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Events on Friday 1 March 1946 1
1946Bank of England NationalisedBritish government takes central bank into public ownershipThe Attlee government brought the Bank of England under state ownership through the Bank of England Act, ending nearly two and a half centuries as a privately owned institution. The move was part of a broader postwar nationalisation program that also brought coal and civil aviation under public control.