefighters19th September 1960 : First Traffic Wardens in London 21st October 1960 : 1st British Nuclear Powered Sub launched
2nd November 1960 : Penguin Wins Lady Chatterley Case9th December 1960 : 1st episode of Coronation St screened 12th April 1961 : First Man in Space – Russian Yuri Gagarin 1st May 1961 : Betting Shops Legal 9th November 1961 : Brian Epstein Meets The Beatles4th December 1961 : The Pill is introduced24th January 1962 : Beatles Sign for Epstein2nd April 1962 : Panda Crossing Launched6th June 1962 : Beatles audition for George Martin12th July 1962 : Debut of the Rolling Stones 4th October 1962 : Beatles release 1st single 5th June 1963 : John Profumo resigns 8th August 1963 : Great Train Robbery28th August 1963 : Martin Luther King Has a Dream22nd November 1963 : Assassination of President Kennedy
8th August 1963 : Great Train Robbery -2.6 million stolen28th August 1963 : Martin Luther King Has a Dream22nd November 1963 : Assassination of President Kennedy 23rd November 1963 : First Episode of Doctor Who7th February 1964 : The Beatles arrive in America 20th April 1964 : Launch of BBC218th May 1964 : Mods and Rockers Battle13rd August 1964 : Last Executions in Britain22nd August 1964 : First Edition of Match of the Day 4th September 1964 : Forth Road Bridge Opened 12th September 1964 : Charlie and the Chocolate Factory Published 15th September 1964 : 1st Edition of the Sun