A statue of George dressed in classical robes stands in Neville Street, Newcastle, facing the building that houses the Literary and Philosophical Society and the Mining Institute, and near to Newcastle railway station.

* 1476 – George Neville, English archbishop and statesman ( b. 1432 )

Examples include William Ewart Gladstone, David Lloyd George, Neville Chamberlain, Winston Churchill, Margaret Thatcher, and Tony Blair.

Prime Ministers from 1900 to 1945: Marquess of Salisbury, Arthur Balfour, Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman, Herbert Henry Asquith, David Lloyd George, Andrew Bonar Law, Stanley Baldwin, Ramsay MacDonald, Stanley Baldwin, Ramsay MacDonald, Stanley Baldwin, Neville Chamberlain and Winston Churchill.

In June 1937, during an Imperial Conference of all the Dominion Prime Ministers in London convened during the coronation of King George VI, King informed British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain that Canada would only go to war if Britain were directly attacked, and that if Britain were to become involved in a continental war then Chamberlain was not to expect Canadian support.

* June 8 – George Neville, English archbishop and statesman ( b. c. 1432 )

The Berchtesgadener Hof Hotel was a hotel where famous visitors stayed, such as Eva Braun, Erwin Rommel, Joseph Goebbels, and Heinrich Himmler, as well as Neville Chamberlain and David Lloyd George.

Edward's two younger brothers, George, Duke of Clarence, and Richard, Duke of Gloucester ( later King Richard III of England ), were married to Isabella Neville and Anne Neville.

In 1940, Winston Churchill replaced Neville Chamberlain as Prime Minister, though personally George would have preferred to appoint Lord Halifax.

In perhaps the last important parliamentary intervention of his career, which occurred during the crucial Norway Debate of May 1940, Lloyd George made a powerful speech that helped to undermine Neville Chamberlain as Prime Minister and to pave the way for the ascendancy of Churchill as Premier.

Latimer was her father's second cousin, a twice-widowed descendant of George Neville, 1st Baron Latimer, Warwick, the ' Kingmaker's ', ' idiot uncle '.

In 1469, she was briefly betrothed to George Neville, son of John Neville, Earl of Northumberland, who initially supported Edward IV against his brother Warwick's rebellion.

George Plantagenet, 1st Duke of Clarence, 1st Earl of Salisbury, 1st Earl of Warwick, KG ( 21 October 1449 – 18 February 1478 ) was the third son of Richard Plantagenet, 3rd Duke of York, and Cecily Neville, and the brother of kings Edward IV and Richard III.

On 11 July 1469, George married Isabel Neville, elder daughter of Richard Neville, 16th Earl of Warwick.

As his father-in-law was dead, George became jure uxoris Earl of Warwick, but did not inherit the entire Warwick estate as his younger brother, Richard, Duke of Gloucester, married the widowed younger sister of his wife, Anne Neville, for which George resented his brother.

Like the first lords of Richmond, Peter II of Savoy and Ralph de Neville, 1st Earl of Westmorland before him, George was endowed with the lordship of Richmondshire but without the peerage.

George married his wife Isabella Neville in Calais, France, on 11 July 1469.

* George Neville, 1st Baron Latimer ( d. 1469 )

Lady Margaret was born at Farleigh Hungerford Castle in Somerset, the only surviving daughter of the George Plantagenet, 1st Duke of Clarence, and the former Isabella Neville, elder daughter of Richard Neville, 16th Earl of Warwick, and Anne Beauchamp, his wife, who inherited the Earldom of Warwick.

* 1477-the bones of George, Duke of Clarence, ( brother of Edward IV and Richard III ) and his wife Isabelle ( daughter of Richard " the Kingmaker " Neville ) are housed behind a glass window in a wall of their inaccessible burial vault behind the high altar

George Neville ( c. 1432 – 8 June 1476 ), archbishop of York and Chancellor of England, was the youngest son of Richard Neville, 5th Earl of Salisbury, and Alice Neville, 5th Countess of Salisbury.

E. B. Tylor ( 2 October 1832 – 2 January 1917 ) and James George Frazer ( 1 January 1854 – 7 May 1941 ) are generally considered the antecedents to modern social anthropology in Britain.

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* 1911 – During the Battle of Deçiq, Dedë Gjon Luli Dedvukaj, leader of the Malësori Albanians, raises the Albanian flag in the town of Tuzi, Montenegro, for the first time after George Kastrioti ( Skenderbeg ).

* 1796 – George N. Briggs, American politician, 19th Governor of Massachusetts ( d. 1861 )

* 1946 – George Robertson, Baron Robertson of Port Ellen, English politician

* 1738 – Premiere in London, England, Great Britain of Serse, an Italian opera by George Frideric Handel.

* 1789 – On the balcony of Federal Hall on Wall Street in New York City, George Washington takes the oath of office to become the first elected President of the United States.

* 1770 – James Cook names and lands on Possession Island, Queensland and claims the east coast of Australia as New South Wales in the name of King George III.

* 1776 – The Battle of Long Island: in what is now Brooklyn, New York, British forces under General William Howe defeat Americans under General George Washington.

* 1471 – George, Duke of Saxony ( d. 1539 )

* 1887 – George, Crown Prince of Serbia ( d. 1972 )

* 1889 – George Kenney, American general ( d. 1977 )

* 1942 – George Jung, American convicted drug smuggler

* 1976 – Melissa George, Australian actress

* 1819 – Sir George Stokes, 1st Baronet, Irish-English mathematician and physicist ( d. 1903 )

* 1820 – George Grove, English historian ( d. 1900 )

* 1919 – George Shearing, English-American pianist ( d. 2011 )

* 1943 – Michael Willetts, English soldier, George Cross recipient ( d. 1971 )

* 1872 – George E. Stewart, American soldier, Medal of Honor recipient ( d. 1946 )

* 1947 – King George II of Greece ( b. 1890 )

* 1856 – George Coulthard, Australian footballer and cricketer ( d. 1883 )

* 1885 – George de Hevesy, Hungarian chemist and Nobel Prize laureate ( d. 1966 )

* 1782 – George Washington orders the creation of the Badge of Military Merit to honor soldiers wounded in battle.

* 1794 – U. S. President George Washington invokes the Militia Acts of 1792 to suppress the Whiskey Rebellion in western Pennsylvania.