London Stansted Airport is in Essex, roughly fifty kilometres northeast of central London. It was built during the Second World War as a military airfield for the United States Army Air Forces, which used it as a base for bombers attacking targets in occupied Europe. After the war it was used for a time by the Royal Air Force and for charter and cargo flights before developing into a commercial airport. A new terminal designed by the architect Norman Foster opened in 1991, with a distinctive roof supported by tree-like columns. Stansted later became the main base of the low-cost airline Ryanair and one of the busiest airports serving London.
Before and after
- 1942Publication of Denes nad Makedonija
- from January 1942 to July 1945Burma Campaign
- 1942Siege of Malta
- 1942Massacres of Poles in Volhynia and Eastern Galicia
- 1942Construction of London Stansted Airport
- 8 January 1942Birth of Junichiro Koizumi
- 8 January 1942Birth of Stephen Hawking
- 17 January 1942Birth of Muhammad Ali
- 20 January 1942Wannsee Conference
More in Art, literature & culture
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- 18 July 1925Publication of Mein Kampf
- 19 September 1926Construction of Giuseppe Meazza Stadium
- 4 July 1930Origins of Nation of Islam
- 1932Rise of socialist realism
- 1934Publication of March of the Volunteers
The era
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