Today in United Kingdom History (Part 10)
Sub-Topics: Ascension Islands - Bermuda - Cayman Islands - England - Falkland Islands - Gibraltar - Guernsey - Isle of Man - Jersey - Montserrat - Northern Ireland - Scotland - Turks and Caicos Islands - Virgin Islands (British) - Wales
Historical Events
Results 901 - 1,000 of 1,821
1936-01-20 - Edward VIII succeeds British king George V
1936-03-11 - British Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin pardons five convicted Irish militants who promise to join growing conflict with Germany.
1936-04-01 - Orissa constituted a province of British India
1936-05-16 - 1st British air hostess (Daphne Kearley) flight to France
1937-01-01 - Safety glass in vehicle windscreens becomes mandatory in Great Britain.
1937-04-01 - Aden becomes British crown colony
1937-05-12 - Coronation of King George VI of Britain at Westminster Abbey.
1937-07-27 - 32nd Davis Cup: USA beats Great Britain in Wimbledon (4-1)
1937-11-17 - Britains Lord Halifax visits Germany, beginning of appeasement
1938-02-25 - British Lord Halifax becomes Foreign Minister
1938-02-27 - Britain & France recognize Franco govt in Spain
1938-03-18 - Pres Cardena of Mexico nationalizes US & British oil companies
1938-04-16 - Great-Britain recognizes Italian annexation of Abyssinia
1938-06-04 - 10th Walker Cup: Britain-Ireland wins 7½-4½ at the Old Course at St Andrews
1938-08-26 - British leaders & Arabians fight in Palestine
1938-09-15 - British PM Chamberlain visits Hitler at Berchtesgarden
1938-09-17 - British premier Neville Chamberlain leaves Munich
1938-09-23 - British premier Neville Chamberlain flies to Munich
1938-09-27 - British ocean liner "Queen Elizabeth," launches at Clydebank Scotland
1938-09-30 - British premier Chamberlain arrives in Munich
1939-02-25 - 1st Anderson bomb shelter in Britain erected in an Islington garden
1939-02-28 - Great-Britain recognizes Franco-regime in Spain
1939-03-31 - Britain & France agree to support Poland if invaded by Germany
1939-04-06 - Great Britain & Poland sign military pact
1939-04-13 - In India, the Hindustani Lal Sena (Indian Red Army) is formed and vows to engage in armed struggle against the British.
1939-04-16 - Stalin requests British, French & Russian anti-nazi pact
1939-04-17 - Stalin signs British-France-Russian anti-nazi pact
1939-05-19 - Churchill signs British-Russian anti-nazi pact
1939-05-23 - British decoration, George Cross, 1st presented
1939-05-23 - British parliament plans to make Palestine independent by 1949
1939-06-01 - British sub "Thetis" sinks in Liverpool Bay with all 99 aboard
1939-06-08 - British king George VI visits US
1939-08-23 - John Cobb (Britain) drives 365.85 MPH (593.48 KPH) at Bonneville Flats
1939-09-03 - German U-boat sinks British passenger ship Athenia
1939-09-03 - Great Britain & France declare war on Germany after invasion of Poland
1939-09-03 - Britain declares war on Germany. France follows 6 hours later quickly joined by Australia, NZ, South Africa & Canada
1939-09-04 - German submarine U-30 sinks British passenger ship Athenia
1939-09-06 - 1st German air attack on Great-Britain in WW II
1939-09-11 - British submarine Triton torpedoes British submarine Oxley
1939-09-14 - British fleet attacks German U-39 boat
1939-09-17 - German U-29 sinks British aircraft carrier Courageous, 519 die
1939-09-19 - British Expeditionary Force reaches France
1939-09-20 - British fleet takes German U-27 boat
1939-09-30 - Britain first evacuates citizens in anticipation of war.
1939-10-06 - Adolf Hitler denies he intends to go to war against France & Britain
1939-10-14 - German U-47 sinks British battleship HMS Royal Oak, 833 killed
1939-12-02 - British Imperial Airways & British Airways merge to form BOAC
1939-12-13 - Battle at La Plata - 3 British cruisers vs German Graf Spee
1940-01-08 - Britain's 1st WW II rationing (bacon, butter & sugar)
1940-01-08 - World War II: Britain introduces food rationing.
