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Ceremonies
03 May
1951: King George opens Festival of Britain
08 Feb
1952: New Queen proclaimed for UK
15 Feb
1952: King George VI is laid to rest
16 Apr
1953: Queen launches Royal Yacht Britannia
02 Jun
1953: Queen Elizabeth takes coronation oath
03 Jul
1956: Commonwealth heads honoured
20 May
1958: High Wycombe weighs new mayor
09 Jun
1958: Queen opens revamped Gatwick
26 Jun
1959: Queen and Eisenhower open seaway
06 May
1960: Margaret weds Armstrong-Jones
10 Dec
1961: Apartheid attacked at Nobel ceremony
14 May
1964: Nasser and Khrushchev divert the Nile
18 Feb
1969: Lulu ties knot with Bee Gee
01 Oct
1970: Mourners killed as Nasser is buried
09 Jul
1973: Bahamas' sun sets on British Empire
03 Nov
1975: North Sea oil begins to flow
25 Oct
1976: Queen opens National Theatre in London
29 Oct
1976: Duchess opens massive Selby coalfield
05 Jul
1979: Queen oversees Manx millennium
29 Sep
1979: Pope calls for peace in Ireland
29 Jul
1981: Charles and Diana marry
23 Jul
1986: Prince Andrew weds Sarah Ferguson
11 Jul
1987: Soldiers remember Passchendaele
14 Jul
1989: Paris in 200-year-old revolutionary fervour
25 Jul
1989: Diana opens Landmark Aids Centre
06 May
1994: President and Queen open Chunnel
05 Oct
1994: Cult members die in 'mass suicide'
04 Aug
2000: Queen Mother celebrates centenary
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