In 1945, the Nuremberg War Crimes Trials began; twenty top Nazis went before the judges ~ half of them were excuted for their Crimes


In 1944 the neon advertising lights of London's Piccadilly Circus and the Strand were switched on again, after FIVE years of blackout!


When Princess Elizabeth married Lt. Philip Mountbatten RN in Westminster Abbey in 1947, the BBC made the first-ever telerecording for broadcast in the U.S. 32 hours later


AListair Cooke, the U.S.-based broadcaster who began his famous Letter From America on BBC radio in 1938, was born "Alfred Cooke" in Britain today in 1908

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The selfish, they're all standing in line
Faithing and hoping to buy themselves time
Me, I figure as each breath goes by
I only own my mind