King George 6th died and Queen Elizabeth 2nd became our monarch.
King George 6th died and Queen Elizabeth 2nd became our monarch.
I'm the following year, so can claim the Coronation in 1953, about a month before I was born.
NHS was set up.
Still is. June 51. Guy Burgess and Donald Maclean defect to the USSR. Also the Ealing comedy The Lavender Hill Mob is released.Wikipedia is very busy tonight.
As I'm an International Relations student, quite a few things in that respect happened.
Start of the Bosnian war.
Bill Clinton elected, Bush Snr throws up on the Prime Minister of Japan's lap.
The USSR decide to stop pointing their missiles at major Western cities, and the West stop pointing their missiles at Soviet cities.
Algerian civil war
White South Africans vote for political reform to enable multi-racial government.