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Historical Events of the 1920s to 1940s: A Timeline of Significant Moments

Explore the remarkable events from the 1920s to 1940s, including key dates like the formation of the BBC, discovery of Tutankhamun's tomb, establishment of important treaties, and iconic milestones in technology, literature, and world history.

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Historical Events of the 1920s to 1940s: A Timeline of Significant Moments

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  1. 26th January 1922 : Norman Ellis Gregory born 18th October 1922 : BBC Formed4th November 1922 : Carter Finds Tutankhamuns Tomb14th November 1922 : BBC begins Broadcasts6th December 1922 : Anglo-Irish treaty is signed28th April 1923 : 1st Wembley FA Cup Final22nd January 1924 : Ramsay MacDonald becomes Britain's 1st Labour PM 23rd January 1924 : First Labour Government23rd April 1924 : First Broadcast by British Monarch5th July 1925 : Giant Hailstone Hits Plumstead18th July 1925 : Mein Kampf Published5th August 1925 : Plaid Cymru Formed 26th September 1925 : Blackpool illuminations light up for 1st time1st December 1925 : Locarno Treaty Signed26th January 1926 : John Logie Baird first demo of television 7th March 1926 : First Two-Way Transatlantic Phone Call1st May 1926 : TUC meets to agree on a General Strike3rd May 1926 : The Great General Strike Begins7th August 1926 : Britains 1st Grand Prix is held at Brooklands 14th October 1926 : Winnie the Pooh Published

  2. 3rd December 1926 : Agatha Christie vanishes22nd January 1927 : BBC Broadcasts 1st live Football Commentary4th June 1927 : The First Ryder Cup5th November 1927 : 1st traffic lights start to operate26th April 1928 : Tussauds Finally Reopens after Fire, 30th September 1928 : The discovery of penicillin by Alexander Fleming 20th December 1928 : Harry Ramsden opens 1st Fish and Chip Shop 4th February 1929 : First Green Belt land approved16th February 1929 : Heaviest British Snowfall30th September 1929 : BBC begins TV Transmissions 24th October 1929 : Wall Street Crash 31st December 1929 : Paisley Cinema Disaster27th January 1930 : Mick the Miller Wins his Second Greyhound Derby 1st February 1930 : First Times Crossword 6th April 1930 : Salt March Ends 5th May 1930 : Amy Johnson begins her flight upon Gypsy Moth

  3. 14th April 1931 : The Highway code is published23rd May 1931 : Whipsnade Zoo Opened24th August 1931 : Huxley Finishes Brave New World15th September 1931 : Invergordon Mutiny 12th November 1931 : Elgar opens Abbey Road recording studios1st August 1932 : First Mars Bar Made 3rd October 1932 : Iraq Gains Independence from Britain19th December 1932 : BBC World Service Begins27th February 1933 : Burning of the Reichstag28th August 1933 : First Radio Appeal for Help by Police 26th March 1934 : Driving Tests and Speed Limit introduced26th May 1934 : First ever Glyndebourne30th June 1934 : Night of the Long Knives16th March 1935 : UK's 1st Driving Test taken19th May 1935 : Lawrence of Arabia dies30th July 1935 : First Penguin Paperbacks5th March 1936 : Maiden flight of the Spitfire29th April 1936 : First TV Interview

  4. 6th June 1936 : Gatwick Airport Opens24th July 1936 : Speaking Clock Introduced3rd August 1936 : Jesse Owens Wins Olympic Gold4th October 1936 : The Battle of Cable Street5th October 1936 : The Jarrow March begins2nd November 1936 : BBC Television begins broadcasting 30th November 1936 : Crystal Palace destroyed by fire 10th December 1936 : Edward VIII abdicates 14th January 1937 : First UK Opinion Poll 12th April 1937 : Whittle tests the 1st Jet Engine26th April 1937 : Guernica Bombed 21stJune 1937 : BBC’s First Wimbledon Broadcast8th July 1937 : First 999 Call21st September 1937 : Tolkien Publishes The Hobbit1st December 1937 : Sellotape Goes on Sale 11th March 1938 : Anschluss29th September 1938 : Chamberlain & Hitler sign the Munich Agreement30th September 1938 : Chamberlain Proclaims Peace for our Time, 30th October 1938 : War of the Worlds Broadcast Panic1st May 1939 : Sutton Hoo Dig Begins

