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Laurence Cecil Wright

Laurence Cecil Wright

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Born 14 MAR 1921
Parents John Eley Wright (Father) Family
Florence Mabel Stafford (Mother) Family
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In their lifetime
Born in the reign of George V
  • Birth
    14 Mar 1921
    Born
  • Age 2
    28 Apr 1923
    First FA Cup final at Wembley
  • Age 2
    22 Jan 1924
    First Labour government
  • Age 4
    26 Jan 1926
    John Logie Baird demonstrates television
  • Age 5
    3 May 1926
    General Strike begins
  • Age 7
    2 Jul 1928
    Women get the vote on equal terms with men
  • Age 7
    Sep 1928
    Alexander Fleming discovers penicillin
  • Age 8
    Oct 1929
    Wall Street Crash begins the Great Depression
  • Age 9
    5 Oct 1930
    R101 airship disaster
  • Age 14
    20 Jan 1936
    Accession of Edward VIII
  • Age 15
    2 Nov 1936
    BBC begins the world's first regular television service
  • Age 15
    11 Dec 1936
    Accession of George VI
    Reigned 1936–1952
  • Age 15
    11 Dec 1936
    Edward VIII abdicates
  • Age 16
    12 Apr 1937
    Frank Whittle runs the first jet engine
  • Age 18
    1939–1945
    Britain declares war on Germany: Second World War begins
  • Age 19
    26 May 1940
    Dunkirk evacuation begins
  • Age 19
    10 Jul 1940
    Battle of Britain begins
  • Age 19
    1940–1941
    The Blitz
  • Age 21
    23 Oct 1942
    Battle of El Alamein
  • Age 21
    1 Dec 1942
    Beveridge Report published
  • Age 23
    6 Jun 1944
    D-Day landings
  • Age 23
    3 Aug 1944
    Education Act creates free secondary schooling
  • Age 24
    8 May 1945
    VE Day
  • Age 24
    15 Aug 1945
    VJ Day
  • Age 26
    15 Aug 1947
    India and Pakistan become independent
  • Age 27
    22 Jun 1948
    HMT Empire Windrush arrives at Tilbury
  • Age 27
    5 Jul 1948
    National Health Service launched
  • Age 27
    29 Jul 1948
    London hosts the Olympic Games
  • Age 29
    1950–1953
    Korean War begins
  • Age 30
    6 Feb 1952
    Accession of Queen Elizabeth II
    Reigned 1952–2022
  • Age 31
    5 Dec 1952
    Great Smog of London
  • Age 31
    31 Jan 1953
    North Sea flood
  • Age 31
    28 Feb 1953
    Crick and Watson announce the structure of DNA
  • Age 32
    29 May 1953
    Hillary and Tenzing reach the summit of Everest
  • Age 32
    2 Jun 1953
    Coronation of Queen Elizabeth II
  • Age 33
    6 May 1954
    Roger Bannister runs the first sub-four-minute mile
  • Age 33
    4 Jul 1954
    Food rationing ends
  • Age 34
    22 Sep 1955
    ITV launches
  • Age 35
    5 Jul 1956
    Clean Air Act
  • Age 35
    29 Oct 1956
    Suez Crisis
  • Age 36
    4 Oct 1957
    Sputnik 1 launched: the Space Age begins
  • Age 36
    6 Feb 1958
    Munich air disaster
    Eight Manchester United players among the dead.
  • Age 37
    9 Jun 1958
    Gatwick Airport officially opened
    In Sussex.
  • Age 38
    25 Jul 1959
    First hovercraft crosses the Channel
  • Age 41
    5 Oct 1962
    The Beatles release their first single
  • Age 41
    1962–1963
    The Big Freeze
    One of the coldest winters on record.
  • Age 42
    22 Nov 1963
    President Kennedy assassinated
  • Age 43
    24 Jan 1965
    Sir Winston Churchill dies
  • Age 44
    8 Nov 1965
    Death penalty for murder suspended
  • Age 45
    30 Jul 1966
    England win the World Cup
  • Age 45
    21 Oct 1966
    Aberfan disaster
  • Age 46
    27 Oct 1967
    Abortion Act
  • Age 47
    2 Mar 1969
    First flight of Concorde
  • Age 48
    20 Jul 1969
    First Moon landing
  • Age 49
    15 Feb 1971
    Decimal Day
  • Age 51
    1 Jan 1973
    Britain joins the European Economic Community
  • Age 54
    21 Jan 1976
    Concorde enters passenger service
  • Age 55
    Jun 1976
    The heatwave and drought of summer 1976
  • Age 56
    7 Jun 1977
    Queen's Silver Jubilee
  • Age 57
    18 May 1978
    Father John Eley died
  • Age 57
    25 Jul 1978
    Louise Brown, the first IVF baby, is born
  • Age 58
    4 May 1979
    Margaret Thatcher becomes Prime Minister
  • Age 59
    22 Apr 1980
    Mother Florence Mabel died
  • Age 59
    8 Dec 1980
    John Lennon shot dead
  • Age 60
    29 Jul 1981
    Wedding of Prince Charles and Lady Diana Spencer
  • Age 61
    2 Apr 1982
    Falklands War
  • Age 62
    1984–1985
    Miners' strike
  • Age 64
    13 Jul 1985
    Live Aid
  • Age 65
    26 Apr 1986
    Chernobyl disaster
  • Age 65
    29 Oct 1986
    M25 motorway completed
    It circles London through Surrey.
  • Age 65
    6 Mar 1987
    Herald of Free Enterprise ferry disaster
  • Age 66
    16 Oct 1987
    The Great Storm
    Hurricane-force winds hit Surrey and Sussex especially hard.
  • Age 66
    18 Nov 1987
    King's Cross fire
  • Age 67
    6 Jul 1988
    Piper Alpha oil platform disaster
  • Age 67
    21 Dec 1988
    Lockerbie bombing
  • Age 68
    Mar 1989
    Tim Berners-Lee proposes the World Wide Web
  • Age 68
    15 Apr 1989
    Hillsborough disaster
  • Age 68
    9 Nov 1989
    Fall of the Berlin Wall
  • Age 69
    22 Nov 1990
    Margaret Thatcher resigns
  • Age 69
    17 Jan 1991
    Gulf War begins
  • Age 70
    20 Feb 1992
    The Premier League is formed
  • Age 71
    24 Feb 1993
    Bobby Moore dies
  • Age 73
    6 May 1994
    Channel Tunnel opens
  • Age 75
    8 Jun 1996
    Euro 96 begins in England
  • Age 75
    5 Jul 1996
    Dolly the sheep, the first cloned mammal, is born
  • Age 76
    2 May 1997
    Tony Blair becomes Prime Minister
  • Age 76
    1 Jul 1997
    Hong Kong handed back to China
  • Age 76
    31 Aug 1997
    Diana, Princess of Wales, dies
  • Age 77
    10 Apr 1998
    Good Friday Agreement
  • Age 78
    26 May 1999
    Manchester United win the Champions League and complete the Treble
  • Age 79
    20 Feb 2001
    Foot-and-mouth disease outbreak
  • Age 80
    11 Sep 2001
    September 11 attacks
  • Age 80
    7 Oct 2001
    War in Afghanistan begins
Death date unknown, so events are shown up to age 80.