Today in United Kingdom History (Part 11)
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 1001 - 1,100 of 1,821
1940-12-07 - North Africa: British counter offensive under general O'Connor
1940-12-09 - British assault on Banghazi Libya
1940-12-09 - British troops 1st major offensive in No Africa (Libya) during WW II
1940-12-10 - British anti-offensive in Libya (Sidi Barrani)
1940-12-12 - British troops conquer Sidi el-Barrani
1940-12-16 - British air raid on Mannheim
1940-12-17 - British troops occupies Sollum
1941-01-05 - British/Australian troops conquer Bardia Lybia
1941-01-08 - British Air Marshal Richard Peirse resigns
1941-01-19 - British offensive in Eritrea
1941-01-19 - British troops occupies Kassalaf Sudan
1941-01-21 - Australia & Britain attack Tobruk Libya
1941-01-21 - British communist newspaper "Daily Worker" banned
1941-01-22 - British/Australian troops capture Tobruk from Italians
1941-01-24 - British troops march into Abyssinia
1941-02-04 - British tanks occupy Maus Libya
1941-02-06 - British troops conquer Bengazi, Libya
1941-02-09 - British troops conquer El Agheila
1941-02-22 - Arthur T "Bomber" Harris becomes British Air Marshal
1941-02-28 - British-Italian dogfight above Albania
1941-03-04 - The United Kingdom launches Operation Claymore on the Lofoten Islands, during World War II.
1941-03-07 - 50,000 British soldiers lands in Greece
1941-03-07 - British troops invade Abyssinia (Ethiopia)
1941-03-11 - FDR signs Lend-Lease Bill (lend money to Britain)
1941-03-24 - British troops defeat British Somalia
1941-03-27 - Britain leases defense bases in Trinidad to US for 99 years
1941-04-06 - British general Gambier-Parry caught in North Africa
1941-04-06 - Italian held Addis Ababa surrenders to British & Ethiopian forces
1941-04-07 - British generals O'Connor & Neame captured in North Africa
1941-04-17 - British troop land in Iraq/Yugoslavia; surrender to nazis
1941-04-24 - British army begins evacuation of Greece
1941-04-28 - Last British troops in Greece surrenders
1941-05-07 - British House of Commons votes for Churchill (477-3)
1941-05-12 - Great British convoy marches into Alexandria
1941-05-15 - 1st British turbojet flies
1941-05-15 - British attack Halfaya-pass & Fort Capuzzo in Egypt & Libya
1941-05-16 - Germans made their last major air attack on Britain
1941-05-16 - Italian army under Aosta surrenders to Britain at Amba Alagi Ethiopia
1941-05-16 - Last great German air attack on Great Britain (Birmingham)
1941-05-18 - Italian army under general Aosta surrenders to Britain in Ethiopia
1941-05-22 - British troops attack Baghdad
1941-05-24 - Bismarck sinks British battle cruiser HMS Hood, 1,416 die 3 survive
1941-05-27 - German battleship Bismarck sunk by British naval force
1941-05-28 - British army begins evacuation of Kreta
1941-05-31 - British troops vacate Kreta
1941-06-01 - British troops occupy Bagdad Iraq
1941-07-07 - World War II: Beirut is occupied by Free France and British troops.
1941-07-19 - British PM Winston Churchill launched his "V for Victory" campaign
1941-09-11 - Charles Lindbergh, charges "British, Jewish & Roosevelt administration" are trying to get US into WW II
1941-09-22 - British signal officer Bill Hudson lands in Montenegro
1941-11-07 - British air attack on Berlin, Mannheim & Ruhrgebied
1941-11-13 - British aircraft carrier "Ark Royal" sank in Mediterranean
1941-11-18 - British troops open attack on Tobruk, North-Africa
1941-11-22 - British cruiser Devonshire sinks German sub Atlantis
1941-11-26 - British North African commandant General Cunningham lay-offs
1941-11-26 - British troops conquer Belhamed, Sidi Rezegh & El Duda
1941-11-27 - British 13th Army corp reaches Tobruk
1941-12-01 - British cruiser Devonshire sinks German sub Python
1941-12-06 - Dutch & British pilots see Japanese invasion fleet at Singapore
1941-12-08 - US & Britain declare war on Japan, US enters WW II
1941-12-10 - British battleship Prince of Wales sinks off Singapore
1941-12-13 - U-81 torpedoes British aircraft carrier Ark Royal
1941-12-14 - U-557 torpedoes British cruiser Galatea
1941-12-23 - British troops overrun Benghazi Libya
1941-12-25 - Japan announces surrender of British-Canadian garrison at Hong Kong
