February 26........In Daventry, Robert Watson-Watt first
demonstrates the use of radar.
March 12 ............Speed limit in built-up areas reduced
to 30 m.p.h.
May 6 .................Silver Jubilee celebrations for King George V.
May 31 ..............The driving test becomes required
June 7 .................Ramsay MacDonald retires; Stanley Baldwin takes over as Prime Minister.
June 18 ...............Anglo-German Naval Agreement: Britain
agrees to a German navy equal to 35% of her
own naval tonnage.
June ...................Alfred Hitchcock's film The 39 Steps released
in the U.K.
July 12 ................Rioting breaks out in Belfast following Orange parades; by the end of
August, eight Protestants and five Catholics have been killed, hundreds
injured and over 2,000 homes destroyed (almost all Catholic).
July 30 ................Allen Lane founds Penguin Books to publish the fi rst mass market
paperbacks in Britain.
September 12 .....An underground explosion at North
Gawber (Lidgett) colliery, Barnsley,
South Yorkshire, kills nineteen.
October ..............First steel produced from new works at
Corby.
October 8 ..........Clement Attlee is appointed as interim
leader of the Labour Party in succession
to George Lansbury.
November 4 ......Opening of Hornsey Town Hall,
London, designed by Reginald Uren,
the first major U.K. building in the
International style.
November 6 ......Maiden fl ight of the Royal Air Force’s
Hawker Hurricane fi ghter aircraft.
November 14 ......In the General Election, Prime Minister
Stanley Baldwin is returned to offi ce at
the head of a National Government led
by the Conservative Party with a large
but reduced majority.
November 26 ......–In the Labour Party leadership
election, Clement Attlee is confirmed
as leader.
– Release of Scrooge, the first all-
talking full-length film version of
Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol,
with Sir Seymour Hicks in the title role.
December 10 ......James Chadwick wins the Nobel Prize
in Physics for the discovery of the
neutron.
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