2015 Event Golfer Zach Johnson wins the British Open, becoming one of only six golfers in history to win at both the St. Andrews Old Course and the Augusta National course 2015 Event British Petroleum (BP) reaches a settlement with U.S. federal, state and local government entities regarding damages from its Deepwater Horizon rig explosion five years ago; BP will pay USD $18 billion through the year 2030 2015 Event Prince Charles shakes hands with Gerry Adams, president of the Sinn Fein party, which was formerly part of the militant Irish Republican Army; Prince Charles is the first member of the British royal family to meet him 2015 Event British Prime Minister David Cameron is re-elected for five more years in a decisive victory that upset predictions of a close election and resulted in the first Conservative majority government since 1992 2015 Event The four remaining original copies of the Magna Carta have been put on display at the British Library in London; access is limited to scholars and to 1,215 viewers from all over the world who were selected by lottery 2014 Event The British government raises its terror threat level to 'severe' due to concern over the number of participants in Middle Eastern conflicts who have been traveling to and from the U.K. and who may seek to instigate terrorist actions inside the country 2014 Event 25-year-old Rory McIlroy wins the British Open, making history with his third championship win 2014 Event Former British Prime Minister Tony Blair has accepted a role as economic advisor to Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi in order to help Egypt reform its economy and develop new business opportunities 2014 Event George Clooney and his girlfriend, British attorney Amal Alamuddin, are reportedly engaged 2014 Event '12 Years a Slave' and 'Gravity' dominate wins at the British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA) Awards ceremony; Chiwetel Ejiofor ('12 Years') and Cate Blanchett ('Blue Jasmine') receive leading actor and actress awards, respectively 2014 Event Award nominations are announced ahead of the 67th British Academy Film Awards; heading the list is Sandra Bullock for best actress in 'Gravity' by director Alfonso Cuaron 2013 Event Joan Fontaine, a British and American actress and sister of Olivia de Havilland, dies at the age of 96; Fontaine is famous for roles in Alfred Hitchcock thrillers Suspicion and Rebecca 2013 Event After a long illness, British actor Peter O'Toole, known for playing Lawrence, in 'Lawrence of Arabia', dies at the age of 81 2013 Event A special episode of the British science fiction program 'Doctor Who' called, 'The Day of the Doctor' broadcasts simultaneously to 94 countries in celebration of the show's 50th Anniversary; the broadcast earned a Guinness World Record for the largest ever simulcast of a TV drama 2013 Event A cross-party royal charter allowing for the regulation of the British press is granted by the UK Privy Council despite a last-minute court challenge by the newspaper industry 2013 Event The Privy Council rejects proposals for a Royal Charter for self-regulation of the British Press 2013 Event The British High Commission announced they are awarding retired Paralympic swimmer Natalie du Toit an honorary MBE ( Member of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire) 2013 Event Actor Peter Capaldi, of Scotland, lands the role of the Doctor in the twelfth incarnation of the 'Doctor Who' British science fiction show 2013 Event Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge, gives birth to a son, the third in line to the British throne; the child, named George Alexander Louis, is formally known as His Royal Highness Prince of Cambridge 2013 Event British cyclist Chris Froome wins his first time competing in the 2013 Tour de France 2013 Event At the 2013 Wimbledon Championships, Andy Murray wins the Men's Singles after beating Novak Djokovic in straight sets; he becomes the first British man to win since Fred Perry's Wimbleton 1936 win 2013 Event Queen Elizabeth of the U.K. is named 'the most memorable Bond girl' for her appearance at the London Olympics. BAFTA, gave her the honorary award for her support of British film and television 2013 Event The British Food Standards Agency reports a discovery in Lancashire of 100kg of horse meat imported from Hungary labelled as beef 2013 Event Falkland Island residents complete the first day of a two day sovereignty referendum, determining whether the islands should remain a British overseas territory 2013 Event British catering firm Compass Group and Whitbread, one of the country's largest hotel chains, find horse DNA in products sold as "beef" 2013 Event London hosts the 66th British Academy Film Awards, with 'Argo' winning best film, Emmanuelle Riva winning best actress and Daniel Day-Lewis winning best actor 2013 Event Owen Paterson, UK Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, convenes with British retailers and the Food Standards Agency to determine how "beef" products containing horsemeat were sold in supermarkets 2012 Event United Kingdom's Queen Elizabeth II attends a meeting of the Cabinet for the first time, receiving a gift honoring her Diamond Jubilee; this was first time a Cabinet meeting was attended by a British monarch since the reign of Queen Victoria 2012 Event All members of the Commonwealth of Nations, who have the British Monarch as their head of state, agree to the Succession of the Crown Bill, enabling a female child, for the first time, to become monarch 2012 Death British film actress, Dinah Sheridan, dies at the age of 92 2012 Event Russia lifts a ban imposed in 1996 on the import of British beef and lamb; the ban, imposed when Britain suffered from mad cow disease (BSE) had been lifted worldwide in 2006 2012 Event British Prime Minister David Cameron announces Lough Erne, County Fermanagh, Northern Ireland as the location for the 39th G8 summit in June 2013 2012 Event The British government grants Wales limited powers to borrow money for financing major projects 2012 Event Andrew Mitchell, the Chief Whip of the British Conservative Party, resigns over remarks he made to police officers in Downing Street 2012 Event At the 2012 U.S. Open, Andy Murray of the U.K. wins the Men's Singles, defeating Serbia's Novak Djokovic; Murray becomes the first British player to win a Grand Slam singles title since Fred Perry 76 years ago 2012 Event A poll by the British Film Institute's 'Sight and Sound' magazine lists Alfred Hitchcock's 1958 thriller 'Vertigo' as the greatest film of all time 2012 Event After placing first in the 2012 Tour de France, Bradley Wiggins becomes the first British cyclist to win the famous competition 2012 Event Sarah West, a British naval officer Commander is appointed commander of HMS Portland, the Royal Navy frigate; she is the first female officer to take command of a major British warship 2012 Event Richard Dawkins, an atheist, ethologist and evolutionary biologist, approves of British education secretary Michael Gove's plan of sending free King James Bibles to every state school 2012 Event Britain's Chancellor of the Exchequer George Osborne reveals the 2012 British budget which cuts the top rate of income tax 2012 Event The world's oldest Charles Dickens film, dating from 1901, featuring a depiction of a Bleak House character, is rediscovered by the British Film Institute 2012 Event Adele, One Direction, Coldplay and Ed Sheeran are among the winners at the 2012 BRIT Awards for British popular music 2012 Event At the Grammy Awards, Adele, a British singer, wins awards for the Song of the Year, Record of the Year and Album of the Year 2011 Event Iranian students storm the British Embassy in Tehran, taking six hostages; the U.N. security council condemns the attack 2011 Event Northern Rock bank, nationalized in 2008 by the British Government, is sold to Virgin Money for 747 million pounds 2011 Event The English town Wooten Bassett is re-named with the prefix 'Royal', honoring its role in repatriating British military personnel killed in action in Iraq and Afghanistan 2011 Event The Bank of England pumps an additional 75 billion pounds into the British economy via quantitative easing 2011 Event Tropical Storm Irene forms with warnings in place for the U.S. Virgin Islands, Puerto Rico, The British Virgin Islands, Antigua and Barbuda 2011 Event In London, British rioters set police cars on fire in the suburb of Tottenham 2011 Event The coalition government announces plans to privatize Northern Rock, a British public-owned bank 2011 Event In the United Kingdom, the British Armed Forces announce plans to eliminate 11,000 jobs 2011 Event After winning a Liberal Party of British Columbia ballot, Canadian politician Christy Clark becomes the second woman to be Premier of British Columbia 2010 Event Britain's Labor Party leader Ed Miliband launches a review of the British Labor Party, calling upon activists to help make it the 'People's Party' once again 2010 Event Qantas, British Airways, Japan Airlines, Air France and seven other carriers were fined millions of euros for fixing the price of air cargo between 1999 and 2006 2010 Event U.K. Foreign Secretary William Hague says British soldiers should be out of Afghanistan by 2014 2010 Event The inquiry into Bloody Sunday in Northern Ireland, 1972, determined British paratroopers first the first shot without warning, and concocted lies to cover up their acts 2010 Event Timothy Torlot, British ambassador to Yemen, survives an attempted suicide bombing 2005 Event IRA issues a statement ordering the end to the armed campaign against the British 2005 Death Fay Godwin, British photographer, noted for black-and-white landscapes of British coast and countryside, took portraits of literary figures, Saul Bellow, Salman Rushdie, Anthony Powell, dies at age 74, in Hastings, England 2005 Death Peter Benenson, British Lawyer 2004 Death Alan Bullock, British Historian 2003 Event British consulate and bank bombed in Istanbul murdering 27 2003 Death Hartley William Shawcross, British Lawyer 2003 Death Barry Sheene, motorcycle road racer, winner, Formula 750 World Championship and 1976 British Grand Prix, dies of esophagus and stomach cancer 2003 Death Chris Brasher, British Athlete 2002 Death J. Lee Thompson, British Director 2002 Death Barbara Castle, British Politician 2002 Death Princess Margaret, British Royalty 2001 Death Mary Whitehouse, British Activist 2001 Death Lord Hailsham, British Politician 2001 Death John Walters, British Musician 2001 Death Auberon Waugh, British Author 2000 Death Cyril Clarke, British Scientist 2000 Death Steven Runciman, British Historian 2000 Death Robin Day, British Journalist 2000 Event 129th British Golf Open: at Royal Lytham 2000 Death Sir John Gielgud, British actor, Arthur, dies at 96 2000 Death Anthony Powell, British Novelist 1999 Death Hugh Casson, British Architect 1999 Event 128th British Golf Open: at Camoustie Scot 1999 Death William Whitelaw, British Politician 1999 Death Jill Dando, British Journalist 1998 Event Weetabix Women's British Golf Open 1998 Event 127th British Golf Open: at Royal Birkdale 1998 Death Derek Harold Richard Barton, British Scientist 1998 Event 1st time the British flag is flown over Buckingham Palace 1998 Death Michael Tippett, British composer (Royal Col of Music), dies at 93 1997 Death Bruce Woodcock, boxer, British and Empire heavyweight champion 1945 - 1950, dies at 76 1997 Death Richard Vernon, British actor (Gandhi, Hard Days Night), dies at 72 1997 Event British au pair Louise Woodward, 19, sentenced to life in death of Matthew Eappen 8 months (judge changes to time served)00690901 1997 Death Robin Skelton, British Writer 1997 Event Weetabix Women's British LPGA Open 1997 Event Karrie Webb wins LPGA Weetabix Women's British Open 1997 Death Ben Hogan, golfer, Masters, British Open, U.S. Open-1953, dies at 84 1997 Event 126th British Golf Open: Billy Ray Brown shoots a 271 at Royal Troon 1997 Event American Justin Leonard wins the British Open shooting at 272 1997 Event British model Naomi Campbell, hospitalized on drug overdose 1997 Event British lease on New Territories in Hong Kong expires 1997 Event 1st all female (20 British women) team reaches North Pole 1997 Death Godfrey Baseley, British radio executive, dies at 92 1996 Death Willaim Brown, British TV executive, dies at 67 1996 Death Mary Leakey, British Scientist 1996 Death Michael Bentine, British author/comedian (Reluctant Jester), dies at 74 1996 Event Emilee Klein wins LPGA Weetabix Women's British Golf Open 1996 Event 125th British Golf Open: Tom Lehman shoots a 271 at Royal Lytham 1996 Death Susan Cowdy, British ornithologist, dies at 81 1996 Death Alan Weeks, British sports commentator, dies at 72 1996 Death Norman Lambert, British restuarateur, dies 1996 Death John Abbott, British actor (Lady Jane, Quest), dies at 90 1996 Event O. J. Simpson appears on British TV discussing his not guilty verdict 1996 Event 2 U.S. Marine helicopters collided during joint U.S. and British war games 1996 Death David Michael Ifshin, British political campaign organiser, dies at 46 1996 Death Simon Harcourt Nowell-Smith, British bibliophile, dies at 87 1996 Event British Steel in Workington wins Lithuanian multi-million pound order 1996 Death Joshua Compston, art impressario, gallerist, Factual Nonsense art gallery, associated with the emergence of the Young British Artists, YBAs, dies at 26 1996 Death Barbara Lewis, British obituarist, dies at 55 1996 Death Bentley Bridgewater, british Museum secretary, dies at 84 1996 Event Record $65.2 million British lottery won by 3 people (2-3-4-13-42-44) 1995 Death Ellis Peters, British Author 1995 Death Lord Home of Hirsel, cricket (Middlesex player later British PM), dies 1995 Death Harry Broadhurst, British airman, dies at 89 1995 Death John Killan Houston Brunner, British sci-fi writer, dies at 60 1995 Event Kerrie Webb wins LPGA Weetabix Women's British Golf Open 1995 Death Danny Arnold, British TV producer, dies at 70 1995 Death Brian Smith, British sportscaster, dies 1995 Event 124th British Golf Open: John Daly shoots a 282 at St. Andrews Scotland 1995 Event Jack Nicklaus wins Golf's British Open, 4th to win all 4 majors 1995 Death Thomas Dorrington Tomlinson, British national park warden, dies at 87 1995 Death Jean Muir, (Dress Queen), British model, dies at 66 1995 Death Harold Wilson, British Prime Minister (1964-70, 74-76), dies of cancer at 79 1995 Death Joseph Needham, British Scientist 1995 Event British pound hits 2.4545 to Dutch guilder (record) 1995 Death Ota Adler, Czechoslovakian/British fur trader (Jewish Aid Fund), dies at 83 1995 Death Don Cook, British foreign correspondent, dies at 74 1995 Death Vivian Stanshall, British musician (Magical Mystery Tour), dies at 51 1995 Event British trader Nick Leeson arrested for collapse of Barings Bank PLC 1995 Event British heavyweight Nigel Benn hits Gerard McClellan in hospital 1995 Death Jack Clayton, British director (Great Gatsby), dies at 73 1995 Death Robert Bolt, British playwright (Doctor Zhivago, Bounty), dies at 70 1995 Death Lord Taylor of Hadfield, British President of Taylor Woodrow Group, dies at 90 1995 Death Viscount Camrose, British large landowner/Conservative, dies 1995 Death Robert Bolt, British Playwright 1995 Death Wilhelm J Soukop, Austrian/British sculptor, dies at 88 1995 Death Betty Davis, British dance teacher of Dame Margot Fonteyn, dies 1995 Death Gerald M Durrell, British zoologist/author (Mockery Bird), dies at 70 1995 Death Raymond Joseph Cecil, British architect, dies at 69 1995 Death Richard Burnell, British rower, Gold Medal 1948 Olympics, dies at 77 1995 Death Geoffrey Parsons, Australian/British pianist, dies at 65 1995 Death Halsey S Colchester, British SAS/MI6-spy/priest, dies at 76 1995 Death Margaret Barbara Lambert, British historian (Saar), dies at 88 1995 Death Alexander Gibson, British conductor/founder (Scottish Opera), dies at 68 1995 Death Larry Grayson, British entertainer (Generation Game), dies at 65 or 71 1995 Death Edward Sutcliffe, judge (British Central Criminal Court), dies at 77 1995 Death Leonard Hirsch, British violinist and conducter, BBC Empire Orchestra, dies at 92 1995 Death Gerard W. Taylor, South African/British surgeon, dies at 74 1994 Death Mollie Doreen Phillips, British figure skater (Eur-bronze-33), dies at 87 1994 Death Stanislaw Maczek, Polish/British general-major (WW II), dies at 102 1994 Death Keith Joseph, British MP (C), dies 1994 Event 82nd CFL Grey Cup: British Columbia Lions defeat Baltimore Stallions, 26-23 1994 Event Dutch and British astronomers find spiral nebula Dwingeloo 1 1994 Death Dolly Hare, German/British actress (Broken Blossom), dies at 84 1994 Death Amy Clampitt, British poet, 'Silence Opens', dies at 74 1994 Event Last U.S., British and French troops leave West-Berlin 1994 Death Arthur Rex Alston, British sports commentator, dies at 93 1994 Death Terence Young, British director (Thunderball), dies of at 79 1994 Death Lindsay Anderson, British director/critic (If ...), dies at 71 1994 Death Nancy Keene Lancaster, US/British architect (Binnen House), dies at 96 1994 Event Liselotte Neumann wins LPGA Weetabix Women's British Golf Open 1994 Death Elias Canetti, Bulgaria/British author (Nobel 1981), dies at 89 1994 Event Last British troops leave Hong Kong (been there since Sept 1841) 1994 Death Clive Robertson Caldwell, British fighter pilot, dies at 84 1994 Death Anne Shelton, British singer (Glenn Miller Band), dies at 66 1994 Death Enid Balint-Edmonds, British psychoanalyst, dies at 90 1994 Death Bernard Delfont, Russian/British impresario (Thorn EMI), dies at 84 1994 Event 123rd British Golf Open: Nick Price shoots a 268 at Turnberry Scotland 1994 Death Simon Prior, British auto maker, dies of injuries 1994 Death Dennis Potter, British TV writer (Pennies from Heaven), dies at 59 1994 Death Sidney Gilliat, British screenwriter/director, dies at 86 1994 Death Norman Cook, British museum curator, dies at 87 1994 Death John Smith, British Labour Party chairman (1992-94), dies at 55 1994 Event Labour beats Conservatives in British local elections 1994 Death David Langton, British actor (Upstairs Downstairs), dies at 82 1994 Death Keith Watson, British comic strip artist (Dan Dare), dies at 59 1994 Death Lee Brilleaux, British R&B-singer/guitarist (Stupidity), dies at 41 1994 Death Arnold Smith, British 1st Secretary-General of Commonwealth (1965-75), dies at 79 1994 Death Lady Caithness, wife of British undersecretary, commits suicide 1993 Death Alexander Mackendrick, British/US director (Lady Killers), dies at 81 1993 Death Philip Christison, British general (Rangoon), dies at 100 1993 Event British premier Major/Irish premier Reynolds signs Downing Street Declaration concerning Northern Ireland self determination 1993 Death James Boyden, British Labour MP (1959-79), dies at 82 1993 Death Leonard Parkin, British TV host (ITN), dies at 64 1993 Death Hew Lorimer, British sculptor, dies at 86 1993 Death E. P. Thompson, British Historian 1993 Event British Aerospace 147 crash at Yinchuan, 55 killed 1993 Event 122nd British Golf Open: Greg Norman shoots a 267 at Royal St. George 1993 Death Ian Mikardo, British politician, dies 1993 Death Penelope Gilliatt [Conner], British author 1993 Death Daniel Jones, Daniel Jenkyn Jones, Welsh composer, friend of Dylan Thomas, wrote 12 numbered symphonies, chamber music, made Order of the British Empire (OBE) in 1968 1993 Event The Branch Davidian Compound near Waco, Texas, is destroyed in a fire after 51-day stand-off; 76 people die, including 24 British nationals and 20 children 1993 Death Leslie Charteris, British mystery writer (Saint), dies at 85 1993 Death Kate Reid, British actress (Lil-Dallas), dies of cancer at 62 1993 Death C. Northcote Parkinson, British Historian 1993 Death David Willis, British journalist (BBC World Service), dies at 54 1992 Death Kenneth MacMillan, British choreographer (Manon, Judas Tree), dies 1992 Death Lady Rothermere, Bubbles, wife of British newspaper magnate, dies 1992 Death Francisco Fernandez Ordonez, British foreign Minister to Spain (1985-92), dies 1992 Death Maxine Audley, British actress (Vikings, Our Man in Havana), dies at 69 1992 Event 121st British Golf Open: Nick Faldo shoots a 272 at Muirfield Gullane 1992 Death Albert Pierrepont, last British executioner (433 men/17 women), dies 1992 Death Georgia Brown, British singer and actress (Love at Stake), dies at 58 1992 Event Great British postage stamp 350 year battle near Edgehill 1992 Death Georgia Brown, British actress (Lock up your daughters), dies at 58 1992 Death Elizabeth David, British cookbook writer, dies 1992 Death Mike Tyrell [Red Baron], British air acrobat, dies in an accident 1992 Death Francis Bacon, Irish/British abstract painter, dies at 82 1992 Death Peter D. Mitchell, British Scientist 1992 Death Friedrich A von Hayek, British economist (Road to Serfdom), dies at 92 1992 Event British Prince Andrew and Sarah Ferguson announce separation 1992 Death Charles Rea, British actor (Ipcress File), dies at 69 1992 Death Johnny Mack, British actor (Time Lord-Dr. Who), dies at 70 1992 Death Franc Holden, British astronomer (Binary Stars), dies 1992 Death Angela Carter, British novelist (Magic Toyshop), dies of cancer at 51 1992 Death Jack [John T] Aitken, British anatomist, dies at 78 1992 Death Gwen Ffrangcon-Davies, British actress (Eliza Dolittle), dies at 101 1992 Death Barbara Couper, British actress (Last Days of Dolwyn), dies at 89 1992 Death William JF "Bill" Naughton, Irish/British playwright (Alfie), dies at 81 1991 Death Ray Smith, British actor (And Then You Die), dies at 55 1991 Death Robert Eddison, British actor (Uncle Silas), dies at 83 1991 Death Alex Graham, British cartoonstrip artist (Fred Basset), dies 1991 Death Freddie Mercury, British singer (Queen), dies of AIDS at 45 1991 Death Tony Richardson, British director (Tom Jones), dies of AIDs at 63 1991 Death Andrzei Panufkin, Polish/British conductor and composer (Sinfonia Sacra), dies 1991 Death Peter Willes, British actor/producer (Way We Live), dies 1991 Death Mark Robinson, British actor (The Girl), dies at 30 1991 Death Steve Kemp, British light enterpeneur, dies 1991 Death Dallas Adams, British painter/writer/actor (Terror from Within), dies 1991 Death Vince Taylor, Brian Holden, British singer (Brand new Cadillac), dies 1991 Death Betty Bowden, British dancer/actress (Vote for Nigel), dies at 86 1991 Death Irene Campbell, British actress/dancer (Wicker Man, St. Justice), dies 1991 Event Shite Moslems release British hostage John McCarthy 1991 Event 120th British Golf Open: Ian Baker-Finch shoots 272 at Royal Birkdale 1991 Death Joy Finzi, Joyce A Black, British painter, dies at 84 1991 Death Peggy Ashcroft, British actress (A passage to India), dies at 83 1991 Death Eva La Gailliene, British/U.S. actress/director (Resurrection), dies at 92 1991 Death Angus Wilson, Johnstone-W, British writer (Wrong Set), dies 1991 Death Peter T. Thwaites, British Brigadier-General and playwright 'Love or money', dies 1991 Event Queen Elizabeth becomes 1st British monarch to address U.S. congress 1991 Death Prudence Nesbitt, British actress/TV producer, dies 1991 Death Ronnie Brody, British actor (Superman III, Whats Up Nurse), dies at 72 1991 Death Ronnie Brody, British actor (Superman 3, What's Up Nurse), dies at 72 1991 Death Graham Greene, British writer (3rd Man, Our man in Havana), dies at 86 1991 Event Iran releases British hostage Roger Cooper after 5 years 1991 Death Ralph Bates, British actor (Persecution, Graveyard), dies at 50 1991 Event British Court of Appeal frees "Birmingham 6" who had been unjustly sentenced in August 1975 to life imprisonment 1991 Event Iraq releases 6 U.S., 3 British and 1 Italian POW 1991 Death Margot Fonteyn, ballerina (1st lady of British Ballet), dies at 71 1990 Event British and French workers meet in English Channel's tunnel (Chunnel) 1990 Event Margaret Thatcher announces her resignation as British Prime Minister 1990 Death Alan J P Taylor, British historian (Origins of WW II), dies 1990 Death Lord Caradon, British Diplomat 1990 Death George Adamson, British conservationist (Born Free), murdered in Kenya 1990 Death Ian Gow, British Conservative parliament leader, murdered 1990 Event 119th British Golf Open: Nick Faldo shoots 270 at St. Andrews Scotland 1990 Death Eva Turner, British soprano, dies 1990 Birthday Emma Watson, born in Paris, France, British actress, model, known for role as Hermione in 'Harry Potter' film series, earning her more than $10 million pounds 1989 Death John M Pritchard, British conductor, dies at 68 1989 Event TV cameras permitted in British House of Commons 1989 Event IRA-bomb kills 10 British marines in Kent 1989 Event British brewery Bass buys Holiday Inn hotel chain 1989 Death Ronald Laing, British psychiatrist (anti-psychiatry), dies 1989 Event 118th British Golf Open: Mark Calcavecchia shoots a 275 at Royal Troon 1989 Death Nigel Dennis, British Writer 1989 Event Retired British pilot Jack Mann is kidnapped by Islamic fundamentalists 1989 Event South African/British Olympic runner Zola Budd marries 1989 Death Bruce Chatwin, British writer, dies at 49 1989 Death Frank Adams, British Mathematician 1989 Death Edmund Leach, British Scientist 1988 Death Nicholas Tinbergen, Dutch/British biologist, dies at 81 1988 Event U.N. votes 151-2 (Isr and U.S.) to move PLO debate to Geneva, British abstains 1988 Event 117th British Golf Open: Seve Ballesteros shoots 273 at Royal Lytham 1988 Event 25th Curtis Cup: British Isles, 11-7 1988 Death James "Hamish" Hamilton, British publisher (Salinger/Mitford), dies at 87 1988 Death H A R (Kim) Philby, British double agent, dies 1988 Event Last broadcast of "Crossroads" on British TV 1988 Event Margaret Thatcher becomes longest-serving British Prime Minister this century 1987 Death Jacqueline du Pre, British cellist, dies at 42 1987 Event 116th British Golf Open: Nick Faldo shoots a 279 at Muirfield Gullane 1987 Event Boy George barred from British TV show, he may be a bad influence 1987 Event Margaret Thatcher is 1st British Prime Minister in 160 years to win 3rd term 1987 Event British Airways begins trading stocks 1987 Death Patrick "Spike" Hughes, British jazz musician (Cinderella), dies at 78 1987 Event Hart Foundation beat British Bulldogs for WWF tag team title 1986 Death John Braine, British Novelist 1986 Event 1st edition British newspaper "Independent" begins publishing 1986 Event 115th British Golf Open: Greg Norman shoots a 280 at Turnberry Scotld 1986 Death Stanley Rous, British soccer official, dies at 91 1986 Event Margaret Thatcher becomes 1st British Prime Minister to visit Israel 1986 Event British Defense Secretary Michael Heseltine resigns 1986 Death Christopher Isherwood, British writer (Lions and Shadows), dies at 81 1985 Death Rodney Robert Porter, British Scientist 1985 Event 114th British Golf Open: Sandy Lyle shoots a 282 at Royal St. George 1985 Birthday Charlie Simpson, British Musician 1985 Death Alister Hardy, British Scientist 