There’s an old curse which goes “may you live in interesting times”. But of course that can work both ways; we always do live in interesting times, but not necessarily for the negative reasons the curse implies. Sometimes the interestingness is goodness.
As a reflection of this, and because in the last month I’ve become a state-registered geriatric, I thought we’d have an historical “ten things” this month.
So here are 10 UK Historical Events in My Lifetime:
- Margaret Thatcher becomes the first female British Prime Minister (1979)
- Death of Winston Churchill (1965)
- Accession of Elizabeth II (1952)
- Britain joins the European Economic Community (as the EU then was) (1973)
- Falklands War (1982)
- Roger Bannister runs first sub-4 minute mile (1954)
- Profumo Affair (1963)
- Great Train Robbery (1963)
- Voting age lowered to 18 (1969)
- Decimalisation of coinage (1971)