Harry Lines

Harry Lines

Male Abt 1894 - 1952  (~ 57 years)

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   Date  Event(s)
1895 
  • Nov 1895—Nov 1895: X-rays discovered
1897 
  • 1897—1897: Thomas Edison patents the Kinetoscope, the first movie projector
1900 
  • 1900—1900: School leaving age in Britain raised to 14 years
1901 
  • 1901—1901: Hubert Cecil Booth patents the vacuum cleaner
  • 12 Dec 1901—12 Dec 1901: First successful radio transmission across the Atlantic, by Marconi - Morse code from Cornwall to Newfoundland
1902 
  • 1902—1902: Marie Curie discovers radioactivity
1906 
  • 1906—1906: Introduction of free school meals for poor children
1907 
  • 1907—1907: First airship flies over London
1908 
  • 1 Jul 1908—1 Jul 1908: SOS became effective as an international signal of distress
1909 
  • 25 Jul 1909—25 Jul 1909: Bleriot flies across the Channel (36 minutes, Calais to Dover)
10 1912 
  • 14 Apr 1912—14 Apr 1912: The 'unsinkable' Titanic sinks on maiden voyage - loss of 1,513 lives
11 1914 
  • 4 Aug 1914—4 Aug 1914: Britain declares war on Germany, citing Belgian neutrality as reason
12 1917 
  • 7 Nov 1917—7 Nov 1917: 'October' Revolution in Russia - Bolsheviks overthrow provisional government; Lenin becomes Chief Commissar
13 1918 
  • 1918—1918: Vote for women over 30, men over 21 (except peers, lunatics and felons)
  • 8 Mar 1918—8 Mar 1918: Start of world-wide 'flu pandemic
14 1923 
  • 16 Feb 1923—16 Feb 1923: Howard Carter unsealed the burial chamber of Tutankhamun
15 1926 
  • 1926—1926: Adoption of children is legalised in Britain
16 1927 
  • 1927—1927: Release of the first 'talkie' film (The Jazz Singer)
17 1928 
  • 1928—1928: Women over 21 get vote in Britain - same qualification for both sexes
  • 15 Sep 1928—15 Sep 1928: Sir Alexander Fleming accidentally discovers penicillin (results published 1929)
18 1929 
  • 1929—1929: Minimum age for a marriage in Britain (which had been 14 for a boy and 12 for a girl) now 16 for both sexes, with parental consent (or a licence) needed for anyone under 21
19 1934 
  • 1934—1934: Hitler becomes Fuehrer of Germany
  • 18 Jul 1934—18 Jul 1934: King George V opens Mersey Tunnel
20 1936 
  • 5 May 1936—5 May 1936: First flight of a Spitfire
21 1938 
  • 30 Oct 1938—30 Oct 1938: Orson Welles broadcasts his radio play of HG Wells 'The War of the Worlds', causing panic in the USA
22 1939 
  • 3 Sep 1939—3 Sep 1939: Britain and France declare war on Germany
23 1940 
  • 15 Sep 1940—15 Sep 1940: Battle of Britain: massive waves of German air attacks decisively repulsed by the RAF - Hitler postpones invasion of Britain
24 1941 
  • 1941—1941: First use of antibiotics
25 1942 
  • 6 Sep 1942—6 Sep 1942: Germans defeated at Stalingrad
26 1944 
  • 6 Jun 1944—6 Jun 1944: D-Day invasion of Normandy
27 1945 
  • 8 May 1945—8 May 1945: VE Day (Victory in Europe). Atomic bombs dropped on Nagasaki and Hiroshima.
28 1947 
  • 1 Apr 1947—1 Apr 1947: School leaving age raised to 15 in Britain
29 1948 
  • 5 Jul 1948—5 Jul 1948: National Health Service (NHS) begins in Britain
30 1952 
  • 2 May 1952—2 May 1952: First commercial jet airliner service launched, by BOACComet between London and Johannesburg