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Doris Lorraine JAMESON

Female 1937 - 1938  (0 years)


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   Date  Event(s)
1937 
  • 1937: '999' emergency telephone call facility starts in London
  • 1937: Billy Butlin opens his first holiday camp
  • 12 Apr 1937: Frank Whittle ground-tests the first jet engine designed to power an aircraft
  • 12 May 1937: Coronation of King George VI
  • 28 May 1937: Neville Chamberlain becomes Prime Minister – policy of appeasement towards Hitler
  • 3 Jun 1937: Duke of Windsor marries Wallis Simpson
  • 4 Dec 1937: 'The Dandy' first published
1938 
  • 1938: Principle of paid holidays established in Britain
  • 1938: HMS Rodney first ship to be equipped with radar
  • 1938: First practical ball-point pen produced by Hungarian journalist, Lajos Biro
  • 12 Mar 1938: Germany invades and annexes Austria
  • 3 Jul 1938: 'Mallard' reaches 126 mph (203 km/h); still world record for a steam locomotive
  • 27 Sep 1938: Largest ocean liner ever built, Queen Elizabeth launched on Clydebank
  • 29 Sep 1938: Chamberlain visits Hitler in Munich – promises 'peace in our time'
  • 30 Oct 1938: Orson Welles broadcasts his radio play of HG Wells 'The War of the Worlds', causing panic in the USA