1985 Death Richard Haydn, British actor (Mutiny on the Bounty), dies at 80 1984 Death Paul Dirac, British Physicist 1984 Event Ayako Okamoto wins LPGA Hitachi Ladies British Golf Open 1984 Birthday Henry Charles Albert David, Prince of Wales, 3rd in British succession 1984 Death Bernard Youens, British actor (Coronation Street), dies at 69 1984 Death J. B. Priestley, British Writer 1984 Death James Mason, British actor (Lolita), dies of a heart attack at 75 1984 Event Seve Ballesteros wins British Open 1984 Event 113th British Golf Open: Seve Ballesteros shoots a 276 at St. Andrews 1984 Death Eric Morecambe, British comedian (Morecambe and Wise), dies at 58 1984 Death Peter Bull, British actor (Dr. Doolittle), dies of a heart attack at 72 1984 Death Lionel Charles Robbins, British economist, dies at 85 1984 Death Basil Henry Blackwell, British publisher, dies 1984 Death Jimmy Kenndy, British songwriter (South of the Border), dies 1984 Death Arthur Travors Harris, marshal of British RAF, dies 1984 Death Kenneth Whitty, 1st sec at British Embassy in Athens, shot dead 1984 Event British ice dancing team, Torvill and Dean, become 1st skaters to receive 9 perfect 6.0s in world championships 1983 Death Bill Brandt, British Photographer 1983 Event British Airways incorporates 1983 Death Mary Renault [Challans], British author (Funeral games), dies at 78 1983 Death John Le Mesurier, British actor (Jabberwocky, Dad's Army), dies at 71 1983 Event 112th British Golf Open: Tom Watson shoots a 275 at Royal Birkdale 1983 Birthday Lee Ryan, British Musician 1983 Event Margaret Thatchers Conservative Party wins British parliamentary election 1983 Death Desmond Bagley, British Journalist 1983 Death Anthony F Blunt, British art historian/spy for U.S.S.R., dies at 75 1983 Death Arthur Koestler, Hungarian/British writer (Dialogue With Death), dies at 77 1983 Event Dutch/British infrared satellite IRAS launched from California 1983 Event British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher visits Falkland Islands 1982 Death Arthur Askey, British comedian, dies at 82 1982 Death Edward H Carr, British historian, dies at 90 1982 Death Douglas Bader, British Soldier 1982 Event 111th British Golf Open: Tom Watson shoots a 284 at Royal Troon 1982 Birthday Natasha Hamilton, British Musician 1982 Death Kenneth More, British actor (Genevieve), dies of Parkinson disease at 67 1982 Event Margaret Thatcher begins her 2nd term as British prime minster 1982 Death Marie Rambert, Cyviam Ramberg, Polish/British ballerina, dies at 94 1982 Event Reagan addresses joint session of British Parliament 1982 Event British ship Atlantic Conveyor and Coventry were hit in Falkland war 1982 Event British troops lands on Falkland Islands 1982 Event British torpedo boat Sheffield off Falkland hit by Exocet rocket 1982 Event Falklands War: Argentine cruiser General Belgrano sunk by British submarine Conqueror, killing more than 350 men 1982 Death Celia Johnson, British actress (Jean Brodie), dies of stroke at 73 1982 Event Canada Constitution Act replaces British North America Act 1982 Event British fleet sails to Falkland Islands 1982 Event Lord Carrington, British foreign sect resigns due to Falkland Is war 1982 Death Edmund Cooper, British sci-fi writer (Tomorrow Came), dies at 55 1981 Event Belize (British Honduras) gains independence from U.K. 1981 Birthday Elize Du Toit, British Actress 1981 Death Paul Brunton, British Philosopher 1981 Event 110th British Golf Open: Bill Rogers shoots a 276 at Royal St. George 1981 Event Imprisoned IRA hunger striker Bobby Sands elected to British Parliament 1981 Death Claude Auchinleck, British Soldier 1981 Death Bill Hopkins, British composer, music critic, teacher, pianist, studied at Oxford University with Egon Wellesz and Edmund Rubbra, taught at Birmingham University and University of Newcastle upon Tyne 1981 Event British team led by Ranulph Fiennes completes longest and fastest crossing of Antarctica, reaching Scott base after 75 days (2,500 miles) 1981 Event British police arrest Peter Sutcliffe, a truck driver later convicted of "Yorkshire Ripper" murders of 13 women 1981 Event British police arrest Peter Sutcliffe, the "Yorkshire Ripper" 1980 Event Anguilla becomes a British dependency separate from St. Kitts 1980 Event British Leyland starts selling Mini Metro 1980 Event 109th British Golf Open: Tom Watson shoots a 271 at Muirfield Gullane 1980 Death Gregory Bateson, British Scientist 1980 Death Charles Percy Snow, British writer (Friends and Associates), dies at 75 1980 Event Siege at Iranian Embassy in London ends; British commandos and police stormed the building 1980 Death Alfred Joseph Hitchcock, British director (Psycho, Birds), dies at 80 1980 Death Oskar Kokoschka, Austria/British painter/graphic artist, dies at 93 1980 Death Cecil Beaton, British photographer, dies at 76 1979 Event British government identifies Sir Anthony Blunt as 4th man in Soviet spy ring 1979 Event British newspaper "Times" resumes publishing after 1 year 1979 Birthday Sophie Dahl, British Model 1979 Event 18 British militia die in ambush/bomb attack in Northern Ireland 1979 Death Louis Mountbatten, British Admiral of the Fleet, assassinated by IRA 1979 Event English seaside resort Brighton gets 1st British nude beach 1979 Event 108th British Golf Open: Seve Ballesteros shoots a 283 at Royal Lytham 1979 Death Herbert Butterfield, British Historian 1979 Event IRA-bomb explodes in British consulate in Antwerp 1979 Death Airey Neave, British MP (Conservatives), killed by terrorist bomb 1979 Event British government of Callaghan falls 1979 Death ... Sykes, British ambassador in The Hague, murdered 1979 Death Walter Legge, British Businessman 1979 Death Richard Sykes, British ambassador, assassinated in Holland 1978 Event Khomeini followers attack British embassy/El Al office in Iran 1978 Event British pop magazine "Smash Hits," 1st published 1978 Death Nicolas Bentley, British Author 1978 Event 107th British Golf Open: Jack Nicklaus shoots a 281 at St. Andrews 1978 Event Rutles "All You Need is Cash" is shown on British TV 1978 Death Paul Scott, British Novelist 1978 Birthday Louise Woodward, British Celebrity 1978 Birthday Jenny Frost, British Musician 1978 Death Reginald Maudling, British Politician 1977 Death Clementine O Spencer-Churchill (Hozier), British barones, dies at 92 1977 Birthday Peter Mark Andrew Phillips, 9th in succession to British throne 1977 Event Ken Hinton of CFL British Columbia Lions returns a punt 130 yards 1977 Event 106th British Golf Open: Tom Watson shoots a 268 at Turnberry Scotland 1977 Event British Virgin Islands adopts constitution 1977 Event British Aerospace forms 1977 Death Anthony Crosland, British Politician 1977 Death Anthony Eden, British premier (1955-57), dies at 79 1976 Death Benjamin Britten, British composer (Beggar's Opera), dies at 63 1976 Event Battle East Sussex: Mary Langdon becomes 1st British firewoman 1976 Birthday Rhona Mitra, British Actress 1976 Death Christopher Ewart-Biggs, British ambassador to Ireland, assassinated 1976 Event 105th British Golf Open: Johnny Miller shoots a 279 at Royal Birkdale 1976 Death Bernard L Montgomery, British general, defeated Rommel, dies at 88 1976 Event British premier Harold Wilson resigns 1976 Event British pounds falls below $2 for 1st time 1976 Death Margaret Leighton, British actress (Much ado about nothing), dies at 53 1975 Event British government sends troops to Belize 1975 Death Arnold J. Toynbee, British Historian 1975 Event 104th British Golf Open: Tom Watson shoots a 279 at Carnoustie 1975 Event British voters decide to remain in Common Market 1975 Event British population agrees to European Common Market membership 1975 Birthday Denise Van Outen, British Actress 1975 Birthday Greg Moore, born in New Westminster, British Columbia, promising Canadian racecar driver, competed in Indy Lights, CART World Series 1975 Death Michael Flanders, British Actor 1975 Event Margaret Thatcher elected leader of British Conservative Party 1975 Event 14 die when British freighter "Lake Illawarra" rams pylon bridge between Derwent and Hobart, Tasmania and ship sinks 1975 Death Robert Neumann, Austrian/British author (False Flag), dies at 77 1974 Event 2nd cease-fire between IRA and British; lasts until approx April 1975 1974 Event British Lord Lucan disappears 1974 Birthday Louise Nurding, British Musician 1974 Event Labour Party wins British parliamentary election 1974 Death Jacob Bronowsky, British mathematician/cultural historian, dies at 66 1974 Death Ivor Dean, British actor (Theatre of Death), dies at 57 1974 Event 103rd British Golf Open: Gary Player shoots a 282 at Royal Lytham 1974 Death Patrick MS Blackett, British physicist (Nobel 1948), dies at 76 1974 Event Harold Wilson replaces resigning Ed Heath as British premier 1974 Event Labour Party wins British parliamentary election 1974 Birthday Robbie Williams, British Musician 1974 Event British mine strike 1974 Death Edmund Blunden, British poet/critic, dies at 77 1973 Death Wystan H Auden, British/U.S. writer (Spain/Platonic Blow), dies at 66 1973 Death A S Neill, British headmaster, dies at at 89 1973 Death John R R Tolkien, British story writer (Hobbitt), dies of ulcer at 81 1973 Event 102nd British Golf Open: Tom Weiskopf shoots a 276 at Royal Troon 1973 Birthday Melinda Penn, Miss British virgin islands Universe, 1997 1973 Birthday Jack Davenport, British Actor 1973 Event British Darts Organisation founded in North London 1972 Birthday Jonny Lee Miller, British Actor 1972 Birthday Vicki Goetze, Michicot WI, LPGA golfer, 1995 British Open-12th 1972 Birthday Liam Gallagher, British Musician 1972 Event British harbor strike ends 1972 Event Bloody Sunday: British soldiers fire into crowd, kill 13 1972 Event British premier Heath proclaims emergency crisis due to harbor strike 1972 Event 101st British Golf Open: Lee Trevino shoots 278 at Muirfield Gullane 1972 Event Bangladesh becomes a member of British Commonwealth 1972 Event British Parliament votes to join European Common Market 1972 Event British Government declares state of emergency after month-long miners' strike 1972 Event Bloody Sunday: British soldiers shoot on catholics in Londonderry, 13 die 1972 Event Pakistan withdraws from the British Commonwealth 1972 Birthday Jill McGill, born in Denver, Colorado, LPGA golfer, 1995 British Open-2nd 1971 Birthday Emily Mortimer, British Actress 1971 Death A. P. Herbert, British novelist, humorist, playwright and activist at age 81 1971 Event Bahrain proclaims independence after 110 years of British rule 1971 Event 100th British Golf Open: Lee Trevino shoots a 278 at Royal Birkdale 1971 Event British and Argentina sign accord about Falkland Islands 1971 Death Stevie Smith, British Poet 1971 Event British car maker Rolls Royce declared itself bankrupt 1970 Event British newspaper Sun puts 1st pinup girl on pg 3 (Stephanie Rahn) 1970 Event Caledonian Airways takes over British United Airways 1970 Event Quebec separatists kidnap British trade commissioner James Cross 1970 Event 99th British Golf Open: Jack Nicklaus shoots a 283 at St. Andrews 1970 Event British aircraft crashes at Barcelona, 112 killed 1970 Birthday Christopher Nolan, British Director 1970 Event British government of Edward Heath forms, with Margaret Thatcher 1970 Event Conservatives win British parliamentary election 1970 Death Edward M Forster, British writer (Maurice, passage to India), dies at 91 1970 Birthday Joshua Compston, born in the United Kingdom, art impressario, gallerist, Factual Nonsense art gallery, associated with the emergence of the Young British Artists, YBAs 1970 Event British expedition climbs south face of Annapurna I 1970 Birthday Joseph Fiennes, British Actor 1970 Birthday Simon Pegg, British Comedian 1970 Death Bertrand Russell, philosopher, British MP, dies in Merioneth at 97 1970 Death B. H. Liddell Hart, British Historian 1970 Death Max Born, German/British physicist (Nobel 1954), dies at 87 1969 Event British House of Commons votes 343-185 abolishing the death penalty 1969 Birthday P. J. Harvey, also known as Polly Jean Harvey, British Musician 1969 Birthday Catriona Matthew, Edinburgh Scotland, golfer, 1995 British Open-12th 1969 Event British troops intervene militarily in Northern Ireland 1969 Death Leonard Woolf, British Author 1969 Event 98th British Golf Open: Tony Jacklin shoots a 280 at Royal Lytham 1969 Birthday Colin Greenwood, British Musician 1969 Death Harold RLG 1st Earl Alexander of Tunis, British field marshal, dies at 78 1969 Event John and Yoko appear on David Frost's British TV Show 1969 Event British liner Queen Elizabeth II leaves on maiden voyage to New York 1969 Event Bernadette Devlin elected to British house of commons 1969 Event British invade Anguilla 1969 Death Boris Karloff, Pratt, British actor (Frankenstein), dies at 81 1969 Birthday Stephen Hendry, British snookers player 1968 Birthday Wendy Doolan, Sydney Australia, LPGA golfer, 1991 British Amat Champ-2nd 1968 Death Mervyn Peake, British Writer 1968 Birthday Dominic West, British Actor 1968 Death Lilian Harvey, British actress (Congress Dances), dies 1968 Event 97th British Golf Open: Gary Player shoots 289 at Carnoustie Scotland 1968 Death Randolph Churchill, British Journalist 1968 Event British minister of Foreign affairs George Brown resigns 1968 Death Anthony Asquith, British director (Court Martial), dies at 65 1968 Event British adopts year-round daylight savings time 1968 Birthday Warren Ellis, British Author 1968 Death Lawson Little, amateur golfer (U.S./British Opens 1934,35), dies at 57 1967 Event British troops withdraw from Aden and South Yemen 1967 Event British government devalues pounds from U.S. equivalent of $2.80 to $2.40 1967 Event 1st local British radio station begins broadcasting (Radio Leicester) 1967 Birthday Susan Tulley, British actress, Michelle-EastEnders 1967 Death Clement Atlee, British Statesman 1967 Event British liner Queen Elizabeth II launched at Clydebank, Scotland 1967 Event Gibraltar votes 12,138 to 44 to remain British and not Spanish 1967 Event Roberto DeVicenzo of Argentina wins golf's British Open 1967 Event 1st British color TV broadcast, on BBC 2 1967 Birthday Emma Anderson, British Musician 1967 Death Arthur W. Tedder of Glenguin, British air marshal (WW II), dies at 76 1967 Event 1st British ombudsman sir Edward Compton begins work 1967 Birthday Nick Leeson, British banker, Baring bank 1967 Birthday Nicholas Gillingham, British swimmer, world record 200m freestyle 1966 Birthday Douglas Vipond, British pop drummer, Deacon Blue-Raintown 1966 Event 1st British nuclear sub HMS Resolution launched 1966 Death Edward Gordon Craig, British Actor 1966 Event 95th British Golf Open: Jack Nicklaus shoots 282 at Muirfield Gullane 1966 Death Arthur D Waley, Schloss, British sinology/poet (Monkey), dies 1966 Event Guyana (formerly British Guiana) declares independence from UK 1966 Birthday Helena Bonham Carter, British Actress 1966 Event Last British concert by Beatles (Empire Pool in Wembley) 1966 Birthday John Patrick Daly, born in born in Sacramento, California, PGA golfer, 1995 British Open 1966 Death Evelyn Waugh, British writer (Black Mischief), dies at 62 1966 Event Labour Party wins British parliamentary election 1966 Birthday Karen Lunn, born in Cowra, Australia, LPGA golfer, 1993 Women's British Open 1966 Birthday Alecia Stephenson, born in North Vancouver, British Columbia, softball ss 1996 Olympics 1966 Event North Sea Gas was 1st pumped ashore by British Petroleum 1965 Event British government proclaims ends oil-embargo against Rhodesia 1965 Death W. Somerset Maugham, British Playwright 1965 Event British Indian Ocean Territory formed 1965 Birthday Gavin Rossdale, British Musician 1965 Birthday Steve Coogan, British Comedian 1965 Death [John] Selwyn (Brooke) Lloyd, British statesman, dies 1965 Event Queen Elizabeth decorates Beatles with Order of British Empire 1965 Event Elizabeth Lane becomes 1st female British supreme court justice 1965 Birthday Sam Mendes, British Director 1965 Event Cigarette Ads banned on British TV 1965 Event Rock group "Animals" 1st time on British charts 1965 Event Edward Heath succeeds Alec Douglas-Hume as leader of British Cons party 1965 Event 94th British Golf Open: Peter Thomson shoots a 285 at Royal Birkdale 1965 Birthday Suzanne Peta Strudwick, born in Knutsford, England, golfer, 1995 British Open-7th 1965 Birthday Nigel Short, British Celebrity 1965 Birthday Norman Whiteside, British soccer player 1965 Death Howard Spring, British author (Heaven Lies About Us), dies at 76 1965 Event 27 copper miners die in avalanche, Granduc Mountain, British Columbia 1965 Event The Who make their 1st appearance on British TV 1964 Death Edith Sitwell, British Poet 1964 Event British Labour Party installs weapon embargo against South Africa 1964 Event Harold Wilson's Labour party wins British election 1964 Event Final edition of socialist British newspaper "Daily Herald" 1964 Death Ian Fleming, British journalist and creator of 'James Bond', dies at 56 1964 Death Erwin F Finlay-Freundlich, British astronomer, dies 1964 Event Seve Ballesteros wins British Golf Open 1964 Birthday Mike Edwards, British rock vocalist, Jesus Jones-Devil you Know 1964 Event Jack Nicklaus wins British Open golf tournament 1964 Birthday Adrian Moorhouse, British 100m breaststroker, Gold Medal 1988 Olympics 1964 Birthday Elizabeth McColgan, British running star, world record 5 km indoor 1964 Birthday Lorraine McIntosh, British pop singer, Deacon Blue-Fellow Hoodlums 1964 Death Nancy Astor, British Politician 1964 Birthday Ewen Vernal, British pop bassist, Deacon Blue-Your Town 1964 Birthday Richard Dunwoody, born in Belfast, Northern Ireland, British jockey in National Hunt Racing, won King George VI Chase four times on the famous grey Desert Orchid in 1989 and 1990 1963 Event Kenya (formerly British East Africa) declares independence from UK 1963 Event Zanzibar becomes independent within British Commonwealth 1963 Death Robert Hamer, British Director 1963 Event "Doctor Who," the long-running British sci-fi series debuts in England 1963 Birthday John Barnes, born in Kingston, Jamaica, British professional soccer player, manager for Tranmere Rovers Football Club 1963 Event Alec Douglas-Home forms British government 1963 Event British premier Harold MacMillan, resigns 1963 Event Uganda becomes a republic within British Commonwealth 1963 Death Mervyn A Ellison, British astronomer (spectrohelioscope), dies at 63 1963 Death Louis MacNeice, British Poet 1963 Death Guy Burgess, British spy for the U.S.S.R. 1963 Event British spy Kim Philby found in Moscow 1963 Death Gerald Vann, British Theologian 1963 Birthday George Michael [Panos], British rock vocalist, Wham-I Want Your Sex 1963 Event British House of Commons debates Profumo-Christine Keeler affair 1963 Death John Whiting, British dramatist/actor (Devils), dies 1963 Death Andrew Browne, Irish/British Admiral (Cape Matapan, WW II), dies at 80 1963 Event British Minister of War John Profumo resigns due to Christine Keeler 1963 Birthday Alessandra Ferri, British ballerina, American Ballet Theater 1963 Event British Minister of War John Profumo denies having sex with Christine Keeler 1963 Birthday Deborah Bull, British Dancer 1963 Event Beatles began 1st British tour, supporting Tommy Roe and Chris Montez 1963 Death Todd "Hugh" Gaitskell, leader British Labour Party, dies at 56 1963 Event Beatles top British rock charts with "Please, Please Me" 1963 Birthday Paul Way, born in Kingsbury, Middlesex, British golfer, won Brabazon Trophy, 1981, turned pro in 1982, won KLM Dutch Open while on the European Tour, second youngest Ryder Cup player in 1983, and 1985, finished in the top 100 in 1993, on the Order of Merit, after 1997, his participation in tournament golf waned 1963 Birthday Martin Bashir, British Journalist 1962 Event Beatles 1st British TV appearance (People and Places) 1962 Event Tanganyika becomes a republic within British Commonwealth 1962 Birthday S C Grant, British Lieutenant-General 1962 Birthday Jack Dee, British Comedian 1962 Event Jamaica becomes independent after 300 years of British rule 1962 Birthday Corinne Dibnah, born in Brisbane, Australia, LPGA golfer, 1988 British Open 1962 Event 91st British Golf Open: Arnold Palmer shoots a 276 at Royal Troon 1962 Event 1st flight Vickers (British Aerospace) VC-10 long-range airliner 1962 Death Eugene Goossens, British composer (Perseus), dies at 69 1962 Event British Antarctic Territory forms 1962 Event U.S. / British nuclear test experiment in Nevada 1962 Event British spy Kim Philby defects to U.S.S.R. 1961 Event John F. Kennedy and British Prime Minister MacMillan meet in Bermuda 1961 Event British government begins decimal coin system 1961 Birthday Sarah Sutton, British Actress 1961 Birthday Frank Bruno, British boxer, European champ 1961 Birthday Jill Dando, British Journalist 1961 Event Hurricane Hattie, kills 400 in British Honduras 1961 Event Tanganyika becomes independent within British Commonwealth 1961 Birthday Antonia De Sancha, born in London, England, lover of British MP David Mellor 1961 Birthday Tom Holt, born in London, author, British novelist, writes mythopoeic novels that parody mythology, history, literature 1961 Event 90th British Golf Open: Arnold Palmer shoots a 284 at Royal Birkdale 1961 Birthday Alison Moyet, British Musician 1961 Birthday Jay Aston, London, England, singer, youngest member of British pop group, Bucks Fizz, founded Jay Aston Theatre Arts School 1961 Birthday Richard Phelps, British pentathelete 1961 Event British liner "Dara" explodes in Persian Gulf, kills 236 1961 Birthday Michael Winterbottom, British Director 1961 Event South Africa leaves British Commonwealth 1961 Event South Africa withdraws from British Commonwealth 1961 Death George Formby, British singer/comedian, dies at 56 1961 Death Anthony G de Rothschild, British philanthropist, dies at 73 1961 Event British minister Enoch Powell makes medical insurance more expensive 1960 Birthday Carol Vorderman, British Entertainer 1960 Event 1st broadcast of "Coronation Street" on British ITV 1960 Birthday Jonathan Ross, British talk show host, Tall Guy 1960 Birthday James Prime, British rock keyboardist, Deacon Blue-Pay Day 1960 Birthday Ian Baker-Finch, Nambour Queensland, PGA golfer, 1991 British Open 1960 Event 1st British nuclear sub Dreadnought launched 1960 Birthday Richard Jobson, British TV person/rocker, Skids-Scared to Dance 1960 Event British Labour party demands unilateral nuclear disarmament 1960 Death Harry St. John Philby, sheik Abdullah, British explorer, dies 1960 Birthday Nick della Casa, British/Brazillian/Argentine cameraman, Emmy Award 1960 Death Melanie Klein, Austria/British psycho analyst, dies at 78 1960 Event British Somaliland becomes Somalia 1960 Event British Somaliland becomes part of Somalia 1960 Event British Somaliland (now Somalia) gains independence from Britain 1960 Birthday Peter Winterbottom, British rugby player 1960 Event Nigeria becomes a member of British Commonwealth 1960 Birthday Jonathan Agnew, British broadcaster and test bowler 1960 Death Dornford Yates, British Novelist 1960 Death F S Flint, British translator/poet (imagist movement), dies at 74 1960 Birthday Cindy Figg-Currier, Mount Pleasant, Michigan, golfer, 1994 British Open-6th 1960 Birthday John Galliano, British Designer 1960 Birthday Nigella Lawson, British Journalist 1959 Birthday Andy McNab, British Novelist 1959 Birthday Charles Kennedy, British Politician 1959 Event Conservatives win British election 1959 Death Kay Kendall, British actress (Genevieve), dies of leukemia at 32 1959 Birthday Jeanette Winterson, British Novelist 1959 Event 88th British Golf Open: Gary Player shoots a 284 at Muirfield Gullane 1959 Birthday Julie Burchill, British Journalist 1959 Birthday Morrissey, British rock vocalist, Everyday is Like Sunday 1959 Birthday Mike Lindup, British rock keyboardist/singer, Level 42-Hot Water 1959 Event British government arrests Hastings Banda of Nyasaland, ends emergency crisis 1959 Birthday Ali Campbell, British reggae vocalist and guitarist, UB40-Red Red Wine 1959 Birthday Earl Falconer, British reggae bassist, UB40-Red Red Wine 1958 Birthday Terry Butcher, British soccer player 1958 Birthday Limahl, British rocker, Kajagoogoo-Too Shy 1958 Birthday Nick Park, British Director 1958 Death Friedrich Adolf Paneth, Austrian/British chemist, dies at 71 1958 Birthday Lenny Henry, British comedian, 3 of a Kind 1958 Birthday Alvin Martin, British Athlete 1958 Event 87th British Golf Open: Peter Thomson shoots a 278 at Royal Lytham 1958 Death Alfred Noyes, British poet/essayist (Robin Hood), dies at 77 1958 Event British parachutists lands on Cyprus 1958 Death Ronald Colman, British actor (Prisoner of Zenda), dies at 67 1958 Birthday Philip Bainbridge, British cricketeer 1958 Event British Empire Day is renamed "Commonwealth Day" 1958 Death Henry M Tomlinson, British writer (Under red ensign), dies at 84 1958 Birthday Maureen Madill, born in Coleraine, Nothern Ireland, golfer, British Open Amateur 1979 1958 Birthday Norman Lamont Hassan, British reggae musician, UB40-Red Red Wine 1958 Birthday Jez Strode, born in England, born Jeremy Strode, drummer, musician, pop band genre, member of British pop band, Kajagoogoo 1957 Birthday Ricky Ross, British rock vocalist, Deacon Blue-Raintown 1957 Death Dorothy L. Sayers, British Author 1957 Birthday James Brown, British reggae singer/drummer, UB40-Red Red Wine 1957 Death Vere G Childe, British archaeologist/prehistorian, dies at 65 1957 Event Accident at British nuclear reactor in Windsdale 1957 Birthday Pete Jones, born near Watford, England, rocker, British bass guitarist, member of Public Image Ltd. 1957 Birthday Keith Connor, Anguilla, British triple jumper 1984 Olympics bronze 1957 Birthday Gwyn Evans, born in Maesteg, Wales, professional rugby player, played for Maesteg RFC, Barbarian FC, toured with the British and Irish Lions 1957 Event British soccer player Jimmy Greaves' (17) 1st game for Chelsea 1957 Birthday Jim "Bullseye" Bowen, British TV game show host 1957 Event British offensive against imam Galeb Ben Ali of Oman 1957 Birthday Nicholas Alexander Faldo, born in England, PGA golfer, 1992 British Open 1957 Birthday Marc Almond, British Musician 1957 Event Harold MacMillan becomes British PM 1957 Event Anthony Eden resigns as British PM 1957 Birthday Stephen Jones, born in Wirral Peninsula, England, British milliner, considered the most radical, prolific milliner of the late 20th-early 21st-century 1957 Death Gilbert Murray, British Diplomat 1957 Event 1st British H-bomb explosion (over Christmas Island) 1957 Death Ignatius Roy D Campbell, British poet (Garcia Lorca), dies at 54 1957 Birthday Seve Ballesteros, born in Spain, golfer, British Open 1979, 1984, 1988 1957 Birthday Graeme Kelling, British pop guitarist, Deacon Blue-Real Gone Kid 1957 Death Leslie Hore-Belisha, Lord Halifax, British Minister of Transport, dies at 63 1957 Birthday Bienvenida Buck, Velencia Spain, lover of British Peter Harding 1957 Event