26 th January 1922 Norman Ellis Gregory born

26 th January 1922 : Norman Ellis Gregory born 18 th October 1922 : BBC Formed 4 th November 1922 : Carter Finds Tutankhamuns Tomb 14 th November 1922 : BBC begins Broadcasts 6 th December 1922 : Anglo-Irish treaty is signed 28 th April 1923 : 1 st Wembley FA Cup Final 22 nd January 1924 : Ramsay Mac. Donald becomes Britain's 1 st Labour PM 23 rd January 1924 : First Labour Government 23 rd April 1924 : First Broadcast by British Monarch 5 th July 1925 : Giant Hailstone Hits Plumstead 18 th July 1925 : Mein Kampf Published 5 th August 1925 : Plaid Cymru Formed 26 th September 1925 : Blackpool illuminations light up for 1 st time 1 st December 1925 : Locarno Treaty Signed 26 th January 1926 : John Logie Baird first demo of television 7 th March 1926 : First Two-Way Transatlantic Phone Call 1 st May 1926 : TUC meets to agree on a General Strike 3 rd May 1926 : The Great General Strike Begins 7 th August 1926 : Britains 1 st Grand Prix is held at Brooklands 14 th October 1926 : Winnie the Pooh Published

3 rd December 1926 : Agatha Christie vanishes 22 nd January 1927 : BBC Broadcasts 1 st live Football Commentary 4 th June 1927 : The First Ryder Cup 5 th November 1927 : 1 st traffic lights start to operate 26 th April 1928 : Tussauds Finally Reopens after Fire, 30 th September 1928 : The discovery of penicillin by Alexander Fleming 20 th December 1928 : Harry Ramsden opens 1 st Fish and Chip Shop 4 th February 1929 : First Green Belt land approved 16 th February 1929 : Heaviest British Snowfall 30 th September 1929 : BBC begins TV Transmissions 24 th October 1929 : Wall Street Crash 31 st December 1929 : Paisley Cinema Disaster 27 th January 1930 : Mick the Miller Wins his Second Greyhound Derby 1 st February 1930 : First Times Crossword 6 th April 1930 : Salt March Ends 5 th May 1930 : Amy Johnson begins her flight upon Gypsy Moth

14 th 23 rd 24 th 15 th April 1931 : The Highway code is published May 1931 : Whipsnade Zoo Opened August 1931 : Huxley Finishes Brave New World September 1931 : Invergordon Mutiny 12 th November 1931 : Elgar opens Abbey Road recording studios 1 st August 1932 : First Mars Bar Made 3 rd October 1932 : Iraq Gains Independence from Britain 19 th December 1932 : BBC World Service Begins 27 th February 1933 : Burning of the Reichstag 28 th August 1933 : First Radio Appeal for Help by Police 26 th March 1934 : Driving Tests and Speed Limit introduced 26 th May 1934 : First ever Glyndebourne 30 th June 1934 : Night of the Long Knives 16 th March 1935 : UK's 1 st Driving Test taken 19 th May 1935 : Lawrence of Arabia dies 30 th July 1935 : First Penguin Paperbacks 5 th March 1936 : Maiden flight of the Spitfire 29 th April 1936 : First TV Interview

6 th June 1936 : Gatwick Airport Opens 24 th July 1936 : Speaking Clock Introduced 3 rd August 1936 : Jesse Owens Wins Olympic Gold 4 th October 1936 : The Battle of Cable Street 5 th October 1936 : The Jarrow March begins 2 nd November 1936 : BBC Television begins broadcasting 30 th November 1936 : Crystal Palace destroyed by fire 10 th December 1936 : Edward VIII abdicates 14 th January 1937 : First UK Opinion Poll 12 th April 1937 : Whittle tests the 1 st Jet Engine 26 th April 1937 : Guernica Bombed 21 st. June 1937 : BBC’s First Wimbledon Broadcast 8 th July 1937 : First 999 Call 21 st September 1937 : Tolkien Publishes The Hobbit 1 st December 1937 : Sellotape Goes on Sale 11 th March 1938 : Anschluss 29 th September 1938 : Chamberlain & Hitler sign the Munich Agreement 30 th September 1938 : Chamberlain Proclaims Peace for our Time, 30 th October 1938 : War of the Worlds Broadcast Panic 1 st May 1939 : Sutton Hoo Dig Begins

