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 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 10, 1940 - Winston Churchill succeeds Neville Chamberlain as British Prime Minister 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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