British premier Anthony Eden resigns 1956 Event Last British/French troops leave Egypt 1956 Birthday Charles Moore, British editor-in-chief, Sunday Telegraph 1956 Event British government sends 3 aircraft carriers to Egypt 1956 Event 85th British Golf Open: Peter Thomson shoots a 286 at Hoylake England 1956 Event 3rd class travel on British Railways ends 1956 Death Lionel K P "Buster" Crabb, British diver (WW II), dies at 47 1956 Birthday Phillip Oppenhein, British MP 1956 Birthday Tessa Sanderson, born in Kingston, Jamaica, British javelin thrower 1984 Olympics gold 1956 Event 1st British soccer match at Kunstlicht: Portsmouth vs Newcastle United 1956 Death Siegfried F Nadel, Australia/British anthropologist (Nuba), dies at 52 1955 Event 1st prototype of hovercraft patented by British engineer Christoper Cockerell 1955 Event British transfer Cocos (Keeling) Is in Indian Ocean to Australia 1955 Event British troops occupy Saudi-Arabic oil field at Boeraimi 1955 Birthday Steven Severin, British pop bassist, Siouxsie and Banshees-Wild Thing 1955 Birthday Christine Oddy, British member European parliament 1955 Death Leopold C M S Amery, British minister of Colonies (India), dies at 81 1955 Death Robert Blackburn, British aviation pioneer, dies at 70 1955 Birthday David Jasper, British principal, St. Chad's College Durham England 1955 Birthday Timothy Garton Ash, British Author 1955 Birthday Ben de Lisi, British fashion designer 1955 Event Conservatives win British parliamentary election 1955 Birthday Mike Smith, born in Britain, British DJ, radio presenter, racing car driver, pilot, businessman, Breakfast Show Presenter of BBC Radio One 1986 - 1988, used on-air nickname 'Smithy' 1955 Event Winston Churchill resigns as British Prime Minister, Anthony Eden succeeds him 1955 Birthday Janice Long, British radio host, Crash FM 1955 Event British government signs military treaty with Iraq 1955 Event EOKA-bomb attacks against British government buildings in Cyprus 1955 Event British aircraft carrier Ark Royal sets sail 1955 Birthday Clive Aslet, British editor, Country Life 1954 Birthday Rosie Vela, British singer, Zazu, Fools Paradise 1954 Birthday Robin Campbell, British reggae vocalist and guitarist, UB40-Red Red Wine 1954 Birthday Louis de Bernieres, British Novelist 1954 Event Egypt and Great Britain sign treaty; British troops departs 1954 Event British colony of Nigeria becomes a federation 1954 Birthday Anne Mcintosh, British member European parliament 1954 Birthday George Galloway, British Politician 1954 Birthday Alan [Joseph] Lamb, South African/British cricket player, Northampton 1954 Death Alan M Turing, British mathematician (Turing), commits suicide at 41 1954 Event Labour Party wins British municipal elections 1954 Event British raid Nairobi Kenya (25,000 Mau Mau suspects arrested) 1954 Birthday Trevor Francis, British soccer manager 1954 Birthday Iain Duncan Smith, British Politician 1954 Death Francis B Young, British physician/writer (In South Africa), dies at 69 1954 Birthday Piers Gardner, director, British Institute of International and Comparative Law 1954 Birthday Trevor Rabin, born in South Africa, musician, guitarist, singer, songwriter, member of Yes, a progressive British rock band, film composer 1953 Birthday Trevor Phillips, British Politician 1953 Birthday Geoff Hoon, British Politician 1953 Birthday Griff Rhys Jones, British humorist/actor, Morons From Outer Space 1953 Birthday Peter Mandelson, British Politician 1953 Event British premier Winston Churchill aproves Guyanese Constitution 1953 Death Arnold Bax, British composer, dies at 69 1953 Death Arnold Edward Trevor Bax, British composer (Coronation March), dies at 69 1953 Death Roger Quilter, British composer, dies at 75 1953 Birthday Julian Brazier, born in Kent, England, British politician, Conservative Member of Parliament for Canterbury 1953 Event 82nd British Golf Open: Ben Hogan shoots a 282 at Carnoustie Dai Rees 1953 Birthday David Maclean, British minister of state 1953 Birthday Tony Blair, British Prime Minister, Labour, 1997- 1953 Death Edward B B Shanks, British poet/critic, dies at 60 1953 Event 1st general elections in British Guyana, won by Jagans PPP 1953 Event British royal yacht Britannia taken out of service 1953 Birthday Stephen Byers, born in Wolverhampton, England, British politician, Labour Member of Parliament for Tyneside North 1953 Birthday David Moorcroft, born in Coventry, England, British athlete, long distance runner, 5,000 meters record holder, Chief Executive of UK Athletics from 1997 to 2007 1953 Birthday Peter McEvoy, British actor, Against the Innocent 1953 Birthday Judi Spiers, born in Britain, Judith Marilyn Spiers, British radio and television presenter, hosted Mr TSW and Miss TSW local beauty contests for new south-west station TSW, appeared in six editions of daytime chat show, presented on Open Air, a BBC1 access television program, in 1986, and Pebble Mill program 1992- 1995, presenter, BBC Radio Devon since 2005 1953 Death Edward Marsh, British Editor 1952 Birthday David Knopfler, British Musician 1952 Event 1st British nuclear test at Monte Bello Is Australia 1952 Event 7th Curtis Cup: British Isles, 5-4 1952 Birthday Jonjo O'Neill, born in Castletownroche, Ireland, racehorse trainer, former jockey, won British Champion Jockey title, Cheltenham Gold Cup 1952 Birthday David Amess, born in London, England, British politician, Conservative, Member of Parliament for Southend West 1952 Death King George VI, British Royalty 1952 Event British army occupies Ismailiya, Suez Canal Zone 1951 Birthday Richard Skinner, born in Portsmouth, England, British DJ, radio and television broadcaster, lead presenter on flagship programs 'Top of the Pops', 'Top 40 Show', 'Whistle Test' 1951 Event Future British Prime Minister Margaret Roberts Thatcher marries Denis Thatcher 1951 Event Winston Churchill re-elected British premier 1951 Event British auto manufacturers Austin/Moris Motors merge 1951 Event British troops occupies Ismailiya Egypt 1951 Event Winston Churchill re-elected British Prime Minister 1951 Event Egyptian army fires on British troops 1951 Death Henry Gurney, British high commissioner to Malaya, assassinated 1951 Event British begins economic boycott of Iran 1951 Birthday John Deacon, British pop guitarist, Queen-Somebody to Love 1951 Birthday David Jasper, British principal, St. Chad's College Durham England 1951 Event British diplomats Guy Burgess and Donald Maclean flee to U.S.S.R. 1951 Birthday John Salthouse, British actor, American Werewolf in London 1951 Birthday John Redwood, British Politician 1951 Birthday John Conteh, born in Liverpool, England, athlete, former British boxer, world light-heavyweight boxing champion 1951 Birthday Simon Hughes, born in Cheshire, England, British politician, Liberal Member of Parliament of North Southwark and Bermondsey 1951 Birthday Lynne Jones, born in Birmingham, England, British politician, Labour party, Member of Parliament for Birmingham Selly Oak 1951 Birthday Ian McCartney, born in Dumbartonshire, Scotland, British politician, Member of Parliament for Makerfield 1951 Birthday Louise Jameson, British Actress 1951 Event British submarine Affray sank in English Channel, killing 75 1951 Death James I Wedgwood, British theosophist/Catholic bishop, dies at 67 1951 Death Ivor Novello, British writer (Keep the Home Fires Burning), dies at 58 1951 Birthday Kenny Dalglish, born in Dalmarnock, Glasgow, soccer player, soccer team manager, named the greatest post-war British striker by FourFourTwo magazine 1951 Birthday Kevin Keegan, British soccer player/manager, Newcastle United 1951 Birthday Earl Howe, born in England, British politician, Conservative, front bench member, House of Lords, Health spokesman 1951 Event 9 Jewish Kremlin physicians "exposed" as British/U.S. agents 1950 Death Ernest John Moeran, British composer, dies at 55 1950 Event Egyptian king Faruk demands departure of all British troops 1950 Event British minister of Finance Stafford Cripps resigns 1950 Birthday Terry Buffin, rock drummer, British Lions 1950 Birthday Paul Burgess, British drummer, 10cc-Not Alone 1950 Event U.S. Mustangs accidentally bombs British on Hill 282 Korea, 17 killed 1950 Birthday Barry Sheene, born in London, England, motorcycle road racer, winner, Formula 750 World Championship and 1976 British Grand Prix 1950 Death John C Smuts, co-found British RAF/South African Prime Minister 1919 - 1948, dies at 80 1950 Birthday Richard Branson, British music enterperneur, Virgin Atlantic 1950 Birthday Bruce Oldfield, British mode-designer 1950 Event 79th British Golf Open: Bobby Locke shoots a 279 at Royal Troon 1950 Birthday David Jensen, born in Victoria, British Columbia, Canada, David 'Kid' Jensen, popular British radio DJ, played progressive music, hosted BBC pop network, Radio 1, Top of the Pops presenter, interviewed Duran Duran, promoted The Police before they were commercially successful 1950 Death Archibald Wavell, British Soldier 1950 Birthday Keith Bradley, born in Birmingham, England, British politician, life peer, Labour Member of Parliament for Manchester Withington 1950 Event 1st edition of British strip "Eagle" 1950 Birthday Leonard van Spirit, Dutch/British fruit and food magnate 1950 Birthday Mary Tamm, British actress, Odessa File 1950 Birthday Joe Bugner, Hungarian/British/Australian boxer, European Champ 1971 1950 Birthday Stephen Chatman, born in Faribault, Minnesota, Canadian composer, received Fulbright grant for study at Hochschule fur Misik in Cologne, since 1976 has served as professor and Head of the Composition Division at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver 1950 Birthday Julia Neuberger, Baroness Neuberger, born in England, British rabbi, member of the House of Lords, social reformer, Chancellor, University of Ulster 1950 Event Labour wins British parliamentary election 1950 Birthday Michael Dickinson, British reorganizer 1950 Event India becomes a republic ceaseing to be a British dominion 1950 Event Swedish tanker rams British submarine Truculent in Thames, 64 die 1950 Birthday Morgan Fisher, rock keyboardist, British Lions 1949 Birthday Ray Shulman, born in Portsmouth, England, born Raymond Schulman, musician, record producer, member of Gentle Giant, British progressive rock band, produced records for The Sugarcubes 1949 Event India adopts a constitution as a British Commonwealth Republic 1949 Birthday Dennis Taylor, British snooker champion 1949 Birthday Peter Ackroyd, British Author 1949 Birthday Tom Watson, born in Kansas City, Missouri, golfer, British Open 1975, 77, 80, 82, 83 1949 Birthday Martin Amis, British Author 1949 Event British warship HMS Amethyst escape down Yangtze River, having been refused a safe passage by Chinese Communists after 3-month standoff 1949 Birthday Roger Taylor, British rock drummer, Queen-Bohemian Rhapsody 1949 Birthday Ray Major, rock guitarist, British Lions 1949 Birthday Helen Rosenthal, British teacher/health administrator 1949 Birthday Ingrid Newkirk, British Activist 1949 Birthday Douglas Henderson, British MP 1949 Event British government grants Cyrenaica (East-Libya) independence 1949 Birthday Rosalind Plowright, British soprano, Aida, Senta 1949 Event British government recognizes Republic of Ireland 1949 Birthday Timothy Cordy, British director, Town and Country Planning Association 1949 Birthday Graham Swift, British Author 1949 Event Republic of Ireland withdraws from British Commonwealth 1949 Birthday Greg Knight, British Politician 1949 Birthday Paul Gambaccini, British disc jockey 1949 Birthday Sue Cook, British broadcaster 1949 Birthday Brian Hanrahan, British TV newsman, BBC 1949 Birthday David Mellor, secretary of the British treasury and MP 1949 Birthday Emma Kirkby, British soprano 1949 Birthday Maureen Hicks, British MP 1949 Death Russell Porter, actor (Betsy, Hanna's War, British Empire), dies 1949 Birthday Bernard Gallacher, British golfer 1948 Birthday David Davis, British Politician 1948 Birthday Noel Edmonds, British TV personality, Foul-ups, Bleeps and Blunders 1948 Birthday Alan Parsons, British Musician 1948 Birthday Patricia Hewitt, British Politician 1948 Birthday Bernadette Hingley, British priest 1948 Birthday Mark A P Phillips, British ex of princess Anne 1948 Death Lillian Brainthwaite, British actress (Man About the House), dies at 75 1948 Event British De Havilland 08-fighter flies faster than sound 1948 Birthday Rob Buckman, British broadcaster/actor, Pink Medicine Show 1948 Birthday John Scarlett, British Celebrity 1948 Death Albert F Pollard, British historian (Evolution of parliament), dies at 78 1948 Event Last British armies leave Israel 1948 Birthday Ian Paice, British hard rock drummer, White Snake, Deep Purple 1948 Event U.S. and British airlift to West-Berlin begins 1948 Birthday Ian Mcewan, British Author 1948 Birthday Anthony Nelson, British Secretary of Treasury 1948 Birthday Ray Laidlaw, British rock drummer, Jack the Lad 1948 Event 28 year old British Mandate over Palestine ends 1948 Event Israel declares independence from British administration 1948 Birthday Bill Ward, born in Birmingham, England, musician, vocalist, drummer for Black Sabbath, a British heavy metal band, sang lead vocals on Technical Ecstacy, Never Say Die! 1948 Birthday Virginia Bottomley, British minister of state health 1948 Event Stern-group bomb Cairo-Haifa train, 27 British soldiers died 1948 Birthday G B Warren, British biochemist 1948 Birthday John Browne, group chief executive, British Petroleum Company 1948 Death Richard Tauber, Austria/British tenor/composer (Lehar), dies at 55 1947 Event British transfer Heard and McDonald Is (Indian Ocean) to Australia 1947 Death Aleister Edward S Crowley, British occultist, dies at 72 1947 Death G. H. Hardy, British Mathematician 1947 Death Godfrey Harold Hardy, British Mathematician 1947 Death Emmuska Orczy, British author (Scarlet Pimpernel), dies at 82 1947 Death Baroness Orczy, British Novelist 1947 Birthday Dave Pegg, British pop bassist, Jethro Tull-Crest of a Wave 1947 Birthday Jon Snow, British TV journalist, Channel 4 1947 Birthday Peter Hope-Evans, British singer/harmonicaist, Family 1947 Birthday John Fiddler, born in England, rock vocalist and guitarist, British Lions 1947 Birthday Russ Abbott, British TV comedian, September Song 1947 Event British government sails "Exodus" with fugitives from Nazis 1947 Birthday Brian Hulls, British TV news cameraman 1947 Event India granted independence within British Commonwealth 1947 Birthday Neil McIntosh, CEO, VSO, Center for British Teaching 1947 Event British seize "Exodus 1947" ship of Jewish immigrants to Palestine 1947 Event British Dominion Affairs office becomes Commonwealth Relations office 1947 Birthday David French, British director, Deep Sleep, Bingo 1947 Event Babe Didrikson is 1st American to win British Women's Amateur Golf Champ 1947 Birthday David Blunkett, British Politician 1947 Event British viceroy of India lord Mountbatten visits Pakistan 1947 Birthday Anthony Holden, British Journalist 1947 Birthday Iain Vallance, CEO, British Telecom 1947 Birthday John Laurence Miller, born in San Francisco, California, golfer, U.S. Open 1973, British Open 1976 1947 Birthday Wilf Stevenson, director, British Film Institute 1947 Birthday Michael Hindley, British MEP 1947 Birthday Lesley Collier, British ballet dancer 1947 Birthday Colin Sanders, British computer engineer, Solid State Logic 1947 Birthday Dallas Adams, British actor/painter/writer, Terror From Within 1947 Event Arabs and Jews reject British proposal to split Palestine 1947 Event British stop ships Independence and In-Gathering from landing in Israel 1946 Birthday Janet Street-Porter, British TV personality, Youth 1946 Birthday Martin Barre, British pop guitarist, Jethro Tull 1946 Event 2 British ships sink near Albania 1946 Birthday Deepak Chopra, born in Punjab, British India, author, speaker, physician, co-founded the Chopra Center, made cameo appearance in movie, 'The Love Guru', 2008 1946 Birthday Felicity Kendal, Indies/British actress, Shakespeare Wallah 1946 Birthday Richard Spring, British MP 1946 Birthday Robert Jackson, MP/minister of British Civil Service 1946 Birthday Alan "Bam" King, born in Kentish Town, London, guitarist, singer with British rock music band, Ace 1946 Birthday Billy Bonds, British soccer player 1946 Birthday Michael Jack, British minister of state-home office 1946 Birthday Freddie Mercury, Bulsara, British vocalist, Queen-We are Champions 1946 Event British North Borneo Co transfers rights to British crown 1946 Event Rajah cedes Sarawak to British crown 1946 Event British mandatory government of Palestine arrests 100 leaders of Yishnuv 1946 Birthday Kate Hoey, British MP, Lab 1946 Birthday Malcolm Rifkind, British QC MP, Secretary of State for Defense 1946 Birthday Neil MacGregor, director, British National Gallery 1946 Birthday John Lawton, British rock singer, Uriah Heep 1946 Birthday Peter Kilfoyle, British MP 1946 Birthday Dudley Fishburn, born in England, British politician, journalist, Conservative Party, Member of Parliament of the United Kingdom, holds directorship for Altria Group 1946 Birthday Simon Hoggart, British Journalist 1946 Event Field Marshal Montgomery appointed British supreme commander 1946 Birthday Paul Davies, British Writer 1946 Birthday Henry Kelly, British broadcaster 1946 Birthday John Virgo, British snooker player 1946 Death Arthur Ponsonby, British Politician 1946 Event British premier Attlee agrees with India's right to independence 1946 Birthday David Gilmour, British Musician 1946 Event British Government takes control of Bank of England, after 252 years 1946 Birthday Ian Lavender, British actor, Stupid Boy in Dad's Army 1946 Birthday J R Farndon, British consultant surgeon 1946 Birthday John Greenway, British MP 1946 Birthday Lord Mackay of Drumadoon, British QC 1945 Birthday Max Hastings, British editor-in-chief, Daily Telegraph 1945 Birthday Kenny Everett, British TV personality, Kenny Everett Show 1945 Death Otto Neurath, Austrian/British philosopher, dies at 63 1945 Death John Amery, British Politician 1945 Birthday Roger Glover, British hard rock bassist, Episode Six-Deep Purple 1945 Birthday John McVie, British rock bassist, Fleetwood Mac-Rumours, Tusk 1945 Death Francis William Aston, British Scientist 1945 Birthday Jeremy Hanley, British Lower house member 1945 Birthday David Jessel, British TV-reporter 1945 Event British troops occupy Andamanen in Gulf of Bengal 1945 Birthday Sarah Tyacke, Keeper of British Public Records 1945 Birthday Bryan Ferry, British Musician 1945 Birthday Van Morrison, British Musician 1945 Event British liberate Hong Kong from Japan 1945 Birthday John Motson, British Celebrity 1945 Event Labour Party wins British parliamentary election 1945 Event William Joyce (Lord Haw-Haw) British radio traitor charged with treason 1945 Birthday Kenneth Robert Livingstone, British Politician 1945 Birthday Linda Davies, British Judge 1945 Birthday Steven Norris, British MP 1945 Event British military police arrest Admiral Karl Doenitz 1945 Event German island of Helgoland in North Sea surrenders to British 1945 Event Winston Churchill resigns as British Prime Minister 1945 Birthday Pete Townshend, British Musician 1945 Event British troops pull into Utrecht, Netherlands 1945 Event British troop join in Rangoon 1945 Event British commands attack Elbe and occupies Lauenburg 1945 Event British troops reach Grebbe line Netherlands 1945 Birthday Robert Key, MP/British undersecretary for National Heritage 1945 Death John Poston, British major/Montgomery's ADC, dies in battle at 25 1945 Death Ernest T Pyle, British/US newscaster, killed in WW II at 44 1945 Event British Army liberates Belsen concentration camp 1945 Event British and Canadian troops liberate Nazi camp of Bergen-Belsen 1945 Birthday Lord Skelmersdale, British minister, C 1945 Birthday Julie Goodyear, British actress, Bet Lynch-Coronation Street 1945 Event British premier Churchill sails to eastern banks of Rhine 1945 Event British premier Churchill looks over at the Rhine (near Ginsberg) 1945 Death David Lloyd George, British (L) premier (1916-22), dies at 82 1945 Event Operation Varsity: British, U.S. and Canadian airborne landings East of Rhine 1945 Event British 7th Black Watch crosses the Rhine 1945 Birthday Tim Yeo, British MP/under-sect, State of Environment 1945 Event British 36th division conquers Mogok (ruby mine) 1945 Event British Empire celebrates it's 1st British Empire Day 1945 Birthday Timothy Mason, consultant, British Arts Council 1945 Event British 43rd Division under General Essame occupies Xanten 1945 Event British troops take Ramree Island, Burma 1945 Event British Army captures Goch 1945 Birthday K M Jenkins, British director of personnel, Royal Mail 1945 Event Gerbrandy British government refuses Dutch Jewish right to buy 1945 Birthday John Hayes, Secretary-General, British Law Society 1945 Birthday Gerald Davies, British rugby player 1945 Event British premier Churchill arrives in Yalta, the Krim 1945 Birthday James Nicholson, British MEP 1945 Birthday Nick Raynsford, British MP 1945 Event British troops land on Ramree, near coast of Burma 1945 Death Dennis Donnini, British rifleman (Victoria Cross), dies in battle at 19 1945 Birthday Marie-Christine AHI von Leibnitz, German, British princess 1945 Event British Premier Winston Churchill visits France 1944 Event Greece: British premier Churchill flies back to London 1944 Birthday Mary Archer, British Scientist 1944 Birthday Neil Innes, British Writer 1944 Event British order to disarm, causes general strike in Greece 1944 Event Biggest and last British Battleship HMS Vanguard runs aground 1944 Death Lord Moyne, British prefect (Middle-East), murdered 1944 Event Canadian and British troops liberate Dinteloord 1944 Birthday Jon Anderson, British Musician 1944 Event British premier Winston Churchill flies back to London from Moscow 1944 Event British troops march into Athens 1944 Event British Prime Minister Winston Churchill arrives in Russia for talks with Stalin 1944 Event British premier Winston Churchill arrives in Moscow 1944 Event British troops land on Greek continent 1944 Event Battle of Arnhem, Germans defeat British airborne in Netherlands 1944 Birthday IDG Garnett, British Vice-Admiral 1944 Event British and Polish paratroopers evacuate Oosterbeek (Arnhem) 1944 Birthday Anne Robinson, British Celebrity 1944 Death "Cab" Calloway, British scout, dies in battle of Oosterbeek 1944 Event Last British paratroopers at bridge of Arnhem surrenders 1944 Death David Lord, British lieutenant/Dakota-pilot DFC/VC, dies in battle 1944 Death Hilary Barlow, British colonel, dies 1944 Death John AC Fitch, British Lt-colonel, dies in battle in Arnhem 1944 Event British submarine Tradewind torpedoes Junyo Maru: 5,600 killed 1944 Death Anthony Stefanich, British boxer/captain, killed in Arnhem 1944 Death Peter Waddy, British major 1st Para Brigade, dies in battle in Arnhem 1944 Event British Premier Winston Churchill travels to U.S. 1944 Event Operation Market Garden: British airborne division lands Arnhem, Netherlands 1944 Event British bombers hit Tirpitz with Tallboy bombs 1944 Birthday Thomas Allen, British opera singer 1944 Event British premier Churchill travels to Scotland 1944 Event British 2nd Armoured pantzer division frees Antwerp 1944 Event Tank division of British Guards free Brussels 1944 Birthday Conrad Black, British Businessman 1944 Event U.S. and British forces destroy German 7th Army at Falaise-Argentan Gap 1944 Event British premier Winston Churchill arrives at Corsica 1944 Event British 8th army occupies Florence 1944 Event British premier Winston Churchill arrives in Italy 1944 Birthday David Pearl, British judge 1944 Event British 8th army reaches suburbs of Florence Italy 1944 Event 1st British jet fighter used in combat, Gloster Meteor 1944 Event British premier Winston Churchill flies to France, meets Montgomery 1944 Event British/Canadian troops occupy Hill 67/Ifs/Bras/Frenouville, Normandy 1944 Event Heavy storm hampers British offensive at Caen 1944 Death Harry CA Eyres, British diplomat (Constantinople, Albania), dies at 87 1944 Event British Mosquito's attack Cologne and Berlin 1944 Event British air raid on German convoy SW of Helgoland 1944 Event British troops occupy Bourquebus hill range Normandy 1944 Event British troops march into Caen 1944 Event 2nd British army reaches Grainville-Mouen line 1944 Event British assault at Caen Normandy 1944 Event British 14th army frees Imphal Assam 1944 Event British 12th airborne batallion/13th and 18th Hussars conquer 1944 Event British 12th battalion conquers Breville 1944 Birthday Barry Stevens, British/Netherlands, choreographer, Personals, Young Again 1944 Death Danny Brotheridge, British lieutenant, 1st to die during D-Day 1944 Event 1st British gliders touched down on French soil for D-Day 1944 Event 1st British gliders touches down on French soil for D-Day 1944 Event British troops occupy Aprilia, Italy 1944 Event British/Canadian troops occupy Pontecorvo Italy 1944 Birthday Peter Mayhew, British Actor 1944 Birthday Peter Ryan, British national director, Police Training 1944 Event British troops occupy Kohima 1944 Birthday Crispin Agnew of Lochnaw, British explorer/genealogist 1944 Death Arthur T Quiller-Couch [Q], British author/critic, dies at 80 1944 Birthday Chris Patten, British Politician 1944 Birthday Michael Fish, British TV weatherman 1944 Birthday Felicity Palmer, British mezzo-soprano 1944 Birthday Evan Parker, British Musician 1944 Event British troops capture Addis Ababa Ethiopia 1944 Event British dive bombers attack battle cruiser Tirpitz 1944 Event 781 British bombers attack Neurenberg 1944 Birthday John Suchet, British TV journalist, Independent TV News 1944 Event 705 British bombers attack Essen 1944 Event 811 British bombers attack Berlin 1944 Death O C Wingate, British general-major (Burma), dies in air crash 1944 Birthday Ranulph Fiennes, British Explorer 1944 Birthday James Cousins, British MP 1944 Birthday Roger Knapman, British MP 1944 Event 823 British bombers attack Berlin 1944 Birthday Bernie Grant, British politician, Labour 1944 Event 891 British bombers attack Berlin 1944 Event 683 British bombers attack Berlin 1944 Birthday John Edmonds, British trade unionist 1944 Event 649 British bombers attack Magdeburg 1944 Birthday Henry Cecil, British organizer 1944 Event British troops conquer Maungdaw, Burma 1944 Event 1st use of helicopters during warfare (British Atlantic patrol) 1943 Event British sink German battle cruiser Scharnhorst 1943 Birthday Dave Dee, born in Wiltshire, England, singer, songwriter, guitarist, member of the chart-topping British pop/rock band Dave Dee, Dozy, Beaky, Mick & Tich 1943 Event British 8th Army occupies Orsogna/Ortona Italy 1943 Event British Forces Broadcasting Service begins operation 1943 Event 444 British bombers attack Berlin 1943 Birthday Martin Peters, British soccer player 1943 Birthday Judith Frost, British Columbia, artist, To Red, Dust Drawings 1943 Death