3 rd September 1939 : Britain declares War on Germany - WWII begins 13 rd December 1939 : Battle of the River Plate 8 th January 1940 : Food Rationing Begins 10 th May 1940 : Winston Churchill becomes Prime Minister 13 rd May 1940 : Churchill forms Wartime Coalition Government 27 th May 1940 : Evacuation of Dunkirk begins 3 rd June 1940 : Evacuation of Dunkirk ends 30 th June 1940 : German Troops invade Channel Islands 10 th July 1940 : The Battle of Britain begins 23 rd August 1940 : LDV becomes Home Guard 7 th September 1940 : The Blitz begins 15 th September 1940 : Battle of Britain ends 14 th October 1940 : Balham Blitz Tube Disaster 31 st October 1940 : Official end of the Battle of Britain 14 th November 1940 : Coventry Blitz

29 th November 1940 : Bomb Kills 166 in Liverpool Air-Raid Shelter 12 th December 1940 : Marples Hotel Tragedy 29 th December 1940 : Worst night of The Blitz 12 th February 1941 : First Penicillin Patient 15 th April 1941 : The Belfast Blitz 9 th May 1941 : Enigma Machine Captured 10 th May 1941 : Rudolf Hess lands in Scotland 15 th August 1941 : Last Execution in The Tower 31 st October 1941 : Huddersfield Factory Fire 13 rd November 1941 : Ark Royal Torpedoed 7 th December 1941 : Pearl Harbour 15 th February 1942 : Singapore Surrenders 23 rd October 1942 : Battle of El Alamein 27 th November 1942 : Train Downs Nazi Plane 2 nd March 1943 : Bethnal Green Tube Disaster 16 th May 1943 : Dambusters Raid 24 th March 1944 : The Real Great Escape 6 th June 1944 : D-Day Landings 13 rd June 1944 : First V 1 Rocket hits London 23 rd August 1944 : Freckleton Tragedy

8 th September 1944 : First German V 2 rocket lands on London 17 th September 1944 : Operation Market Garden - Allied invasion of Holland 12 th November 1944 : Tirpitz Sunk 16 th December 1944 : Battle of the Bulge Begins 4 th February 1945 : The Yalta Conference 14 th February 1945 : Dresden Firestorm 27 th March 1945 : Last V 2 rocket lands 30 th April 1945 : Hitler’s Suicide 7 th May 1945 : Nazi Germany surrenders - VE Day 9 th May 1945 : Channel Islands liberated 16 th July 1945 : First Atomic Explosion 6 th August 1945 : Hiroshima 17 th August 1945 : Animal Farm Published 2 nd September 1945 : Japan Signs Surrender 19 th September 1945 : 'Lord Haw-Haw' sentenced to death 30 th September 1945 : Bourne End Rail Crash 24 th October 1945 : Formation of UN 20 th November 1945 : Nuremberg Trials begin 3 rd January 1946 : 'Lord Haw-Haw' hanged 1 st March 1946 : Bank of England Nationalised 2 nd April 1946 : Founding of Sandhurst Royal Military Academy 22 nd July 1946 : King David Hotel Bombing 11 th November 1946 : Britains 1 st New Town - Stevenage 5 th June 1947 : Marshall Aid Launched 9 th July 1947 : Engagement of Queen Elizabeth

24 th August 1947 : First Edinburgh International Festival 12 th January 1948 : First British Supermarket Opens 28 th February 1948 : Last British Soldiers leave India 14 th May 1948 : Birth of Israel 21 st June 1948 : World’s 1 st Computer Program Runs in Manchester 22 nd June 1948 : SS Empire Windrush Docks at Tilbury 1 st July 1948 : Oxfam Opens its First Charity Shop 5 th July 1948 : National Health Service established

28 th July 1948 : The Battle of London Airport 29 th July 1948 : Opening Ceremony of 1948 London Olympics 12 th October 1948 : 1 st Morris Minor Built 4 th April 1949 : Foundation of NATO 18 th April 1949 : Republic of Ireland established 5 th June 1949 : Noddy’s First Appearance 8 th June 1949 : 1984 Published 29 th July 1949 : First Regular TV Weather Forecasts 3 rd February 1950 : Klaus Fuchs arrested 22 nd September 1950 : First Non-Stop Transatlantic Jet Flight 16 th October 1950 : The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe Published 17 th April 1951 : Peak District is designated Britain's first national park 24 th April 1951 : Glorious Glosters Stand at Imjin River

