1950 in the United Kingdom
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Events from the year 1950 in the United Kingdom.
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[edit] Incumbents
- Monarch - George VI of the United Kingdom
- Prime Minister - Clement Attlee Labour Party
[edit] Events
- 26 January - India becomes a republic, severing all ties with the United Kingdom. [1]
- 24 February - Clement Attlee wins the general election. [2]
- 1 March - Klaus Fuchs convicted of supplying nuclear secrets to the Soviet Union. [3]
- 13 May - First Grand Prix held at Silverstone. [4]
- 26 May - petrol rationing following World War II comes to an end. [5]
- 29 August - 4,000 British troops sent to Korea. [6]
- 8 September - 116 miners trapped underground in a landslide at Knockshinnoch Castle colliery at New Cumnock in Ayrshire, Scotland. [7]
[edit] Unknown dates
- The Festival Ballet, later to become the English National Ballet founded by Alicia Markova and Anton Dolin [8]
- Cecil Frank Powell wins the Nobel Prize in Physics "for his development of the photographic method of studying nuclear processes and his discoveries regarding mesons made with this method". [9]
- Bertrand Russell wins the Nobel Prize in Literature "in recognition of his varied and significant writings in which he champions humanitarian ideals and freedom of thought" [10]
- Alan Turing's paper Computing machinery and intelligence proposes the Turing test. [8]
[edit] Births
- 4 February - Pamela Franklin, actress
- 13 February - Peter Gabriel, musician
- 16 February - Peter Hain, politician
- 19 February - Andy Powell, musician (Wishbone Ash)
- 22 February - Julie Walters, actress
- 30 March - Robbie Coltrane, actor and comedian
- 3 April - Sally Thomsett, actress
- 22 April - Peter Frampton, musician
- 1 May - Danny McGrain, footballer
- 22 May - Bernie Taupin, songwriter
- 22 May - Mary Tamm, actress
- 1 June - Tom Robinson, singer and musician
- 18 July - Richard Branson, entrepreneur
- 19 July - Simon Cadell, actor
- 26 July - Susan George, actress
- 15 August - Anne, Princess Royal
- 14 September - Paul Kossoff, guitarist (Free) (died 1976)
- 21 September - Charles Clarke, politician
[edit] Deaths
- 21 January - George Orwell, author (born 1903)
- 9 March - Timothy Evans hanged by Albert Pierrepoint for the murder of his baby daughter and later pardoned (b. 1924)
- 19 March - Walter Haworth, chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1883)
- 30 March - Joe Yule, Scottish-born comedian (b. 1894)
- 6 September - Olaf Stapledon, author and philosopher (b. 1886)
- 21 September - Arthur Milne, physicist (b. 1896)
- 28 November - James Corbitt hanged for murder by Albert Pierrepoint (b c. 1913)
[edit] References
- ^ India becomes a republic
- ^ Labour wins slim majority
- ^ Communist spy jailed for 14 years
- ^ The Lost Decade Timeline, BBC
- ^ UK drivers cheer end of fuel rations
- ^ British troops arrive in Korea
- ^ Miners trapped underground by landslide
- ^ a b (1999) The Hutchinson Factfinder. Helicon. ISBN 1-85986-000-1.
- ^ The Nobel Prize in Physics 1950
- ^ The Nobel Prize in Literature 1950
