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1950 in the United Kingdom
Events from the year 1950 in the United Kingdom
Incumbents
Events
26 January - India becomes a republic , severing all ties with the United Kingdom.[1] 24 February - Clement Attlee wins the general election , giving Labour a second term in government after their election triumph in 1945 .[2] 1 March - Klaus Fuchs convicted of supplying nuclear secrets to the Soviet Union .[3] 6 March –8 March - The 1950 World Figure Skating Championships are held in London .8 March - Carmaker Rover tests a revolutionary new turbine-powered concept car.[4] 12 March - 80 of the 83 people on board an Avro Tudor V aircraft are killed when it crashes at Llandow in Glamorgan, making it the world's worst air disaster for the time.13 May - First Grand Prix held at Silverstone .[5] 26 May - Motor fuel rationing comes to an end after 11 years, marking another phasing-out of rationing that was introduced as a result of the Second World War .[6] 7 June - pilot episode of the long-running radio series The Archers [7] 11 July - first broadcast of the popular BBC children's programme Andy Pandy [7] 31 July - Sainsbury's opens the first purpose-built supermarket , at Croydon .[8] 27 August - the BBC makes its first television broadcast from the European continent.[7] 29 August - 4,000 British troops are sent to Korea .[9] 8 September - 116 miners trapped underground in a landslide at Knockshinnoch Castle colliery at New Cumnock in Ayrshire , Scotland .[10] 9 September - Post-War soap rationing ends.[8] 26 October - The rebuilt House of Commons , following its destruction by bombing in World War II, is used for the first time.[7] 10 December
25 December - The Stone of Scone , the traditional coronation stone of Scottish monarchs , English monarchs and more recently British monarchs , was stolen from London 's Westminster Abbey by a group of four Scottish students.[7] 11 April 1951 .
Undated
Publications
Births
4 February - Pamela Franklin , actress13 February - Peter Gabriel , musician16 February - Peter Hain , politician19 February - Andy Powell , musician (Wishbone Ash )22 February - Julie Walters , actress27 March - Terry Yorath , footballer and football manager30 March - Robbie Coltrane , actor and comedian3 April - Sally Thomsett , actress22 April - Peter Frampton , musician1 May - Danny McGrain , footballer3 May - Mary Hopkin , singer11 May - Jeremy Paxman , television presented and author17 May - Alan Johnson , politician22 May - Bernie Taupin , songwriter22 May - Mary Tamm , actress1 June - Tom Robinson , singer and musician13 June - Nick Brown , politician14 June - Rowan Williams , Archbishop of Canterbury14 July - Bruce Oldfield , fashion designer18 July - Richard Branson , entrepreneur19 July - Simon Cadell , actor26 July - Susan George , actress30 July - Harriet Harman , politician15 August - Anne, Princess Royal 14 September - Paul Kossoff , guitarist (Free ) (died 1976 )21 September - Charles Clarke , politician6 December - Helen Liddell , politician
Deaths
References
^ "India becomes a republic", BBC On This Day ". Retrieved on 2008 -01-29 .^ "Labour wins slim majority", BBC On This Day ". Retrieved on 2008 -01-29 .^ "Communist spy jailed for 14 years", BBC On This Day ". Retrieved on 2008 -01-29 .^ "Gas turbine car gets road test", BBC News ". Retrieved on 2008 -01-06 .^ The Lost Decade Timeline, BBC ". Retrieved on 2008 -01-29 .^ "UK drivers cheer end of fuel rations", BBC On This Day ". Retrieved on 2008 -01-29 .^ a b c d e (2006) Penguin Pocket On This Day . Penguin Reference Library. ISBN 0-141-02715-0 .
^ a b Palmer, Alan & Veronica (1992). The Chronology of British History . London: Century Ltd, 401-402. ISBN 0-7126-5616-2 .
^ "British troops arrive in Korea", BBC On This Day ". Retrieved on 2008 -01-29 .^ "Miners trapped underground by landslide", BBC On This Day ". Retrieved on 2008 -01-29 .^ The Nobel Prize in Literature 1950 ". Retrieved on 2008 -01-29 .^ The Nobel Prize in Physics 1950 ". Retrieved on 2008 -01-29 .^ a b (1999) The Hutchinson Factfinder . Helicon. ISBN 1-85986-000-1 .
See also
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