3 rd May 1951 : The Festival of Britain opens 22 nd May 1951 : Burgess and Maclean Defect 26 th October 1951 : Churchill becomes PM again 31 st October 1951 : Zebra Crossing Introduced 20 th November 1951 : Snowdonia designated a National Park 6 th February 1952 : King George VI dies - Elizabeth II becomes Queen 26 th February 1952 : Churchill Announces British Atom Bomb 15 th August 1952 : Lynmouth Floods Kill 34 6 th September 1952 : Farnborough Air Show Disaster 23 rd September 1952 : Chaplin Returns to England 2 nd October 1952 : Britain tests first Nuclear Bomb 8 th October 1952 : Harrow Rail crash 14 th November 1952 : NME Publishes First UK Singles Chart 14 th November 1952 : First British Record Chart Published 25 th November 1952 : The 'Mousetrap' opens

5 th December 1952 : Start of the Great Smog 28 th January 1953 : Derek Bentley Hanged 1 st February 1953 : East Coast floods kill hundreds 25 th April 1953 : Crick and Watson discover DNA 29 th May 1953 : Hillary climbs Everest 2 nd June 1953 : Coronation of Queen Elizabeth II 11 th November 1953 : First edition of Panorama 17 th November 1953 : Channel Collision Kills 20 6 th May 1954 : Roger Bannister runs the four minute mile 21 st July 1954 : Lord of the Rings Published 17 th September 1954 : Lord of the Flies Published

13 rd July 1955 : Ruth Ellis last woman to be hanged in Britain 16 th July 1955 : Stirling Moss is first Englishman to win the British Grand Prix 18 th July 1955 : Great Martinstown Downpour 22 nd September 1955 : Launch of ITV 23 rd September 1955 : 1 st British woman News reader 26 th September 1955 : 1 st Birds Eye Fishfingers go on Sale 17 th October 1956 : World’s First Fully Commercial Nuclear Power Plant Opened 29 th October 1956 : Suez Conflict Begins 1 st November 1956 : Premium Bonds go on Sale

6 th March 1957 : Ghana Gains Independence 1 st April 1957 : Panorama Spaghetti Hoax 15 th May 1957 : Britain tests H-Bomb 6 th July 1957 : Lennon and Mc. Cartney First Meet 4 th September 1957 : Wolfenden Report - homosexuality decriminalised 4 th October 1957 : Sputnik Launched 10 th October 1957 : Windscale Reactor Fire 4 th December 1957 : Lewisham Train Crash Kills 90 6 th February 1958 : Munich Air Crash 17 th March 1958 : CND’s Inaugural Public Meeting 23 rd June 1958 : End of coal rationing announced 10 th July 1958 : Launch of the Parking Meter 13 rd October 1958 : Paddington Bear is Published 16 th October 1958 : First Edition of Blue Peter

21 st October 1958 : First Women Peers Enter Lords 10 th November 1958 : Donald Campbell breaks water speed record 9 th July 1959 : Supercell Storm over Wokingham 28 th July 1959 : Postcodes Introduced 7 th October 1959 : Southend Pier Fire Traps 300 2 nd November 1959 : M 1 Opens 28 th March 1960 : Fire Claims 19 Glasgow Firefighters 19 th September 1960 : First Traffic Wardens in London 21 st October 1960 : 1 st British Nuclear Powered Sub launched

2 nd November 1960 : Penguin Wins Lady Chatterley Case 9 th December 1960 : 1 st episode of Coronation St screened 12 th April 1961 : First Man in Space – Russian Yuri Gagarin 1 st May 1961 : Betting Shops Legal 9 th November 1961 : Brian Epstein Meets The Beatles 4 th December 1961 : The Pill is introduced 24 th January 1962 : Beatles Sign for Epstein 2 nd April 1962 : Panda Crossing Launched 6 th June 1962 : Beatles audition for George Martin 12 th July 1962 : Debut of the Rolling Stones 4 th October 1962 : Beatles release 1 st single 5 th June 1963 : John Profumo resigns August 1963 : Great Train Robbery August 1963 : Martin Luther King Has a Dream November 1963 : Assassination of President Kennedy

8 th August 1963 : Great Train Robbery -2. 6 million stolen 28 th August 1963 : Martin Luther King Has a Dream 22 nd November 1963 : Assassination of President Kennedy 23 rd November 1963 : First Episode of Doctor Who 7 th February 1964 : The Beatles arrive in America 20 th April 1964 : Launch of BBC 2 18 th May 1964 : Mods and Rockers Battle 13 rd August 1964 : Last Executions in Britain 22 nd August 1964 : First Edition of Match of the Day 4 th September 1964 : Forth Road Bridge Opened 12 th September 1964 : Charlie and the Chocolate Factory Published 15 th September 1964 : 1 st Edition of the Sun