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1949 in the United Kingdom
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Events from the year 1949 in the United Kingdom .
Incumbents
Events
January - a national sex survey is carried out into the sexual behaviour of 4,000 Britons.[1] The results were considered outrageous and suppressed for over 50 years.[2]
4 January - RMS Caronia of the Cunard Line departs Southampton for New York on her maiden voyage.
15 March - Post-War rationing of clothes ends.[3]
25 March - Laurence Olivier 's film Hamlet becomes the first British film to win an Oscar .[4]
4 April - Britain signs the North Atlantic Treaty , creating NATO.[3]
20 April
May - EDSAC , the first stored-program computer, begins operation at University of Cambridge .
24 April - Wartime rationing of sweets and chocolate ends, but is re-instituted shortly thereafter as shortages return.[4]
1 May - the gas industry is nationalised.[4]
8 June - George Orwell 's book Nineteen Eighty-Four is published.
7 June to 25 June - Dock strike forces the government to use troops to unload goods.[3]
27 July - maiden flight of the British-built de Havilland Comet , the world's first passenger jet, at Hatfield, Hertfordshire .[3]
31 July - Captain Kerans of the HMS Amethyst decides to make a break after nightfall under heavy fire from the Chinese People's Liberation Army both sides of the Yangtze River and successfully rejoins the fleet at Woosung the next day.
2 September - release of the film The Third Man with screenplay by Graham Greene . The film wins 1949 Grand Prix at the Cannes Film Festival .
19 September - the pound devalued by 30% against the United States dollar .[1]
21 September - the first comprehensive school is opened in Holyhead , Anglesey .[4]
30 September - The Berlin Airlift comes to an end, during which 17 American and 7 British planes had crashed delivering supplies to Soviet blockaded Berlin .[4]
12 October - John Boyd Orr, 1st Baron Boyd-Orr wins the Nobel Peace Prize .[5]
16 December - Parliament Act given royal assent; cuts the House of Lords veto to one year.[3]
Undated
Publications
Births
19 January - Robert Palmer , singer (died 2003 )
29 January - Andrew Carter , middle distance runner
16 February - Lyn Paul , singer
2 March - J. P. R. Williams , rugby player
6 March - Martin Buchan , footballer
3 April - Richard Thompson , musician and songwriter
2 May - Alan Titchmarsh , television presenter
13 May - Zoë Wanamaker , actress
18 May - Rick Wakeman , musician and songwriter (Yes )
2 June - Heather Couper , astronomer
4 May - Graham Swift , novelist
14 June - Jimmy Lea , musician (Slade )
21 June - John Agard , writer
15 July - Trevor Horn , singer and producer
26 July - Roger Taylor , musician (Queen )
6 August - Alan Campbell , clergyman
12 August - Mark Knopfler , guitarist {Dire Straits )
15 August - Richard Deacon , sculptor
25 August - Martin Amis , novelist
9 September - John Curry , figure skater (died 1994 )
18 September
19 September - Twiggy , model
14 October - Katy Manning , actress
6 November - Nigel Havers , actor
24 November - Nicholas Richard Ainger , politician
12 December - Bill Nighy , actor
13 December - Robert Lindsay , actor
17 December - Paul Rodgers , singer (Free )
Deaths
References
See also
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