NHS founded
1948 · Event
National Health Service launched by Aneurin Bevan; tax-funded, free at point of use; cornerstone of post-war Britain.
On these timelines: Medicine through Time, United Kingdom (combined), England, Medicine & Public Health, Master
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- Louis Pasteur (1822)
- James Simpson introduces chloroform (1847)
- Doll and Hill link smoking to lung cancer (1950)
Around 1948
- Indian independence and Partition (1947)
- World War II (1939)
- The Holocaust (1941)
- Founding of the State of Israel (1948)
- Cold War (1947)
- Korean War (1950)
- D-Day (Operation Overlord) (1944)
- Pop music: the 1950s (1950)
- Pop music: the 1940s (1940)
- Attack on Pearl Harbor (1941)