Today in United Kingdom History (Part 4)
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 301 - 400 of 1,821
1835-04-18 - William Lamb Lord Melbourne forms British Govt
1836-08-17 - British parliament accept registration of birth/marriage/death
1837-05-25 - The Patriots of Lower Canada (Quebec) rebel against the British for freedom.
1837-06-13 - 1st Mormon missionaries to British Isles leave Kirtland, Ohio
1837-06-20 - Queen Victoria at 18 ascends British throne following death of uncle King William IV Ruled for 63 years ending in 1901
1838-06-28 - Britain's Queen Victoria crowned in Westminster Abbey
1838-06-28 - The coronation of Victoria of the United Kingdom.
1838-08-01 - Emancipation of British slaves on Bahamas
1838-08-01 - Non-labourer slaves in most of the British Empire are emancipated.
1839-01-19 - Aden conquered by British East India Company
1839-02-26 - Jem Mason on Lottery wins 1st Grand National Steeplechase (Britain)
1839-08-23 - British capture Hong Kong from China
1839-10-10 - British troops under Gen Charles Napier occupy Beirut
1839-11-03 - 1st opium war-2 British frigates engage several Chinese junks
1839-11-04 - The Newport Rising is the last large-scale armed rebellion against authority in mainland Britain.
1840-01-22 - British colonists reach New Zealand.
1840-02-06 - Waitangi Day; treaty signed between Britain & Maoris of NZ
1840-02-10 - British queen Victoria marries her cousin Albert von Saksen-Coburg
1840-05-06 - 1st postage stamps (Penny Black) issued (Great Britain)
1840-05-21 - NZ became a British colony
1840-05-22 - The transporting of British convicts to the New South Wales colony is abolished.
1840-07-23 - Union Act passed by British Parliament, uniting Upper & Lower Canada
1840-08-01 - Labourer slaves in most of the British Empire are emancipated.
1840-10-14 - Maronite leader Bashir II surrenders to the British forces and goes into exile in Malta.
1841-01-20 - China cedes Hong Kong to British
1841-01-26 - Hong Kong proclaimed a sovereign territory of Britain
1841-07-17 - British humor magazine "Punch" 1st published
1841-09-24 - Britain obtains Sarawak from Brunei (James Brooke appointed Rajah)
1842-01-06 - 4,500 British & Indian troops leave Kabul, massacred before India
1842-01-13 - Dr. William Brydon, a surgeon in the British Army during the First Anglo-Afghan War, becomes famous for being the sole survivor of an army of 16,500 when he reaches the safety of a garrison in Jalalabad.
1842-08-29 - Gr Britain & China sign Treaty of Nanking, ends Opium war
1843-02-02 - US & British settlers in Oregon Country choose govt committee
1843-05-04 - Great-Britain annexes Natal
1843-06-26 - Hong Kong proclaimed a British Crown Colony
1843-07-19 - Brunel's steamship the SS Great Britain is launched, becoming the first ocean-going craft with an iron hull or screw propeller and also becoming the largest vessel afloat in the world.
1843-08-08 - Natal (in South Africa) is made a British colony
1843-10-14 - British arrest Irish nationalist Daniel O'Connell for conspiracy
1843-11-28 - Ka Lahui: Hawaiian Independence Day - The Kingdom of Hawaii is officially recognized by the United Kingdom and France as an independent nation.
1845-03-11 - The Flagstaff War: In New Zealand, Chiefs Hone Heke and Kawiti lead 700 Māoris to chop down the British flagpole and drive settlers out of the British colonial settlement of Kororareka because of breaches of the 1840 Treaty of Waitangi.
1846-01-05 - The United States House of Representatives votes to stop sharing the Oregon Territory with the United Kingdom.
1846-02-10 - British defeat Sikhs in battle of Sobraon, India
1846-02-20 - British occupy Sikh citadel of Lahore
1846-06-08 - Battle at Gwanga: British troops beat Bantu
1846-06-15 - Oregon Treaty signed, setting US-British boundary at 49°N
1846-08-05 - Oregon country divided between US & Britain at 49th parallel
1847-11-12 - Sir James Young Simpson, a British physician, is the first to use chloroform as an anaesthetic.
