CORONATED

What was actually happening in 1953, the year Queen Elizabeth II was crowned? This....

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1. Feb 3: 283 people drowned in winter storms and freak floods on east coast of England

2. Feb 4: Sweet rationing ends - but not food rationing

3. Feb 16: A new aircraft carrier, HMS Hermes, is launched

4. Mar 5: Joseph Stalin, wartime leader of the U.S.S.R., dies. Though popular in Great Britain’s as our wartime ally, he had ordered millions of Russians killed or exiled

5. Mar 24: Death of Queen Mary, widow of King George V (1910-1936) and Queen Elizabeth II’s grandmother

6. Apr 16: A new royal yacht, Britannia, is launched

7. May 16: DC7 jet plane introduced, the first to fly regularly non-stop across the Atlantic Ocean

8. May 29: Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Noorgai reach the summit of Mount Everest

9. Jun 2nd: The Coronation. Children get a free mug and a day off school!

10. July 27: Korean War ends. 2 million have died

11. Aug 8: England regain the Ashes from Australia at cricket - the first time in 20 years!

12. Sep 3: Florence Horsbrugh becomes the first ever female member of the Cabinet

13. Sep 26: Sugar rationing ends

14. Nov 9: Poet Dylan Thomas dies, aged just 39, shortly after writing Under Milk Wood

15. Nov 21: The Piltdown skull is shown to be a hoax. Archaeologists are very embarrassed!

Films

Shane (cowboy)

Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (romance)

From Here To Eternity (romance)

Genevieve (old cars/romance)

How To Marry A Millionaire (romance)

The Titfield Thunderbolt (steam trains)

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