Events of this year in the Illustrated London News

• January 30th - Mahatma Gandhi was assassinated in New Delhi
• April 26th - King George VI and Queen Elizabeth celebrated their Silver Wedding
• May 14th - Proclamation of Israel as an independent Jewish state - Chaim Weizemann became the first President (Theodor Herzel considered to be the creator of modern Zionism
• May - Heathrow Airport was officially opened to international traffic when a Pan Am Constellation landed from New York
• July 5th - The National Health Service came into operation by Aneurin Bevan the Health Minister
• July 29th - The Olympic Games was held in London. star atheletes included Fanny Blankers-Koen (Holland), Emile Zatopek (Czech) and 17 year old American Bob Mathias
• August 12th - Morris Minor cars started production
• August 23rd - The World Council of Churches was formally constituted
• November 14th - Princess Elizabeth gave birth to Charles Philip Arthur George - the future Prince of Wales - Prince Charles
• December 15th - Prince Charles was christened at 3.30pm in the Gold Music Room at Buckingham Palace
• December 31st - Sir Malcolm Campbell, land and water speed champion, died aged 63
• The Berlin Airlift, the Marshall Plan, begins after the Soviet Union blockaded Berlin cutting off all access to it by land.
• The Kinsey Report was published to many a raised eyebrow
• British Citizens Act grants passports to all Commonwealth Citizens
• The Long Playing record was introduced

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January 3rd

• New York paralysed by snow Wrights Coal tar Soap Fish Family - - -Dunlop Historic City maps 'Cantebury'
• 10th The Kremlin - New York paralysed by snow 2 pages - The growth of the railways in Britain 19th century
• 17th Map of Jerusalem arabs and jews Johnnie Walker Puffing Billy - Kodak Spiders web
• 24 Mahatma Ghandi begins his fast - Floods in Shrewsbury and Worcester 2 p - Van Gogh drawings in black chalk
• 31 Illinois State Prison - Guinness Carolingian Knights Entertainment, also five photographs of the famous warships HMS Valiant (fought at Jutland and Matapan), HMS Renown (fought Scharnhorst and Bismarck), HMS Rodney (helped sink Bismarck), HMS Nelson (led operations against the Japanese), and HMS Queen Elizabeth (surrender of the German fleet effected on board in 1918). On announcing the news that these ships were to be scrapped, the Admiralty announced that they would pass 'into the Valhalla of men-of-war', photos of ruined Frankfurt, extensively bombed during the war.

February

• 7th - 4 p Ghandis Murder - war repairs to Eton College - Ruskin and Effie Gray
• 14 New House of Commons cutaway 3 p - Ghandi - Schweppervescence bottle of Tonic - 1/4 p ICI ancestors of industries - Abdulla 7 cigarettes The Beach
• 21 Submarine HMS Ambush arctic cruise - Olney, Bucks pancake race - 2 p inventions
• 28 South of England in the snow - Rootes Group Humber cars - British Celanese interior colour

March

• 6th - city of Oxford replanned
• 13 The Siamese cat 2p - with Vivien leigh - Johnnie Walker Puffing Billy - Guinness Alice Mushroom growth and caterpillar - Marlborough College 5 p of drawings
• 20 Great Tangley Manor near Guildford
• 27 Black and White whisky Rugger - Fords of Dagenham

April

• 3rd
• 10 Austin A40 - 1/4 p ICI Robert of Chester - Abdulla 7 cigarettes Painting 5 p Drawings of Bath
• 17th
  • British & Russian planes collide over Berlin
    Prague University - A 600 year old tradition
    The preservation of H.M.S. Implacable
    Italian Poster electioneering
    Preparations for the Olympic Games
    The unveiling of the statue to President Roosevelt in London
    Post-war Japan
    A Pacific paradise - Life in The Trobriand Islands
    Egyptian excavations in Amarah West
    
• 24 Railcrash 24 dead at Winsford, Cheshire

May

• 1st Wolseley Cars - Dunlop Historic City maps 'Edinburgh' 12p colour supp 25 years married the King and Queen, silver wedding edition
• 8
• 15 Wrights Coaltar soap, Birds - Kodak air Archeaology Bradbury Dorset
• 22 Ford Dagenham Marshes and smuggling - De Havilland Dove the executive jet
• 29 Rail crash at Wath, Rotheram, 6 dead - How ASDIC works for submarines

