Today in United Kingdom History (Part 7)

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

Events 601 - 700 of 1,795

1908-04-05 - British premier Henry Campbell-Bannerman resigns
1908-04-08 - Lord Asquith succeeds Henry Campbell-Bannerman as British premier
1908-05-26 - At Masjed Soleyman (مسجد سليمان) in southwest Persia, the first major commercial oil strike in the Middle East is made. The rights to the resource are quickly acquired by the United Kingdom.
1909-01-16 - British explorer Ernest Shackleton finds magnetic south pole
1909-08-01 - British SS Waratah disappears on Sydney to London, 300 killed
1910-01-03 - British miners strike for 8 hour working day
1910-01-21 - British-Russian military intervention in Persia
1910-02-01 - 1st British labour exchange opens
1910-02-25 - Dali Lama flees Tibet from Chinese troop to British-Indies
1910-05-06 - King George V ascends to British throne
1910-05-06 - George V becomes King of the United Kingdom upon the death of his father, Edward VII.
1910-05-20 - Funeral for Britain's King Edward VII
1910-09-22 - The Duke of York's Cinema opened in Brighton. It is still operating today, making it the oldest continually operating cinema in Britain.
1911-02-18 - The first official flight with air mail takes place in Allahabad, British India, when Henri Pequet, a 23-year-old pilot, delivers 6,500 letters to Naini, about 10 km away.
1911-05-15 - British house of commons accept Parliament Bill
1911-07-20 - Generals Henry Wilson/Auguste Dubail sign plan for British Expeditionary army in case of war with Germany
1911-08-23 - British premier Asquith holds secret meeting about British strategy in case of war with Germany
1911-09-18 - Britain's 1st twin-engine airplane (Short S.39) test flown
1911-11-18 - Britain's 1st seaplane flies
1912-01-04 - The Scout Association is incorporated throughout the British Commonwealth by Royal Charter.
1912-07-15 - British National Health Insurance Act goes into effect
1912-08-21 - Mr Carter-Cotton chosen 1st chancellor of Univ of British Columbia
1912-09-29 - French/British troops lands on Samoa
1913-01-16 - British House of Commons accepts Home-Rule for Ireland
1913-04-03 - British suffragette Emily Pankhurst sentenced to 3 years in jail
1913-05-07 - British House of Commons rejects woman's right to vote
1913-05-26 - Emily Duncan becomes Great Britain's first woman magistrate.
1913-07-07 - British House of Commons accepts Home-Rule Law
1913-07-28 - 12th Davis Cup: USA beats British Isles in Wimbledon (3-2)
1913-10-10 - British passenger ship Volturno catches fire in Atlantic (136 kill)
1913-10-14 - Senghenydd Colliery Disaster, the United Kingdom's worst coal mining accident, which claimed 439 lives.
1914-01-01 - Northern & Southern Nigeria united in British colony of Nigeria
1914-03-01 - Dutch Minister of war H Colijn named director of British Petroleum
1914-05-06 - British House of Lords rejects women suffrage
1914-05-25 - British House of Commons passes Irish Home Rule
1914-07-20 - Armed resistance against British rule begins in Ulster
British war time Prime Minister Winston ChurchillBritish war time Prime Minister Winston Churchill 1914-07-26 - British Min of Navy Winston Churchill orders British fleet to remain
1914-07-28 - Minister of Navy W Churchill routes British fleet to Scapa Flow
1914-07-29 - British fleet leaves Portland/passes Straits of Dover
1914-07-30 - John French appointed British supreme commander
1914-08-01 - British fleet reaches Scapa Flow
1914-08-02 - Great Britain mobilizes
1914-08-03 - Great Britain declares war on Germany
1914-08-04 - Germany declares war on Belgium; Britain declares war on Germany
1914-08-04 - Lord Kitchener becomes British minister of War
1914-08-07 - British Gloucester vs German Breslau/Goeben off Greece
1914-08-09 - German submarine U-15 sinks British cruiser
1914-08-12 - Great Britain declares war on Austria-Hungary
1914-08-14 - British field marshal John French & Gen Wilson land in France
1914-08-22 - 1st encounter between British & German troops (in Belgium)
1914-08-24 - Battle at Bergen: Germans defeat Belgian/British troops
1914-08-28 - Battle at Helgoland: British fleet beats German, 1100 killed
1914-09-01 - Von Glucks army meets up with British expeditionary army
1914-09-03 - British expeditionary army/general Lanrezacs army attacks the Marne
1914-09-04 - British, French & Russian government sign Pact of London, against Germany
1914-09-05 - Gr Britain/France/Belgium/Russia sign pact of London
1914-09-08 - British trader Oceanic sinks off Scotland
1914-09-08 - World War I: Private Thomas Highgate becomes the first British soldier to be executed for desertion during the war.
