United Kingdom general election, 1950: The Labour Party, led by Clement Attlee, lost heavily in the House of Commons, dropping 78 MPs from 393 seats to 315 of the 617 available, while Winston Churchill's Conservative Party increased its share from 197 to 282 [REF].
Asteroid 1950 DA was first discovered by astronomers only five million miles from Earth, then tracked for 17 days as the distance increased.