Born in 1945

£1 in 1945 would be worth approximately £48.00 in today's money.

A selection from Wikipedia's '1945 in the United Kingdom'. Not a complete list.

• 4 February – Prime Minister Winston Churchill attends the Yalta Conference (ends 11 February).
• 8 May – eight days after the suicide of Adolf Hitler in Berlin and the collapse of Nazi rule in Europe, V-E Day is celebrated throughout the UK.
• 18 May – Operation Unthinkable: Churchill secretly requests his military chiefs of staff to consider a plan for British, American and reactivated German forces to attack the Soviet Red Army on July 1 to preserve the independence of Poland. The operation is ruled militarily unfeasible.
• 17 July – Potsdam Conference – the three main Allied leaders begin their final summit of the war. The meeting will end on 2 August.
• 26 July – general election results are announced; Winston Churchill resigns as prime minister after his Conservative Party is soundly defeated by the Labour Party, who have a majority of 146 seats, and Clement Attlee becomes the new prime minister.
• 15 August – V-J Day is celebrated in the UK as the first of two days of national holiday, marking the end of World War II.
• 17 August – George Orwell's political allegory Animal Farm is published.
• 26 November – J. Arthur Rank releases David Lean's film of Noël Coward's Brief Encounter starring Celia Johnson and Trevor Howard.

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