1848-01-01 - Britain takes Mosquito Coast from Nicaragua
1848-07-29 - Irish Potato Famine: Tipperary Revolt - in Tipperary, an unsuccessful nationalist revolt against British rule is put down by police.
1849-01-31 - Corn Laws abolished in Britain
1849-03-29 - Britain formally annexs Punjab after defeat of Sikhs in India
1849-03-29 - The United Kingdom annexes the Punjab.
1849-10-16 - British seize Tigre Island in Gulf of Fonseca from Honduras
1850-01-18 - British blockade Piraeus, Greece to enforce mercantile claims
1850-06-29 - British ex-premier sir Robert Peel falls off his horse
1850-11-19 - Lord Tennyson becomes British poet laureate
1851-07-24 - Window tax abolished in Britain
1851-08-12 - 1st America's Cup-US schooner America beats British yacht Aurora
1852-01-01 - National debt of Britain & Ireland is 765,126,582 pounds
1852-01-17 - British recognize independence of Transvaal (in South Africa)
1852-02-02 - 1st British public men's toilet opens (Fleet St London)
1852-02-11 - 1st British public female toilet opens (Bedford Street London)
1852-02-26 - British frigate Birkenhead sinks off South Africa-458 die
1854-02-17 - British recognize independence of Orange Free State (South Africa)
1854-02-23 - Great-Britain & Orange Free state sign Convention of Bloemfontein
1854-03-28 - During the Crimean War, Britain & France declare war on Russia
1854-09-14 - Allied armies, including those of Britain & France, land in Crimea
1854-09-20 - Battle at Alma Krim: 1,000 British soldiers died
1854-09-20 - British & French defeat Russians at Alma, in Crimea
1854-10-23 - The Times give precise British positions in Krim
1854-10-25 - Prince Menshikov of Krim occupies British base at Balaclava
1854-11-05 - Crimean War: British & French defeat Russian force of 50,000
1855-02-05 - British govt of Palmerston forms
1855-06-17 - Heavy French/British bombing of Sebastopol, 2000+ killed
1856-07-15 - Natal forms as a British colony separate from Cape Colony
1856-10-08 - Chinese police board British vessel Arrow, arrest 12 Chinese crewmen on suspicion of piracy & lower Brit flag, begins 2nd Anglo-Chinese War
1856-11-03 - A British fleet bombs Canton.
1856-12-09 - The Iranian city of Bushehr surrenders to occupying British forces.
1857-03-03 - Second Opium War: France and the United Kingdom declare war on China.
1857-06-29 - Battle at Chinhat (Indies rebel under Barkat Ahmed beat British)
1858-07-23 - Jewish Disabilities Removal Act passed by British Parliament
1858-07-26 - Baron Lionel de Rothschild is 1st Jew elected to British Parliament
1858-08-16 - Britain's Queen Victoria telegraphs President James Buchanan
1859-06-15 - Pig War: Ambiguity in the Oregon Treaty leads to the "Northwestern Boundary Dispute" between U.S. and British/Canadian settlers.
1859-09-16 - Lake Nyasa, which forms Malawi's boundary with Tanzania & Mozambique discovered by British explorer David Livingstone
1860-01-28 - Britain formally returns Mosquito Coast to Nicaragua
1860-08-30 - 1st British tram opens (Birkenhead)
1860-09-20 - 1st British royalty to visit US, Prince of Wales (King Edward VII)
1860-10-12 - British & French troops capture Beijing
1860-12-29 - The first British seagoing iron-clad warship, HMS Warrior is launched.
1861-03-16 - Confederate government appoints commissioners to Britain
1861-06-01 - British territorial waters & ports off-limits during Civil War
1861-08-06 - The British annex Lagos, Nigeria.
1861-09-16 - British Post Office Savings Banks opens
1861-11-08 - US removes Confederate officials from British steamer Trent
1862-03-10 - Great Britain & France recognizes independence of Zanzibar
1862-06-07 - The United States and Britain agree to suppress the slave trade.
1863-08-15 - The Anglo-Satsuma War begins between the Satsuma Domain of Japan and the United Kingdom (Traditional Japanese date: July 2, 1863).
1863-10-31 - The Maori Wars resumed as British forces in New Zealand led by General Duncan Cameron began their Invasion of the Waikato.
