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Joseph Orton

Joseph Orton

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Born 1917
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In their lifetime
Born in the reign of George V
  • Birth
    1917
    Born
  • Year of birth
    31 Jul 1917
    Battle of Passchendaele begins
  • Age c. 1
    6 Feb 1918
    Some women get the vote
    Representation of the People Act.
  • Age c. 1
    1918–1919
    Spanish flu pandemic
  • Age c. 1
    11 Nov 1918
    Armistice ends the First World War
  • Age c. 2
    14 Jun 1919
    Alcock and Brown make the first non-stop transatlantic flight
  • Age c. 6
    28 Apr 1923
    First FA Cup final at Wembley
  • Age c. 7
    22 Jan 1924
    First Labour government
  • Age c. 9
    26 Jan 1926
    John Logie Baird demonstrates television
  • Age c. 9
    3 May 1926
    General Strike begins
  • Age c. 11
    2 Jul 1928
    Women get the vote on equal terms with men
  • Age c. 11
    Sep 1928
    Alexander Fleming discovers penicillin
  • Age c. 12
    Oct 1929
    Wall Street Crash begins the Great Depression
  • Age c. 13
    5 Oct 1930
    R101 airship disaster
  • Age c. 19
    20 Jan 1936
    Accession of Edward VIII
  • Age c. 19
    2 Nov 1936
    BBC begins the world's first regular television service
  • Age c. 19
    11 Dec 1936
    Accession of George VI
    Reigned 1936–1952
  • Age c. 19
    11 Dec 1936
    Edward VIII abdicates
  • Age c. 20
    12 Apr 1937
    Frank Whittle runs the first jet engine
  • Age c. 22
    1939–1945
    Britain declares war on Germany: Second World War begins
  • Age c. 23
    26 May 1940
    Dunkirk evacuation begins
  • Age c. 23
    10 Jul 1940
    Battle of Britain begins
  • Age c. 23
    1940–1941
    The Blitz
  • Age c. 25
    23 Oct 1942
    Battle of El Alamein
  • Age c. 25
    1 Dec 1942
    Beveridge Report published
  • Age c. 27
    6 Jun 1944
    D-Day landings
  • Age c. 27
    3 Aug 1944
    Education Act creates free secondary schooling
  • Age c. 28
    8 May 1945
    VE Day
  • Age c. 28
    15 Aug 1945
    VJ Day
  • Age c. 30
    1947
    Married Doris Knight
  • Age c. 30
    15 Aug 1947
    India and Pakistan become independent
  • Age c. 31
    22 Jun 1948
    HMT Empire Windrush arrives at Tilbury
  • Age c. 31
    5 Jul 1948
    National Health Service launched
  • Age c. 31
    29 Jul 1948
    London hosts the Olympic Games
  • Age c. 33
    1950–1953
    Korean War begins
  • Age c. 35
    6 Feb 1952
    Accession of Queen Elizabeth II
    Reigned 1952–2022
  • Age c. 35
    5 Dec 1952
    Great Smog of London
  • Age c. 36
    31 Jan 1953
    North Sea flood
  • Age c. 36
    28 Feb 1953
    Crick and Watson announce the structure of DNA
  • Age c. 36
    29 May 1953
    Hillary and Tenzing reach the summit of Everest
  • Age c. 36
    2 Jun 1953
    Coronation of Queen Elizabeth II
  • Age c. 37
    6 May 1954
    Roger Bannister runs the first sub-four-minute mile
  • Age c. 37
    4 Jul 1954
    Food rationing ends
  • Age c. 38
    22 Sep 1955
    ITV launches
  • Age c. 39
    5 Jul 1956
    Clean Air Act
  • Age c. 39
    29 Oct 1956
    Suez Crisis
  • Age c. 40
    4 Oct 1957
    Sputnik 1 launched: the Space Age begins
  • Age c. 41
    6 Feb 1958
    Munich air disaster
    Eight Manchester United players among the dead.
  • Age c. 41
    9 Jun 1958
    Gatwick Airport officially opened
    In Sussex.
  • Age c. 42
    25 Jul 1959
    First hovercraft crosses the Channel
  • Age c. 45
    5 Oct 1962
    The Beatles release their first single
  • Age c. 45
    1962–1963
    The Big Freeze
    One of the coldest winters on record.
  • Age c. 46
    22 Nov 1963
    President Kennedy assassinated
  • Age c. 48
    24 Jan 1965
    Sir Winston Churchill dies
  • Age c. 48
    8 Nov 1965
    Death penalty for murder suspended
  • Age c. 49
    30 Jul 1966
    England win the World Cup
  • Age c. 49
    21 Oct 1966
    Aberfan disaster
  • Age c. 50
    27 Oct 1967
    Abortion Act
  • Age c. 52
    2 Mar 1969
    First flight of Concorde
  • Age c. 52
    20 Jul 1969
    First Moon landing
  • Age c. 54
    15 Feb 1971
    Decimal Day
  • Age c. 56
    1 Jan 1973
    Britain joins the European Economic Community
  • Age c. 59
    21 Jan 1976
    Concorde enters passenger service
  • Age c. 59
    Jun 1976
    The heatwave and drought of summer 1976
  • Age c. 60
    7 Jun 1977
    Queen's Silver Jubilee
  • Age c. 61
    25 Jul 1978
    Louise Brown, the first IVF baby, is born
  • Age c. 62
    4 May 1979
    Margaret Thatcher becomes Prime Minister
  • Age c. 63
    8 Dec 1980
    John Lennon shot dead
  • Age c. 64
    29 Jul 1981
    Wedding of Prince Charles and Lady Diana Spencer
  • Age c. 65
    2 Apr 1982
    Falklands War
  • Age c. 67
    1984–1985
    Miners' strike
  • Age c. 68
    13 Jul 1985
    Live Aid
  • Age c. 69
    26 Apr 1986
    Chernobyl disaster
  • Age c. 69
    29 Oct 1986
    M25 motorway completed
    It circles London through Surrey.
  • Age c. 70
    6 Mar 1987
    Herald of Free Enterprise ferry disaster
  • Age c. 70
    16 Oct 1987
    The Great Storm
    Hurricane-force winds hit Surrey and Sussex especially hard.
  • Age c. 70
    18 Nov 1987
    King's Cross fire
  • Age c. 71
    6 Jul 1988
    Piper Alpha oil platform disaster
  • Age c. 71
    21 Dec 1988
    Lockerbie bombing
  • Age c. 72
    Mar 1989
    Tim Berners-Lee proposes the World Wide Web
  • Age c. 72
    15 Apr 1989
    Hillsborough disaster
  • Age c. 72
    9 Nov 1989
    Fall of the Berlin Wall
  • Age c. 73
    22 Nov 1990
    Margaret Thatcher resigns
  • Age c. 74
    17 Jan 1991
    Gulf War begins
  • Age c. 75
    20 Feb 1992
    The Premier League is formed
  • Age c. 76
    24 Feb 1993
    Bobby Moore dies
  • Age c. 77
    6 May 1994
    Channel Tunnel opens
  • Age c. 79
    8 Jun 1996
    Euro 96 begins in England
  • Age c. 79
    5 Jul 1996
    Dolly the sheep, the first cloned mammal, is born
  • Age c. 80
    2 May 1997
    Tony Blair becomes Prime Minister
  • Age c. 80
    1 Jul 1997
    Hong Kong handed back to China
  • Age c. 80
    31 Aug 1997
    Diana, Princess of Wales, dies
Death date unknown, so events are shown up to age 80.