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The N'TO Doctrine
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Sutton Coldfield Train Crash
An express train takes a sharp curve too fast and derails at Sutton Coldfield railway station: 17 killed, 43 injured -
Resignation of Winston Churchill
Due to ill health at the age of 80 -
Ruth Ellis becomes the last woman to be hanged in the UK
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Suez Crisis
Britain invaded Egypt -
Top Ten Tracks of 1950s
- Daddy's Little Girl - Mills Brothers
- Mona Lisa - Nat King Cole
- Music! Music! Music! - Teresa Brewer
- The Tennesse Waltz - Patti Page
- A Bushel and a Peck - Perry Como and Betty Hutton
- Rag Mop - Ames Brothers
- If I Knew You Were Comin' I'd Have Baked A Cake - Eileen Barton
- Harbor Lights - Sammy Kaye
- Goodnight, Irene - Gordon Jenkins and the Weavers
- I Wanna Be Loved - the Andrews Sisters
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The Rolling Stones Formed
London rock and roll band -
The Kinks Formed
The Kinks are awesome -
England win the World Cup of Football
England are awesomer -
Led Zeppelin
The New Yardbirds