Harold Macmillan

Harold Macmillan (Conservative) became Prime Minister following Eden 's resignation over the Suez crisis (in which Britain, with France and Israel, invaded Egypt).

Prime Minister Harold Macmillan , in a speech delivered at Bedford football ground, used a sentence which became famous: You've never had it so good.

A non-deferential interview of Prime Minister Harold Macmillan by broadcaster Robin Day is credited with first making television a significant part of the political process in Britain.

In the general election the Conservatives under Harold Macmillan increased their majority. Margaret Thatcher (who had first stood for the safe Labour seat of Dartford in 1950) was elected Conservative member of parliament for Finchley.

In response to an appeal from the African National Congress (and following Harold Macmillan 's famous winds of change speech of 3 February), a Boycott Committee against South African produce was established in Britain...

Prime Minister Harold Macmillan cancelled the British rocket programme Blue Streak (commissioned in 1955) to order US Polaris missiles instead; Britain and the USA signed the Polaris agreement two years later.

Britain applied, for the first time, for membership in the Common Market (later the European Community). This application was defeated by opposition from France in the person of President Charles de Gaulle .

Astronaut John Glenn became the first American to orbit the earth, circling the globe three times in his spacecraft Friendship Seven.

In a surprise move later called the night of the long knives, Prime Minister Harold Macmillan replaced a third of his Cabinet .

John Profumo , Secretary of State for War, resigned after he was found to have lied in the House of Commons about his relations with call-girl Christine Keeler .

Sir Alec Douglas-Home (Conservative) became Prime Minister when Macmillan resigned on health grounds following the Profumo scandal.