November 1st
1944 - Britain's Home Guard, which was formed 5 years earlier to fight the suspected German invasion, is ordered to disband.
1952 - The US detonates a 10.4 megaton thermonuclear device which is 800 times more powerful than the bomb that destroyed Hiroshima. It leaves a crater more than a mile wide.
1959 - The countries first full length motorway is officially opened. (It is the M1)
1970 - A fire at a dance hall in Saint-Laurent-du-Pont, France kills 144 young people.
1982 - New terrestrial channel "Channel Four" broadcasts its first programme, "Countdown".
1985 - Dizzee Rascal, the English rapper is born.
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