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03 May
1951: King George opens Festival of Britain
02 May
1952: Comet inaugurates the jet age
16 Apr
1953: Queen launches Royal Yacht Britannia
03 Sep
1954: National Trust buys remote island
09 Jun
1958: Queen opens revamped Gatwick
02 Aug
1965: Riviera fires force campers to flee
20 Sep
1967: Queen Elizabeth 2 takes to the waves
04 Jun
1968: Dover begins bird purge
22 Jan
1970: Heathrow welcomes first 'jumbo jet'
26 May
1972: Thomas Cook packaged and sold
29 Jul
1976: Fire engulfs Southend Pier
04 Jun
1977: Greece releases UK plane-spotters
09 Aug
1979: Brighton bares all
05 Feb
1982: Laker Airways goes bust
11 Oct
1987: Search ends for Loch Ness monster
29 Apr
1993: Queen to open Palace doors
14 Sep
1993: UK tourist shot dead in Florida
06 May
1994: President and Queen open Chunnel
10 Oct
1999: Millennium Wheel edges upwards
01 Apr
2000: Wartime coding machine stolen
08 May
2000: Sneak preview of new Tate Modern
10 Jun
2000: Swaying Millennium Bridge closed
05 May
2001: Sun shines on foot-and-mouth crisis
14 Jan
2002: UK declared free of foot-and-mouth
12 Oct
2002: Dozens killed in Bali nightclub explosion
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