Championships are held in London. 8 March Carmaker Rover tests a revolutionary new turbine-powered concept car. Release of comedy film The Happiest Days of Your Life starring Alastair Sim and Margaret Rutherford. 9 March – Welsh-born Timothy Evans, aged 25, is hanged by Albert Pierrepoint at HM Prison Pentonville in London for the murder of his baby daughter (and, by imputation, his wife) at their residence at 10 Rillington Place in Notting Hill, London; 3 years later, his downstairs neighbour John Christie is found to be a serial killer of at least seven women at this address; Evans is posthumously pardoned in 1966. 12 March – Llandow air disaster: eighty of the eighty-three passengers on board an Avro Tudor V aircraft are killed when it crashes on approach to Llandow in Glamorgan, making it the world's worst air disaster at this time. 16 March – The Gambols comic strip first appears in the Daily Express. c. April? – The best-selling Kenwood Chef food mixer is first introduced. 1 April – Corby, a village in Northamptonshire, is designated as the first new town in central England, providing homes for up to 40,000 people by the 1960s. 14 April – the Eagle comic first appears, featuring Dan Dare and Captain Pugwash. 29 April – Arsenal F.C. win the FA Cup with a 2–0 win over Liverpool at Wembley Stadium. 13 May – first Grand Prix held at Silverstone. 20 May – first package holiday air charter, by Vladimir Raitz of Horizon Holidays, from Gatwick Airport to Calvi, Corsica, for camping. 21 May – a tornado tracks across England from Wendover to Blakeney, Norfolk (), the longest ever such track in Britain. 26 May – motor fuel rationing comes to an end after eleven years, marking another stage in the phasing-out of rationing that was introduced in the wake of the Second World War. 6 June – the BBC Light Programme first broadcasts the popular radio comedy feature Educating Archie. 7 June – pilot episode of the series The Archers broadcast on BBC Radio. It will still be running 70 years later. 24 June – World Cup opens in Brazil with the England national football team competing for the first time. 28 June – in the World Cup, the England national football team is humiliated by losing 1–0 to the United States in Belo Horizonte. 29 June – the England cricket team loses