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Beryl Brown

Female 1922 - 1927  (5 years)

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   Date  Event(s)
1 1922 
  • 1922—1922:
    Law of Property Act - the manorial system effectively ended
  • 1 Jun 1922—1 Jun 1922:
    Royal Ulster Constabulary founded
  • Oct 1922—Oct 1922:
    BBC established as a monopoly, and begins transmissions in November (2LO in London on 14 Nov; 5IT in Birmingham and 2ZY in Manchester on 15 Nov)
  • 4 Oct 1922—1922:
    SA - Inauguration of Witwatersrand University.
2 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
3 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.
4 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
5 1926 
  • 1926—1926:
    First public demonstration of television (TV) by John Logie Baird
  • 1926—1926:
    Adoption of children is legalised in Britain
  • 1926—1926:
    Kodak produces 16mm movie film
  • 1926—1926:
    Walt Disney arrives in Hollywood
  • 21 Apr 1926—21 Apr 1926:
    Princess Elizabeth born
  • 3 May 1926—3 May 1926:
    General Strike begins. Lasts until May 12 (mine workers for 6 months more)
  • 31 Oct 1926—31 Oct 1926:
    Death of Harry Houdini
6 1927 
  • 1927—1927:
    Release of the first 'talkie' film (The Jazz Singer)
  • 7 Jan 1927—7 Jan 1927:
    First transatlantic telephone call - New York City to London
  • 22 Jan 1927—22 Jan 1927:
    First football broadcast by BBC (Arsenal v Sheffield United at Highbury)
  • 1 May 1927—1 May 1927:
    First cooked meals on a scheduled flight introduced by Imperial Airways from London to Paris
  • 20 May 1927—20 May 1927:
    Lindbergh makes solo flight across the Atlantic, in 33? hours
  • 31 May 1927—31 May 1927:
    Last Ford Model T rolls off assembly line
  • 24 Jul 1927—24 Jul 1927:
    The Menin Gate war memorial unveiled at Ypres

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