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21 May – A tornado tracks across England from Wendover to Blakeney, Norfolk (68 miles (109 km)), the longest ever such track in Britain. [ 15 ] 26 May – Motor fuel rationing comes to an end after eleven years, marking another stage in the phasing-out of rationing that was introduced in the wake of World War II .
However, the BAA still had fans eager to see former college stars play. [19] From the beginning, the league aspired to be a major league. The league also differed from its rival, the NBL: the BAA played a 48-minute game instead of a 40-minute game, and allowed players to play until they committed six fouls as opposed to five.
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This article presents a timeline of events in the history of the United Kingdom from 1950 until 1969. For a narrative explaining the overall developments, see the related history of the British Isles. For narratives about this time period, see Post-war Britain (1945–1979), Social history of post-war Britain (1945–1979),
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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.
The United Kingdom 1970–1990 (New Oxford History of England) (2011) excerpt and text search; online major scholarly survey; Hennessy, Peter. Never Again! Britain, 1945–1951 (1994). Hennessy, Peter. Having It So Good: Britain in the 1950s (2008). Leventhal, Fred M., ed. Twentieth-century Britain: an encyclopedia (Peter Lang Pub Inc, 2002 ...
4 March – Tommy Taylor, 21-year-old centre forward, becomes Britain's most expensive footballer in a £29,999 transfer from Barnsley to Manchester United. [7] 16 March – Josip Tito, the leader of Yugoslavia visits the UK, the first Communist leader to do so. [8] 24 March