1864-03-29 - Great Britain gives Isotope Islands back to Greece
1864-09-03 - US, British, French & Dutch naval officer sails Staits of Simonoseki
Famous Birthdays
Results 301 - 400 of 2,319
1870-01-07 - Lord Gordon Hewart, British judge (d. 1943)
1870-03-17 - Horace Donisthorpe, British entomologist (d. 1951)
1871-01-09 - Charles Kortright, British(?) cricket player
1871-01-17 - David Earl Beatty British admiral (d. 1936)
1871-06-22 - William McDougall, British psychologist and polymath (d. 1938)
1871-09-10 - Charles Collett, British mechanical engineer (d. 1952)
1872-04-23 - Violet Gordon-Woodhouse, British musician (d. 1951)
1872-07-26 - George Louis Beer, historian (authority on British colonies)
1872-10-08 - John Cowper Powys, British writer (Wood & Stone)
1872-12-21 - Sidney Ainsworth, British actor (d. 1922)
1872-12-26 - Norman Angell, British politician, Nobel laureate (d. 1967)
1873-05-09 - Howard Carter, British archaeologist (found King Tutankhamen's tomb)
1873-06-21 - Henry M Tomlinson, British writer (Sea & Jungle)
1873-11-22 - Leopold CMS Amery, British minister of Colonies (India)
1873-12-22 - L[eopold] S[tennett] Amery, British politician
1874-10-20 - Viscount Palmerston, (Whig) British PM (1855-65)
1874-10-26 - Martin Lowry, British chemist (d. 1936)
1874-11-29 - Francis Dodd, British artist (d. 1949)
1875-04-29 - Rafael Sabatini, Italian/British writer (d. 1950)
1875-10-12 - Aleister [Edward S] Crowley, (75 pseudonames), British occultist
1875-12-06 - Evelyn Underhill, British poet (d. 1941)
1877-08-01 - Charlotte Hughes, 1990 (oldest person in Great Britain)
1877-08-27 - Charles Stewart Rolls, British auto manufacturer (Rolls-Royce Ltd)
1877-08-29 - Alfred DPR Pound, British admiral/1st Sealord (Jutland, WW II)
1877-09-02 - Frederick Soddy, British chemist, Nobel laureate (d. 1956)
1877-11-01 - Roger Quilter, British composer
1878-01-06 - Dame Adeline Genée, Danish-British ballerina (d. 1970)
1879-01-01 - Ernest Jones, British psychoanalyst (Life & Work of Sigmund Freud)
1879-03-05 - Sir William Beveridge, British economist (d. 1963)
1880-03-12 - Henry Drysdale Dakin, British-American biochemist, known for the Dakin-West reaction (d. 1952)
1880-03-17 - Sir Patrick Hastings, British barrister (d. 1952)
1880-05-06 - Baron W Edmund, Archangel & Ironside, British fieldmarshal
1880-06-21 - Josiah Stamp, 1st Baron Stamp, British civil servant, industrialist, economist, statistician and banker (d. 1941)
1880-09-16 - Alfred Noyes, British poet/essayist (Loom of Years, Highwayman)
1880-11-25 - Elsie J. Oxenham, British children's author (d. 1960)
1881-01-17 - Alfred R Radcliffe-Browne, British anthropologist (Andaman Islanders)
1881-02-05 - Frederick Leonard Lonsdale, British playwright (Balkan Princess)
1881-03-09 - Ernest Bevin, British minister of Labour/Foreign affairs
1881-10-15 - P G Wodehouse, British-American writer (Stiff Upper Lip Jeeves)
1882-03-30 - Melanie Klein, Austrian/British psycho analysis
1882-04-24 - Hugh Dowding, commander of RAF Fighter Command during the Battle of Britain (d. 1970)
1882-06-10 - Neville Henderson, British diplomat
1882-07-27 - Geoffrey de Havilland, British aircraft designer (d. 1965)
1882-09-19 - Christopher Stone, first disc jockey in the United Kingdom (d. 1965)
1883-01-03 - Clement Richard Attlee, (L) British PM (1945-51)
1883-01-07 - Andrew Browne, Irish/British admiral (WW II)
1883-02-16 - Elizabeth Craig, British writer (d. 1980)
1883-03-24 - James I Wedgwood, British theosophist/old-catholic bishop
1883-04-11 - Leonard Mudie, England, actor (Magnetic Monster, British Intelligence)