1941-12-26 - Winston Churchill becomes 1st British PM to address a joint meeting of Congress, warning that Axis would "stop at nothing"
1942-01-03 - American-British-Dutch-Australian (ABDA) Command forms
1942-01-12 - British troops reconquer Sollum
1942-01-23 - Tank battle at Adzjedabia, African corps vs British army
1942-03-12 - British troops vacate the Andamanen in Gulf of Bengal
1942-03-21 - Convoy QP9 departs Great Britain to Murmansk
1942-03-28 - British naval forces raid Nazi occupied French port of St Nazaire
1942-03-29 - British cruiser Trinidad torpedoes itself in the Barents Sea
1942-03-29 - British destroyer Campbeltown explodes in St-Nazaire: 400 Germans die
1942-05-05 - British assault on Diego Suarez Madagascar
1942-05-16 - 1st transport of British/Dutch prisoners to South Burma
1942-05-21 - Great-Britain convoy PQ16 departs to Russia
1942-05-26 - Tank battle at Bir Hakeim: African corps vs British army
1942-06-05 - British offensive in North Africa under general Ritchie
1942-06-22 - Jewish Brigade attached by British Army in WW II, forms
1942-06-25 - British RAF staged a 1,000 bomb raid on Bremen Germany (WW II)
1942-06-25 - British premier Winston Churchill travels from US to London
1942-06-26 - German assault on British at Mersa Matruh
1942-08-04 - British premier Winston Churchill arrives in Cairo
1942-08-05 - British govt cancels agreement of Munich
1942-08-08 - "Monty" appointed commandant of British 8th Army at Alamein
1942-08-10 - Gen B Montgomery becomes commandant British 8th leader in N Africa
1942-08-11 - British aircraft carrier Eagle torpedoed & sinks
1942-08-12 - British premier Churchill arrives in Moscow, meets Stalin
1942-08-19 - 4,000 Canadian & British soldiers killed raiding Dieppe, France
1942-08-23 - British Premier Winston Churchill flies back to London from Cairo
1942-09-05 - British & US bomb Le Havre & Bremen
1942-09-10 - British troops lands on Madagascar
1942-10-07 - US & British govt announce establishment of United Nations
1942-10-23 - During WW II, Britain launches major offensive at El Alamein, Egypt
1942-10-24 - 2nd day of battle at El Alamein: British infantry
1942-10-25 - 3rd day of battle at El Alamein: British offensive
1942-10-28 - 6th day battle at El Alamein: British offensive under Montgomery
1942-11-01 - Vice-admiral Cunningham becomes British commander-in-chief
1942-11-02 - 11th day of battle at El Alamein: British assault on Tel el Aqqaqir
Famous Birthdays
Results 1001 - 1,100 of 2,319
1930-01-28 - David Morris, British MEP
1930-02-01 - Peter Tapsell, British MP
1930-02-15 - C F Payne, Cleveland, British chief constable
1930-02-20 - Bill Walker, British MP
1930-03-12 - Antony Acland, provost of Eton/British ambassador (to US)
1930-03-18 - Pat Halcox, British musician
1930-03-30 - Rolf Harris, Australian/British cartoonist
1930-04-11 - James Alan Ferman, secretary (British Board of Film Classification)
1930-04-16 - Frank Page, British broadcaster/actor (Hudson Hawk, Dark Dancer)
1930-04-16 - John Robson, British ambassador (Norway)
1930-05-10 - June Knox-Mawer, British radio host/novelist (World of Islands)
1930-05-20 - Robert Bunyard, Commandant (British Police Staff College)
1930-05-30 - Mark Birley, British nightclub owner (d. 2007)
1930-05-31 - William Taylor, British Chairman of Convocation (London University)
1930-06-19 - Bryan Kneale, British sculptor
1930-06-21 - Gerald Kaufman, British MP (shadow Foreign Secretary)
1930-07-25 - Annie Ross, British jazz singer
1930-07-27 - Ronald Dearing, chairman (British Post Office)
1930-08-17 - Ted Hughes, British poet laureate
1930-08-23 - John Fairclough, British scientific adviser
1930-08-27 - John Daly, British trade union leader
1930-08-28 - Windsor Davies, British actor
1930-09-17 - Gwyn Francis, British Forestry commissioner
1930-10-02 - Dave Barrett, Premier of British Columbia
1930-10-24 - Raj Bagri, Indies/British merchant in metal
1930-11-03 - Brian Robinson, British cyclist
1930-11-14 - Michael Robbins, British actor (d. 1992)
1930-11-22 - Peter Hall, British stage/film/opera director (Pedestrian)
1930-12-08 - Julian Critchley, British politician (d. 2000)
1931-01-09 - Geoffrey Wragg, British(?) reorganizer