1914-09-09 - World War I: The creation of the Canadian Automobile Machine Gun Brigade, the first fully mechanized unit in the British Army.
1914-09-22 - 1 German submarine sinks 3 British ironclads, 1,459 die
1914-10-13 - Pro-German Boers begin opposition of British authority in South Africa
1914-10-27 - British battleship Audacious sunk by mine
1914-10-31 - Great Britain & France declare war on Turkey
1914-11-01 - German-British fleet battle at Coronel, Chile
1914-11-02 - Great Britain annexes Cyprus
1914-11-05 - Britain annexes Cyprus
1914-11-05 - Great Britain & France & Russia declares war on Turkey
1914-11-21 - British army conquerors Bazra
1914-12-08 - British & German fleets battle at Falkland Island
1914-12-15 - British fleet forfeits chance to destroy German fleet in North Sea
1914-12-17 - Great Britain declares Egypt a protectorate
1915-01-19 - 1st German Zeppelin attack over Great Britain, 4 die
1915-01-24 - German-British sea battle at Doggersbank & Helgoland
1915-02-19 - British fleet fire on Dardanellen coast
1915-03-02 - British vice adm Carden begins bombing of Dardanelles forts
1915-03-10 - British expedition Army in Belgium captures Neuve Chapelle
1915-03-18 - Failed British attack in Dardanelles
1915-04-26 - Italy secretly signes Pact of London with Britain, France & Russia
1915-05-01 - British Lusitania leaves NY, for Liverpool
1915-05-17 - Last liberal British government of Asquith falls
1915-06-10 - British/French troops conquer German colony of Cameroon
1915-06-16 - The foundation of the British Women's Institute.
1915-06-21 - Anti-British revolt in South-Africa ends with arrest of Gen De Law
1915-07-10 - British/South African troops march into German SW-Africa
1915-08-09 - British attack at Chanak Bair at Gallipolis
1915-08-14 - British transport Royal Edward sank by German U boat kills 1000
1915-09-25 - -26] Battle at Loos: 8,246 British & 0 German casualties
1915-09-29 - British army conquerors Chilly al Imara, Mesopotamia
1915-10-08 - Battle of Loos, almost 430,000 French, British & Germans killed
1915-10-16 - Great Britain declares war on Bulgaria
1915-11-12 - Britain annexes Gilbert & Ellice archipelago
1915-12-30 - Cromarty Harbour, Scot-British cruiser Natal explodes: 405 die
1916-01-09 - The Ottoman Empire prevails in the Battle of Çanakkale, as the last British troops are evacuated.
