05 May	1955: Dr Salk promotes polio vaccine in UK
07 May	1956: Minister rejects anti-smoking lobby
27 Jun	1957: Smoking 'causes lung cancer'
01 Oct	1957: British public gets 'Asian Flu' vaccine
29 Jan	1959: Fog brings transport chaos
04 Dec	1961: Birth control pill 'available to all'
26 Aug	1962: Abortion mother returns home
06 Dec	1962: Choking fog spreads across Britain
04 May	1966: Doctors and dentists get huge pay rise
26 Feb	1968: Hospital blaze kills 21 patients
19 Feb	1968: Damages for thalidomide children
03 May	1968: Surgeons conduct UK's first heart transplant
02 Oct	1968: Birth of sextuplets stuns Britain
06 Mar	1970: Rabies ban on British pet imports
13 Dec	1972: New offer for Thalidomide victims
30 Jul	1973: Final deal for thalidomide victims
02 Oct	1974: Cannabis 'causes brain damage'
07 Oct	1977: Invasion of Swedish identical twins
25 Jul	1978: First 'test tube baby' born
26 Jul	1983: Mother loses contraception test case
06 Dec	1983: Transplant makes British medical history
23 Apr	1984: Scientist finds Aids virus
23 Jul	1984: Sellafield 'not linked' to cancer cluster
07 Sep	1984: Epidemic 'spreads to second hospital'
13 Aug	1985: Heart-lung transplant makes history
11 Dec	1986: BBC Aids slogan angers church
03 Feb	1988: Nurses protest for better pay
03 Dec	1988: Egg industry fury over salmonella claim
25 Jul	1989: Diana opens Landmark Aids Centre
01 Aug	1989: Britain's oldest person turns 112
06 Jan	1992: US halts breast implants
26 Aug	1994: Man gets 'bionic' heart
13 Jun	1996: Guernsey votes to legalise abortion
06 Feb	1997: Widow allowed dead husband's baby
19 May	1997: Labour to stub out tobacco sponsorship
29 Sep	1997: Scientists confirm brain diseases link
30 Nov	1999: T-bone steaks on sale by Christmas
06 Jan	2000: Flu outbreak stretches NHS resources
10 Apr	2000: Damages for sacked HIV manager
27 May	2000: GM blunder leaves farmers in uproar
11 Jul	2000: Britain pioneers HIV vaccine
27 Jul	2000: Labour publishes plans to revolutionise NHS
22 Jan	2001: MMR triple vaccine declared safe
13 Feb	2001: Landmark Aids case begins in Scotland
19 Apr	2001: Drugs firms withdraw from Aids case
14 May	2001: Scientists warn of more CJD cases
15 May	2001: UK supermarkets slash price of drugs
13 Jul	2001: Family demand inquiry into police shooting
07 Aug	2001: NHS buys private hospital
21 Oct	2001: Anthrax claims third victim in US
22 Mar	2002: Woman granted 'right to die'
08 Jul	2003: Conjoined twins die in separation op