October
3rd Government announces end of tea rationing

3rd Britain tests its first Atomic weapon in the Monte Bello islands off Australia. The explosion could be seen from 100 miles away

8th 112 people die in three-train pile up at Harrow and Wealdstone station

9th A servant runs wild a the Earl of Derby's home shooting dead two butlers and wounding the Countess

11th Labour leader Clement Atlee hits out at "leftist wreckers" in the party

19th Government announces that it will send troops to Kenya to help fight the Mau Mau

25th Communist China is refused UN entry for the third year running

November
4th The Queen opens her first Parliament

5th Eisenhower sweeps to power in US presidential elections

11th Herbert Morrison beats Nye Bevan for Labour's deputy leadership

19th French facing an all-out offensive by the Viet Minh in Vietnam

25th The Moustrap by Agatha Christie opens at the Ambassadors theatre

December
8th Queen gives permission for Coronation to be televised

11th Derek Bentley sentenced to hang for the murder of a policeman although his accomplice Christopher Craig fired the shot that killed PC Sidney Miles on the roof of a Croydon warehouse

15th George Jorgenson becomes Christine in sex change operation. She is not the first transsexual but the first to make her sex change public

25th Queen makes her first Christmas broadcast to the nation

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