1916-01-12 - Britain proclaims Gilbert & Ellice Is colony in Pacific
1916-01-28 - German colony of Cameroon surrenders to Britain & France
1916-02-09 - Britain's military service act enforced (conscription)
1916-02-10 - Conscription begins in Britain
1916-03-12 - French airship sinks British submarine D3
1916-04-20 - German-British sea battle off Belgian coast
1916-04-24 - Easter rebellion of Irish against British occupation begins

Famous Birthdays

Birthdays 601 - 700 of 2,310

1912-02-14 - Juan Pujol Garcia, [Garbo/Arabel], Spanish British/German double agent
1912-02-15 - George Mikes, Hungary, British writer (How to Be an Alien)
1912-02-16 - Arthur Crook, British editor (Times Literary Supplement)
1912-03-27 - James Callaghan, (L) British PM (1976-79)
1912-04-12 - Harold Maguire, British air marshal
1912-04-15 - Peter Menzies, CEO (British Electricity Council)
1912-04-28 - Odette Hallowes, British classified agent in France (WW II)
1912-05-06 - Hugh Martell, British Vice Admiral
1912-05-24 - Joan Hammond, British operatic soprano
1912-07-19 - Norman Carr, British conservationist (b. 1997)
1912-08-27 - Peter Gretton, British vice admiral
1912-10-02 - Eric Wilson, VC/British Lt Col
1912-12-04 - Alfons "Alphons" Berckmans, Flemish/British actor (Family Stastok)
1912-12-31 - Maj-Gen John Frost, British para commander (d. 1993)
1913-01-02 - Ernest Sidey, British air marshal
1913-02-03 - Richard Seaman, British racing driver (d. 1939)
1913-02-27 - Frank Allaun, British MP (L)
1913-03-15 - Jack Fairman, British racing driver (d. 2002)
1913-03-29 - Jack Jones, British trade unionist (CH)
1913-04-19 - Cyril English, British educator
1913-05-06 - Jack [John T] Aitken, British anatomist
1913-05-06 - Ronald Harris, British 1st Church Estates Commissioner
1913-05-25 - Richard Dimbleby, British journalist and broadcaster (d. 1965)
1913-05-31 - Peter Gibson, British Rear-Admiral
1913-06-01 - Bill Deedes, British journalist (d. 2007)
1913-06-25 - Cyril Fletcher, British comedian (d. 2005)
1913-07-03 - Hugh Stirling MacKenzie, British vice admiral
1913-08-13 - Lord Oram, British MP (Labour)
1913-08-23 - Stanley Kitchen, British chartered accountant
1913-08-27 - Stewart Crawford, British diplomat
1913-09-25 - David Hunt, British diplomat/quiz winner
1913-10-22 - Tamara Desni, German-born British actress (d. 2008)
1913-11-21 - Roy Boulting, British film director (d. 2001)
1914-01-15 - Lord Dacre of Glanton, British historian
1914-01-19 - Bob Gerard, British racing driver (d. 1990)
1914-02-05 - Alan Hodgkin, British physicist (Nobel 1963)
1914-02-13 - Earl Cadogan, British large landowner (Military Cross)
1914-02-16 - J Tobin, British anaesthetist
1914-02-20 - Marion Kettlewell, British director (WRNS)
1914-02-24 - Ralph Erskine, British architect (Byker Wall) (d. 2005)
1914-03-14 - Bill Owen, British actor (d. 1999)
1914-03-29 - Chapman Pincher, British journalist/author (about secret service)
Actor Alec GuinnessActor Alec Guinness (1914-04-02) 1914-04-02 - Alec Guinness, London England, British actor (Bridge on River Kwai)
1914-04-04 - John Beith, British diplomat
1914-04-26 - Charlie Chester, British comedian (Never Say Die)
1914-05-07 - Sir Arthur Snelling, British Ambassador (d. 1996)
1914-05-10 - Lord Smith, British surgeon
1914-05-18 - Anthony Fell, British MP
1914-05-27 - Lord Erroll of Hale, British minister
1914-05-27 - Rose Stainton, CEO (British Airways)
1914-06-24 - Pearl Witherington CBE, British WW II secret agent (d. 2008)
