* 1941 – World War II: Winston Churchill and Franklin D. Roosevelt sign the Atlantic Charter of war stating postwar aims.

* 1943 – World War II: First Québec Conference of Winston Churchill, Franklin D. Roosevelt, and William Lyon Mackenzie King begins.

* 1955 – Winston Churchill resigns as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom amid indications of failing health.

* 1953 – Winston Churchill is knighted by Queen Elizabeth II.

– Winston Churchill.

John Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough ( 1650 – 1722 ) by Sir Godfrey Kneller.

His father, Henry Churchill de Mille ( 1853 – 1893 ), was a North Carolina-born dramatist and lay reader in the Episcopal Church, who had earlier begun a career as a playwright, writing his first play at age 15.

But while Eisenhower argued with Roosevelt and Churchill, who both insisted on unconditional terms of surrender in exchange for helping the Italians, the Germans pursued an aggressive buildup of forces in the country – making the job more difficult, by adding 19 divisions and initially outnumbering the Allied forces 2 to 1, Nevertheless, the invasion of Italy was highly successful.

The first holder of the title was John Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough ( 1650 – 1722 ), the noted English general, and indeed an unqualified reference to the Duke of Marlborough in a historical text will almost certainly refer to him.

A younger daughter, Lady Anne Churchill, married Charles Spencer, 3rd Earl of Sunderland ( c. 1674 – 1722 ), and from this marriage descend the modern Dukes of Marlborough.

* John Churchill, 1st Earl of Marlborough ( 1650 – 1722 ), became Duke of Marlborough in 1702

* John Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough ( 1650 – 1722 ), soldier and statesman

:* John Churchill, Marquess of Blandford ( 1686 – 1703 ), elder son of the 1st Duke, died unmarried

:* Anne Spencer, Countess of Sunderland ( née Lady Anne Churchill ; 1683 – 1716 ), second daughter of the 1st Duke

* John Winston Spencer-Churchill, 7th Duke of Marlborough ( 1822 – 1883 ), eldest son of the 6th Duke and paternal grandfather of Winston Churchill

* 1876 – Berton Churchill, American actor ( d. 1940 )

" Churchill – who was himself only thirty-eight years old in 1912 – took to him immediately and he was appointed Private Naval Secretary to the First Lord against the advice of First Sea Lord Sir Arthur Wilson.

* 1965 – The Hamilton River in Labrador, Canada is renamed the Churchill River in honour of Winston Churchill.

* 1648 – Arabella Churchill, English mistress of James II of England ( d. 1730 )

* 1952 – The British government, under Winston Churchill, abolishes identity cards in the UK to " set the people free ".

* 1849 – Lord Randolph Churchill, British statesman ( d. 1895 )

* 1945 – World War II: The Yalta Conference between the " Big Three " ( Churchill, Roosevelt, and Stalin ) opens at the Livadia Palace in the Crimea.

# 1685 – 1692 John Churchill, Earl of Marlborough

Churchill devotes almost an entire page in his history " The Second World War " to a lengthy quotation of this speech, yet he never mentions Bevan as the speaker, referring to him only as, " One Member.

" Likewise, referring to Churchill's meeting with Wingate in Quebec, Max Hastings wrote that, " Wingate proved a short-lived protegé: closer acquaintance caused Churchill to realise that he was too mad for high command.

Professor McNeill thinks that at Yalta, Stalin did not fully realize the dilemma which faced him, that he thought the exclusion of the anti-Soviet voters from East European elections would not be greatly resented by his allies, while neither Roosevelt nor Churchill frankly faced `` the fact that, in Poland at least, genuinely free democratic elections would return governments unfriendly to Russia '', by any definition of international friendliness.

" A modest man, but then he has so much to be modest about ", is a quote about Attlee that is very commonly ascribed to Churchill ( although Churchill in fact denied saying it, and respected Attlee's service in the War Cabinet ).

Many Democrats were uneasy with Wallace's New Age spiritual beliefs and by the fact that he had written coded letters discussing prominent politicians ( such as Roosevelt and Winston Churchill ) to his controversial Russian spiritual guru, Nicholas Roerich.

