1945
Atomic bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki
1945
End of World War II
1947
Independence of India
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1948
Arrival of migrants from the Caribbean aboard Empire Windrush
1948
National Health service established
1949
NATO founded
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1941
Orson Welles directs Citizen Kane
1945
First performance of Benjamin Britten's opera Peter Grimes
1946
Bertrand Russell publishes A History of Western Philosophy
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1941
Kodacolor negative film
1947
Magnum photos founded
1948
Polaroid Land camera launched
Weegee
Henri Cartier-Bresson
Robert Capa
Bill Brandt
Angus McBean
Cecil Beaton
Lee Miller
W. Eugene Smith
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