1940-02-07 - British railroads nationalized
1940-02-14 - British merchant vessel fleet is armed
1940-02-16 - British search plane finds German Altmark off Norway
1940-02-17 - British destroyers board German Altmark off Norway
1940-03-16 - German air raid on British fleet base Scapa Flow
1940-03-18 - Mussolini joins Hitler in Germany's war against France & Britain
1940-03-19 - Failed British air raid on German base at Sylt
1940-04-08 - Germany battle cruisers sink British aircraft carrier Glorious
1940-04-15 - British troops land at Narvik, Norway
1940-05-07 - Winston Churchill becomes PM of Britain
1940-05-10 - British Local Defense Volunteers (Home Guard) forms
1940-05-10 - Winston Churchill succeeds Neville Chamberlain as British PM
1940-05-13 - British bomb factory at Breda
1940-05-14 - Lord Beaverbrook appointed British minister of aircraft production
1940-05-20 - Gen Guderians tanks reach The Channel (British expeditionary army)
1940-05-27 - British & French begin evacuation of Dunkirk (Operation Dynamo)
1940-05-28 - British-French troops capture Narvik Norway
1940-06-03 - Last British/French troop leave Dunkirk
1940-06-04 - British complete miracle of Dunkirk by evacuating 300,000 troops
1940-06-07 - British/French troops evacuate Narvik
1940-06-08 - Last British troops leave Narvik Norway
1940-06-10 - Italy declares war on France & Britain during WW II
1940-06-11 - World War II: British forces bomb Genoa and Turin in Italy.
1940-06-21 - The first successful west-to-east navigation of Northwest Passage begins at Vancouver, British Columbia.
1940-07-03 - British Royal Navy sinks French fleet in North Africa
1940-07-04 - British destroys French battle fleet at Oran, Algeria, 1267 die
1940-07-05 - Diplomatic relations broken between Britain & Vichy govt in France
1940-07-10 - Battle of Britain began as Nazi forces attacked by air (114 days)
1940-07-10 - German planes attack British ships in the Canal
1940-07-11 - British & German dogfight above Lyme Bay
1940-07-18 - British govt signs Bruma law under Japanese pressure
1940-07-19 - Hitler orders Great Britain to surrenders
1940-08-03 - Italian troops invade British Somalia
1940-08-03 - Seaplane Clare makes 1st British passagiersvlucht to the US
1940-08-07 - Largest amount paid for a stamp ($45,000 for 1 1856 British Guiana)
1940-08-08 - Battle of Britain began as Germany launches air attacks
1940-08-11 - German air raid on British harbors Portland/Weymouth
1940-08-12 - Luftwaffe bombs British radar stations, loses 31 aircrafts
1940-08-13 - Germany air attack on South England (Battle of Britain begins)
1940-08-17 - Hitler orders total blockade of Great-Britain
1940-08-20 - 1st Polish squadrons fight along in the Battle of Britain
1940-08-20 - British PM Churchill says of Royal Air Force, "Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few"
1940-08-25 - 1st (British) night bombing of Germany (Berlin)
1940-09-03 - US gives Britain 50 destroyers in exchange for Newfoundland base lease
1940-09-15 - Tide turns in Battle of Britain in WW II, RAF beats Luftwaffe
1940-09-23 - -27] French/British assault on French fleet in Dakar, flees
1940-10-02 - British Council receives British Charter
1940-10-02 - British liner Empress loaded with refugees for Canada, sunk
1940-10-31 - Battle of Britain: Germany & Britair control of English Channel, ends
1940-11-11 - British air attack destroys half of Italian fleet
Famous Birthdays
Results 901 - 1,000 of 2,319
1926-05-06 - John Hamilton-Jones, CEO (Richmond Enterprises)/British Maj-Gen
1926-05-09 - Francis Kennedy, British diplomat
1926-05-13 - Wallace Breem, British author
1926-05-31 - Derek Birley, British Vice-Chancellor (Ulster U)
1926-06-18 - Patricia Hutchinson, British ambassador (Uruguay)
