Ann Knight

(Ann Elizabeth Knight)

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Born	9 JAN 1927 , Hampstead, Greater London, England
Died	10 NOV 2017 , Worthing
Parents	Queenie Bootes (Mother) Family Frank Knight (Father) Family
Marriage	Den Tilbrook — 1952 at Surrey South Eastern, Surrey, United Kingdom Family Page

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In their lifetime

Born in the reign of George V

Birth

9 Jan 1927

Born at Hampstead, Greater London, England
Age 1

2 Jul 1928

Women get the vote on equal terms with men
Age 1

Sep 1928

Alexander Fleming discovers penicillin
Age 2

Oct 1929

Wall Street Crash begins the Great Depression
Age 3

5 Oct 1930

R101 airship disaster
Age 9

20 Jan 1936

Accession of Edward VIII
Age 9

2 Nov 1936

BBC begins the world's first regular television service
Age 9

11 Dec 1936

Accession of George VI

Reigned 1936–1952
Age 9

11 Dec 1936

Edward VIII abdicates
Age 10

12 Apr 1937

Frank Whittle runs the first jet engine
Age 12

1939–1945

Britain declares war on Germany: Second World War begins
Age 13

26 May 1940

Dunkirk evacuation begins
Age 13

10 Jul 1940

Battle of Britain begins
Age 13

1940–1941

The Blitz
Age 15

23 Oct 1942

Battle of El Alamein
Age 15

1 Dec 1942

Beveridge Report published
Age 17

6 Jun 1944

D-Day landings
Age 17

3 Aug 1944

Education Act creates free secondary schooling
Age 18

8 May 1945

VE Day
Age 18

15 Aug 1945

VJ Day
Age 20

28 Jun 1947

Father Frank died
Age 20

15 Aug 1947

India and Pakistan become independent
Age 21

22 Jun 1948

HMT Empire Windrush arrives at Tilbury
Age 21

5 Jul 1948

National Health Service launched
Age 21

29 Jul 1948

London hosts the Olympic Games
Age 23

1950–1953

Korean War begins
Age c. 25

1952

Married Den Tilbrook at Surrey South Eastern, Surrey, United Kingdom
Age 25

6 Feb 1952

Accession of Queen Elizabeth II

Reigned 1952–2022
Age 25

5 Dec 1952

Great Smog of London
Age 26

31 Jan 1953

North Sea flood
Age 26

28 Feb 1953

Crick and Watson announce the structure of DNA
Age 26

29 May 1953

Hillary and Tenzing reach the summit of Everest
Age 26

2 Jun 1953

Coronation of Queen Elizabeth II
Age 27

6 May 1954

Roger Bannister runs the first sub-four-minute mile
Age 27

4 Jul 1954

Food rationing ends
Age 28

22 Sep 1955

ITV launches
Age 29

5 Jul 1956

Clean Air Act
Age 29

29 Oct 1956

Suez Crisis
Age 30

4 Oct 1957

Sputnik 1 launched: the Space Age begins
Age 31

6 Feb 1958

Munich air disaster

Eight Manchester United players among the dead.
Age 31

9 Jun 1958

Gatwick Airport officially opened

In Sussex.
Age 32

25 Jul 1959

First hovercraft crosses the Channel
Age 35

5 Oct 1962

The Beatles release their first single
Age 35

1962–1963

The Big Freeze

One of the coldest winters on record.
Age 36

22 Nov 1963

President Kennedy assassinated
Age 38

24 Jan 1965

Sir Winston Churchill dies
Age 38

8 Nov 1965

Death penalty for murder suspended
Age 39

30 Jul 1966

England win the World Cup
Age 39

21 Oct 1966

Aberfan disaster
Age 40

27 Oct 1967

Abortion Act
Age 42

2 Mar 1969

First flight of Concorde
Age 42

20 Jul 1969

First Moon landing
Age 44

15 Feb 1971

Decimal Day
Age 45

1 Jan 1973

Britain joins the European Economic Community
Age 49

21 Jan 1976

Concorde enters passenger service
Age 49

Jun 1976

The heatwave and drought of summer 1976
Age 50

7 Jun 1977

Queen's Silver Jubilee
Age 50

17 Sep 1977

Mother Queenie died
Age 51

25 Jul 1978

Louise Brown, the first IVF baby, is born
Age 52

4 May 1979

Margaret Thatcher becomes Prime Minister
Age 53

8 Dec 1980

John Lennon shot dead
Age 54

29 Jul 1981

Wedding of Prince Charles and Lady Diana Spencer
Age 55

2 Apr 1982

Falklands War
Age 57

1984–1985

Miners' strike
Age 58

13 Jul 1985

Live Aid
Age 59

26 Apr 1986

Chernobyl disaster
Age 59

29 Oct 1986

M25 motorway completed

It circles London through Surrey.
Age 60

6 Mar 1987

Herald of Free Enterprise ferry disaster
Age 60

16 Oct 1987

The Great Storm

Hurricane-force winds hit Surrey and Sussex especially hard.
Age 60

18 Nov 1987

King's Cross fire
Age 61

6 Jul 1988

Piper Alpha oil platform disaster
Age 61

21 Dec 1988

Lockerbie bombing
Age 62

Mar 1989

Tim Berners-Lee proposes the World Wide Web
Age 62

15 Apr 1989

Hillsborough disaster
Age 62

9 Nov 1989

Fall of the Berlin Wall
Age 63

22 Nov 1990

Margaret Thatcher resigns
Age 64

17 Jan 1991

Gulf War begins
Age 65

20 Feb 1992

The Premier League is formed
Age 66

24 Feb 1993

Bobby Moore dies
Age 67

6 May 1994

Channel Tunnel opens
Age 69

8 Jun 1996

Euro 96 begins in England
Age 69

5 Jul 1996

Dolly the sheep, the first cloned mammal, is born
Age 70

2 May 1997

Tony Blair becomes Prime Minister
Age 70

1 Jul 1997

Hong Kong handed back to China
Age 70

31 Aug 1997

Diana, Princess of Wales, dies
Age 71

10 Apr 1998

Good Friday Agreement
Age 72

26 May 1999

Manchester United win the Champions League and complete the Treble
Age 74

20 Feb 2001

Foot-and-mouth disease outbreak
Age 74

11 Sep 2001

September 11 attacks
Age 74

7 Oct 2001

War in Afghanistan begins
Age 76

20 Mar 2003

Iraq War begins
Age 76

22 Nov 2003

England win the Rugby World Cup
Age 78

7 Jul 2005

London bombings
Age 78

12 Sep 2005

England win the Ashes
Age 80

9 Jan 2007

Apple announces the iPhone
Age 81

15 Sep 2008

Lehman Brothers collapses: global financial crisis
Age 83

11 May 2010

Coalition government formed
Age 84

29 Apr 2011

Wedding of Prince William and Catherine Middleton
Age 85

27 Jul 2012

London hosts the Olympic Games
Age 89

2 May 2016

Leicester City win the Premier League
Age 89

23 Jun 2016

EU referendum
Age 90

14 Jun 2017

Grenfell Tower fire
Age 90

10 Nov 2017

Died at Worthing