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1949 In The United Kingdom, including: List Of Statutory Instruments Of The United Kingdom, 1949, 3rd British Academy Film Awards, 1949 In Wales, ... Trophy, 1949 British Home Championship
Hephaestus Books
Paperback. Hephaestus Books 2011-08-30.
ISBN 9781243160973
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Events from the year 1949 in the United Kingdom. *Prime Minister - Clement Attlee, Labour * 1 January - Peacetime conscription in the United Kingdom regularised under the name National Service. * 15 March - Post-War rationing of clothes ends. * 28 March - Astronomer Fred Hoyle coins the term Big Bang during a BBC Third Programme radio broadcast. * 4 April - Britain signs the North Atlantic Treaty, creating NATO. ** Royal Navy frigate HMS Amethyst goes up the Yangtze River to evacuate British Commonwealth refugees escaping the advance of the Mao's communist forces. Under heavy fire it runs aground off Rose Island. After an aborted rescue attempt at April 26 it anchors 10 miles upstream. Negotiations with the communist forces to let the ship leave drag on for weeks. * May - EDSAC, the first stored-program computer, begins operation at the University of Cambridge. * 10 May - First self-service launderette opens, in Queensway (London). * 1 May - The gas industry is nationalised. * 7 June to 25 June - Dock strike forces the government to use troops to unload goods. * 21 June - Ealing Comedy film Kind Hearts and Coronets released. * 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. * 19 September - The pound devalued by 30% against the United States dollar. * 30 September - The Berlin Airlift comes to
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