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This article presents a timeline of events in the history of the United Kingdom from 1950 until 1969. For a narrative explaining the overall developments, see the related history of the British Isles.
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Throughout the 1950s and 1960s, the developed and emerging free capitalist economies enjoyed exceptionally high growth and low unemployment. [ 81 ] [ 82 ] Professor Gordon Fletcher has written that the 1950s and 1960s, when Keynes's influence was at its peak, appear in retrospect as a golden age of capitalism .
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The BBC's early television service was given a major boost in 1953 with the coronation of Elizabeth II, attracting a worldwide audience of twenty million, plus tens of millions more by radio. Many middle-class people bought televisions to view the event. In 1950 just 1% owned television sets; by 1965 25% did, and many more were rented.
The series proper begins in January 1951 and will still be running more than 70 years later. [17] 24 June – World Cup opens in Brazil with the England national football team competing for the first time. [2] 28 June – In the World Cup, the England national football team is humiliated by losing 1–0 to the United States in Belo Horizonte. [2]
ICC Cricket World Cup: England win a thriller at Lords and clinch their maiden ODI World Cup led by Eoin Morgan. [40] 2020 31 January Brexit takes place. The UK officially withdraws from the European Union three years after it voted to leave during a referendum in 2016. [41] 2020 31 January The first patient with COVID-19 is confirmed in York ...
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