DATE
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UNITED KINGDOM
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REST OF THE WORLD
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DUDLEY
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AGE
OF
ST JOHN’S
CHURCH
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ST JOHN’S CHURCH
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1917
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· Sexual revolution as women work in munitions factories, shops, offices, voluntary services, hospitals and transport.
· All German titles and names are renounced by the royal family, who adopt the name Windsor
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· United States declares war on Germany
· Bolsheviks led by Vladimir Lenin seize power in Russia
· Germans use shells loaded with mustard gas
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77 years old
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1918
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· Food rationing introduced
· Women over 30 get vote in Britain
· Formation of the Royal Air Force
· National Debt £7,000 million
· Spanish Influenza pandemic kills 21,640,000 people, Asia, Europe and North America
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· First three colour electric traffic light, New York, USA
· Tsar Nicholas and all Russian royal family murdered
· Germany signs Armistice - WW1 ends
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78 years old
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1919
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· Lady Astor first woman MP
· Battle of George Square, army called in to riots against high rents in Glasgow
· P.G. Wodehouse, My Man Jeeves
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· Rebellion in Ireland led by Irish Nationalist movement Sinn Fein
· Frank Winfield Woolworth dies, founder of Woolworths
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79 years old
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1920
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· British Legion founded
· Women at Oxford are allowed to receive degrees
· Women’s new found social and economic independence reflected in fashions and a degree of permissiveness in social behaviour - ‘The Gay Twenties’
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· First hairdryers, USA
· Prohibition, USA
· Women receive the vote, USA
· Joan of Arc canonised (made a saint)
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80 years old
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· Lych Gate erected, as a Parish Memorial to the men who lost their lives in the 1914-18 war
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1921
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· Economic slump.Two million unemployed.
· Income taxes rise affecting the middle and upper classes
· Trade Union memberships reach over 8 million
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· Brigadier General William Mitchell sinks a former Geman battleship using air power to prove his contention that a strategic air force is more useful than a large navy
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81 years old
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1922
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· Readers Digest founded
· Public have to accept reduced wages
· TV Licence fee, ten shillings
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· First car radio, USA
· Tomb of Tutankhamen discovered, Egypt
· Germany recognises the Soviet Union
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82 years old
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1923
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· First outside broadcast, BBC
· Wedding Prince Albert to Lady Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon
· Wembley Stadium opened
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· Adolf Hitler attempts a coup in Munich but fails
· Time magazine starts, USA
· Electric razor patented, USA
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83 years old
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· Church organist since 1890 Mr A. Clifford-Duesbury replaced and Mr A.W. Hartland takes over (until 1945)
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1924
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· Ramsay MacDonald forms first Labour Government
· GMT, hourly signals from Royal Greenwich Observatory broadcast for the first time
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· First deep freezing of fruit and veg, USA
· First crossword in the UK - in the Sunday Express
· Ford Motor Company produce their 10 millionth car
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84 years old
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· Rev David Henry Stanley replaces Rev Powell (serves until 1925)
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1925
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· First double decker buses
· First shortwave transmissions
· Margaret Thatcher, Peter Sellers, George Cole, born
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· Chrysler Corporation founded
· Official name of Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes changed to Yugoslavia
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85 years old
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· Rev Bertram Henry Green replaces Rev Stanley (serves until 1941)
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1926
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· John Logie Baird demonstrates television in London
· A.A. Milne, Winnie-the-Pooh
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· Invention of 4 wheel drive, France and Germany
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86 years old
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· Peal of 8 tubular bells, dedicated May 30th, to replace the peal of ten bells. Previous peal of ten bells presented to the church by the sons of Edward Truelove Terry as a memorial to their father, died 1887.
· Mr Terry was churchwarden for nine years and a great benefactor to the church, remembered by Terry Street.
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