1926-07-15 - John Graham, British ambassador to NATO
1926-07-30 - Peter T Thwaites, British brig-gen/playwright (Love or money)
1926-08-01 - Frank Hauser, British theatrical director
1926-08-17 - George Melly, British singer (d. 2007)
1926-09-10 - Beryl Cook, British painter
1926-11-23 - Christopher Logue, British poet/stage writer (Trials)
1927-01-08 - Charles Tomlinson, British poet and translator
1927-01-13 - Sydney Brenner, British Nobel Laureate
1927-01-20 - Geoffrey WT Atkins, British World Champion racket player (1954-72)
1927-01-24 - Sir Patrick Macnaghten, 11th Baronet, British aristocrat (d. 2007)
1927-01-28 - James Callaghan, British MP
1927-02-10 - Jakov Lind, German/British author (Counting My Footsteps)
1927-02-10 - Nigel Bagnall, British field marshal
1927-02-10 - Viscount Cowdray, British financier/multi-millionaire
1927-02-16 - June Brown, British actress
1927-02-28 - John Swire, British aircraft magnate (Cathay Pacific)
1927-03-11 - Raymond Jackson, [Jaki], British cartoonist
1927-03-11 - Ron Todd, British trade unionist
1927-04-06 - Gerry Mulligan, British saxophonist/orch leader (Jazz on a Summer Day)
1927-04-21 - Gerald Flood, British actor (d. 1989)
1927-05-17 - Ronald Halstead, deputy CEO (British Steel)
1927-05-28 - Robert Evans, CEO (British Gas)
1927-05-31 - Isabel Stoate, British diplomat
1927-05-31 - Michael Sandberg, British CEO (Hong Kong & Shanghai Banking Corp)
1927-06-04 - Geoffrey Palmer, British actor (Smacks & Thistle)
1927-06-08 - Michael Levey, director (British National Gallery)
1927-06-18 - Eva Bartok, Hungarian-born British actress
1927-07-20 - Anthony Cavendish, British MI 6 agent/banker
1927-08-02 - Brian Neill, British Lord Justice of Appeal
1927-08-27 - Hugh Byatt, British diplomat
1927-09-02 - Francis Matthews, British actor (On the Bowery, Paul Temple)
1927-09-07 - Eric Hill, British children's Author
1927-09-10 - Gwen Watford, British actress (Body in the Library, Ghoul)
1927-10-01 - Sandy Gall, Malaysian-born British journalist and newscaster
1927-10-07 - Ronald Laing, British psychiatrist (anti-psychiatrist)
1927-10-21 - Nadine Judd, [Nadia Moore/Nerina], S African/British ballerina
1927-11-15 - Gregor Mackenzie, British politician (d. 1992)
1927-12-07 - Helen Watts, British contralto
1927-12-27 - Antony Gardner, British politician
1928-02-20 - Donald Longmore, British cardiac surgeon
1928-02-25 - Keith Williamson, British RAF marshal
1928-02-29 - Alan Loveday, British(?) violinist
1928-03-12 - Roland Moyle, British deputy chairman (Police Complaints Authority)
1928-03-20 - Anthony Blond, British publisher (The Publishing Game, Book Book)
1928-03-22 - DC Ingman, CEO (British Waterways Board
1928-03-23 - Alfred Morris, British MP
1928-04-04 - Jimmy Logan, British comedian (Mad Death)
1928-04-09 - Brian Cubbon, British senior civil servant
1928-04-15 - Richard Evans, British diplomat
1928-04-19 - John Horlock, British vice-chancellor (Open College)
1928-04-26 - Gordon Downey, British Comptroller General/Reader Rep (Independent)
1928-05-18 - P G Hammersley, British Rear-Admiral
1928-05-24 - Stanley Baxter, British comedian (Joey Boy, Fast Lady)
1928-05-28 - Albert Booth, British government minister
1928-06-07 - Reg Park, British bodybuilder
1928-06-18 - Michael Blakemore, British theater director (Country Life)
1928-06-19 - Raymond Powell, British MP
1928-06-20 - David Mitchell, British MP
1928-07-26 - Don Beauman, British racing driver (d. 1955)
1928-09-17 - Brian Matthew, British disc jockey
1928-09-22 - Eric Broadley, MBE, British automotive engineer (Lola Cars)
1928-09-27 - G H Martin, British keeper of Public Records
1928-10-02 - Anthony Tippett, British chief of Fleet Support
1928-10-08 - Bill Maynard, British actor
