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The New Elizabethan Age
1953 was the year Queen Elizabeth was crowned at Westminster Abbey, Edmund Hilary and Sherpa Tensing reached the summit of Everest, England's cricketers won the Ashes for the first time in twenty years and Gordon Richards won the Derby. It was too the year that DNA was defined.

In Russia Stalin died and Malenkov took over although the real power would be assumed by Nikita Khrushchev. Churchill felt this was an opportunity to better East/West relations and wanted a summit meeting between Britain America and the USSR leaders. America was not so sure.

Stanley Matthews
Sir Stanley Matthews (born 1915)

Stanley Matthews was born in Hanley.
His father was a boxer.
He became a footballer playing for Stoke City and then Blackpool.
He won 54 international caps.

did you know?
In 1953 the Ford Popular, the world's cheapest four cylinder motor car, went on sale for 拢390.

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1947 India becomes independent

1948 Gandhi is assassinated

1949 NATO is formed
Ireland become independent

1950 Korean War breaks out

1951 Churchill becomes Prime Minister
The Festival of Britain begins

1952 Death of George VI

1953 Coronation of Elizabeth II

1955 Eden succeeds Churchill as Tory Prime Minister

1956 Suez Crisis

1957 Macmillan succeeds Eden

1958 EEC formed
Life Peerages Act

1959 North Sea oil discovered
EFTA formed

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