Charles Leslie Raymond Wright

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Born	20 DEC 1914
Parents	John Eley Wright (Father) Family Florence Mabel Stafford (Mother) Family

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In their lifetime

Born in the reign of George V

Birth

20 Dec 1914

Born
4 months

25 Apr 1915

Gallipoli landings
4 months

7 May 1915

Lusitania sunk
Age 1

24 Apr 1916

Easter Rising in Dublin
Age 1

5 Jun 1916

Lord Kitchener lost at sea
Age 1

1 Jul 1916

Battle of the Somme begins

About 57,000 British casualties on the first day.
Age 2

31 Jul 1917

Battle of Passchendaele begins
Age 3

6 Feb 1918

Some women get the vote

Representation of the People Act.
Age 3

1918–1919

Spanish flu pandemic
Age 3

11 Nov 1918

Armistice ends the First World War
Age 4

14 Jun 1919

Alcock and Brown make the first non-stop transatlantic flight
Age 8

28 Apr 1923

First FA Cup final at Wembley
Age 9

22 Jan 1924

First Labour government
Age 11

26 Jan 1926

John Logie Baird demonstrates television
Age 11

3 May 1926

General Strike begins
Age 13

2 Jul 1928

Women get the vote on equal terms with men
Age 13

Sep 1928

Alexander Fleming discovers penicillin
Age 14

Oct 1929

Wall Street Crash begins the Great Depression
Age 15

5 Oct 1930

R101 airship disaster
Age 21

20 Jan 1936

Accession of Edward VIII
Age 21

2 Nov 1936

BBC begins the world's first regular television service
Age 21

11 Dec 1936

Accession of George VI

Reigned 1936–1952
Age 21

11 Dec 1936

Edward VIII abdicates
Age 22

12 Apr 1937

Frank Whittle runs the first jet engine
Age 24

1939–1945

Britain declares war on Germany: Second World War begins
Age 25

26 May 1940

Dunkirk evacuation begins
Age 25

10 Jul 1940

Battle of Britain begins
Age 25

1940–1941

The Blitz
Age 27

23 Oct 1942

Battle of El Alamein
Age 27

1 Dec 1942

Beveridge Report published
Age 29

6 Jun 1944

D-Day landings
Age 29

3 Aug 1944

Education Act creates free secondary schooling
Age 30

8 May 1945

VE Day
Age 30

15 Aug 1945

VJ Day
Age 32

15 Aug 1947

India and Pakistan become independent
Age 33

22 Jun 1948

HMT Empire Windrush arrives at Tilbury
Age 33

5 Jul 1948

National Health Service launched
Age 33

29 Jul 1948

London hosts the Olympic Games
Age 35

1950–1953

Korean War begins
Age 37

6 Feb 1952

Accession of Queen Elizabeth II

Reigned 1952–2022
Age 37

5 Dec 1952

Great Smog of London
Age 38

31 Jan 1953

North Sea flood
Age 38

28 Feb 1953

Crick and Watson announce the structure of DNA
Age 38

29 May 1953

Hillary and Tenzing reach the summit of Everest
Age 38

2 Jun 1953

Coronation of Queen Elizabeth II
Age 39

6 May 1954

Roger Bannister runs the first sub-four-minute mile
Age 39

4 Jul 1954

Food rationing ends
Age 40

22 Sep 1955

ITV launches
Age 41

5 Jul 1956

Clean Air Act
Age 41

29 Oct 1956

Suez Crisis
Age 42

4 Oct 1957

Sputnik 1 launched: the Space Age begins
Age 43

6 Feb 1958

Munich air disaster

Eight Manchester United players among the dead.
Age 43

9 Jun 1958

Gatwick Airport officially opened

In Sussex.
Age 44

25 Jul 1959

First hovercraft crosses the Channel
Age 47

5 Oct 1962

The Beatles release their first single
Age 48

1962–1963

The Big Freeze

One of the coldest winters on record.
Age 48

22 Nov 1963

President Kennedy assassinated
Age 50

24 Jan 1965

Sir Winston Churchill dies
Age 50

8 Nov 1965

Death penalty for murder suspended
Age 51

30 Jul 1966

England win the World Cup
Age 51

21 Oct 1966

Aberfan disaster
Age 52

27 Oct 1967

Abortion Act
Age 54

2 Mar 1969

First flight of Concorde
Age 54

20 Jul 1969

First Moon landing
Age 56

15 Feb 1971

Decimal Day
Age 58

1 Jan 1973

Britain joins the European Economic Community
Age 61

21 Jan 1976

Concorde enters passenger service
Age 61

Jun 1976

The heatwave and drought of summer 1976
Age 62

7 Jun 1977

Queen's Silver Jubilee
Age 63

18 May 1978

Father John Eley died
Age 63

25 Jul 1978

Louise Brown, the first IVF baby, is born
Age 64

4 May 1979

Margaret Thatcher becomes Prime Minister
Age 65

22 Apr 1980

Mother Florence Mabel died
Age 65

8 Dec 1980

John Lennon shot dead
Age 66

29 Jul 1981

Wedding of Prince Charles and Lady Diana Spencer
Age 67

2 Apr 1982

Falklands War
Age 69

1984–1985

Miners' strike
Age 70

13 Jul 1985

Live Aid
Age 71

26 Apr 1986

Chernobyl disaster
Age 71

29 Oct 1986

M25 motorway completed

It circles London through Surrey.
Age 72

6 Mar 1987

Herald of Free Enterprise ferry disaster
Age 72

16 Oct 1987

The Great Storm

Hurricane-force winds hit Surrey and Sussex especially hard.
Age 72

18 Nov 1987

King's Cross fire
Age 73

6 Jul 1988

Piper Alpha oil platform disaster
Age 74

21 Dec 1988

Lockerbie bombing
Age 74

Mar 1989

Tim Berners-Lee proposes the World Wide Web
Age 74

15 Apr 1989

Hillsborough disaster
Age 74

9 Nov 1989

Fall of the Berlin Wall
Age 75

22 Nov 1990

Margaret Thatcher resigns
Age 76

17 Jan 1991

Gulf War begins
Age 77

20 Feb 1992

The Premier League is formed
Age 78

24 Feb 1993

Bobby Moore dies
Age 79

6 May 1994

Channel Tunnel opens

Death date unknown, so events are shown up to age 80.