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Year
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Hint
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Answer
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1999
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Forming the new national sports stadium for Wales, this venue opens in Cardiff.
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Millennium Stadium
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1998
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This iconic statue by Antony Gormley, near the A1 road in Gateshead, is completed.
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Angel of the North
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1997
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Scientists in Edinburgh announce the birth of a cloned sheep with this name.
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Dolly
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1996
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Matthew Pinsent and Steve Redgrave win Britain's only gold medal at the Summer Olympics in Atlanta, competing in this sport.
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Rowing
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1995
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'Rogue trader' Nick Leeson is jailed in Singapore for fraud related to the financial collapse of this London based Merchant Bank.
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Barings
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1994
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Europe's first inverted roller coaster, Nemesis, opens at this Staffordshire theme park.
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Alton Towers
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1993
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This author dies, having become best known for his novel 'Lord of the Flies'.
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William Golding
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1992
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This publication, Britain's oldest satirical magazine, finishes after over 150 years.
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Punch
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1991
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This singer dies, soon after announcing that he is suffering from AIDS.
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Freddie Mercury
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1990
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Rowan Atkinson performs the TV debut of this comedy character.
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Mr Bean
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1989
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Golfer Nick Faldo becomes the first English winner of this prestigious competition.
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US Masters
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1988
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Panam flight 103 crashes on this Scottish town killing 270 people.
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Lockerbie
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1987
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Christie's sells an example of this Vincent van Gogh painting for £24,750,000.
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Sunflowers
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1986
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These islands in the Outer Hebrides become Scotland's first World Heritage Site.
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St. Kilda
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1985
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This popular TV soap is launched on BBC1.
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Eastenders
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1984
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A major fire in the roof of this large cathedral causes extensive damage.
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York Minster
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1983
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Use of this safety device becomes mandatory for drivers and front seat passengers.
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Seatbelt
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1982
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Britain goes to war against Argentina to recapture these islands in the South Atlantic.
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Falkland Islands
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1981
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This person takes the title of Princess of Wales after marrying Prince Charles.
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Diana Spencer
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1980
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This pirate radio station ceases transmission when the ship on which it is based runs aground and sinks off the Thames Estuary.
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Radio Caroline
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1979
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A Force 10 storm in the Irish Sea hits this major biennual yacht race, killing 15 and causing 24 boats to be abandoned, of which five were sunk.
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Fastnet
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1978
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The first delivery of this liquid comes ashore in Shetland via the Brent pipeline.
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North Sea oil
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1977
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This English tennis player wins the Women's Singles title at Wimbledon.
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Virginia Wade
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1976
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These confrontations over fishing rights between Britain and Iceland come to an end.
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Cod Wars
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1975
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Brian Clough is appointed manager of this struggling Second Division football team and leads them to great sucess over the next 18 years.
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Nottingham Forest
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1974
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Welsh man Ray Reardon wins his third World Championship title in this sport.
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Snooker
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1973
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Robert Watson-Watt, a pioneer of this technology dies in Inverness at the age of 81.
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Radar
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1972
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This credit card brand is launched to compete with the established Barclaycard.
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Access
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1971
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The BBC begins broadcasts for this distance learning educational establishment.
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Open University
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1970
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The 120-year-old Britannia Bridge over this North Wales waterway is destroyed by fire.
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Menai Strait
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1969
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Best known for this book, the naturalist Gavin Maxwell dies at the age of 55.
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Ring of Bright Water
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1968
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On the run for killing Martin Luther King Jnr., this person is arrested at Heathrow Airport.
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James Earl Ray
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1967
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The giant QE2 ocean liner is launched at John Brown & Company's yard on this river.
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Clyde
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1966
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This football player scores a hat trick to help England win the World Cup final.
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Geoff Hurst
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1965
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This film is released - the fourth in the James Bond series.
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Thunderball
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1964
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This popular weekly music programme airs on BBC TV for the first time.
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Top of the Pops
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1963
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This group tops the singles chart for the first time with 'From Me to You'.
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The Beatles
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1962
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A new cathedral is consecrated in this Midlands city to replace the one destroyed in WW2.
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Coventry
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1961
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This coin, used since the thirteenth century, ceases to be legal tender in Britain.
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Farthing
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1960
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This Rock and Roll icon stops off at Glasgow Prestwick Airport after doing military service in West Germany, the only time he ever visited the UK.
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Elvis Presley
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1959
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This Mediterranean country becomes independent from the UK.
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Cyprus
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1958
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Britain's first motorway opens, bypassing this town in the north-west of England.
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Preston
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1957
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This musical venue opens in Liverpool as a jazz club.
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Cavern Club
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1956
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Devon Loch, ridden by Dick Francis, slips and falls within 40 yards of 'certain' victory
in this prestigious horse race.
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Grand National
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1955
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This book of extremes is published for the first time.
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Guinness Book of Records
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1954
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This person becomes the first person to break the four-minute mile.
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Roger Bannister
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1953
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This former wartime leader wins the Nobel Prize for Literature.
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Winston Churchill
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1952
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Following the death of George VI this person becomes Monarch.
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Elizabeth II
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1951
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This celebration is staged to lift spirits and sustain post-war confidence.
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Festival of Britain
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1950
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The first book is published in a series chronicling the tales of this magical land.
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Narnia
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1949
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This Act comes into effect which requires men aged 18–26 in England, Scotland and Wales to serve full-time in the armed forces for 18 months during peacetime.