Alfred DPR Pound, British admiral/1st Sealord (Jutland, WW II), dies 1943 Event British 8th army lands at Termoli, East Italy 1943 Birthday Anna Ford, British broadcaster/actress, Secret Policeman's Ball 1943 Event British dwarf submarines attack Tirpitz 1943 Birthday David Wilshire, British MP, C 1943 Event British 8th army occupies Tarente 1943 Event U.S., British and French troops land in Salerno (operation Avalanche) 1943 Event British 8th army lands at Taranto South Italy 1943 Event British 8th army lands in South Italy (Messina) 1943 Birthday Peter Lilley, MP/sect of state for British social security 1943 Event 498 British bombers attack Peenemunde 1943 Event Sicily: 3 U.S. A-36's bomb British headquarter 1943 Event British premier Churchill travels on the Queen Mary to Canada 1943 Birthday Rodney Stuart Pattison, British yachtsman, Olympics 1943 Birthday Rose Tremain, British novelist/playwright, Restoration 1943 Event 772 British bombers attack Hamburg 1943 Event British assault on Catania Sicily 1943 Event British air raid sinks U-435 1943 Event British air raid sinks U-232 1943 Event British invades Pantelleria, tiny island south of Sicily 1943 Birthday Bill Hopkins, born in Prestbury, Cheshire, England, British composer, music critic, teacher, pianist, studied at Oxford University with Egon Wellesz and Edmund Rubbra, taught at Birmingham University and University of Newcastle upon Tyne 1943 Event British militia reaches Tito 1943 Birthday James Levine, British conductor 1943 Event French, British and U.S. victory parade in Tunis Tunisia 1943 Birthday Ian Vallance, CEO, British Telecom 1943 Birthday Elizabeth Andrews, British Politician 1943 Event British premier Winston Churchill arrives in U.S. 1943 Event Adm Cunningham of British fleet: "Sink, burn and destroy; let nothing pass" 1943 Event British 11th Huzaren occupies Tunis Tunisia 1943 Event British 1st army opens assault on Tunis 1943 Event British and U.S. offensive directed at Tunis/Bizerta 1943 Event British and U.S. troops make contact at Wadi Akarit, South-Tunisia 1943 Event British and U.S. Army link up in Africa during WW II 1943 Event British offensive at Wadi Akarit, South-Tunisia 1943 Birthday Ian Robertson, British museum director, National Army Museum 1943 Event British 1st army recaptures Sejenane 1943 Birthday John Major, British Prime Minister, C, 1990-97 1943 Birthday Richard Eyre, British director, National Theatre 1943 Event British 8th army opens assault on Mareth line, Tunisia 1943 Event British offensive against Mareth-line 1943 Birthday John Leeson, British Actor 1943 Event British premier Winston Churchill gets pneumonia 1943 Birthday Iain Cameron, British brigadier 1943 Event 6 British Mosquito's daylight bomb Berlin 1943 Birthday Julia Cumberlege, born in England, Julia Frances Cumberlege, Baroness Cumberlege, politician, businesswoman, British Conservative Party, member of Dames of the Order of St. Gregory the Great 1943 Event British 8th army marches into Tripoli 1943 Event Vice-Admiral Cunningham appointed British adm of fleet 1943 Event British premier Winston Churchill arrives in Casablanca 1943 Birthday Terry Venables, British soccer player/manager 1942 Event British Col S W Bailey reaches Mihailovics headquarter 1942 Event British 8th Army recaptures Benghazi, Libya 1942 Event U.S. - British troops occupies Oran Algeria 1942 Birthday Thomas Daniel Weiskopf, Massillon, Ohio, PGA golfer, British Open 1973 1942 Event Operation "Torch" began as U.S. and British forces land in French N Afr 1942 Birthday Jean Shrimpton, British model/actress, Privilege 1942 Event 11th day of battle at El Alamein: British assault on Tel el Aqqaqir 1942 Event Vice-Admiral Cunningham becomes British commander-in-chief 1942 Birthday Johan Fleming Ramsland, British broadcaster 1942 Event 6th day battle at El Alamein: British offensive under Montgomery 1942 Event 3rd day of battle at El Alamein: British offensive 1942 Event 2nd day of battle at El Alamein: British infantry 1942 Event U.S. and British government announce establishment of United Nations 1942 Birthday Gus Dudgeon, British pop producer, Joan Armatrading, David Bowie 1942 Birthday Desmond Lynam, British sportscaster 1942 Event British troops lands on Madagascar 1942 Event British and U.S. bomb Le Havre and Bremen 1942 Event British Premier Winston Churchill flies back to London from Cairo 1942 Event 4,000 Canadian and British soldiers killed raiding Dieppe, France 1942 Event British premier Churchill arrives in Moscow, meets Stalin 1942 Event British aircraft carrier Eagle torpedoed and sinks 1942 Event General B. Montgomery becomes commandant British 8th leader in North Africa 1942 Event "Monty" appointed commandant of British 8th Army at Alamein 1942 Death Richard Gott, British gen/commandant of 8th Army, dies in battle at 43 1942 Event British government cancels agreement of Munich 1942 Event British premier Winston Churchill arrives in Cairo 1942 Death Francis E Younghusband, British journalist/explorer, dies at 79 1942 Death Patric Cobb, British sea officer, dies in battle 1942 Event German assault on British at Mersa Matruh 1942 Event British RAF staged a 1,000 bomb raid on Bremen Germany (WW II) 1942 Event British premier Winston Churchill travels from U.S. to London 1942 Event Jewish Brigade attached by British Army in WW II, forms 1942 Event British offensive in North Africa under general Ritchie 1942 Birthday John Daniel, British Vice-Chancellor, Open U 1942 Birthday Roger Freeman, British minister of transport 1942 Event Tank battle at Bir Hakeim: African corps vs British army 1942 Birthday Simon Keswick, British financier/merchant, Hong Kong 1942 Event 1st transport of British/Dutch prisoners to South Burma 1942 Birthday Rachel Billington, British writer 1942 Event British assault on Diego Suarez Madagascar 1942 Birthday Peter Greenaway, British Director 1942 Birthday Graham Bright, private sec to British PM 1942 Event British cruiser Trinidad torpedoes itself in the Barents Sea 1942 Event British destroyer Campbeltown explodes in St-Nazaire: 400 Germans die 1942 Event British naval forces raid Nazi occupied French port of St. Nazaire 1942 Event British troops vacate the Andamanen in Gulf of Bengal 1942 Birthday Stuart Henry, British disc jockey 1942 Birthday Chananjit Vohra, Kenyan/British hotel magnate/multi-millionaire 1942 Birthday Michael Bishop, CEO, British Midland Airways 1942 Birthday Richard Needham, British MP 1942 Event Tank battle at Adzjedabia, African corps vs British army 1942 Death Walter Richard Sickert, British painter (Free House!), dies at 81 1942 Event British troops reconquer Sollum 1941 Event Winston Churchill becomes 1st British Prime Minister to address a joint meeting of Congress, warning that Axis would "stop at nothing" 1941 Event British troops overrun Benghazi Libya 1941 Event U-557 torpedoes British cruiser Galatea 1941 Event U-81 torpedoes British aircraft carrier Ark Royal 1941 Event British battleship Prince of Wales sinks off Singapore 1941 Event Dutch and British pilots see Japanese invasion fleet at Singapore 1941 Event British cruiser Devonshire sinks German sub Python 1941 Event British 13th Army corp reaches Tobruk 1941 Event British North African commandant General Cunningham lay-offs 1941 Event British troops conquer Belhamed, Sidi Rezegh and El Duda 1941 Event British cruiser Devonshire sinks German sub Atlantis 1941 Event British troops open attack on Tobruk, North-Africa 1941 Event British aircraft carrier "Ark Royal" sank in Mediterranean 1941 Event British air attack on Berlin, Mannheim and Ruhrgebied 1941 Event British signal officer Bill Hudson lands in Montenegro 1941 Event Charles Lindbergh, charges "British, Jewish and Roosevelt administration" are trying to get U.S. into WW II 1941 Event British Prime Minister Winston Churchill launched his "V for Victory" campaign 1941 Birthday George Young, MP/British minister of housing and planning 1941 Birthday John Gould, British composer/musical comic 1941 Birthday Delia Smith, British Entertainer 1941 Event British troops occupy Bagdad Iraq 1941 Death Hugh S Walpole, British writer (Killer and the Slain), dies 1941 Event British troops vacate Kreta 1941 Birthday June Clark, British Professor of Nursing, Middlesex U 1941 Event British army begins evacuation of Kreta 1941 Event German battleship Bismarck sunk by British naval force 1941 Event Bismarck sinks British battle cruiser HMS Hood, 1,416 die 3 survive 1941 Birthday Martin Mogg, governor, British Durham Prison 1941 Death Lancelot Holland, British Vice-Admiral ((WW II/Hood), dies in battle 1941 Event British troops attack Baghdad 1941 Event 1st British turbojet flies 1941 Event British attack Halfaya-pass and Fort Capuzzo in Egypt and Libya 1941 Event Great British convoy marches into Alexandria 1941 Event British House of Commons votes for Churchill (477-3) 1941 Birthday Paul Darrow, British Actor 1941 Birthday Jonah Barrington, British World champion squash player, 1966-73 1941 Event Last British troops in Greece surrenders 1941 Event British army begins evacuation of Greece 1941 Event British troop land in Iraq/Yugoslavia; surrender to nazis 1941 Death Josiah Stamp, British Businessman 1941 Event British generals O'Connor and Neame captured in North Africa 1941 Event British general Gambier-Parry caught in North Africa 1941 Event Italian held Addis Ababa surrenders to British and Ethiopian forces 1941 Event Sea battle at Cape Matapan: British fleet under Cunningham defeats Italy 1941 Death Virginia Woolf, British Author 1941 Event British troops defeat British Somalia 1941 Birthday Lord Vestey, British food magnate/billionaire, Union International 1941 Death Tom Mann, British Businessman 1941 Death Walford Davies, British organist/composer, dies at 71 1941 Event 50,000 British soldiers lands in Greece 1941 Event British troops invade Abyssinia (Ethiopia) 1941 Birthday Ann Winterton, British MP 1941 Birthday Ian McGarry, general secretary, British Actors' Equity Association 1941 Birthday Paddy Ashton, New Delhi India, British MP, Soc/Lib Democrat 1941 Birthday Paddy Ashdown, British Politician 1941 Event Arthur T "Bomber" Harris becomes British Air Marshal 1941 Event British troops conquer El Agheila 1941 Event British troops conquer Bengazi, Libya 1941 Event British tanks occupy Maus Libya 1941 Birthday Robert Walmsley, British Vice-Admiral 1941 Event British troops march into Abyssinia 1941 Death John Oxenham, British Journalist 1941 Event British/Australian troops capture Tobruk from Italians 1941 Event British communist newspaper "Daily Worker" banned 1941 Event British offensive in Eritrea 1941 Event British troops occupies Kassalaf Sudan 1941 Event British Air Marshal Richard Peirse resigns 1941 Event British/Australian troops conquer Bardia Lybia 1940 Event British troops occupies Sollum 1940 Event British air raid on Mannheim 1940 Event British troops conquer Sidi el-Barrani 1940 Event British anti-offensive in Libya (Sidi Barrani) 1940 Event British assault on Banghazi Libya 1940 Event British troops 1st major offensive in No Africa (Libya) during WW II 1940 Event North Africa: British counter offensive under general O'Connor 1940 Birthday Barbara Amiel, British Journalist 1940 Birthday Clem Curtis, born in Trinidad, singer, lead vocalist for The Foundations, a British soul group, including hits, 'Baby Now That I've Found You', 'Back On My Feet Again', 'Any Old Time' 1940 Event British air attack destroys half of Italian fleet 1940 Death Arthur Neville Chamberlain, British premier (1937-40), dies at 71 1940 Event British Council receives British Charter 1940 Event British liner Empress loaded with refugees for Canada, sunk 1940 Birthday John Dawes, born in Chapel of Ease, Wales, rugby union player, rugby coach, captain for The Barbarians, British and Irish Lions, Wales 1940 Event French/British assault on French fleet in Dakar, flees 1940 Event 1st (British) night bombing of Germany (Berlin) 1940 Event British Prime Minister Churchill says of Royal Air Force, "Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few" 1940 Birthday Timothy Wood, British government asst whip 1940 Death George C Pearce, actor (Hold tat Lion, British Agent), dies at 75 1940 Event Luftwaffe bombs British radar stations, loses 31 aircrafts 1940 Event German air raid on British harbors Portland/Weymouth 1940 Birthday Barbara Mills, QC, British Director of Public Prosecutions 1940 Event Largest amount paid for a stamp ($45,000 for 1 cent 1856 British Guiana) 1940 Event Italian troops invade British Somalia 1940 Event Seaplane Clare makes 1st British passagiersvlucht to the U.S. 1940 Birthday Clive Sinclair, British computer inventor, ZX Spectrum 1940 Birthday Brian Mawhinney, chairman, British Conservative Party 1940 Event British government signs Bruma law under Japanese pressure 1940 Event British and German dogfight above Lyme Bay 1940 Event German planes attack British ships in the Canal 1940 Event British destroys French battle fleet at Oran, Algeria, 1267 die 1940 Event British Royal Navy sinks French fleet in North Africa 1940 Birthday Heather Steel, British judge 1940 Birthday Kenneth Clarke, British minister 1940 Event Last British troops leave Narvik, Norway 1940 Event British/French troops evacuate Narvik 1940 Birthday Willie-John McBride, British rugby player 1940 Event British complete miracle of Dunkirk by evacuating 300,000 troops 1940 Event Last British/French troop leave Dunkirk 1940 Event British and French begin evacuation of Dunkirk (Operation Dynamo) 1940 Event General Guderians tanks reach The Channel (British expeditionary army) 1940 Event Lord Beaverbrook appointed British minister of aircraft production 1940 Event British bomb factory at Breda 1940 Event British Local Defense Volunteers (Home Guard) forms 1940 Event Winston Churchill succeeds Neville Chamberlain as British Prime Minister 1940 Event British troops land at Narvik, Norway 1940 Birthday Gloria Hunniford, British broadcaster and actress, Old Curiosity Shop 1940 Event Germany battle cruisers sink British aircraft carrier Glorious 1940 Birthday R S Burman, CEO, Association of British Chambers of Commerce 1940 Birthday Penelope Keith, British actress, Norman Conquests, Priest of Love 1940 Event Failed British air raid on German base at Sylt 1940 Event German air raid on British fleet base Scapa Flow 1940 Birthday Frank Dobson, British Politician 1940 Birthday Denis Law, British soccer player 1940 Birthday Jimmy Greaves, British broadcaster/soccer player 1940 Birthday V Payne, British headmistress, Malvern Girls' College 1940 Event British destroyers board German Altmark off Norway 1940 Event British search plane finds German Altmark off Norway 1940 Event British merchant vessel fleet is armed 1940 Birthday Averil Cameron, British historian 1940 Event British railroads nationalized 1940 Birthday Brian Josephson, British physicist, Nobel 1973 1939 Event Battle at La Plata - 3 British cruisers vs German Graf Spee 1939 Event British Imperial Airways and British Airways merge to form BOAC 1939 Birthday Auberon Waugh, British Author 1939 Event German U-47 sinks British battleship HMS Royal Oak, 833 killed 1939 Event British fleet takes German U-27 boat 1939 Event British Expeditionary Force reaches France 1939 Event German U-29 sinks British aircraft carrier Courageous, 519 die 1939 Event British fleet attacks German U-39 boat 1939 Event British submarine Triton torpedoes British submarine Oxley 1939 Event German submarine U-30 sinks British passenger ship Athenia 1939 Event German U-boat sinks British passenger ship Athenia 1939 Birthday John Peel, British Entertainer 1939 Birthday Clem Cattini, born in Stoke Newton, North London, England, musician, drummer, played with The Tornados in the 1960's, appeared for diverse array of artists, featured on 45 different UK number one singles, considered most beloved early British rock n' roll figure 1939 Birthday Charles Wardle, MP/under sect of state British home office 1939 Birthday Ginger Baker, British Musician 1939 Birthday Mary Parkinson, British broadcaster 1939 Birthday Ferdinand Mount, British Writer 1939 Death Ford M Ford, Hueffer, British writer, (Tietjens Saga) dies at 65 1939 Birthday Budge Rogers, British rugby player 1939 Event British king George VI visits U.S. 1939 Birthday Margaret Drabble, British author, Needle's Eye 1939 Event British sub "Thetis" sinks in Liverpool Bay with all 99 aboard 1939 Event British decoration, George Cross, 1st presented 1939 Event British parliament plans to make Palestine independent by 1949 1939 Birthday Roger Buckley, British High Court Judge 1939 Birthday Veronica Sutherland, British diplomat 1939 Event Stalin requests British, French and Russian anti-nazi pact 1939 Birthday Donald MacCormick, British broadcaster 1939 Death Robert Courtneidge, British theater producer, dies 1939 Birthday Ron Atkinson, British Athlete 1939 Birthday David Mlinaric, British interior director 1939 Death Howard Carter, British archaeologist/Egyptologist (King Tut), dies at 65 1939 Birthday Gwen Taylor, British actress, Life of Brian, Sob Sisters, Screaming 1939 Birthday Tom Kierman, British rugby player 1938 Birthday Richard Sudhalter, British writer/jazz musician 1938 Birthday John Asprey, British jeweler/multi-millionaire 1938 Birthday Anne Perry, British Novelist 1938 Birthday David Willis, British journalist, BBC World Service 1938 Event British premier Chamberlain arrives in Munich 1938 Birthday Henry Keswick, British financier/merchant, Hong Kong 1938 Event British ocean liner "Queen Elizabeth," launches at Clydebank Scotland 1938 Event British premier Neville Chamberlain flies to Munich 1938 Event British premier Neville Chamberlain leaves Munich 1938 Event British Prime Minister Chamberlain visits Hitler at Berchtesgarden 1938 Event British leaders and Arabians fight in Palestine 1938 Birthday Terry "5 Wigs" Wogan, British talk show host, Irish Days 1938 Birthday Dudu Pukwana, Mtutuzel, South African/British saxophonist/composer 1938 Birthday Gwynne Howell, British opera singer 1938 Birthday John Prescott, British MP 1938 Birthday Margaret Forster, British Author 1938 Birthday Johnny Ball, British Entertainer 1938 Birthday Alan Smithers, British professor 1938 Birthday John Walters, British Musician 1938 Birthday John Weston, born in England, diplomat, UK Permanent Representative on the North Atlantic Council, 1992 - 1995, British Permanent Representative to the United Nations 1995 - 1998 1938 Birthday Paul Daniels, British magician 1938 Birthday Peter Attenborough, British headmaster, Charterhouse 1938 Birthday David Steel, British Politician 1938 Birthday Margaret Howard, British broadcaster 1938 Birthday David Irving, British Author 1938 Event President Cardena of Mexico nationalizes U.S. and British oil companies 1938 Event British Lord Halifax becomes Foreign Minister 1938 Birthday Lord Justice Ward, British judge 1938 Birthday Margaret Daly, British MEP 1938 Birthday Arthur Scargill, British Politician 1937 Birthday Peter Cook, British Writer 1937 Birthday Roger McCough, British poet 1937 Birthday Roger McGough, British Poet 1937 Death James Ramsay MacDonald, British Prime Minister (Lab, 1924, 29-35), dies at 71 1937 Birthday R B Heywood, director, British Antarctic Survey 1937 Birthday Alan Grose, British Vice-Admiral 1937 Birthday Wesley Hall, West indian/British politician 1937 Birthday Mark Potter, British court judge 1937 Death Sapper, British soldier/novelist (Bull-Dog Drummond), dies at 48 1937 Birthday Taki Theodoracopoulos, Greek/British journalist/multi-millionaire 1937 Death Ferdinand CS Schiller, British philosopher (Mind!), dies at 72 1937 Birthday Anna Dawson, British comedienne, Violet-Keeping Up Appearances 1937 Birthday Baroness Blatch, British minister of state for Education 1937 Death James M. Barrie, British Playwright 1937 Birthday Lord "Benjie" Iveagh, British brewer, Guinness, large landowner 1937 Birthday Michael Simmons, Air Marshal, British Ministry of Defense 1937 Birthday Brian Sedgemore, British MP 1937 Birthday Stan Mellor, British racehorse trainer and jockey 1937 Birthday Valerie Singleton, British broadcaster 1937 Birthday Simon Brown, British high court judge 1937 Event Aden becomes British crown colony 1937 Birthday Thomas Monaghan, British Soldier 1937 Birthday Mark Saville, QC, British high court judge 1937 Birthday Noel Murphy, British rugby player 1937 Birthday Jilly Cooper, British Author 1937 Birthday P J Squire, British headmaster, Bedford Modern School 1937 Birthday John MacGregor, British MP 1936 Birthday Michael Partridge, British civil servant 1936 Birthday Anne Downey, British circuit judge 1936 Birthday Robert Maclennan, British MP 1936 Birthday Barry Wilson, deputy chief, British Defense Staff 1936 Birthday Gerald Scarfe, British Artist 1936 Birthday Benjamin Bathurst, vice chief of British Defense Staff 1936 Birthday Lord Holme, president British Liberal Party 1936 Event 1st British air hostess (Daphne Kearley) flight to France 1936 Birthday Ralph Steadman, British Cartoonist 1936 Birthday Anthony Mullens, British Lieutenant-General, Deputy chief of defense 1936 Birthday Neville Purvis, British vice Admiral, Chief of Fleet Support 1936 Birthday Edward Cazalet, British High Court Judge 1936 Birthday James Rand, British judge, Advocate General 1936 Birthday Michael Somare, British foreign affairs minister, Paupa and New Guinea 1936 Birthday John White, born in Berlin, Germany, composer, musician, tuba player, invented Systems music, a British form of minimalism, influences include Howard Skempton, Cornelius Cardew 1936 Birthday Michael Livesay, British admiral and president, RN College Greenwich 1936 Event Orissa constituted a province of British India 1936 Birthday Mark Burns, British director, Juggernaut 1936 Birthday Philip Ely, president, British Law Society 1936 Birthday David Thompson, British food magnate and multi-millionaire 1936 Birthday Ian Hacking, born in Vancouver, British Columbia, analytic philosopher, wrote, 'The Emergence of Probability', brings historical approach to the philosophy of science, won Canda's Killam Prize for the Humanities in 2002 1936 Birthday Andrew Miller, British principal, Stirling U 1936 Birthday John Harris, British cricket player 1936 Birthday Bill Jordan, British trade unionist 1936 Event Edward VIII succeeds British king George V 1936 Birthday David Vine, British sport commentator 1935 Event 1st test flight of British Hurricane aircraft 1935 Birthday Lester Piggott, British jockey, 11 time champ 1935 Birthday Gary J. Player, born in Johannesburg, South Africa, PGA golfer, British Open 1959, 1968, 1974 1935 Death Arthur Henderson, British Labour minister (Nobel 1934), dies at 72 1935 Birthday Don McCullin, British photographer 1935 Birthday Brendan Jackson, British air marshal 1935 Birthday Rod Hull, born in Isle of Sheppey, England, Rodney Stephen Hull, entertainer, comedian, appeared on British television with puppet Emu in 1970's and 1980's 1935 Death William Watson, British poet (Purple East), dies 1935 Birthday Jerrie Anthony Hulme, British major-general 1935 Birthday Tom Rosenthal, publisher/British broadcaster 1935 Birthday David Prowse, British Actor 1935 Death William Brockwell, cricket (British all-rounder in 7 Tests 1893-99), dies 1935 Birthday Fernand Schokweiler, British judge 1935 Birthday Juliet Campbell, British ambassador, to Luxembourg 1935 Birthday Viscount Falkland, British peer, Lib-Dem 1935 Event British King George and Queen Mary celebrates silver jubilee 1935 Birthday Donald Lynden-Bell, British astronomer 1935 Birthday Lord Ichayra, Secretary-General, British Banking Association 1935 Birthday Michael Parkinson, British Journalist 1935 Birthday David Wilson, British governor, Hong Kong 1935 Death Violet Paget, British author (Gospels of Anarchy), dies at 78 1935 Birthday David Lodge, British Author 1934 Birthday David Barclay, British hotel magnate/multi-millionaire 1934 Birthday Frederick Barclay, British hotel magnate/multi-millionaire 1934 Birthday Richard Scott, British high court judge 1934 Event British liner Queen Mary is launched 1934 Birthday Robin McLaren, British ambassador, China 1934 Birthday Kenneth Eaton, Controller, British Navy 1934 Birthday Jonathan Miller, British Entertainer 1934 Birthday Simon Gournlay, president, British National Farmer's Union 1934 Birthday Harrison Birtwistle, British Composer 1934 Birthday Brian Barder, British high commissar, Australia 1934 Birthday Terence Clark, British diplomat 1934 Birthday Carl de Winter, Secretary-General, Federation of British Artists 1934 Birthday Anthony Evans, British high court judge 1934 Birthday Paul Gibson, British high court judge 1934 Birthday Gwen Swire, British social worker 1934 Birthday Phillip King, British sculptor 1934 Birthday 9th viscount Portman, British large landowner/multi-millionaire 1934 Birthday Nico Ladenis, British restauranteur, Nico at 90 1934 Birthday Geoffrey Owen, British editor, Financial Times 1934 Birthday Richard Kenshaw, British broadcaster 1934 Death Gerald du Maurier, British actor-manager (Unmarried, Escape), dies 1934 Death John Collier, British Artist 1934 Birthday David Jones, British reverend and headmaster, Bryanston School 1934 Birthday Christopher France, British permanent secretary, Department of Health 1934 Birthday Peter Middleton, British permanent secretary, Treasury 1934 Birthday David Hancock, secretary, British Department of Education and Science 1934 Birthday Eleanor Bron, British Actress 1934 Birthday John Noakes, British TV presenter 1934 Death Edward Elgar, British Composer 1934 Birthday Annette Crosbie, British actress 1934 Birthday John Surtees, British race car driver 1933 Birthday Gerald Masters, South African/British author, Pan Book of Dates 1933 Birthday Ian Tyson, born in British Columbia, Canada, singer, songwriter, guitarist, song 'Four Strong Winds' chosen as greatest Canadian song of all time, in Canada's Country Music Hall of Fame 1933 Birthday D A Fenner, British headmaster, Alleyn's School 1933 Birthday Desmond Fennell, British high court judge 1933 Birthday Julian Oswald, British Admiral of the Fleet 1933 Birthday Butler-Sloss, British Lady Justice 1933 Birthday David M Storey, British rugby player/playwright, Home 1933 Birthday David Winnick, British MP 1933 Birthday Patrick Symons, British Vice-Admiral 1933 Birthday John Sparrow, CEO, British Horseracing Betting Levy Board 1933 Birthday Christopher Staughton, British Lord Justice of Appeal 1933 Birthday Helen Paling, British circuit judge 1933 Birthday Joan Bakewell, British broadcaster/actress, Cold Comfort Farm 1933 Birthday Dudley Sutton, British actor, Leather Boys, Brimstone and Treacle 1933 Birthday Norman Bailey, British bass-baritone, Flying Dutchman 1933 Birthday Michael Heseltine, Welsh/British minister of Defense, 1986, MP 1933 Birthday Bobby Robson, British soccer coach, PSV 1933 Birthday Charles Williams, born in Oxford, England, cricketer, batsman, Labor peer, Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, Baron Williams of Elvel 1933 Event Otto