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'1951'

  • BBC cuts dialect voices from its announcers, leaving eight people instead of 19

  • Afrikaner Nationalist majority in the South African Parliament votes to remove coloureds from electoral register, introducing Apartheid

  • Donald MacLean and Guy Burgess defect to the Soviet Union

  • Japan signs peace treaty with 48 other nations, putting an official end to World War II

  • Churchill Prime Minister again at 77

  • Austin and Morris to merge, creating the world's fourth largest car manufacturer, after the US giants



 
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