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| 1 | 1959 | - 3 Feb 1959—3 Feb 1959:
'The Day The Music Died' - plane crash kills Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens, and
The Big Bopper
- 17 Feb 1959—17 Feb 1959:
Vanguard 2 satellite launched - first to measure cloud-cover distribution
- 24 May 1959—24 May 1959:
Empire Day becomes Commonwealth Day
- Aug 1959—Aug 1959:
BMC Mini car launched
- 3 Oct 1959—3 Oct 1959:
Postcodes introduced in Britain
- 1 Nov 1959—1 Nov 1959:
First section of M1 motorway opened
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| 2 | 1960 | - 17 Mar 1960—17 Mar 1960:
New ?1 notes issued by Bank of England
- 18 Mar 1960—18 Mar 1960:
Last steam locomotive of British Railways named
- 21 Jul 1960—21 Jul 1960:
Francis Chichester arrives in New York aboard Gypsy Moth II (took 40 days),
winning the first single-handed transatlantic yacht race which he co-founded
- 12 Aug 1960—12 Aug 1960:
Echo I, the first (passive) communications satellite, launched
- 12 Sep 1960—12 Sep 1960:
MoT tests on motor vehicles introduced
- 1 Oct 1960—1 Oct 1960:
HMS 'Dreadnought' nuclear submarine launched
- 2 Nov 1960—2 Nov 1960:
Penguin Books found not guilty of obscenity in the 'Lady Chatterley's Lover' case
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