Home Search Login  
Print Bookmark

William Douglas Stanford Driver

Male 1946 - 1953  (6 years)


Chart width:      Refresh

Timeline

1946
1947
1949
1950
1952
1953
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8


 
 
 




   Date  Event(s)
1 1946 
  • 1946—1946:
    Transition to National Health Service starts in Britain (came into being 5th July 1948)
  • 1946—1946:
    Alistair Cooke starts his regular 'Letter from America' on BBC radio - until 2004
  • 1 Jan 1946—1 Jan 1946:
    First civillian flight from Heathrow Airport
  • 1 Mar 1946—1 Mar 1946:
    Bank of England nationalised
2 1947 
  • 1947—1947:
    Most severe winter in Britain for 53 years at start of the year - heavy snow and much flooding later
  • 1947—1947:
    First British nuclear reactor developed
  • 1 Jan 1947—1 Jan 1947:
    Coal Mines nationalised
  • 23 Feb 1947—23 Feb 1947:
    International Organization for Standardization (ISO) founded
  • 1 Mar 1947—1 Mar 1947:
    International Monetary Fund begins financial operations
  • 1 Apr 1947—1 Apr 1947:
    School leaving age raised to 15 in Britain
  • 26 Oct 1947—26 Oct 1947:
    British military occupation ends in Iraq
  • 20 Nov 1947—20 Nov 1947:
    Marriage of Princess Elizabeth (later Elizabeth II) and Philip Mountbatten in Westminster Abbey
3 1948 
  • 1948—1948:
    British Citizenship Act : all Commonwealth citizens qualify for British passports
  • 1948—1948:
    Transistor radio invented
  • 1948—1948:
    Long-playing record (LP) invented by Goldmark
  • 1948—1948:
    SA - Known as the beginning of apartheid era.
  • 1948—1948:
    SA - Nationalist Government come to power in SA
  • 1 Jan 1948—1 Jan 1948:
    British Railways nationalised
  • 5 Jul 1948—5 Jul 1948:
    National Health Service (NHS) begins in Britain
  • 29 Jul 1948—29 Jul 1948:
    London Olympics begin
4 1949 
  • 1949—1949:
    Maiden flight of the Bristol Brabazon (broken up in 1953 for scrap)
  • 1949—1949:
    De Haviland produces the Comet - first jet airliner
  • 15 Mar 1949—15 Mar 1949:
    Clothes rationing ends in Britain
  • 4 Apr 1949—4 Apr 1949:
    Twelve nations sign The North Atlantic Treaty creating NATO
5 1950 
  • 1950—1950:
    SA - Korean War
  • 19 May 1950—19 May 1950:
    Points rationing ends in Britain
  • 26 May 1950—26 May 1950:
    Petrol rationing ends in Britain
  • 11 Jul 1950—11 Jul 1950:
    'Andy Pandy' first seen on BBC TV
  • 9 Sep 1950—9 Sep 1950:
    Soap rationing ends in Britain
  • 28 Dec 1950—28 Dec 1950:
    The Peak District becomes the Britain's first National Park
6 1951 
  • 3 May 1951—3 May 1951:
    Festival of Britain and Royal Festival Hall open on South Bank, London
  • 28 May 1951—28 May 1951:
    First Goon Show broadcast
  • 20 Dec 1951—20 Dec 1951:
    Electricity first produced by nuclear power, from Experimental Breeder Reactor
7 1952 
  • 1952—1952:
    Contraceptive pill invented
  • 1952—1952:
    Britain explodes her first atomic bomb, in Australia
  • 1952—1952:
    Radioactive carbon used for dating prehistoric objects
  • 1952—1952:
    Bonn Convention: Britain, France and USA end their occupation of West Germany
  • 6 Feb 1952—6 Feb 1952:
    King George VI dies
  • 21 Feb 1952—21 Feb 1952:
    Identity Cards abolished in Britain
  • 2 May 1952—2 May 1952:
    First commercial jet airliner service launched, by BOACComet between London and Johannesburg
  • 5 Jul 1952—5 Jul 1952:
    Last tram runs in London (Woolwich to New Cross)
  • 16 Aug 1952—16 Aug 1952:
    Lynmouth (North Devon) flood disaster
  • 6 Sep 1952—6 Sep 1952:
    DH110 crashes at Farnborough Air Show, 26 killed
  • 3 Oct 1952—3 Oct 1952:
    End of tea rationing in Britain
  • 1 Nov 1952—1 Nov 1952:
    The first H-bomb ever ('Mike') was exploded by the USA - the mushroom cloud was 8 miles across and 27 miles high. The canopy was 100 miles wide. Radioactive mud fell out of the sky followed by heavy rain. 80 million tons of earth was vaporised.
  • 25 Nov 1952—25 Nov 1952:
    Agatha Christie's 'The Mousetrap' opens in London
  • 4 Dec 1952—4 Dec 1952:
    Great smog hits London
8 1953 
  • 31 Jan 1953—31 Jan 1953:
    Said to be the biggest civil catastrophe in Britain in the 20th century - severe storm and high tides caused the loss of hundreds of lives - - effects travelled from the west coast of Scotland round to the south-east coast of England [The Netherlands were even worse affected with over a thousand deaths]
  • 5 Feb 1953—5 Feb 1953:
    Sweet rationing ends in Britain
  • 5 Mar 1953—5 Mar 1953:
    Death of Stalin
  • 26 Mar 1953—26 Mar 1953:
    Jonas Salk announces his polio vaccine
  • 24 Apr 1953—24 Apr 1953:
    Winston Churchill knighted
  • 25 Apr 1953—25 Apr 1953:
    Francis Crick and James D Watson publish the double helix structure of DNA
  • 2 Jun 1953—2 Jun 1953:
    Coronation of Elizabeth II
  • 26 Sep 1953—26 Sep 1953:
    Sugar rationing ends in Britain (after nearly 14 years)

Please help towards my time and effort in maintaining this website. Every £, $, € and Rand helps!
Many Thanks, Paul

This site powered by The Next Generation of Genealogy Sitebuilding v. 14.0.4, written by Darrin Lythgoe © 2001-2024.

Maintained by Paul Tanner-Tremaine. | Data Protection Policy, Terms of Use and Disclaimers.