3rd - 9th February - What happened in This Week in British History

This week is another busy one in British History (aren't they all?!)  5th February 1953 sweet rationing ended in Britain after 10 years 5th February 1996 First GM food went on sale in the UK  5th February 1758 British Prime Minister Robert “Bobbie” Peel is born.  Founder of the modern police force (“Bobbies”) 6th February 1685 Charles II dies aged 54  6th February 1783 died Lancelot “Capability” Brown, the famous landscape designer, aged 67  6th February 1952 George VI dies of coronary thrombosis in his sleep at Sandringham House, aged 56  6th February 1665 Anne Stuart, British Queen from 1702-14 is born at St James’ Palace 6th February 1958 Seven Manchester United football players are killed in an air crash in Munich 6th February 1913 Mary Leakey, British Paleoanthropologist is born.  Famed for discovering the earliest known human footprints (3.6 million years old) 7th February 1812 Charles Dickens is born in Portsmouth 8th February - 1587 Mary Queen of Scots executed at Fotheringay Castle, later laid to rest at Peterborough Cathedral and later still moved by her son to Westminster Abbey 8th February 1952 New Queen is proclaimed at a ceremony at St James’ Palace, London. 9th February, Princess Margaret, sister to the reigning Queen Elizabeth II, dies aged 72  

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