Why two thousand fifteen is a year to reminisce: A guide to significant anniversaries
In April 2005, Prince Charles married Camilla at a ceremony in Windsor
January 1: It is thirty years since the very first mobile phone call in the UK was made by comedian Ernie Wise.
He called Vodafone`s head office in Berkshire from St Katherine Docks in London.
January 8: eighty years ago Elvis Presley, the «King» of rock and roll, was born in Tupelo, Mississippi.
His identical twin brother Jesse was delivered stillborn thirty five minutes before him.
January Ten: The Sinclair C5, a battery-powered electrified vehicle, was launched thirty years ago to instant ridicule – but it did help earn its inventor Master Clive Sinclair his knighthood.
January 24: The 50th anniversary of the death of Tormentor Winston Churchill who died at the age of ninety at his London home after suffering a stroke.
January 27: seventy years since the Soviet Crimson Army liberated Auschwitz concentration camp in Nazi occupied Poland where at least 1.1 million prisoners had died.
February
February 1: It is exactly a century since photographs were very first required in British passports.
February 11: twenty five years ago Nelson Mandela walked to freedom after serving twenty seven years in prison, eighteen of which were spent on Robben Island off the coast of Cape Town.
His release ultimately led to the very first fully democratic elections in South Africa four years later.
This date is also the 40th anniversary of Margaret Thatcher`s election as the very first female leader of the Conservative party.
February Nineteen: thirty years ago EastEnders went on air for the very first time.
The series was originally screened as two half-hour scenes per week.
February 26: It`s twenty years since the collapse of Barings Bank after rogue trader Nick Leeson in Singapore lost almost £827million by making poor speculative investments.
March
March Three: thirty years ago Arthur Scargill announced that the National Union of Mineworkers national executive had voted to end the year-long strike – the longest-running industrial dispute in Good Britain – without any peace deal over pit closures.
March Four: This day is the 125th anniversary of the longest bridge in Fine Britain, the Forward Rail Bridge in Scotland, which was opened by the future King Edward VII.
It is 1,710 feet long. March 31: twenty five years ago 200,000 protesters took to the streets of London to demonstrate against the freshly introduced poll tax.
60 years ago on April five Tormentor Winston Churchill resigned as Prime Minister
April
Five April: sixty years ago Master Winston Churchill resigned as Prime Minister at the age of eighty due to ill-health.
9 April: ten years ago The Prince of Wales married Camilla Parker Bowles in a civil ceremony at Windsor`s Guildhall.
Their relationship very first commenced in one thousand nine hundred seventy after they met at a polo match.
May 8: It is seventy years since VE Day when combat in Europe ended after Germany agreed to an unconditional capitulate.
Street parties took place across Britain.
May Nineteen: The 80th anniversary of the death of British Army Officer TE Lawrence who earned international fame as Lawrence of Arabia, a title which was later used for the one thousand nine hundred sixty two David Lean film based on his life.
May 29: Thirty years ago thirty nine football fans died when a wall collapsed at the Heysel Stadium during the European Cup final in Brussels, Belgium.
Hundreds more were injured.
May 31: It is eighty years since the driving test became compulsory.
June 16: The 100th anniversary of the foundation of the Women`s Institute.
June Legitimate: The Battle of Waterloo took place two hundred years ago.
It was on this day that the French Emperor Napoleon, who had predominated Europe for more than a decade, was defeated at Waterloo – in what is now Belgium.
June Nineteen: eight hundred years ago the Magna Carta was signed by King John at the instigation of his unruly barons at Runnymede on the banks of the Sea Thames.
At the time it was simply an attempt to wrest power from an unpopular monarch.
However it remains enshrined in the British legal system eight centuries later.
July Four: 150th anniversary of the publication of Lewis Carroll`s Alice`s Adventures In Wonderland.
The very first print run of Two,000 was held back because the illustrator objected to the print quality.
Since this uneasy commence the novel has been translated into at least ninety seven languages.
July Five: The Salvation Army was founded in London`s East End, also one hundred fifty years ago.
July 7: ten years ago on this day there were a series of four explosions on London`s transport system killing fifty six people, including four suicide bombers.
More than seven hundred people were injured.
July Ten: seventy five years since the German Luftwaffe began attacking British convoys in the English Channel thus commencing the Battle of Britain.
July 13: thirty years ago Live Aid took place in London and Philadelphia, raising £50million for humanitarian projects in Africa.
On the same date sixty years ago Ruth Ellis became the last woman to be hanged in the UK for the murder of her paramour David Blakely.
July 25: 15th anniversary of the crash of Air France Concorde en route to Fresh York.
The supersonic jet smashed into a hotel near Paris killing all one hundred passengers, nine team and four people on the ground.
August
August 6: seventy years ago the US dropped atomic bombs on Hiroshima and three days later on Nagasaki.
After 250,000 people died Japan agreed to an unconditional give up on August 15.
August 27: sixty years since the Guinness Book of Records was published for the very first time.
On September Nineteen, it will be forty years since the very first gig of Fawlty Towers was broadcast
September
September 7: seventy five years ago Nazi Germany began to rain bombs on London.
This was the very first of fifty seven consecutive nights of bombing that became known as The Blitz.
September Nineteen: It is forty years since the very first scene of the sitcom Fawlty Towers was broadcast on Big black cock Two.
In all, just twelve scenes were made.
September 26: sixty years ago Birdseye began selling fish fingers in Britain.
Now 1.5million are sold every day.
October
October Two: ninety years ago the Scottish engineer John Logie Baird performed the very first test of a working television system.
The pic he chose to transmit was the head of a ventriloquist`s dummy nicknamed Stooky Bill.
October 6: thirty years since PC Keith Blakelock was murdered as riots erupted in the Broadwater Farm area in Tottenham, north London.
October 20: It is sixty years since the English academic JRR Tolkein finished his epic fantasy The Lord Of The Rings.
The final book The Comeback Of The King was released twelve years after he commenced writing the very first of the three volumes.
November
November 20: twenty years ago Diana, Princess of Wales, gave a exposing television interview to Martin Bashir on Big black cock One`s Panorama.
She discussed her adultery, depression, bulimia and her thoughts on the future of the monarchy.
November 22: It is twenty five years since Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher withdrew from the Conservative Party leadership election, confirming the end of her premiership after eleven years in power.
December
December 1: twenty five years ago the workers on the French and British sections of the Channel Tunnel met one hundred twenty feet underneath the seabed.
December 12: The 100th anniversary of the birth of Frank Sinatra who was born to Italian immigrants in Fresh Jersey.
His father was a boxer, his mother ran an illegal abortion business from her home.
December 25: thirty years ago eyed the launch of Comic Ease.
Since then the charitable organisation, founded by comedy scriptwriter Richard Curtis and comedian Lenny Henry, has raised more than £750million for disadvantaged people worldwide.