1883-05-05 - Archibald Wavell, British general (d. 1950)
1883-10-17 - A S Neill, British headmaster (Summerhill)
1884-04-02 - Sir John Squire, British poet, writer, and historian (d. 1958))
1884-05-01 - Francis Curzon, 5th Earl Howe, British politician, naval officer and racing driver (d. 1964)
1884-06-13 - Gerald Gardner, British occultist (d. 1964)
1884-06-21 - Claude "Auk" Auchinleck, British fieldmarshal North-Africa
1884-07-13 - Francis B Young, British physician/writer (White Ladies)
1884-08-16 - Adrian S Oppenheim, Dutch lawyer/adviser (British Petroleum/Shell)
1885-01-05 - Humbert Wolfe, Italian-British poet (d. 1940)
1885-03-26 - Robert Blackburn, British aviation pioneer
1885-04-01 - Clementine Ogilvy Spencer-Churchill (Hozier), British barones
1885-04-03 - Harry St John Philby, [sheik Abdullah], British explorer
1885-05-29 - Erwin F Finlay-Freundlich, British astronomer (theory of relativity)
1886-03-01 - Oskar Kokoschka, Russia/Austrian/British, painter (Erasmus Prize 1960)
1886-03-17 - Princess Patricia of Connaught, British princess (d. 1974)
1886-05-10 - Olaf Stapleton, British religious sci-fi writer (Star Maker)
1886-05-25 - Rash Behari Bose, leader against the British Raj in India (d. 1945)
1886-11-12 - Ben Travers, British playwright (d. 1980)
1887-06-20 - Kurt Schwitters, German/British dada-artist/poet (collages)
1887-06-26 - Anthony G de Rothschild, Britain, philanthropist
1887-08-03 - Rupert Brooke, British WW I poet (1914)
1887-08-06 - Dudley Benjafield, British racing driver (d. 1957)
1887-08-31 - Friedrich A Paneth, Austrian/British chemist
1887-11-01 - L. S. Lowry, British painter of industrial scenes (d. 1976)
1887-11-17 - Bernard L Montgomery, British field marshall (WW II-African campaign)
1887-12-26 - Arthur Ernest Percival, British Army officer (d. 1966)
1888-01-23 - Gilbert Ledward, British(?) sculptor
1888-02-08 - Dame Edith Evans, British actress (d. 1976)
1888-02-21 - Clemence Dane, British novelist and playwright (d. 1965)
1889-02-01 - Gertrude Caton-Thompson, British archaeologist (Zimbabwe, So Arabia)
1889-02-10 - Howard Spring, British author/novelist/writer/critic (O Absalom)
1889-02-22 - Robin G Collingwood, English philosopher (Roman Britain)
1889-03-24 - Albert Hill, British athlete (d. 1969)
1890-07-11 - Arthur W Tedder of Glenguin, British air marshal (WW II)
1890-08-24 - Jean Rhys, British writer (d. 1979)
1890-11-15 - Richmal Crompton, British author (d. 1969)
1890-12-06 - Dion Fortune, British occultist (d. 1946)
1891-08-06 - William Slim, British general (d. 1970)
1891-12-25 - Kenneth A N Anderson, British general (Dunkerk, North Africa)
1892-02-14 - Nikolaj A Orloff, Russian/British pianist (Chopin)
1892-03-10 - Eva Turner, British soprano
1892-03-31 - Stanislav Wladyslaw Maczek, Polish/British general-major/commandant
1892-04-14 - Vere G Childe, British archaeologist/prehistorian
1892-05-16 - Richard Tauber, [Ernst Seiffert], Austria/British, tenor/conductor
1892-06-11 - Edward B B Shanks, British poet/critic
1892-10-04 - Hermann Glauert, British aerodynamicist (d. 1934)
1893-01-15 - D Ivor D Novello, British composer/writer (Truth Game)
1893-03-27 - Karl Mannheim, Hung/German/British sociologist (Ideology & Utopia)
1893-09-07 - Leslie Hore-Belisha, British Minister of Transport
1893-09-11 - W. Douglas Hawkes, British racing driver (d. 1974)
1893-09-16 - Alexander Korda, British movie producer (3rd man)
Famous Deaths
Results 301 - 400 of 985
1913-05-28 - Lord Avebury, [John Lubbock], British banker/politician, dies
