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Hace 1 día · History Formation. The Labour Party won the 1964 general election by a majority of four seats. The Profumo affair had seriously damaged the previous Conservative government, meaning Alec Douglas-Home's Premiership lasted only 363 days. Wilson's tiny majority led to impotency during this Parliament, and in 1966 another election was called, leading to a majority of 96 and the continuation of the ...
Hace 1 día · In 1937, the kinder closed for eight months after four children and a secretary were diagnosed with polio. ... Dawn and John Waight at Brunswick Kindergarten, which they both attended in the 1950s.
Hace 4 horas · National secretary, Merchant Navy Association Yeovil, ... SIR – In the early 1950s my brother, like Tony Keeley (Letters, June 4), served with the British Antarctic Survey.
Hace 3 horas · Think of 1950s Sydney and its crime, and you might think of clever cold war spies and sophisticated mafia men of organised gangs. Professor Peter Doyle, Honorary Associate Professor of Media at Macquarie University, has spent many years exploring police archives of the time, and what he found paints a different picture. Despite the social […]
Bonnie Burns, a secretary at GE’s Nashville office, adjusts the channel selector to Channel 83 on a new UHF TV set on April 29, 1964. Starting the next day, federal law requires all TV sets to have UHF tuning. At the time, Nashville didn't have UHF channels or stations. Joe Rudis / The Tennessean.
Hace 1 día · Two Soviet bombers shot down the Kaleva, a Junkers Ju-52 belonging to Finnish company Aero O/Y that was en route from Tallinn to Helsinki, on June 14, 1940. The plane plunged into the sea near the island of Keri to the northeast of Tallinn, not far from the island of Prangli. All the nine diplomats and civilians on board were killed.
Hace 1 día · That ended, he suggested, due to a culture of dependence promoted by the federal government’s welfare system in the 1950s, including the establishment of the Department of Health, Education and Welfare — the federal agency now known as the Department of Health and Human Services — and civil rights efforts that followed under President Lyndon B. Johnson in the 1960s.