June Vol. 212, no.5694

• 5th
  • King & Queen & Chelsea Flower Show photos - 3 pages,
  • Article by Arthur Bryant,
  • Sea Painters of Britain by Sir John Squire,
  • The Arab-Jewish War 2 pages, Spain 2 pages,
  • Aftermath of War: Military Theories in the United States, by Cyril Falls, Queens College, Cambridge 3 pages, Blood Sucking Flies, Queens College Cambridge Quintcentenary 4p Imperial leather Orchid Hybrid
• 12th
  • 2p Helicopters -1/4 p
  • ICI Roger Bacon
  • The Royal family at Epsom
    The capture of Jerusalem
    Canoe racing in Sarawak
    Floods in Vanport, Oregon, USA
    The birth of Helicopters
    Suggested alterations to St Paul's Cathedral
    The 4th anniversary of D-day
    
• 19th
  • map of Jerusalem - Trooping the colour cancelled in case it rained! - Dewars the Ship RMS Queen Elizabeth - Cars for Bread the Nuffield organisation
• 26th

July

• 3rd Craven A cigarettes made to prevent sore throats - Guinness, Alice studies Natural History
• 10
• 17 Johnnie Walker Cricket - Dunlop Map "Winchester"
• 24
• 31 Kia-ora by Hoffnung - Abdulla 7 Cruising

August

• 7th opening ceremony of the Olympic games, Wembley
• 14 supermarket shopping in the USA - pictures from the olympics - Shopping with a car Nuffield organisation - Kodak Chemistry drawings of Edinburgh
• 21 The marvels and mysteries of the nestling bird 7 drawings - Flamingoes in the delta of the Rhone -7 pics a Berliners life and the cold war - Fanny Blankers Koen 6 pics Edinburgh Festival conductors and artists - celebration of Cologne Cathedral 7th century 3 pics - Jerusalem - Malaya sport... England v Australia test 4 pics and returning Dutch atheletes - George Stephensons centennary - aero modelling 2p 20 plus drawings of gliders , jets , piston engined planes 5 pics of floods in the Borders of England and Scotland, 10 pics events of the week and personalities, Sir Malcolm Sargent , Boult , Menuhin etc - Nancy Spain reviews Mrs Beeton and her husband 5 pics - Flamingoes in the delta of the Rhone
• 28 Moor Park in danger of demolition - Britains tobacco crisis shortage of tabs (cigs) - model engineer exhibition - War in the Himalayas 3 p Guinness, Alice.. Bottle and Jug - Capstan Yacht - A history of the British Post Office

September

• 4th The Ridderzal Queen Julianna drawings 3p The Coffee House Social scene
• 11 Queen Whilemena of the Netherlands abdicates and inauguration of Queen Julianna 9p - Johnnie Walker Ships - Abdulla 7 Ballerina
• 18
• 25 Dehavilland Compression chamber - Dunlop Cities "Lincoln"

October

• 2nd
• 9 How an atomic bomb works !! - 100th day of Berlin airlift - Black and White Whisky Golf - Lotus shoes "Out of reach" - Englands waterways Canals etc
• 16 London before 1666 Thomas Wyck - Malaya guerilla warfare
• 23 The DoDo bird - Crufts - Austin - Hillman Minx
• 30 Motor Show - W.H. Smith a history 4p

November

• 6th Huntley and Palmers biscuits - Schweppervescence
• 13 introduction of forklift truck causes strike - Truman elected President of USA
• 20 royal supplement birth of Prince Charles - Johnnie Walker Sports cars - Guinness, Alice in Snowmansland
• 27 The Orcades - ICI 1/4 page Robert Boyle

December

• 4th
  • Peek Freans Biscuits - Abdulla number 7 Troika
• 11th
• 18th
  • Darwin, Australias only town to be bombed in the second world war - Votrix Vermouth - The Naval and Military Club -
  • Dunlop Cities "Exeter" Pram's & baby carriages of the last century
    The Lynskey tribunal
    A royal wedding in Uganda
    2000 year old relics of Southwark
    The Christmas postal rush at Mount Pleasant sorting office
    Transferring troops between HMS Illustrious & HMS Rapid
• 25th
  • Prince Charles christening on 15th December - ICI 1/4 page John Mayow

Xmas Childrens table games from history - Dunlop cities "Chester" - Imperial Leather.. tropical fish.. Barbels

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