Event:
Winston Churchill succeeds Neville Chamberlain as British Prime Minister
Winston Churchill History:
January 30, 1965 - State funeral of Winston Churchill
January 24, 1965 - Winston Churchill, Prime Minister of Britain, 1940 - 1945, 1951 - 1955, dies at 90
April 9, 1963 - Winston Churchill becomes 1st honorary U.S. citizen
April 5, 1955 - Winston Churchill resigns as British Prime Minister, Anthony Eden succeeds him
October 9, 1953 - British premier Winston Churchill aproves Guyanese Constitution
May 11, 1953 - Winston Churchill criticizes John Foster Dulles domino theory
April 24, 1953 - Winston Churchill knighted by Queen Elizabeth II
February 26, 1952 - Prime Minister Winston Churchill announces Britain has its own atomic bomb
November 29, 1951 - Winston Churchill re-elected British premier
October 26, 1951 - Winston Churchill re-elected British Prime Minister
May 10, 1948 - Winston Churchill visits The Hague
May 13, 1946 - Winston Churchill welcomed in Rotterdam
March 5, 1946 - Winston Churchill's "Iron Curtain" speech in Fulton, Missouri
July 26, 1945 - Winston Churchill resigns as Britain's Prime Minister
May 23, 1945 - Winston Churchill resigns as British Prime Minister
January 3, 1945 - British Premier Winston Churchill visits France
October 19, 1944 - British premier Winston Churchill flies back to London from Moscow
October 9, 1944 - British Prime Minister Winston Churchill arrives in Russia for talks with Stalin
October 9, 1944 - British premier Winston Churchill arrives in Moscow
September 17, 1944 - British Premier Winston Churchill travels to U.S.
August 14, 1944 - British premier Winston Churchill arrives at Corsica
August 11, 1944 - British premier Winston Churchill arrives in Italy
July 21, 1944 - British premier Winston Churchill flies to France, meets Montgomery
May 12, 1943 - British premier Winston Churchill arrives in U.S.
February 16, 1943 - British premier Winston Churchill gets pneumonia
January 13, 1943 - British premier Winston Churchill arrives in Casablanca
August 23, 1942 - British Premier Winston Churchill flies back to London from Cairo
August 4, 1942 - British premier Winston Churchill arrives in Cairo
June 25, 1942 - British premier Winston Churchill travels from U.S. to London
December 30, 1941 - Winston Churchill addresses Canadian parliament
December 26, 1941 - Winston Churchill becomes 1st British Prime Minister to address a joint meeting of Congress, warning that Axis would "stop at nothing"
December 22, 1941 - Winston Churchill arrives in Washington for a wartime conference
December 14, 1941 - Premier Winston Churchill travels to U.S. on board HMS Duke of York
October 25, 1941 - Winston Churchill routes "Forces South" to SE Asia
August 9, 1941 - Winston Churchill reaches Newfoundland for 1st talk with FDR
August 4, 1941 - Winston Churchill departs on Prince of Wales to U.S.
July 19, 1941 - British Prime Minister Winston Churchill launched his "V for Victory" campaign
September 15, 1940 - Prime Minister Winston Churchill visits #11 Fighter Group
June 18, 1940 - Winston Churchill urges perseverance so that future generations would remember that "this was their finest hour"
June 11, 1940 - Premier Winston Churchill flies to Orleans
June 4, 1940 - Winston Churchill says "We shall fight on the seas and oceans"
May 31, 1940 - Premier Winston Churchill flies to Paris
May 22, 1940 - Premier Winston Churchill flies to Paris
May 16, 1940 - Premier Winston Churchill returns to London from Paris
May 15, 1940 - Premier Winston Churchill flies to Paris
May 7, 1940 - Winston Churchill becomes Prime Minister of Britain
October 30, 1939 - German U boat fails on attack of English battleship Nelson with Winston Churchill, Dudley Pound and Charles Forbes aboard
September 14, 1939 - Minister Winston Churchill visits Scapa Flow
September 21, 1938 - Winston Churchill condemns Hitler's annexation of Czechoslovakia
March 14, 1933 - Winston Churchill wants to boost air defense
February 12, 1921 - Winston Churchill becomes British, minister of Colonies
January 13, 1915 - Winston Churchill presents plan for assault on Dardanelles
September 12, 1908 - Winston Churchill marries Clementine Hozier
November 15, 1899 - Morning Post reporter Winston Churchill and wife captured in Natal
October 30, 1899 - British Morning Post reporter Winston Churchill reaches Capetown
October 14, 1899 - Morning Post reporter Winston Churchill departs to South Africa
November 30, 1874 - Winston Churchill, British Prime Minister, 1940 - 1945, 1951 - 1955, Nobel 1953
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