Abt 1923 - 1925 (1 year)
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| 1 | 1923 | - 1923—1923:
Roads in Great Britain classified with A and B numbers
- 1923—1923:
Hubble shows there are galaxies beyond the Milky Way
- 1923—1923:
First American broadcasts heard in Britain
- 1923—1923:
SA - Platinum discovered in Waterberg district of Transvaal.
- 1 Jan 1923—1 Jan 1923:
The majority of the railway companies in Great Britain grouped into four main
companies, the Big Four: LNER, GWR, SR, LMSR - lasted until nationalisation in 1948
- 16 Feb 1923—16 Feb 1923:
Howard Carter unsealed the burial chamber of Tutankhamun
- 28 Apr 1923—28 Apr 1923:
First Wembley cup final (West Ham 0, Bolton 2) - 'I'm Forever Blowing Bubbles ' popular song of the time became the West Ham anthem
- 28 Sep 1923—28 Sep 1923:
First publication of Radio Times
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| 2 | 1924 | - 4 Jan 1924—4 Jan 1924:
First Labour government in Britain, headed by Ramsay MacDonald
- 5 Feb 1924—5 Feb 1924:
Hourly Greenwich Time Signals from the Royal Greenwich Observatory were
first broadcast by the BBC
- 31 Mar 1924—31 Mar 1924:
British Imperial Airways begins operations (formed by merger of four British
airline companies - became BOAC in 1940)
- 17 Jun 1924—1924:
SA - General elections in South Africa.
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| 3 | 1925 | - 1925—1925:
Britain returns to gold standard
- 1925—1925:
SA - South Africa reverts to gold standard. Afrikaans constituted an official language.
- 18 Jul 1925—18 Jul 1925:
Adolf Hitler publishes Mein Kampf
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