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National Service
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1948
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Stoke Mandeville Games are held for the first time, the predecessor of this 4 yearly event.
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Paralympic Games
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1947
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The film 'Hue and Cry' is released by this London studio, the first in a series of comedies.
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Ealing
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1946
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BBC radio begins broadcasting this long running topical series by Alistair Cooke.
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Letter from America
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1945
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On 8th May this celebration marks the formal surrender of Nazi Germany.
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VE Day
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1944
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The first attack by this German rocket powered missile is launched against London.
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V-2
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1943
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This future Doctor Who actor is born in Dunoon, Argyll and Bute.
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Sylvester McCoy
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1942
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The city of Bath is blitzed, one of a number of German air raids named for this series of tourist guide books which were used to identify targets for bombing.
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Baedeker
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1941
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This leading Nazi party member parachutes into Scotland claiming to be on a peace mission.
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Rudolf Hess
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1940
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Operation Dynamo saw over 330,000 allied troops evacuated from this French coastal town.
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Dunkirk
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1939
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The first of these cheap shelters, issued to householders as protection against air-raids, is built in a garden in Islington in preparation for the expected war.
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Anderson shelter
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1938
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This Prime Minister returns from Munich declaring he's achieved “Peace for our time”.
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Neville Chamberlain
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1937
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The first issue of this children's comic is published by D.C. Thomson of Dundee.
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The Dandy
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1936
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The paper, 'On Computable Numbers', is formally presented by this mathematician.
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Alan Turing
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1935
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This future portrayer of nanny Mary Poppins is born in Surrey.
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Julie Andrews
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1934
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The 'surgeon's photograph' of this mysterious creature is published in the Daily Mail.
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Loch Ness Monster
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1933
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Two British aircraft make the first ever flight over this mountain.
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Mount Everest
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1932
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This dystopian novel by Aldous Huxley is first published.
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Brave New World
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1931
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This guidance and set of rules for road users is published for the first time.
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Highway Code
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1930
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This person becomes the first woman to fly solo from England to Australia.
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Amy Johnson
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1929
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This period of national economic downturn begins in Britain.
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Great Depression
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1928
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The first full version of this language resource is published in 10 bound volumes.
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Oxford English Dictionary
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1927
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At Pendine Sands in Wales this driver sets a world land speed record of 174.88 mph.
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Malcolm Campbell
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1926
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This bear makes his public debut in a book by A.A. Milne.
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Winnie the Pooh
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1925
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This Luton carmaker is purchased by General Motors but retains its identity.
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Vauxhall
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1924
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The Meteorological Office issues its first "Weather Shipping" radio broadcast as an aid to sailors. It later became known by this name and is still transmitted to this day.
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Shipping Forecast
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1923
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A shake up of the organisation of this mode of transportation, sees the grouping of many small companies into four major ones.
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Railways
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1922
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This Scottish born inventor of the telephone dies in Nova Scotia.
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Alexander Graham Bell
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1921
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This explorer sets sail on his last expedition to Antarctica.
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Ernest Shackleton
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1920
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This author, whose novels feature the protagonist Lord Peter Wimsey, is one of the first women to be awarded a degree at the University of Oxford.
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Dorothy L. Sayers
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1919
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After WW1 the captured German fleet is scuttled in this bay in the Orkney Islands.
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Scapa Flow
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1918
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The Royal Flying Corps and Royal Naval Air Service combine to form this military unit.
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Royal Air Force
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1917
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The last major raid on Britain by this type of airship occurs during October when eleven are launched against the country.
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Zeppelin
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1916
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This Liberal politician forms a coalition government and becomes Prime Minister.
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David Lloyd George
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1915
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This novel by John Buchan first appears in print. Featuring the adventuring hero Richard Hannay, it is later made into numerous radio and film adaptations.
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The Thirty-Nine Steps
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1914
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This large seaplane carrier is commissioned, the second ship to carry this famous name.
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HMS Ark Royal
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1913
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This suffragette dies after a lifetime of fighting for votes for women.
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Emily Davison
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1912
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Britain's first national strike by this group of workers begins in February.
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Coal miners
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1911
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This iconic liner is launched in a Belfast shipyard.
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RMS Titanic
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1910
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Captain Robert Falcon Scott sets off from Cardiff on a fateful voyage to this distant place.
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Antarctica
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1909
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F.W. Woolworth & Co. opens its first UK high street store in this northern city.
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Liverpool
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1908
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London holds this sporting competition for the first time.
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Olympic Games
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1907
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Robert Baden-Powell leads the first camp on Brownsea Island for this youth movement.
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Scouting
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1906
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The first section of this line opens from Baker Street station on the London Underground system.
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Bakerloo
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1905
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This Birmingham based football team beat Newcastle United, 2-0, in the F.A. Cup Final.
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Aston Villa
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1904
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Two men meet for the first time in Manchester and go on to agree production of this
luxury motor car brand.
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Rolls-Royce
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1903
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This future comedian, actor, singer and dancer is born in London. He went on to be an
American icon and lived to be 100.
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Bob Hope
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1902
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Newton Heath Football Club changes its identity to this prestigious name.
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Manchester United
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1901
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This long-serving Monarch dies after a reign of over 63 years.
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Queen Victoria
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1900
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This political party is formed, with Ramsay MacDonald as its first secretary.
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Labour Party
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