![]() England captain Bobby Moore holds the Jules Rimet Trophy, collected from the Queen, after England’s 1966 World Cup win (PA)ġ967: Breathalyser introduced. Queen Mother undergoes major abdominal surgery. Britain appoints its first woman High Court judge.ġ966: Swinging London revolves around Carnaby Street and Kings Road. Mary Quant pronounces Paris fashion “out of date”.ġ965: Rhodesia declares independence. One of the coldest, snowiest winters on record.ġ964: Beatlemania grips UK and US. Martin Luther King’s I Have A Dream speech. The Cuban Missile crisis is resolved.ġ963: Lord Beeching wields axe on British Rail. Soviet Union puts first man, Yuri Gagarin, into space.ġ962: US spaceman John Glenn orbits the Earth. Princess Margaret marries Tony Armstrong-Jones.ġ961: John F Kennedy succeeds Dwight D Eisenhower as US president. ![]() Manchester United players die in Munich air crash.ġ959: The Mini car makes its first appearance and the M1 motorway opens.ġ960: Macmillan’s Wind Of Change speech. Russians launch the Sputnik satellite and also send the first animal into space – a dog called Laika.ġ958: Race riots flare in Notting Hill. Treaty of Rome sets up European Economic Community. Prince Rainier III of Monaco marries American film actress Grace Kelly.ġ957: Prime Minister Harold Macmillan tells a Tory rally “most of our people have never had it so good”. Princess Margaret calls off plans to marry Group Captain Peter Townsend.ġ956: Hungarian uprising and Suez crisis. Warsaw Pact signed by the Soviet Union and its Eastern Bloc allies. Sir Winston Churchill resigns as Prime Minister due to his failing health. Roger Bannister breaks the four-minute mile record.ġ955: Cyprus goes on strike against British rule. French defeated at Dien Bien Phu in Vietnam. The Queen on Coronation Day in 1953 (PA)ġ954: Study links cancer to smoking. Everest conquered on eve of the Coronation. Mau Mau rising in Kenya.ġ953: Sweet rationing ends in Britain. Flood devastates the Devon village of Lynmouth. Establishment of Nato.ġ950: UN landings at Inchon after start of Korean War.ġ952: George VI dies and Princess Elizabeth becomes Queen. Prince Charles born.ġ949: Russia tests A-bomb. Princess Elizabeth marries Lieutenant Philip Mountbatten.ġ948: Railways, canals and road transport nationalised. Labour Government nationalises Bank of England and coal industry.ġ947: National Health Service set up. Churchill warns of “Iron Curtain” across Europe. Children celebrate VE Day, marking the end of the war in Europe in 1945, amid the ruins of their bombed homes in Battersea, London (PA)ġ946: United Nations established. Japan surrenders after atom bombs dropped on Nagasaki and Hiroshima. Japanese capture Singapore.ġ945: Germany surrenders. Hitler’s deputy Rudolf Hess flies to Britain.ġ942: Montgomery defeats Rommel at El Alamein. Winston Churchill becomes Prime Minister.ġ941: Pearl Harbour attacked as Japan enters war. Nazi leaders greet Duke and Duchess of Windsor in Berlin.ġ938: Munich Agreement follows invasion of Austria.ġ940: King and Queen remain in Buckingham Palace through the Battle of Britain and the Blitz. ![]() Edward VIII, pictured making his first broadcast as monarch, abdicated in 1936 (PA)ġ937: Coronation. His abdication forces his brother the Duke of York onto the throne as George VI. UK unemployment hits three million.ġ936: George V dies and Edward VIII becomes King. Princess Margaret Rose born.ġ931: First London trolley bus, television outside broadcast, electric razor, German pocket battleship and first neon-lit advertisements.ġ932: Oswald Mosley launches British Union of Fascists.ġ933: Hitler becomes German chancellor. A mass gathering in Hyde Park for a meeting during the General Strike of 1926 (PA)ġ929: Wall Street Crash triggers the Great Depression.ġ930: Unemployment reaches 2.5 million. All women over the age of 21 get the vote. Charles Lindbergh makes the first solo non-stop flight across the Atlantic.ġ928: Oxford English Dictionary completed after 70 years’ work. Television invented.ġ927: BBC begins broadcasts. Duchess of York gives birth to Princess Elizabeth. Here are some of the major events and milestones the Queen lived through:ġ926: General Strike.
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