1st Viscount Snowden, English politician, Chancellor of the Exchequer (died 1937)

Philip Snowden

Philip Snowden, 1st Viscount Snowden, PC was a British politician. A strong speaker, he became popular in trade union circles for his denunciation of capitalism as unethical and his promise of a socialist utopia. He was the first Labour Chancellor of the Exchequer, a position he held in 1924 and again between 1929 and 1931. He broke with Labour policy in 1931, and was expelled from the party and excoriated as a turncoat, as the party was overwhelmingly crushed that year by the National Government coalition that Snowden supported.

Born

1864

July 18

Died

1937

Era

1860s

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-477 Battle of the Cremera as part of the Roman–Etruscan Wars. Veii ambushes and defeats the Roman army.
362 Roman–Persian Wars: Emperor Julian arrives at Antioch with a Roman expeditionary force (60,000 men) and stays there for nine months to launch a campaign against the Persian Empire.
452 Sack of Aquileia: After an earlier defeat on the Catalaunian Plains, Attila lays siege to the metropolis of Aquileia and eventually destroys it.
645 Chinese forces under general Li Shiji besiege the strategic fortress city of Anshi (Liaoning) during the Goguryeo–Tang War.

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The world in 1937

When Philip departed

april 1 Aden becomes a British crown colony.
april 1 The Royal New Zealand Air Force is formed as an independent service.
april 12 Sir Frank Whittle ground-tests the first jet engine designed to power an aircraft, at Rugby, England.
april 26 Spanish Civil War: Guernica, Spain, is bombed by the German Condor Legion and the Italian Aviazione Legionaria.

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Clifford Odets 1906–1963 American director, playwright, and screenwriter (born 1906) Edward Bond 1934– English director, playwright, and screenwriter (died 2024) Elio Di Rupo 1951– Belgian chemist, academic, and politician, 68th Prime Minister of Belgium Hendrik Lorentz 1853–1928 Dutch physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1853) Hunter S. Thompson 1937–2005 American journalist and author (born 1937) Nelson Mandela 1918–2013 South African lawyer and politician, 1st President of South Africa, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1918) Sarah Kinsley 2000– American singer-songwriter Vasil Levski 1837–1873 Bulgarian activist, founded the Internal Revolutionary Organization (born 1837)

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Same-year contemporaries

Also born in 1864

Anna Jarvis 1864–1948 American founder of Mother's Day (died 1948) Apolinario Mabini 1864–1903 Filipino lawyer and politician, 1st Prime Minister of the Philippines (died 1903) Bob Caruthers 1864–1911 American baseball player and umpire (born 1864) Heinrich Wölfflin 1864– Swiss historian and critic (died 1945) John Jacob Astor IV 1864– American colonel and businessman (died 1912) Richard Harding Davis 1864–1916 American journalist and author (born 1864)

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