  5. 3rd September 1939 : Britain declares War on Germany - WWII begins13rd December 1939 : Battle of the River Plate8th January 1940 : Food Rationing Begins 10th May 1940 : Winston Churchill becomes Prime Minister13rd May 1940 : Churchill forms Wartime Coalition Government 27th May 1940 : Evacuation of Dunkirk begins3rd June 1940 : Evacuation of Dunkirk ends 30th June 1940 : German Troops invade Channel Islands10th July 1940 : The Battle of Britain begins23rd August 1940 : LDV becomes Home Guard7th September 1940 : The Blitz begins15th September 1940 : Battle of Britain ends 14th October 1940 : Balham Blitz Tube Disaster31st October 1940 : Official end of the Battle of Britain 14th November 1940 : Coventry Blitz

  6. 29th November 1940 : Bomb Kills 166 in Liverpool Air-Raid Shelter12th December 1940 : Marples Hotel Tragedy29th December 1940 : Worst night of The Blitz12th February 1941 : First Penicillin Patient15th April 1941 : The Belfast Blitz9th May 1941 : Enigma Machine Captured10th May 1941 : Rudolf Hess lands in Scotland 15th August 1941 : Last Execution in The Tower31st October 1941 : Huddersfield Factory Fire13rd November 1941 : Ark Royal Torpedoed7th December 1941 : Pearl Harbour 15th February 1942 : Singapore Surrenders23rd October 1942 : Battle of El Alamein 27th November 1942 : Train Downs Nazi Plane2nd March 1943 : Bethnal Green Tube Disaster16th May 1943 : Dambusters Raid 24th March 1944 : The Real Great Escape6th June 1944 : D-Day Landings13rd June 1944 : First V1 Rocket hits London23rd August 1944 : Freckleton Tragedy

  7. 8th September 1944 : First German V2 rocket lands on London17th September 1944 : Operation Market Garden - Allied invasion of Holland12th November 1944 : Tirpitz Sunk16th December 1944 : Battle of the Bulge Begins4th February 1945 : The Yalta Conference14th February 1945 : Dresden Firestorm27th March 1945 : Last V2 rocket lands30th April 1945 : Hitler’s Suicide 7th May 1945 : Nazi Germany surrenders - VE Day 9th May 1945 : Channel Islands liberated16th July 1945 : First Atomic Explosion6th August 1945 : Hiroshima17th August 1945 : Animal Farm Published2nd September 1945 : Japan Signs Surrender 19th September 1945 : 'Lord Haw-Haw' sentenced to death30th September 1945 : Bourne End Rail Crash24th October 1945 : Formation of UN20th November 1945 : Nuremberg Trials begin3rd January 1946 : 'Lord Haw-Haw' hanged1st March 1946 : Bank of England Nationalised 2nd April 1946 : Founding of Sandhurst Royal Military Academy22nd July 1946 : King David Hotel Bombing11th November 1946 : Britains 1st New Town - Stevenage 5th June 1947 : Marshall Aid Launched9th July 1947 : Engagement of Queen Elizabeth

  8. 24th August 1947 : First Edinburgh International Festival12th January 1948 : First British Supermarket Opens 28th February 1948 : Last British Soldiers leave India 14th May 1948 : Birth of Israel 21st June 1948 : World’s 1st Computer Program Runs in Manchester22nd June 1948 : SS Empire Windrush Docks at Tilbury1st July 1948 : Oxfam Opens its First Charity Shop 5th July 1948 : National Health Service established

  9. 28th July 1948 : The Battle of London Airport 29th July 1948 : Opening Ceremony of 1948 London Olympics12th October 1948 : 1st Morris Minor Built 4th April 1949 : Foundation of NATO 18th April 1949 : Republic of Ireland established 5th June 1949 : Noddy’s First Appearance 8th June 1949 : 1984 Published 29th July 1949 : First Regular TV Weather Forecasts 3rd February 1950 : Klaus Fuchs arrested 22nd September 1950 : First Non-Stop Transatlantic Jet Flight 16th October 1950 : The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe Published17th April 1951 : Peak District is designated Britain's first national park24th April 1951 : Glorious Glosters Stand at Imjin River

