English statesman, soldier, and writer, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1874)

Winston Churchill

Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill was a British statesman, military officer, and writer who was Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1940 to 1945, during the Second World War, and again from 1951 to 1955. For some 62 of the years between 1900 and 1964, he was a Member of Parliament (MP) and represented a total of five constituencies over that time. Ideologically an adherent to economic liberalism and imperialism, he was for most of his career a member of the Conservative Party, which he led from 1940 to 1955. He was a member of the Liberal Party from 1904 to 1924.

Born

1871

November 10

Died

1965

Era

1870s

Country

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Winston, in brief

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1965 Died

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474 Emperor Leo II dies after a reign of ten months. He is succeeded by his father Zeno, who becomes sole ruler of the Byzantine Empire.
937 Ten Kingdoms: Li Bian usurps the throne and deposes Emperor Yang Pu. The Wu State is replaced by Li (now called "Xu Zhigao"), who becomes the first ruler of Southern Tang.
1202 Fourth Crusade: Despite letters from Pope Innocent III forbidding it and threatening excommunication, Catholic crusaders begin a siege of Zara (now Zadar, Croatia).
1293 Raden Wijaya is crowned as the first monarch of Majapahit kingdom of Java, taking the throne name Kertarajasa Jayawardhana.

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The world in 1965

When Winston departed

april 11 The Palm Sunday tornado outbreak of 1965: Fifty-five tornadoes hit in six Midwestern states of the United States, killing 266 people.
april 21 The 1964–1965 New York World's Fair opens for its second and final season.
april 24 Civil war breaks out in the Dominican Republic when Colonel Francisco Caamaño overthrows the triumvirate that had been in power since the coup d'état against Juan Bosch.
april 28 United States occupation of the Dominican Republic: American troops land in the Dominican Republic to "forestall establishment of a Communist dictatorship" and to evacuate US Army troops.

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Same-year contemporaries

Also born in 1871

Clarence Hudson White 1871–1925 American photographer and educator (died 1925) Florence R. Sabin 1871– American medical scientist (died 1953) George Hirst 1871– English cricketer and coach (died 1954) James Craig 1871– 1st Viscount Craigavon, Irish captain and politician, 1st Prime Minister of Northern Ireland (died 1940) Nicolae Iorga 1871–1940 Romanian historian and politician, 34th Prime Minister of Romania (died 1940) Orville Wright 1871–1948 American engineer and pilot, co-founded the Wright Company (died 1948) Vernon Louis Parrington 1871–1929 American historian and scholar (died 1929)

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