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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1937
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· First jet engine, Frank Whittle
· Duke of Windsor marries Wallis Simpson
· Coronation of King George VI
· First issue of the Dandy
· IRA attempt to assasinate King George VI
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· Launch of Nescafe instant coffee, Swiss
· First supermarket trolley, USA
· Nylon patented, USA
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97 years old
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· Efforts consumated begun during 1914-18 war to free the Church from pew rents. A sum of £700, the major part of which was the result of a four day bazaar was handed to the Ecclesiastical Commissioners, and this increased the value of the benefice by £84 per annum
· Pew rents abolished forever, July 1st, after 20 years efforts
· Many former pew holders and others joined the ‘Friends of St John’s’ which was formed as afree will offering scheme with the purpose of restoring the fabric of the church
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1938
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· John Baird gives first demonstration of colour TV, Dominion Theatre, London
· Sigmund Freud arrives in London having fled from Austria
· Neville Chamberlain ‘Peace in Our Time’ speech
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· First VW Beetle mass produced
· Ballpoint pen invented, Hungary
· German Chemist Otto Hahn succeeds in splitting the uranium atom, releasing energy
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98 years old
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· Processional cross made and given by Mr A. Dudley Cheese, Esq
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1939
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· Britain and France declare war on Germany - start of WW2
· First Anderson shelter
· Evacuation of children from cities
· John Cleese, Peter Purves, Jackie Stewart, born
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· Hitler invades Poland
· Spanish civil war ends, 410,000 killed plus 200,000 by starvation or disease
· Earthquake in Turkey, 45,000 killed
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99 years old
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· Mission Room in Cawney Hill ceased to be used due to demolition of surrounding houses
· 1939-1945 Church Hall used as a British Restuarant and Rest Centre, and as a Warden Post
· Plans were in preparation for a Mission Church on the Roseland Estate to serve the most populous part of the Parish, as war broke out. A site was reserved and help promised from Bishop of Worcester’s funds.
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1940
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· Battle of Britain and the Blitz
· Neville Chamberlain resigns Winston Churchill takes over as Prime Minister
· Local Defence Volunteers later called the Home Guard, formed
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· Nylon stockings, USA
· 300,000 men of British and Allied forces evacuated from Dunkirk
· German troops enter Paris, France appeals to USA for help - USA declines
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100 years old
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· During the war all services and organisations continued
· Several improvements inside the Church - a small number of pews removed to give much needed floor space, the entire floor of the sanctuary was re-laid and the chancel redecorated
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1941
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· Major German blitz on Coventry
· House of Commons destroyed in an air raid
· Rudolf Hess flies to Scotland and is imprisoned
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· Japanese bomb Pearl Harbour, Hawaii and Malaya
· Nazis slaughter up to 96,000 Ukrainians
· Britain and USA declare war on Japan
· Full employment returns to US as it enters WWII
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101 years old
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· Rev Thomas Norman Crowther-Green replaces Rev Green (serves until 1946)
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1942
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· RAF makes a 1000 bomber raid on Bremen
· Desert Island discs first broadcast
· Princess Elizabeth registers for war service
· Soap rationing
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· Japanese invade the Dutch East Indies, Burma and Java
· Battle of Stalingrad, 750,000 Russian soldiers die, 400,000 German soldiers die
· First CCTV camera installed, military, Germany
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102 years old
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1943
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· Operation Chastise (Dam Buster raid)
· Colossus computer to break German encryption
· Terry Venables, Freddie Starr, Tony Blackburn, George Harrison, Eric Idle, Michael Palin, Mick Jagger, born
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· Casablanca conference, (Roosevelt, Giraud, de Gaulle, Churchill) culminates in General Eisenhower as Commander of unified forces in North Africa
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103 years old
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1944
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· First flying bomb dropped on London
· Butler Act creates free secondary education
· PAYE tax introduced
· Home Guard is stood down
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· RAF drops 2300 tons of bombs on Berlin
· D-Day, allies land in Normandy, Germans retreat
· First automatic calculator (weighed 5 tonnes), USA
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104 years old
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1945
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· George Orwell, Animal Farm
· VE Day celebrated, street parties throughout UK
· BBC Light programme launched
· Rod Stewart, Eric Clapton, Van Morrison, born
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· Germany surrenders, Hitler commits suicide, age 56 years
· First atomic bomb exploded experimentally, USA
· US drop atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japan, Japan surrenders
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105 years old
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1946
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· First UN Assembly opens in London
· Bread rationing because of worldwide shortage of wheat
· William Joyce, ‘Lord Haw Haw’ hanged for broadcasts made during the war
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· First universal electronic computer, USA (weighed 30 tonnes)
· First bikini, France
· Nuremberg Trials, 13 Nazis convicted of crimes against humanity
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106 years old
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· Rev Wallace Francis Cox inducted, replacing Rev Crowther-Green (serves 2 years)
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