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2003 Winston Graham, English Novelist

2003 Roy Jenkins, politician/writer, Winston Churchill, dies at 82

2001 O. Winston Link, American Photographer

1994 James Winston Watts, developer of the Frontal Lobotomy, dies at 90

1984 Winston Smith in Orwell's "1984" begins his secret diary

1983 Winston Davis takes 7-51 in Cricket World Cup match vs. Australia

1978 Harry Winston, U.S. jeweler for the "rich and famous", dies at 82

1970 Winston Bogarde, soccer player, Sparta/Ajax

1965 Winston Moss, NFL linebacker for the Seattle Seahawks

1965 State funeral of Winston Churchill

1965 Winston Churchill, Prime Minister of Britain, 1940 - 1945, 1951 - 1955, dies at 90

1964 Winston Benjamin, cricketer, WI righty quick 1987-95

1963 John F. Kennedy names Winston Churchill U.S. honorary citizen

1963 Winston Churchill becomes 1st honorary U.S. citizen, posthumously

1959 Charles Grant, Winston Salem, North Carolina, actor, Another World

1959 Brett Bodine, born in Chemung, New York, auto racer, former NASCAR Winston Cup driver, current Sprint Cup, pace car driver, employed as Director of Cost and Research by NASCAR

1955 Winston Churchill resigns as British Prime Minister, Anthony Eden succeeds him

1954 Alan Kulwicki, Greenfield Wisconsin, NASCAR racer, Winston Cup

1953 British premier Winston Churchill aproves Guyanese Constitution

1953 Winston Churchill criticizes John Foster Dulles domino theory

1953 Winston Churchill knighted by Queen Elizabeth II

1952 Prime Minister Winston Churchill announces Britain has its own atomic bomb

1951 Winston Churchill re-elected British premier

1951 Winston Churchill re-elected British Prime Minister

1950 Winston E Scott, born in Miami, Florida, USN Commander/astronaut, STS-72, 87

1948 Winston Churchill visits The Hague

1946 Winston Churchill welcomed in Rotterdam

1946 Al Nichol, born in Winston Salem, North Carolina, rock guitarist and vocalist, Turtles

1946 Winston Churchill's "Iron Curtain" speech in Fulton, Missouri

1945 Winston Churchill resigns as Britain's Prime Minister

1945 Winston Churchill resigns as British Prime Minister

1945 Jimmy Winston, born in London, organist, Samll Facres-Itchycoo Park

1945 Hattie Winston, born in Greenville, Mississippi, actress on Nurse, Electric Company

1945 Burning Spear, Winston Rodney, Jamaican reggae singer

1945 British Premier Winston Churchill visits France

1944 British premier Winston Churchill flies back to London from Moscow

1944 British Prime Minister Winston Churchill arrives in Russia for talks with Stalin

1944 British premier Winston Churchill arrives in Moscow

1944 British Premier Winston Churchill travels to U.S.

1944 British premier Winston Churchill arrives at Corsica

1944 British premier Winston Churchill arrives in Italy

1944 British premier Winston Churchill flies to France, meets Montgomery

1943 British premier Winston Churchill arrives in U.S.

1943 British premier Winston Churchill gets pneumonia

1943 Win Griffiths, born in Wales, born Winston James Griffiths, politician, Labor Party, served as Member of Parliament for Bridgend, member of the European Parliament, Chairman of Bro Margannwg NHS Trust

1943 Franklin D. Roosevelt and Winston Churchill confer in Casablanca concerning WW II

1943 British premier Winston Churchill arrives in Casablanca

1942 British Premier Winston Churchill flies back to London from Cairo

1942 British premier Winston Churchill arrives in Cairo

1942 British premier Winston Churchill travels from U.S. to London

1941 Winston Churchill addresses Canadian parliament

1941 Winston Churchill becomes 1st British Prime Minister to address a joint meeting of Congress, warning that Axis would "stop at nothing"

1941 Winston Churchill arrives in Washington for a wartime conference

1941 Premier Winston Churchill travels to U.S. on board HMS Duke of York

1941 Winston Churchill routes "Forces South" to SE Asia

1941 Franklin D. Roosevelt and Prime Minister Winston Churchill sign Atlantic Charter

1941 Winston Churchill reaches Newfoundland for 1st talk with FDR

1941 Winston Churchill departs on Prince of Wales to U.S.

1941 British Prime Minister Winston Churchill launched his "V for Victory" campaign

1940 Harry Winston Jerome, Sask Canada, 100m runner 1964 Olympics bronze

1940 Prime Minister Winston Churchill visits #11 Fighter Group

1940 Winston Churchill urges perseverance so that future generations would remember that "this was their finest hour"

1940 Premier Winston Churchill flies to Orleans

1940 General Charles de Gaulle's 1st meeting with Winston Churchill

1940 Winston Churchill says "We shall fight on the seas and oceans"

1940 Premier Winston Churchill flies to Paris

1940 Premier Winston Churchill flies to Paris

1940 Premier Winston Churchill returns to London from Paris

1940 Premier Winston Churchill flies to Paris

1940 Winston Churchill succeeds Neville Chamberlain as British Prime Minister

1940 Winston Churchill becomes Prime Minister of Britain

1939 German U boat fails on attack of English battleship Nelson with Winston Churchill, Dudley Pound and Charles Forbes aboard

1939 Minister Winston Churchill visits Scapa Flow

1938 Winston Churchill condemns Hitler's annexation of Czechoslovakia

1933 Winston Churchill wants to boost air defense

1926 John George Vanderbilt Henry Spencer-Churchill, Duke of Marlborough, born in England, 11th Duke of Marlborough, justice of the peace, cousin of Sir Winston Churchill

1923 Richard Attenborough, England, actor and director, Gandhi, Young Winston

1921 Winston Churchill becomes British, minister of Colonies

1915 Winston Churchill presents plan for assault on Dardanelles

1914 O. Winston Link, American Photographer

1914 Winston Place, cricketer, England opener in West Indies 1948

1914 Wensley Pithey, Cape Town South Africa, actor, Winston Churchill-Ike

1912 Robert Flemyng, Liverpool Eng, actor, Windom's Way, Young Winston

1908 Winston Churchill marries Clementine Hozier

1908 Winston Graham, English Novelist

1904 James Winston Watts, developer, Frontal Lobotomy

1899 Morning Post reporter Winston Churchill and wife captured in Natal

1899 British Morning Post reporter Winston Churchill reaches Capetown

1899 Morning Post reporter Winston Churchill departs to South Africa

1874 Winston Churchill, British Prime Minister, 1940 - 1945, 1951 - 1955, Nobel 1953

1849 Lord Randolph Churchill, England, politician, Winston's father

1831 Justin Winston, historian/librarian, Harvard

1821 Edward Winston Pettus, Brigadier General Confederate Army


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