- Born
- November 30, 1874
- Died
- January 24, 1965 (aged 90)
- Known as
- politician, journalist, painter, historian, autobiographer, screenwriter
Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill was a British statesman, military officer, and writer who was Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1940 to 1945, during the Second World War, and again from 1951 to 1955. For some 62 of the years between 1900 and 1964, he was a member of Parliament (MP) and represented a total of five constituencies over that time. Ideologically an adherent to economic liberalism and imperialism, he was for most of his career a member of the Conservative Party, which he led from 1940 to 1955. He was a member of the Liberal Party from 1904 to 1924.
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Winston Churchill in our timeline
- Winston Churchill Is Born (November 30, 1874)
- Blitzkrieg in the West (May 10, 1940)
- Blood, Toil, Tears and Sweat (May 13, 1940)
- Operation Dynamo Begins (May 26, 1940)
- Dunkirk Evacuation Concludes (June 7, 1940)
- Battle of Britain's Decisive Day (September 15, 1940)
- Atlantic Charter Announced (August 14, 1941)
- Singapore Falls to Japan (February 15, 1942)
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