08 Mar	1950: Gas turbine car gets road test
26 May	1950: UK drivers cheer end of fuel rations
02 May	1952: Comet inaugurates the jet age
16 Apr	1953: Queen launches Royal Yacht Britannia
04 May	1953: Duke of Edinburgh gets his wings
16 Dec	1955: Queen opens London Airport terminal
23 Jun	1955: Queen Elizabeth sails on schedule
09 Jun	1958: Queen opens revamped Gatwick
23 Jul	1957: Bus dispute turns violent
29 Jan	1959: Fog brings transport chaos
11 Jun	1959: Hovercraft marks new era in transport
26 Jun	1959: Queen and Eisenhower open seaway
14 Jun	1961: Panda replaces zebra at road crossing
02 Apr	1962: New pedestrian crossings cause chaos
21 Mar	1963: Train drives itself
06 Feb	1964: Green light for Channel Tunnel
16 Feb	1965: Beeching plans for 'bloated' railways
23 May	1966: Emergency laws over seamen's strike
15 Jun	1966: Hovercraft deal opens show
12 May	1967: Stansted to become London's third airport
20 Sep	1967: Queen Elizabeth 2 takes to the waves
05 Nov	1967: Forty die in Hither Green rail crash
02 Mar	1969: Concorde flies for the first time
22 Jan	1970: Heathrow welcomes first 'jumbo jet'
16 Jul	1970: State of emergency called over dock strike
19 Oct	1970: Large oil field found in North Sea
13 Oct	1971: Army blasts N Ireland border roads
26 Sep	1973: Concorde slashes Atlantic flight time
23 Nov	1984: London tube fire traps hundreds
15 Feb	1974: No hope of survivors from missing Gaul trawler
15 Dec	1974: New speed limit to curb fuel use
28 Feb	1975: Dozens killed in Moorgate Tube crash
04 Oct	1976: New train speeds into service
16 Dec	1977: Queen opens 'tube' link to Heathrow
06 Jul	1978: Eleven die in sleeper train inferno
25 Jul	1978: Motability gets moving in the UK
27 Jul	1978: Transatlantic balloonists in trouble
05 Feb	1982: Laker Airways goes bust
07 Oct	1985: Gunmen hijack Italian cruise liner
04 Feb	1988: Defiant seamen strike on
16 Jul	1987: Great British airline ready for take off
16 Oct	1987: Hurricane winds batter southern England
01 Dec	1990: Tunnel links UK and Europe
06 Jul	1992: Riot police confront French truckers
01 Feb	1994: MPs condemn sale of Rover
01 May	1994: Race ace Senna killed in car crash
06 May	1994: President and Queen open Chunnel
28 Sep	1994: Hundreds feared dead in ferry disaster
18 Jan	1996: Green groups join bypass battle
05 Oct	1999: Death toll rising in Paddington crash
12 May	2000: Ford quits Dagenham after 70 years
25 Jul	2000: Concorde crash kills 113
08 Sep	2000: French fuel protests spread to UK
15 Sep	2000: UK fuel protesters go back home
15 Jul	2000: Police camera action violates human rights
24 Oct	2003: End of an era for Concorde
28 Dec	2003: Britain gives go-ahead for 'sky marshals'