2024 Marks:
50 Years since the BBC started the world's first teletext information service. ( 23rd September 1974 )
100 Years since the time signals started to be broadcast hourly by the Royal Greenwich Observatory. ( 5th February 1924 )
200 Years since the Institution for the Preservation of Life from Shipwreck was founded. ( 4th March 1824 )
( The name changed to the Royal National Lifeboat Institution on 5 October 1854 )
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