- 1950 in the United Kingdom
Events from the year
1950 in theUnited Kingdom .Incumbents
*Monarch -
George VI of the United Kingdom
*Prime Minister -Clement Attlee Labour PartyEvents
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26 January -India becomes arepublic , severing all ties with the United Kingdom. [cite web|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/january/26/newsid_3475000/3475569.stm|title="India becomes a republic", BBC On This Day|accessdate=2008-01-29]
*24 February -Clement Attlee wins the general election, giving Labour a second term in government after their election triumph in1945 . [cite web|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/february/24/newsid_2756000/2756707.stm|title="Labour wins slim majority", BBC On This Day|accessdate=2008-01-29]
*1 March -Klaus Fuchs convicted of supplying nuclear secrets to theSoviet Union . [cite web|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/march/1/newsid_4222000/4222261.stm|title="Communist spy jailed for 14 years", BBC On This Day|accessdate=2008-01-29]
*6 March –8 March - The1950 World Figure Skating Championships are held inLondon .
*8 March - Carmaker Rover tests a revolutionary new turbine-powered concept car. [cite web|url= http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/march/8/newsid_2516000/2516271.stm|title="Gas turbine car gets road test", BBC News|accessdate=2008-01-06]
*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 atSilverstone .cite web|url=http://www.bbc.co.uk/bbcfour/lostdecade/timeline_html.shtml|title=The Lost Decade Timeline, BBC|accessdate=2008-01-29]
*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 theSecond World War . [cite web|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/may/26/newsid_2502000/2502691.stm|title="UK drivers cheer end of fuel rations", BBC On This Day|accessdate=2008-01-29]
*7 June - pilot episode of the long-running radio series "The Archers " broadcast.cite book|title=Penguin Pocket On This Day|publisher=Penguin Reference Library|isbn=0-141-02715-0|year=2006]
*11 July - first broadcast of the popular BBC children's programme "Andy Pandy ".
*31 July -Sainsbury's opens the first purpose-builtsupermarket , atCroydon .cite book |last=Palmer |first=Alan & Veronica |year=1992 |title= The Chronology of British History|publisher= Century Ltd|location=London|pages= 401-402|isbn= 0-7126-5616-2]
*27 August - theBBC makes its first television broadcast from the European continent.
*29 August - 4,000 British troops are sent toKorea . [cite web|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/august/29/newsid_3053000/3053107.stm|title="British troops arrive in Korea", BBC On This Day|accessdate=2008-01-29]
*8 September - 116 miners trapped underground in a landslide atKnockshinnoch Castle colliery atNew Cumnock inAyrshire ,Scotland . [cite web|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/september/8/newsid_2995000/2995048.stm|title="Miners trapped underground by landslide", BBC On This Day|accessdate=2008-01-29]
*9 September - Post-Warsoap rationing ends.
*26 October - The rebuilt House of Commons, following its destruction by bombing in World War II, is used for the first time.
*10 December
**Bertrand Russell wins theNobel Prize in Literature "in recognition of his varied and significant writings in which he champions humanitarian ideals and freedom of thought". [cite web|url=http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1950/|title=The Nobel Prize in Literature 1950|accessdate=2008-01-29]
**Cecil Frank Powell wins theNobel Prize in Physics "for his development of the photographic method of studying nuclear processes and his discoveries regarding mesons made with this method". [cite web|url=http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/physics/laureates/1950/|title=The Nobel Prize in Physics 1950|accessdate=2008-01-29]
*25 December - TheStone of Scone , the traditionalcoronation stone of Scottish monarchs, English monarchs and more recently British monarchs, was stolen fromLondon 'sWestminster Abbey by a group of four Scottish students. It later turned up in Scotland on11 April 1951 .Undated
* The Festival Ballet, later to become the
English National Ballet founded byAlicia Markova andAnton Dolin cite book |title= The Hutchinson Factfinder |publisher= Helicon |year= 1999 |isbn= 1-85986-000-1 ]*
Alan Turing 's paper "Computing machinery and intelligence " proposes theTuring test .Publications
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Agatha Christie 'sMiss Marple novel "A Murder is Announced ".
*Graham Greene 's novel "The Third Man ".
*Doris Lessing 's novel "The Grass is Singing ".
*C. S. Lewis 's novel "The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe ", first of "The Chronicles of Narnia " series.
*Mervyn Peake 's novel "Gormenghast".
*Barbara Pym 's novel "Some Tame Gazelle ".
*Evelyn Waugh 's novel "Helena".Births
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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
*27 March -Terry Yorath , footballer and football manager
*30 March -Robbie Coltrane , actor and comedian
*3 April -Sally Thomsett , actress
*22 April -Peter Frampton , musician
*1 May -Danny McGrain , footballer
*3 May -Mary Hopkin , singer
*11 May -Jeremy Paxman , television presented and author
*17 May -Alan Johnson , politician
*22 May -Bernie Taupin , songwriter
*22 May -Mary Tamm , actress
*1 June -Tom Robinson , singer and musician
*13 June -Nick Brown , politician
*14 June -Rowan Williams , Archbishop of Canterbury
*14 July -Bruce Oldfield , fashion designer
*18 July -Richard Branson , entrepreneur
*19 July -Simon Cadell , actor
*26 July - Susan George, actress
*30 July -Harriet Harman , politician
*15 August -Anne, Princess Royal
*14 September -Paul Kossoff , guitarist (Free) (died 1976)
*21 September -Charles Clarke , politician
*6 December -Helen Liddell , politicianDeaths
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21 January -George Orwell , author (born 1903)
*9 March -Timothy Evans hanged byAlbert Pierrepoint for themurder of his baby daughter and later pardoned (born 1924)
*19 March -Walter Haworth , chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1883)
*30 March -Joe Yule , Scottish-born comedian (born 1894)
*6 September -Olaf Stapledon , author and philosopher (born 1886)
*21 September -Arthur Milne , physicist (born 1896)
*2 November -George Bernard Shaw , playwright (born 1856)
*28 November -James Corbitt hanged formurder byAlbert Pierrepoint (born c. 1913)References
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