Meisnner dines with British ambassador Rumbold 1933 Birthday Bruno Schroder, British baron/banker/multi-millionaire 1933 Birthday Nurdin Jivraj, Tanzanian/British hotel magnate, Buckingham International 1933 Birthday Michael Aspel, British talk show host 1932 Birthday Roy Hattersley, British journalist/Labour-parliament leader 1932 Birthday Cynthia Payne, British Celebrity 1932 Event British Broadcasting Corp begins transmitting overseas 1932 Birthday Michael Knight, air chief marshall/British leader, NATO 1932 Event British government signs trade treaty with U.S.S.R. 1932 Birthday Adrian Mitchell, born in North London, English playwright, poet, children's author, voice for British anti-authoritarian Left 1932 Event British government signs trade agreement with Soviet Union 1932 Event Oswald Mosley forms British Union of Fascists 1932 Birthday Canon Paul Oestreicher, CEO, British section, Amnesty International 1932 Birthday Ronald B Kitaj, US/British painter/graphic artist, pop art 1932 Birthday Andrew Gardner, British broadcaster 1932 Birthday Earl of Cawdor, British large landowner 1932 Death Gilbert Parker, British Politician 1932 Birthday Angela Rumbold, born in England, politician, Member of Parliament, British Conservative Party, attended King's College, served as Deputy Chairman of the Conservative Party 1932 Birthday Howard Hodgkin, British Artist 1932 Birthday J. P. Getty, US/British oil magnate/billionaire, Getty Oil 1932 Birthday Timothy Sainsbury, British minister of state 1932 Event 67th British Golf Open: Gene Sarazen shoots a 283 at Prince's England 1932 Birthday George Burns, British TV host 1932 Birthday Elizabeth Southey, British CEO, National Federation of Women's Institutes 1932 Birthday George Vallings, British Vice-Admiral 1932 Birthday Ronald Hampel, British CEO, ICI 1932 Birthday Arnold Wesker, British playwright, Bratkartoffeln Inbegriffen 1932 Birthday Terence Heiser, British senior civil servant 1932 Birthday Rodric Braithwaite, British ambassador to U.S.S.R. 1932 Birthday David Bolton, director, British Royal United Service for Defense 1932 Birthday Nourse, British lord justice 1932 Birthday David Alliance, Iran/British textile factory/multi-millionaire 1932 Birthday Nigel Lawson, British government official, The Power Game 1932 Birthday Brian Moore, British commentator, Big Match 1932 Birthday Adrian Swire, British aircraft magnate, Cathay Pacific 1932 Death R H Edgar Wallace, British writer/journalist (3 Just Men), dies at 76 1932 Death Edgar Wallace, British Writer 1932 Birthday James Clyde, born in England, Baron Clyde, son of James Latham Clyde, Lord Clyde, British judge, Chancellor to the Bishop of Argyll, Senator of the College of Justice in Scotland 1932 Birthday Neville Trotter, British MP 1932 Event British submarine M-2 sinks in Channel (60 dead) 1932 Birthday Ronald Allison, British author/broadcaster 1932 Event British Anglicans and Old-Catholic church merge 1932 Death [Giles] Lytton Strachey, British biographer/critic, dies at 51 1932 Event British East Indies Viceroy Willingdon arrests Gandhi and Nehru 1932 Death C. P. Scott, British Journalist 1931 Event British Statute of Westminster gives complete legislative independence to Canada, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, Ireland, Newfndlnd 1931 Birthday David Wilson, director of British Museum, 1977-92 1931 Birthday Patrick WIlliam Walker, British astrologer 1931 Event British naval fleet mutinies at Invergordon over pay cuts 1931 Event Lord Cecil of British Government says War was never so improbable 1931 Death Hall Caine, British Novelist 1931 Birthday Richard Vincent, British chief of Defense 1931 Birthday Bernard Manning, British comedian 1931 Birthday Roy Evans, general sect, British Iron and Steel Trade Confederation 1931 Birthday Mark Weinberg, South African/British fiancier/multi-millionaire 1931 Birthday James Loughran, British conductor 1931 Birthday Alan Bailey, British sect, Department of transport 1931 Birthday Della Smith, cookbook writer/British broadcaster 1931 Birthday Florence Sharples, director, British YWCA 1931 Birthday John Chapple, British chief of General Staff 1931 Birthday William Utting, chief inspector, British Social Services 1931 Birthday Bridget Riley, British painter, op-art 1931 Birthday Ronald Hynd, British choreographer, English National Ballet 1931 Event British House of Commons agrees for sports play on Sunday 1931 Birthday Denis Henry, British high court judge 1931 Birthday Joan Carlyle, British soprano 1931 Birthday Sylvia Law, British town planner 1931 Birthday R. P. Bauman, CEO, British Aerospace 1931 Birthday David Montgomery, chairman, British Forestry Commission 1931 Birthday John Rae, British educator, Conscience and Politics 1931 Birthday Bob Goalby, golfer, British Open-1968, Canadian Open-1968, New Zealand 1970 1931 Event British Labour party removes fascist Sir Oswald Mosley 1931 Birthday David Haddon Whitaker, British publisher, Whitaker's Almanack 1931 Event Gandhi and British viceroy Lord Irwin sign pact 1931 Birthday Edward Kellett-Bowman, British MEP 1931 Birthday Inge Bernstein, British judge 1931 Birthday Swraj Paul, Indian/British industrial/multi-millionaire, Caparo 1931 Birthday Fay Godwin, born in Berlin, Germany, British photographer, noted for black-and-white landscapes of British coast and countryside, took portraits of literary figures, Saul Bellow, Salman Rushdie, Anthony Powell 1931 Birthday W K Reid, British ombudsman 1931 Birthday Claire Bloom, British Actress 1931 Death Charles Algernon Parsons, British inventor (steam turbine), dies at 76 1931 Birthday Christopher Chataway, British MP/athlete, world record 5k 1931 Death William Ernst Johnson, British mathematician, dies 1931 Birthday Geoffrey Wragg, British reorganizer 1930 Birthday J. G. Ballard, British Author 1930 Birthday Frank Adams, British Mathematician 1930 Birthday Raj Bagri, Indies/British merchant in metal 1930 Event British White Paper restricts Jews from buying Arab land 1930 Birthday John Polkinghorne, British Physicist 1930 Event British airship crashes in storm at Beauvais France, 48 die 1930 Birthday Gwyn Francis, British Forestry commissioner 1930 Birthday John Daly, British trade union leader 1930 Birthday John Fairclough, British scientific adviser 1930 Birthday Princess Margaret, British Royalty 1930 Birthday Ted Hughes, British poet laureate 1930 Birthday Ronald Dearing, chairman, British Post Office 1930 Death Arthur Conan Doyle, British writer (Sherlock Holmes), dies at 71 1930 Birthday Gerald Kaufman, British MP, shadow Foreign Secretary 1930 Event 65th British Golf Open: Bobby Jones shoots a 291 at Hoylake Hoylake 1930 Birthday Bryan Kneale, British sculptor 1930 Birthday William Taylor, British Chairman of Convocation, London University 1930 Birthday Robert Bunyard, Commandant, British Police Staff College 1930 Birthday June Knox-Mawer, British radio host/novelist, World of Islands 1930 Birthday Frank Page, British broadcaster/actor, Hudson Hawk, Dark Dancer 1930 Birthday John Robson, British ambassador, Norway 1930 Birthday Patrick Pery, born in Ireland, born Patrick Edmund Pery, 6th Earl of Limerick, The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, Irish peer, public servant 1930 Birthday James Alan Ferman, secretary, British Board of Film Classification 1930 Birthday David Staple, joint President, Council of Churches for British and Ireland 1930 Birthday Rolf Harris, Australian/British cartoonist 1930 Death Arthur J Balfour, British theologist/premier (1902-05), dies at 81 1930 Event Mohandas Gandhi begins 200m (300km) march protesting British salt tax 1930 Birthday Antony Acland, provost of Eton/British ambassador, to U.S. 1930 Birthday Gerry Davis, born in England, science-fiction writer, wrote British television soap operas Coronation Street and United!, script editor for Doctor Who 1930 Birthday Ruth Rendell, British Writer 1930 Birthday C F Payne, Cleveland, British chief constable 1930 Birthday Lionel Blue, British Clergyman 1930 Birthday Peter Tapsell, British MP 1930 Birthday David Morris, British MEP 1930 Birthday Iain Cuthbertson, British actor, Guilty, Scandal, Rep, Danger UXB 1929 Birthday Ken Dodd, British Comedian 1929 Event Lundy, part of British Isles, issue their own stamps 1929 Event Ramsay MacDonald is 1st British premier to address U.S. Congress 1929 Event British Labour government recovers diplomatic relations with U.S.S.R. 1929 Birthday John Zochonis, British multi-millionaire soap magnate 1929 Birthday Murray McLaggan, British Lord-Lieutenant, Mid Glamorgan 1929 Birthday Nigel Althaus, British government broker 1929 Birthday Ronnie Barker, British comedian, 2 Ronnies 1929 Event British troops begin evacuating 1929 Birthday Baroness Ewart-Biggs, British, Lab, spokesperson on Home Affairs 1929 Birthday Ronald Biggs, British Celebrity 1929 Birthday Alan Wicker, British broadcaster 1929 Birthday Bruce Kent, British Activist 1929 Birthday John Morgan, British ambassador, to Mexico 1929 Birthday Earl Ferrers, British minister of state, Department of Environment 1929 Birthday Neil Shaw, British CEO, Tate and Lyle 1929 Birthday Anthony Grant, British MP 1929 Birthday Katie Boyle, Lady Sander Saunders, British broadcaster 1929 Birthday Edward Anson, British Vice-Admiral 1929 Event 64th British Golf Open: Walter Hagen shoots a 292 at Muirfield Gullane 1929 Birthday Rosemary Camp, president, Council for British Archaeology 1929 Birthday Jeremy Thorpe, British MP, Liberal 1929 Birthday Jeremy Thorpe, British Politician 1929 Birthday Peter Hordern, British CEO, Fina 1929 Birthday Jocelyn Barrow, deputy chair person, British Broadcast Standards 1929 Birthday Willis Hall, British writer 1929 Birthday Hal Miller, British MP 1929 Birthday Peter Bingham Hinchcliff, British church historian, 1 Sided Reciprocity 1929 Birthday Len Deighton, British Historian 1929 Birthday Peter NF Porter, Australian/British author and poet, Chair of Babel 1929 Birthday Bill O'Brien, British Politician 1928 Event British steamer "Vestris" capsizes and sinks off Virginia, kills 110 1928 Birthday William Staveley, British admiral 1928 Birthday Anthony Tippett, British chief of Fleet Support 1928 Birthday G H Martin, British keeper of Public Records 1928 Birthday Brian Matthew, British disc jockey 1928 Death Richard B Haldane, British viscount/lord-chancellor, dies at 72 1928 Birthday Chris Brasher, British Athlete 1928 Birthday Jimmy Hill, British Athlete 1928 Event British parliament accept female sufferage 1928 Birthday Harold Evans, British Journalist 1928 Birthday David Mitchell, British MP 1928 Birthday Raymond Powell, British MP 1928 Birthday Michael Blakemore, British theater director, Country Life 1928 Birthday Albert Booth, British government minister 1928 Birthday Stanley Baxter, British comedian, Joey Boy, Fast Lady 1928 Birthday William Trevor, British writer, Children of Dynmouth, Fools of Fortune 1928 Birthday P G Hammersley, British Rear-Admiral 1928 Event 63rd British Golf Open: Walter Hagen shoots a 292 at Royal St. George's 1928 Birthday Gordon Downey, British Comptroller General/Reader Rep, Independent 1928 Birthday John Horlock, British vice-chancellor, Open College 1928 Birthday Richard Evans, British diplomat 1928 Birthday Brian Cubbon, British senior civil servant 1928 Birthday Jimmy Logan, British comedian, Mad Death 1928 Birthday Richard Trant, British general 1928 Birthday Alfred Morris, British MP 1928 Birthday Anthony Blond, British publisher, The Publishing Game, Book Book 1928 Birthday Roland Moyle, British deputy chairman, Police Complaints Authority 1928 Birthday Alan Loveday, British violinist 1928 Birthday Keith Williamson, British RAF marshal 1928 Birthday David Somerset, born in England, David Robert Somerset, 11th Duke of Beaufort, British peer, criticized for accepting public funds on riverbed land granted to his dukedom 400 years ago 1928 Birthday Donald Longmore, British cardiac surgeon 1928 Death Douglas Haig, British Field Marshal, Sudan, Boer war, WW I, dies at 66 1927 Event Iraq gains independence from Britain, but British troops remain 1927 Birthday Nadine Judd, Nadia Moore/Nerina, South African/British ballerina 1927 Birthday Ronald Laing, British psychiatrist, anti-psychiatrist 1927 Birthday Gwen Watford, British actress, Body in the Library, Ghoul 1927 Birthday Francis Matthews, British actor, On the Bowery, Paul Temple 1927 Death Harry Johnston, British Explorer 1927 Birthday Hugh Byatt, British diplomat 1927 Death John Dillon, Irish nationalist and British Lower house leader, dies at 75 1927 Birthday Brian Neill, British Lord Justice of Appeal 1927 Birthday Anthony Cavendish, British MI 6 agent/banker 1927 Event 62nd British Golf Open: Bobby Jones shoots a 285 at St. Andrews 1927 Birthday Michael Levey, director, British National Gallery 1927 Birthday Geoffrey Palmer, British actor, Smacks and Thistle 1927 Birthday Isabel Stoate, British diplomat 1927 Birthday James Eberle, British admiral/director, Royal Institute of International Affairs 1927 Birthday Michael Sandberg, British CEO, Hong Kong and Shanghai Banking Corp 1927 Birthday Robert Evans, CEO, British Gas 1927 Birthday Ronald Halstead, deputy CEO, British Steel 1927 Event 1st British airliner to serve cooked meals (Imperial Airways) 1927 Birthday Gerry Mulligan, British saxophonist and orchestra leader, Jazz on a Summer Day 1927 Event Guomindang Army conquerors Shanghai as British marines flee 1927 Birthday Raymond Jackson, Jaki, British cartoonist 1927 Birthday Ron Todd, British trade unionist 1927 Birthday John Swire, British aircraft magnate, Cathay Pacific 1927 Event General strike against British occupiers in Shanghai 1927 Event British expeditionary army lands in Shanghai 1927 Birthday Jakov Lind, German/British author, Counting My Footsteps 1927 Birthday Nigel Bagnall, British field marshal 1927 Birthday Viscount Cowdray, British financier/multi-millionaire 1927 Birthday James Callaghan, British MP 1927 Birthday Geoffrey WT Atkins, British World Champion racket player, 1954-72 1927 Event British government decides to send troops to China 1927 Birthday Sydney Brenner, British Scientist 1927 Death Houston S Chamberlain, British/German race theorist, dies at 71 1926 Birthday Christopher Logue, British poet/stage writer, Trials 1926 Event Imperial Conference ends-giving autonomy inside British Commonwealth 1926 Event British mine strikes after 28 weeks ends 1926 Birthday Frank Durrr, British? racehorse trainer 1926 Birthday Beryl Cook, British painter 1926 Event British Columbia Rugby Football Union forms 1926 Birthday Frank Hauser, British theatrical director 1926 Death Israel Zangwill, British zionists writer (Ghetto tragedies), dies 1926 Birthday Peter T. Thwaites, British Brigadier-General and playwright, 'Love or Money' 1926 Birthday John Graham, British ambassador to NATO 1926 Death Gertrude M L Bell, British archaeologist (Desert and Sown), dies at 57 1926 Event 61st British Golf Open: Bobby Jones shoots a 291 at Royal Lytham 1926 Birthday Patricia Hutchinson, British ambassador, Uruguay 1926 Birthday Derek Birley, British Vice-Chancellor, Ulster U 1926 Event British general strike ends, but mine workers go on strike 1926 Event British general strike ends 1926 Birthday Francis Kennedy, British diplomat 1926 Birthday John Hamilton-Jones, CEO, Richmond Enterprises, British Major-General 1926 Event British general strike-3 million workers support miners 1926 Event British coal-miners go on strike 1926 Birthday Elizabeth II, British Royalty 1926 Birthday Barbara Tizzard, British educator 1926 Birthday Hans Rausing, Swedish/British industrial/billionaire, Tetra Pak 1926 Birthday Gudrun Ure, British actress, Lady MacBeth, BBC Sorcerer 1926 Birthday Peter Emery, British MP 1926 Birthday Reginald Freeson, British MP 1926 Birthday Cameron Rusby, British Vice-Admiral 1926 Birthday Alexander Gibson, British conductor/founder, Scottish Opera 1926 Birthday Danny Blanchflower, British soccer player 1925 Birthday Bill [William] Westwood, British bishop of Peterborough 1925 Birthday Margaret Thatcher, born in Grantham, England, Tory, British Prime Minister, 1979 - 1990 1925 Birthday Robin Skelton, British Writer 1925 Birthday Brian Dilton, British lord justice of appeal 1925 Birthday Alan Wicker, British broadcaster 1925 Event British warship fires on Hong Kong harbor strikers 1925 Birthday Charlie Drake, British comic, Plank, Rhubarb Rhubarb, Splish Splash 1925 Death A. C. Benson, British Author 1925 Event British mariners shoot on demonstrators 1925 Death John [Denton Pinkstone] French, British field marshall (WWI), dies at 72 1925 Event George Lloyd of Dolobran becomes British High Director of Egypt 1925 Death Alfred Milner, British governor (Cape Colony)/minister, dies at 71 1925 Birthday Edward Fursdon, British Major-General, defense council 1925 Event Cyprus becomes a British Crown Colony 1925 Birthday Anthony Christopher, British trade unionist 1925 Birthday Tom Jackson, British union leader, Post Office 1925 Event 1st film shown on an British Air flight 1925 Birthday John Knox, British supreme court justice 1925 Birthday Tony Benn, British minister of technology, 1968 1925 Death George N Curzon, British Foreign minister (1919-22), dies at 66 1925 Death Lord Curzon, British Statesman 1925 Birthday G M Hughes, British zoologist 1925 Event British government of Baldwin refuses to ratify Geneva agreement 1925 Birthday Raymond Joseph Cecil, British architect 1925 Birthday Peter Berger, British Vice-Admiral 1925 Event British Liberals choose David Lloyd George as party leader 1925 Birthday Henry Harris, British professor of medicine 1925 Birthday Geoffrey Tucker, British political consultant 1925 Birthday Desmond Cassidi, British admiral 1924 Event British premier Baldwin cancels Labor contract with U.S.S.R. 1924 Death Lee Stack, British sirdar in Egypt, governer-general of Sudan, murdered 1924 Birthday Wolf Mankowitz, British playwright 1924 Event British Labour government of MacDonald, resigns 1924 Event Sunday Express publishes 1st British crossword puzzle 1924 Event Labour loses British parliamentary election 1924 Event British Labour government of MacDonald falls to Communists 1924 Birthday Sam Wainwright, deputy chairman, British Post Office 1924 Birthday David Atkinson, British air marshal 1924 Birthday Jean-Pierre Warner, British high court judge 1924 Death Francis Herbert Bradley, British philosopher (neo-idealism), dies 1924 Death F. H. Bradley, British Philosopher 1924 Birthday Robert Bolt, British Playwright 1924 Death Joseph Conrad, Polish/British writer (Heart of Darkness), dies at 66 1924 Birthday David Loram, British Vice-Admiral, Supreme Allied Commander 1924 Birthday Peter Miles, British keeper of privy purse 1924 Event 59th British Golf Open: Walter Hagen shoots a 301 at Hoylake Hoylake 1924 Birthday Lord Rippon, British MP 1924 Birthday Desmond Carrington, British radio host, Jim-Calamity the Cow 1924 Birthday Clement Freud, British Writer 1924 Event British Empire Exhibition opens at Wembley 1924 Birthday Lord Mason of Barnsley, MP, Lab, British defense secretary 1924 Birthday John Grigg, British historian 1924 Birthday Denis Rooke, CEO, British Gas 1924 Event Crown takes over Northern Rhodesia from British South Africa Co 1924 Event Croydon Airport: 1st British mig aircraft Imperial established 1924 Birthday Eduardo Paolozzi, British sculptor, Hydra 1924 Event British Labour government cuts military budget 1924 Birthday David Beattie, British governor-general of New Zealand 1924 Birthday William Pillar, British admiral 1924 Birthday Peter Webster, British High Court Judge 1924 Birthday George Guest, British organist 1924 Birthday E. P. Thompson, British Historian 1924 Event New British MacDonald government recognizes U.S.S.R. 1924 Birthday Brian Trubshaw, British test pilot 1924 Birthday William van Straubenzee, British MP 1924 Birthday Roy Harding, British teacher 1923 Event Nepal changes from British protectorate to independent nation 1923 Event Labour/Liberals win British parliament 1923 Birthday Robert Francis Vere Heuston, British professor of law 1923 Birthday Desmond Bagley, British Journalist 1923 Birthday Robin Day, British Journalist 1923 Event British occuping army leaves Constantinople 1923 Birthday Duke of Buccleuch, British large landowner/art collector 1923 Birthday John Hale, born in Ashford, Kent, linguist, historian, professor, editor, attended Johns Hopkins University, Harvard University, served as a Fellow of the British Academy 1923 Event Britain takes over Southern Rhodesia from British South Africa Co 1923 Birthday Larry White Grayson, British comedian, Generation Game 1923 Birthday Gwyn Ward Thomas, British TV director 1923 Birthday Reginald Prentice, British government minister 1923 Birthday David Haslam, British rear Admiral, hydrographer 1923 Birthday Nicholas Mosley, British Novelist 1923 Birthday Jack Hayward, British financier, Wolverhampton Wanderers Football Club 1923 Birthday John Lea, British Vice-Admiral 1923 Birthday Lord Freyberg, British Colonel of General Staff 1923 Event Stanley Baldwin succeeds Andrew Bonar Law as British premier 1923 Birthday Hugh Beach, British General 1923 Birthday Francis Graham-Smith, British astronomer 1923 Birthday Baroness Platt of Writtle, British CEO, Equal Opportunities Comm 1923 Birthday E. C. Meade, British chartered accountant 1923 Birthday Stanley Orme, Chairman, British Labour Party 1923 Death John Venn, British Philosopher 1923 Birthday Hugh Overton, British diplomat 1923 Birthday Victor Hochhauser, British impresario, Israeli Philharmonic Orchestra 1923 Birthday Elizabeth Jane Howard, British novelist, After Julius 1923 Event British government grants Trans-Jordan autonomy 1923 Event British egyptologist Howard Carter finds sarcophagus of Tutankhamun 1923 Birthday Justice Drake, British justice 1923 Birthday Ronald Arculus, British diplomat 1923 Death Katherine Mansfield, New Zealand/British writer (Dove's Nest), dies at 34 1922 Event BBC sends 1st British radio play "Truth about Father Christmas" 1922 Event Last British troops leave Ireland Freestate 1922 Event British Labour party selects Ramsay MacDonald as leader 1922 Birthday Stanley K Runcorn, British geophysicist, Doctor of Utrecht 1922 Event Turkish sultan Mehmed VI flees to Malta on British warship 1922 Event Turkish kalief/sultan Mehmed VI asks British army for help 1922 Event British Conservative wins election/Labour 2nd party 1922 Event British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) forms 1922 Death Marie Lloyd, British Musician 1922 Birthday Guy Hamilton, British Director 1922 Event British mandate of Palestine begins 1922 Birthday Jack Boddy, British trade union leader 1922 Death William Henry Hudson, British Author 1922 Death Lord Northcliffe, British Publisher 1922 Birthday Lord Colinbrook, British government minister 1922 Birthday Frank Hauser, British theatrical director 1922 Birthday Wyndraeth Morris-Jones, British political scientist 1922 Birthday Frank Price, CEO, British Waterways Board 1922 Event 57th British Golf Open: Walter Hagen shoots a 300 at Royal St. George 1922 Death William Halse Rivers, British psychologist/anthropologist, dies 1922 Birthday GMcC Kitson, British principal, Central School of Speech/Drama 1922 Birthday David Orr, deputy chairman, Inchcape, CEO, British Council, Unilever 1922 Birthday Leo Tindermans, British statesman 1922 Birthday Michael Palliser, head of British diplomatic service 1922 Birthday Tom Finney, British soccer star 1922 Event British court sentences Mahatma Gandhi to 6 years in prison 1922 Event British magistrates in India sentence Mohandas K. Gandhi to 6 years in prison for disobedience 1922 Birthday Megan Bull, British head mistress, Holloway Jail 1922 Birthday Frankie Howerd, British actor/comedian, A Funny Thing Happened 1922 Birthday Michael Flanders, British Actor 1922 Event Egypt regains independence from Britain, but British troops remain 1922 Birthday Geraint Evans, British opera vocalist, Knaben Wunderhorn 1922 Birthday Lord Pym of Sandy, British minister of foreign affairs 1922 Birthday Raymond Baxter, British TV host/author, Fast Lady 1922 Birthday Paul Scofield, born in England, stage and screen actor, considered one of the best British actors of the 20th century 1922 Death Ernest H Shackleton, British South pole explorer (Endurance), dies at 47 1921 Event U.S., France, Japan and British Empire sign a Pacific Treaty 1921 Birthday Leonard Overton, British glider pilot, Arnhem 1944 1921 Event British airship R-38 crashes in Humber, 44 die 1921 Birthday Patrick Howard-Dobson, president, Royal British Legion 1921 Birthday Leonard Lickorish, dir-gen, British Tourist Authority 1921 Birthday Benjamin Roberts, British industrial relations expert 1921 Birthday Peter Benenson, British Lawyer 1921 Event 56th British Golf Open: Jock Hutchison shoots a 296 at St. Andrews 1921 Birthday Prince Philip, British Royalty 1921 Birthday Andrew Grima, British jeweller 1921 Event After 84 years of British control, Afghanistan achieves sovereignty 1921 Event British Legion forms 1921 Birthday John Harrison, British vice admiral/surgeon 1921 Birthday John Garlick, British senior civil servant 1921 Birthday Syd Vincent, British mine workers leader 1921 Birthday Robert Fell, CEO, British Stock Exchange 1921 Death Arthur Mold, British cricket bowler (1893, banished for throwing), dies 1921 Birthday John Stott, British Clergyman 1921 Birthday James Wilson, British Lieutenant-General 1921 Birthday Franta Belsky, British sculptor 1921 Birthday Lady Fisher, founder, British Women Caring Trust 1921 Event British coal miners goes on strike 1921 Birthday George Jefferson, CEO, British Telecom 1921 Birthday Mary Douglas, born in San Remo, Italy, British anthropologist, wrote about symbolism, human culture 1921 Birthday Oliver Wright, British Ambassador, To U.S. 1921 Birthday Ruth Gipps, British conductor/composer 1921 Event British troops occupy Dublin 1921 Event Winston Churchill becomes British, minister of Colonies 1921 Event British submarine K5 leaves with man and mouse 1921 Birthday Bruce Woodcock, born in England, boxer, British and Empire heavyweight champion 1945 - 1950, European heavyweight champion 1946 - 1949, events attracted sellout crowds 1920 Event British Empire receives League of Nations mandate to Nauru 1920 Birthday Roy Jenkins, British MP, Labour 1920 Birthday Peter D. Mitchell, British Scientist 1920 Birthday Gerard W. Taylor, South African/British surgeon 1920 Birthday Sheila Quinn, adviser, British Red Cross 1920 Birthday Peter Racine Fricker, British composer 1920 Birthday Peter West, British sports commentator 1920 Event Turkish Government renounces its claim to Israel, recognizes British mandate 1920 Birthday James Munn, commissioner, British University 1920 Event British East Africa renamed Kenya and becomes a British crown colony 1920 Birthday Jack Harman, British general 1920 Birthday Jeffrey Petersen, British diplomat 1920 Birthday Ruthven Wade, British Air Chief marshal 1920 Birthday Helen Cattanach, British Army Nursing Service, QARANC 