1913-10-31 - William Evans-Gordon, British politician (b. 1857)
1913-11-07 - Alfred Russel Wallace, British naturalist and biologist (b. 1823)
1914-02-25 - John Tenniel, British illustrator (Alice in Wonderland), dies at 93
1914-07-02 - Joseph Chamberlain, British minister to Germany, dies at 78
1914-08-17 - James Grierson, British general
1914-08-23 - George A Pogson, British consul in Puerto Rico, dies
1914-08-30 - Adrian H Stewart, British lieutenant, dies in battle in Cameroon at 26
1914-09-07 - Lord O'Brien, British nobleman, dies at 73
1914-09-08 - William E Darwin, British son of Charles Darwin, dies at 74
1914-12-24 - John Muir, British naturalist (b. 1838)
1915-01-03 - James E Flecker, British diplomat/novelist (Hassan), dies at 30
1915-10-12 - Edith L Cavell, British nurse, executed by Germans in Belgium (WW II)
1915-10-23 - W G Grace, British cricketer, dies
1916-02-28 - Henry James, US/British writer (Bostonians), dies in London at 72
1916-05-31 - Horace Hood, British spy (Battle of Jutland), dies in battle
1916-06-05 - Horatio H Kitchener, British General (Sudan), drowns at 65
1916-07-27 - Charles Fryatt, British capt of SS Brussels, executed by Germans, dies
1916-11-14 - Saki, British writer (b. 1870)
1917-04-09 - James Hope Moulton, British scholar of Classical Greek (b. 1863)
1917-07-21 - Christopher J Forster, British RAF-pilot/capt, dies in battle
1917-11-14 - William Smith, British deserter in France, executed at 20
1918-07-26 - Eduard "Mick" Mannock, British WW I flyer (Victoria Cross), dies
1919-05-30 - Lord John WS Raleigh, British physicist (Nobel 1904), dies
1919-06-30 - John W S Raleigh, British physicist (Nobel 1904), dies at 76
1919-07-26 - Sir Edward Poynter, British painter (b. 1836)
1920-07-10 - Jackie Fisher, British admiral (b. 1841)
1920-08-01 - Bal Gangadhar Tilak, British-Indian hindu leader, dies
1922-06-04 - William Halse Rivers, British psychologist/anthropologist, dies
1922-10-24 - George Cadbury, British chocolate and cocoa manufacturer (b. 1839)
1923-01-09 - Katherine Mansfield, NZ/British writer (Dove's Nest), dies at 34
1923-04-04 - John Venn, British mathematician (b. 1834)
1924-08-03 - Joseph Conrad, Polish/British writer (Heart of Darkness), dies at 66
1924-09-18 - Francis Herbert Bradley, British philosopher (neo-idealism), dies
1924-11-19 - Lee Stack, British sirdar in Egypt/gov-gen of Sudan, murdered
1925-03-20 - George N Curzon, British Foreign minister (1919-22), dies at 66
1925-05-12 - Alfred Milner, British governor (Cape Colony)/minister, dies at 71
1925-11-20 - Alexandra, Danish princess/Queen of Great Britain, dies at 80
1926-05-21 - Ronald Arthur A Firbank, British writer (Prancing Nigger), dies at 40
1926-07-11 - Gertrude M L Bell, British archaeologist (Desert & Sown), dies at 57
1926-08-01 - Israel Zangwill, British zionists writer (Ghetto tragedies), dies
1927-01-09 - Houston S Chamberlain, British/German race theorist, dies at 71
1927-05-02 - Ernest Starling, British physiologist (b. 1866)
1927-06-14 - Jerome K. Jerome, British author (b. 1859)
1927-08-04 - John Dillon, Irish nationalist/British Lower house leader, dies at 75
1928-02-15 - Hubert H Asquith, premier Great-Britain (1908-16), dies at 75
1928-02-15 - H. H. Asquith, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1852)
1928-08-29 - Richard B Haldane, British viscount/lord-chancellor, dies at 72
1929-02-12 - Lillie Langtry, British singer and actress (b. 1853)
1929-08-05 - Millicent Fawcett, British suffragist (b. 1847)
1930-03-19 - Arthur J Balfour, British theologist/premier (1902-05), dies at 81
