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Henrietta Emma Dold

Female 1875 - 1957  (82 years)

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   Date  Event(s)
1 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
2 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
3 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)
4 1954 
  • 1954—1954:
    First comprehensive school opens in London
  • 1954—1954:
    Routemaster bus starts operating in London
  • 1954—1954:
    First transistor radios sold
  • 6 May 1954—6 May 1954:
    First sub 4 minute mile (Roger Bannister, 3 mins 59.4 secs)
  • 3 Jul 1954—3 Jul 1954:
    Food rationing officially ends in Britain
  • 5 Jul 1954—5 Jul 1954:
    BBC broadcasts its first television news bulletin
  • 30 Sep 1954—30 Sep 1954:
    First atomic powered sumbmarine USS Nautilus commissioned
5 1955 
  • 1955—1955:
    'Mole' self-grip wrench patented by Thomas Coughtrie of Mole & Sons
  • 27 Jul 1955—27 Jul 1955:
    Jul 27: Allied occupation of Austria (after WW2) ends
  • 22 Sep 1955—22 Sep 1955:
    Commercial TV starts in Britain
6 1956 
  • 1956—1956:
    Britain constructs world's first large-scale nuclear power station in Cumberland
  • 1 Mar 1956—1 Mar 1956:
    Radiotelephony spelling alphabet introduced (Alpha, Bravo, etc)
  • 17 Apr 1956—17 Apr 1956:
    Premium Bonds first launched - first prizes drawn on 1 Jun 1957
  • 3 Jun 1956—3 Jun 1956:
    3rd class travel abolished on British Railways (renamed 'Third Class' as 'Second Class', which had been abolished in 1875 leaving just First and Third Class)
  • 31 Oct 1956—31 Oct 1956:
    Britain and France invade Suez
7 1957 
  • 1957—1957:
    Britain introduces parking meters
  • 1957—1957:
    Helvetica typeface developed (in Switzerland)
  • 1957—1957:
    SA - Sputnik
  • 11 Jan 1957—11 Jan 1957:
    Harold Macmillan becomes Prime Minister
  • 14 May 1957—14 May 1957:
    Post-Suez petrol rationing ends
  • 15 May 1957—15 May 1957:
    Britain explodes her first hydrogen bomb, at Christmas Island
  • 25 May 1957—25 May 1957:
    Treaty of Rome to create European Economic Community (EEC) of six countries: France, West Germany, Italy, Belgium, Holland and Luxembourg - became operational Jan 1958
  • 4 Dec 1957—4 Dec 1957:
    Lewisham rail disaster - 90 killed as two trains collide in thick fog and a viaduct collapses on top of them
  • 25 Dec 1957—25 Dec 1957:
    Queen's first Christmas TV broadcast
8 1958 
  • 1958—1958:
    Easter: First anti-nuclear protest march to Aldermaston (emergence of CND)
  • 1958—1958:
    Computers begin to be used in research, industry and commerce
  • 1958—1958:
    USA begins to produce Inter-Continental Ballistic Missiles (ICBMs)
  • 13 May 1958—13 May 1958:
    Velcro trade mark registered
  • 26 Jul 1958—26 Jul 1958:
    Prince Charles' Investiture as 'Prince of Wales'
  • 5 Dec 1958—5 Dec 1958:
    Inauguration of Subscriber Trunk Dialling (STD) in Britain (completed in 1979)
  • 5 Dec 1958—5 Dec 1958:
    Preston by-pass opens - UK's first stretch of motorway
9 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
10 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
11 1961 
  • 1961—1961:
    SA - South Africa becomes a republic and leaves the Commonwealth.
  • 1 Jan 1961—1 Jan 1961:
    Farthing ceases to be legal tender in UK
  • 13 Mar 1961—13 Mar 1961:
    Black & White ?5 notes cease to be legal tender
  • 14 Mar 1961—14 Mar 1961:
    New English Bible (New Testament) published
  • 1 May 1961—1 May 1961:
    Betting shops legal in Britain
12 1962 
  • 1962—1962:
    Britain passes Commonwealth Immigrants Act to control immigration
  • 1962—1962:
    Thalidomide withdrawn after it causes deformities in babies
  • 1962—1962:
    Britain and France agree to construct 'Concorde'
  • 25 May 1962—25 May 1962:
    Consecration of new Coventry Cathedral (old destroyed in WW2 blitz)
  • 15 Jun 1962—15 Jun 1962:
    First nuclear generated electricity to supplied National Grid (from Berkeley Glos)
  • Jul 1962—Jul 1962:
    First passenger-carrying hovercraft enters service, along the North Wales Coast from Moreton to Rhyl
  • 10 Jul 1962—10 Jul 1962:
    First TV transmission between US and Europe (Telstar) - first live broadcast on 23 Jul
  • 24 Oct 1962—24 Oct 1962:
    Cuba missile crisis - brink of nuclear war
13 1963 
  • 1963—1963:
    France vetoes Britain's entry into EEC
  • Jan 1963—Jan 1963:
    Cold weather forces cancellation of most football matches (only 4 English First Division matches in the month) - the first 'pools panel' created
  • 27 Mar 1963—27 Mar 1963:
    Beeching Report on British Railways (the 'Beeching Axe')
  • 1 Aug 1963—1 Aug 1963:
    Minimum prison age raised to 17
  • 8 Aug 1963—8 Aug 1963:
    'Great Train Robbery' on Glasgow to London mail train
  • 17 Sep 1963—17 Sep 1963:
    Fylingdales (Yorks) early warning system operational
  • 18 Nov 1963—18 Nov 1963:
    Dartford Tunnel opens
  • 23 Nov 1963—23 Nov 1963:
    First episode of 'Dr Who' on BBC TV

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