1920 Birthday Haydn Tudor Evans, British high court judge 1920 Birthday Robin Haydon, British diplomat 1920 Birthday William Simpson, British trade union leader 1920 Event British Mandate over Palestine goes into effect, lasts 28 years 1920 Event Balfour Declaration recognized, makes Palestine a British Mandate 1920 Birthday Bernard Carter, British painter and etcher 1920 Event British parliament accept Irish "Home Rule"-law 1920 Birthday William Butterfield, born in England, born William John Hughes Butterfield, Lord Butterfield, life peer as Baron Butterfield of Stechford, Order of the British Empire, medical researcher, clinician, administrator 1920 Birthday Paul Scott, British Novelist 1920 Birthday Henry Marking, CEO, British Airways 1920 Birthday James Doohan, born in Vancouver, British Columbia, actor played Montgomery Scott on Star Trek 1920 Birthday John Junor, British editor in chief, Sunday Express 1919 Event Lady Nancy Astor sworn-in as 1st female member of British Parliament 1919 Event US-born Lady Astor elected 1st female member of British Parliament 1919 Event 1st London-Amsterdam airline service (British Aerial Transport and KLM) 1919 Event British troops withdraw from Archangelsk 1919 Event British regime forbids Sinn Fein Dail 1919 Death Lord Charles Beresford, British Politician 1919 Event British intervene in Petrograd 1919 Birthday Lord Dormand, of Eastington, British MP, Labour 1919 Birthday Earl Cathcart, British major-general 1919 Event British troops fire on Amritsar India demonstrators; killing 350 1919 Event Treaty of Rawalpindi, British recognize Afghanistan's independence 1919 Event British R-34 lands in New York, 1st airship to cross Atlantic (108 hours) 1919 Death John W. S. Raleigh, British physicist (Nobel 1904), dies at 76 1919 Birthday Lord Rawlinson, British attorney general, Ewell 1919 Birthday Ronald Hines, Dutch/British actor, Pack of Lies 1919 Birthday Ted Leadbitter, British MP, Lab 1919 Birthday Charles Pringle, British air marshal 1919 Death Lord John WS Raleigh, British physicist (Nobel 1904), dies 1919 Birthday Duke of Rutland, British land owner/multimillionaire 1919 Event British forces kill 100s of Indian Nationalists (Amritsar Massacre) 1919 Event British Parliament passes a 48-hour work week with minimum wages 1919 Birthday Douglas Henley, British auditor-general 1919 Birthday Michael Lyne, British air Vice-marshal 1919 Event 1st international air mail service from U.S., Seattle-Victoria, British Columbia 1919 Birthday Norman F Simpson, British playwright, One Way Pendulum 1919 Birthday Royalton Kisch, British conductor 1918 Event British Q-ship Cymric sinks British submarine J6 1918 Birthday Derek Barton, British chemist, Nobel 1969 1918 Birthday Derek Harold Richard Barton, British Scientist 1918 Birthday Anthony Crosland, British Politician 1918 Birthday Lord Winstanley, physician/British MP, Labour 1918 Event British troops attack Baku Azerbaijan 1918 Birthday Denis Smallwood, British air chief marshal 1918 Event Canada/Australian/British breakthrough with 600 tanks at Amiens 1918 Event British troops enter Vladivostok 1918 Birthday Wyndraeth Morris-Jones, British political scientist 1918 Death Eduard "Mick" Mannock, British WW I flyer (Victoria Cross), dies 1918 Birthday Lord Mulley, British MP, Labour 1918 Birthday William Whitelaw, British Politician 1918 Birthday John Johnston, British diplomat, Rhodesia, Malaysia 1918 Birthday Anthony Craxton, British TV producer 1918 Birthday William Perrie, British prison governor 1918 Birthday Halsey S. Colchester, British SAS, spy for MI6 and priest 1918 Birthday Idwal Pugh, British ombudsman 1918 Birthday Trevor Skeet, British MP 1918 Event British premier Lloyd George demand for unified peace 1917 Event 3 British warships come close to Holland 1917 Event British forces under General Allenby capture Jerusalem 1917 Birthday Tiny Rowland, Roland Fuhrop, German/British owner, Observer 1917 Event British occupy Tel Aviv and Jaffa 1917 Birthday John Whiting, British dramatist/actor, Saint's Day 1917 Death William Smith, British deserter in France, executed at 20 1917 Event British capture Gaza Palestine from Turks 1917 Event British government gives final approval to Balfour Declaration 1917 Event 1st British bombing of Germany 1917 Birthday Rodney Robert Porter, British Scientist 1917 Event British assault on Broodseinde, France 1917 Event British assault on Menin-street, France 1917 Event British assault on Polygon-forest, France 1917 Event British troops attack canal of Ypres in Boesinghe Belgium 1917 Birthday Benjamin Roberts, British industrial relations expert 1917 Birthday John Cunningham, executive director, British Aerospace 1917 Birthday Robert Cowans, executive director, British Aerospace 1917 Birthday John Stokes, born in England, politician, Conservative Party Member of Parliament, The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, member of the Conservative Monday Club, Primrose League 1917 Event British bomb German lines at Ypres, 4,250,000 grenades 1917 Death Christopher J. Forster, British RAF-pilot/captain, dies in battle 1917 Event British Royal family changes its name from Hanover to Windsor 1917 Event British warship "Vanguard" explodes at Scapa Flow killing 804 1917 Birthday William Hamilton, British MP 1917 Event After WW I King George V ordered members of British royal family to dispense with German titles and surnames, they take the name Windsor 1917 Event British king George V takes the name Windsor 1917 Event Order of British Empire inaugurated 1917 Birthday Allen Greenwood, deputy CEO, British Aerospace 1917 Birthday Derek Hodgson, British high court judge 1917 Birthday Paul Osmond, British senior civil servant 1917 Birthday Paul Rogers, British actor, Looking Glass War, Billy Budd 1917 Birthday Tom Normanton, British MP 1917 Event British troops occupy Baghdad 1917 Birthday Reginald Maudling, British Politician 1917 Event British Mendi sinks off Isle of Wight, 627 die 1917 Birthday Frederick Page, CEO, British Aerospace Aircraft Group 1917 Birthday Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, born in British India, brought Transcendental Meditation to Indian schools, universities 1916 Birthday Noel Johnson, British actor, Frenzy, Frightmare, Royal Flash 1916 Event David Lloyd George forms British war government 1916 Event British government of David Lloyd George forms 1916 Event David Lloyd George replaces resigning H H Asquith as British PM 1916 Event British offensive at Ancre Belgium 1916 Death Hector Hugh Munro, British Novelist 1916 Event Treaty establishes British suzerainity over Qatar 1916 Birthday Michael F Howard, British Major-General, Gold Stick to the Queen 1916 Birthday John Lapsley, British air marshal 1916 Death Charles Fryatt, British Captain of SS Brussels, executed by Germans, dies 1916 Birthday Edward Heath, British Prime Minister, 1970-74 1916 Event Battle on the Somme: British 4th Army walks to German lines 1916 Event British court martial (Easter uprising) 1916 Birthday Theodore P. Toynbee, British journalist and writer, Savage Days, Barricade 1916 Birthday Joe Bamford, British manufacturer/multi-millionaire 1916 Birthday Johnny Morris, British broadcaster/actor, Once in a Lifetime 1916 Birthday Geoffrey Goodwin, British professor of international relations 1916 Birthday Bill Waddington, British actor/comedian, Percy-Coronation Street 1916 Birthday Francis Crick, British co-discovered DNA's structure, Nobel 1962 1916 Death Horatio H. Kitchener, British General of Sudan, drowns at 65 1916 Birthday Cecil Blacker, CEO, British Equestrian Federation 1916 Event British battle cruiser Invincible explodes, killing all but 6 1916 Death Horace Hood, British spy (Battle of Jutland), dies in battle 1916 Event British Summer Time (Daylight Savings), 1st introduced 1916 Death Padraic Pearse, Irishg nationalist, executed by British firing squad 1916 Event Easter rebellion of Irish against British occupation begins 1916 Birthday Donald Gibson, British Vice-Admiral 1916 Birthday Harry Rabinowitz, British composer and conductor 1916 Event French airship sinks British submarine D3 1916 Birthday [James] Harold Wilson, L, British Prime Minister, 1964-70, 1974-76 1916 Death Henry James, US/British writer (Bostonians), dies in London at 72 1916 Birthday Ian Wallace, British CEO 1916 Birthday Frederick Stewart, British geologist 1915 Birthday Noelle de Mosa, Netherlands/British dancer/teacher, Brigadoon 1915 Death W G Grace, British cricketer, dies 1915 Death Edith L Cavell, British nurse, executed by Germans in Belgium (WW II) 1915 Event Battle of Loos, almost 430,000 French, British and Germans killed 1915 Event British army conquerors Chilly al Imara, Mesopotamie 1915 Event Battle at Loos: 8,246 British and 0 German casualties 1915 Event British transport Royal Edward sank by German U boat kills 1000 1915 Death George Joseph Smith, British Criminal 1915 Event British attack at Chanak Bair at Gallipolis 1915 Birthday Ronald MacDonald, British major-general 1915 Birthday Alexander Durie, vice president, British AA 1915 Birthday Ron Smith, union leader, British Postal Workers 1915 Event British/South African troops march into German SW-Africa 1915 Event British and French troops conquer German colony of Cameroon 1915 Birthday Julian Ridsdale, born in England, politician, Conservative Party Member of Parliament for Harwich in Essex, The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire 1915 Birthday Lord Huntingfield, British agent to United Nations Secreteriat 1915 Event Last liberal British government of Asquith falls 1915 Birthday Denis Thatcher, husband of British Prime Minister Margaret, 1979 - 1990 1915 Birthday John Egerton, born in England, born John Egerton, 6th Duke of Sutherland, served with British Expeditionary Force, captured at St. Valery, spent four years in a prisoner of war camp 1915 Birthday Richard Janvrin, British vice admiral 1915 Birthday John Arnold, British high court judge 1915 Event British Lusitania leaves NY, for Liverpool 1915 Birthday Lord Airedale, British Lord, social democrat 1915 Birthday Stephen Roberts, CEO, British Milk Marketing Board 1915 Event Failed British attack in Dardanelles 1915 Event British battle cruisers Inflexible and Irresistible hit mines in Dardanelle 1915 Event British expedition Army in Belgium captures Neuve Chapelle 1915 Event British vice adm Carden begins bombing of Dardanelles forts 1915 Event British fleet fire on Dardanellen coast 1915 Birthday John Freeman, British politician, Labour, ambassador/TV host 1915 Birthday Paul Ferris, British author 1915 Birthday Stanley Matthews, 1st British soccer player to be knighted 1915 Death James E Flecker, British diplomat/novelist (Hassan), dies at 30 1914 Birthday Bernard Youens, British actor, Coronation Street 1914 Birthday Ivan Sutton, British concert promoter 1914 Event British fleet forfeits chance to destroy German fleet in North Sea 1914 Birthday Alan L Bullock, British historian 1914 Birthday Alan Bullock, British Historian 1914 Event British and German fleets battle at Falkland Island 1914 Event British army conquerors Bazra 1914 Birthday Richard Lawrence Millington Synge, British bio-chemist, Nobel 1952 1914 Event British battleship Audacious sunk by mine 1914 Event Pro-German Boers begin opposition of British authority in South Africa 1914 Event 1 German submarine sinks 3 British ironclads, 1,459 die 1914 Birthday Desmond Llewelyn, British Actor 1914 Event British trader Oceanic sinks off Scotland 1914 Death William E. Darwin, British son of Charles Darwin, dies at 74 1914 Death Lord O'Brien, British nobleman, dies at 73 1914 Event British, French and Russian government sign Pact of London, against Germany 1914 Event British expeditionary army/general Lanrezacs army attacks the Marne 1914 Event Von Glucks army meets up with British expeditionary army 1914 Death Adrian H. Stewart, British lieutenant, dies in battle in Cameroon at 26 1914 Event Battle at Helgoland: British fleet beats German, 1100 killed 1914 Event Battle at Bergen: Germans defeat Belgian/British troops 1914 Death George A Pogson, British consul in Puerto Rico, dies 1914 Event 1st encounter between British and German troops (in Belgium) 1914 Death James Grierson, British general 1914 Event British field marshal John French and General Wilson land in France 1914 Event German submarine U-15 sinks British cruiser 1914 Event British Gloucester vs German Breslau/Goeben off Greece 1914 Event Lord Kitchener becomes British minister of War 1914 Event British fleet reaches Scapa Flow 1914 Birthday J. Lee Thompson, British Director 1914 Event John French appointed British supreme commander 1914 Event British fleet leaves Portland/passes Straits of Dover 1914 Event Minister of Navy W Churchill routes British fleet to Scapa Flow 1914 Event Armed resistance against British rule begins in Ulster 1914 Death Joseph Chamberlain, British minister to Germany, dies at 78 1914 Event 54th British Golf Open: Harry Vardon shoots a 306 at Prestwick Club 1914 Death Brandon Thomas, British Actor 1914 Birthday Maurice Ohana, British?/French? pianist/composer, La Celestine 1914 Birthday Lord Erroll of Hale, British minister 1914 Birthday Rose Stainton, CEO, British Airways 1914 Event British House of Commons passes Irish Home Rule 1914 Birthday Anthony Fell, British MP 1914 Birthday Lord Smith, British surgeon 1914 Event British House of Lords rejects women suffrage 1914 Birthday Charlie Chester, British comedian, Never Say Die 1914 Birthday John Beith, British diplomat 1914 Birthday Alec Guinness, born in London, England, British actor, Bridge on River Kwai 1914 Birthday Chapman Pincher, British journalist/author, about secret service 1914 Birthday Donald Stokes, born in Plymouth, England, born Donald Gresham Stokes, Baron Stokes, Lord Stokes, industrialist, life peer in the House of Lords, managing director of British Leyland Motor Corporation 1914 Event Dutch Minister of war H Colijn named director of British Petroleum 1914 Death John Tenniel, British illustrator (Alice in Wonderland), dies at 93 1914 Birthday Marion Kettlewell, British director, WRNS 1914 Birthday J Tobin, British anaesthetist 1914 Birthday Earl Cadogan, British large landowner, Military Cross 1914 Birthday Alan Hodgkin, British physicist, Nobel 1963 1914 Birthday Lord Dacre of Glanton, British historian 1914 Event Northern and Southern Nigeria united in British colony of Nigeria 1913 Death Alfred R Wallace, British zoologist (Is Mars habitable?), dies 1913 Death Alfred Russel Wallace, British Scientist 1913 Event British passenger ship Volturno catches fire in Atlantic (136 kill) 1913 Birthday Ellis Peters, British Author 1913 Birthday David Hunt, British diplomat/quiz winner 1913 Birthday Stewart Crawford, British diplomat 1913 Birthday Stanley Kitchen, British chartered accountant 1913 Birthday Lord Oram, British MP, Labour 1913 Event 12th Davis Cup: USA beats British Isles in Wimbledon (3-2) 1913 Event British House of Commons accepts Home-Rule Law 1913 Birthday Hugh Stirling MacKenzie, British vice admiral 1913 Event 53rd British Golf Open: J H Taylor shoots a 304 at Hoylake Hoylake 1913 Birthday Peter Gibson, British Rear-Admiral 1913 Death Lord Avebury, John Lubbock, British banker/politician, dies 1913 Death John Lubbock, British Statesman 1913 Event British House of Commons rejects woman's right to vote 1913 Birthday Jack Aitken, British anatomist 1913 Birthday Ronald Harris, British 1st Church Estates Commissioner 1913 Birthday Cyril English, British educator 1913 Event British suffragette Emily Pankhurst sentenced to 3 years in jail 1913 Birthday Jack Jones, British trade unionist, CH 1913 Birthday Frank Allaun, British MP, L 1913 Birthday Mary Leakey, British Scientist 1913 Event British House of Commons accepts Home-Rule for Ireland 1913 Birthday Ernest Sidey, British air marshal 1912 Birthday Daniel Jones, born in Pembroke, Wales, Daniel Jenkyn Jones, Welsh composer, friend of Dylan Thomas, wrote 12 numbered symphonies, chamber music, made Order of the British Empire (OBE) in 1968 1912 Death George Howard Darwin, British Scientist 1912 Birthday Alfons "Alphons" Berckmans, Flemish/British actor, Family Stastok 1912 Death Preston Lockwood, British actor and writer, dies 1912 Birthday Eric Wilson, VC/British Lieutenant Colonel 1912 Event French/British troops lands on Samoa 1912 Birthday Peter Gretton, British vice admiral 1912 Event Mr. Carter-Cotton chosen 1st chancellor of University of British Columbia 1912 Birthday Anne B Ridler, British poet, Who is my neighbor? 1912 Death Lawrence Alma Tadema, Dutch/British painter, dies at 76 1912 Event British National Health Insurance Act goes into effect 1912 Birthday Joan Hammond, British operatic soprano 1912 Birthday Hugh Martell, British Vice Admiral 1912 Birthday Odette Hallowes, British classified agent in France, WW II 1912 Birthday Peter Menzies, CEO, British Electricity Council 1912 Event Over 1,500 people die when the British passenger ship, RMS Titanic, sinks in the North Atlantic Ocean after colliding with an iceberg 1912 Birthday Harold Maguire, British air marshal 1912 Death Robert F Scott, British pole explorer (Antarctica), dies 1912 Birthday James Callaghan, L, British Prime Minister, 1976-79 1912 Birthday John Amery, British Politician 1912 Death L Oates, British explorer (Antarctica), dies 1912 Birthday Arthur Crook, British editor, Times Literary Supplement 1912 Death Edgar Evans, British explorer of Antarctica, dies 1912 Birthday George Mikes, Hungary, British writer, How to Be an Alien 1912 Birthday Juan Pujol Garcia, Garbo/Arabel, Spanish British/German double agent 1912 Birthday Lawrence Durrell, Indian/British writer, Private Country 1912 Birthday Nigel Dennis, British Writer 1912 Birthday Kim Philby, British spy/Soviet mole 1911 Birthday Ota Adler, Czechoslovakian/British fur trader/founder, Federal Trust 1911 Death Joseph D Hooker, British botanist, dies at 94 1911 Birthday Klaus EJ Fuchs, German/British atomic physicist/spy 1911 Birthday Stuart Rose, designer, British Post Office 1911 Birthday Bentley Bridgewater, British Museum secretary 1911 Event British premier Asquith holds secret meeting about British strategy in case of war with Germany 1911 Birthday Ronald MacDonald, British major-general 1911 Event Generals Henry Wilson/Auguste Dubail sign plan for British Expeditionary army in case of war with Germany 1911 Birthday Mervyn Peake, British Writer 1911 Birthday Klaus E J Fuchs, German/British/German nuclear physicist/spy 1911 Birthday Lord Brightman, British judge of appeals 1911 Birthday James Marjoribanks, British ambassador 1911 Death William Gilbert, British Composer 1911 Birthday Randolph Churchill, British Journalist 1911 Event British house of commons accept Parliament Bill 1911 Birthday Robert Hamer, British Director 1911 Birthday Richard Chapman, golfer, 1940 U.S. amateur, 1951 British amateur 1911 Birthday Fitzroy Maclean, British diplomat soldier politician and historian 1911 Birthday Stafford WIlliam Somerfield, British newspaper editor 1910 Birthday Yisrael Eldad, British extremist politician 1910 Birthday Edmund Leach, British Scientist 1910 Birthday Barbara Castle, British Politician 1910 Birthday George D Kilpatrick, Canadian/British bible scholar 1910 Birthday Charles Crichton, British director, Battle of Sexes 1910 Birthday Clive Robertson Caldwell, British fighter pilot 1910 Birthday Cicely Veronica Wedgwood, British historian, William the Silent 1910 Birthday Bernard Burrows, British diplomat 1910 Event 50th British Golf Open: James Braid shoots a 299 at St. Andrews Scot 1910 Birthday Mary Whitehouse, British Activist 1910 Birthday Geoffrey Musson, British General 1910 Birthday Francis Avery Jones, British gastro-enterologist 1910 Birthday Hugh Casson, British Architect 1910 Birthday Dorothy Crowfoot-Hodgkin, British chemist, penicillin/B12/Nobel 1964 1910 Event King George V ascends to British throne 1910 Death William Orchardson, British painter, dies 1910 Birthday Desmond Dreyer, British admiral 1910 Birthday Andrew Miller-Jones, British TV pioneer 1910 Birthday Douglas R S Bader, British pilot, WW II 1910 Birthday Douglas Bader, British Soldier 1910 Event 1st British labour exchange opens 1910 Birthday Lord Cayzer, British financier/swcheeps magnate/multi-millionaire 1910 Event British miners strike for 8 hour working day 1909 Birthday John Megaw, British Lord Justice of Appeal 1909 Event British SS Waratah disappears on Sydney to London, 300 killed 1909 Birthday 2nd viscount Camrose, British Conserv Lower house leader, 1941-45 1909 Birthday C. Northcote Parkinson, British Historian 1909 Birthday William G Penney, British physicist, 1st British Atom Bomb 1909 Birthday Jan Lewando, British director, Marks and Spencer 1909 Birthday Edward Playfair, British senior civil servant 1909 Birthday Helen Fielding, British Author 1909 Birthday Lord Collison, British union leader, agriculture workers 1909 Birthday Simon Conway Morris, British Scientist 1909 Birthday Patrick Reilly, British diplomat 1909 Birthday Max Black, Dutch/British/U.S. philosopher, analytical philosophy 1909 Birthday Harold Beeley, British diplomat 1909 Birthday Foley Newns, British colonial administrator 1909 Birthday Lionel KP "Buster" Crabb, British diver, WW II-George Medal 1909 Event British explorer Ernest Shackleton finds magnetic south pole 1908 Birthday Charles Forte, Italian/British hotel magnate, Savoy 1908 Birthday Patrick Cairns "Spike" Hughes, British jazz musician/composer, Elegy 1908 Birthday John Grant, British rear-admiral 1908 Birthday Lord Renton, QC/British government minister 1908 Birthday Lord Jenkins of Putney, British MP of Arts, Labour 1908 Birthday Maurice Adams, surgeon/British rear admiral 1908 Birthday Jack Jacob, senior master, British Supreme Court 1908 Birthday David Lean, British director, Lawrence of Arabia 1908 Birthday Herbert Telley, British actuary 1908 Death Henry Campbell-Bannerman, British premier (1905-08), dies 1908 Event Lord Asquith succeeds Henry Campbell-Bannerman as British premier 1908 Birthday Neil Lawson, British high court judge 1908 Event British premier Henry Campbell-Bannerman resigns 1908 Birthday Bridget D'Oyly Carte, British theater and hotel director 1908 Birthday Vivian [Ernest] Fuchs, geologist/explorer, British Antarctic Survey 1908 Birthday Stephane Grappelli, British jazz/violinist 1908 Birthday Jacob Bronowsky, British mathematician/cultural historian 1907 Birthday Lord Hailsham, British Politician 1907 Birthday Lord Caradon, British Diplomat 1907 Birthday Bernard Miles, British actor, In Which We Serve, Mermaid Theatre 1907 Birthday Anthony F Blunt, British historian/spy for U.S.S.R. 1907 Birthday Phyllis Pearsall-Gross, British Geographer, A to Z Map Company 1907 Birthday Desmond Heap, authority on British planning law 1907 Birthday Louis MacNeice, British Poet 1907 Birthday Philip A. Edwards, British Guiana, runner, Olympic-bronze-1928, 32, 36 1907 Event Cyril Astley Clarke, British geneticist 1907 Birthday Cyril Clarke, British Scientist 1907 Birthday Mollie Doreen Phillips, British figure skater/judge, Olympics 1932,36 1907 Event 7th Davis Cup: Australasia beats British Isles in Wimbledon (3-2) 1907 Birthday Paterson Fraser, British air marshal 1907 Birthday Nicolas Bentley, British Author 1907 Birthday Robert Humphreys, British? historian 1907 Birthday Valston Hancock, British air marshal 1907 Birthday Patrick Browne, British Lord justice of appeal 1907 Birthday Matthew Campbell, British senior civil servant 1907 Birthday Charles Cawley, British chief scientist/minister of power 1907 Birthday Nicholas Tinbergen, Netherlands/British biologist/zoologist, Nobel 1973 1907 Birthday Margaret Herbison, British minister, Lab 1907 Birthday Joy Finzi, Joyce A. Black, British painter 1907 Event Royal Oil and Shell merge to form British Petroleum (BP) 1907 Event English suffragettes storm British Parliament and 60 women are arrested 1907 Birthday Henry Cotton, English golf champion, won 3x British Open 1907 Birthday Henry Cotton, English golfer, British Open 1934, 1937, 1948 1907 Birthday Derek Richter, British neuro chemist, Aspects of learning and memory 1907 Birthday Wilhelm J Soukop, Austrian/British sculptor 1906 Event French/British/Italian treaty concerning rights on Abyssinia 1906 Birthday Lew Grade, British TV mogul, ATV, movie producer, Boys from Brazil 1906 Birthday Dick White, head of British secret service, MI-5/MI-6 1906 Event British government-Balfour resigns 1906 Birthday Margaret Barbara Lambert, British historian, Saar 1906 Death Richard Tangye, British Businessman 1906 Birthday John I M Stewart, British detective writer, Comedy of Terrors 1906 Event British New Guinea becomes Australian Papua New Guinea 1906 Birthday Gerald Vann, British Theologian 1906 Birthday Edmund Davies, British lord of appeal 1906 Birthday Thomas G. Cowling, British mathematician/astronomer 1906 Birthday Kenneth Anderson, deputy comptroller, British GPO 1906 Birthday Viscount Rochdale, British CEO 1906 Birthday Robert Brown Black, British diplomat/gov, Hong Kong 1906 Birthday Walter Legge, British Businessman 1906 Birthday Mary Ralton, director, British WRAC 1906 Birthday Alan J P Taylor, British historian, English history 1914-1915 1906 Birthday A. J. P. Taylor, British Historian 1906 Event "Census of the British Empire" shows England rules 1/5 of the world 1906 Event British Labour Party organizes 1906 Birthday Denis Barnett, British air chief marshal 1906 Birthday Gwen Catley, British soprano 1905 Event British government of Campbell-Bannerman forms 1905 Event British government of Balfour resigns 1905 Event British, Italian, Russisan, French and Austria-Hungary fleet attack Lesbos 1905 Birthday John Whitley, British air-marshal 1905 Birthday Arthur Koestler, Hungary, British writer, Arrow in Blue 1905 Birthday Bernard Benjamin Gillis, British judge 1905 Birthday Richard F Kahn, baron of Hampstead/British economist 1905 Birthday Elizabeth Lane, 1st female British supreme court justice 1905 Birthday Elias Canetti, Bulgarian/British novelist, Life-Terms, Nobel 1981 1905 Birthday Jack Longland, British director of education, Derbyshire 1905 Birthday Harry Campion, statistician and founder, British Central Statistical Office 1905 Event British East African Protectorate becomes colony of Kenya 1905 Birthday Lord Franks, British ambassador, to U.S. 1904 Birthday Clabon W. Allen, Australian/British astronomer 1904 Birthday Theodore DN Besterman, British bibliographer 1904 Event British newspaper, "Daily Mirror," begins publishing 1904 Event Russian fleet shoots at British fishing ship 1904 Birthday Julian Hodge, British financier/multi-millionaire, Hodge Group 1904 Event Earl Grey is named British governor-general of Canada 1904 Birthday Frederick Ashton, British choreographer, Cinderella 1904 Event Dali Lama signs treaty allowing British commerce in Tibet 1904 Birthday Christopher W. Bradshaw-Isherwood, British/US writer, Goodbye to Berlin 1904 Event British journalist Francis Younghusband visits forbidden city Lhasa 1904 