1928-11-02 - Paul Johnson, British historian
1928-11-10 - William Staveley, British admiral
1928-11-15 - John Orchard, British actor (d. 1995)
1929-02-16 - Peter NF Porter, Australian/British author/poet (Chair of Babel)
1929-03-06 - Hal Miller, British MP
1929-04-06 - Willis Hall, British writer
1929-04-15 - Jocelyn Barrow, deputy chair person (British Broadcast Standards)
1929-04-18 - Peter Hordern, British CEO (Fina)
1929-04-29 - [John] Jeremy Thorpe, British MP (Liberal)
1929-05-06 - Rosemary Camp, president (Council for British Archaeology)
1929-05-09 - Kay Dotrice, British actress (d. 2007)
1929-05-11 - Edward Anson, British vice-admiral
1929-05-14 - Henry McGee, British actor (d. 2006)
1929-05-29 - Anthony Grant, British MP
1929-05-29 - Katie Boyle, [Lady Sander Saunders], British broadcaster
1929-05-31 - Neil Shaw, British CEO (Tate & Lyle)
1929-06-08 - Earl Ferrers, British minister of state (Dept of Environment)
1929-06-21 - John Morgan, British ambassador (to Mexico)
1929-07-22 - John Barber, British racing driver
1929-07-31 - Lynne Reid Banks, British author
1929-08-02 - Alan Wicker, British broadcaster
1929-08-22 - Baroness Ewart-Biggs, British (Lab) spokesperson on Home Affairs
1929-09-25 - Ronnie Barker, British comedian (2 Ronnies)
1929-09-28 - Nigel Althaus, British government broker
1929-09-29 - Murray McLaggan, British Lord-Lieutenant (Mid Glamorgan)
1929-10-02 - John Zochonis, British multi-millionaire soap magnate
1929-10-07 - Robert Westall, British author (d. 1993)
1929-12-25 - Stuart Hall, British radio and television presenter
1929-12-30 - Rosalind Hurley, British physician, barrister, ethicist and writer (d. 2004)
1930-01-04 - Iain Cuthbertson, British actor (Guilty, Scandal, Rep, Danger UXB)
1930-01-27 - Roger Sims, British MP
Famous Deaths
Results 901 - 985 of 985
2005-07-17 - Gavin Lambert, British-born screenwriter (b. 1924)
2005-07-19 - John Tyndall, British politician (b. 1934)
2005-07-21 - Long John Baldry, British blues musician (b. 1941)
2005-07-21 - Lord Alfred Hayes, British Wrestling Announcer for WWE (b. 1928)
2005-07-26 - Betty Astell, British actress (b. 1912)
2005-08-06 - Robin Cook, British politician (b. 1946)
2005-08-31 - Michael Sheard, British actor (b. 1940)
2005-08-31 - Joseph Rotblat, Polish-British physicist, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (b. 1908)
2005-09-03 - Richard S.R. Fitter, British ornithologist and botanist (b. 1913)
2005-09-18 - Michael Park, British Rally co-driver (b. 1966)
2005-09-26 - Helen Cresswell, British author
2005-10-18 - John Hollis, British actor (b. 1931)
2005-11-11 - Patrick Anson, 5th Earl of Lichfield, British photographer (b. 1939)
2005-11-23 - Constance Cummings, American-born British actress (b. 1910)
2005-12-07 - Lucy d'Abreu, was the oldest living person in the United Kingdom from April 2004 until her death (b. 1892)
2005-12-31 - Phillip Whitehead, British politician (b. 1937)
2006-01-05 - Lord Merlyn-Rees, British politician (b. 1920)
2006-01-08 - Tony Banks, British politician (b. 1943)
2006-02-09 - Freddie Laker, British airline entrepreneur (b. 1922)
2006-02-13 - Peter Frederick Strawson, British philosopher (b. 1919)
2006-02-14 - Lynden David Hall, British singer (b. 1974)
2006-02-27 - Linda Smith, British comedian (b. 1958)
2006-03-02 - Jack Wild, British actor (b. 1952)
2006-03-07 - John Junkin, British performer (b. 1930)
2006-03-09 - John Profumo, British cabinet minister (b. 1915)
2006-03-18 - Michael Attwell, British actor (b. 1943)
2006-03-26 - Nikki Sudden, British singer/songwriter (b. 1956)
2006-03-27 - Ruari McLean, British typographer (b. 1917)
2006-05-10 - Val Guest, British film director (b. 1911)
2006-05-17 - Eric Forth, British Member of Parliament (b. 1944)