1914-08-06 - Arthur Charles Dobson, British racing driver (d. 1980)
1914-09-18 - Jack Cardiff, British film director
1914-10-28 - Richard Lawrence Millington Synge, British bio-chemist (Nobel 1952)
1914-12-13 - Alan L Bullock, British historian
1914-12-27 - Ivan Sutton, British concert promoter
1914-12-28 - Bernard Youens, British actor (Coronation Street)
1915-01-11 - Robert Blair Mayne, British soldier, co-founder Special Air Service (d. 1955)
1915-02-01 - Stanley Matthews, 1st British soccer player to be knighted
1915-02-15 - Paul Ferris, British author
1915-02-16 - Michael Relph, British film producer and director (d. 2004)
1915-02-18 - Phyllis Calvert, British actress (d. 2002)
1915-02-19 - John Freeman, British politician (Labour)/ambassador/TV host
1915-04-13 - Stephen Roberts, CEO (British Milk Marketing Board)
1915-04-22 - Lord Airedale, British Lord (social democrat)
1915-05-06 - John Arnold, British high court judge
1915-05-09 - Richard Janvrin, British vice admiral
1915-05-10 - Denis Thatcher, husband of British PM Margaret (1979-90)
1915-05-26 - Antonia Forest, British children's author (d. 2003)
1915-05-29 - Lord Huntingfield, British agent to UN Secreteriat
1915-06-12 - Christopher Mayhew, British politician (d. 1997)
1915-07-15 - Alexander Durie, vice president (British AA)
1915-07-15 - Ron Smith, union leader (British Postal Workers)
1915-08-01 - Ronald MacDonald, British major-general
1915-08-22 - Hugh Paddick, British actor (d. 2000)
1915-08-28 - Max Robertson, British sports commentator
1915-10-24 - Marghanita Laski, British Journalist and Novelist(d. 1988)
1915-10-26 - Joe Fry, British racing driver (d. 1950)
1915-12-25 - Noelle de Mosa, Neth/British dancer/teacher (Brigadoon)
1916-01-12 - William Pleeth, British cellist (d. 1999)
1916-01-16 - Frederick Stewart, British geologist
1916-01-23 - Airey Neave, British Major, politician and indictment server at the Nuremberg Trials (d. 1979)
1916-02-06 - John Crank, British mathematician (d. 2006)
1916-02-25 - Ian Wallace, British CEO
1916-03-11 - [James] Harold Wilson, (L) British PM (1964-70, 1974-76)
1916-03-17 - Ray Ellington, British singer (d. 1985)
1916-03-19 - Eric Christmas, British actor (d. 2000)
1916-04-17 - Donald Gibson, British vice-admiral
1916-05-07 - Huw Wheldon, British broadcaster (d. 1986)
1916-05-14 - Lance Dossor, British-born concert pianist (d. 2005)
1916-06-04 - Cecil Blacker, CEO (British Equestrian Federation)
1916-06-08 - Francis Crick, British co-discovered DNA's structure (Nobel 1962)
1916-06-10 - Bill Waddington, British actor/comedian (Percy-Coronation Street)
1916-06-14 - Geoffrey Goodwin, British professor of international relations
1916-06-20 - Johnny Morris, British broadcaster/actor (Once in a Lifetime)
1916-06-21 - Joe Bamford, British manufacturer/multi-millionaire
1916-06-25 - Theodore P Toynbee, British journalist/writer (Savage Days, Barricade)
1916-07-09 - Edward Heath, (C) British PM (1970-74)
1916-09-18 - Frank Bell, British educator (d. 1989)
1916-09-24 - John Lapsley, British air marshal

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Famous Deaths

Deaths 601 - 700 of 1,077

1986-01-04 - Christopher Isherwood, British writer (Lions & Shadows), dies at 81
1986-07-18 - Stanley Rous, British soccer official, dies at 91
1986-10-28 - John Braine, British novelist (b. 1922)
1986-12-29 - [Maurice] Harold MacMillan, PM of Great-Britain (1957-63), dies at 92
