• 1926: General Strike | • 1928: Women get the vote | • 1934: Hitler assumes power in Germany | • 1936: Regular BBC TV broadcasts begin | • 1939: Start of 2nd World War | • 1940: Dunkirk evacuation | • 1941: Japanese attack Pearl Harbour | • 1944: "D-Day" landings in France | • 1945: End of 2nd World War | • 1946: USA tests atom bomb at Bikini Island | • 1947: Sound Barrier broken | • 1948: NHS founded | • 1950: Korean War starts | • 1951: Suez "Crisis" | • 1953: Queen Elizabeth II crowned | • 1954: Bannister runs 1st 4 minute mile | • 1955: Glynde Place opened to the public | • 1955: ITV starts broadcasting | • 1957: 1st dog in space | • 1958: Gatwick Airport opened | • 1959: M1, the 1st motoway, opened | • 1961: 1st man in space | • 1963: US President Kennedy assassinated | • 1965: Post Office Tower opened | • 1966: England win World Cup | • 1967: 1st heart transplant | • 1968: Martin Luther King assassinated | • 1969: 1st men on the moon | • 1970: North Sea Oil discovered | • 1971: Decimal coins introduced | • 1972: "Bloody Sunday", 13 killed in Derry | • 1974: US President Nixon resigned | • 1976: Harold Wilson resigned as PM | • 1978: 1st "Test Tube" baby born | • 1979: Margaret Thatcher elected, UK's 1st woman PM |
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