Born in 1949

£1 in 1949 would be worth approximately £43.50 in today's money.

A selection from Wikipedia's '1949 in the United Kingdom'. Not a complete list.

• 4 April – Britain signs the North Atlantic Treaty, creating NATO.
• 26 April – Ealing comedy film Passport to Pimlico makes its premiere in London.
• 3 May – Parliament passes the Ireland Act guaranteeing the position of Northern Ireland as part of the United Kingdom as long as a majority of its citizens want it to be. The UK Government also formally recognises the existence of the Republic of Ireland.
• 6 May – EDSAC, the first practicable stored-programme computer, runs its first programme at Cambridge University.
• 8 June – George Orwell's dystopian novel Nineteen Eighty-Four is published in London by Secker & Warburg.
• 21 June – Ealing comedy film Kind Hearts and Coronets released.
• 27 July – Maiden flight of the British-built de Havilland Comet, the world's first passenger jet, at Hatfield, Hertfordshire.
• 16 December – Parliament Act given royal assent, cuts the House of Lords veto to one year.

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