1987-04-26 - John Ernest Silkin, British politician (b. 1923)
1987-05-08 - Doris Stokes, British psychic medium (b. 1920)
1987-07-01 - Snakefinger, British-born musician (b. 1949)
1987-09-17 - Harry Locke, British character actor (b. 1913)
1987-10-19 - Jacqueline du Pre, British cellist, dies at 42
1987-12-27 - Geoffrey D Lloyd, Chairman of the guild of British Newspaper editors (b. 1933)
1988-04-14 - John Stonehouse, British politician (b. 1925)
1988-04-27 - David Scarboro, British actor (b. 1968)
1988-05-11 - H A R (Kim) Philby, British double agent, dies
Choreographer Frederick AshtonChoreographer Frederick Ashton (1988-08-18) 1988-08-18 - Frederick Ashton, British choreographer (Cinderella), dies at 83
1988-10-02 - Alec Issigonis, Greek-British car designer, developer of the Mini (b. 1906)
1988-12-21 - Nicholas Tinbergen, Dutch/British biologist, dies at 81
1988-12-29 - Mike Beuttler, British racing driver (b. 1940)
1989-01-18 - Bruce Chatwin, British writer, dies at 49
1989-01-27 - Thomas Sopwith, British aviation pioneer (b. 1888)
1989-04-12 - Gerald Flood, British actor (b. 1927)
1989-07-14 - Frank Bell, British educator (b. 1916)
1989-08-23 - Ronald Laing, British psychiatrist (anti-psychiatry), dies
1989-12-05 - John M Pritchard, British conductor, dies at 68
1990-01-26 - Bob Gerard, British racing driver (b. 1914)
1990-03-12 - Wallace Breem, British author (b. 1926)
1990-06-16 - Eva Turner, British soprano, dies
1990-07-30 - Ian Gow, British Conservative parliament leader, murdered
1990-08-02 - Edwin Richfield, British actor (b. 1921)
1990-08-21 - George Adamson, British conservationist (Born Free), murdered in Kenya
1990-09-07 - Alan J P Taylor, British historian (Origins of WW II), dies
1990-11-14 - Malcolm Muggeridge, WW II spy for Britain, dies at 87
Author Roald DahlAuthor Roald Dahl (1990-11-23) 1990-11-23 - Roald Dahl, British short story author (Sweet Mystery of Life), dies at 74
1991-02-21 - Margot Fonteyn, ballerina (1st lady of British Ballet), dies at 71
1991-03-27 - Ralph Bates, British actor (Persecution, Graveyard), dies at 50
1991-04-19 - Stanley Hawes, British-born Australian film producer, director and administrator (b. 1905)
1991-05-08 - Ronnie Brody, British actor (Superman 3, What's Up Nurse), dies at 72
1991-05-09 - Ronnie Brody, British actor (Superman III, Whats Up Nurse), dies at 72
1991-05-16 - Prudence Nesbitt, British actress/TV producer, dies
1991-05-23 - Peter T Thwaites, British brig-gen/playwright (Love or money), dies
1991-05-31 - Angus Wilson, [Johnstone-W], British writer (Wrong Set), dies
1991-06-14 - Joy Finzi, [Joyce A Black], British painter, dies at 84
1991-06-14 - Peggy Ashcroft, British actress (A passage to India), dies at 83
1991-08-12 - Irene Campbell, British actress/dancer (Wicker Man, St Justice), dies
1991-08-20 - Betty Bowden, British dancer/actress (Vote for Nigel), dies at 86
1991-08-29 - Dallas Adams, British painter/writer/actor (Terror from Within), dies
1991-09-01 - Mark Robinson, British actor (The Girl), dies at 30
1991-09-01 - Steve Kemp, British light enterpeneur, dies
1991-10-22 - Peter Willes, British actor/producer (Way We Live), dies
1991-11-14 - Tony Richardson, British director (Tom Jones), dies of AIDs at 63
1991-11-24 - Freddie Mercury, British singer (Queen), dies of AIDS at 45
1991-12-03 - Alex Graham, British cartoonstrip artist (Fred Basset), dies
1991-12-14 - Robert Eddison, British actor (Uncle Silas), dies at 83
