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From http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/

21 January 1950	[1] Acclaimed author George Orwell dies
26 January 1950	[2] India shakes off British rule	History of India
24 February 1950	[3] Labour wins slim majority	UK general election, 1950
1 March 1950	[4] Communist spy jailed for 14 years	Klaus Fuchs
8 March 1950	[5] Gas turbine car gets road test
18 March 1950	[6] Government falls as Belgians vote for king
18 May 1950	[7] US and Europe agree NATO aims
26 May 1950	[8] UK drivers cheer end of fuel rations
25 June 1950	[9] UN condemns North Korean invasion
15 August 1950	[10] Princess gives birth to second child	Anne, Princess Royal
27 August 1950	[11] Television crosses the Channel
29 August 1950	[12] British troops arrive in Korea
8 September 1950	[13] Miners trapped underground by landslide
15 September 1950	[14] UN stages daring assault on Inchon
5 December 1950	[15] Pyongyang taken as UN retreats
18 December 1950	[16] Radio Times hits Christmas deadline
4 January 1951	[17] Communist forces prepare to take Seoul
30 March 1951	[18] Rosenbergs guilty of espionage	Ethel and Julius Rosenberg
11 April 1951	[19] MacArthur fired - Ridgway takes over
17 April 1951	[20] Fears for crew of lost British submarine
3 May 1951	[21] King George opens Festival of Britain
28 May 1951	[22] Glasgow powers up for the Festival
3 July 1951	[23] Ridgway agrees to ceasefire talks
2 September 1951	[24] Designers prepare to dazzle Venice
14 September 1951	[25] Refinery opens as oil row continues
23 September 1951	[26] King has lung operation
30 September 1951	[27] Festival closes to applause
23 October 1951	[28] Churchill denies 'warmonger' claims
26 October 1951	[29] Churchill wins general election	UK general election, 1951
2 November 1951	[30] 6,000 British troops flown into Egypt
15 November 1951	[31] Murder on Malay rubber estate
20 November 1951	[32] British families leave Egypt's Canal Zone	Suez Canal
31 December 1951	[33] Churchill trip finally underway
5 January 1952	[34] Churchill renews 'special relationship'
26 January 1952	[35] Britons killed in Cairo riots
30 January 1952	[36] Korea truce talks hit stalemate
1 February 1952	[37] Test drive for TV detector vans
6 February 1952	[38] King George VI dies in his sleep
8 February 1952	[39] New Queen proclaimed for UK
10 February 1952	[40] India passes first test of democracy
30 April 1952	[41] Diary of Anne Frank published in English
2 May 1952	[42] Comet inaugurates the jet age	De Havilland Comet
20 July 1952	[43] Dynamic Zatopek wins gold at Helsinki	Emil Zátopek
26 July 1952	[44] Eva Peron is dead
16 August 1952	[45] Flood devastates Devon village	Lynmouth
6 September 1952	[46] Dozens die in air show tragedy	Farnborough Air Show
7 September 1952	[47] Egyptian army ousts prime minister
19 September 1952	[48] US Immigration slams door on Chaplin
23 September 1952	[49] Charlie Chaplin comes home
3 October 1952	[50] Tea rationing to end
8 October 1952	[51] Many die as three trains crash at Harrow
21 October 1952	[52] Kenyatta arrested in security raid	Jomo Kenyatta
5 November 1952	[53] Landslide victory for Eisenhower	U.S. presidential election, 1952
25 December 1952	[54] Queen makes first Christmas speech	Royal Christmas Message
15 January 1953	[55] East German purge begins
28 January 1953	[56] Derek Bentley hanged for murder
31 January 1953	[57] 130 die in ferry disaster
1 February 1953	[58] Violent storms claim hundreds of lives	North Sea Flood of 1953
5 February 1953	[59] Sweet news ends rationing
27 February 1953	[60] Spelling bill passes second reading
5 March 1953	[61] Soviet leader 'on brink of death'	Joseph Stalin
16 March 1953	[62] Marshal Tito makes historic visit to London
8 April 1953	[63] Seven years' hard labour for Kenyatta	Jomo Kenyatta
15 April 1953	[64] Britain honours American hero	Reis Leming
16 April 1953	[65] Queen launches Royal Yacht Britannia	HMY Britannia
20 April 1953	[66] UN and Korea begin prisoner exchange
25 April 1953	[67] Scientists describe 'secret of life'	DNA
4 May 1953	[68] Duke of Edinburgh gets his wings
29 May 1953	[69] Hillary and Tenzing conquer Everest	Mount Everest
2 June 1953	[70] Millions cheer as Queen is crowned
25 June 1953	[71] Christie to hang for wife's murder	10 Rillington Place
6 October 1953	[72] Britain sends troops to Guiana	Guyana, History of Guyana#Independence Movement
17 November 1953	[73] Twenty die in Channel collision
26 November 1953	[74] Lords vote for commercial television
10 January 1954	[75] Comet jet crashes with 35 on board	De Havilland Comet
12 February 1954	[76] New authority for atomic energy	United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority
18 February 1954	[77] McCarthy hunts 'army Communists'	Joseph McCarthy
1 March 1954	[78] US tests hydrogen bomb in Bikini	Bikini Atoll
3 April 1954	[79] Oxford wins 100th Boat Race
6 May 1954	[80] Bannister breaks four-minute mile	Roger Bannister, four minute mile
30 June 1954	[81] Three continents see eclipse of sun
4 July 1954	[82] Housewives celebrate end of rationing
21 July 1954	[83] Peace deal ends Indo-China war	First Indochina War
3 September 1954	[84] National Trust buys remote island	Fair Isle
13 October 1954	[85] Chataway beats 5,000m world record	Christopher Chataway
14 October 1954	[86] Ethiopian emperor visits UK	Haile Selassie
19 October 1954	[87] 'Metal fatigue' caused Comet crashes	De Havilland Comet
12 November 1954	[88] New York's Ellis Island closes
30 November 1954	[89] Winston Churchill turns 80
2 December 1954	[90] US Senate condemns McCarthy	Joseph McCarthy
2 December 1954	[91] US pledges to defend Nationalist China