Sir Winston Churchill
Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (1940-1945 & 1951-1955)
First Ever Honorary Citizen of the United States
First Ever Honorary Citizen of the United States
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Sir Winston Leonard Spencer-Churchill, KG, OM, CH, TD, DL, FRS, Hon. RA (30 November 1874 – 24 January 1965) was a British politician who was the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1940 to 1945 and again from 1951 to 1955. Widely regarded as one of the greatest wartime leaders of the 20th century, Churchill was also an officer in the British Army, a historian, a writer, and an artist. He is the only British Prime Minister in history to have received the Nobel Prize in Literature, and was also the first person to be made an Honorary Citizen of the United States. » Full Bio
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This Day In History 224 Years Ago
American Revolution
July 15, 1789
American Revolution
July 15, 1789
Lafayette Selected Colonel-General
of the National Guard of Paris
of the National Guard of Paris
On this day in 1789, only one day after the fall of the Bastille marked the beginning of a new revolutionary regime in France, the French aristocrat and hero of the American War for Independence, Marie-Joseph Paul Roch Yves Gilbert du Motier, Marquis de Lafayette, becomes the colonel-general of the National Guard of Paris by acclamation. Lafayette served as a human link between America and France in what is sometimes known as The Age of Revolutions.
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