1991-12-15 - Ray Smith, British actor (And Then You Die), dies at 55
1992-01-10 - Barbara Couper, British actress (Last Days of Dolwyn), dies at 89
1992-02-02 - Jack [John T] Aitken, British anatomist, dies at 78
1992-02-16 - Angela Carter, British novelist (Magic Toyshop), dies of cancer at 51
1992-02-21 - Franc Holden, British astronomer (Binary Stars), dies
1992-02-29 - Johnny Mack, British actor (Time Lord-Dr Who), dies at 70
1992-03-17 - Charles Rea, British actor (Ipcress File), dies at 69
1992-03-23 - Friedrich A von Hayek, British economist (Road to Serfdom), dies at 92
1992-04-28 - Francis Bacon, Irish/British abstract painter, dies at 82
1992-05-09 - Mike Tyrell [Red Baron], British air acrobat, dies in an accident
1992-05-21 - Elizabeth David, British cookbook writer, dies
1992-07-05 - Georgia Brown, British singer/actress (Love at Stake), dies at 59
1992-07-12 - Albert Pierrepont, last British executioner (433 men/17 women), dies
1992-08-12 - Lady Rothermere, [Bubbles], wife of British newspaper magnate, dies
1992-10-29 - Kenneth MacMillan, British choreographer (Manon, Judas Tree), dies
1993-01-18 - Eleanor Hibbert, British author (b. 1906)
1993-02-09 - David Willis, British journalist (BBC World Service), dies at 54
1993-03-27 - Kate Reid, British actress (Lil-Dallas), dies of cancer at 62
1993-04-15 - Leslie Charteris, British mystery writer (Saint), dies at 85
1993-05-09 - Penelope Gilliatt [Conner], British author
1993-06-09 - Ian Mikardo, British politician, dies
1993-07-12 - Dan Eldon, British photojournalist (b. 1970)
1993-09-01 - Hew Lorimer, British sculptor, dies at 86
1993-09-20 - Leonard Parkin, British TV host (ITN), dies at 64
1993-09-24 - Ian Stuart Donaldson, British musician (b. 1957)
1993-09-26 - James Boyden, British Labour MP (1959-79), dies at 82
1993-12-21 - Philip Christison, British general (Rangoon), dies at 100
1993-12-24 - Alexander Mackendrick, British/US director (Lady Killers), dies at 81
1994-01-03 - Heather Sears, British actress (b. 1935)
1994-04-07 - Lee Brilleaux, British R&B-singer/guitarist (Stupidity), dies at 41
1994-04-09 - Keith Watson, British comic strip artist (Dan Dare), dies at 59
1994-04-25 - David Langton, British actor (Upstairs Downstairs), dies at 82
1994-05-12 - John Smith, British Labour Party chairman (1992-94), dies at 55
1994-05-27 - Norman Cook, British museum curator, dies at 87
1994-05-31 - Sidney Gilliat, British screenwriter/director, dies at 86
1994-06-07 - Dennis Potter, British TV writer (Pennies from Heaven), dies at 59
1994-06-14 - Simon Prior, British auto maker, dies of injuries
1994-07-30 - Enid Balint-Edmonds, British psychoanalyst, dies at 90
1994-07-31 - Anne Shelton, British singer (Glenn Miller Band), dies at 66
1994-08-05 - Clive Robertson Caldwell, British fighter pilot, dies at 84
1994-08-14 - Elias Canetti, Bulgaria/British author (Nobel 1981), dies at 89
1994-08-19 - Nancy Keene Lancaster, US/British architect (Binnen House), dies at 96
1994-08-30 - Lindsay Anderson, British director/critic (If ...), dies at 71
1994-09-07 - Terence Young, British director (Thunderball), dies of at 79
1994-09-08 - Arthur Rex Alston, British sports commentator, dies at 93
1994-09-10 - Amy Clampitt, British poet (Silence Opens), dies at 74
1994-09-16 - Dolly Hare, German/British actress (Broken Blossom), dies at 84
1994-12-10 - Keith Joseph, British MP (C), dies


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