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THE FIFTIES> click on a date to go there
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Reservation of Fiction is introduced in November.
Cliffe Castle is donated to Keighley by Sir Bracewell Smith.

• Petrol rationing ends.

• Princess Anne is born.

• India becomes a republic.

• Korean war begins.

• First kidney transplant.

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