2006-06-14 - Monty Berman, British film and television producer (b. 1905)
2006-06-28 - George Unwin, British WWII fighter ace (b. 1913)
2006-07-08 - Peter Hawkins, British actor/voice actor (b. 1924)
2006-07-20 - Ted Grant, British Trotskyist (b. 1913)
2006-07-28 - David Gemmell, British writer (b. 1948)
2006-08-20 - Cpl Bryan Budd VC, British soldier (Afghanistan) (b. 1977)
2006-08-30 - Robin Cooke, Baron Cooke of Thorndon, New Zealand jurist and member of the British House of Lords (b. 1926)
2006-08-31 - Tom Delaney, British racing driver (b. 1911)
2006-09-15 - Raymond Baxter, British television presenter (b. 1922)
2006-10-03 - John Crank, British mathematician (b. 1913)
2006-10-14 - Maurice Grosse, British paranormal investigator (b. 1919)
2006-10-16 - Ross Davidson, British actor (b. 1949)
2006-11-10 - Diana Coupland, British comedy actress (b. 1932)
2006-11-27 - Alan Freeman, British disc jockey known by his nickname 'Fluff' (b. 1927)
2006-12-18 - Mike Dickin, British radio broadcaster (b. 1943)
2007-01-04 - Sir Lewis Hodges, British Air Chief Marshal (b. 1918)
2007-01-08 - Francis Cockfield, British politician (b. 1916)
2007-02-14 - Gareth Morris, British flautist (b. 1920)
2007-02-23 - John Ritchie, British footballer (b. 1941)
2007-03-04 - Richard Joseph, British games soundtrack composer (b. 1954)
2007-03-04 - Ian Wooldridge, British sports journalist (b. 1932)
2007-03-21 - Kevin Whitrick, first British man to commit suicide on a live chatroom (b. 1964)
2007-06-18 - Bernard Manning, British comedian (b. 1930)
2007-07-05 - George Melly, British jazz & blues musician (b. 1926)
2007-08-03 - John Gardner, British author (b. 1926)
2007-08-10 - Tony Wilson, British music personality and broadcaster (b. 1950)
2007-08-15 - Richard Bradshaw, British opera conductor, (b. 1944)
2007-08-17 - Bill Deedes, British journalist and politician (b. 1913)
2007-08-21 - Siobhan Dowd, British/Irish writer (b. 1960)
2007-08-30 - Michael Jackson, British beer and whiskey author/expert. (b. 1942)
2007-09-03 - Jane Tomlinson, British charity fund raiser (b. 1964)
2007-09-10 - Anita Roddick, British businesswoman (b.1942)
2007-10-02 - Christopher Derrick, British writer (b. 1921)
2007-10-20 - Paul Raven, British bass-player (Killing Joke, Ministry) (b. 1961)
2007-11-22 - Verity Lambert, first producer of British SF series Doctor Who (b. 1935)
2007-12-01 - Anton Rodgers, British actor (b. 1933)
2007-12-24 - Nicholas Pumfrey, British judge (b. 1951)
2007-12-29 - Kevin Greening, British radio presenter (b. 1962)
2007-12-31 - Tommy Dickson, British footballer (b. 1929)
2008-01-02 - George MacDonald Fraser, British author (b. 1925)
2008-01-03 - Natasha Collins, British actress and television presenter (b. 1976)
2008-01-30 - Jeremy Beadle, British television host, (b. 1948)
2008-02-07 - Tamara Desni, German-born British actress (b. 1913)
2008-02-18 - Sir Richard Knowles, British politician (b. 1917)
2008-02-21 - Sunny Lowry, First British woman to swim the English Channel (b. 1911)
2008-03-16 - John Hewer, Actor famous for portraying Captain Birdseye in British commercials. (b. 1922)
2008-03-24 - Neil Aspinall, British record producer (b. 1941)
2008-04-12 - Cecilia Colledge, British ice skater and Olympian (b. 1920)
2008-05-23 - David Mitton, British television director (b. 1939)
2008-06-22 - Jane McGrath, British-born Australian cancer support campaigner (b. 1966)
2008-07-04 - Charles Wheeler, British journalist (b. 1923)
2008-07-30 - Anne Armstrong U.S. ambassador to Britain (b. 1927)
2008-08-12 - Christie Allen, British-Australian pop singer (b. 1954)
2008-08-23 - John Russell, British-born American art critic and author
2008-08-29 - Geoffrey Perkins, British comedy producer (b. 1953)
