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Meanwhile, from 1945 to 1950, the Labour Party built a welfare state, nationalized many industries, and created the National Health Service. The UK took a strong stand against Communist expansion after 1945, playing a major role in the Cold War and the formation of NATO as an anti-Soviet military alliance with West Germany, France, the United ...
1795–96 & 1799–1804 or '05 — In 1795, Charles Bulfinch, the architect of Boston's famed State House first employed a temporary funicular railway with specially designed dumper cars to decapitate 'the Tremont's' Beacon Hill summit and begin the decades long land reclamation projects which created most of the real estate in Boston's lower elevations of today from broad mud flats, such as ...
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The three UK-wide political parties - Labour, Conservative and Liberal Democrats - campaigned together as part of the Better Together campaign while the pro-independence Scottish National Party was the main force in the Yes Scotland campaign, together with the Scottish Greens and the Scottish Socialist Party.
August 21–23: 1972 Republican National Convention is held in Miami Beach. 1973 December 15: SeaWorld Orlando opens. 1974: Big Cypress National Preserve became the first national preserve in the United States National Park System. 1975 January 3: Canaveral National Seashore established.
In the report were labelled a number of recommendations: the appointment of a minister to control all the insurance schemes; a standard weekly payment by people in work as a contribution to the insurance fund; old age pensions, maternity grants, funeral grants, pensions for widows and for people injured at work; a new national health service to ...
Queer Britain, the UK's first dedicated museum of LGBTQ history and culture opens in Kings Cross, London. The Royal Mint celebrates 50 years of pride in the UK by releasing a commemorative 50p coin, marking the first time Britain's LGBT+ community has been celebrated on a UK coin.
The history of the Zambia National Service (ZNS) evolves from a politically charged origin to a pivotal institution in Zambia's post-independence development and security. Established in 1963 by the United National Independence Party (UNIP) [ 8 ] as the Land Army, [ 12 ] it was intended as a military option in case independence negotiations failed.