  10. 3rd May 1951 : The Festival of Britain opens 22nd May 1951 : Burgess and Maclean Defect26th October 1951 : Churchill becomes PM again31st October 1951 : Zebra Crossing Introduced 20th November 1951 : Snowdonia designated a National Park 6th February 1952 : King George VI dies - Elizabeth II becomes Queen 26th February 1952 : Churchill Announces British Atom Bomb15th August 1952 : Lynmouth Floods Kill 346th September 1952 : Farnborough Air Show Disaster23rd September 1952 : Chaplin Returns to England 2nd October 1952 : Britain tests first Nuclear Bomb8th October 1952 : Harrow Rail crash14th November 1952 : NME Publishes First UK Singles Chart14th November 1952 : First British Record Chart Published25th November 1952 : The 'Mousetrap' opens

  11. 5th December 1952 : Start of the Great Smog28th January 1953 : Derek Bentley Hanged1st February 1953 : East Coast floods kill hundreds 25th April 1953 : Crick and Watson discover DNA 29th May 1953 : Hillary climbs Everest 2nd June 1953 : Coronation of Queen Elizabeth II11th November 1953 : First edition of Panorama17th November 1953 : Channel Collision Kills 20 6th May 1954 : Roger Bannister runs the four minute mile 21st July 1954 : Lord of the Rings Published17th September 1954 : Lord of the Flies Published

  12. 13rd July 1955 : Ruth Ellis last woman to be hanged in Britain 16th July 1955 : Stirling Moss is first Englishman to win the British Grand Prix 18th July 1955 : Great Martinstown Downpour 22nd September 1955 : Launch of ITV 23rd September 1955 : 1st British woman News reader 26th September 1955 : 1st Birds Eye Fishfingers go on Sale 17th October 1956 : World’s First Fully Commercial Nuclear Power Plant Opened 29th October 1956 : Suez Conflict Begins 1st November 1956 : Premium Bonds go on Sale

  13. 6th March 1957 : Ghana Gains Independence 1st April 1957 : Panorama Spaghetti Hoax 15th May 1957 : Britain tests H-Bomb6th July 1957 : Lennon and McCartney First Meet4th September 1957 : Wolfenden Report - homosexuality decriminalised 4th October 1957 : Sputnik Launched 10th October 1957 : Windscale Reactor Fire4th December 1957 : Lewisham Train Crash Kills 906th February 1958 : Munich Air Crash17th March 1958 : CND’s Inaugural Public Meeting23rd June 1958 : End of coal rationing announced10th July 1958 : Launch of the Parking Meter 13rd October 1958 : Paddington Bear is Published16th October 1958 : First Edition of Blue Peter

  14. 21st October 1958 : First Women Peers Enter Lords10th November 1958 : Donald Campbell breaks water speed record 9th July 1959 : Supercell Storm over Wokingham28th July 1959 : Postcodes Introduced7th October 1959 : Southend Pier Fire Traps 300 2nd November 1959 : M1 Opens 28th March 1960 : Fire Claims 19 Glasgow Firefighters19th September 1960 : First Traffic Wardens in London 21st October 1960 : 1st British Nuclear Powered Sub launched

  15. 2nd November 1960 : Penguin Wins Lady Chatterley Case9th December 1960 : 1st episode of Coronation St screened 12th April 1961 : First Man in Space – Russian Yuri Gagarin 1st May 1961 : Betting Shops Legal 9th November 1961 : Brian Epstein Meets The Beatles4th December 1961 : The Pill is introduced24th January 1962 : Beatles Sign for Epstein2nd April 1962 : Panda Crossing Launched6th June 1962 : Beatles audition for George Martin12th July 1962 : Debut of the Rolling Stones 4th October 1962 : Beatles release 1st single 5th June 1963 : John Profumo resigns 8th August 1963 : Great Train Robbery28th August 1963 : Martin Luther King Has a Dream22nd November 1963 : Assassination of President Kennedy

  16. 8th August 1963 : Great Train Robbery -2.6 million stolen28th August 1963 : Martin Luther King Has a Dream22nd November 1963 : Assassination of President Kennedy 23rd November 1963 : First Episode of Doctor Who7th February 1964 : The Beatles arrive in America 20th April 1964 : Launch of BBC218th May 1964 : Mods and Rockers Battle13rd August 1964 : Last Executions in Britain22nd August 1964 : First Edition of Match of the Day 4th September 1964 : Forth Road Bridge Opened 12th September 1964 : Charlie and the Chocolate Factory Published 15th September 1964 : 1st Edition of the Sun

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