** Sir Morris Finer's Report of the Committee on One-Parent Families ( 1974 )

* By Sir Joshua Reynolds **

** Sir Joshua Reynolds, by Estelle M. Hurll, from Project Gutenberg

** Harold Wilson becomes British Prime Minister after leading the Labour Party to a narrow election win over the Tory government of Sir Alec Douglas-Home, which had been in power for 13 years and had four different leaders during that time.

** Sir Dirk Bogarde, English actor ( b. 1921 )

** Sir Eric Willis, Australian politician, former Premier of New South Wales ( b. 1922 )

** Sir Geoffrey Howe, British politician

** Sir Harry Oakes, American-born English gold mine owner ( murdered ) ( b. 1874 )

** Sir John Lavery, Irish artist ( b. 1856 )

** Sir Thomas Beecham, English conductor ( b. 1879 )

** Sir Douglas Nicholls appointed 28th Governor of South Australia, the first Australian Aboriginal appointed to vice-regal office.

** Sir Chris Hoy, Scottish cyclist

** Cod War: British Foreign Secretary Sir Alec Douglas-Home says that Royal Navy ships will be stationed to protect British trawlers off Iceland.

** Sir Stanley Matthews, English footballer ( d. 2000 )

** A crowd assaults the rally of Sir Oswald Mosley's right-wing Union Movement in London.

** Sir Steve Redgrave, English rower

** Sir Michael Epstein, British medical researcher

** Sir Tyrone Guthrie, English film director, producer, and writer ( b. 1900 )

** Sir Malcolm Sargent, English conductor ( b. 1895 )

** Sir Arthur Elton, pioneer of the British documentary film industry ( b. 1906 )

** Australian constitutional crisis of 1975: Governor-General of Australia Sir John Kerr dismisses the government of Gough Whitlam and commissions Malcolm Fraser as Prime Minister.

** Falklands War: British RFA Sir Galahad is destroyed during the Bluff Cove Air Attacks

** Sir Charles Lyell, British geologist ( b. 1797 )

** Sir Richard O ' Connor, English general ( b. 1889 )

** Sir Edward Boyle, Baron Boyle of Handsworth, British Conservative cabinet minister ( b. 1923 )

** NASCAR postponed the September 16 Winston Cup New Hampshire 300 race at Loudon until November 23.

** Winston Churchill scraps UK compulsory national Identity Cards.

** Yalta Conference, wartime meeting from 4 February 1945 to 11 February 1945 among the heads of government of the United States, the United Kingdom, and the Soviet Union — President Franklin D. Roosevelt, Prime Minister Winston Churchill, and Premier Joseph Stalin, respectively — for the purpose of discussing Europe's postwar reorganization, intended to discuss the re-establishment of the nations of war-torn Europe.

** WWII: War in the Pacific: U. S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, and ROC leader Chiang Kai-Shek meet at the Cairo Conference to discuss ways to defeat Japan.

** WWII: Winston Churchill promises all possible British assistance to the Soviet Union in a worldwide broadcast: " Any man or state who fights against Nazidom will have our aid.

** Randolph Churchill, British politician, son of Winston Churchill ( b. 1911 )

** With the resignation of Neville Chamberlain, Winston Churchill becomes Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.

** Winston Churchill, in his first address as Prime Minister, tells the House of Commons, " I have nothing to offer you but blood, toil, tears, and sweat.

** Winston Churchill warns the House of Commons to " prepare itself for hard and heavy tidings.

** WWII: Winston Churchill tells the British House of Commons, " We shall not flag or fail.

** WWII: Winston Churchill says to the House of Commons: " The Battle of France is over.

** WWII: Winston Churchill pays tribute in the House of Commons to the Royal Air Force: " Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few.

** Lady Randolph Churchill, mother of Winston Churchill ( born 1854 )

** Winston Churchill, Twice Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature ( d. 1965 )

** Winston Churchill resigns as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.

** Vernon, Winston County, Mississippi

** John Lennon officially changes his name from John Winston Lennon to John Winston Ono-Lennon.

** NASCAR Winston Cup Championship – Cale Yarborough

** Conversations With the Enemy by Winston Groom and Duncan Spencer

** Winston Cup Championship-Dale Earnhardt

** Rance McDaniel won Top Fuel at the NHRA Winston Finals

** Darrell Gwynn won Top Fuel at the NHRA Winston Finals

** Darrell Gwynn won Top Fuel at the NHRA Winston Finals

** USS Winston S. Churchill ( DDG-81 )