Events of this year in the Illustrated London News

• April 19th - Miss Sweden won the first "Miss World" contest in London
• April 29th - Ludwig Wittgenstein, Viennese philospher, died aged 62
• May 3rd - King George VI declared the Festival of Britain open in London. It was inspired by the Great Exhibition of 1861, a tonic , a pat on the back for the nation after the austerity of the war years. The event happened all over the UK but was focused on a 27 acre bombed site near Waterloo Station - The South Bank Exhibition centre and The Royal Festival Hall
• July 10th - Randolph Turpin beat Sugar Ray Robinson for the World Middleweight Championship
• October 25th - General Election in Britain and Winston Churchill (he is 77) is returned to power with a majority of 17
• Published was JD Salinger's The Catcher in the Rye
• Burgess and Maclean, British civil servants, spying for Russia defected to Moscow
• MacArthur relieved of command of UN forces
• Korean Armistice negotiations fail
• US Congress passes 22nd amendment, limiting presidency to two terms

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January

• 13 ICI introduction to the elements
• 20 Guinness Pantotime
• 27 This England (Bass&Worth) Ashbridge Park Herts

• 3 Lotus Shoes The mountains of Morne by Rowland Hilder
• 10 ICI Platinum
• 17 Imperial leather Butterflies

March

• March 3rd
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  • The American admiral whose rumoured appointment as allied naval commander in the atlantic has caused sharp criticism on both sides of the commons; admiral William M. Fechteler, U.S.N.
  • across the atlantic in under 5 hours the English Electric "Canberra",
  • The Korean war,
  • The French campaign in Indo-china,
  • photos of a living "Cahow" believed to have been extinct for 300 years,
  • Dolphin training, royalty at home
  • Guinness - London Town Characters,
    

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• 10 ICI - Hydrogen
• 17 Imperial leather Soap - Butterflies

• March 31st

  • An assize court created for the television screen;
  • the procedure in a murder trial presented to viewers
  • Oxford / Cambridge boat race,
  • Princess Elizabeth,
  • Abadan the worlds largest oil refinery,
  • French army vehicles and weapons,
  • Ingenious architecture,
  • The Korean war, Lotus Shoes -Ludlow Castle,

April

• 7 Schwepping Forest
• 14 Royal Tour of Lancaster -
• ICI Nitrogen
• Dunlop map of the West Country
• 21 Whitbreads - England "Fin de Siecle"
• 28 Kodak -Ballet

May 5

Special Edition festival of Britain Opening Number

• Martell Ship Fine
• 12 ICI Aluminium -
• Schwepping stones
• 19 Special Edition Festival of Britain Exhibition Number
• Lotus Shoes - Brig O Dee
• Guinness derby Day Characters -
• Imperial leather Butterflies

June

• 9 This England (Bass&Worth) Nr Lewes Sussex -
• Schweppshire -
• Dunlop - Map of London -
• ICI - Sulphur

June 16th

• ILN History
• 'Symons Street siege' which followed the murder of a police constable at Sharsted refuse dump near Chatham. The murderer, Derek Poole, was himself shot dead by police.
• Britain's greatest spy stories with the disappearance of Donald Maclean and Guy Burgess. The coverage includes a reproduction of a telegram which Maclean sent to his wife telling her not to worry!

• 23 Guinness - Characters at the Seaside

July

• 7 Schweppshire - Sport -
• Dunlop - Map of the Lake District
• 28 Schweppshire

August

• 4 This England (Bass&Worth) - Site of the Rufus Stone New Forest
• 11 ICI - Arsenic
• 18 Capstan cigarettes - Longstones Lighthouse 1838 Grace Darling -
• Guinness - at the Great Exhibition 1851

September 15th

• Dunlop - Map of Central Scotland
• five drawings of life on board the cruiser HMS Euryalus - as seen via the pencil of Midshipman F.E.R. Phillips, who was serving on the ship. At the time when the drawings were made, the cruiser was stationed off Abadan. Elsewhere, there is a four page feature on the newly completed oil refinery at Fawley, near Southampton, which was britain's 'chief answer to the threat to the Middle East oil refineries
• advert =ICI - Carbon

September

• 22 Canadian Royal Tour
• Whitbreads -This England Twilight of the Kings
• 29 Kodak -
• Lotus Shoes - Oast Houses (Rowland Hilder)

October

• 6 Golden Guinea Wine - Collection of Golden Guineas
• 13 Goodyear Eagle - S. A. Crowned Hawk -
• ICI - Barium

November

• 3 This England (Bass&Worth) - Gold Hill Shaftsbury (Hovis Ad?) -
• Secret of Chartreuse
• 10 Dunlop Map of Shakespeare Country -
• Guinness Age of Invention -
• ICI - Oxygen
• 17 Royal Homecoming
• Whitbread This England -The Early Victorians
• 31 Lotus Shoes - Peveril Castle

December

• 1 Capstan cigarettess -Wolf House Lighthouse
• 8 ICI - Calcium -
• Norwich Union
• 22 Imperial leather Butterflies -
• Dunlop Map of the North Country

Xmas Issue Imperial leather Butterflies

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