1950:
Hunt For Missing Atomic Scientist
The British intelligence service MI5 has been brought into the hunt for
the missing atomic scientist Bruno Pontecorvo who has not been seen for
about seven weeks.
1951:
Churchill Wins General Election The Conservative
Party has won the general election by a small majority, making Winston
Churchill prime minister for the second time. Mr Churchill is nearly 77
and the second oldest prime minister in history. William Gladstone was
83 when he formed his last government.
1952:
New Queen Proclaimed For UK Princess Elizabeth has formally proclaimed
herself Queen and Head of the Commonwealth and Defender of the Faith.
1953:
130 Die In Ferry Aisaster
A car ferry has sunk in the
Irish Sea in one of the worst gales in living memory claiming the lives
of more than 130 passengers and crew.
1954:
Bannister Breaks Four-Minute Mile Roger Bannister,
a 25-year-old British medical student, has become the first man to run
a mile in less than four minutes.
1955:
Albert Einstein Dies Albert Einstein has died in hospital in Princeton,
New Jersey, aged 76. The eminent scientist and originator of the theory
of relativity was admitted to hospital three days ago with an internal
complaint.
Congratualtions to all the
kids who were born in 1950's, 60's and 70's!!
First, we survived being born to mothers who smoked and/or drank while they carried us. They took aspirin, tuna from a tin, and didn't get tested for diabetes. Then after that trauma, our baby cots were covered with lead-based paints. We had no child proof lids on medicine bottles, doors or cabinets, and when we rode our bikes we had no helmets, not to mention the risks we took hitchiking. As children, we would ride in cars with no seatbelts or air bags. Riding in the back of a van -loose- was always great fun. We drank water from the garden hosepipe and NOT from a bottle. We shared one soft drink with four friends, from one bottle and NO ONE actually died from this. We ate cakes, white bread and drank pop with sugar in it, we wern't overweight because...... WE WERE ALWAYS OUTSIDE PLAYING!
WE would leave home in the morning and play all day, as long as we were back when the streetlights came on. No onewas able to reach us all day. And we were ok. We would spend hourse building our go-karts out of scraps and then ride down the hill, only to find out we forgot the brakes. After runnin into the bushes a few times, we learned to solve the problem.We did not have playstations, nintendos, xboxes, no video games at all, no hundread channels on sky, no dvd movies, no surround sound, no mobile phones, no text messaging, no personal computers, no internet or internet chat rooms...... WE HAD FRIENDS and we went outside and found them!
We fell out of trees, got cuts, got bruises and broken bones and there were no law suits from these accidents. We played with worms and mud pies made from dirt, and the worms did not live in us forever. We made up games with sticks and tennis balls and although we were told it would happen, we did not poke out any eyes. We rode bikes or walked to a friend's house
This generation has produced some of the best risk takers, problem solvers and inventers ever! the past 50 years have been an explosion of innovation and new ideas. We had freedom, failure, success and responsibility, and WE LEARNED HOW TO DEAL WITH IT ALL!! Congratultions to all the kids who were inborn in the 1950's, 60's and 70's!!!