Stephenson further claimed that Churchill knew in advance of the German intention to shoot down the aircraft, but decided to allow it to proceed to protect the fact that the British had broken the German Enigma code.

It was thought that this was the effect of complaints from Churchill that they were too left-wing ; however, Priestley's son has recently revealed in a talk on the latest book being published about his father's life that it was in fact Churchill's Cabinet that brought about the cancellation by supplying negative reports on the broadcasts to Churchill.

Bob Black is best known for " The Abolition of Work " ( 1985 ), a widely reprinted and translated essay ( first widely circulated, in fact, as an insert in Anarchy in 1986 ), but for Anarchy he has mainly contributed critiques of leftists and anarcho-leftists such as Ward Churchill, Fred Woodworth, Chaz Bufe, Murray Bookchin, the Platformists and most recently AK Press.

It was initially called the West Cambridge Symphony Orchestra, due to the fact that the majority of its members were from West Cambridge colleges ; predominantly, Fitzwilliam, Churchill and New Hall.

Lloyd George, Birkenhead and Winston Churchill ( still distrusted by many Conservatives ) wished to use armed force against Turkey ( the Chanak Crisis ), but had to back down when offered support only by New Zealand, but not Canada, Australia or South Africa ; an anonymous letter appeared in " The Times " supporting the government but stating that Britain could not " act as the policeman for the world ", and it was an open secret that the author, " A Colonial ", was in fact Bonar Law.

Towards the end of World War II Joseph Stalin wanted Czechoslovakia, and signed an agreement with Winston Churchill and Franklin D. Roosevelt that Prague would be liberated by the Red Army, despite the fact that the United States Army under General George S. Patton could have liberated the city earlier.

Latrobe Valley is currently the only large regional centre in Victoria that does not have a team participating in the Victorian Football League, despite the fact that the area within an approximate 35 km radius of Moe ( Drouin, Warragul, Trafalgar, Moe, Morwell, Churchill, Traralgon and other smaller towns ) has a population well over 100, 000, as large or larger than places such as Bendigo and Ballarat that do have teams participating in the VFL.

During the war Amery was Secretary of State for India, despite the fact that the fate of India had been a keen issue of dispute between Churchill and Amery for many years.

The White Paper seeks to limit, and in fact to nullify Jewish rights to immigration and settlement in Palestine, and, as stated by Mr. Winston Churchill in the House of Commons in May 1939, constitutes ` a breach and repudiation of the Balfour Declaration '.

The first example was the close relationship between Winston Churchill and Franklin Roosevelt who were in fact distantly related.

This led to the creation by Winston Churchill of the oft-repeated legend that Joynson-Hicks had committed the party to giving votes to young women with a parliamentary pledge to Lady Astor in 1925-a claim that has entered popular mythology but has no basis in fact.

Ramsay cited the danger to both the King and the Prime Minister, the risks of the planned operational duties of HMS Belfast, and the fact that both the King and Churchill would be needed at home in case the landings went badly and immediate decisions were required.

On 30 July 1942, the British civil servant Sir John Anderson advised Prime Minister Winston Churchill, quoting that: " Sir ... We must face the fact that ... pioneering work ... is a dwindling asset and that, unless we capitalise it quickly, we shall be outstripped.

Sheridan offered to take on survivors, but the Agrippa exploded before this could occur ( note that Sheridan incorrectly identifies the Agrippa as the Roanoke in that scene, despite the fact that earlier, the Roanoke had been rammed and destroyed by the Churchill ).

In fact, it was the Champion which Churchill specifically took as his inspiration for the Lark.

This may have happened because in October 1941, Alan Turing had written directly to Churchill on behalf of the cryptanalysts, over the head of Denniston, to alert Churchill to the fact that a shortage of staff at Bletchley Park was preventing them from deciphering many messages, to the detriment of the war effort.

At this point all support for the Cetniks was withdrawn, a fact Churchill announced in the House of Commons.

In August 1942, immediately after the Eighth Army had all but exhausted itself after First Alamein, Churchill flew to Cairo, purportedly for consultations with Auchinleck, but had in fact made up his mind before he left Britain.