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This is a timeline of British history, comprising important legal and territorial changes and political events in the United Kingdom and its predecessor states. To read about the background to these events, see History of England, History of Wales, History of Scotland, History of Ireland, Formation of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland and History of the United Kingdom
The UK's first nuclear bomb. 5 January – Prime Minister Winston Churchill arrives in the United States for an official visit and talks with President Harry S. Truman. [2]10 January – An Aer Lingus Douglas DC-3 aircraft on a London–Dublin flight crashes in Wales due to vertical draft in the mountains of Snowdonia, killing twenty passengers and the three crew.
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21 May – Penguin Books launches its Pelican Books sixpenny paperback non-fiction imprint with a 2-volume edition of Bernard Shaw's The Intelligent Woman's Guide to Socialism and Capitalism. [21] Agatha Christie's Hercule Poirot novels Dumb Witness and Death on the Nile. A. J. Cronin's medical novel The Citadel.
1 June – the UK takes over administration of Lebanon and Syria. 4 June – Churchill, in a broadcast election speech, claims that a future socialist government "would have to fall back on some form of Gestapo". 7 June – Benjamin Britten's opera Peter Grimes is first performed at Sadler's Wells Theatre in London with Peter Pears in the title ...
7 March – Frank Halford, aeronautical engineer (died 1955) 5 April – Chesney Allen, entertainer and singer (died 1982) 25 April – Billy Smart Sr., circus owner (died 1966) 2 May – Joseph Henry Woodger, theoretical biologist (died 1981) 4 May - Mary Louisa Avery , mother, grandmother and great grandmother (died 1988)
4 June – in South Africa, hunter Dick King rides into the British military base in Grahamstown to warn that Boers have besieged Durban. He had set out eleven days earlier. The British Army dispatches a relief force. 13 June Queen Victoria makes the first train journey by a reigning British monarch, on the Great Western Railway (Slough to ...
Events such as the Suez Crisis showed that the UK's status had fallen in the world. The 1950s and 1960s were, however, relatively prosperous times after the Second World War, and saw the beginning of a modernisation of the UK, with the construction of its first motorways for example, and also during the 1960s a great cultural movement began ...