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| This monarch is crowned. | Queen Elizabeth II | | 93.8% | | This sea experiences a severe storm surge, causing widespread flooding and loss of life across the UK, the Netherlands and Belgium. | North Sea | | 85.8% | | James Watson and Francis Crick announce that they have discovered the structure of this molecule. | DNA | | 85.4% | | On the same day, The Times exclusively carries James Morris' scoop of the conquest of this mountain by a British Expedition on 29th May. | Mount Everest | | 85% | | This Yugoslav leader becomes the first Communist leader to visit the UK. | Josep Tito | | 76.5% | | Ian Fleming publishes this novel, the first to feature James Bond. | Casino Royale | | 73.8% | | This largely telephone based charity, aiming to provide support to people undergoing emotional stress or at risk of suicide, is started by the Rev. Chad Varah in London. | Samaritans | | 66.2% | | This royal, consort to the late George V, dies in her sleep at Marborough House. | Queen Mary | | 62.3% | | This BBC current affairs series begins broadcasting; it continues to air to this day. | Panorama | | 58.1% | | In the first FA Cup final to be televised, this Lancashire club wins their first major trophy after coming back from 3-1 down to win 4-3, with Stanley Matthews instrumental. | Blackpool | | 57.7% |
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| The Government sends troops to this South American colony, blaming communists for causing unrest. | British Guiana | | 56.2% | | Post-War rationing of this basic foodstuff ends. | Sugar | | 54.6% | | The England national football team suffer a 6-3 defeat to this European nation at Wembley, ending a 90-year unbeaten home run against non-British sides. | Hungary | | 53.1% | | These fossilised remains, thought to be a hitherto unknown form of early human, are exposed as a hoax. | Piltdown Man | | 45.4% | | The first roll-on|roll-off ferry crossing of the English Channel takes place, from Dover to this French town. | Boulogne | | 31.5% | | A strain of this disease, affecting rabbits, arrives in the UK for the first time after being illegally introduced on an estate in West Sussex. | Myxomatosis | | 31.5% | | This man is executed at Wandsworth Prison for his part in the murder of PC Sidney Miles. | Derek Bentley | | 25.4% | | Eskdalemuir, a small village in the south of Scotland, sets a new record for the highest rainfall in a 30 minute period, with this amount of rain falling (answer in mm, ± 3). | 80 mm | | 20% | | This car ferry, sailing from Stranraer, Scotland, to Larne, Northern Ireland, sinks in the Irish Sea, killing 133 people, including the Deputy PM of Northern Ireland. | MV Princess Victoria | | 6.5% |
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