1930-06-13 - Henry Segrave, British racing driver who held land speed records and the water speed record (b. 1896)
1930-07-07 - Arthur Conan Doyle, British writer (Sherlock Holmes), dies at 71
1930-10-05 - Christopher Birdwood Thomson, 1st Baron Thomson, British military officer (b. 1875)
1931-01-14 - William Ernst Johnson, British mathematician, dies
1931-02-11 - Charles Algernon Parsons, British inventor (steam turbine), dies at 76
1931-05-05 - Glen Kidston, British aviator and racing driver (b. 1899)
1932-01-01 - C P Scott, British journalist, publisher and politician (b. 1846)
1932-01-21 - [Giles] Lytton Strachey, British biographer/critic, dies at 51
1932-02-10 - R H Edgar Wallace, British writer/journalist (3 Just Men), dies at 76
1933-05-26 - Horatio Bottomley, British financier and politician (b. 1860)
1933-06-22 - Henry Birkin, British racing driver (b. 1896)
1933-07-08 - Anthony Hope, British author (b. 1863)
1933-09-24 - Alice Muriel Williamson, British novelist (b. 1869)
1934-04-14 - Gerald du Maurier, British actor-manager (Unmarried, Escape), dies
1935-02-13 - Violet Paget, British author (Gospels of Anarchy), dies at 78
1935-06-06 - Julian Byng, British army officer (b. 1862)
1935-08-11 - William Watson, British poet (Purple East), dies
1935-10-10 - Arthur Henderson, British Labour minister (Nobel 1934), dies at 72
1935-10-27 - E. A. D. Eldridge, British racing driver (b. 1897)
1936-01-20 - George V, King of Britain (1910-36), dies at 70
1936-01-20 - King George V of the United Kingdom (b. 1865)
1936-02-19 - Charles Harding Firth, British historian (b. 1857)
1937-05-15 - Phillip Snowden, British politician (b. 1864)
1937-06-11 - R. J. (Reginald Joseph) Mitchell, British aircraft designer (b. 1895)
1937-07-18 - Julian Bell, British poet (b. 1908)
1937-08-06 - Ferdinand CS Schiller, British philosopher (Mind!), dies at 72
1937-08-14 - Sapper, British soldier/novelist (Bull-Dog Drummond), dies at 48
1937-11-08 - James Ramsay MacDonald, British PM (Lab, 1924, 29-35), dies at 71
1938-09-06 - John Stuart Hindmarsh, British racing driver and aviator (b. 1907)
1939-04-06 - Robert Courtneidge, British theater producer, dies
1939-06-26 - Ford M Ford, [Hueffer], British writer, (Tietjens Saga) dies at 65
1940-01-05 - Humbert Wolfe, Italian-British poet (b. 1885)
1940-08-13 - George C Pearce, actor (Hold tat Lion, British Agent), dies at 75
1940-11-10 - Arthur Neville Chamberlain, British premier (1937-40), dies at 71
1940-11-17 - Eric Gill, British sculptor (b. 1882)
1941-03-11 - Walford Davies, British organist/composer, dies at 71
1941-04-17 - Al Bowlly, British dance band vocalist (b. 1899)
1941-05-24 - Lancelot Holland, British vice-admiral ((WW II/Hood), dies in battle
1941-06-01 - Hugh S Walpole, British writer (Killer & the Slain), dies
1941-06-15 - Evelyn Underhill, British writer (b. 1875)
1942-01-22 - Walter Richard Sickert, British painter (Free House!), dies at 81
1942-07-20 - Patric Cobb, British sea officer, dies in battle
1942-07-31 - Francis E Younghusband, British journalist/explorer, dies at 79
1943-01-09 - Robin G Collingwood, English philosopher (Roman Britain), dies at 53
1943-04-30 - Beatrice Potter Webb, British writer (My Apprenticeship), dies at 85
1943-10-07 - Radclyffe Hall, British author (b. 1880)
1943-10-21 - Alfred DPR Pound, British admiral/1st Sealord (Jutland, WW II), dies
1944-01-01 - Sir Edward Lutyens, British architect who designed New Delhi (b. 1869)
1944-03-23 - O C Wingate, British general-major (Burma), dies in air crash
