NHS founded
1948 · Event
National Health Service launched by Aneurin Bevan; tax-funded, free at point of use; cornerstone of post-war Britain.
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- Galen (129)
- Cholera epidemic of 1854 / John Snow (1854)
- Florey and Chain mass-produce penicillin (1941)
- Theory of the Four Humours (400 BCE)
- John Snow removes the Broad Street pump handle (1854)
- Louis Pasteur (1822)
- James Simpson introduces chloroform (1847)
- Doll and Hill link smoking to lung cancer (1950)
Around 1948
- Berlin Airlift (1948)
- US Civil Rights Movement (1954)
- Indian independence and Partition (1947)
- Apartheid (1948)
- Cuban Revolutionary War (1953)
- Decolonisation of Africa (1952)
- The Holocaust (1941)
- Battle of Stalingrad (1942)
- Battle of Britain (1940)
- Chinese Civil War (resumed) (1945)