1931-01-31 - Christopher Chataway, British MP/athlete (world record 5k)
1931-02-02 - Les Dawson, British comedian (d. 1993)
1931-02-15 - W K Reid, British ombudsman
1931-02-18 - Swraj Paul, Indian/British industrial/multi-millionaire (Caparo)
1931-02-24 - Inge Bernstein, British judge
1931-02-25 - Edward Kellett-Bowman, British MEP
1931-03-06 - David Haddon Whitaker, British publisher (Whitaker's Almanack)
1931-03-14 - Bob Goalby, golfer (British Open-1968, Canadian Open-1968, NZ-1970)
1931-03-17 - David Peakall, British scientist (d. 2001)
1931-03-20 - David Montgomery, chairman (British Forestry Commission)
1931-03-20 - John Rae, British educator (Conscience & Politics)
1931-03-27 - R P Bauman, CEO (British Aerospace)
1931-03-29 - Lord Tebbit, British CH
1931-03-29 - Sylvia Law, British town planner
1931-04-06 - Joan Carlyle, British soprano
1931-04-17 - John Bartlett, tennis player (Davis Cup capt-Britain)
1931-04-19 - Denis Henry, British high court judge
1931-04-22 - Ronald Hynd, British choreographer (English National Ballet)
1931-04-24 - Bridget Riley, British painter (op-art)
1931-04-29 - Frank Auerbach, German-born British painter
1931-05-04 - Thomas Stuttaford, British doctor and writer
1931-05-13 - William Utting, chief inspector (British Social Services)
1931-05-19 - Bob Anderson, British racing driver (d. 1967)
1931-05-27 - Florence Sharples, director (British YWCA)
1931-05-27 - John Chapple, British chief of General Staff
1931-06-18 - Della Smith, cookbook writer/British broadcaster
1931-06-26 - Alan Bailey, British sect (dept of transport)
1931-06-30 - James Loughran, British conductor
1931-08-09 - Mark Weinberg, South African/British fiancier/multi-millionaire
1931-08-13 - Bernard Manning, British comedian
1931-08-13 - Roy Evans, general sect (British Iron & Steel Trade Confederation)
1931-08-23 - Richard Vincent, British chief of Defense
1931-09-08 - John Garrett, British politician (d. 2007)
1931-09-22 - Fay Weldon, British feminist
1931-09-22 - George Younger, 4th Viscount Younger of Leckie, British politician (d. 2003)
1931-09-25 - Patrick WIlliam Walker, British astrologer
1931-10-09 - Tony Booth, British actor and father of Cherie Blair
1931-10-30 - David Wilson, director of British Museum (1977-92)
1931-11-13 - Joan Lestor, British MP
1932-01-12 - Des O'Connor, British television presenter
1932-01-26 - Ronald Allison, British author/broadcaster
1932-01-27 - Neville Trotter, British MP
1932-02-01 - John Nott, British MP
1932-02-15 - Adrian Swire, British aircraft magnate (Cathay Pacific)
1932-02-28 - Brian Moore, British commentator (Big Match)
1932-03-11 - Nigel Lawson, British government official (The Power Game)
1932-03-15 - David Alliance, Iran/British textile factory/multi-millionaire
1932-04-03 - Nourse, British lord justice
1932-04-15 - David Bolton, director (British Royal United Service for Defense)
1932-05-17 - Rodric Braithwaite, British ambassador to USSR
1932-05-24 - Arnold Wesker, British playwright (Bratkartoffeln Inbegriffen)
1932-05-24 - Terence Heiser, British senior civil servant
1932-05-31 - Elizabeth Southey, British CEO (Natl Fed of Women's Institutes)
1932-05-31 - George Vallings, British Vice-Admiral
1932-05-31 - Ronald Hampel, British CEO (ICI)
1932-06-08 - Lady Littler, CEO (Gaming Board for Great Britain)
1932-06-10 - George Burns, British TV host
1932-06-11 - Timothy Sainsbury, British minister of state
1932-06-25 - Peter Blake, British artist
1932-07-09 - John Paul Getty II, US/British oil magnate/billionaire (Getty Oil)
1932-08-06 - Howard Hodgkin, British painter
1932-08-07 - Edward Hardwicke, British actor
1932-08-14 - Dom Philip Jebb, headmaster (Downside School Great Britain)
1932-08-18 - William R. Bennett, Premier of British Columbia
1932-08-20 - Anthony Ainley, British actor (d. 2004)
1932-09-06 - Earl of Cawdor, British large landowner
1932-09-25 - Andrew Gardner, British broadcaster
1932-09-29 - Canon Paul Oestreicher, CEO (British section, Amnesty International
1932-09-29 - Ronald B Kitaj, US/British painter/graphic artist (pop art)
1932-10-16 - John Grant, British politician (d. 2000)
Famous Deaths
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