Birthday Selwyn Lloyd, British statsman 1904 Death Anthony F A Sandys, (British) painter, dies 1904 Birthday George Formby, William Booth, British singer/comic, Let George Do It 1904 Birthday Kenneth Buckley, British rear-admiral 1904 Death Henry M Stanley, John Rowlands, British explorer, dies 1904 Birthday Gregory Bateson, British Scientist 1904 Birthday Gordon Richards, British jockey, winner of 4,870 races 1904 Birthday Bill Brandt, British Photographer 1904 Birthday John R. Hicks, British economist, Nobel 1972 1903 Birthday John Piper, British writer, US Churches in WW I, official war painter 1903 Event British forces under MacDonald and Young march into Tibet 1903 Death Herbert Spencer, British engineer/philosopher, dies at 83 1903 Death Robert A T G C Salisbury, British premier (1885..1902), dies at 73 1903 Event 3rd Davis Cup: British Isles beats USA in Boston (4-1) 1903 Death James A McNeill Whistler, U.S./British writer (Bride Tomorrow), dies at 69 1903 Birthday Steven Runciman, British Historian 1903 Birthday Alexander Frederick Douglas-Home, British Prime Minister, 1963-64 1903 Birthday Amy Johnson, British pilot 1903 Event British government protests against abuser in Belgian Congo 1903 Birthday George Orwell, British writer, Animal Farm, 1984 1903 Birthday Douglas Packard, British Lt General 1903 Birthday Lennox R F Berkeley, British composer, Castaway 1903 Birthday Siegfried F Nadel, Austrian/British anthropologist, Black Byzantium 1903 Death George G Stokes, British physicist/president Royal Society, dies at 83 1903 Birthday G Evelyn Hutchinson, British zoologist, Treatise on Limnology 1903 Birthday John Eccles, British physiologist/neurologist 1903 Birthday Berthold Goldschmidt, German/British, opera, composer, Beatrice Cenci 1902 Event Boers and British army sign peace treaty 1902 Birthday Leonard Hirsch, British violinist and orchestra leader, RAF Symph Orch 1902 Birthday Anthony Asquith, British director, Carrington V C, Court martial, 1902 Birthday Stevie Smith, British Poet 1902 Event 2nd Davis Cup: USA beats British Isles in New York (3-2) 1902 Birthday Paul Dirac, British Physicist 1902 Birthday Karl Raimund Popper, Austrian/British philosopher, Logic of Forschung 1902 Event British premier Lord Salisbury resigns 1902 Death Samuel Butler, British writer (Erewhom), dies at 66 1902 Event British SS Camorta sinks off Rangoon; 739 die 1902 Birthday Walter Dawson, British Air Chief marshall 1902 Event Boers beat British troop in Tweebosch Transvaal 1902 Event Battle at Yzer Spruit: Boer general De la Rey beats British 1902 Death Samuel R Gardiner, British historian (Oliver Cromwell), dies at 72 1902 Birthday Hartley William Shawcross, British Lawyer 1902 Birthday Geoffrey W. Lloyd, British minister of Brandstoffen/Energy, 1951-55 1901 Birthday A F [Tony] Pugsley, British rear-admiral, Walcheren attack, 1944, 1901 Death Edward J Eyre, British explorer/governor (Jamaica), dies at 86 1901 Birthday Joyce Wethered, Surrey England, golfer, 4 time British Amateur champ 1901 Death U Benson, British Lt-colonel (Magers' fountain), killed in battle 1901 Birthday CFH "Freddie" Gough, British major scout, WW II, Arnhem 1901 Birthday Edward Lambert, British diplomat 1901 Birthday Llewellyn Rees, British theater actor, Invisible Creature 1901 Death Robert Williams Buchanan, British Poet 1901 Event 1st British motorized burial 1901 Death Henry Peach Robinson, British Photographer 1901 Birthday Cecil H King, Irish/British daily newspaper publisher, Daily Mirror 1900 Event General Viljoen surprise attack British garrison to Helvetia 1900 Death William G Armstrong, of Cragside, British const (hydr crane), dies at 90 1900 Birthday Joseph Needham, British Scientist 1900 Death Arthur Sullivan, British Composer 1900 Death PWJ Le Gallais, British Lt-colonel, dies in battle at Bothaville 1900 Birthday Herbert Butterfield, British Historian 1900 Event Queen Victoria disbands British parliament 1900 Event British General Buller occupies Lydenburg South Africa 1900 Event British annex Natal (South Africa) 1900 Event British troops over run Johannesburg 1900 Event Last 2000 British prisoners in Nooitgedagt South Africa freed 1900 Event 1st Davis Cup: USA beats British Isles in Boston (3-0) 1900 Event Battle at Diamond Hill: British troops chase General Botha 1900 Event Boer general Christian de Law occupiers British train depot Roodewal 1900 Event British army occupiers Pretoria South Africa 1900 Event British troops under Lord Roberts occupy Johannesburg 1900 Event British troops under Ian Hamilton attack the Vaal in South Africa 1900 Event British troops relieve Mafeking (Cape Colony) 1900 Birthday Mervyn A. Ellison, British astronomer, spectrohelioscope 1900 Death George J D Campbell, British Minister of Indies (1868-74, 80-85), dies at 76 1900 Death Mebel Mercer, popular British singer, dies 1900 Event British garrison of Reddersberg surrenders to Boer general De Wet 1900 Event British troops occupy Bloemfontein, Orange-Free state 1900 Event Battle at Driefontein, South Africa (Boers vs. British army) 1900 Birthday Basil Bunting, British Poet 1900 Event British Labour Party forms 1900 Event Battle at Hart's Hill, South Africa (Boers vs British army) 1900 Event Battle at Wynne's Hill, South Africa (Boers vs British army) 1900 Event British troops occupy Hlangwane Natal 1900 Event Battle at Paardeberg, 1,270 British killed/injured 1900 Event British troops occupy Monte Christo Natal 1900 Event British troops vacate Vaal Krantz, Natal 1900 Event Battle at Vaalkrans, South Africa (Boers vs British army) 1900 Event British troops under General Buller occupy Vaal Krantz, Natal 1900 Event Battle at Tugela-Spionkop, South Africa (Boers vs British army) 1900 Event British protectorates of Northern and Southern Nigeria established 1899 Event Field Marshal Lord Roberts appointed British supreme commander in South Africa 1899 Death Frederick "Freddy" Roberts, son of British field marshal, dies in battle 1899 Death Andrew "Andy" Wauchope, British general-major, dies in battle 1899 Death Lord Winchester, British marquis/major, dies in battle 1899 Event British "Black Week" due to nederlagen in South Africa 1899 Event Battle at Storm Berge South Africa - Boers vs British army 1899 Event Natal: British fall/burst out belegerd Ladysmith 1899 Event Battle of Mud river (Boer General. Cronje beats British General Methuen) 1899 Event Battle at Willow Grange, Natal (British vs Boer army) 1899 Event British troops reach Durban Natal 1899 Event British Morning Post reporter Winston Churchill reaches Capetown 1899 Death C Grant B Allen, Canada, British writer (Woman Who Did), dies 1899 Event Battle at Rietfontein, South Africa: Boers vs British army 1899 Death W Penn Symons, British General-Major, dies in battle 1899 Event British troops flee Dundee, Natal South Africa 1899 Event Battle at Elandslaagte Natal: (Boers vs British army) 1899 Event Battle at Talana Hill Natal: British army vs Boers 1899 Death Robert H "Bobby" Gunning, British colonel (60th Rifles), dies in battle 1899 Event 1st British troops reaches Durban South Africa 1899 Event South Africa President Kruger routes British authorities ultimatum 1899 Event 1st British troops leave Bombay for South Africa 1899 Event British government sends an additional 10,000 troops to Natal South Africa 1899 Birthday [Friedrich] August von Hayek, Australia/British economist, Road to Serfdom 1899 Event Transvaal British Uitlanders ask Queen Victoria for aid 1899 Event British and French accord about West-Africa 1898 Death Hubert Howard, British journalist (Times), dies through friendly fire 1898 Birthday Kathleen Hale, British children book writer/illustrator, Orlando 1898 Death William E. Gladstone, British Leader 1898 Birthday Lord Leatherland, British journalist/Labour peer 1898 Birthday Cecil Bowra, British classics expert, Greek experience 1898 Death James Wimshurst, British designer/inventor (vacuum pump), dies at 70 1897 Birthday Patrick M S Blackett, British physicist, nuclear reaction, Nobel 1948 1897 Birthday Ronald G. W. Norrish, British chemist, Nobel 1967 1897 Birthday Ruth Pitter, British poet 1897 Death Thomas Edward Brown, British Poet 1897 Event 1st British bus service opens 1897 Death Ralph Abercromby, British meteorologist, dies at about 54 1897 Birthday Anthony Eden, Earl of Avon, C, British Prime Minister, 1955-57 1897 Birthday Robert Neumann, Austrian/British author, Waters of Babylon 1897 Birthday John B. Glubb, British commandant/writer, A soldier with the Arabs 1897 Death Ebenezer C Brewer, British writer (Dictionary of Phrase and Fable), dies 1897 Event British troops occupy Bida Gold Coast (Ghana) 1897 Event Battle at Bida Gold Coast: British troops beat Nupe's army 1896 Birthday Oswald Mosley, baron/British nazi 1896 Death Bridget Driscoll, 1st British to die in an auto-accident 1896 Birthday Wallis Simpson, British Royalty, Duchess of Windsor, divorcee 1896 Birthday Alister Hardy, British Scientist 1896 Birthday John Moores, British gambling magnate/multi-millionaire 1896 Event British troops occupy Kumasi, West Africa 1895 Death LP Hartley, British writer, dies 1895 Birthday King George VI, British Royalty 1895 Birthday B. H. Liddell Hart, British Historian 1895 Death Charles Halle, British pianist, dies 1895 Birthday Frank Raymond Leavis, British literary critic, Culture and Environment 1895 Event British Roseberry government falls 1895 Event British inventor Birt Acres patents film camera/projector 1895 Death Joseph Whitaker, British publisher (Whitaker' Almanack), dies at 75 1895 Birthday Zoltan Korda, Hungarian/British director, Jungle Book, 4 Feathers 1895 Birthday Stanley Rous, British soccer official 1895 Birthday Harry F V Edward, born in British Guiana, 100m/200m runner, Olympic-bronze-1920 1895 Event British inventor Birt Acres films Oxford-Cambridge 1895 Birthday Nigel Bruce, born in Ensenada, Mexico, British actor, Dr. Watson in 'Sherlock Holmes' 1894 Birthday Ernest John Moeran, British composer 1894 Death Christina Rossetti, British Poet 1894 Birthday J. B. Priestley, British Writer 1894 Event Premier Roseberry declares Uganda a British protectorate 1894 Event British and Belgian secret accord on dividing Central-Africa 1894 Event 4th and last British government of Gladstone resigns 1894 Event British troops occupy Ilorin, Gold Coast 1894 Birthday [Maurice] Harold MacMillan, London, C, British Prime Minister, 1957-63 1893 Death Allan Wilson, British/Rhodesian major, dies in battle 1893 Birthday Alexander Korda, British movie producer, 3rd man 1893 Birthday Leslie Hore-Belisha, British Minister of Transport 1893 Event British King George V marries princess Victoria of Teck (Queen Mary) 1893 Event British fleet under Vice-Admiral George Tryon leaves Beirut 1893 Birthday Dorothy L. Sayers, British Author 1893 Birthday Karl Mannheim, Hungarian/German/British sociologist, Ideology and Utopia 1893 Birthday D Ivor D Novello, British composer/writer, Truth Game 1893 Event British Independent Labor Party forms (Keir Hardie as its leader) 1892 Event 4th and last British government of Gladstone forms 1892 Event James Keir Hardie chosen 1st socialist in British Lower house 1892 Birthday Edward B B Shanks, British poet and critic 1892 Birthday Richard Tauber, Ernst Seiffert, Austria/British, tenor/conductor 1892 Death Arthur Hodister, British ivory seller (Heart of Darkness), murdered 1892 Birthday Vere G Childe, British archaeologist/prehistorian 1892 Birthday Stanislav Wladyslaw Maczek, Polish/British general-major/commandant 1892 Birthday Eva Turner, British soprano 1892 Birthday Nikolaj A. Orloff, Russian/British pianist, Chopin 1892 Death Charles Spurgeon, British Clergyman 1892 Event Battle at Mengo, Uganda: French missionaries attack British missionaries 1891 Birthday Kenneth A. N. Anderson, British general, Dunkerk, North Africa 1891 Event British Central African Protectorate (now Malawi) forms 1891 Birthday David Low, British Cartoonist 1891 Event British Steamer "Utopia" sinks off Gibraltar killing 574 1890 Death Harry Pollitt, chairman British communist (1956-60), dies 1890 Event British and French accord to divide African colonization 1890 Birthday Arthur W. Tedder of Glenguin, British air marshal, WW II 1889 Birthday Arnold J. Toynbee, British Historian 1889 Death John Bright, British Politician 1889 Birthday Howard Spring, British author/novelist/writer/critic, O Absalom 1889 Birthday Gertrude Caton-Thompson, British archaeologist, Zimbabwe, So Arabia 1888 Event Queen Victoria grants William Mackinnons Imperial British 1888 Death James Jameson, British nature investigator (Congo), dies 1888 Birthday Gilbert Ledward, British sculptor 1887 Event Sir John Layton Jarvis, 1st British race horse trainer knighted 1887 Birthday Bernard L Montgomery, British field marshall, WW II-African campaign 1887 Birthday Bernard Law Montgomery, British Soldier 1887 Event British SS Wah Yeung catches fire on Canton River off Hong Kong 1887 Birthday Friedrich A. Paneth, Austrian/British chemist 1887 Birthday Rupert Brooke, British WW I poet, 1914 1887 Birthday Kurt Schwitters, German/British dada-artist/poet, collages 1887 Birthday Alan Gordon Cunningham, Irish/British general/director of Palestine, 1945-48 1886 Event China takes British protectorate of Burma 1886 Birthday George Leigh Mallory, British Celebrity 1886 Birthday Olaf Stapleton, British religious sci-fi writer, Star Maker 1886 Birthday Oskar Kokoschka, Russia/Austrian/British, painter, Erasmus Prize 1960 1886 Event 2nd British government of Salisbury forms 1886 Event 1st British government of Salisbury resigns 1885 Event Bechuanaland becomes a British protectorate 1885 Birthday Dornford Yates, British Novelist 1885 Event British government of Salisbury forms 1885 Birthday Erwin F Finlay-Freundlich, British astronomer, theory of relativity 1885 Death Susanna Moodie, British Author 1885 Birthday Harry St. John Philby, sheik Abdullah, British explorer 1885 Birthday Clementine Ogilvy Spencer-Churchill, Hozier, British barones 1885 Birthday Robert Blackburn, British aviation pioneer 1885 Death Charles George Gordon, British Governor-General of Sudan, executed at 51 1885 Event British beat Mahdists at Battle of Abu Klea in Sudan 1884 Event British protectorate proclaimed over southeast New Guinea 1884 Birthday Adrian S Oppenheim, Dutch lawyer/adviser, British Petroleum/Shell 1884 Birthday Francis B Young, British physician/writer, White Ladies 1884 Birthday Claude "Auk" Auchinleck, British Field Marshal North-Africa 1884 Birthday Claude Auchinleck, British Soldier 1884 Event British and Portuguese treaty signed in Congo by Leopold II 1883 Death Wilhelm Siemens, German/British physicist (steam engine), dies 1883 Death William Hicks, British col/commander (Egyptian army), dies in battle 1883 Birthday A S Neill, British headmaster, Summerhill 1883 Event Slavery banned throughout British Empire 1883 Event A papyrus offered to British Museum for 10,000 pounds, forgery 1883 Birthday Archibald Wavell, British Soldier 1883 Birthday Leonard Mudie, England, actor, Magnetic Monster, British Intelligence 1883 Birthday James I Wedgwood, British theosophist/old-catholic bishop 1883 Birthday Andrew Browne, Irish/British Admiral, WW II 1883 Birthday Clement Attlee, British Prime Minister, 1945-51 1883 Birthday Clement Atlee, British Statesman 1882 Birthday Otto Neurath, Australian/British philosopher, Foundation of Social Sciences 1882 Event British HMS Flirt fire at and destroy Abari village in Niger 1882 Event British HMS Flirt destroys village of Asaba Niger 1882 Event British general Wolseley occupies Cairo 1882 Event British General Wolseley reaches Cairo 1882 Event Battle at Count el-Kebir: British troops invade Egypt 1882 Event British under General Wolseley land in Alexandria 1882 Event British fleet bombs Alexandria 1882 Birthday Neville Henderson, British diplomat 1882 Birthday Melanie Klein, Austrian/British psycho analysis 1882 Death John Linnell, British painter/minaturist/engraver, dies 1881 Event Transvaal regains independence under British suzerainty 1881 Birthday Ernest Bevin, British minister of Labour and Foreign affairs 1881 Event Battle at Amajuba, South Africa: Boers vs. British army under General Colley 1881 Death George Colley, British governor of Natal/general, dies in battle at 46 1881 Event Natal: British troops under General-major Colley occupy Majuba Hill 1881 Event Battle at Ingogo, Transvaal: Boers beat superior British forces 1881 Birthday Frederick Leonard Lonsdale, British playwright, Balkan Princess 1881 Death Arthur O'Shaughnessy, British Poet 1881 Event Battle at Laing's Neck Natal: Boers beat superior powered British 1881 Birthday Alfred R Radcliffe-Browne, British anthropologist, Andaman Islanders 1880 Birthday Leonard Woolf, British Author 1880 Birthday Alfred Noyes, British poet/essayist, Loom of Years, Highwayman 1880 Birthday Josiah Stamp, British Businessman 1880 Birthday Baron W. Edmund, Archangel and Ironside, British Field Marshal 1879 Event North British Railway's train falls as Firth bridge collapses (Scot) 1879 Event British troops occupy Kabul Afghanistan 1879 Birthday Nancy Astor, British Politician 1879 Death William Froude, British civil eng/shipbuilder (F Integer), dies at 68 1879 Death Anthony Pannizim, principal librarian (British Museum), dies 1879 Event Khedive Ismael of Egypt fires French/British ministers 1879 Death Julia Margaret Cameron, British Photographer 1879 Event Zulus attack British Army camp in Isandhlwana South Africa 1879 Death Anthony Durnford, British colonel, dies in battle 1879 Death George Shepstone, British political affiliate, dies in battle 1879 Event British troops under Lord Chelmsford set camp at Isandlwana 1879 Event British Zulu War begins: Lieutenant-General Chelmsford invades Zululand 1879 Event Zulu war against British colonial rule in South Africa begins 1879 Event British battleship Thunder explodes in Gulf of Ismid, 9 die 1879 Birthday Ernest Jones, British psychoanalyst, Life and Work of Sigmund Freud 1878 Event British frigate Eurydice sunk; 300 lost 1877 Birthday Roger Quilter, British composer 1877 Birthday Francis William Aston, British Scientist 1877 Birthday Alfred DPR Pound, British admiral/1st Sealord, Jutland, WW II 1877 Birthday Charles Stewart Rolls, British auto manufacturer, Rolls-Royce Ltd 1877 Death Frank Pocock, British explorer, drowned in the Congo 1877 Event British annex Transvaal, in South Africa 1877 Event British high director/governor sir Bartle Frere arrives in Capetown 1877 Event British annex Walvis Bay in southern Africa 1877 Birthday G. H. Hardy, British Mathematician 1877 Birthday Godfrey Harold Hardy, British Mathematician 1875 Death JWW Birch, 1st British resident of Perak Malakka, murdered 1875 Birthday Aleister [Edward S] Crowley, 75 pseudonames, British occultist 1875 Death Arthur Helps, British Historian 1875 Death Charles Lyell, British geologist (Elements of Geology), dies at 77 1874 Birthday Winston Churchill, British Prime Minister, 1940 - 1945, 1951 - 1955, Nobel 1953 1874 Birthday Viscount Palmerston, Whig, British Prime Minister, 1855-65 1874 Event Fiji becomes a British possession 1874 Event 1st baseball teams to play outside U.S., Boston-Philadelphia in British Isles 1874 Birthday William Somerset Maugham, British Playwright 1874 Birthday W. Somerset Maugham, British Playwright 1873 Birthday Leopold Stennett Amery, British politician 1873 Birthday Leopold CMS Amery, British minister of Colonies, India 1873 Birthday Henry M Tomlinson, British writer, Sea and Jungle 1873 Birthday Howard Carter, British archaeologist, found King Tutankhamen's tomb 1873 Death David Livingstone, British physician/explorer (Africa), dies at 60 1873 Event British White Star steamship Atlantic sinks off Nova Scotia, 547 die 1873 Birthday Margaret Bondfield, British Labour leader/1st woman cabinet member 1872 Birthday Edward Marsh, British Editor 1872 Birthday George Louis Beer, historian, authority on British colonies 1872 Birthday Edward Gordon Craig, British Actor 1872 Birthday George Joseph Smith, British Criminal 1871 Event British Columbia becomes 6th Canadian province 1871 Death John F. W. Herschel, British astronomer (Catalogue of Nebulae), dies 1871 Birthday Henry Stephenson, British WI, actor, Conquest, Little Old, New York, Mr. Lucky 1871 Birthday Arthur Ponsonby, British Politician 1871 Event British Rugby Union forms 1871 Birthday Charles Kortright, British cricket player 1870 Birthday Hector Hugh Munro, British Novelist 1870 Birthday Lord Alfred Douglas, British 1870 Event British SS Cambria leaves for Noth sea coast, 196 killed 1870 Event British Red Cross Society forms 1870 Birthday Marie Lloyd, British Musician 1869 Birthday Albert F Pollard, British historian, Dict of natural biography 1869 Birthday Neville Chamberlain, British Prime Minister, C, 1937-40 1868 Event 1st British government of Gladstone forms 1868 Event 1st British government of Disraeli resigns 1868 Death Duncan Forbes, British Writer 1868 Birthday Gertrude M L Bell, British archaeologist, Desert and The Sown 1868 Birthday Robert Falcon Scott, British leader of ill-fated south pole expedition 1868 Death Michael Barrett, Irish nationalist, last British public execution 1868 Event 1st British government of Disraeli forms 1868 Birthday Leonard Borwick, British pianist 1867 Birthday Stanley Baldwin, C, British Prime Minister, 1923-24, 1924-29, 1935-37 1867 Birthday Ernest C Dowson, British poet 1867 Event British parliament rejects John Stuart Mills law on women suffrage 1867 Death Robert Smirke, British architect, dies 1867 Event Singapore, Penang and Malakka become British crown colonies 1867 Event British North America Act (Canadian constitution) passes 1866 Birthday James Ramsay MacDonald, L, British Prime Minister, 1924, 1929-35 1866 Birthday Gilbert Murray, British Diplomat 1865 Death Elizabeth Gaskell, British Novelist 1865 Birthday Baroness Orczy, British Novelist 1865 Birthday Emmuska Orczy, British writer, Scarlet Pimpernel 1865 Birthday Lord Northcliffe, British Publisher 1865 Birthday George C Pearce, actor, Country Kid, British Agent, Valiant 1865 Event British newspaper "Morning Chronicle" begins publishing 1864 Birthday Elinor Glyn, British novelist, 3 Weeks 1864 Event British, French and Dutch fleets attacked Japan in Shimonoseki Straits 1864 Event U.S., British, French and Dutch naval officer sails Staits of Simonoseki 1864 Birthday Ferdinand C S Schiller, British philosopher, Riddles of the Sphinx 1864 Birthday Nassau William Senior, British economist 1863 Birthday Austen Chamberlain, British Foreign Secretary, Nobel 1925 1863 Death Colin Campbell, British officer (Cawnpore), dies at 70 1863 Birthday Francis E Younghusband, British journalist/explorer 1863 Birthday Anthony Hope, British Writer 1862 Birthday Gilbert Parker, British Politician 1862 Birthday A. C. Benson, British Author 1862 Birthday Edward German, Jones, Whitchurch Shropshire, British composer 1861 Event U.S. removes Confederate officials from British steamer Trent 1861 Event 2nd British Golf Open: Tom Morris Sr shoots a 163 at Prestwick Club 1861 Event British Post Office Savings Banks opens 1861 Birthday Douglas Haig, British Field Marshal, Sudan, WW I 1861 Event British territorial waters and ports off-limits during Civil War 1860 Event 1st British Golf Open: Willie Park shoots a 164 at Prestwick Club 1860 Event British and French troops capture Beijing 1860 Birthday Sidney Paget, British illustrator, Sherlock Holmes 1860 Event 1st British royalty to visit U.S., Prince of Wales (King Edward VII) 1860 Event 1st British tram opens (Birkenhead) 1860 Birthday James M. Barrie, British Playwright 1860 Birthday Horatio W. Bottomley, British journalist/swindler 1860 Death Anna Jameson, British Writer 1859 Event Lake Nyasa, which forms Malawi's boundary with Tanzania and Mozambique discovered by British explorer David Livingstone 1859 Birthday Henry Havelock Ellis, British Psychologist 1859 Birthday Henry Ellis, British Psychologist 1859 Birthday Lord Curzon, British Statesman 1858 Death Richard Bright, British Dr. (Bright's disease/nephritis), dies at 69 1858 Birthday Andrew Bonar Law, British Prime Minister, C, 1922-23 1858 Birthday William Watson, British poet, Prince's Quest, Father of Forest 1858 Event Baron Lionel de Rothschild is 1st Jew elected to British Parliament 1858 Event Jewish Disabilities Removal Act passed by British Parliament 1858 Birthday Charles Haddon George Alexander, George Samson, British actor 1858 Birthday Harry Johnston, British Explorer 1858 Death Johann Baptist Cramer, German/British pianist/composer/publisher, dies at 87 1858 Birthday Frederick Lugard, British captain/baron, Congo 1857 Event Battle at Chinhat (Indies rebel under Barkat Ahmed beat British) 1857 Birthday Edward Elgar, British Composer 1856 Event Chinese police board British vessel Arrow, arrest 12 Chinese crewmen on suspicion of piracy and lower British flag, begins 2nd Anglo-Chinese War 1856 Birthday Violet Paget, Vernon Lee, British author, Satan the master 1856 Birthday J Keir Hardie, 1st Labour representative in British Parliament 1856 Birthday Richard B. Haldane, British viscount/lord-chancellor, Life of A Smith 1856 Birthday Harry A. P. Eyres, British diplomat, Constantinople, Albania 1856 Event Natal forms as a British colony separate from Cape Colony 1856 Birthday Tom Mann, British Businessman 1855 Birthday George Edwardes, British composer, Gaiety Girl 1855 Birthday Houston S Chamberlain, British/German race theorist 1855 Event Heavy French/British bombing of Sebastopol, 2000+ killed 1855 Birthday Arthur Wing Pinero, British playwright 1855 Death Henry Rowley Bishop, British composer and conductor, dies at 68 1855 Event British government of Palmerston forms 1854 Death Edward Forbes, British Scientist 1854 Event Crimean War: British and French defeat Russian force of 50,000 1854 Event Prince Menshikov of Krim occupies British base at Balaclava 1854 Event The Times give precise British positions in Krim 1854 Event Battle at Alma Krim: 1,000 British soldiers died 1854 Event British and French defeat Russians at Alma, in Crimea 1854 Birthday Francis Marion Crawford, British author 1854 Birthday Charles Algernon Parsons, British inventor, steam turbine 1854 Birthday Alfred Milner, born in Giessen, Germany, British governor, Cape colony 1854 Event British recognize independence of Orange Free State (South Africa) 1853 Death George Cockburn, British Soldier 1853 Birthday Cecil Rhodes, born in Hertfordshire, England, British Statesman, Prime Minister of Cape Colony 1890 - 1896 1853 Birthday Hall Caine, British Novelist 1852 Birthday John Oxenham, British Journalist 1852 Birthday John [Denton Pinkstone] French, Earl of Ypres/British field marshall 1852 Event British frigate Birkenhead sinks off South Africa-458 die 1852 Event 1st British public female toilet opens (Bedford Street London) 1852 Event 1st British public men's toilet opens (Fleet St. London) 1852 Event British recognize independence of Transvaal (in South Africa) 1851 Death J M William Turner, British painter (Rain, Steam and Speed), dies at 76 1851 Birthday John Dillon, Irish nationalist and British Lower house member 1851 Event 1st America's Cup-U.S. schooner America beats British yacht Aurora 1850 Birthday Brandon Thomas, British Actor 1850 Event Lord Tennyson becomes British poet laureate 1850 Death Robert "Bobbie" Peel, British PM/founder London Police, dies at 62 1850 Event British ex-premier sir Robert Peel falls off his horse 1850 Birthday John Collier, British Artist 1850 Event British blockade Piraeus, Greece to enforce mercantile claims 1849 Event British seize Tigre Island in Gulf of Fonseca from Honduras 1849 Death Mehemet Ali, British viceroy to Egypt, dies 1848 Death William Lamb 2nd viscount Melbourne, British Prime Minister (1834..41), dies at 69 1848 Death William Lamb Melbourne, British Politician 1848 Birthday Arthur Earl Balfour, C, British Prime Minister, 1902-05, Balfour Declaration 1847 Birthday Archibald Primrose, Earl of Rosebery, British Prime Minister, 1894 - 1895 1846 Birthday C. P. Scott, British Journalist 1846 Event Battle at Gwanga: British troops beat Bantu 1846 Event British occupy Sikh citadel of Lahore 1846 Event British defeat Sikhs in battle of Sobraon, India 1846 Birthday Lord Charles Beresford, British Politician 1846 Birthday Francis H Bradley, British philosopher, neo-idealism 1846 Birthday F. H. Bradley, British Philosopher 1845 Birthday George Howard Darwin, British Scientist 1845 Birthday Cecil De Vere, 1st official British chess champion, 1866 1844 Birthday Arthur O'Shaughnessy, British Poet 1844 Death Henry Addington Lord Sidmouth, British premier (1801-04), dies at 86 1843 Event British arrest Irish nationalist Daniel O'Connell for conspiracy 1843 Event Natal (in South Africa) is made a British colony 1843 Event Hong Kong proclaimed a British Crown Colony 1843 Birthday Henry James, US/British writer/critic, Turn of the Screw, Bostonians 1843 Event U.S. and British settlers in Oregon Country choose government committee 1842 Birthday Arthur Sullivan, British Composer 1842 Event 4,500 British and Indian troops leave Kabul, massacred before India 1841 Death Thomas Bruce, Count of Elgin and Kincardine, British diplomat, dies 1841 Birthday Robert Williams Buchanan, British Poet 1841 Birthday William Henry Hudson, British Author 1841 Event British humor magazine "Punch" 1st published 1841 Event China cedes Hong Kong to British 1840 Birthday John Addington Symonds, British historian and writer, Probs in Greek Ethics 1840 Event Union Act passed by British Parliament, uniting Upper and Lower Canada 1840 Event New Zealand became a British colony 1840 Event British queen Victoria marries her cousin Albert von Saksen-Coburg 1839 Event 1st opium war - 2 British frigates engage several Chinese junks 1839 Event British troops under General Charles Napier occupy Beirut 1839 Event British capture Hong Kong from China 1839 Event Aden conquered by British East India Company 1838 Birthday Octavia Hill, British reformer, leader of open-space movement 1838 Event Emancipation of British slaves on Bahamas 1837 Death Thomas Babington, British Poet 1837 Event Queen Victoria at 18 ascends British throne following death of uncle King William IV Ruled for 63 years ending in 1901 1837 Event 1st Mormon missionaries to British Isles leave Kirtland, Ohio 1836 Birthday William Gilbert, British Composer 1836 Birthday Henry Campbell-Bannerman, British Prime Minister, L, 1905-08 1836 Event British parliament accept registration of birth/marriage/death 1836 Birthday Joseph Chamberlain, British minister of Commerce/Colonies 1836 Birthday Lawrence Alma Tadema, Dutch/British painter/husband of Laura Epps 1835 Birthday Archibald Geikie, British geologist 1835 Death John Nash, British town planner/architect (Regent's Park), dies 1835 Event William Lamb Lord Melbourne forms British Government 1835 Death Henry Hunt, British politican, dies 1834 Birthday John Venn, British Philosopher 1834 Event Slavery abolished through out the British Empire 1834 Death Samuel Taylor Coleridge, British poet, dies at 61 1834 Birthday James A. McNeill Whistler, US/British painter, Whistler's Mother 1834 Birthday Charles Spurgeon, British Clergyman 1834 Birthday John Lubbock, British Statesman 1834 Birthday Lord Avebury, John Lubbock, British banker/politician 1833 Birthday Richard Tangye, British Businessman 1833 Birthday John Watkinson, founder of British Chess Magazine, oldest chess mag 1833 Event British government demands Falkland islands 1832 Birthday Frederick Sleigh "Bobs" Roberts, British Governor of Natal, Ireland-Boer war 1832 Birthday James Wimshurst, British designer/inventor, electricstatic generator 1832 Event British Parliament passes reform bill 1830 Birthday Henry Peach Robinson, British Photographer 1830 Birthday Thomas Edward Brown, British Poet 1830 Birthday Robert Cecil, Marquess of Salisbury, C, British Prime Minister, 1885-1902 1828 Death Lady Caroline Lamb, British Celebrity 1827 Death George Canning, British minister of Foreign affairs, dies at 57 1827 Event Duke of Wellington appointed British supreme commander 1825 Birthday Dadabhai Naoroji, 1st Indian in British parliament 1825 Death Henry Fuseli, British Artist 1824 Birthday Kelvin, William Thomson, British physicist, Kelvin Scale 1824 Birthday George E Street, British architect 1824 Death Lord Byron, British Poet 1824 Event Ashantees defeat British at Accra, West Africa 1823 Birthday George JD Campbell, Scottish/British Minister to Indies, 1868-74/80-85 1823 Birthday Alfred Russel Wallace, British zoologist/co-discoverer, evolution 1822 Death Frederick "William" Herschel, German/British astronomer, dies at 83 1821 Birthday Charles Meryon, British/French etcher 1820 Death Benjamin Latrobe, British Architect 1820 Death Benjamin West, British painter (Death of General Wolfe), dies at 81 1819 Birthday Henry Brinley Richards, British? pianist/composer 1818 Event Maratha Wars between British and Maratha Confederacy in India ends 1817 Death William Bligh, British naval officer of "Bounty" fame, dies at 63 1817 Death Jane Austen, British Writer 1817 Birthday Joseph D Hooker, British botanist 1817 Birthday Austen H. Layard, British archaeologist and diplomat 1815 Death John Singleton Copley, British painter, dies at 77 1815 Birthday Edward J Eyre, British explorer/governor, Jamaica 1815 Birthday Julia Margaret Cameron, British Photographer 1815 Birthday Henry Parkes, British journalist/premier of Australia 1815 Birthday Edward Forbes, British Scientist 1814 Event Americans defeat British at Battle of Plattsburgh 1814 Event Battle of Lake Champlain, New York; American Navy defeats British 1814 Event British forces destroy Library of Congress, containing 3,000 books 1814 Event British forces captured Washington, D.C., and burned down many landmarks 1814 Event Cape of Good Hope formally ceded to British by the Dutch 1814 Event Battle of Niagara Falls, Lundy's Lane, ; Americans defeat British 1814 Event British capture Prairie du Chien (Wisc) 1814 Event Americans defeat British and Canadians at Chippewa, Ontario 1814 Event British attack Ft. Ontario, Oswego, New York 1813 Event British burn Buffalo, New York during War of 1812 1813 Event British take Ft. Niagara in War of 1812 1813 Event Battle of Thames in Canada; Americans defeat British 1813 Event Comm Oliver H Perry defeats British in Battle of Lake Erie 1813 Event British warship Pelican attacks and captures U.S. war brigantine Argus 1813 Event British invade Plattsburgh, New York 1813 Birthday Arthur Helps, British Historian 1812 Event U.S. frigate United States captures British vessel Macedonian 1812 Event Battle of Queenstown Heights, British beats U.S. attempt to invade Canada 1812 Event U.S. warship Constitution defeats British warship Guerriere 1811 Birthday John Bright, British Politician 1810 Event British frigate Minotaur sinks killing 480 1810 Birthday William G Armstrong, of Cragside, Baron/British const, hydr crane 1810 Death Johann Zoffany, British? painter, dies at 77 1810 Birthday Elizabeth Gaskell, British Novelist 1809 Birthday William Ewart Gladstone, Lib, British Prime Minister, 1868-74, '80-86, '92-94 1809 Birthday William Gladstone, British Leader 1809 Event Battle at Talavera: British/Spanish army vs French army 1809 Death Beilby Porteus, British Clergyman 1809 Event British take Cayenne (French Guiana) from French (until 1814) 1808 Event Sierra Leone becomes a British colony 1807 Event British troops lands at Ensenada, Argentina 1807 Event British board USS Chesapeake, a provocation leading to War of 1812 1807 Event British Parliament abolishes slave trade 1807 Event George Canning becomes British minister of Foreign affairs 1807 Event British squadron under Admiral Duckworth forces passage of Dardanelle 1806 Event British forces lay siege to French port of Boulogne using Congreve rockets, invented by Sir William Congreve 1806 Event Buenos Aires captured by British 1806 Event Dutch in Capetown surrender to British 1805 Death Lord Nelson, British Soldier 1804 Birthday Benjamin Disraeli, Tory, British Prime Minister, 1868, 1874-80 1804 Death Mary Bright, British Prime Minister Rockingham, dies 1804 Birthday Richard Owen, British zoologist 1804 Event British Vice-Admiral William Blighs fleet reaches Curacao 1803 Birthday Susanna Moodie, British Author 1803 Birthday James Douglas, father of British Columbia 1801 Event Battle at Algeciras: British fleet beats French and Spanish 1801 Event Battle at Algeciras: French fleet beats British 1801 Event British drive French forces from Abukir, Egypt 1800 Event Malta surrenders to British after they blockade French troops 1800 Birthday Thomas Babington, British Poet 1800 Death Elizabeth Montagu, British Writer 1800 Birthday James Clark Ross, explorer, British Antarctic 1800 Birthday Edwin Chadwick, British social reformer 1799 Event British frigate HMS Lutine sinks off Dutch coast 1799 Birthday Edward Stanley, Earl Derby, C, British Prime Minister, 1852, 1858-59, 1866-68 1798 Event British Honduras beats Spain in battle of St. George 1798 Event British under Admiral Horatio Nelson beat French at Battle of Nile 1798 Event British kill about 500 Irish insurgents at the Battle of Tara 1798 Death George Vancouver, British explorer, (Voyage of Discovery), dies at 40 1798 Birthday Duncan Forbes, British Writer 1797 Event British naval forces defeat Dutch off Camperdown, Netherlands 1797 Birthday Anthony Panizzi, Librarian at British Museum 1797 Death Lord Amherst, British Soldier 1797 Death Edmund Burke, British author/parliament leader (Reflections), dies at 68 1797 Death Horace [Horatio] Walpole, British horror writer, dies at 79 1797 Event Trinidad, West Indies surrenders to British 1795 Event British capture Capetown South Africa 1795 Birthday James Barry, female disguised as a man, surgeon general, British army 1795 Birthday Henry Havelock, British soldier, War in Afghanistan 1838-39 1795 Event Dutch Prince William V accepts British occupation of Dutch Indies 1795 Death Josiah Wedgwood, British, ceramic craftsman/woodworker, dies at 64 1794 Birthday George Grote, British historian 1794 Birthday William Whewell, British philosopher, History of Inductive Science 1794 Birthday Anna Jameson, British Writer 1794 Death William Jones, British Orientalist/jurist, dies at 47 1794 Event New York City formally declares coast of Ellis Island publically owned, so they can build forts to protect New York City from British 1793 Death Lord George Gordon, British Politician 1793 Event British troops under major-general Williamson lands on (French) Haiti 1792 Birthday Colin Campbell/Lord Clyde, British officer, Sepoy-uprising 1792 Birthday John, 1st Earl Russell, British Whig PM, 1846-52, 1865-66 1792 Death Lord North, British Statesman 1792 Event British Captain George Vancouver sights, names Mount Rainier, Washington 1790 Birthday John Gibson, British sculptor 1789 Event Spanish capture British schooner Northwest America near Vancouver I 1788 Event Sierra Leone, settled by British as a former haven for slaves 1788 Event Sydney, Australia settled by British colonists 1788 Event 1st British ship built on Pacific coast begun at Nootka Sound 1788 Birthday Robert "Bobbie" Peel, British conservative premier/founder, Bobbies 1788 Birthday Lord Byron, British Poet 1787 Birthday Barry Cornwall, Bryan Waller Procter, British? poet 1787 Death Carl Friedrich Abel, German/British viola player/composer, dies at 63 1787 Death John Brown, (British) theologist, dies 1786 Birthday Henry Rowley Bishop, British composer and conductor 1786 Birthday Thomas Hancock, founded British rubber industry 1786 Birthday John Franklin, British explorer, Arctic 1785 Birthday Lady Caroline Lamb, British Celebrity 1785 Event British inventor Joseph Bramah patents beer-pump handle 1785 Birthday Adam Sedgwick, British geologist 1784 Birthday Leigh Hunt, British writer, Lord Byron 1783 Event William Pitt, Jr. (24) becomes British premier 1782 Event Charleston, South Carolina evacuated by British 1782 Birthday Viscount Goderich, Tory, British Prime Minister, 1827-28 1782 Event Battle at Les Saintes West-Indies: British fleet beats French 1782 Event British garrison surrenders to French and Spanish fleet 1781 Event Battle of Virginia Capes, French defeat British, traps Cornwallis 1781 Event French fleet of 24 ships under Comte de Grasse defeat British under Admiral Graves at battle of Chesapeake Capes in Revolutionary War 1781 Event Jack Jouett rides to warn Jefferson of British attack 1781 Event Battle of Guilford Court House, North Carolina (British suffer heavy losses) 1781 Event Dutch West Indies island of St. Eustatia taken by British 1781 Event British naval expedition led by Benedict Arnold burns Richmond, Va 1780 Event British defeated by American militia near Kings Mountain, SC 1780 Death John Andre, British major, hanged by Americans (spied with B Arnold) 1780 Event Benedict Arnold joins the British 1780 Event British Major John Andre reveals Benedict Arnold's plot to betray West Pt 1780 Death John Andre, hanged as a British spy at 29 1780 Event Benedict Arnold gives British Major Andre plans to West Point 1780 Event British decisively defeat Americans in Battle of Camden, SC 1780 Event British troops occupy Charleston, South Carolina 1780 Event Charleston, South Carolina falls to British (Revolutionary War) 1780 Event 1st British Sunday newspaper appears (British Gazette and Sunday Monitor) 1779 Birthday William Lamb, Whig, Viscount Melbourne, British Prime Minister, 1834, 1835-41 1779 Birthday William Lamb Melbourne, British Politician 1779 Event George Rogers Clark captures Vincennes (Ind) from British 1778 Event British kill 17 Stockbridge indians in Bronx during Revolution 1778 Event British forces massacre 360 men, women and children in Wyoming, Pa 1778 Event Liberty Bell came home to Philadelphia after the British had left 1778 Event British Redcoats evacuate Philadelphia 1778 Birthday Robert Peel, British Prime Minister, 1834-46, founder, Tories 1777 Event British General Howe plots attack on Washington's army for Dec 4 1777 Event British General John Burgoyne surrenders at Saratoga NY 1777 Event Battle of Germantown; Washington defeated by British 1777 Event General George Washington's troops attacked British at Germantown, Pennsylvania 1777 Event Congress, flees to York Pa, as British forces advance 1777 Event Battle of Germantown; Washington defeated by British 1777 Event British troops occupy Philadelphia during American Revolution 1777 Event Battle of Brandywine, Pa; Americans lose to British 1777 Event Americans defeat British in Battle of Bennington, Vt 1777 Event Retired British cavalry officer Philip Astley establishes 1st circus 1777 Birthday Henry Hallam, British lawyer/historian 1777 Event British General Burgoyne captures Fort Ticonderoga from Americans 1777 Event Washington defeats British at Battle of Princeton, New Jersey 1776 Event Battle of Trenton-major British defeat 1776 Event British troops captured Fort Washington during American Revolution 1776 Event Battle of Pelham: Col John Glover and Marblehead regiment meet British Forces in Bronx 1776 Event British Brigade begins guarding Throgg Necks Road in Bronx 1776 Event Brigadier General Arnold's Lake Champlain fleet defeated by British 1776 Death Nathan Hale, U.S. captain/patriot/spy, hanged by British at 21 1776 Event Nathan Hale, spied on British for American rebels, arrested 1776 Event British forces capture Kip's Bay Manhattan during Revolution 1776 Event 1st (failed) submarine attack (David Bushnell's "Turtle" attacks British sailboat "Eagle" in Bay of New York) 1776 Event British defeat Americans in Battle of Long Island 1776 Event Charleston, South Carolina repulses British sea attack 1776 Death Thomas Hickey, plan to hand George Washington to British, executed 1776 Event British forces evacuate Boston to Nova Scotia during Revolutionary War 1776 Event Americans begin shelling British troops in Boston 1775 Event Battle of Quebec; Americans unable to take British stronghold 1775 Death Richard Montgomery, General, dies fighting British 1775 Event Lord Dunmore, promises freedom to male slaves who join British army 1775 Event Portland, Maine burned by British 1775 Birthday Francois-Eugene Vidocq, British police detective 1775 Event British begin siege of Boston 1775 Event Paul Revere and William Dawes warn "British are coming!" 1775 Event Americans drag cannon up hill to fight British (Gun Hill Road, Bronx) 1774 Death Abraham Tucker, British Philosopher 1774 Event Boston Port Bill, British government orders Port of Boston closed 1774 Event Boston Port Bill passes, British close port of Boston to all commerce on June 1st 1774 1773 Birthday Thomas Young, British philologist/physician, light interference 1773 Event British Parliament passes Tea Act (Boston won't like this) 1773 Birthday James Mill, born in Scotland, philosopher and historian, History of British India 1772 Event Burning of Gaspee, British revenue cutter, by Rhode Islanders 1772 Birthday George Cockburn, British Soldier 1771 Birthday Johann Baptist Cramer, German/British pianist/composer/publisher 1770 Death George Grenville, British premier (1763-65)/Stamp Act, dies at 58 1770 Birthday Earl of Liverpool, C, British Prime Minister, 1812-27 1770 Birthday George Canning, London, British Prime Minister, 1827 1770 Birthday George Canning, C, British Prime Minister, 1827 1770 Event Boston Massacre, British troops kill 5 in crowd. Crispus Attackus becomes 1st black to die for American freedom 1770 Birthday Francis Burdett, British politician 1769 Birthday Arthur Wellesley, Duke of Wellington, British Prime Minister, C, 1828-30 1767 Event British passes Townshend Revenue Act levying taxes on America 1767 Event British government disbands Americans import duty on tea 1766 Birthday Thomas Bruce, earl of Elgin and Kincardine, British diplomat 1765 Event Stamp Act goes into effect in British colonies 1765 Event Mass colonists challenge British rule by an Elm (Liberty Tree) 1765 Event Britain enacts Quartering Act, required colonists to provide temporary housing to British soldiers 1765 Event Stamp Act passed; 1st direct British tax on colonists 1764 Event Native Americans surrender to British in Indian War of Chief Pontiac 1764 Birthday Benjamin Latrobe, British Architect 1764 Birthday Charles Earl Grey, Whig, British Prime Minister, 1830-34 1763 Event John Casteret appointed British minister of foreign affairs 1762 Event British parliament accept Treaty of Paris 1762 Birthday Spencer Perceval, Tory, British Prime Minister, 1809-12 1762 Event British take Grenada, West Indies, from French 1761 Event British fleet occupies Belle Britain 1760 Event George III ascends British throne 1760 Death Charles Lawrence, British Politician 1760 Birthday William Beckford, British writer, Epsiodes of Vathek 1760 Event Battle at Wandewash India: British troops beat French 1759 Event Battle in Bay of Quiberon, British beat French 1759 Birthday Baron Grenville, Whig, British Prime Minister, 1806-07 1759 Event Battle of Quebec ends, French surrender to British 1759 Event British beat French forces at Plains of Abrahams (Quebec) 1759 Death James Wolfe, British general (Plains of Abraham), dies in battle at 32 1759 Event British capture Fort Niagara from French (7 Years' War) 1759 Event British fleet occupies Guadeloupe, West-Indies, on France 1759 Event British troops chase French out of Masulipatam India 1759 Event British Museum opens in London 1759 Event British Museum opens in Montague House, London 1758 Event British expeditionary army occupies Goree (Dakar) Senegal 1758 Birthday Lord Nelson, British Soldier 1758 Event British troops occupy and plunder Cherbourg 1758 Event British battle fleet under General James Wolfe conquerors Louisbourg 1758 Event Battle at Emmerich: British army floats around France the Rhine 1757 Birthday Henry Addington, Viscount Sidmouth, C, British Prime Minister, 1801-04 1757 Event British troops occupy Calcutta India 1756 Event British troops under Robert Clive occupy Fulta India 1756 Event 146 British soldiers imprisoned in India-Black Hole of Calcutta-most die 1756 Event India rebels defeat Calcutta on British army 1756 Death Eliza Haywood, British Novelist 1755 Death Edward Braddock, British general, dies in battle at Pittsburgh 1755 Event Battle at Duquesne (Pittsburgh): French troops beat British 1755 Event British General E. Braddock mortally wounded during French and Indian War 1755 Death E Braddock, British Gen, mortally wounded during French and Indian War 1755 Event British capture Fort Beausejour, expel Acadians 1754 Event Albany Congress held by 7 British colonies and Iroquois indians 1753 Birthday Thomas Bewick, England, artist, British Birds, Aesop's Fables 1753 Event British Museum forms and opens in 1759 1753 Death Hans Sloane, English physician (British Museum), dies at 92 1752 Event Last day of Julian calendar in Britain, British colonies 1751 Birthday Lord George Gordon, British Politician 1749 Event British parliament accept Consolidation Act: fleet reorganization 1746 Birthday William Jones, born in London, England, British Orientalist/jurist 1745 Death Robert Walpole, 1st British premier (1722-42), dies at 68 1742 Event Earl of Wilmington becomes British premier 1742 Event British ex-premier Walpole becomes earl of Orford 1742 Event British Walpole government resigns 1741 Birthday Henry Fuseli, British Artist 1738 Birthday Duck of Portland, C, British Prime Minister, 1783, 1807-09 1736 Event Battle of Ackia (La), British and Chickasaw Indians defeat French 1735 Event Robert Walpole is 1st British Prime Minister to live at 10 Downing Street 1735 Birthday Paul Revere, silversmith and U.S. patriot, 'The British are coming' 1733 Event England passes Molasses Act, putting high tariffs on rum and molasses imported to the colonies from a country other than British possessions 1732 Birthday Frederick North, C, British Prime Minister, 1770-82 1732 Birthday Lord North, British Statesman 1731 Birthday Beilby Porteus, British Clergyman 1730 Birthday Marquess of Rockingham, Whig, British Prime Minister, 1765-66, 1782 1729 Death Richard Steele, British Dramatist 1729 Birthday Edmund Burke, British author, Philosophy and Inquiry 1729 Birthday Edmund Burke, British author, Philosophy and Inquiry 1727 Birthday James Wolfe, commanded British Army, captured Quebec 1725 Birthday Robert Clive, English explorer/founder, British empire in India 1725 Birthday Robert Clive, founder, British empire in India 1723 Birthday Carl Friedrich Abel, German/British viola-da-gamba-player/composer 1720 Birthday Gilbert White, "father of British naturalists" 1718 Birthday Elizabeth Montagu, British Writer 1717 Birthday Horace Walpole, England, British horror writer, Cattle of Ontario 1717 Death Pierre Allix, French/British theologist/vicar, dies at about 75 1717 Birthday Lord Amherst, British Soldier 1712 Birthday George Grenville, British Prime Minister, 1763-65 1710 Event British troops occupies Port Royal, Nova Scotia 1709 Birthday Charles Lawrence, British Politician 1709 Event British sailor Alexander Selkirk is rescued after being marooned on a desert island for 5 years, his story inspires "Robinson Crusoe" 1705 Birthday Abraham Tucker, British Philosopher 1704 Event French and Bavarian forces were routed by a combined British, German and Dutch army at Blenheim, Germany 1697 Birthday George Baron Anson, British admiral/explorer 1694 Death John Tillotson, British Theologian 1694 Event Hurricane hits Carlisle Bay Barbados; 27 British ships sink and 3,000 die 1691 Event Thomas Neale granted British patent for American postal service 1690 Event Iroquois tribes renew allegiance to British against French 1689 Event British Parliament adopts Bill of Rights 1686 Death John Pearson, British Theologian 1679 Death Roger Boyle, British Soldier 1676 Birthday Robert Walpole, Whig, British Prime Minister, 1721-42 1674 Birthday Robert Herrick, Massachusetts, British poet, Together 1674 Death Thomas Traherne, British Clergyman 1673 Event British king Charles II fires earl of Shaftesbury 1668 Death Stephen Day, 1st British colonial printer, dies 1667 Death Jeremy Taylor, British Clergyman 1666 Death Alexander Brome, British poet 1664 Event 4 British ships to drive Dutch out of New York, arrive in Boston 1664 Event New Jersey becomes a British colony 1660 Birthday Hans Sloane, England, physician/naturalist/founder, British Museum 1658 Death Oliver Cromwell, British general (1653-58)/Lord Protector, dies at 59 1658 Event Spanish garrison at Duinkerk surrenders to French and British 1653 Event British Barebones Parliament goes into session 1647 Event British army seizes King Charles I as a prisoner 1622 Death William Baffin, British explorer, dies at about 38 1621 Birthday Roger Boyle, British Soldier 1620 Birthday John Evelyn, British diarist, Life of Mrs. Godolphin 1612 Birthday John Pearson, British Theologian 1607 Event 1st British to establish an American colony land at Cape Henry, Va 1605 Birthday Thomas Browne, British writer, Garden of Cyrus 1605 Death John Stow, British historian, dies 1600 Event British East India Company chartered 1593 Death Christopher Marlowe, British dramatist (Tamburlaine the Great), murdered 1563 Death John Bull, composer of British national anthem (God Save The King), dies 1546 Death Thomas Elyot, British diplomat, dies 1534 Death Elizabeth Barton, St. Magd van Kent, British prophet, dies 1450 Death Jack Cade, slain in a revolt against British King Henry VI 1430 Event Joan of Arc is captured at Compiegne and sold to the British 1421 Event Battle of Beauge-French beat British 1400 Death Richard II, British King (1377-99), murdered at Pontefract Castle 1364 Birthday Henry Percy, Harry Hotspur, British soldier/politican 1340 Event In the Hundred Years War, British fleet destroys French at Sluys 1327 Event King Edward III accedes to British throne 1303 Event Treaty of Paris restores Gascony to British in Hundred Years War 1066 Event Battle at Fulford: Norway king Harald III Hardrada beats British militia 1040 Death Harold, British King (1035-40), dies
