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Monte Bello in History

Browse historical events and people recorded at Monte Bello in Great Britain. The records below are rendered directly from the World History Database into this page's initial HTML.

2 records2 event labels1 people1952–1952

Historical events in Monte Bello

1952

October 1952
Hurricane
Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill · Conservative Party Government

Britain tests its atom bomb in the Monte Bello Islands off nth-west Australia

3 October 1952
Nuclear Power
Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill · Conservative Party Government

Britain explodes its first atomic bomb off Australia and becomes the third member of the nuclear club

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