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THE NHS STORYDecade Quiz

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'1950'

  • Sixty die when a British submarine is accidentally rammed by a Swedish ship and sinks in the Thames estuary

  • Eighty die in world's worst air crash, near Cardiff

  • A UK study says only 46 per cent of households have a bathroom

  • Petrol and soap rationing end after ten years

  • Communist North Korea invades the pro-West South

  • Editors worldwide double check results as the USA beat England 1-0 at football

  • The BBC transmits live overseas pictures for the first time, from France

  • Eighty miners killed at Cresswell colliery, Derbyshire



 
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